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The recovery lost momentum in the spring as growth slowed to a 2.4 percent pace, its most sluggish showing in nearly a year and too weak to drive down unemployment.

Economic growth - Economic - United States - Social Sciences - Business

Three U.S. service members were killed in Afghanistan, bringing the toll for July to at least 63 and making it the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly 9-year-war.

Afghanistan - United States armed forces - War in Afghanistan - Asia - Taliban

Two employees of the U.S. Embassy in Paris were being given medical tests Friday after handling a suspicious package and reporting feeling “unwell,” officials said.

Paris - Reuters - France - United States - Ile-de-France

Tony Hayward, who resigned as chief executive of BP in the wake of the Gulf oil spill, has said that he was turned into “a villain for doing the right thing.”

Tony Hayward - Oil spill - BP - Gulf Oil - Chief executive officer

Incoming BP CEO Bob Dudley is set to outline his company’s long-term efforts to help the Gulf of Mexico recover from the oil spill Friday morning.

Gulf of Mexico - Oil spill - BP - Environment - Business

Soldiers have killed a top leader of the Sinaloa cartel, dealing the biggest blow yet to Mexico’s most powerful drug gang since  a military offensive against organized crime began in 2006.

Mexico - Organized crime - Sinaloa Cartel - Sinaloa - Crime

Forest fires raged across Russia on Friday, destroying villages, surrounding one southern city and killing at least 25 people, including three firefighters. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin consoled survivors at one smoldering village and urged officials to redouble their efforts against the blazes.

Wildfire - Russia - Firefighter - Nizhny Novgorod - Travel and Tourism

Underwater searchers using sonar found the wreckage of a small medical plane that crashed into Lake Michigan a week ago, officials said Friday.

Lake Michigan - United States - Michigan - Sonar - Recreation and Sports

A Florida inmate has filed a lawsuit seeking $500,000 in damages from 3 men who caught him red-handed with a stolen bicycle, claiming they roughed him up, a newspaper said.

Crime - Lawsuit - Florida - Prison - Organizations