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WASHINGTON (AP) — The body of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has been taken to a funeral home in El Paso, Texas, where officials are waiting to hear whether an autopsy will be performed. A manager for Sunset Funeral Homes says a procession that included about 20 law enforcement officers arrived at the funeral home early today. The procession traveled the more than three hours from the West Texas resort ranch where Scalia was found dead in his room yesterday at age 79.
FREDERICKSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania interstate has reopened, a day after a pileup involving dozens of vehicles that killed three people and sent dozens to hospitals. State police say Interstate 78 reopened in both directions this morning. Police say more than 40 people were taken to hospitals following yesterday's crash that involved at least 50 commercial and private vehicles in Bethel Township, about 75 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Police in Louisiana say a man suspected of shooting two police officers in Baton Rouge has died. Police say 22-year-old Calvin Smith died late yesterday at a hospital, hours after being shot in a gunfight with police. The two officers who were shot were being treated at the same hospital for wounds that were not life-threatening.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's official news agency says the country has exported a shipment of crude oil to Europe for the first time since it reached a landmark nuclear deal with world powers last month. The IRNA report says the shipment was the first after five years. Iran plans to add one million barrels to its oil production following implementation of the nuclear deal, which lifted international sanctions in exchange for Iran restricting its nuclear activities.
BATH, Maine (AP) — A Navy admiral wants to put an electric-powered gun that fires projectiles at hypersonic speeds on one of the Zumwalt-class destroyers that's being built. A prototype of the electromagnetic railgun is scheduled to go aboard another vessel this year. But Adm. Pete Fanta suggests skipping the demonstration and moving forward with an operational unit on the Lyndon B. Johnson, which will be delivered in 2018. Railguns use electronic pulses instead of gunpowder to fire a projectile at six or seven times the speed of sound.
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