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July 13, 2013

Third girl to die in SF plane crash identified

Liu Yipeng, 16, went to school with the other two victims killed in the crash.
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July 13, 2013

Zimmerman jury continues 2nd day of deliberations

George Zimmerman, 29, is charged with second-degree murder, but the jury also is allowed to consider manslaughter.
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July 13, 2013

Alien planet’s color detected for first time

LONDON – Astronomers have for the first time managed to determine the color of a planet outside our solar system, a blue gas giant 63 light-years away. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, an international team said the planet known as HD 189733B would look like a deep blue dot if viewed up close. While Earth […]
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July 13, 2013

Egypt’s Islamists digging in for long-term protests

CAIRO – Tens of thousands of Islamists rallied Friday in cities across Egypt, vowing to sustain for months their campaign to restore deposed President Mohammed Morsi to power. Ten days after the military coup that toppled him, however, Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood and its allies appear to have failed to bring a significantly wider segment of […]
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July 13, 2013

Smoking sinks to new low among young Americans

LOS ANGELES – Cigarette smoking hit the lowest point ever recorded among American eighth-graders and high school sophomores and seniors last year, a new report shows. Last year, only 5 percent of high school sophomores said they had smoked cigarettes daily in the previous 30 days, compared with 18 percent of sophomores who were smoking […]

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July 13, 2013

Edward Snowden asks Russia for asylum

He may accept Putin's condition to stop harming the United States, but more revelations are expected from previously leaked materials.
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July 13, 2013

‘Malala Day’ puts Taliban on notice

The teenager gives her first public speech since she was shot in the head by the Pakistani Taliban.
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July 13, 2013

Nation & World Dispatches

SAN FRANCISCO Fire truck may have struck, killed Asiana crash survivor A girl who was aboard the Asiana Airlines flight that crash-landed died Friday, the same day that authorities confirmed one of the two Chinese teenagers killed in the disaster was hit by a fire truck. The disclosure about the teen raised the tragic possibility […]
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July 13, 2013

Little debate on privacy as DNA collection flourishes

The trove of DNA now in official hands has alarmed privacy campaigners as well as some scientists.
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July 12, 2013

MIT acoustics pioneer Bose dies at 83

Amar Bose founded Bose Corp., a company known for the rich sound of its small tabletop radios and its noise-canceling headphones.

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