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Morning Notes 07/16/2014 08:15am • Report: New Apartment Rents Falling – According to a second quarter 2014 report from analyst Delta Associates, the average Class A apartment rent in Bethesda fell 4.7 percent from where it was at the same time in 2013. Class A apartments are classified as ones built after 1991 with full US preparing unilateral sanctions on Russia 07/16/2014 05:56am • JULIE PACE AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States is considering imposing unilateral sanctions on Russia over its threatening moves in Ukraine, a shift in strategy that reflects the Obama administration's frustration with Europe's reluctance to take tougher action against House GOP prepares response to border crisis 07/16/2014 05:18am • ERICA WERNER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans announced Tuesday they will recommend dispatching the National Guard to South Texas and speeding Central American youths back home as their response to the immigration crisis that's engulfing the border and testing Washington's abili In Seattle, delivering legal pot illegally 07/16/2014 03:10am • MANUEL VALDES Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) -- William "Jackrabbit" Large pulls his SUV onto the side of a downtown Seattle street, parking behind an Amazon Fresh delivery truck and carrying a product the online retailer doesn't offer: marijuana.The thin, bespectacled Large is a delivery man for Win Tenn. leaders downplay union debate at VW plant 07/15/2014 10:40pm • KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee leaders downplayed the often public wrangling over organized labor's role at Volkswagen's Chattanooga factory on Tuesday, focusing on the company's recent announcement that it would add a new line there to produce a seven-passenger Players may consider tobacco ban discussion in '16 07/15/2014 06:40pm • RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Major League Baseball players say they may consider whether to discuss a possible ban on chewing tobacco when they negotiate their next labor contract in two years. For now, they hope individuals decide on their own to stop dipping.Players' union head Correction: Amazon-Drones story 07/15/2014 04:51pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- In a story on July 11 about Amazon seeking permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to fly drones, The Associated Press misstated the year that Congress gave the FAA a deadline for granting drones access to U.S. skies. Congress set the September 2015 deadline in 2012, not Giant African snails seized at Los Angeles airport 07/15/2014 03:52pm • KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Inspectors at Los Angeles International Airport seized an unusually slimy package -- 67 live giant African snails that are a popular delicacy across West Africa.The snails -- which are prohibited in the U.S. -- arrived from Nigeria and were being se Citigroup to pay $7B in subprime mortgages probe 07/15/2014 08:28am • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Citigroup has agreed to pay $7 billion to settle a federal investigation into its handling of risky subprime mortgages, admitting to a pattern of deception that Attorney General Eric Holder said "shattered lives" and contributed to the worst financial VW to build new SUV in Tennessee, add 2,000 jobs 07/14/2014 05:51pm • ERIK SCHELZIG Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Volkswagen plans to build a new seven-passenger SUV at its factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, adding about 2,000 factory jobs as it tries to reverse U.S. sales that have fallen for the past two years.The German automaker announced Monday that i Holder: Citigroup settlement doesn't preclude prosecution 07/14/2014 04:28pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Eric Holder says the $7 billion settlement with Citigroup doesn't preclude the possibility of criminal prosecution for the bank or individual employees.Citigroup today agreed to pay $7 billion to settle a federal probe into its handling of risky subprime mortgages Citigroup settles subprime mortgage case for $7B 07/14/2014 08:50am • WASHINGTON (AP) -- Citigroup will pay roughly $7 billion to settle an investigation into risky subprime mortgages, the type that helped fuel the financial crisis.The agreement announced Monday comes weeks after talks between the two sides broke down, prompting the Justice Department to warn that it Iraq parliament postpones decision on new leaders 07/14/2014 04:52am • SINAN SALAHEDDIN Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq's deadlocked parliament failed Sunday to overcome the deep divisions hampering the formation of a new government, making no progress on choosing new leaders who could help hold the nation together and confront the Sunni militant blitz that has o Workers struggle in Hamptons, playground for rich 07/14/2014 04:32am • FRANK ELTMAN Associated Press SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) -- This is a town where people are so rich that a $2 million home can be a handyman's special. A town where the thrift shop is stocked with donations of designer dresses and handbags.But Southampton, with its privet hedges, pristine beaches and so Montgomery Co. giving $12M in tax breaks to data center 07/14/2014 12:01am • Montgomery County has agreed to give tenants of ByteGrid's Silver Spring data center up to $12 million in property tax breaks over 12 years, the first such move for a county looking to foster a competitive data center cluster and fend off competing jurisdictions. The package of tax breaks applies to
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