Troops kill senior 'capo' of mighty Mexico cartel

MEXICO CITY – Soldiers killed a top leader of the Sinaloa cartel in a raid on his posh hideout, dealing the biggest blow yet to Mexico's most powerful drug gang since President Felipe Calderon launched a military offensive against organized crime in 2006.

Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel, a reputed founder of Mexico's methamphetamine trade, was gunned down trying to escape soldiers in the western city of Guadalajara. Mexican authorities says he fired on soldiers as helicopters hovered overhead and troops closed in.

Coronel was a close associate of Mexico's most wanted man, Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, and was No. 3 in the organization after Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.

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Officials: Floods kill at least 313 in Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan – The death toll in 3 days of flooding in Pakistan reached at least 313 on Friday, rescue and government officials said, as rains bloated rivers, submerged villages, and triggered landslides.

The rising toll from the monsoon rains underscore the poor infrastructure in impoverished Pakistan, where under-equipped rescue workers were struggling to reach people stranded in far-flung villages. The weather forecast was mixed, with some areas expected to see reduced rainfall and others likely to see an intensification.

Pakistani TV showed striking images of people clinging to fences and other stationary items as water at times gushed over their heads.

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Three US troops die, deadliest month of Afghan war

KABUL, Afghanistan – 3 U.S. service members were killed in blasts in Afghanistan, bringing the toll for July to at least 63 and making it the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly 9-year-war.

A NATO statement Friday said the 3 died in two separate blasts in southern Afghanistan the day before. The statement gave no nationalities, but U.S. officials say all 3 were Americans. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity pending notification of kin.

U.S. and NATO commanders had warned that casualties would rise as the international military force ramps up the war against the Taliban, especially in their southern strongholds in Helmand and Kandahar provinces. President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 reinforcements to Afghanistan last December in a bid to turn back a resurgent Taliban."

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Two Americans among 152 dead in Pakistan plane crash

ISLAMABAD — 2 Americans were among the 152 passengers and crew members who died Wednesday when an Airbus A321 operated by a private Pakistani carrier crashed amid heavy rain into the hills that surround the capital of Islamabad . It was the worst air crash in Pakistani aviation history.

The Airblue plane was on a flight from Karachi when it crashed at around 10 a.m. local time. It carried 146 passengers and a crew of 6.

The aircraft had made one pass at landing before airport controllers ordered it to abort, but it remained unclear why it then flew so low and seemingly straight toward the cloud-covered hills. The plane disintegrated on impact, scattering the wreckage. Thick smoke rose from the crash site.

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French police find 8 dead newborn babies

French police have arrested a couple after finding the bodies of 8 newborn babies in a village, officials said.

Police were continuing to search with sniffer dogs in Villers-au-Tertre, near Lille in northern France, the officials said.

The 2 in custody are said to be the parents of the children.

They are being held on suspicion of concealment of a corpse and the non-reporting of a crime.

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Parents mourn 2 boys killed by storm in Haiti camp

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Distraught parents mourned the loss of 2 children in a camp for Haitian earthquake survivors Wednesday, a day after rains caused a wall to collapse on top of a row of tarp homes.

The family's tragedy is another reminder of the perilous conditions of an estimated 1.6 million people living under tarps and tents on dangerous ground 6 months after the quake devastated Port-au-Prince.

Enrique Joseph, a 30-year-old policeman, was on the job downtown Tuesday evening when his cell phone rang with the horrifying news: After losing his home in the quake, he had lost his makeshift home — and his 8-month-old son, Kesnel, and a 2-year-old nephew, Kika Leus, were under the wreckage.

He raced back to the Terrain Acra camp in the Delmas neighborhood, home to tens of thousands whose tarp homes blanket a hillside owned by one of Haiti's wealthiest families.

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UK's oldest Tweeter Ivy Bean dies at 104

Britain's oldest Tweeter has died in her sleep at the age of 104, staff at her care home have said.

Ivy Bean, from Bradford, acquired over 56,000 followers on the popular micro-blogging service.

Pat Wright, manager of Hillside Manor where Ms Ivy Bean lived, broke the news on her Twitter feed.

Ms Ivy Bean joined the site in 2008, one year after she registered on Facebook. She soon attracted attention for being the oldest "tweeter".

Her celebrity followers included singer Peter Andre, Chris Evans and former prime minister's wife Sarah Brown.

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$200 million worth of Ansel Adams negatives discovered

A set of 65 old glass negatives bought for $45(£34) at a California garage sale are the long-lost work of the photographer Ansel Adams and might be worth as much as $200 million, (£128 million), it has been claimed.

