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Kurds in Europe take up arms against IS group 09/16/2014 03:22pm • JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press KOEGE, Denmark (AP) -- Shaho Pirani says he's just a phone call away from leaving his quiet life in Denmark and joining Kurdish forces battling against Islamic State militants in Iraq.The 30-year-old Kurd, who fled from Iran with his older brother in 1991, says he feels Police: Rifle used to ambush Pennsylvania troopers 09/16/2014 12:44am • MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press The gunman who ambushed two Pennsylvania State Police troopers outside their barracks, killing one, used a rifle and might have had formal firearms training through the military or law enforcement, authorities said Monday.Releasing a profile of the killer, Lt. Col. Oklahoma City bombing memorial adds new exhibits 09/15/2014 04:30pm • KRISTI EATON Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- A key piece of evidence, hundreds of oral testimonies and new artifacts were unveiled Monday at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum dedicated to the deadly 1995 bombing.The additions are part of a nearly $8 million project that aims to att 93-year-old former Auschwitz guard charged 09/15/2014 11:46am • DAVID RISING Associated Press BERLIN (AP) -- A 93-year-old man has been charged with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder for serving as an SS guard at the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp, prosecutors said Monday.Oskar Groening is accused of helping operate the death camp in occupied Poland between May Oklahoma NAACP wants alleged assaults investigated 09/13/2014 04:50pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- The president of the Oklahoma NAACP wants the U.S. attorney general to open a hate crimes and civil rights investigation into alleged sexual assaults on black women by an Oklahoma City police officer.Anthony Douglas requested the investigation in an Aug. 28 letter to Attorney G Prosecutors target credit card thieves overseas 09/13/2014 02:02pm • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Criminals from around the world buy and sell stolen credit card information with ease in today's digital age. But if they commit their crime entirely outside the United States, they may be beyond the reach of federal prosecutors.Justice Department offi Business Highlights 09/12/2014 06:50pm • The Associated Press ___Sponsors keep close watch on NFL investigationMajor brand sponsors are watching closely to make sure the National Football League doesn't fumble the investigation into how its executives handled evidence in the Ray Rice domestic violence case.For big companies like Anheuser- Stocks down...Bayer accused of unsubstantiated drug claims...Justice seeks new tool against data fraud 09/12/2014 03:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street appears headed for its first weekly loss since the start of August. Utility company stocks are leading the market lower as investors dump dividend-rich stocks following a rise in Treasury yields, which rise when prices fall. Treasurys fell after news that retail sales in FEMA wants at least $5.8M in Sandy aid repaid 09/12/2014 12:08pm • MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- After Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast nearly two years ago, the federal government quickly sent out $1.4 billion in emergency disaster aid to the hurricane's victims.Now, thousands of people might have to pay back their share.The Federal Emerge Prosecutor: Plant owner OK'd tainted peanut sales 09/12/2014 04:48am • RUSS BYNUM Associated Press ALBANY, Ga. (AP) -- The owner of a Georgia peanut plant where a deadly salmonella outbreak originated five years ago approved sales of tainted food "whatever the risk," including shipments known to have tested positive for the bacteria and others sent with fake lab result Veterans Watchdog: VA managers lied about delays 09/11/2014 09:46am • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Managers at more than a dozen Veterans Affairs medical facilities lied to federal investigators about scheduling practices and other issues, the department's inspector general said Tuesday.Richard Griffin, the VA's acting inspector general, said his o Israeli cop charged over hurt Palestinian-American 09/10/2014 02:30pm • JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's Justice Ministry said Wednesday that police have charged an officer who was filmed beating a Palestinian-American teenager during a violent protest in July.Tariq Abu Khdeir, 15, of Tampa, Florida, was beaten at the east Jerusalem protest that followed the gruesome death of Haiti prisons under scrutiny after mass breakout 09/10/2014 08:49am • DANICA COTO Associated Press CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti (AP) -- Sudden gunfire rattled the morning routine outside the Croix-des-Bouquets Civil Prison and soon inmates, many barefoot and shirtless, dashed frantically from the maximum-security facility, startling street vendors as they looted their wa Pope makes key sex abuse appointments 09/10/2014 08:00am • VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis has named a fellow Jesuit to be the Vatican's new sex crimes prosecutor after deciding to move the current one to be the No. 2 on his new sex abuse commission.The Rev. Robert Geisinger, an American, is currently the top canon lawyer at the Jesuit order's headquarter Judge convicts ex-nurse of assisting suicide 09/09/2014 05:56pm • STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- An ex-nurse who admitted going online and encouraging people to kill themselves was convicted Tuesday of assisting the suicide of an English man and attempting to assist in the suicide of a Canadian woman, following a legal battle that has spanned