Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales will be formally charged today with 17 counts of murder in connection with a nighttime attack earlier this month on Afghan civilians. In other headlines, a Florida special prosecutor is taking over the state’s investigation into the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, counter-terrorism officials can now retain information about U.S. residents for up to five years, and autopsy results from Whitney Houston’s death reveal the cause of her death to be drowning.
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