A team of experts who analyzed the pictures, including handwriting on their packaging and weather conditions in the photographs, concluded beyond reasonable doubt they were Adams's work, created in the early part of his career.

Ansel Adams, regarded by many as the father of American photography, died in 1984 and was most famous for his black and white photographs of the West, particularly Yosemite national park in California. Up to 5,000 of his negatives were feared destroyed in a darkroom fire in 1937.

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Mexico police find human heads dumped near Durango

8 human heads have been found in four locations outside the northern Mexican city of Durango.

The victims were men believed to have been aged between 25 and 30, the local prosecutor's office said.

Police found the heads after anonymous tip-offs, but had not identified the victims or found the bodies, the Durango state prosecutor's office said.

The state of Durango has been the scene of clashes in recent months between the rival Gulf and Sinaloa drug cartels.

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Plane crashes in Pakistan capital on flight from Turkey

Flash News : Reports are coming in that a plane has crashed in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.

Initial information suggests it was flying to Islamabad via Karachi with more than 150 people on board.

Pakistani television is showing images of smoke arising from a hillside in the Margalla Hills in poor weather conditions.

A huge rescue effort has been launched. Details are still emerging.

"There were 146 passengers and 6 crewmen on board. We’re gathering information. We have no more details," Mubarik Shah, spokesman of the state-run Civil Aviation Authority, told the Reuters news agency.

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American Fish pulls out of Los Angeles tennis

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Mardy Fish, who is fresh off his 2nd consecutive title in as many weeks, pulled out of the ATP Farmers Classic tournament.

Tournament officials said the eighth seeded Mardy Fish arrived in Los Angeles for the event but was too fatigued to compete.

Mardy Fish, who is ranked 37th in the world, has won two titles this year (Newport and Atlanta) and is 28-11 overall.

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Khmer Rouge jailer faces 19 years for 16,000 dead

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – A war crimes tribunal sentenced the Khmer Rouge's chief jailer on Monday to a prison term that will see him serve less than half a day for every person killed at the notorious torture center he commanded.

Survivors expressed anger and disbelief that a key player in the genocide that wiped out a quarter of Cambodia's population could one day walk free — in spite of being convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

"I can't accept this," sobbed Saodi Ouch, 46, shaking so hard she might hardly talk. "My family died ... my older sister, my older brother. I am the only one left."

Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, was the first major Khmer Rouge figure to face trial more than 3 decades after the "killing fields" regime tried to turn the country into a vast agrarian society — leading to the deaths of 1.7 million people.

As commander of the top secret Tuol Sleng prison — code-named S-21 — the 67-year-old Duch (Kaing Guek Eav) admitted to overseeing the torture and deaths of as many as 16,000 people.

He was sentenced to 35 years in prison, but will spend only 19 in jail — 11 years were shaved off for time served and another five for illegal detention in a military prison.

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Twin car bombs kill 25 in Iraqi city of Karbala

BAGHDAD – 2 car bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims during a religious festival in the holy city of Karbala killed 25 people on Monday, Iraqi police and hospital officials said. Sunni extremists are suspected.

Militants detonated 2 parked cars filled with explosives about 2 miles (3 kilometers) apart as crowds of pilgrims passed by. Police and medical officials in Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad, said 68 people were injured in the attacks.

The pilgrims were on their way to Karbala to play a part in in an important religious holiday, known as Shabaniyah, that attracts devout Shiites from around the country.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the Monday bombings, however the method is the hallmark of Sunni extremists.

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Pressel of US shoots 66 for lead at Evian Masters

Morgan Pressel of the United States birdied the first three holes and ended with a 6-under 66 Thursday to lead after the first round of the Evian Masters.

Melissa Reid of England and Sun-Ju Ahn of South Korea each birdied the last hole to join her in the lead.

Pressel in progress on the back nine and her birdie line ended with a bogey on No. 13.

"It was a very solid day," Pressel said. "The only fairway I fail to spot was on the last hole, and it was as it kind of got a weird jump. I hit 15 greens. I felt like I was striking the ball well and gave myself a lot of probability."

Reid complete with eight birdies and two bogeys on a cool and rainy day.

The 22-year-old Reid won her first pro title in May at the Turkish Airlines Ladies Open. She's aiming for another strong showing against a tougher field at the Evian Masters.

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Celebration of Light fireworks begin; big crowds line Vancouver beaches

Luminous bursts of red, green, colors lit up the sky over English Bay as the United States booted off the Festivity of Light fireworks on Wednesday night.

The U.S.’s presentation was a tribute to the Big Band era.

