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June 18, 2013

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  • Oly sprinter Campbell-Brown suspended amid probe

    06/18/13 09:31 PM

    KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Veronica Campbell-Brown's agent insists one of the cornerstones of Jamaica's wide-ranging sprint success "is not a cheat," even though the test results disagree. While her case is being decided, the three-time Olympic gold medalist will sit out and her country will...

  • BC-ATH--Campbell-Brown Suspended,2nd Ld-Writethru, ATH

    06/18/13 09:31 PM

    KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Veronica Campbell-Brown's agent insists one of the cornerstones of Jamaica's wide-ranging sprint success "is not a cheat," even though the test results read differently. While her case is being decided, the three-time Olympic gold medalist will sit out and her country...

  • BC-ATH--Campbell-Brown Suspended,1st Ld-Writethru, ATH

    06/18/13 09:31 PM

    KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Veronica Campbell-Brown's agent insists one of the cornerstones of Jamaica's wide-ranging sprint success "is not a cheat," even though the test results disagree. While her case is being decided, the three-time Olympic gold medalist will sit out and her country will...

  • Award-winning journalist Michael Hastings dies

    06/18/13 09:30 PM

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Award-winning journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings has died in a car accident in Los Angeles. Buzzfeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith says he learned from a family member that the 33-year-old died early Tuesday. Hastings wrote about politics for the popular news...

  • BC-HKN--Stanley Cup-Notebook,1st Ld-Writethru, HKN

    06/18/13 09:02 PM

    BOSTON (AP) — Dougie Hamilton spent his 20th birthday watching the Stanley Cup finals. He'd rather be playing in them. The Bruins rookie defensemen was in street clothes when Boston defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 2-0 on Monday night to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series. It also...

  • Chrysler agrees to recall of Jeeps at risk of fire

    06/18/13 08:31 PM

    DETROIT (AP) — After initially defying federal regulators, Chrysler abruptly agreed Tuesday to recall some older-model Jeeps with fuel tanks that could rupture and cause fires in rear-end collisions. But the recall, which came in an 11th-hour deal between the automaker and the National...

  • Scientists: Timber in Lake Michigan centuries old

    06/18/13 08:17 PM

    FAIRPORT, Mich. (AP) — A wooden beam embedded at the bottom of northern Lake Michigan appears to have been there for centuries, underwater archaeologists announced Tuesday, a crucial finding as crews dig toward what they hope is the carcass of a French ship that disappeared while exploring the...

  • Judge: Obama accidentally gave two military sexual assault defendants a safety hatch

    By Joel Gehrke | 06/18/13 07:45 PM

    Two service members charged with sexual assault cannot be kicked out of the military, even if they are convicted, because comments made by President Obama about the issue constitute “unlawful command influence,” according to a military judge in Hawaii. “A member of the public would not...

  • University study, unknowingly, calls President Obama a racist

    By Michael Barone | 06/18/13 07:35 PM

    The Daily Caller reports that a government-funded study by the New York University psychology department concluded that conservatives are more likely to be racist than liberals. Why? Because, reporter Robby Soave writes, “Mixed-race people are more likely to be considered black by...

  • CBO: Senate immigration bill would expand Obamacare

    By Philip Klein | 06/18/13 07:30 PM

    If the Senate immigration bill becomes law, federal health care spending would increase by $112 billion over the next decade as more people take advantage of Medicaid, Medicare and subsidies from President Obama’s health care law, according to the Congressional Budget Office. In a highly...


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