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select committee. They said they'd make no decision on whether to participate in the panel until Boehner responds to a demand from Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi that he scrap his plan for a committee of seven Republicans and five Democrats. Democrats say membership should be evenly split, and want clearer time and cost constraints for a forum they likened to a "kangaroo court." Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., said Boehner's panel "can go on forever."
• Republicans have made Benghazi a central plank of their strategy to wrest control of the Senate from the Democrats in November's traditionally low-turnout midterm elections. Twenty months since the attack, Benghazi still revs up the GOP's conservative base.
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• BANGKOK (AP) -- Thailand's anti-graft commission has indicted ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra over charges of dereliction of duty in overseeing a contentious rice subsidy program.
• National Anti-Corruption Commission chief Panthep Klanarongran says it voted unanimously that there were enough grounds to indict her.
• The decision Thursday came one day after the Constitutional Court ousted Yingluck and nine Cabinet members for abuse of power.
• Yingluck faces an impeachment vote by the Senate. If impeached and found guilty, she would be barred from politics for five years.
• The rice subsidy program was a flagship policy of Yingluck's administration that helped win the votes of millions of farmers. It accumulated losses of at least $4.4 billion and has been dogged by corruption allegations.
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• FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) -- After three deployments to Iraq and three to Afghanistan, Staff Sgt. Dennis Swols is agitated, prone to bouts of anger and unable to really talk about his time on the battlefield.
• But as Swols sits in a small office in the Robinson Health Clinic at Fort Bragg, his hand drops to the furry head beside him and his mood brightens. Settled at his feet, Lexy, a 5-year-old German shepherd, gives Swols a few moments of distraction.

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