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| • Aggressive attack on tap for L.A. County blaze |
 Firefighters planned to make an aggressive air attack at first light Friday against a fast-moving wildfire in northern Los Angeles County.
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| • Arizona immigration fight plays out in court, streets |
 Arizona has appealed a federal judge's order that put most of the state's immigration law on hold.
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| • Dems, GOP warily eye Arizona immigration ruling |
| Neither political party is sure how this week's Arizona immigration ruling will play out politically, either this fall or beyond. |
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| • Prosecutor: Military secrets sold to fund Maui home |
 A federal prosecutor said Thursday a former B-2 bomber engineer helped China design a stealth cruise missile to raise money to pay the $15,000-a-month mortgage on the mansion-like home he built on Maui's north shore.
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| • Texas man gets death penalty for beheading 3 kids |
 A jury sentenced a south Texas man to death on Thursday, four days after convicting him of capital murder for beheading his common law wife's three children in 2003.
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| • July is deadliest month for U.S. in Afghan war |
 Three U.S. service members were killed in blasts in Afghanistan, bringing the toll for July to at least 63 and making it the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly 9-year-war.
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| • 3rd victim of Montana bear mauling identified |
| Authorities identified the third victim of a bear attack near Yellowstone National Park as a 21-year-old from Colorado. A grizzly and two cubs were captured earlier. |
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| • Police: Gunman kills stepfather, 2 others in Texas |
| On a leafy cul-de-sac in a gated Texas community, a man walked inside his stepfather's home with a briefcase. A teenage boy at the house didn't recognize him but could tell he was angry. He took his young siblings outside, and moments later heard gunfire. |
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| • Gates: Leak probe may go beyond military |
| A criminal probe into the leak of secret Afghanistan war logs could go beyond the military, Pentagon officials said. |
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| • Ex-USDA official to sue blogger over video |
| Ousted USDA employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday that she will sue a conservative blogger who posted an edited video that appeared to show her making racially offensive remarks. |
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| • US Consulate in Ciudad Juarez closes for security |
 The U.S. closed its consulate in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez on Thursday pending a security review, an unexpected decision that comes months after drug gangs killed three people tied to the consulate.
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| • 6,600 Arlington graves might be mixed up |
| The number of mislabeled graves at Arlington National Cemetery could be 6,600, the senator whose subcommittee is investigating potential contracting fraud there said Thursday. |
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| • Key step to kill Gulf well may happen sooner |
 Preparations for step one of a two-step attempt to plug the Gulf oil gusher are going well and it could start by the weekend, the government's point man for the spill response said Thursday.
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| • Troops slated for border by August |
| The first National Guard troops headed to the Mexican border to help federal agents look for illegal border crossers and smugglers are expected to be in place in Texas and New Mexico by mid-August, military officials said Thursday. |
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| • Past problems for company at heart of oil spill |
 A Canadian company whose pipeline leaked hundreds of thousands of oil into a Michigan river boasts on its website of being "an industry leader in pipeline safety and integrity."
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| • Texas man's stolen gun returned after 2 decades |
 A rural east Texas man has been reunited with his long-lost gun more than two decades after it was stolen.
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| • Mass. woman left in recliner dies on 81st birthday |
| A woman hospitalized in critical condition after sitting for a month with deep bedsores in a recliner soaked with her waste died Thursday, on her 81st birthday, prosecutors said. Five family members who lived with her face various elderly abuse charges and could see upgraded charges. |
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| • Air show to go on after military plane crash kills 4 |
 A popular air show will be held this weekend, days after a military cargo plane crashed at an Anchorage base, killing four people during a training mission for the event.
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| • Army's suicide rate tied to rise in risky behaviors |
| An Army report on the record number of soldier suicides says the trend is part of a rise in risky behavior, including drunk driving and drug abuse. |
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