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High court rejects Google appeal in snooping case

The Supreme Court has declined to hear Google’s appeal of a ruling that it pried into people’s online lives through their Wi-Fi systems as part of its drive to collect information for its Street View mapping project.

 
GM won’t limit payments in ignition switch crash cases

Kenneth Feinberg is prepared to pay out billions of General Motors’ money to victims of crashes in GM small cars — provided they can prove the cars’ ignition switches caused the crash. GM links 13 deaths to a defective ignition switch, but lawyers say claims could total in the hundreds.

 
Emergency slide inflates mid-flight on United jet

An evacuation slide inflated inside a United Airlines plane as it flew from Chicago to California, filling part of the cabin and forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing in Kansas, the airline and passengers said.

 
High court: Employers can refuse to pay for birth control

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that some corporations can hold religious objections that allow them to opt out of the new health law requirement that they cover contraceptives for women.

 
Obama’s VA secretary pick: former Procter & Gamble exec McDonald

President Barack Obama plans to nominate former Procter & Gamble executive Robert McDonald as the next Veterans Affairs secretary, as the White House seeks to shore up an agency beset by treatment delays and struggling to deal with an influx of new veterans returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Police: 9 shot at Bourbon Street, New Orleans

Nine people were shot and injured — including two critically — after being caught in the crossfire when a gun battle erupted between two men on touristy Bourbon Street in New Orleans’ celebrated French Quarter, police said.

 
Woman runs 800 meter race while 8-months pregnant

Alysia Montano loves running so much that she took to the lineup at the U.S. Track and Field Championships and ran in an 800 meter race while 8-months pregnant.

 
‘Obvious Child’ bravely takes on abortion, focuses on passion and pathos

You’re reading this because Paramount wouldn’t show me “Transformers: Age of Extinction.” That’s not necessarily a bad thing, considering there’s virtually no way Michael Bay’s latest toy catalog could be as distinctive or surprising as the indie comedy, “Obvious Child.”

 
Money disappears, no illusions

Gambling just got a little more magical as prestidigitator David Copperfield unveiled a slot machine in his own image Thursday at the MGM Grand.

 
Internet, pro athletes praise Isaiah Austin moment

The moment NBA commissioner Adam Silver drafted Baylor’s Isaiah Austin on Thursday night — the NBA was the true winner of the evening.

 
Nanny refuses to leave after being fired by family

A California couple can’t seem to get rid of the live-in nanny that they fired — even after serving her legal papers.

 
Ex-cop suspected in deaths of 2 women stuffed in suitcases

A former police officer in Wisconsin is suspected in the deaths of two women found stuffed in suitcases along a rural Wisconsin highway.

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