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Family, friends remember fallen troops as heroes The troops who died when a U.S. military helicopter was shot down in eastern Afghanistan all had something in common: a love of family and country, according to friends and family members. Downgrade's full impact may not be felt quickly A downgrade of United States' top-tier credit rating has Wall Street scrambling to figure out the secondary effects for the financial system, from mortgages to banks to markets. New disturbances in London after night of rioting Police deployed extra officers on London's streets to prevent a repeat of the rioting and looting in amid anger over a fatal police shooting, as new disturbances broke out in another area late Sunday. Police: 8 killed in Ohio, gunman among dead A man gunned down two people outside an Ohio home and two more in a car Sunday morning, then shot his girlfriend in a rampage that left eight dead including the gunman, who was shot by police, authorities and witnesses said. Swift, Gomez win big at Teen Choice Awards Country sensation Taylor Swift and actress/singer Selena Gomez caught major waves, with Swift scooping up six surfboard trophies including one for Ultimate Teen Choice. Syria intensifies crackdown; activists say 59 dead Syrian troops fired on mourners at a funeral and raided an eastern city Sunday, killing at least 59 people in an intensifying government crackdown on protesters. Outrage was intensifying as well: Syria's Arab neighbors forcefully joined the international chorus of condemnation against President Bashar Assad's regime for the first time. San Diego cop shot in unprovoked attack dies San Diego's police chief says an officer shot in the face in an apparently unprovoked attack has died, and investigators have found a suicide note left by the suspect who fired the gun. Giants avoid sweep, end Phillies' 9-game streak Tim Lincecum stayed sharp until getting hit in the leg by Chase Utley's bounding bat and the San Francisco Giants ended Philadelphia's season-high nine-game winning streak, tagging Roy Oswalt and beating the Phillies 3-1 Sunday. GolfChannel: Williams loving 'best week' of his life GolfChannel: Caddie helps Adam Scott to Bridgestone victory, one he said was better than anything he experienced while with Tiger Woods. That's called a parting shot. US swimmer begins swim across Florida Straits American endurance swimmer Diana Nyad made final preparations Sunday to dive into the waters off Cuba in a bid to become the first person to swim the Florida Straits without the aid of a shark cage. 45,000 Verizon landline workers strike Stalled contract negotiations led thousands of workers in Verizon Communication Inc.'s wireline division to go on strike Sunday, potentially affecting landline operations as well as installation of services like FiOS, its fiber-optic television and Internet lines. Is constant 'Facebooking' bad for teens? Today's teens and college students are what researchers call "digital natives," or the "iGeneration," a generation constantly connected to the Internet and Facebook, texting and instant messaging. Now, a set of new studies reveals the psychological effects of constant Facebooking. Copyright 2011 msnbc.com RSS URL: http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032091/device/rss/rss.xml

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