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Gaza Conflict: Israel Begins Redeploying Troops

Monday, August 04, 2014

There are some signs that the current conflict in Gaza is de-escalating: As the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports, the Israel Defense Forces have started pulling their troops out of Gaza and "stationing the remaining soldiers on hills on the Palestinian side of the border with Israel."

Israel has also ...

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Toledo Mayor Lifts Water Ban, Says 'Our Water Is Safe'

Monday, August 04, 2014

Update at 9:35 a.m. ET. Water Is Safe:

"Our water is safe."

That's the word this morning from Toledo Mayor D. Michael Collins, who lifted a 3-day-old ban on using the city's water supply.

During a televised press conference, Collins said the 400,000 people affected can start drinking, bathing and ...

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Tropical Storm Bertha Takes Aim At The Caribbean

Friday, August 01, 2014

Tropical Storm Bertha is moving northwest, taking aim at Puerto Rico and expected to skirt the Dominican Republic's coast.

The National Hurricane Center has issued a tropical storm warning for Puerto Rico, St. Lucia, Dominica, Martinique, and the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, while the Dominican Republic has issued a ...

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During Transport, A Giraffe In South Africa Hits Head On Overpass, Dies

Friday, August 01, 2014

As one South African journalist put it on Twitter, this tale is worthy of Aesop. It starts on a South African highway on Thursday. A truck is transporting two giraffes and as you might imagine, it creates a great buzz among drivers.

Pabi Moloi, a well-known TV and radio ...

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Court In Uganda Throws Out Anti-Gay Law

Friday, August 01, 2014

A court in Uganda has thrown out a controversial law that mandated harsh punishments, including life in prison, for acts of homosexuality.

The Associated Press reports the decision was a technical one. The court ruled that there was no quorum when Parliament met to pass the law.

The news ...

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Fighting Resumes In Gaza, As Israeli Military Says Cease-Fire Is Over

Friday, August 01, 2014

It was negotiated as a three-day humanitarian cease-fire that was to start at 8 a.m. local time today.

But just hours in, fighting erupted again in Gaza.

Palestinian authorities told The Associated Press that at least 27 people were killed in Gaza after an Israeli tank opened fire. NPR's ...

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CIA Chief Apologizes To Sens. Feinstein, Chambliss Over Computer Intrusion

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Ending a contentious and very public spat between two branches of government, Central Intelligence Agency chief John Brennan apologized to Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Sen. Saxby Chambliss because some CIA officers improperly accessed computers used by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

If you remember, this spat started when Feinstein, ...

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Upholds State's Controversial Labor Law

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Handing Gov. Scott Walker an important election-year victory, the Wisconsin Supreme court on Thursday upheld a controversial labor law championed by the Republican governor.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports the Supreme Court also upheld the state's voter ID law and one providing some benefits to gay couples. The paper ...

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Where Love's Concerned, This 'Magic Barrel' Is No Magic Bullet

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Lena Finkle is a 37-year-old, twice-divorced Russian immigrant and a self-described "toddler of relationship experience" — when a friend asks how many guys she's "been with" in her life, she can only hold up three fingers. Anya Ulinich's new graphic novel, Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel is her account, ...

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Conflict In Gaza: What You Need To Know Today

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Perhaps signaling a widening of its offensive in Gaza, Israel called up 16,000 reservists on Thursday. That means Israel has activated 86,000 reservists since the conflict started.

USA Today reports that at the same time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to destroy tunnels built by Hamas "with our ...

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Top Stories: Experts Reach Malaysian Jet Debris; Argentina's Debt

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Good morning, here are our early stories:

-- Dutch, Australian Experts Reach MH17 Debris Field In Ukraine.

-- Argentina's Default: 5 Headlines That Tell The Story.

And here are more early headlines:

Israeli Leader Vows To Destroy Militant Tunnels In Gaza. (VOA)

Wikileaks Discloses Australian Gag Order ...

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Dutch, Australian Experts Reach MH17 Debris Field In Ukraine

Thursday, July 31, 2014

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe has some good news this morning:

Remember, experts from Australia and The Netherlands have been trying to get to the debris field of the downed Malaysia Airlines jet in eastern Ukraine for a week. Every time they attempted a trip,

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Argentina's Default: 5 Headlines That Tell The Story

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Yesterday in New York, representatives from Argentina and some of its creditors emerged from negotiations to announce that they had failed.

As NPR's Jim Zarroli reports, this meant that the country had fallen into default for a second time in more than 12 years. The repercussions of the default are ...

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Women Defy Turkey's Deputy PM, Who Said Women Shouldn't Laugh In Public

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç stirred some controversy on Monday, when during an Eid el-Fitr speech, he said chaste women should not laugh in public.

"Chastity is so important," Arınç said, according to the Hurriyet Daily News. "It is not only a name. It is an ornament for both ...

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U.S. Issues Travel Restrictions On Venezuelan Officials

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

The State Department on Wednesday announced it was revoking visas for a number of Venezuelan government officials the U.S. says have violated the human rights of the Venezuelan people.

"We have seen repeated efforts to repress legitimate expression of dissent through judicial intimidation, to limit freedom of the press, and ...

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WATCH: Video Shows Women Narrowly Escape Death On Railroad Tracks

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

The video is harrowing. It shows two women narrowly escaping death after a train is unable to come to a stop before running over them.

The Indiana Rail Road, which released the video to show the dangers of trespassing on railroad tracks, describes the scene like this:

"The ...

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U.S. Economy Rebounds In Spring With GDP Expanding At 4 Percent Rate

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

The Commerce Department had some good news about the U.S. economy today: Rebounding from a quarter of negative growth, the country's gross domestic product expanded at a 4 percent annual rate during the second quarter.

"The increase in real GDP in the second quarter primarily reflected positive contributions from personal ...

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Gaza Conflict: Shell Strikes U.N. School, Killing Up To 19 Who Sought Shelter

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

(This post was last updated at 3:04 p.m. ET.)

As many as 19 people were killed when a shell struck a United Nations-run school this morning in Gaza.

In a message on Twitter, the commissioner-general of UNRWA, which is responsible for the welfare of Palestinian refugees, blamed the attack on ...

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UCLA Floods As Water Main Break Dumps Up To 10 Million Gallons

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

A 90-year-old water main broke near the University of California, Los Angeles, on Tuesday, spilling 8 million to 10 million gallons of water.

As The Los Angeles Times explains, officials are facing some tough questions this morning because it took them about four hours to figure out which valve ...

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White House Threatens More Russian Sanctions, As Kerry Decries Ukrainian Rebels

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Saying that the conflict in Ukraine had "gone on for far too long," Secretary of State John Kerry called on Russia to use its "considerable influence" to make sure investigators had access to the debris field of the downed Malaysia Airlines plane in eastern Ukraine.

The separatists who control that ...

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