| U.N. urges Syria to allow gas attack inspection Posted: 22 Aug 2013 03:53 PM PDT  The group wants chemical weapons experts into rebel-held areas.
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| Yosemite wildfire surges to 84 square miles Posted: 22 Aug 2013 03:46 PM PDT  A wildfire outside Yosemite National Park more than tripled in size Thursday, shutting down businesses in surrounding communities and leading scores of tourists to leave the area during peak season.
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| Departing FBI chief's biggest worry is an attack on a plane Posted: 22 Aug 2013 02:18 PM PDT  The nature of terrorism has changed in Robert Mueller's dozen years as FBI director, but his concerns for the future are much the same as when terrorists struck on Sept. 11, 2001, merely a week after he'd taken over the bureau. As he wraps up his FBI tenure, Mueller worries that terrorists will once again target planes or finally pull off an attack using a weapon of mass destruction.
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| AP PHOTOS: Exclusive images show Mubarak release Posted: 22 Aug 2013 10:56 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Smiling and wearing a white T-shirt, Egypt's ousted leader Hosni Mubarak was released from prison Thursday and flown to a military hospital outside Cairo where he will be held under house arrest.
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| Syrian official blames rebels for deadly attack Posted: 22 Aug 2013 02:09 PM PDT  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's deputy prime minister told The Associated Press that foreign fighters and their international backers are to blame for a purported chemical weapons attack near Damascus that the opposition says killed at least 100 people, the deadliest such attack in Syria's civil war.
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| US pressed to react to violence in Syria, Egypt Posted: 22 Aug 2013 04:07 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is poised to suspend another major weapons shipment to Egypt amid sharp divisions within the Obama administration over whether to cut off aid to the military-backed government. The debate mirrors similar disagreements over intervening in Syria, where there are new reports that chemical weapons have been used by the government.
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| Obama calls for cost-conscious college ratings Posted: 22 Aug 2013 04:08 PM PDT  BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Targeting the soaring cost of higher education, President Barack Obama on Thursday unveiled a broad new government rating system for colleges that would judge schools on their affordability and perhaps be used to allocate federal financial aid.
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| Govt sues Texas over voter ID law Posted: 22 Aug 2013 01:44 PM PDT AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department sued Texas on Thursday over the state's voter ID law and will seek to intervene in a lawsuit over its redistricting laws that minority groups complain are discriminatory, but Texas Republicans insist are designed to protect the state's elections from fraud. |
| Council overrides mayor's veto, OK's NYPD watchdog Posted: 22 Aug 2013 04:34 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's biggest police department will get a new watchdog and face easier standards for people to file profiling lawsuits against it after the City Council on Thursday overrode mayoral vetoes amid applause from supporters and angry warnings from opponents.
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| Russia defends anti-gay law in letter to IOC Posted: 22 Aug 2013 01:06 PM PDT  LONDON (AP) — The Russian government assured the IOC on Thursday it will not discriminate against homosexuals during the Sochi Olympics, while defending the law against gay "propaganda" that has provoked an international backlash.
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| Nasdaq trading halts for 3 hours due to glitch Posted: 22 Aug 2013 03:07 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — A mysterious technical glitch halted trading on the Nasdaq for three hours Thursday in the latest major electronic breakdown on Wall Street, embarrassing the stock exchange that hosts the biggest names in technology, including Apple, Microsoft and Google.
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| NSA reveals more secrets after court order Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:37 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has given up more of its surveillance secrets, acknowledging that it was ordered to stop scooping up thousands of Internet communications from Americans with no connection to terrorism — a practice it says was an unintended consequence when it gathered bundles of Internet traffic connected to terror suspects.
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| Mayor: New NYPD oversight jeopardizes city safety Posted: 22 Aug 2013 02:27 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — The City Council voted Thursday to create an outside watchdog for the nation's biggest police department and make it easier for people to file profiling claims against it, overriding Mayor Michael Bloomberg's vetoes and prompting him to say the city's safety is being jeopardized. |
| Egypt's ousted leader Hosni Mubarak released Posted: 22 Aug 2013 08:24 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's ousted leader Hosni Mubarak, wearing a white shirt and loafers while flashing a smile, was released from prison Thursday and transported to a military hospital in a Cairo suburb where he will be held under house arrest.
