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Houston media reports said the incident resulted from a domestic dispute in a normally quiet area of detached houses with tree-lined streets in Spring, about 25 miles from Houston.

House Energy and Commerce Committee members asked for results of CDC lab inspections and audits of potential weaknesses in biosecurity protocols dating back to 2007.

"Are folks more interested in politics or are they more interested in solving the problem," Obama said he told Texas Gov. Rick Perry. "If they are interested in solving the problem then this can be solved. If the preference is for politics then it won’t be solved."

Missiles from Israel's Iron Dome defense system shot into the sky to intercept rockets launched, for the second straight day.

The Federal Reserve has begun detailing how it plans to ease the U.S. economy out of an era of loose monetary policy.

One of the hardest hit spots was the Syracuse-area community of Smithfield, New York, where four of the deaths were reported.

The producer price index dropped 1.1 percent in its 28th straight month of decline.

Apple says willing to discuss settlement with Zhizhen Internet Technology.

It has been the dirtiest and most confrontational campaign in memory in a country that traditionally holds up the value of consensus politics.

A majority of the settlement is expected to be in cash, but the figure also includes several billion dollars in help to struggling borrowers.

In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, made public on Tuesday, Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim said the Muthanna facility north of Baghdad was seized on June 11. He said remnants of a former chemical weapons program are kept in two bunkers there.

After deliberating for less than four hours, a federal jury in New York found Rengan Rajaratnam, a former portfolio manager at Galleon, not guilty of the one conspiracy count he faced following the mid-trial dismissal by a judge of two more serious fraud charges.

After years of scandal, including money-laundering allegations, the bank is about to be restructured with a new president and a new board.

The Open Interconnect Consortium aims to establish how smart devices work together in a trend increasingly called the Internet of Things.

The world's largest smartphone maker has seen profit fall as competition heats up from Chinese makers of low-priced yet feature-heavy handsets, as the market's growth area shifts to low-end handsets in emerging economies.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Anita Brody comes two weeks after the NFL agreed to remove a $675 million ceiling it had placed on payments to former players who were part of a groundbreaking lawsuit over head injuries experienced during their time in the league.

CIA Director John Brennan has asked to brief key members of the U.S. Congress on the matter, which threatens a new rupture between Washington and a close European ally, one of the officials said, according to Reuters in an exclusive report.

The IOC will decided between just three possible host cities.

The ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers remains in limbo.

The gunmen were not affiliated with ADF-NALU.

The attacks occurred in Lamu and Tana River counties.

The Nigerian armed forces also say they lost five soldiers and a senior military officer during a firefight in Damboa.

India’s new government may seek to raise as much as a record $11.7 billion in asset sales in its maiden budget this week.

Petra Kvitova cruised by Eugenie Boucard in the final, 6-3 6-0.

Roger Federer will face Novak Djokovic on Sunday in London.

The House Ways and Means Committee says the U.S. Constitution shields it in the case involving a staff member.