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3 US troops die in deadliest month of Afghan war (AP)

An Afghan National Police officer helps his fellow officer on to a U.S. Air Force rescue helicopter after he was shot during combat with the Taliban, in the Arghandab Valley, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Thursday July 29, 2010. Rescue teams one part of the U.S. Air Force's 451st Air Expeditionary Wing in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - Three U.S. service members have been killed in Afghanistan, bringing the toll for July to at least 63 and making it the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly 9-year-war.



Economic growth likely slowed in second quarter (AP)

In this July 20, 2010 photo, Haley Wright, left, human resources professional with Plastipak Packaging Inc., meets with a prospective job applicant during a National Career Fairs Job Fair in Plano, Texas. New jobless claims fell last week for the third time in four weeks, but remain above 450,000, where they have been all year. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)AP - The already fragile economic recovery may be getting weaker.



Fed atty: Military secrets sold to pay for HI home (AP)

FILE - This undated file photo released by the FBI shows Noshir S. Gowadia. The attorney for a former B-2 bomber engineer from Hawaii accused of selling military secrets to China says his client designed a cruise missile part for China but did so based on public information. (AP Photo/FBI, File)AP - A federal prosecutor said Thursday a former B-2 bomber engineer helped China design a stealth cruise missile to raise money to pay the $15,000-a-month mortgage on the mansion-like home he built on Maui's north shore.



Officials: Floods kill at least 267 in Pakistan (AP)

Pakistani villagers move to a safe place from a flood hit village near Nowshera, Pakistan on Thursday, July 29, 2010. Rivers burst their banks during monsoon rains, washing away streets, battering a dam and killing at least 60 people in most severe floods in decades in northwest Pakistan, officials said Thursday. Hundreds of thousands more were stranded as rescue workers struggled to reach far-flung villages. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - The death toll in three days of flooding in Pakistan reached at least 267 on Friday, rescue and government officials said, as rains bloated rivers, submerged villages, and triggered landslides.



Panel hits Rangel with 13 ethics charges (AP)

Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., leaves his office to go to a vote on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - House investigators accused veteran New York Rep. Charles Rangel of 13 violations of congressional ethics standards on Thursday, throwing a cloud over his four-decade political career and raising worries for fellow Democrats about the fall elections.





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