Memorable jazz tunes such as Fever, Mambo Italiano and You’re Nobody ’Til an important person Loves You had audience bobbing their heads, tapping their feet and dancing as they watched flare after flare shoot up.

Thunderous applause broke out each time a number ended. Samantha Danselzik, a young Vancourite, wasn’t crazy about the ’40s era music, but she enjoyed the fireworks display.

“I loved the colour and when they just lit up the entire sky and you could see the whole beach,” she said.

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Sherrod: I'd Consider Legal Action against Breitbart

Ex- Agriculture Section officer Shirley Sherrod said Thursday that she would think legal action alongside the conservative blogger who posted the video that led to her ouster.Talking on CBS' Early Show, Sherrod said that while she hasn't actively talked about suing Andrew Breitbart, she

"would without doubt consider it."

Sherrod said that Breitbart's meanings were obvious - but misguided.

"As much as he's saying it was concerning the NAACP, he had to know that it was about me," Sherrod said. "He was willing to destroy me to get to what he thought -- to try to destroy the NAACP."

"He had to be acquainted with what he was doing," she added. "I'm certain he didn't think the other side of the story would come out, but he knew he was misrepresenting the facts."

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Live Music – July 22, 2010

Johnnie Mac

There will be an extraordinary Sunday arvo session this week between 2 and 5pm – Jonnie Mac is doing a send-off gig at the Sheoak Shack before going on tour. Past years of remaining active in subversive indie music scenes all over the world, Johnnie was exposed playing behind-the-scenes with some of Australia’s leading musicians after two of his songs topped both the Rock and All Genres autonomous charts.

Johnnie’s first solo album, The World Seems Happy, freshly gained worldwide acknowledgment when it topped the Amazon charts outdoing Michael Jackson’s Thriller. For more visit www.johnniemac.com

Madam Cabernet’s Circus Cabaret

Revolve up! Revolve up! This Friday July 23 at Stokers Siding Hall, Madam Cabernet’s show Cabaret is very proud to in attendance one of Australia’s finest circus entertainers, the legendary Joel Salom! Joel has a marvelous reputation as an international musician and has worked for Cirque Du Soleil and Circus Oz. Supporting acts for the evening include local smusician Michele Thomas and Sue Hird launching their next boatload of nautical mayhem, accompanied by the inspired tunes of BigStormLittleFeather.

Bookings are optional for this very special night as seats are limited. Yummy homemade meals and drinks will be for sale. Warning: adult themes and strong language. Tickets $20, children under 16yrs $10. Doors open 7pm, show starts 7.45pm. Phone 0449 222 312.

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Olympics or not, Team USA on mission starting this week in Las Vegas

Denver pieces guard Chauncey Billups works out with Team USA on Tuesday, July 22, 2010, at Cox Pavilion.

No, it's not the Olympics.

Squad USA coach Mike Krzyzewski, though, is referencing record this week to make the 20 players attempting to make the cut for next month's FIBA World Championships in Turkey become conscious the implication of the situation.

"There's not a man playing in the NBA who's won a World Championship — the previous time we won was in 1994," the Duke Coach said before Monday's put into practice at Cox Pavilion. In addition, if you win, that gives you a bye into the Olympics. However the big thing is to win a World Championship. There are 24 teams that compete for this. There are only 12 that compete in the Olympics.

"The world thinks this is pretty good, and we're part of the world. We should look at it like they're looking at it. That's what we've learned over the last four years."

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BP Relief Tunnel Should Reach Well in Days

Tropical rainstorms touching toward the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday in danger to close down undersea labors to seal BP's ruptured well break off work just as engineers get close to plugging the leak with mud and cement.

Retired U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen thought a weather system brewing in the Carribean might force crews to abandon their watch over the new cap that's been bottling oil a mile below the surface of the water for nearly a week.

Scientists have been scrutinize undersea cameras and data for days, trying to settle on if the cap is displacing pressure and causing leaks underground. If storms keep them from seeing the cap and getting those readings — for up to four days, Allen said — BP could reopen the well to avoid missing signs it is buckling.

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Team USA suffers big early loss

The Amare Stoudemire will not play for the United States in next month's world championships because of problems insure his agreement, a harmful blow to the Americans on the day training camp opened.

The New York Knicks new forward was predictable to be one of the Americans' top players in Istanbul, Turkey, Other than the team erudite of the change of plans Tuesday.

The Knicks asked Stoudemire to drag out Monday night and he unspoken, although he was looking forward to rejoining the team after playing for the Americans in the 2007 Olympic qualifying competition. He might still play in the 2012 Olympics if the insurance issues are worked out.

