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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

U.S. Top News: Death toll looks set to rise after Washington State mudslide

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03/26/2014
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Death toll looks set to rise after Washington State mudslide
ARLINGTON, Washington (Reuters) - The death toll from a weekend landslide in Washington State looked set to rise on Wednesday but officials say some of the scores of people listed as missing may have been double-counted or slow to alert family of their whereabouts.
Michelle Obama generates Internet comment after Tibetan lunch
CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - U.S. first lady Michelle Obama lunched at a Tibetan restaurant in China's Sichuan province on Wednesday, prompting murmurs about "political overtones" on the country's active Internet social networks.
At Cold War missile factory, elite rescuers drill for disaster
PERRY, Georgia (Reuters) - On a cloudless, windswept Georgia morning 100 miles south of Atlanta, a rescuer dangled 30 feet in the air, secured by rappelling ropes, wielding a jackhammer, as he drove the drill into a massive concrete slab designed to mimic the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. It took about an hour to punch a hole big enough to reach mock disaster "victims" trapped between the slab and an exterior wall.
Montana bride seeks to drop guilty plea in husband's cliff death
(Reuters) - A Montana bride accused of pushing her husband off a cliff to his death at Glacier National Park asked a judge on Tuesday to withdraw a guilty plea she entered as part of a deal with prosecutors to avoid a life sentence, court records show.
Missouri executes killer of teenage girl
BONNE TERRE, Missouri (Reuters) - Missouri officials executed a man early on Wednesday who was convicted of abducting a teenage girl at the gas station where she worked, then raping and strangling her.
Architects unveil plans for school to replace site of Newtown massacre
NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - Architects on Tuesday unveiled designs for a new elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, filled with sunlight, connections to nature - and new security measures - to replace the building where a gunman killed 26 people, mostly young children, in 2012, one of the worst such attacks in U.S. history.
Agents protecting Obama abroad sent home for disciplinary reasons
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three members of the U.S. Secret Service detail that protects President Barack Obama were sent home from Amsterdam for disciplinary reasons, a Secret Service spokesman confirmed on Tuesday.
U.S. to extend some Obamacare enrollment past March 31 deadline: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration will grant an extension to people who say they are unable to enroll in the new healthcare program by next Monday's deadline, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, quoting federal officials.
American sentenced to 16 years in New York City pipe bomb case
NEW YORK (Reuters) - An American Muslim who pleaded guilty to a New York state terrorism charge for attempting to make a pipe bomb was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Tuesday, the Manhattan District Attorney's office said.
Russia warned U.S. about Boston Marathon bomb suspect Tsarnaev: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russian authorities warned the FBI in 2011 about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of two Chechen brothers accused of carrying out last year's Boston Marathon bombings, but U.S. authorities missed chances to detain him, NBC News reported on Tuesday.
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