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WASHINGTON (AP) — More details about the White House breach are being revealed as lawmakers on Capitol Hill get ready today to hold a hearing on White House security. Republican But Congressman Jason Chaffetz of Utah says the man who got into the White House earlier this month got farther into the mansion than the Secret Service stated. Chaffetz says the man, armed with a knife, ran into the East Room and even past a guard before being stopped. The Secret Service says he had gotten no father than through the front door.
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong's leader says China will not back down from its decision to limit voting reforms in the Asian financial hub. Pro-democracy demonstrators have set a Wednesday deadline for a response from the government to meet their demands. Student-led protests in Hong Kong today have snarled traffic and disrupted public transportation for a fifth day. The students want mainland communist leaders to reverse their stance requiring that Hong Kong's next leader come from a slate of pro-Beijing candidates.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in Oklahoma expect today to charge a 30-year-old man with first-degree murder in last Thursday's beheading of a food plant worker near Oklahoma City. Authorities say Alton Nolen had just gotten fired when he attacked two women at the Vaughn Foods plant in Moore. The other woman was wounded. Nolen was stopped when the company's chief operating officer, who's also a reserve sheriff's deputy, shot him.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The transfer of prisoners out of Guantanamo Bay has ground to a halt amid a slow Pentagon approval process. A detainee sent back to Algeria in March is the only prisoner to have moved out this year, beyond the exchange of five Taliban members in return for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. The slow pace is the result of a law giving Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel final authority to transfer detainees. Pentagon officials say they must consider the risks before signing off.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown is indicating that he's likely to sign a bill imposing the nation's first statewide ban on single-use plastic bags as a way to address litter. SB270 is one of the last major bills pending today, the deadline for the governor to sign or veto hundreds of bills. The legislation will prohibit large grocery stores from carrying single-use bags starting in July 2015, expanding to smaller stores the year after. It also allows businesses to charge 10-cent fees for customers using paper bags.
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