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700 protest S. Korean factory closure in Myanmar 07/17/2014 10:44am • YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- More than 700 workers protested Thursday in front of the South Korean Embassy in Myanmar to demand officials help them after a Korean-owned factory closed without paying their wages.The workers from the Master Sports Footwear Factory in Yangon said the owner closed the plant VA cites progress on backlog; Congress disagrees 07/15/2014 05:02pm • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Department of Veterans Affairs says it has made "tremendous progress" in reducing a disability claims backlog that reached above 600,000 early last year. Members of Congress and the department's assistant inspector general don't believe it.Allison 22.8 million New Yorkers' personal records exposed 07/15/2014 11:11am • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York's attorney general says the private records of nearly 23 million New Yorkers have been exposed in data security breaches reported by more than 3,000 businesses, nonprofits and governments over the past eight years.Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says deliberate hacki Stars are safer because of actress' murder 07/15/2014 08:10am • ANTHONY McCARTNEY AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) -- They've shown up in Selena Gomez's guest house, outside Halle Berry's kitchen door and inside Sandra Bullock's home, despite gates, tall fences and guards meant to keep the stars safe.Celebrity stalkers continue to be one of stardom's mos Ukraine orphans become pawns in civil conflict 07/15/2014 07:30am • BALINT SZLANKO Associated Press DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) -- Tamara Popova and her fellow orphans are adamant: They don't want to go to Russia. The separatist gunmen running this eastern Ukrainian city aren't asking. They're giving orders.As fighting between insurgent and government troops closes in on In rush to cut benefits backlog, VA made errors 07/15/2014 03:27am • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a rush to cut a huge backlog of claims for disability benefits, the Department of Veterans Affairs is making payments to tens of thousands of veterans without adequate medical evidence that they deserve the benefits, the department's inspector gene Super PAC fills void as Iowa GOP's Ernst on duty 07/14/2014 05:13pm • THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Conservative fundraising group American Crossroads is filling in for Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Joni Ernst while she participates in Iowa National Guard training for two weeks.Group spokesman Paul Lindsay told The Associated Press on Mond Brazil protests fizzled, but roots of anger remain 07/13/2014 03:54pm • JENNY BARCHFIELD Associated Press IRAJA, Brazil (AP) -- The protesters who many feared would wreck Brazil's World Cup party failed to show up. While the national team fell short of claiming the coveted championship, the country at least can say the tournament that wraps up with Sunday's title game h Iranian court sentences Facebook activists to jail 07/13/2014 02:24pm • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- TEHRAN, Iran (AP) --An Iranian court handed jail sentences of eight to 21 years to eight Facebook page administrators, the official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday.The report said the defendants were convicted of plotting against national security, spreading propaganda again Tobacco firms Reynolds, Lorillard in merger talks 07/12/2014 01:20pm • MICHAEL FELBERBAUM AP Tobacco Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Big Tobacco may soon get smaller.The makers of Camel and Newport cigarettes said Friday they are in talks to combine two of the nation's oldest and biggest tobacco companies. A deal between Reynolds American Inc. and Lorillard Inc. would cre Economists lower forecasts for US growth 07/12/2014 11:34am • CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. business economists have sharply cut their growth forecasts for the April-June quarter and 2014, though they remain optimistic that the economy will rebound from a dismal first quarter.The average forecast for growth in the second qu US records $71 billion budget surplus in June 07/12/2014 11:10am • JOSH BOAK AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. government ran a monthly budget surplus in June, putting it on course to record the lowest annual deficit since 2008.The Treasury Department said Friday that its June surplus totaled $71 billion, following a $130 billion deficit in May. The g Senate candidate records GOP address, then deploys 07/12/2014 10:38am • THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A new item on Lt. Col. Joni Ernst's checklist as she packed up for two weeks of annual training with the Iowa National Guard: denounce the health care law in the weekly Republican radio address.An Iowa state senator who is running for the U.S Iraqi Kurds take over 2 northern oil fields 07/12/2014 07:30am • SINAN SALAHEDDIN Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) -- Kurdish security forces took over two major oil fields outside the disputed northern city of Kirkuk before dawn Friday and said they would use some of the production for domestic purposes, further widening a split with the central government of Prime White House: 2014 deficit to drop $100B 07/11/2014 06:50pm • ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government's budget deficit will drop to $583 billion this year, the lowest level of President Barack Obama's tenure, the White House said Friday.Last year's deficit was $680 billion. The latest update from the White House budget office is also $