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DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
After rousing opening acts, Clinton to make case for the White House
PHILADELPHIA - Democrat Hillary Clinton will make her case for the White House on Thursday night, facing the tough task of equaling show-stopping speeches by President Barack Obama and others who have embraced her bid to become the first woman elected U.S. president. (USA-ELECTION/ (WRAPUP 6, PIX, TV, GRAPHIC), moved at 3:30 p.m., by Amy Tennery and Jonathan Allen, 860 words)
CAMPAIGN
EXCLUSIVE-Billionaire Republican donors urge Kochs to back Trump
NEW YORK - A group of at least six wealthy Republican donors is urging the billionaire Koch brothers to step off the sidelines of the U.S. presidential election to back Donald Trump, arguing they will want influence with the New York businessman they have harshly criticized if he wins the White House in November. (USA-ELECTION/KOCH (EXCLUSIVE, PIX, TV, GRAPHIC), moved, 665 words)
For inspiration, new Democratic stars look to Elizabeth Warren
PHILADELPHIA - With the Democratic Party in transition, Hillary Clinton's 1990s-era brand of Democratic centrism is slowly being eclipsed by a wave of progressivism personified by U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, the latter a rival of Clinton's until he endorsed her this month. Although Sanders' insurgent presidential bid fell short, leaving his supporters bitterly disappointed, a new crop of Democratic candidates seems determined to carry on his work, with Warren, 67, as their putative leader. (USA-ELECTION/NEW-DEMOCRATS (PIX), moved, 911 words)
Russia to U.S., Trump: Sort out your own pre-election hacking scandal
MOSCOW - Russia told the United States on Thursday to get to the bottom of a hacking scandal involving Democratic Party emails itself and rejected what Donald Trump said was a sarcastic suggestion that Moscow should dig up Hillary Clinton's "missing" emails. (USA-ELECTION/RUSSIA (UPDATE 3), moved at 4:02 p.m., by Andrew Osborn and Maria Tsvetkova, 524 words) See also: Billionaire Republican donors urge Kochs to back Trump (USA-ELECTION/KOCH (EXCLUSIVE, PIX, TV, GRAPHIC), moved at 4:24 p.m., by Michelle Conlin, 649 words)
Dispatch from inside the conventions
Delegates at both the Republican and the Democratic conventions sported outrageous outfits - but the views from their respective gatherings were a study in contrast. (USA-ELECTION/DELEGATES (PIX), moved at 12:47 p.m., by Amy Tennery, 505 words)
TOP STORIES
Islamic State releases new video of France church attacker
PARIS - Islamic State's affiliated news agency AMAQ on Thursday released a video purportedly showing one of the two men who attacked a church in northern France this week urging all Muslims to destroy the country. (EUROPE-ATTACKS/FRANCE-VIDEO (URGENT), moved at 4:59 p.m., 145 words)
U.S. vice president, dignitaries honor slain Louisiana officers
BATON ROUGE - Photographs of three slain Louisiana police officers dominated a stage flooded in blue lights, the color of their uniforms, at a memorial service where U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Loretta Lynch will speak on Thursday. (USA-POLICE/BATONROUGE (UPDATE 1, PIX, TV), moved at 3:18 p.m., by Sam Karlin, 331 words)
Erdogan wants army under president's control after coup -Turkish official
ANKARA/ISTANBUL - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan wants the armed forces and national intelligence agency brought under the control of the presidency, a parliamentary official said on Thursday, part of a major overhaul of the military after a failed coup. (TURKEY-SECURITY/ (WRAPUP 4, PIX, TV), moved at 3:44 p.m., 1189 words) See also: Two top Turkish generals quit amid major military purge (TURKEY-SECURITY/ (WRAPUP 1, PIX, TV) moved, 750 words)
WASHINGTON
U.S. consumer agency seeks to overhaul debt collection industry
WASHINGTON - The U.S. watchdog for consumer finances unveiled on Thursday a proposal to toughen regulation of the multibillion-dollar debt collection industry, with a focus on keeping agencies from pushing people to pay debts they do not owe, informing borrowers of their rights and cutting down on calls to debtors. (USA-CONSUMER/DEBT-REGULATION (UPDATE 1), moved at 4:01 p.m., by Lisa Lambert, 711 words)
FDA takes steps to protect blood supply in Florida amid Zika probe
