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DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
Democrats begin process of nominating Clinton in historic moment
PHILADELPHIA - Democrats began the formal process of nominating their White House candidate on Tuesday in a vote that will end with Hillary Clinton becoming the first woman presidential nominee of a major party in U.S. history. (USA-ELECTION/ (UPDATE 5, PIX, TV, GRAPHIC), moved at 5:20 p.m., will be led, 188 words)
Democrats beat Republicans in first-night TV convention audience
NEW YORK - Democrats beat Republicans in the TV ratings for the first night of the Democratic National Convention, according to early data on Tuesday. (USA-ELECTION/TELEVISION (UPDATE 1), moved at 3.17 p.m., 186 words)
OTHER TOP STORIES
Islamist knifemen slit priest's throat in church in France
SAINT-ETIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY, France - Knife-wielding attackers interrupted a church service in France, forced the priest to his knees and slit his throat on Tuesday, an attack that President Francois Hollande said showed the threat from Islamist militancy was greater than ever. (EUROPE-ATTACKS/FRANCE (UPDATE 9, TV, PIX, moved at 3:17 p.m., 734 words) See also: French church attacker had tried to reach Syria, was monitored (EUROPE-ATTACKS/FRANCE-PROSECUTOR (UPDATE 1), moved, 500 words)
More charges possible for three men arrested after Florida club shooting
TAMPA - Three men arrested for resisting authorities near the scene a nightclub shooting where two teenagers were killed are persons of interest in the investigation and could see further charges, authorities said on Tuesday.(FLORIDA-SHOOTING/ (UPDATE 1), moved at 3:16 p.m., by Letitia Stein, 349 words)
U.S. report says Tesla in fatal Autopilot crash was speeding
WASHINGTON - A driver killed in the May 7 crash of a Tesla Motors Inc car while using Autopilot driving-assist software was exceeding the speed limit, U.S. highway safety investigators said on Tuesday in a preliminary report that did not state a probable cause. (TESLA-AUTOPILOT/ (UPDATE 2), moved, 448 words)
U.S. issues guidelines for responding to major cyber attacks
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK - The White House issued new instructions on Tuesday on how government agencies should respond to major cyber security attacks, attempting to combat perceptions the Obama administration has been sluggish in addressing threats from sophisticated hacking adversaries. (USA-CYBER/ (UPDATE 4, PIX), moved at 1 p.m., by Dustin Volz and Karen Freifeld, 650 words)
CAMPAIGN
Trump edges ahead of Clinton in U.S. presidential race -Reuters/Ipsos
NEW YORK - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump posted a two-point lead over his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday, the first time he has been ahead since early May. (USA-ELECTION/POLL (POLL, GRAPHIC), moved, 436 words)
Trump pledges reforms at Veterans Administration if elected
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump sought to turn a scandal involving the Veterans Administration to his political advantage on Tuesday, pledging to war veterans that he would clean up a mess he blamed on Washington politicians. (USA-ELECTION/TRUMP (PIX), moved, 259 words)
Trump, Pence develop rapport after rough start
Donald Trump and his running mate Mike Pence have developed a buddy act on the campaign trail, with Pence as the straight man to Trump's bombastic personality. Trump was raves about him as "the perfect guy," and says that the other VP candidates had many pages of vetting materials, Pence had "nothing." When Trump called Clinton "Hillary Rotten Clinton," he added "You think Mike Pence would say this? I don't think so." (USA-ELECTION/TRUMP-PENCE, expect around 8 p.m.)
WASHINGTON
New York AG refuses to comply with U.S. House subpoena on Exxon probe
WASHINGTON - New York state's attorney general on Tuesday said his office will not comply with a subpoena issued by U.S. congressmen for details on its probe of whether Exxon Mobil misled investors on climate change risks, saying it interferes with the state's "sovereign" interests. (EXXON MOBIL-CLIMATECHANGE/, moved at 3:21 p.m., by Valerie Volcovici, 356 words)
U.S. to expand Central American refugee screening program -source
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration announced new efforts on Tuesday aimed at expanding the number of people from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala who may enter the United States as refugees fleeing violence. (USA-IMMIGRATION/ (UPDATE 4), moved at 4:33 p.m., by Julia Edwards and Patricia Zengerle, 651 words)
Record share of U.S. workers have paid sick leave -Labor Dept.
