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Companies can start registering dot-Vegas domains 06/02/2014 08:00pm • MICHELLE RINDELS Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Companies bored with a dot-com or dot-net Web address can now spice things up with a dot-Vegas suffix.Las Vegas-based firm Dot Vegas Inc. is opening up registration Monday for the new domains, which offer registrants a chance at a shorter, more des Wall Street registers modest gains ... Oil prices ... Supreme Court-Patent Case ... 06/02/2014 06:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- The day started poorly on Wall Street up ended up with marginal gains. Things picked up when a report on the health of U.S. manufacturing was revised higher. A trade group said U.S. manufacturing grew at a brisk pace last month, correcting its earlier statement that growth had slowe Longtime Hollywood columnist Marilyn Beck dies 06/02/2014 06:28pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Veteran entertainment columnist Marilyn Beck has died after a four-decade career interviewing Hollywood luminaries.Beck's business partner, Stacy Jenel Smith, said Beck died Saturday after a three-year fight with lung cancer. She was 85.Beck studied journalism at the University o Apple introduces new mobile software, iOS 8 06/02/2014 04:00pm • Jasmine Song, special to wtop.com WASHINGTON -- Apple is unveiling new software for iPhones and iPads, featuring improved functions for multitasking and seamless synchronization with other Mac devices. At Apple's 25th annual conference for software developers in San Francisco, the company anno Mob torches Christian shops in Egypt ahead trial 06/02/2014 03:18pm • HAGGAG SALAMA Associated Press LUXOR, Egypt (AP) -- A mob of angry Islamic extremists burned shops owned by Coptic Christians near the ancient city of Luxor on Monday, hours before a trial for a Coptic Christian accused of blasphemy, a security official said.The official said saw the mob throw gasol Cuba agent: US-Taliban prisoner swap a precedent 06/02/2014 03:14pm • ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) -- The exchange of five Taliban detainees at Guantanamo for a U.S. Army soldier held captive in Afghanistan could set a precedent for a similar swap with Cuba, a Cuban intelligence agent who spent years imprisoned in the United States said Monday.Fernand 25 years on, Tiananmen barely known to China youth 06/02/2014 01:31pm • DIDI TANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) -- Born in 1989, Steve Wang sometimes wonders what happened in his hometown of Beijing that year. But his curiosity about pro-democracy protests and the crackdown on them passes quickly."I was not part of it," he said. "I know it could be important, but I cann Google taking requests to censor results in Europe 06/02/2014 12:44pm • MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google is accepting requests from Europeans who want to erase unflattering information from the results produced by the world's dominant search engine.The demands can be submitted on a Web page that Google opened late Thursday in response to Google faces up to image problem in Europe 06/02/2014 12:44pm • TOBY STERLING Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) -- As Google bowed to a European court ruling to consider users' claims to remove embarrassing search results, the company took the first step toward preventing any more such punishing decisions -- acknowledging it has an image problem in Europe.The comp Freed soldier's hometown makes welcome-home plans 06/01/2014 08:00pm • KIMBERLEE KRUESI HAILEY, Idaho (AP) -- The news of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's release from captivity Saturday spread quickly in his hometown in southern Idaho, and residents immediately began making plans for a welcome-home celebration.An annual event called "Bring Bowe Back" scheduled for June Obama's boldest move on carbon comes with perils 06/01/2014 06:14pm • DINA CAPPIELLO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The new pollution rule the Obama administration announces Monday will be a cornerstone of President Barack Obama's environmental legacy and arguably the most significant U.S. environmental regulation in decades.But it's not one the White House wante In China, a deliberate amnesia about '89 crackdown 06/01/2014 08:40am • JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) -- Remember June 4, Shi Shusi asked the 1.5 million readers of his popular microblog last year. Moments later, his postings were erased. A note from the microblog operator said they were "inappropriate publicity."This year, a discouraged Shi hasn't posted a Freed soldier's hometown makes welcome-home plans 06/01/2014 01:40am • KIMBERLEE KRUESI HAILEY, Idaho (AP) -- The news Saturday of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's release from captivity spread quickly in his hometown in southern Idaho, and residents immediately began making plans for a welcome-home celebration.An annual event called "Bring Bowe Back" scheduled for June Security matrix prevents another Tiananmen 05/31/2014 11:34pm • CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press BEIJING (AP) -- When visiting friends in China's capital, environmental activist Wu Lihong must slip away from his rural home before sunrise, before the police officers watching his home awaken. He rides a bus to an adjacent province and jumps aboard a train just Biographical information on Billy Walters 05/31/2014 06:51pm • The Associated Press NAME: William "Billy" WALTERSAGE, BIRTHPLACE: 67; Munfordville, KentuckyCAREER: Legendary gambler. Lost paper route money betting that the New York Yankees would win the 1955 World Series, according to a profile on the gambling website 777.com. Started hustling pool, then golf