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Given life term, drug offender hopes for clemency 07/20/2014 08:54am • BY SHARON COHEN AP National Writer GREENVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- From the very start, Scott Walker refused to believe he'd die in prison.Arrested and jailed at 25, then sent to prison two years later, Walker couldn't imagine spending his life behind bars for dealing drugs. But the years passed, his appea 5 things to know about drug laws, prison sentences 07/20/2014 12:02am • SHARON COHEN AP National Writer Decades of tough drug laws have contributed to a dramatic rise in the federal prison population, with inmates serving more time behind bars. The Obama administration recently encouraged nonviolent federal inmates -- most of them drug offenders -- to apply for early re Outrage after Indian girl, 6, raped at her school 07/19/2014 09:25am • NEW DELHI (AP) -- Thousands of people angry over alleged police inaction after a 6-year-old girl was raped at her school in southern India rallied Saturday to demand that authorities arrest those responsible for the attack.More than 4,000 parents and relatives of children who attend the school in Ba US: Can't rule out Russian role in plane downing 07/19/2014 07:50am • Editor's Note: Read the latest on the Malaysia Airlines plane crash in WTOP's Live Blog EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Friday that the United States cannot rule out that Russia he Credible probe sought in downing of Malaysian jet 07/19/2014 05:28am • Editor's Note: Read the latest on the Malaysia Airlines plane crash in WTOP's Live Blog DMITRY LOVETSKY Associated Press ROZSYPNE, Ukraine (AP) -- World leaders demanded Friday that pro-Russia rebels who control the eastern Ukraine crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 give immediate, unfe Iowa rejects juvenile mandatory minimum sentences 07/18/2014 05:03pm • DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- The Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday that juveniles cannot be given mandatory minimum sentences, making it the first state to interpret federal court directives that broadly.More than 100 prisoners who as juvenile offenders were tried as adults and Discoveries convince family pregnant woman is dead 07/18/2014 02:20pm • OSKAR GARCIA Associated Press MAKAWAO, Hawaii (AP) -- Four days into searching for her pregnant half-sister, Phaedra Wais trudged through a rugged, wet jungle on Maui to chase a new lead in the disappearance.Following a locator ping from a cellphone, the 16-year-old found a skirt, shirt and bra stai Global leaders express shock over downed plane 07/18/2014 07:24am • Associated Press International leaders and officials expressed grief and shock at the crash Thursday in eastern Ukraine of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet carrying 298 people. Several pledged to contribute to investigation efforts. The plane en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was carrying 15 Malaysia says jetliner did not make distress call 07/18/2014 07:20am • Editor's Note: Read the latest on the Malaysia Airlines plane crash in WTOP's Live Blog EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- The Malaysia Airlines jetliner that went down in war-torn Ukraine did not make any distress call, Malaysia's prime minister said Friday, adding that Discoveries convince family pregnant woman is dead 07/18/2014 05:26am • OSKAR GARCIA Associated Press MAKAWAO, Hawaii (AP) -- Four days into searching for her pregnant half-sister, Phaedra Wais trudged through a rugged, wet jungle on Maui to chase a new lead in the disappearance.Following a locator ping from a cellphone, the 16-year-old found a skirt, shirt and bra stai House votes to allow marijuana-related banking 07/17/2014 10:18pm • ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House voted Wednesday in support of making it easier for banks to do business with legal pot shops and providers of medical marijuana.The 236-186 vote rejected a move by Rep. John Fleming, R-La., to block the Treasury Department from implementing Pope demands justice for Argentina terror attack 07/17/2014 10:12pm • NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Pope Francis is demanding justice for the victims of Argentina's worst terrorist attack, using what is increasingly becoming his signature way of communicating: an amateur smartphone video message, recorded on the fly by a visiting fri Hate crime investigation grows in Mississippi 07/17/2014 09:01pm • JACK ELLIOTT JR. Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A three-year federal investigation into groups of suburban white teens crossing into Mississippi's capital city to attack blacks has grown to 10 indictments and six convictions.The most recent indictments -- two men and two women -- were made Holocaust Museum opens UN archive on WWII crimes 07/17/2014 08:42pm • BRETT ZONGKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- From Adolf Hitler down to the petty bureaucrats who staffed the Nazi death camps, thousands of perpetrators of World War II war crimes were eventually written up in vast reams of investigative files -- files that now, for the first time, can be viewe Republicans criticize handling of IRS inquiry 07/17/2014 05:17pm • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans chastised the Justice Department on Thursday for failing to share information with Congress about its investigation into the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service. Lawmakers called anew for a special prosecutor to