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JERUSALEM (AP) — The family of a missing Palestinian teenager in east Jerusalem says the boy's body has been identified, and the Palestinian president is accusing Israeli extremists of killing him. Relatives say the 17-year-old was approached by people in a car early today and forced inside before it sped off. A body was later found in a Jerusalem forest, raising fears the boy had been killed as revenge for the recent killings of three Israeli teens in the West Bank. A relative says the body has been identified as that of the missing teen. But Israeli police say there's been no official identification.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — By tomorrow, Tropical Storm Arthur is expected to be a hurricane. And while the early maps show that it's not likely to make landfall in the United States, it's expected to skim the Outer Banks of North Carolina as a Category 1 hurricane on Friday, the Fourth of July. Forecasters say it could bring three to five inches of rain and sustained winds of 85 miles an hour.
WASHINGTON (AP) — After three months of gains, orders to U.S. factories are showing a decline. The Commerce Department says orders fell by a half a percentage point in May, pulled down by falling demand for military and transportation equipment. Still, U.S. factories have been busy. The Institute for Supply Management reported yesterday that manufacturing expanded in June for the 13th month in a row.
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Doctors say one of the two 12-year-old girls accused of stabbing a classmate in order to please a fictional online horror character is not competent to stand trial. The doctors' reports have not been made public, but attorneys said today that a doctor for the state of Wisconsin and a doctor hired by the girl's defense agree that she is not mentally competent. Prosecutors have asked for further evaluation. The stabbing victim is now recovering at home.
LONDON (AP) — British authorities want to know more about a psychological experiment that Facebook conducted on its users. The data protection authorities are looking into the experiment carried out by two U.S. universities and the social network. The researchers manipulated the news feeds of about 700,000 randomly selected users, to study the impact of what's called "emotional contagion," or how emotional states are transferred to others.
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