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WASHINGTON (AP) — A human rights group says graphic photos and satellite images show that up to 190 captives were executed earlier this month by Iraqi insurgents. Human Rights Watch says the men were killed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Tikrit between June 11 and 14. Meanwhile, the extremist group's presence in Iraq and Syria has President Barack Obama asking Congress for $500 million to strengthen moderate Syrian rebels who are not only fighting President Bashar Assad's troops, but the extremists.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Barack Obama closes his two-day trip to the Minneapolis area today with a speech on the economy. He'll pitch his ideas to boost the American middle class. The state already has embraced a key component of Obama's economic agenda by moving to raise its minimum wage.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former police officer suspected in the deaths of two women found stuffed in suitcases is scheduled to appear in court in Wisconsin this afternoon. Steve M. Zelich will answer to two counts of hiding a corpse. But authorities believe the 52-year-old security guard met his victims online, bound and killed them and kept their bodies for months. The suitcases were found June 5 along a Wisconsin rural highway.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two hosts of ABC's "The View" will be leaving the show. After seven years on the show, Sherri Shepherd is leaving because her manager says she couldn't come to terms on a new contract. And Jenny McCarthy is leaving after just one season. McCarthy tweeted, "If Sherri goes ... I go too."
DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, Alaska (AP) — Officials at Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska say guests staying in lodges should be able to leave the park by road sometime today. Flooding and rockfalls prompted the closure of the only road into the park Thursday. Some 100 guests and employees at one lodge had to be airlifted out of the area last night after two raging creeks nearby flooding their building.
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