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• Authorities set in motion a legal process that makes it unlikely Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman will face charges in the U.S. anytime soon. • • 5. WHY DEFENSE CHIEF WANTS TO DOWNSIZE ARMY • Hagel says the U.S. can afford a smaller military so long as it retains its technological edge. • • 6. CONGRESS'S LONGEST-SERVING MEMBER EVER IS CALLING IT QUITS • Eighty-seven-year-old John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat, says he's relinquishing the seat he's held since 1955. • • 7. RED FLAG RAISED ON TESTOSTERONE DRUGS • A consumer group calls on the FDA to add a warning label to the popular medicines because there's evidence they can increase the risk of heart attack. • • 8. WHAT'S NEXT CHALLENGE FOR SOCHI • With the Olympics over, the city needs to make sure the expensive stadiums used for the games don't turn into white elephants. • • 9. SETH MEYERS DEBUTS AS HOST OF NBC'S 'LATE NIGHT' • AP Television Writer Frazier Moore reports that the comic suffered a few opening-night butterflies, then found his stride as the show went on. • • 10. HAROLD RAMIS, CREATOR OF COMEDY CLASSICS, DIES AT 69 • The writer-director-actor created a hugely influential body of work, including such films as "Caddyshack," ''National Lampoon's Animal House," ''Ghostbusters" and "Groundhog Day." •
AP News in Brief Ukraine: parliament speaker says no new government before Thursday
• KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- The European Union's top foreign policy official has urged Ukraine's new government to work out a reform program so that the West could consider financial aid to the country's battered economy. • Catherine Ashton spoke on Tuesday after meeting with the leaders of Ukraine's interim authorities formed after President Viktor Yanukvoych fled the capital.
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