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CANTON, Ohio (AP) -- Joshua Brown, the first U.S. fatality in a wreck involving a car in self-driving mode, had an adventurous streak with a "need for speed" but also was a brilliant innovator and beloved neighbor, say those who knew the Navy veteran....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Peeling back some of the secrecy of America's drone strikes on suspected terrorists, the Obama administration on Friday said it has killed up to 116 civilians in counterterror attacks in Pakistan, Yemen and other places where the U.S. is not engaged in active, on-the-ground warfare....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Long regarded as having one of the shrewdest political minds among recent presidents, Bill Clinton has at times angered and alienated Democrats and Republicans alike while campaigning for his wife, Hillary Clinton....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump wants a running mate who has what he lacks - political experience. Hillary Clinton is putting a premium on diversity as she searches for a No. 2....
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- As many as nine gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in a diplomatic zone of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Friday night, taking hostages, killing two officers and wounding at least 26 people in a gunbattle with security forces, authorities and a witness said....
IMAGE: CNS photo/Rose Ybarra, The Valley CatholicBy Rose YbarraMISSION,Texas (CNS) -- When 66-year-old Army veteran Jacky Eugene Gonzalez was laid torest at the Rio Grande Valley State Veterans Cemetery June 22, a group of U.S.military veterans from the Jesus Martinez American Legion Post 93 in Mission performedfull military honors.Asquad of seven riflemen rendered the 21-gun salute, the American flag was foldedand presented to the family along with three spent shell casings representing duty,honor and country. Taps was played on an electronic bugle.Themen, who are all volunteers, are in their 60s, 70s and 80s. They perform thesesolemn duties several times a week, usually at the veterans cemetery, but theywill go wherever they are needed. Guard members have served at up to fourfunerals in one day, often in temperatures hovering around 100 degrees.Regardlessof the weather conditions, no matter what aches and pains they areexperiencing, they don't see it as a burden but rather, a grea...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Some 18,000 fans at the Hollywood Bowl will be transported to Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, Friday night as writer and humorist Garrison Keillor hosts his final episode of the old-style variety show "A Prairie Home Companion" after 42 years on public radio....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The first American death involving a car in self-driving mode presents a dilemma: How aggressively to embrace the potentially life-saving technology after a fatal crash. The driver's history of speeding complicates the question....
BOSTON (AP) -- A teenager who sent her boyfriend dozens of text messages encouraging him to take his own life and telling him to "get back in" a truck filled with carbon monoxide fumes must stand trial for involuntary manslaughter, the state's highest court ruled Friday....
FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) -- Clumps of hair from hastily shaven beards littered floors and filled wastebaskets in houses in the Iraqi city of Fallujah's western neighborhood, a dense block of low-rise homes that were the Islamic State militants' last stand before they largely fled, melting into the sprawling Anbar desert in the face of advancing Iraqi ground forces....
