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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks have finished with sizable losses, on a day that saw the New York Stock Exchange shut down for half the day by a technical outage. The troubles didn't extend to the dozens of other exchanges that also trade U.S. stocks. The Dow industrials lost 261 points. (a1068)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top U.S. law enforcement and security officials say they don't see a link between the outages at the New York Stock Exchange and the temporary grounding of United Continental flights and the temporary malfunction of the Wall Street Journal's website. FBI Director James Comey told a Senate panel, "We do not see any indication of a cyber breach or a cyber attack." He said it looks like the trouble on the Journal's website was caused by people trying to find out what was happening with the stock exchange. (a1050)
BALTIMORE (AP) — Amid a soaring homicide rate in Baltimore, the city's police commissioner has been fired. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake didn't give a reason, but the move comes as the city faces a nearly 50 percent increase in homicides this year compared to the same period last year. Baltimore was rocked with civil unrest in April following the death of Freddie Gray, a week after he suffered a critical spinal injury in police custody. Six police officers have been criminally charged in Gray's death. (a1051)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina House hasn't yet decided whether to go along with the state Senate and remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds. During three hours of debate earlier today, House members rejected four amendments, including one that would have planted the state flower in the place where the flag and the flagpole now stand. In Washington, meanwhile, the U.S. House has voted to ban the display of Confederate flags at historic federal cemeteries in the Deep South. (a1028)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Police say a Connecticut man admitted fatally throwing his infant son from a bridge then jumping into the river below. Tony Moreno was charged with murder today in the death of 7-month-old Aaden Moreno. The boy's body was pulled from the Connecticut River last night. Moreno was arraigned at Hartford Hospital, where he's been treated since firefighters rescued him Sunday night. His bail was set at $2 million. (a1055)
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