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| | 08/8/2013 | | | | | | | | | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A wildfire raged out of control in the high desert east of Los Angeles on Wednesday, injuring two firefighters and one civilian and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of residents of three small communities. | | | | (Reuters) - A gunman in Texas killed at least four people in a Dallas-area shooting rampage on Wednesday night which also wounded four other people, police said on Thursday. | | | | | | | DETROIT (Reuters) - The auto industry continued its poor performance in an influential U.S. safety group's new crash test as half of the small cars tested did not fare well. | | | | | NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - Two accused white supremacists were sentenced on Wednesday to prison terms for beating two men of Egyptian descent while shouting anti-Arab slurs at them on New Year's Eve 2011 in central New Jersey. | | | | | (Reuters) - Two Sumatran tiger cubs have been born at the national zoo in Washington, D.C., and by Thursday they were crawling over their mother "as if her body is a jungle gym," the zoo said on its website on Thursday. | | | | | | | MIAMI (Reuters) - Three tickets matched all six numbers in Wednesday's Powerball lottery drawing and will split a $448 million jackpot, authorities said on Thursday. | | | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Details of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration program that feeds tips to federal agents and then instructs them to alter the investigative trail were published in a manual used by agents of the Internal Revenue Service for two years. | | | | | | | (Reuters) - An investor group filed a federal lawsuit against Richmond, California, to prevent the city from using eminent domain to seize mortgages of local residents who owe more than their properties are worth in a bid to keep them in their homes. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - About 40 percent of white Americans and about 25 percent of non-white Americans are surrounded exclusively by friends of their own race, according to an ongoing Reuters/Ipsos poll. | | | | | | | DETROIT (Reuters) - Detroit is sorting through the Detroit Institute of Arts' collection to see what it could sell to raise funds, the city's emergency manager said on Wednesday, touching on a contentious issue in the largest U.S. municipal bankruptcy filing. | | | | | | | | A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today | | | | | | | The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today | | | | | » MORE NEWSLETTERS | | | | | |
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