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U.S. Top News: U.S. House panel to probe if there was cover-up in CDC lab mishap

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07/16/2014

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U.S. House panel to probe if there was cover-up in CDC lab mishap

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A congressional panel probing the mishandling of dangerous pathogens at federal laboratories will try to determine if U.S. officials sought to cover up an incident involving deadly avian flu, its Republican chairman said on Tuesday.

Funeral to be held for six killed in Texas family shooting

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A funeral service is planned on Wednesday for six members of a Texas family shot dead execution-style in their home last week, a killing spree that prompted shock and sorrow in their suburban Houston community of Spring.

Yellen defends loose Fed policy, says job market still too weak

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said U.S. labor markets are far from healthy and signaled the Fed will keep monetary policy loose until hiring and wage data show the effects of the financial crisis are "completely gone."

U.S. says deportation of Honduran children a warning to illegal migrants

WASHINGTON/TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The White House said on Tuesday that Central Americans trying to cross the U.S. border should know "they will not be welcome to this country," a day after the United States deported a planeload of women and children to Honduras.

Commercial U.S. cargo ship reaches space station

CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. (Reuters) - An Orbital Sciences Corp cargo ship reached the International Space Station on Wednesday with a delivery of food, supplies, science experiments and a fleet of tiny Earth-imaging satellites that will be launched from the orbital outpost.

U.S. judge stays execution of convicted triple murderer in Missouri

(Reuters) - A United States judge has halted the execution of a former methamphetamine dealer who was convicted of murdering three people with ties to the drug trade who he feared would inform on him to police.

Prosecutors say friend wanted to help accused Boston bomber

BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors said on Wednesday that a friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber charged with obstructing justice by removing evidence from the suspect's dorm room did so to protect his friend during an FBI manhunt.

Campaign to break California into six states submits signatures

SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) - The billionaire backer of a long-shot effort to break California into six separate states submitted signatures to state officials on Tuesday aimed at putting his proposal before voters in 2016.

Tocco, believed to be longest-serving U.S. mob boss, dies in Detroit

(Reuters) - Jack Tocco, believed to be the longest-serving mob boss in the United States and the last living person with first-hand knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the death of Jimmy Hoffa, has died aged 87.

Immigration activist Vargas detained and released in Texas

AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, an undocumented immigrant and prominent activist, was detained for several hours on Tuesday after being stopped at a security checkpoint at an airport in the border city of McAllen, Texas.