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house on fire and then shot three others to death in the streets of Santa Monica.
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• 8. HEAT REBOUNDS IN NBA FINALS
• LeBron James overcame a terrible start to finish with 17 points as Miami beat San Antonio 103-84 to tie the series at 1-1.
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• 9. 'KINKY BOOTS' TRIUMPHS AT TONYS
• The feel-good pop musical won six awards, including best score by Cyndi Lauper, beating its closest rival, British import "Matilda."
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• 10. WHO'S SEEING DOUBLE AT CHICAGO-AREA SCHOOL
• There are 24 sets of twins in the fifth grade at Highcrest Middle School, which wants recognition in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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AP News in Brief
NSA contract worker says he is newspapers' source on US government surveillance program
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- The man who gave classified documents to reporters, making public two sweeping U.S. surveillance programs and touching off a national debate on privacy versus security, has revealed his own identity. He risked decades in jail for the disclosures -- if the U.S. can extradite him from Hong Kong where he says he has taken refuge.
• Edward Snowden, 29, who says he worked as a contractor at the National Security Agency and the CIA, allowed The Guardian and The Washington Post newspapers to reveal his identity Sunday.
• Both papers have published a series of top-secret documents outlining two NSA surveillance programs. One gathers hundreds of millions of U.S. phone records while searching for possible links to known terrorist targets abroad, and the second allows the government to tap into nine U.S. Internet companies to gather all Internet usage to detect suspicious behavior that begins overseas.
• The revelations have reopened the post-Sept. 11 debate about individual privacy concerns versus heightened measures to protect the U.S. against terrorist attacks. The NSA has asked the Justice Department to conduct a criminal investigation into the leaks.
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