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Comic-Con's dark side: Harassment amid the fantasy 07/28/2014 07:44am • SANDY COHEN AP Entertainment Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Amid the costumes and fantasy of this weekend's Comic-Con convention, a group of young women drew widespread attention to a very real issue -- allegations of sexual harassment at the annual pop-culture festival.Geeks for CONsent, founded by three Police in China remove church's cross 07/28/2014 12:30am • BEIJING (AP) -- Hundreds of police took down a church's cross in eastern China early Monday amid a crackdown on church buildings in a coastal region where thousands of people are embracing Christianity.Evangelist Qu Linuo, who belongs to another church, said hundreds of police showed up Monday at th US faces intel hurdles in downing of airliner 07/27/2014 07:50pm • KEN DILANIAN AP Intelligence Writer ASPEN, Colo. (AP) -- A series of unanswered questions about the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shows the limits of U.S. intelligence gathering even when it is intensely focused, as it has been in Ukraine since Russia seized Crimea in March.Citing satellite Pack signs Nelson to extension after 1st practice 07/26/2014 07:57pm • GENARO C. ARMAS AP Sports Writer GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Jordy Nelson had a secret on the way to the first practice of Packers training camp.It didn't take long for the rest of his teammates to find out.Green Bay's leading receiver now has a deal commensurate with his production after signing a cont Threat against US Open of Surfing leads to arrest 07/26/2014 05:50pm • HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Police in Southern California have arrested a 16-year-old boy who made a threat on social media against this weekend's U.S. Open of Surfing.Huntington Beach police said Saturday that the teenager was arrested Friday evening at his home in Huntington Beach and booked Russia: EU sanctions weaken anti-terrorism efforts 07/26/2014 12:38pm • MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia lashed out Saturday at the latest round of Ukraine-related sanctions imposed by the European Union, saying they endanger the fight against international terrorism, and accused the United States of spreading flagrant lies about Russia's alleged involvement in the downing of a Ma House votes to boost child tax credit for some 07/26/2014 12:38pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- More families with higher incomes could claim the popular child tax credit under a bill that won approval Friday in the House. But in a dispute that divides Republicans and Democrats, millions of the poorest low-income families would still lose the credit in 2018, when enhancement Social Security's $300M IT project doesn't work 07/26/2014 03:58am • WASHINGTON (AP) -- After spending nearly $300 million on a new computer system to handle disability claims, the Social Security Administration still can't get it to work. And officials can't say when it will.Six years ago, Social Security embarked on an aggressive plan to replace outdated computer s Child tax credit: Who gets it? 07/25/2014 04:30pm • The Associated Press The House passed a bill Friday that would gradually increase the child tax credit and make it available to higher income parents. However, the bill lets expire a provision that makes the credit available to millions of low-income families.___The basics:--The child tax credit pr British man charged in government computer hacking 07/25/2014 01:40pm • ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- A British man has been charged with hacking into computers belonging to the Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Sentencing Commission and an FBI laboratory, among others.A grand jury in Alexandria indicted 29-year-old Lauri Love of Stradishall, England, Thursday Towering worry: Small holes cause big jitters 07/25/2014 01:40pm • YOUKYUNG LEE AP Business Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- For the developers of the world's sixth tallest building near Seoul, a mysteriously shrinking lake and the appearance of small sinkholes in residential neighborhoods couldn't have come at a more inopportune time.Plans for the super-high towe Planes with Ukraine bodies arrive in Netherlands 07/25/2014 11:20am • DMYTRO VLASOV Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) -- Two more military aircraft carrying remains of victims from the Malaysian plane disaster arrived in the Netherlands on Thursday, while Australian and Dutch diplomats joined to promote a plan for a U.N. team to secure the crash site which has be Agents get subsidized 'Obamacare' using fake IDs 07/24/2014 02:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- Undercover investigators using fake identities were able to secure taxpayer-subsidized health insurance under President Barack Obama's health care law, congressional investigators said Wednesday.The weak link seemed to be call centers that handled applications for frazzled consume UN human development report faults inequality 07/24/2014 02:01pm • TOKYO (AP) -- The world is no longer seeing the kind of advances that had been taking place in life spans, education and incomes.According to the United Nations, those gains are being slowed by natural disasters, misguided government policies and worsening inequality -- in a world where the 85 riche What are you really agreeing to in 'terms of service'? 07/24/2014 12:04pm • Nicole Curtis, special to wtop.com WASHINGTON -- When creating a social media account, do you read all of the "terms of service?" There are a few things that most people do not know that they are agreeing to and it might change the way you use social media. Most people do not know that Facebook