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defying critics who said she misled the nation about the Benghazi attack.

• 5. JUDGE RULES FOR 10-YEAR-OLD DYING GIRL
• But the decision to move the child up the adult waiting list for a lung transplant troubled medical ethicists.

• 6. SOLDIER'S EXPLANATION FOR AFGHANISTAN SLAUGHTER
• Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales told a judge there was "not a good reason in this world for why I did the horrible things I did" before pleading guilty to the 2012 killings.

• 7. HOPE FOR BETTER KOREA RELATIONS
• North and South Korea agreed to talks on reopening a jointly run factory complex after weeks of nuclear tensions strained the nations.

• 8. HOW THE POWERBALL WINNER GOT LUCKY
• Gloria C. Mackenzie said another person let the 84-year-old widow let her jump one spot in line at a Florida supermarket. The favor gave her the $590 million record jackpot.

• 9. WHY MICHAEL JACKSON'S DAUGHTER WENT TO THE HOSPITAL
• Fire officials said they transported someone in 15-year-old Paris Jackson's neighborhood for a possible overdose; her spokesman said she is getting "appropriate" medical care.

• 10. A-ROD UNFAZED BY MLB CONTROVERSY
• The three-time MVP is rehabbing his surgically repaired hip and plans to return after the All-Star break while an investigation of performance-enhancing drugs swirls around him.

AP News in Brief
Report: Government secretly scooping up phone records of millions of Verizon customers

• WASHINGTON (AP) -- The National Security Agency has been collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top secret court order, according to a report in Britain's Guardian newspaper.

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