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| Jury handed Fort Hood shooting rampage case Posted: 22 Aug 2013 12:54 PM PDT  FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The Army psychiatrist on trial for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood passed on his final chance to address jurors before they started deliberating Thursday, even after prosecutors insisted they hand down a verdict that would allow the death penalty.
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| Council overrides vetoes of NYPD oversight bills Posted: 22 Aug 2013 02:10 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — The City Council has voted to pass bills that will create an outside watchdog for the nation's biggest police department and make it easier for people to file profiling claims against it, overriding mayoral vetoes. |
| 50 injured when tour bus overturns on California freeway Posted: 22 Aug 2013 03:32 PM PDT  Los Angeles County fire officials say 50 people have been injured in a tour bus crash along a Southern California freeway.
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| Sex harassment settlement calls for San Diego mayor to resign Posted: 22 Aug 2013 01:33 PM PDT  San Diego Mayor Bob Filner will resign from office as part of the proposed settlement he reached with city officials in the sexual harassment lawsuit brought against him by a former aide, the Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday.
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| Obama faces more calls to act on Syria Posted: 22 Aug 2013 03:37 PM PDT  White House officials insist they must wait for confirmation on chemical weapons.
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| Ex-Patriot Hernandez indicted on murder charge Posted: 22 Aug 2013 01:38 PM PDT  ATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP) — Former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez was indicted Thursday on first-degree murder and weapons charges in the death of a friend whose bullet-riddled body was found in an industrial park about a mile from the ex-player's home.
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| Mexico officials find mass grave east of capital Posted: 22 Aug 2013 02:57 PM PDT  TLALMANALCO, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities said Thursday that they have found a mass grave east of Mexico City and are testing to determine if it holds some of the 12 people who vanished from a bar in an upscale area of the capital nearly three months ago.
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| U.S. map gets redrawn based on population Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:52 AM PDT  An artist and urban planner has redrawn the U.S. map to show what it would look like if the same number of people occupied each state.
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| Former NFL player takes stand in massacre case Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:40 AM PDT  JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — Former pro football player Marc Edwards took the witness stand Thursday at the sentencing of the U.S. soldier who massacred 16 Afghan villagers last year, telling jurors he remembered him as a great leader from their high school days.
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| Obama takes on college costs Posted: 22 Aug 2013 07:56 AM PDT  Schools will be ranked by the value they offer students under his new plan.
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| Lebanon rockets hit northern Israel Posted: 22 Aug 2013 07:32 AM PDT  No injuries are reported, but tensions rise along the volatile front.
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| WikiLeaker Manning would like to live as 'Chelsea' Posted: 22 Aug 2013 01:44 PM PDT  By Susan Heavey and Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier sentenced to 35 years in military prison for the biggest breach of classified documents in the nation's history, said on Thursday he is female and wants to live as a woman named Chelsea. Manning, 25, launched an unprecedented bid to get female hormone treatment in a military prison a day after he was sentenced for leaking documents to the WikiLeaks website. "As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. ...
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| Syrian forces bomb area of alleged gas attack Posted: 22 Aug 2013 10:23 AM PDT  Activists say Assad forces are pressing on with an offensive in the Damascus suburbs.
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| Dozens of Christian churches burned in Egypt, group says Posted: 22 Aug 2013 03:10 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — An international human rights group has chronicled attacks on 42 churches, dozens of Christian institutions and schools as well as homes and business owned by Christians amid an intimidation campaign believed to be waged by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.
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| Kidnapped Calif. teen calls herself a survivor in TV interview Posted: 21 Aug 2013 07:23 PM PDT  By Dan Whitcomb and Marty Graham (Reuters) - Hannah Anderson, a 16-year-old California girl kidnapped by a man and taken to Idaho after he killed her mother and younger brother, said in a television interview that she considers herself a survivor who was raised to be strong. The interview, which aired on Wednesday, comes just over a week after Anderson was rescued in the Idaho wilderness by FBI agents who shot and killed her captor, 40-year-old James Lee DiMaggio. ...
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| Tentative deal in San Diego mayor harassment suit Posted: 21 Aug 2013 10:26 PM PDT  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Embattled San Diego Mayor Bob Filner on Wednesday reached a tentative deal involving a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against him — but details were not made public, including whether settlement hinged on the former congressman resigning.
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