CHICAGO - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ordered all blood collection centers in Florida's Miami-Dade and Broward counties to stop collecting blood as state health department officials continue to investigate four possible cases of local transmission of the Zika virus. (HEALTH-ZIKA/BLOOD, moved at 1:39 p.m., moved, 278 words)
OTHER U.S. NEWS
Five U.S. military members injured in Afghanistan -commander
WASHINGTON - Five U.S. special operations members were wounded while working with Afghan special forces in an operation to clear areas controlled by Islamic State in eastern Afghanistan, the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan said on Thursday. (AFGHANISTAN-ISLAMIC STATE/INJURED (UPDATE 3), moved at 2:31 p.m., 427 words)
Twenty percent chance of cyclone off Leeward Islands -U.S. hurricane center
A weather formation about 1,700 miles (2,740 km) east-southeast of the Leeward Islands has a 20 percent chance of developing into a tropical cyclone in the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said on Thursday. (STORM-ATLANTIC/NHC (URGENT), moved at 1:32 p.m., 78 words)
Car crashes into Los Angeles house, kills one, injures 11 - police
LOS ANGELES - A woman driving at a high rate of speed crashed a sedan into a house in Los Angeles, killing one person and injuring 11 others who were gathered inside for a prayer meeting, police said on Thursday. (CALIFORNIA-FATALCRASH/, moved at 2:34 p.m., 166 words)
Connecticut man charged with threatening Jews online
A Connecticut man already in custody after large quantities of firearms and ammunition were seized from his home was indicted on charges he made online threats to kill or injure Jews and other people, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday. (USA-CRIME/INTERNET (UPDATE 1), moved at 3:23 p.m., by Jonathan Stempel, 325 words)
Prosecutors drop charges in 2001 death of Washington intern
WASHINGTON - A District of Columbia judge on Thursday dismissed charges against a man granted a retrial in the death of Washington intern Chandra Levy in 2001, an incident that contributed to a congressman's downfall. (DISTRICTOFCOLUMBIA-LEVY/ (UPDATE 1), moved at 5:14 p.m., by Ian Simpson, 332 words)
St. Louis ex-police officer sentenced for assaulting handcuffed man
CHICAGO - A former police officer from St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced on Thursday by a federal judge to four years and four months in prison for assaulting a handcuffed man and injuring him by forcing a gun into his mouth, federal prosecutors said. (MISSOURI-POLICE/, moved at 3:36 p.m., 350 words)
N.Y. pharmacy owner, husband plead guilty to large opioid pill scheme
NEW YORK - The owner of two New York City pharmacies and her husband pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges arising out of their roles in what authorities have called one of the largest opioid painkiller diversion schemes ever uncovered in the city. (NEW YORK-DRUGS/, moved at 3:49 p.m., by Nate Raymond, 350 words)
University of Louisville president resigns amid FBI, NCAA probes
LOUISVILLE - The University of Louisville's Board of Trustees accepted the resignation of the school's president, officials said on Thursday, amid investigations by the FBI and NCAA. (KENTUCKY-UNIVERSITY/PRESIDENT, moved at 12:18 p.m., 262 words)
Connecticut officials unveil school replacing site of 2012 massacre
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Officials in Newtown, Connecticut, on Friday unveil the newly constructed Sandy Hook Elementary School, built to replace the building torn down after a gunman shot dead 20 young children and six educators in a 2012 massacre. The facility will be shown to media just a few weeks before it first opens its doors to students. (CONNECTICUT-SHOOTING, expect by 2 p.m. on Friday, 400 words)
MIDDLE EAST
Syria's Nusra Front says ending al Qaeda ties; U.S. fears for Aleppo
BEIRUT - Al Qaeda's powerful Syrian branch, the Nusra Front, announced on Thursday it was ending its relationship with the global jihadist network founded by Osama bin Laden, to remove a pretext used by world powers to attack Syrians. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA (WRAPUP 2, PIX, TV), moved at 4:22 p.m., by Lisa Barrington and Suleiman Al-Khalidi, 1242 words)
WORLD
China says to hold drills with Russia in South China Sea
