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WASHINGTON (AP) — With the Ukrainian crisis firmly in the forefront, President Barack Obama heads for Estonia today on his way to this week's NATO summit, amid criticism that he's being too tentative in the face of global threats. The crisis between Russia and Ukraine has raised the stakes at the summit. Obama will press member states to increase their defense spending.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Seven years in the making, the summer-long trial of four Blackwater security guards in the 2007 shootings of more than 30 Iraqis in Baghdad is scheduled to go to the jury today. If convicted, Nicholas Slatten faces up to life imprisonment. The other three — Paul Slough, Dustin Heard and Evan Liberty — could face mandatory minimum sentences of 30 years in prison each.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal judge is to instruct jurors today before handing them the public corruption case involving former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen. The McDonnells are charged with doing special favors for Jonnie Williams, the former CEO of dietary supplements maker Star Scientific Inc., in exchange for more than $165,000 in gifts and loans.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Parts of the Midwest are dealing with the aftermath of more strong storms that included tornadoes, heavy rains, large hail and strong winds. The National Weather Service noted hail nearly 2 inches in diameter near St. Louis. More than 17,000 customers in Missouri and Oklahoma lost electricity. The Detroit Free Press reports two tornadoes hit in northern Michigan.
BAGHDAD (AP) — Amnesty International says the militant Islamic State group may have committed what amounts to war crimes during its campaign to capture swaths of territory in northern Iraq. The London-based rights group says the extremists systematically targeted religious minorities using mass killings, abductions and ethnic cleansing. It says the fate of abducted women and children is still unknown.
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