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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 UK judge: IRA fugitive letters flawed, not illegal 07/17/2014 02:38pm • LONDON (AP) -- A U.K. government policy of issuing letters assuring Irish Republican Army fugitives they weren't wanted by police was flawed, but didn't give criminals a "get out of jail free card," a British judge said Thursday.Justice Heather Hallett said the contentious "comfort letters," a littl Judge: We've all been 19 07/17/2014 02:10pm • DETROIT (AP) -- A judge in Detroit says, "We've all been 19." He's defending his decision to sentence Latrez Cummings to just six months in jail for an assault on a motorist. Prosecutors said the sentence was too lenient.The 19-year-old is among five people who've pleaded guilty to assaulting Steve Watchdog report faults FBI laboratory probe 07/17/2014 04:32am • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI and Justice Department didn't move quickly enough to identify the cases handled by 13 FBI crime lab examiners whose work was found to be flawed, meaning defendants sometimes were never notified that their convictions may have been based on bad Justice Dept. investigating missing IRS emails 07/17/2014 03:16am • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department is investigating the circumstances behind the disappearance of emails from a former senior Internal Revenue Service official, part of a broader criminal inquiry into whether the agency had targeted conservative groups seeking tax Court: Dutch liable for 300 Srebrenica deaths 07/16/2014 06:42pm • MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- A court on Wednesday ordered the Netherlands to compensate the families of more than 300 Bosnian Muslims killed after Dutch troops handed them over to Bosnian Serb forces in 1995, in a ruling that could make countries more leery to contribu Man charged in ND with masquerading as FBI agent 07/16/2014 04:56pm • JOSH WOOD Associated Press WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) -- A convicted con man who swindled Nashville, Tennessee, businesses out of five-star hotel rooms, stretch limousine rides, helicopter rentals and expensive gifts didn't fare quite as well during a month in the North Dakota oil patch, investigators con Muslim American group condemns Westminster graffiti 07/16/2014 01:44pm • WASHINGTON - A group that represents American Muslims is condemning the anti- immigrant graffiti found at a former Army Reserve base in Maryland. The message "No illeagles (sic) here. No undocumented Democrats" was spray painted onto the side of a building at the Westminster base that was suggest