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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities have some confessions, in the vigilante-style killing of a Palestinian teenager. An official says three Israeli suspects in the killing have confessed to the crime and have been re-enacting it for authorities. The teen was abducted and burned to death last week -- in what the Palestinians say was a revenge attack for the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teens in the West Bank.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Dozens of Nigerian girls who were abducted by an Islamic extremist group in Nigeria two weeks ago have managed to escape. But more than 200 schoolgirls who were abducted by the same group in April are still missing. Officials say the girls who have escaped from Boko Haram were abducted from three villages in the northeastern state of Borno on June 22. Nigerian security forces and federal government officials had been denying that the abductions even took place.
LONDON (AP) — British officials are promising to investigate whether the government and other institutions in the 1980s and 90s covered up child abuse by politicians and others in positions of power. The move comes in the wake of revelations that several well-known figures used their positions to get away with abuse for years. Veteran entertainer Rolf Harris was sentenced to almost six years in prison last week after being convicted of 12 counts of abusing girls.
SEATTLE (AP) — Owners of some Washington state businesses that will be allowed to start selling marijuana tomorrow morning haven't had much sleep. They were notified in a middle-of-the-night e-mail that they'll finally be able to open for business. The state says it wanted to give the first two dozen stores a few hours extra notice so that they'll have more time to get pot on their shelves by tomorrow morning.
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are already giving up some of their gains from last week -- when they hit record levels as the government reported some solid job gains. They're lower in the opening minutes of trading today. The Dow closed above 17,000 for the first time on Thursday in an abbreviated session. The markets were closed Friday for the Fourth of July.
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