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U.S. Top News: Obama 'disappointed' with Russia, calls embassy threat significant

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08/7/2013

Reuters Election 2012 Daily round-up of the day's top news from the campaign trail, the White House and all the politics in between

Obama 'disappointed' with Russia, calls embassy threat significant

BURBANK, California (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama confirmed on Tuesday that he would go to Russia this fall for a G20 summit but said he was "disappointed" that Russia granted temporary asylum to former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden.

Wrecking crews demolish Cleveland house where three women were held

CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Wrecking crews began demolishing a rundown house in Cleveland on Wednesday, where three young women had been imprisoned and tortured by Ariel Castro for about a decade.

Former hospital executive, sheriff top Detroit mayoral primary

DETROIT (Reuters) - A former hospital executive and a county sheriff appear to be the top two contenders advancing to the general election in November that will produce a new mayor of debt-laden Detroit, which filed for bankruptcy protection last month, according to election results Tuesday night.

Deal reached averting San Francisco-area bus strike

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Bus drivers threatening to shut down a major San Francisco-area transportation system over pay and healthcare benefits have reached a deal, averting a strike that would have affected nearly 200,000 commuters.

U.S. military judge trims potential sentence in WikiLeaks case

FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The military judge who last week convicted soldier Bradley Manning of committing the biggest breach of classified data in U.S. history through WikiLeaks on Tuesday trimmed the maximum prison sentence the private first class could face.

Hasan tells Fort Hood murder trial 'I am the shooter'

FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan admitted carrying out the massacre of 13 soldiers at a Texas base on the first day of his court-martial Tuesday, quietly telling a jury, "I am the shooter."

California authorities search for missing siblings after mother slain

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Authorities searched on Tuesday for a man they suspected of setting fire to his Southern California home, killing a woman thought to be a close friend and abducting one or both of her children before trying to flee the state.

Southwest pilots switched control before LaGuardia landing: investigators

(Reuters) - Federal investigators said on Tuesday that the two pilots of a Southwest Airlines Co jet that crash-landed at New York's LaGuardia Airport in July exchanged control of the plane shortly before landing.

Tribal activists block Idaho highway over tar sands 'megaload'

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Police arrested 19 members of the Nez Perce Tribe on Tuesday on suspicion of disorderly conduct for refusing to break a human chain blocking a highway in Idaho in protest against a 322-ton load of equipment bound for the tar sands of Alberta, Canada.

New U.S. spying revelations coming from Snowden leaks: journalist

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who published documents leaked by fugitive former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, plans to make new revelations "within the next 10 days or so" on secret U.S. surveillance of the Internet.