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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Bernanke says stronger economy means Fed could slow bond buying this year, end it next year

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Secret hearings debated in Guantanamo 9/11 case

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — Prosecutors in the Sept. 11 war crimes case at Guantanamo are asking a judge to allow secret pretrial hearings that would exclude even the defendants.

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IAAF: Jamaican case appears to be ‘lesser’ offense

File- This Aug. 3, 2012 file photo shows Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown competing in a women's 100-meter heat during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London. Campbell-Brown, or "VCB" as she's simply known in sprinting circles, tested positive for a banned diuretic at a meet in May and will serve a suspension while anti-doping officials rule on the positive drug test, island track officials announced Tuesday June 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

LONDON (AP) — The doping case involving Jamaican sprint star Veronica Campbell-Brown appears to involve a “lesser” offense of unintentional use of a banned substance, the sport’s world governing body said Wednesday.

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Injured Blake withdraws from Jamaica championships

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Olympic Jamaican sprinter Yohan Blake has withdrawn from the island’s national championships this week because of a hamstring injury.

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Red Cross’ Guantanamo reports sought in 9/11 case

In this pool photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, attorney James Connell, center, Pentagon-appointed defense lawyer for Sept. 11 co-conspirator Ammar al Baluchi, questions retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Bruce MacDonald, who last served as the 40th Judge Advocate General of the Navy, via video conference during the pretrial hearings at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Monday, June 17, 2013. Five Guantanamo Bay prisoners accused of helping orchestrate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks returned to court Monday as arguments resumed over the preparations for a trial that remains distant. At far right is the self-proclaimed terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool)

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross urged a military judge Tuesday to refuse a request to open its confidential communications with U.S. officials about conditions at Guantanamo Bay to the lawyers for the prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 terror attack.

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