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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

U.S. Top News: Colorado shooting victim's wife has baby, seven victims still critical

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07/25/2012
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Colorado shooting victim's wife has baby, seven victims still critical
AURORA, Colo. (Reuters) - A 21-year-old woman who escaped injury in the Colorado theater shooting rampage gave birth to a baby boy on Tuesday while her husband was in the same hospital in a medically induced coma with a gunshot wound to the head.
Anaheim hit by more protests over police shooting
ANAHEIM, California (Reuters) - Protesters broke windows of least a half-dozen storefronts in Anaheim on Tuesday and five people were arrested in the second major clash between police and demonstrators since an officer shot dead an apparently unarmed man.
U.S. lawmakers to probe Geithner on Libor problems
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Wednesday will face tough questions from lawmakers on whether he acted swiftly to address problems with the setting of the benchmark interest rate Libor when he was the head of the New York Federal Reserve.
Popular, unpolished Colorado governor shines on national stage
DENVER (Reuters) - Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper stood in front of a slew of cameras hours after the carnage in an Aurora movie theater and struggled to find words:
Midwest cities see increase in dangerously hot weather: report
(Reuters) - Dangerously hot summer days have become more common across the U.S. Midwest in the last 60 years, and the region will face more potentially deadly weather as the climate warms, according to a report issued by the Union of Concerned Scientists on Wednesday.
Actor Christian Bale visits Colorado shooting victims
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Christian Bale, the actor behind the Batman mask in "The Dark Knight Rises," visited victims of last week's movie theater shooting as they recovered at an Aurora, Colorado, hospital on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the facility said.
In Indiana's Putnam County, hopes dying for corn harvest
BLOOMINGTON, Illinois (Reuters) - On the western edge of Indiana, the Putnam County corn crop shows the effects of the worst U.S. drought in 56 years: the plants failed to form ears and will likely go unharvested, the second day of a U.S. Midwest crop tour found on Tuesday.
Background check applications for gun buys surge in Colorado
DENVER (Reuters) - The number of people in Colorado applying for background checks to purchase firearms has surged in the aftermath of the movie theater shootings in Aurora, law enforcement officials said on Tuesday.
Medical marijuana hub Los Angeles moves to ban dispensaries
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles City Council decided unanimously on Tuesday to ban all storefront medical marijuana shops, in a blow to a industry that operates in violation of federal law but has become the largest collection of pot dispensaries in California.
Rains give mild relief to drought, grain prices tumble
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Welcome rains provided some relief to heat-stressed cities and worried farmers in the U.S. Midwest on Tuesday, but reports of failed crops, wildfires and other fallout from the worst U.S. drought in more than 50 years tempered any optimism.
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