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  • At least five people have been injured in a stampede after fans stormed a stadium gate upon the arrival of superstar David Beckham at a Chinese university Thursday afternoon
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  • The daughter of former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre made a quick-thinking save Wednesday when she caught a baby who had tumbled off of a second-floor Brooklyn apartment's fire escape, the baseball great has confirmed
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  • Dozens of homes were evacuated near Denver as a wind-driven wildfire flared, one of many in the western states where hot and windy conditions were making it easy for the wild land blazes to start and spread
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  • Singapore urged people to remain indoors amid unprecedented levels of air pollution Thursday as a smoky haze wrought by forest fires in neighboring Indonesia worsened dramatically. Nearby Malaysia closed 200 schools and banned open burning in some areas
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  • Soldiers from Indonesia's elite special forces have gone before a military court charged with storming a prison and killing four detainees on the main Java island
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  • James Gandolfini
  • Sopranos star James Gandolfini has died of a possible heart attack at age 51
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  • Police say three people are dead and a fourth is injured in a shooting at a condominium building in Louisville, Ky
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  • Federal authorities have accused two upstate New York men of assembling a portable X-ray weapon they intended to use against opponents of Israel
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  • TWA flight 800
  • They say new evidence points to the often-discounted theory that a missile strike may have downed the jumbo jet
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  • Attorneys quizzed a whittled-down group of prospective jurors Wednesday in the Trayvon Martin case, asking if any were neighborhood watch volunteers like the teen's shooter and reminding them the trial would be different from what they've seen on shows like "CSI"
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  • Police and fire officials say eight people have been injured, one of them critically, after a car jumped a curb and slammed into a Manhattan store
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  • The Federal Reserve signaled Wednesday that it's moving closer to slowing its bond-buying program, which is intended to keep long-term interest rates at record lows
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  • Greece's governing coalition parties met for a second time in three days to try and end a political crisis triggered by the closure of state broadcaster ERT
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  • Chilean protesters have thrown eggs at a conservative presidential candidate after he performed a Zumba dance
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  • A mentally disabled woman charged with shoplifting a candy bar asked to be jailed because three people "had been mean to her" -- then went on to tell authorities about her time spent in unfathomably cruel servitude, along with her young daughter, at the hands of three people, authorities said Tuesday
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  • India's army and air force have evacuated nearly 12,000 Hindu pilgrims stranded in a mountainous area after torrential monsoon rains and landslides caused death and destruction in northern India
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  • Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
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  • A 6-year-old San Francisco Bay area boy has died after he was attacked by a relative's dog
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  • A 13-year-old boy from a New Orleans suburb has been arrested after authorities say he told them he used TV wrestling moves on his 5-year-old half-sister, who died from the beating
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  • A Somali policeman and a U.N. official say that gunmen have attacked the U.N. compound in Mogadishu with a bomb guns
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  • The Internal Revenue Service is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts enacted this year, according to a GOP senator
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  • The mayors of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and 15 other cities are reviving a push against letting food stamps be used to buy soda and other sugary drinks
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  • New video footage of a suspected bomber riding a blue bicycle was offered Tuesday along with a $65,000 award in an effort to generate leads in the 2008 blast at the military recruitment station in Times Square
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  • A California grand jury has indicted a Florida man on charges he strangled his ex-wife and tossed her off a cruise ship in Italy
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  • Leaders from eight of the world's wealthiest countries spent the final hours of their summit Tuesday focusing how to make sure that multinational companies can no longer rely on shelters and loopholes to avoid paying the tax they owe.
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  • American officials say U.S. representatives will begin formal meetings with the Taliban in a few days at the group's new office opening in Qatar
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  • The director of the National Security Agency said Tuesday the government's sweeping surveillance programs have foiled some 50 terrorist plots worldwide, including one directed at the New York Stock Exchange, in a forceful defense of spy operations that was echoed by the leaders of the House Intelligence Committee
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  • Two suicide bombers blew themselves up inside and near a Shiite mosque in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 24 people and wounding 52, Iraqi officials said
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  • State media say a bus carrying 35 people has plunged into a valley in western China, killing at least 11 people
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  • former teacher in central Pennsylvania is facing charges after police say she allowed a student to perform body piercings in class
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  • After weeks of sometimes-violent confrontation with police, Turkish protesters have found a new form of resistance: standing still and silent.
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  • Military leaders are ready to begin tearing down the remaining walls that have prevented women from holding thousands of combat and special operations jobs near the front lines.
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  • A flight from Hong Kong on which a man claimed everyone was poisoned has arrived safely in New Jersey and the man taken off the plane
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  • The Philippine military says five army soldiers have been abducted by communist rebels on the outskirts of a southern city
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  • Steve Gleason
  • Steve Gleason, who suffers from Lou Gehrig's disease, was the target of a bit by Alanta sports radio hosts; a bit that got them fired
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  • Deep differences over Syria's fierce civil war clouded a summit of world leaders Monday, with Russian President Vladimir Putin defiantly rejecting calls from the U.S., Britain and France to halt his political and military support for Syrian leader Bashar Assad's regime
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  • The U.S. Forest Service says a man drowned while trying to help a horse at Bark Camp Lake Recreation Area
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  • In tweets, songs, telephone calls, cards and more, messages of love have come from across South Africa and the world for 94-year-old Nelson Mandela, giving the family comfort and hope as he remains hospitalized in serious condition with a lung infection, his wife said Monday
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  • Jimmy Hoffa search
  • Federal agents revived the hunt for the remains of Jimmy Hoffa on Monday, bringing excavation equipment to a field in suburban Detroit where a reputed Mafia captain says the Teamsters boss' body was buried
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  • Police are searching for a Pennsylvania bank robber who fatally shot a supermarket customer who tried to stop the man near his getaway car
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  • A black bear mauled a man at a campground in Alaska, but the animal won't likely threaten other people, the state Department of Fish and Game said
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  • Iran's newly elected president pledged on Monday to follow a "path of moderation" and promised greater openness over the country's nuclear program, but sided with the hard-line Islamic establishment that refuses to consider halting uranium enrichment.
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  • Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, who was allowed to travel to the U.S. after escaping from house arrest, said Monday that New York University is forcing him and his family to leave at the end of this month because of pressure from the Chinese government. The university denied Chen's allegations
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  • The Supreme Court says states cannot require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier.
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  • Police say a Phoenix bus driver was caught on cellphone video repeatedly punching a passenger and slamming the man's head against a bench
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  • Three bombing attacks in Iraq have killed at least 12 people today
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  • Chicago Police are investigating after a violent weekend left at least six people dead and more than three dozen wounded in a series of shootings
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  • Apple says it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data for the six months ended in May
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  • Torrential rain and floods washed away buildings and roads, killing at least 23 people in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, officials said Monday
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  • Britain's Prince Philip was discharged from a London hospital on Monday, 10 days after undergoing exploratory surgery on his abdomen
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