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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Post is reporting that when the National Security Agency intercepted online accounts of legally targeted foreigners over a four-year period, it also collected the conversations of nine times as many ordinary Internet users, both Americans and non-Americans. The huge trove of intercepted documents was provided to the Post by former NSA analyst Edward Snowden.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The investigation is continuing into a deadly fire that raced through a row of two-story homes in Philadelphia early Saturday. Witnesses say it may have started on a couch on the porch. Four children were killed, including 4-year-old twin girls, a 4-year-old boy and a baby. At least 10 houses were burned. The Red Cross says 42 people were displaced by the fire.
MIAMI (AP) — Four people are dead and a dozen others are injured following a boat collision near a Miami marina. Authorities say three boats collided near the Dinner Key Marina on Friday night around the end of a fireworks display. The boaters are believed to have been out celebrating the Fourth of July holiday. Officers plucked several victims from the water.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis police say a shooting in a bar-hopping neighborhood that injured seven people may have been set off by two people bumping into each other in the street. A man was arrested on a preliminary charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm and has been questioned about the early Saturday incident but has not been charged in the shooting.
SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — A key stronghold in Ukraine's embattled east is now under the control of government troops. The soldiers forced pro-Russian insurgents out of Slovyansk. As the rebels fled the city on Saturday, they vowed to regroup elsewhere and carry on the fight. Ukraine's president describes the recapture of Slovyansk as "the start of a turning point" in the ongoing conflict.
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