WASHINGTON - A record 64 percent of U.S. private sector workers are now entitled to sick leave, marking a steady rise in the past decade, the Labor Department said on Tuesday. (USA-LABOR/SICKLEAVE, moved at 3:48 p.m., 244 words)
U.S. opens door to a change in blood donation policy for gay men
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration opened the door on Tuesday to a change in its blood donor deferral recommendations, which currently prohibit donations from gay men for a year following their last sexual encounter in order to reduce the risk of transmitting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. (HEALTH-LGBT/BLOOD, moved at 4:17 p.m., by Toni Clarke, 403 words)
OTHER U.S. NEWS
U.S. Powerball jackpot grows to $422 million, 8th largest ever
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Powerball jackpot grew to $422 million ahead of an 11 p.m. EDT drawing on Wednesday, making it the eighth largest in the game's history and the 11th-biggest lottery prize ever in the United States. (USA-POWERBALL/, moved at 4:56 p.m., 242 words)
Credit card records lead cops to New York bank burglars
NEW YORK - Three suspected burglars who stole millions of dollars from two New York banks were caught after using a personal credit card to buy the tools of their trade, authorities said. (NEW YORK-BURGLARY/, moved at 3:41 p.m., by Gina Cherelus, 205 words)
Six months prison for man linked to gun Boston bombers used to kill cop
BOSTON - A Massachusetts man on Tuesday was sentenced to six months in federal prison for having possessed a handgun with its serial number filed off that the Boston Marathon bombers used to kill a police officer while trying to flee the city. (BOSTON BOMBING-GUN/, moved at 4:11 p.m., 318 words)
Charges dropped against anti-abortion activists for Texas video recording
AUSTIN - A Houston-area prosecutor on Tuesday dropped all charges against a pair of anti-abortion activists indicted for using illegal government identifications to aid in the secret filming of a Texas Planned Parenthood facility, a newspaper reported. (TEXAS-PLANNEDPARENTHOOD/ (UPDATE 1, PIX), moved at 1:19 p.m., by Jon Herskovitz, 351 words)
Crews battling California blaze face hot, dry conditions
LOS ANGELES - Firefighters battling a wildfire about 40 miles (64 km) north of Los Angeles faced another day of brutal heat on Tuesday after reporting progress containing the blaze under cooler conditions overnight. (CALIFORNIA-FIRE/ (UPDATE 1, TV, PIX), moved at 1:34 p.m., 399 words)
Transgender student asks U.S. high court to keep out of bathroom case
Lawyers for a transgender high school student in Virginia asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to keep out of a legal dispute about bathroom rights and allow a lower court ruling in the student's favor to remain in place. (USA-COURT/TRANSGENDER (UPDATE 2), moved at 5:25 p.m., 434 words)
South Carolina church shooter was bound for Tennessee after planned attack
The white man accused of killing nine black parishioners in a racially motivated attack at a South Carolina church last June planned to flee Tennessee after the shootings, in which he used nearly 80 rounds of ammunition, U.S. prosecutors said in new court filings, arguing that the federal government has a right to try 22-year-old Dylann Roof in an incident involving interstate commerce. (SOUTH CAROLINA-SHOOTING/, expect by 6:30 p.m., 350 words)
Massachusetts man charged with threatening to burn mosque
BOSTON - A Massachusetts man was arrested and charged on Tuesday with threatening on Facebook to burn down a Boston mosque in the wake of the November attacks in Paris, where Islamic State gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people. (MASSACHUSETTS-ISLAM/ (UPDATE 1), moved at 4:51 p.m., by Scott Malone, 400 words)
Atheist group sues Kansas City, Missouri, over Baptist convention
An atheist group has sued Kansas City, Missouri, charging that plans to use $65,000 in tourism tax dollars to assist in an upcoming Baptist convention violates guarantees in the U.S. Constitution separating church and state. (MISSOURI-RELIGION, moved, 242 words)
Ex-Virginia Tech students indicted in death of 13-year-old girl
A grand jury indicted two former Virginia Tech students on Tuesday for first-degree murder in the death of a 13-year-old girl, a prosecutor said. (VIRGINIA-MURDER/, moved at 4:52 p.m., 248 words)
WORLD
North Korea says decision on nuclear test depends on U.S. -Yonhap
SEOUL - North Korea's foreign minister said on Tuesday that whether it conducted another nuclear test depended on the behavior of the United States, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported. (SOUTHCHINASEA-RULING/ASEAN-NORTHKOREA (UPDATE 2), moved at 3:36 p.m., 339 words)
Suicide bombers hit peacekeeping base in Somali capital, 13 dead - police
