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6 Democrats: Feds should look into chokehold death 08/14/2014 08:00pm • JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Several members of New York's congressional delegation are urging the Department of Justice to investigate the death of a man put in a police chokehold, further complicating first-term Mayor Bill de Blasio's precarious political balancing act as the Report: NSA eyed preset strikes in cyberattacks 08/14/2014 03:20am • JACK GILLUM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The National Security Agency secretly planned a cyberwarfare program that could automatically fire back at cyberattacks from foreign countries without any human involvement, creating the risk of accidentally starting a war, according to a new report ba Lighter sentences sought for some business crimes 08/14/2014 12:00am • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal panel that sets sentencing policy eased penalties this year for potentially tens of thousands of nonviolent drug offenders. Now, defense lawyers and prisoner advocates are pushing for similar treatment for a different category of defendants After 5 year manhunt, fugitive couple arrested 08/13/2014 10:10pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A couple accused of leaving their severely injured 2-year-old daughter at a hospital and keeping their other adopted children in putrid conditions were arrested after a five-year manhunt, authorities said Wednesday.The search for Janet and Ramon Barreto began when they skipped Criminal charge possible for Stewart in Ward death 08/13/2014 02:50pm • JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer Tony Stewart could still face criminal charges for running down Kevin Ward Jr. with his sprint car, even if the three-time NASCAR champion didn't mean to kill Ward, hurt him or even scare him.Ontario County Sheriff Philip Povero, who announced on Tuesday that the investi Ohio teen returns to football team after rape case 08/13/2014 01:35am • STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- A former Ohio high school football player found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl after an alcohol-fueled party two years ago returned to the field Tuesday with his old team.Ma'Lik Richmond played for Steubenville High School in a scrimmage against Cambridge, WTOV-TV (ht Tenn. man gets life in prison in postal shootings 08/12/2014 04:00pm • ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Armed with pistols, Chastain Montgomery and his 18-year-old son walked into the small, red-brick post office in a rural Tennessee town almost four years ago, intending to rob it and escape with what they thought would be a bounty of cash.Two U.S. UN proposal would punish Iraq and Syria militants 08/11/2014 04:40pm • EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Britain has proposed a draft U.N. resolution aimed at punishing recruitment and financing of foreign fighters for the Islamic State militant group now controlling a swath of Syria and Iraq, and all other terrorist groups associated with al-Qai Judge weighs recombining trials for 9/11 suspects 08/11/2014 01:42pm • DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) -- A pretrial hearing for suspects in the Sept. 11 terror attacks is in recess until mid-week while the military judge decides whether to reconsider his decision to try one of the men separate from the other four.Army Col. James Pohl heard argumen Judge weighs recombining trials for 9/11 suspects 08/11/2014 01:42pm • DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) -- A pretrial hearing for suspects in the Sept. 11 terror attacks is in recess until mid-week while the military judge decides whether to reconsider his decision to try one of the men separate from the other four.Army Col. James Pohl heard argumen Report criticizes US over Afghan civilian deaths 08/11/2014 10:19am • AMIR SHAH Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The U.S. failed to properly investigate civilian killings, including possible war crimes, which occurred during its military operations in Afghanistan, the international rights group Amnesty International said Monday. NATO said it investigates al Pro-Palestinian activists march to UN headquarters 08/09/2014 07:22pm • VERENA DOBNIK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- A sea of Palestinians and their sympathizers lined Manhattan streets Saturday, marching to the United Nations and shouting that Israel's response to missile attacks was genocide that took children's lives."What they're doing is wrong," said Ayia Mustaf Plan draws back feds' monitoring of Detroit police 08/09/2014 02:10pm • DETROIT (AP) -- The U.S. Justice Department and the city of Detroit have asked a judge to scale back federal monitoring of the city's police department, which started more than a decade ago after complaints over the use of force and treatment of crime suspects.Federal authorities sued the city in 20 Rare diary gives details of life under Khmer Rouge 08/09/2014 01:50pm • TODD PITMAN Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- It was an extraordinary act of defiance, and it was extraordinarily risky. But all he did was take out a pen, and write.Nearly 40 years ago, hunched on the floor of the wood-and-leaf hut he was forced to live in away from his children, Cambod Firm hasn't paid ND fine for wastewater violation 08/09/2014 12:20pm • JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- It's been two years since state regulators touted a record $1.5 million fine against a company for illegally dumping 20,000 barrels of toxic liquid and threatening drinking water supplies near a large western North Dakota city, and little has