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Team USA: The undeserving favorites

Trainer Mike Krzyzewski and Team USA are on the courtyard in Las Vegas to begin arrangements for the World Championships that begin August 28 in Turkey. The players immobile in the mix for the nationwide team take in Kevin Durant, who is a virtual lock to be the team's high scorer. Others in the combine include Chauncey Billups, Rajon Rondo, Brook Lopez, Tyreke Evans, Stephen Curry, Andre Iguodala, Derrick Rose, Kevin Love, Gerald Wallace and Russell Westbrook.

Other than the list of those who are in the USA basketball agenda, but not present this summer, is a veritable who's who of basketball: LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, Dwight Howard, Chris Paul, Deron Williams, Chris Bosh, Carmelo Anthony ... the list goes on. By no means fear, say the oddsmakers, who have pegged the U.S. as overwhelming favorites nonetheless. M. Haubs of the Painted Area finds that shocking, and actually thinks the U.S. should be considered underdogs to Spain.

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Altria 2Q net income grows 3.2 pct on lower costs

Marlboro creator Altria Group is acerbic costs faster than smokers are acerbic back on its cigarettes, helping earnings edge higher. The proprietor of the nation's main cigarette maker — Philip Morris USA, said Wednesday its net income grew 3.2 percent in the second quarter on lower costs even as it sold less cigarettes. It also raised its full-year earnings guidance.

Altria, footed in Richmond, has been reining in operating cost as tax augments, smoking bans, health apprehensions and social stigma make the cigarette business tougher. The corporation said it cut costs about $129 million in the second quarter and expects to save about $290 million more by the end of 2011. Those cuts are part of a larger initiative to reduce general and developed costs by $1.5 billion compared with 2006.

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EXCLUSIVE: 'BMWs' Help Afghans Go AWOL From Texas Air Base

A impermanent network of Mexican-American women, a number of of whom may be illegal settlers, have been accountable for helping numerous Afghan military deserters go AWOL from an Air Force Base in Texas.

A lot of of the Afghans, with the women's support, have made their way to Canada; the location of others remains unidentified. Some of the men have been schooled by the women in how to move around the U.S. without any certification.

The Afghan absconders refer to the women as "BMWs" — Big Mexican Women — and they often are the first step in the Afghans' journey from Lack land Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, to Canada, a diplomatic official told FoxNews.com. He ask for mystery because he is not authorized to speak publicly during an ongoing investigation by U.S. and international authorities into who helped the Afghans leave the Defense Language Institute’s English Language Center at Lack land.

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Times Square Bomb 'Would Have Killed Thousands,' FBI Test Shows

A clandestine FBI test of a properly made version of the Times Square bomb revealed that it "would have killed thousands of people" if it have been made to explode as terrorists had intended, police force sources told The New York Post.

Have he built the Times four-sided figure device the way he had at first future to, terrorist Faisal Shahzad, would have twisted his SUV and nearby vehicles into a fatal spray of razor-sharp fragments and transformed building windows into glass guillotines hurtling to the streets, cutting down hundreds of people walking by.

The consequences were exposed after feds composed the type of bomb Shahzad set out to make -- with the exact mechanism he had initially intended to use -- and detonated it in Pennsylvania last month.

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Jobless benefits extension to go before Senate vote

The governing body is set to think a bill Tuesday that would extend the deadline to file for being without a job benefits through the end of November. Governing body GOP leaders have infertile a vote several times, stress deficit concerns by arguing that any benefits extension should be offset by spending cuts.

Democrats are counting on the seats Tuesday of the substitute for Sen. Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia to break the logjam. Byrd passed away last month. The bill would cost $33 billion in added deficit spending, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

On top of Monday, President Barack Obama tore into congressional Republicans, at variance that a "partisan minority" had allowable short-term political calculations to trump genuine profitable need. The Republicans are guided by a "misguided notion" that a new relief bill would dishearten people from looking for work, the president said at the White House.

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Handset world: Don't speak for us, Steve Jobs

It might be true that no cell phone is great, but the handset world isn't taking too gently to Apple CEO Steve Jobs' public declaration that other Smartphone’s bear from the same antenna and signal problems that have been widely reported regarding the iPhone 4. In addition to, in what's twisted into an ugly back-and-forth PR mud fight, Apple is firing back by making its inner signal test results public to insist that it's not just pulling rivals' flaws out of thin air.

Hui-Meng Cheng, chief monetary officer at HTC, told The Wall Street Journal on Monday that "the response problems are certainly not general among Smartphone’s," and a envoy from Samsung said that it "hasn't received significant customer view on any signal reduction issue for the Omnia 2," one of the phones that Apple singled out as suffering from similar reception issues if held in a way that blocks the antenna.