MOGADISHU - Suicide bombers killed at least 13 people at the gates of the African Union's main peacekeeping base in the Somali capital on Tuesday, police said, in an attack claimed by the Islamist militants of al Shabaab. (SOMALIA-BLAST/ (UPDATE 5, PIX, TV), moved at 1:43 p.m., 493 words)
Bottoms up! Man leaves clothes in pub as he goes to get cash
PRAGUE - A drinker who could not pay his bar bill left his clothes at the pub as collateral as he headed off naked to get cash/, Czech police said. (CZECH-NAKED/, moved, 131 words)
Wary of turmoil in holiday hotspots, Germans flock to "safe" Denmark
COPENHAGEN - Put off by militant violence and political upheaval in traditional sun-and-sea holiday hotspots like Tunisia and Turkey, German tourists are flocking to nearby Denmark this summer counting on peace and quiet within secure borders. (DENMARK-GERMANY/TOURISM, moved, 651 words)
HEALTH AND SCIENCE
Meter-wide dinosaur print, one of largest ever, found in Bolivia
SUCRE, Bolivia - A footprint measuring over a meter wide that was made by a meat-eating predator some 80 million years ago has been discovered in Bolivia, one of the largest of its kind ever found. (BOLIVIA-DINOSAUR/ (PIX), moved, 172 words)
Healthy clones: Dolly the sheep's heirs reach ripe old age
LONDON - The heirs of Dolly the sheep are enjoying a healthy old age, proving cloned animals can live normal lives and offering reassurance to scientists hoping to use cloned cells in medicine. (SCIENCE-CLONING/DOLLY (TV, PIX), moved, 632 words)
100-year global study finds world's tallest are Dutch, Latvians
LONDON - Dutch men and Latvian women are the planet's tallest people but Iranian men and South Korean women have grown the fastest in the last century, according to the largest ever study of height around the world. Americans, once among the world's tallest people, have dropped from having men and women at 3rd and 4th in the global height rankings a 100 years earlier, to placing 37th and 42nd respectively in 2014. (HEALTH-HEIGHT/, moved, 700 words)
ENTERTAINMENT AND LIFESTYLE
Beyonce dominates MTV video nominations, Taylor Swift shut out
NEW YORK - Beyonce's critically-praised visual album "Lemonade" on Tuesday earned the R&B singer a career-best 11 nominations for the MTV Video Music Awards, in a list that included multiple nods for Adele and rapper Kanye West but nothing for Taylor Swift. (AWARDS-MTVVMAS/NOMINATIONS (PIX, TV), moved, 383 words)
Verdict over Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven' is appealed
The plaintiff who failed to convince a Los Angeles jury that Led Zeppelin plagiarized the opening guitar passage for its 1971 rock anthem "Stairway to Heaven" plans to appeal the verdict, court papers show. (MUSIC-LEDZEPPELIN/ (PIX), moved at 1:53 p.m., 201 words)
TV Psychic Miss Cleo Dies at 53
(VARIETY/ (ENTERTAINMENT-TV/NEWS), moved at 3:53 p.m., by Arya Roshanian, 160 words)
BUSINESS AND MARKETS
Wall St mixed, Apple impresses and Twitter disappoints
U.S. stocks were mixed on Tuesday as Federal Reserve policymakers kicked off a two-day interest rate meeting and investors braced for quarterly scorecards from Apple and Twitter. (USA-STOCKS/ (UPDATE 7), moved, 472 words)
U.S. crude ends down after 3-month low on glut worry, Brent up
NEW YORK - U.S. crude prices fell on Tuesday, hitting three-month lows, as worries over a gasoline glut outweighed expectations of U.S. crude stock declines, while Brent erased early losses to settle higher due to its better fundamentals versus U.S. crude. (GLOBAL-OIL/ (UPDATE 9), moved, 417 words)
U.S. consumer confidence steady; new home sales near 8-1/2-year high
WASHINGTON - U.S. consumer confidence held steady in July and new single-family home sales hit their highest level in nearly 8-1/2 years in June, suggesting sustained momentum in the economy. (USA-ECONOMY/ (WRAPUP 2), moved at 1:01 p.m., by Lucia Mutikani, 669 words)
Apple sells more iPhones than expected in third quarter
Apple Inc sold more iPhones than Wall Street expected in the third quarter and forecast revenue in the current period would top many analysts' targets, soothing fears that demand for Apple's most important product had hit a wall. (APPLE-RESULTS/ (UPDATE 1), moved at 5:24 p.m., 688 words)
Tinder owner Match Group's revenue rises more than expected
Match Group Inc, owner of dating services Tinder, Match.com and OkCupid, reported a bigger-than-expected increase in quarterly revenue as more people signed up for paid subscriptions. (MATCH GROUP-RESULTS/ (URGENT), moved at 4:30 p.m., 234 words)
McDonald's, U.S. restaurants losing food fight with grocers
McDonald's Corp said the U.S. restaurant industry will raise prices far more than supermarkets this year, sending a chill through a sector that is searching for ways to protect itself from higher worker wages. (MCDONALDS-RESULTS/ (UPDATE 6, PIX), moved at 4:43 p.m., by Lisa Baertlein, 600 words)
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