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Usher’s ex-wife gets custody hearing after son nearly drowns

A judge has scheduled an emergency custody hearing requested by Usher’s ex-wife after one of the pair’s sons nearly drowned at the singer’s Atlanta home. Police said 5-year-old Usher Raymond V fell in the pool and became stuck in the drain on Monday. A contractor doing work at the home pulled him out and performed CPR.

Rescuers try to reach survivors in collapsed apartment in Argentina

Argentine firefighters found potential signs of life Wednesday as they hunted through the ruins of a 10-story apartment building destroyed by a gas explosion that killed 10 people, injured dozens and left 12 unaccounted for. Officials said damaged towers alongside were in danger of collapsing upon the rescuers.

 
Obama ‘disappointed’ in Russia’s Snowden decision

President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he was “disappointed” that Russia granted temporary asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, defying Obama administration demands he be sent back to the U.S.

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Hotshot survivor ‘numb’ after hearing of deaths

The surviving member of an elite Arizona firefighting crew that was overrun by flames says he went numb after learning the 19 men he considered his brothers were dead, and he wonders why he alone was spared what he calls a “horrible, freak accident.”

 
Cleveland house in kidnap, rape case demolished

With several swipes from the arm of an excavator and a smattering of applause from spectators, demolition began Wednesday morning on the Cleveland house where three women were held captive and raped for more than a decade.

Twitter abuse spurs new regulations for site, users

Many argue that trolls are an annoyance which should just be ignored, but the catalogue of graphic threats made public by the women involved have ignited a national debate over the impunity of those spewing the hatred online.

Obama cancels Moscow summit with Putin

In a rare diplomatic rebuke, President Barack Obama on Wednesday canceled his Moscow summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

 
Python escapes enclosure, strangles two sleeping boys in Canada

A 100-pound python blamed in the strangling deaths of two Canadian boys apparently escaped from its enclosure, slithered through a ventilation system and fell through the ceiling into the room where the young brothers were sleeping, authorities said Tuesday.

 
Pa. man charged with killing 3: Town stole my home

A man who fatally shot a township official and two others during a municipal meeting in northeastern Pennsylvania was about to fire more rounds when he was wrestled to the ground, possibly preventing more bloodshed, authorities said Tuesday.

 
Lawyer: Deadly boardwalk crash “horrible accident’

A lawyer for a Colorado man charged Tuesday with murder and assault for allegedly driving his car through a weekend throng on the Venice Beach boardwalk said it was an accident that has left his client devastated.

 
President George W. Bush has successful surgery for blocked artery

Former President George W. Bush successfully underwent a heart procedure in Dallas on Tuesday after doctors discovered a blockage in an artery during his annual physical.

Drone strike, helicopter attack follow Yemen terror warning

As the U.S. and Britain evacuated embassy staff Tuesday, a suspected U.S. drone killed four alleged members of al-Qaida, and militants shot down a Yemeni army helicopter. Westerners flew out of the country and Yemeni authorities launched a wide investigation into al-Qaida threats.