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UK TV host Rolf Harris guilty of indecent assault 06/30/2014 03:59pm • GREGORY KATZ Associated Press LONDON (AP) -- Television entertainer Rolf Harris, known to generations of children in Britain and Australia for his friendly screen presence, was found guilty Monday of a string of indecent assaults on young girls that took place from the '60s to the '80s.The convictio Benghazi case unfolds against political backdrop 06/30/2014 12:42pm • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The first prosecution arising from the Benghazi attacks is playing out in the federal courthouse blocks from both the White House and Capitol Hill, an appropriate setting for a case that has drawn stark lines between President Barack Obama and Republic Fans lose things, get robbed amid exuberance 06/30/2014 12:30pm • JORGE SAINZ Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Distracted by the World Cup atmosphere, American fan Jack Smith slipped his card into an ATM in a Rio airport.He believes the card was cloned in an instant and, over several days before he discovered it, his account was debited for $12,000, a loss New UN rights probe intensifies pressure on SLanka 06/30/2014 10:44am • MATTHEW PENNINGTON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new U.N. investigation into allegations of war crimes in Sri Lanka will intensify international pressure on its government and could probe the purported responsibility of senior Sri Lankan officials with U.S. ties.As many as 40,000 civilians m Benghazi case unfolds against political backdrop 06/30/2014 05:24am • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The first prosecution arising from the Benghazi attacks is playing out in the federal courthouse blocks from both the White House and Capitol Hill, an appropriate setting for a case that has drawn stark lines between President Barack Obama and Republic Benghazi suspect pleads not guilty before judge 06/29/2014 04:32am • MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Libyan militant accused of masterminding the deadly Benghazi attacks that have become a flashpoint in U.S. politics appeared briefly for the first time in an American courtroom on Saturday, pleading not guilty to a terrorism-related charge nearly Hawaii juror favored death for ex-soldier, 8-4 06/28/2014 05:04pm • JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) -- Jurors who decided the fate of a former soldier convicted of killing his 5-year-old daughter said their labored deliberations ended with eight of them wanting him sentenced to death and four of them wanting him to spend the rest of his life i Vatican defrocks ex-ambassador in sex abuse case 06/28/2014 05:14am • NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican has defrocked its former ambassador to the Dominican Republic for sexually abusing boys. It's the first time a top papal envoy has been convicted of the crime and signals that Pope Francis is serious about imposing "zero tolerance" fo Column: Carrot and stick needed to change Suarez 06/27/2014 04:54pm • JOHN LEICESTER AP Sports Columnist BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (AP) -- How is it that footballers are among the few who've not had much to say about the bite seen around the world, now punished with an appropriately tough ban?Luis Suarez's peers surely can't all be fearful that he might chomp them next i Montana judge: Suspension over remarks unwarranted 06/27/2014 04:22pm • MATT VOLZ Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A judge who faces suspension for saying a 14-year-old girl appeared "older than her chronological age" during her rapist's sentencing said he believes the penalty is unwarranted and proposed the Montana Supreme Court withdraw it.Judge G. Todd Baugh su Sen. Baker, who posed famous Watergate query, dies 06/27/2014 01:10pm • CONNIE CASS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Howard Baker's question sliced to the core of Watergate: "What did the president know and when did he know it?"Repeated over and again in the senator's mild Tennessee drawl, those words guided Americans through the tangle of Watergate characters and ch Jury reaches verdict in Hawaii death penalty case 06/26/2014 11:00pm • JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) -- Jurors decided Thursday whether a former soldier convicted of killing his 5-year-old daughter will be executed or sentenced to life in prison, but they asked the judge to delay reading the verdict because some jurors feel emotionally drained. Tunisia to revamp drug laws as prisons fill up 06/26/2014 12:41pm • BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- Tunisia is revamping its draconian drug laws, which have been condemned for having minimum sentences of at least a year and not distinguishing between hard and soft drugs.The changes are part of Tunisia's efforts to democratize after its 20 'Get a warrant' to search cellphones, Justices say 06/26/2014 01:18am • MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- In an emphatic defense of privacy in the digital age, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police generally may not search the cellphones of people they arrest without first getting search warrants.Cellphones are unlike anything else police US to seek data protection for EU citizens 06/25/2014 05:46pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- The Obama administration will seek to introduce legislation that grants Europeans the same privacy protection rights as U.S. citizens when their data is being transferred to the U.S. for law enforcement purposes, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday.The U.S. and EU