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Anti-incumbent mood fuels term limit debate

Anti-incumbent applicants are capitalizing on widespread anti-incumbent fervor and suggesting term limits as a way to bring the power back to the people. Because political hopefuls try to influence voters to send them to Congress, they're also talented they won't be there long.The Kentucky Republican governing body candidate Rand Paul said that if elected, he can't see himself serving more than two terms. In Rhode Island, Democratic congressional hopeful Bill Lynch has future a 12-year cap in the House and Senate.

In addition to in Maryland, Republican Andy Harris has assured voters that, should he go to the U.S. House, he'll be out of there by 2023.It's a letter that polls well and gets applause at campaign rallies, but David King, director of Harvard's program for Newly Elected Members of the U.S. Congress, said term limits do more harm than good.

"It's political junk food. It tastes good but hurts the body politic in the long run," he said.

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US military build-up in Kandahar will bolster Taliban, warns security monitor

The US military build-up in Kandahar is likely to further make stronger the hold of the Taliban over the vital southern Afghanistan city, a highly respected security organization said today in a bleak report warning of record Taliban violence and rising civilian deaths across the country.

The account by the Afghanistan NGO Security Office, which monitors trends in aggression on behalf of aid organizations, said Nato's counter-insurgency strategy was not showing any signs of succeeding amid rising violence, the unchecked establishment of local militias and a huge increase in attacks on private development workers across the country.It exposed that June marked a record for Taliban attacks – up 51% on the previous year to 1,319 operations.

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Officials: National Guard troops headed to border next month

U.S. National Guard forces will begin organizing along the U.S. border with Mexico in August and will be completely trained and deployed by the end of the month, government officials announce Monday.

A number of 1,200 Army and Air National Guard troops will be in place for a year to assist the Border Patrol in checking and capturing illegal settlers crossing the border into the United States.They will hand out as a "gap-filler" while the Customs and Border Patrol agency hires extra staff to fill the demand in protection along the almost 2,000-mile-long southern border with Mexico.

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Chloe Ottman Murdered at Holy Land USA by Friend, Say Police

U.S police charged a 19-year-old man with raping and killing his 16-year-old friend Chloe Ottman, whose body was found Saturday near a isolated spiritual attraction in Waterbury, Conn. Francisco Cruz is predictable to make his first court look Monday in Waterbury Superior Court in link with the death of Chloe Ottman.

Police say that Cruz admitted Saturday to murdering Ottman after the two supposedly walked together to the dilapidated religious landmark, Holy Land USA, on Thursday evening. police force say the teens were friends for nearly two years. Investigators begin looking for the missing teen once family members reported Ottman missing on Friday.

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Erin Andrews files lawsuit against stalker, hotels

Sports journalist Erin Andrews has filed a lawsuit alleging the hotels where a peephole stalker clandestinely videotaped her were negligent, according to a statement from the law firm representing her.The court case also accuses Michael David Barrett, who has pleaded guilty to stalking the ESPN reporter, of invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

The set of clothes, filed Thursday, alleges that Barrett received in order from hotels when he called them to see if Andrews had made reservations to stay there.

"Not only did the hotels corroborate that Ms. Andrews was intending to register as a guest, but they also released, without Ms. Andrews' consent, her room number. The hotels then provided Michael David Barrett a hotel room immediately adjacent to hers," the statement from law firm Greene, Broilett & Wheeler said.

Hotels named as defendants in the civil suit include Marriott International Inc. and Radisson Hotels International Inc. Representatives from those companies did not immediately return requests for comment.

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3.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Maryland

Head Barack Obama told the media Friday he did not feel the earthquake that upset parts of suburban Washington early in the morning. The uncommon quake, which struck about 5 a.m., was centered about 20 miles northwest of the capital, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It had a scale of 3.6 -- fairly mild by earthquake principles but stronger than any other quake to shake the region in the past 35 years, the agency said.

Steve Dolce, a CNN technical manager, said his house in Germantown, Maryland, "vibrated slightly" for about 10 seconds.

"I looked out the window ... wondered if it was a plane or something, then I checked my BlackBerry and saw a dozen e-mails alerting the small quake," he added.

The quake was the first with a scale of more than 3 near Washington since 1974, said Amy Vaughan, a geophysicist at the USGS National Earthquake Information Center.

"This is a significant event for the region," she said.

Concerning an hour after the quake, Vaughan said, more than 5,500 people had reported feeling it across Maryland, in nearby Washington, and in states including West Virginia, Virginia and Delaware.

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