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U.S. Top News: Top GM lawyer, Delphi CEO to face Senate on deadly ignition flaw

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07/17/2014
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Top GM lawyer, Delphi CEO to face Senate on deadly ignition flaw
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two more major figures in General Motors Co's safety debacle will appear on Thursday for the first time before U.S. lawmakers investigating why it took the automaker more than 10 years to recall millions of vehicles with a deadly ignition switch flaw.
Wisconsin man accused of hiding bodies in suitcases expected to enter plea
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A Wisconsin man accused of stuffing the bodies of two women in separate suitcases and dumping the luggage in a roadside ditch is expected to enter a plea in court on Thursday.
U.S. libraries become front line in fight against homelessness
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - George Brown, a homeless man in Washington, has a simple answer when asked how often he uses a public library.
Wildfire prompts evacuation of nearly 900 Washington state homes
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Wildfires stoked by high winds and dry, hot weather threatened homes and businesses across parts of Washington state on Wednesday, with nearly 900 dwellings evacuated near the Bavarian-style village of Leavenworth in the Cascade mountains.
Young adults drive record U.S. trend of multi-generational homes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A record 57 million Americans, or 18.1 percent of the U.S. population, lived in households with two or more generations in 2012, with young adults leading the trend, a report said on Thursday.
Fight over human trafficking law jeopardizes U.S. response to border crisis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic lawmakers' deep resistance to changing a 2008 law that combats human trafficking threatened on Wednesday to slow the government's response to a surge of 57,000 undocumented Central American children across the southern border.
Florida teen detained in Israeli-Palestinian conflict returns home
TAMPA Fla (Reuters) - A Florida teenager who was detained in Israel and apparently beaten by police returned home on Wednesday, eager to seek medical care and put behind him a summer trip that drew renewed world attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Utah asks Supreme Court to stay ruling on recognizing gay marriages
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - Utah's attorney general asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday for an emergency stay of an order by an appeals court to recognize hundreds of same-sex marriages performed in the state pending an appeal.
Attorney says Bergdahl grateful to Obama for freedom
SALMON Idaho (Reuters) - U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl is grateful to President Barack Obama for the prisoner exchange that freed him from five years as a captive of the Taliban and wishes for privacy concerning family matters, his attorney said on Wednesday.
U.S. lawmakers press CDC chief over 'dangerous pattern' of lapses
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday faulted a "dangerous pattern" of safety lapses at government laboratories handling deadly pathogens such as anthrax and avian flu, calling for an overhaul of controls at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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