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| | 08/21/2013 | | | | | | | | | | FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier convicted of the biggest breach of classified data in the nation's history, will be told on Wednesday how much of his life will be spent in a military prison. | | | | | | TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - Two more Afghans were set to testify on Wednesday in the second day of the sentencing hearing in a U.S. military court for the Army soldier who has pleaded guilty to killing 16 unarmed civilians last year in Afghanistan. | | | | | ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A woman who screamed profanities and disobeyed crew orders on a Detroit-to-Shanghai flight, causing the pilot to divert to Anchorage, Alaska, was charged on Tuesday with interfering with flight crew members and attendants. | | | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. businesses are hiring at a robust rate. The only problem is that three out of four of the nearly 1 million hires this year are part-time and many of the jobs are low-paid. | | | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Marches, speeches and global bell-ringing are set to mark the 50th anniversary this month of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream" speech, a key event in the struggle of African Americans for racial equality. | | | | | | | (Reuters) - The National Security Agency's surveillance network has the capacity to reach around 75 percent of all U.S. Internet communications in the hunt for foreign intelligence, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. | | | | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - The British government, accused of abusing media freedom, said on Tuesday police were right to detain a journalist's partner if they thought lives might be at risk from data he was carrying from fugitive U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. | | | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - They clambered gingerly up the riser behind President Barack Obama in the East Room of the White House, white-haired, bespectacled, their coach in a motorized chair, former athletes there to receive an accolade 40 years late. | | | | | | MILFORD, Ct (Reuters) - The pilot of a small plane that crashed into two Connecticut homes this month, killing him, his son and two children, told airport personnel just before the crash he had "visual contact" with the airport and was preparing to land, according to a preliminary report released on Tuesday. | | | | | | | ATLANTA (Reuters) - Police arrested a 20-year-old man on Tuesday for opening fire with an AK-47 inside an elementary school in the Atlanta suburbs, forcing the evacuation of 800 students who were all reunited with their parents without injury, officials said. | | | | | | | | 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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