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  Pentagon official: 4 Americans killed in attack at U.S. base in Afghanistan

  Posted 4:38 PM 6/18/2013 by CNN

  CNN - Four Americans were killed during a rocket attack at Bagram Air Base, outside of Kabul, a Pentagon official said Tuesday on the condition of anonymity.The U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force confirmed that four NATO coalition service members had been killed in an attack (More)

  
  

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  Fla. girl who lost feet in lawnmower accident takes first steps on prosthetic legs

  

  Posted 3:52 PM 6/18/2013 by CBS NEWS

  TAMPA - A toddler whose feet were amputated after her father accidentally backed over her with a riding lawnmower took her first steps on her new prosthetic test legs Monday.

  Ireland Nugent has been in a wheelchair and has undergone seven surgeries since the April 11 accident. Doctors (More)

  
  

• National News

  Feds charge 3 in Ohio slavery case

  Posted 3:02 PM 6/18/2013 by CNN

  CNN - A mentally disabled woman and her daughter were held in an Ohio apartment for two years, forced to perform manual labor and threatened with dogs and snakes to keep them compliant, federal authorities said Tuesday.

  The people accused of holding the woman and child captive in the (More)

  
  

• National News

  Chrysler agrees to recall; Jeeps at risk of fire

  

  Posted 2:56 PM 6/18/2013 by CBS NEWS

  DETROIT - Chrysler avoided a showdown with government safety regulators Tuesday, agreeing to recall 2.7 million older Jeep Grand Cherokee and Liberty SUVs that could be at risk of a fuel tank fire.

  Earlier this month the company defiantly refused the government's request to recall the (More)

  
  

• National News

  FBI: Surveillance info helped reveal subway, stock exchange bombings

  

  Posted 2:09 PM 6/18/2013 by Lucy Madison - CBS News

  The FBI on Tuesday unveiled four terrorist plots it says were prevented in large part due to information collected by the National Security Agency's controversial, top-secret data gathering programs, including planned bombings of both the New York City subway system and the New York Stock (More)

  
  

• Political News

  Biden warns legislators, 'country has changed' on gun violence

  Posted 1:27 PM 6/18/2013 by Adam Aigner-Treworgy - CNN White House Producer

  (CNN) -- In remarks Tuesday touting the Obama administration's progress in addressing gun safety, Vice President Joe Biden vowed to revisit gun control legislation that failed in the U.S. Senate earlier this year, and warned legislators that the political climate shifted after the mass shooting (More)

  
  

• Political News

  Surveillance thwarted stock exchange bomb plot, officials say

  

  Posted 12:18 PM 6/18/2013 by Dana Bash and Tom Cohen - CNN News

  WASHINGTON - Bomb plots targeting the New York Stock Exchange and the city's subway were among more than 50 worldwide thwarted by top-secret surveillance programs since the 2011 al Qaeda attacks on the United States, authorities said on Tuesday.

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• National News

  NASA selects more women astronauts

  

  Posted 8:09 PM 6/17/2013 by CNN

  NEW YORK -- NASA has selected another generation of astronauts to travel to new destinations in the solar system, including an asteroid and Mars, and for the first time in its history half of the new candidates are women.

  Four out of the eight candidates are women, "making this the highest (More)

  
  

• Technology

  NASA selects more women astronauts

  Posted 2:57 PM 6/17/2013 by Wenqian Zhu - CNN Money

  NEW YORK -- NASA has selected another generation of astronauts to travel to new destinations in the solar system, including an asteroid and Mars, and for the first time in its history half of the new candidates are women.

  Four out of the eight candidates are women, "making this the highest (More)