BEIJING - China and Russia will hold "routine" naval exercises in the South China Sea in September, China's Defence Ministry said on Thursday, adding that the drills were aimed at strengthening their cooperation and were not aimed at any other country. (SOUTHCHINASEA-CHINA/DRILLS (UPDATE 3, PIX), moved at 3:07 p.m., 473 words)
El Salvador captures 120 members of Mara Salvatrucha gang
SAN SALVADOR - Salvadoran authorities captured 120 members and associates of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang, the prosecutor's office said on Thursday, part of a broad offensive to curb the escalation of gang-related killings in the Central American nation. (EL SALVADOR-VIOLENCE/, moved, 180 words)
Nicaraguan local police commissioner gunned down outside Managua
MANAGUA - Unidentified assailants shot dead a police commissioner from Nicaragua's central region around midnight, a law enforcement official said on Thursday, in the first assassination of a high-level police officer in the country in more than a decade. (NICARAGUA-VIOLENCE/, moved, 126 words)
Anti-Boko Haram task force says recaptures town in Nigeria's Borno state
MAIDUGURI - A multinational task force battling Boko Haram said on Thursday it had recaptured the only town in northeast Nigeria's Borno state that was still held by the Islamist militant group. (NIGERIA-SECURITY/, moved at 3:33 p.m., 261 words)
Rare Canada police conviction puts spotlight on race relations
TORONTO/MONTREAL - A six-year prison sentence for a policeman in the shooting death of a teenager three years ago was a rare conviction in Canada, where activists say officers too often get off easy in brutality cases. (CANADA-POLICE/ (UPDATE 3, PIX), moved at 3:20 p.m., by Alastair Sharp and Allison Lampert, 579 words)
ENTERTAINMENT AND LIFESTYLE
Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell celebrate motherhood at 'Bad Moms' premiere
Actresses Mila Kunis, Kathryn Hahn and Kristen Bell were in Los Angeles to premiere "Bad Moms," a film that brings a string of female stars together to take digs at the modern day perils of parenting. (FILM-BADMOMS/ (PIX, TV), moved at 4:10 p.m., 363 words)
U.S. comic book starring transgender superhero to hit shelves
NEW YORK - Move over, Spider-Man and Superman. Here comes Chalice, a transgender superhero hitting the comic-book world. Chalice makes her debut in September in the "Alters," a series of stories about a group of outcasts whose unique circumstances give them superpowers. (USA-LGBT/SUPERHERO (PIX), moved, 423 words)
BUSINESS AND MARKETS
Wall St edges up; Alphabet and Amazon rise after the bell
Wall Street edged higher on Thursday as investors looked beyond disappointing earnings from Ford and bought shares in Apple, while Alphabet surged after the bell following its quarterly report. (USA-STOCKS/ (UPDATE 6), moved, 328 words)See also: U.S. stocks rebound, yen weakens on BOJ stimulus report (GLOBAL-MARKETS/ (WRAPUP 8), moved, 634 words)
Judge rejects Sumner Redstone bid to end Viacom CEO lawsuit
A Massachusetts judge on Thursday rejected Sumner Redstone's bid to quickly end a case that will likely determine the future of the media mogul's holdings and set an October trial date, marking a victory for Viacom Inc Chief Executive Philippe Dauman. (VIACOM-REDSTONE/ (UPDATE 3), moved at 2:48 p.m., by Jessica Toonkel and Dan Levine, 522 words)
Amazon revenue beats estimates as cloud sales surge
Amazon.com Inc reported a better-than-expected rise in quarterly revenue, powered by blockbuster growth in its cloud services unit and an increase in subscriptions for its Prime loyalty program. (AMAZON.COM-RESULTS/ (UPDATE 1), moved at 4:19 p.m., 187 words)
Judge rules against some 1,300 lawsuits over Bayer's Mirena IUD
A New York federal judge has ruled in favor of Bayer AG against nearly 1,300 lawsuits filed by women who say they suffered internal injuries from the company's Mirena intra-uterine contraceptive device. (BAYER-MIRENA/ (UPDATE 1), moved at 4:58 p.m., by Brendan Pierson, 273 words)
Bezos passes Buffett, becomes third-richest person -Forbes
Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon.com Inc has become the world's third-richest person as of the market close for the first time, Forbes magazine said, passing Warren Buffett, the chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BEZOS-BUFFETT/ (PIX), moved at 4:44 p.m., by Jonathan Stempel, 276 words)
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