A.M. Links: Economists in Survey Say Income Inequality is Hurting the American Economy, China Confirms Near-Collision With US Navy Ship, Up to 500 Killed in South Sudan Since Sunday

• China has confirmed that one of its warships
  almost collided with the USS Cowpens earlier this month.
• An official from the Los Angeles County
  Sheriff’s Department has acknowledged that the department
  should not have hired about 80 of the officers it did in 2010.
• Washington,
  D.C. gun owners will face up to a year behind bars and a $1,000
  fine if they do not re-register their firearm from Jan. 1,
  2014.
• Most economists in a
  survey conducted by the Associated Press believe that income
  inequality is hurting the American economy.
• Up to 500
  people have been killed in South Sudan since Sunday as fighting
  between military factions spread from the capital.
• Indians have protested the treatment of a diplomat who was
  
  stripped and searched after being taken into custody by police
  in New York City.

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