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• Sarah Murnaghan was recovering from the surgery made possible by a judge's controversial ruling that expanded her options for lifesaving surgery.
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• 8. WHERE BABY BOOMERS AREN'T GOING
• Rural America, which Census estimates show is losing population for the first time ever as boomers lose interest in retiring to far-flung places.
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• 9. FIFTH FAILURE FOR CUBA SWIM
• Australian endurance athlete Chloe McCardel lasted 11 hours in the Cuba to Florida swim before being undone by jellyfish stings.
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• 10. WEATHER THREATENS HISTORIC US OPEN
• The major is returning to the Merion course near Philadelphia for the first time in 32 years, but six inches of rain has soaked the region.
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AP News in Brief
Turkish PM: Authorities will rid Istanbul's Taksim Square of 'troublemakers' within 24 hours.
• ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says police will remove "troublemakers" from Istanbul's Taksim Square within 24 hours.
• The Thursday warning comes less than a day after Erdogan's Islamic-rooted party offered a plan to hold a referendum over a development plan near the square that has fanned two weeks of protests. Five people have died and more than 5,000 have been injured during the violence.
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UN says nearly 93,000 confirmed killed in Syrian conflict, real number likely far higher
• GENEVA (AP) -- The United Nations' human rights office said Thursday that almost 93,000 people have been confirmed killed in the Syrian conflict, but the real number is likely to be far higher.
• The analysis found 92,901 documented killings in Syria between March 2011 and the end of April 2013, said the U.N.'s top human rights official, Navi Pillay, but she acknowledged that it was impossible to put an exact figure on the death toll from Syria's upward spiral of violence.
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