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IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry is back in Iraq for a second straight day Tuesday, in hopes of unsnarling bitter political feuds that have given rise to a bloody Sunni insurgency. Kerry is in Irbil, the capital of Iraq's northern, in the autonomous Kurdish region, where he'll meet with the Kurdish regional president. Kerry wants his support in pushing reforms in Iraq's Shiite-led government, trying to ease rising anger among Sunni groups who feel they have been sidelined from power or equal rights.
NEW YORK (AP) — A report commissioned by a group that includes former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says climate change will cost big bucks in the future. The report by the non-partisan Risky Business Project says U.S. regional economies face enormous costs in the form of lost property, reduced industrial output and higher health expenses.
BOSTON (AP) — Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez is scheduled to appear in a Boston court Tuesday for a hearing in the 2012 drive-by slayings of two men. Hernandez has pleaded not guilty to killing the men prosecutors say accidentally bumped into him in a nightclub. Prosecutors say Hernandez drove around looking for the men and allegedly opened fire on them after pulling alongside their car at a traffic light. He also faces charges in another killing.
BANGKOK (AP) — A human rights group is calling on Thailand's military junta to release an opposition activist whose been missing since security forces detained her May 28. In an effort to prove that she's alive and being treated well, Kritsuda Khunasen, an activist with the grassroots Red Shirt movement, appeared on army TV Monday, saying her treatment in detention is "too good for words to say." Her whereabouts remain unknown.
NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Dylan's song "Like a Rolling Stone" could bring between $1 million and $2 million at auction. On Tuesday, Sotheby's is offering a working draft of the finished song. It's written in pencil on four sheets of hotel letterhead stationery with revisions, additions, notes and doodles: a hat, a bird, an animal with antlers. The stationery comes from the Roger Smith hotel in Washington, D.C. Dylan was only 24 when he recorded the song in 1965.
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