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FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2013 file photo, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom practices a speech before the launch of a new file-sharing website called "Mega" at his Coatesville mansion in Auckland, New Zealand. Dotcom said Thursday, June 20, 2013 he was "in tears" after a European company deleted all the data it was hosting from his shuttered file-sharing site. Netherlands-based LeaseWeb announced it had deleted all Megaupload files from 630 servers. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Richard Robinson, File) NEW ZEALAND OUT, AUSTRALIA OUT

Dotcom 'in tears' after Megaupload files deleted

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom said Thursday he was "in tears" after a European company deleted all the data it was hosting from his shuttered file-sharing site. Netherlands-based LeaseWeb announced it had deleted all Megaupload files from 630 servers. LeaseWeb said in a statement it hosted the data for over a ...

  • Updated: 6:33 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013

10 Things to Know for Thursday

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Thursday: 1. BERNANKE SPEAKS, DOW DROPS His announcement that the Fed will likely end its extraordinary bond-buying program next year sends the Dow down more than 200 points. 2. JAMES GANDOLFINI, MAGNETIC 'SOPRANOS' STAR, ...

  • Updated: 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013
FILE - In this May 27, 2013 photo, Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto listens to a reporter's question during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo. Hashimoto earlier said and tweeted that sex slavery by Japan’s Imperial Army before and during World War II was a “necessary” wartime evil. He also used Twitter to post his suggestion that the U.S. military patronize adult entertainment to help reduce sex crimes committed by American troops. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

Social network gaffes plague Japanese politicians

On the Internet, no one can save you from yourself. That is a lesson many Japanese politicians have learned recently in painful, awkward and at times costly fashion. In the latest flap, a senior reconstruction official in charge of helping victims of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear crisis was dismissed last ...

  • Updated: 6:28 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Two members of the Massachusetts State Police walk toward the front door of the home of New England Patriot's NFL football player Aaron Hernandez in North Attleborough, Mass., Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Their knock on the door went unanswered. State and local police spent hours at the home Tuesday as another group of officers searched an industrial park about a mile away where a body was discovered the day before. (AP Photo/Erika Niedowski)

Body found near Patriot's home was homicide victim

A man found dead in an industrial park about a mile from New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez's home had been killed, a prosecutor said Wednesday. The state medical examiner identified the man as 27-year-old Odin Lloyd and ruled he was a homicide victim, Bristol District Attorney Samuel Sutter's ...

  • Updated: 6:26 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Susan Gensiak, 59, of Taylor, Pa., is lead by a police officer to arraignment, Wednesday, June 19, 2013 in Scranton, Pa. Gensiak and her two daughters have been charged with starving their 32-year-old son and brother, who had Down syndrome, to death. (AP Photo/Scranton Times & Tribune, Michael J. Mullen) WILKES BARRE TIMES-LEADER OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT

Cops: Disabled Pa. man dies after gruesome neglect

A Pennsylvania woman and her two daughters were charged Wednesday with murder in the death of their 32-year-old son and brother, who had Down syndrome, after officials said he was severely neglected and underfed, weighing just 69 pounds when he died. Robert Gensiak's body was covered in scabies, a contagious ...

  • Updated: 6:16 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013
A view of the Hindu holy town of Kedarnath from a helicopter after a flood, in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, India, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Monsoon torrential rains have cause havoc in northern India leading to flash floods, cloudbursts and landslides as the death toll continues to climb and more than 1,000 pilgrims bound for Himalayan shrines remain stranded. (AP Photo)

Floods strand pilgrims in India, deaths could rise

Monsoon flooding that has stranded thousands of people and caused landslides in northern India has killed almost 120 people, and the prime minister said the toll could rise substantially. The torrential rain and landslides since Sunday have stranded pilgrims at four revered Hindu shrines, washed away bridges and roads and ...

  • Updated: 6:10 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013
FILE - In this April 17, 2013, file photo, Boston Bruins center Chris Kelly wears a "Boston Strong" decal, left, on his helmet during an NHL hockey game against the Buffalo Sabres in Boston. With their "Boston Strong" decals on the back of their helmets and the steady parade of Boston Marathon bombing victims honored at their games, the Bruins are hoping that a Stanley Cup victory will provide solace to those affected in the April 15 attacks. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Bruins' run excites city wounded by marathon bombs

They have come to wave flags or meet the players or just appear on the video screen, invariably to a standing ovation, during the Boston Bruins' run to the Stanley Cup finals. Many are in wheelchairs, some are in uniform, and others have been honored on behalf of those who ...

  • Updated: 5:27 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013

House votes to cut food stamps by $2 billion

The House voted on Wednesday to cut food stamps by $2 billion a year as part of a wide-ranging farm bill. The chamber rejected 234-188 a Democratic amendment to the five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm legislation that would have maintained current spending on food stamps, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, ...

  • Updated: 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013
President Barack Obama speaks in front of the iconic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin Germany, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of his second term. "We know we have to do more — and we will do more," Obama said in Berlin. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama making plans to tackle global warming

President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of his second term. "We know we have to do more — and we will do more," Obama ...

  • Updated: 5:16 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013
FILE - This Aug. 2, 2002, file photo, shows an aerial view of Reliant Stadium, top, the home of the Houston Texans, and the Astrodome, bottom, former home of the Houston Oilers in Houston. The Harris County Sports & Convention Corp. on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, recommended converting Houston's historic but deteriorating Astrodome into a giant convention center and exhibition space. The board's proposal would cost an estimated $194 million and take about 2 and a half years to complete. The plan now goes to Harris County commissioners, who will discuss it at a June 25 meeting. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Smiley Pool)

Board backs turning Astrodome into convention hall

The Houston Astrodome, an iconic stadium that's fallen into disrepair since it was shuttered four years ago, could see new life as a giant convention center and exhibition space under a plan recommended by a county board on Wednesday. The Harris County Sports & Convention Corp. opted to go with ...

  • Updated: 5:13 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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