| Senate panel approves strikes on Syria Posted: 04 Sep 2013 01:12 PM PDT  Officials continue their push for an authorization for attack.
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| Weiner's shouting match with Jewish voter caught on video Posted: 04 Sep 2013 11:37 AM PDT  Anthony Weiner, trailing badly in the polls, was captured on video screaming at a voter who called him a "deviant."
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| Born Digital: How college coaches slyly use social media to woo recruits Posted: 30 Aug 2013 03:29 PM PDT  Swinging by high school games and making home visits are no longer foolproof ways for college recruiters to convince the best high school football players in the country to play for their teams.
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| APNewsBreak: Obama weighs Egypt aid suspension Posted: 04 Sep 2013 02:15 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's top national security aides have recommended that the U.S. suspend hundreds of millions of dollars in military and economic assistance to Egypt in response to the Egyptian military's ouster of the country's first democratically elected leader, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
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| Cleveland man's suicide brings little sympathy Posted: 04 Sep 2013 02:19 PM PDT  CLEVELAND (AP) — Residents in the tough Cleveland neighborhood where three women were secretly imprisoned for a decade reacted with scorn and grim satisfaction Wednesday after Ariel Castro hanged himself in his cell barely a month into a life sentence.
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| Feds won't enforce same-sex veterans law Posted: 04 Sep 2013 04:20 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration said Wednesday it will stop enforcing a law that blocks benefits to partners of military veterans in same-sex marriages.
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| APNewsBreak: Early look at health law's premiums Posted: 04 Sep 2013 03:42 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The No. 1 question about President Barack Obama's health care law is whether consumers will be able to afford the coverage. Now the answer is coming in.
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| Prosecutors appeal Mont. teacher's rape sentence Posted: 04 Sep 2013 04:03 PM PDT  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — State prosecutors on Wednesday appealed as "illegal" a 30-day sentence handed down by a Montana judge to a former teacher for raping a student who later killed herself.
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| NYC mayoral hopeful Weiner, bakery customer argue Posted: 04 Sep 2013 04:23 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Ex-congressman and struggling mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner said Wednesday a video showing him in a shouting match with a bakery customer is just an example of him putting a heckler in his place.
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| Samsung unveils new smartwatch that makes calls Posted: 04 Sep 2013 04:21 PM PDT  BERLIN (AP) — Nearly 70 years after Dick Tracy began wearing a two-way wrist radio in the funny pages, the technology that once seemed impossibly futuristic will be widely available by Christmas.
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| AP EXCLUSIVE: Israeli proposal detailed in talks Posted: 04 Sep 2013 11:57 AM PDT  RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israel has proposed leaving intact dozens of Jewish settlements and military bases in the West Bank as part of a package to establish a Palestinian state in provisional borders, a Palestinian official told The Associated Press on Wednesday, in the first detailed glimpse at recently relaunched peace talks.
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| Computer-operated car transports Pa. congressman Posted: 04 Sep 2013 01:14 PM PDT  PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pennsylvania congressman caught a cutting-edge ride to the airport on Wednesday.
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| AP NewsBreak: Mont. teacher rape sentence appealed Posted: 04 Sep 2013 02:34 PM PDT BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — State prosecutors on Wednesday appealed as "illegal" a 30-day sentence handed down by a Montana judge to a former teacher for raping a student who later killed herself. |
| Goodell: Settlement 'significant amount of money' Posted: 04 Sep 2013 10:11 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell took issue with the notion that the league's $765 million settlement with former players is a paltry sum compared to the sport's revenues.
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| AP Interview: Putin warns West on Syria action Posted: 04 Sep 2013 02:13 PM PDT  NOVO-OGARYOVO, Russia (AP) — President Vladimir Putin warned the West against taking one-sided action in Syria but also said Russia "doesn't exclude" supporting a U.N. resolution on punitive military strikes if it is proved that Damascus used poison gas on its own people.
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| Al-Qaida-linked rebels attack village in Syria Posted: 04 Sep 2013 12:26 PM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — Al-Qaida-linked rebels launched an assault on a regime-held Christian mountain village in the densely populated west of Syria and new clashes erupted near the capital, Damascus, on Wednesday — part of a brutal battle of attrition each side believes it can win despite more than two years of deadlock.
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| Senate panel votes to authorize force in Syria Posted: 04 Sep 2013 12:27 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate panel has voted to give President Barack Obama the authority to use military force against Syria in response to a deadly chemical weapons attack. |
| Senate panel approves resolution on Syria military strikes Posted: 04 Sep 2013 02:35 PM PDT  By Patricia Zengerle and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a resolution on Wednesday authorizing limited U.S. military intervention in Syria, setting the stage for a debate in the full Senate next week on the use of force. The committee voted 10-7 in favor of a compromise resolution that sets a 60-day limit on any engagement in Syria, with a possible 30-day extension, and bars the use of U.S. troops on the ground for combat operations. ...
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| The Silicon Valley tycoon who’s paying young people to skip college Posted: 03 Sep 2013 02:41 AM PDT  After two years at Yale, Dan Friedman made the kind of decision that drives parents bonkers. He dropped out. "I loved school; I had a great time," he says. But the Silicon Valley tycoon Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and now a venture capitalist, made Friedman an offer he couldn't refuse.
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| Obama: 'I didn't set a red line' on Syria Posted: 04 Sep 2013 07:02 AM PDT  He reserves right to strike even without congressional support.
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| Ohio man who held 3 women captive hangs himself Posted: 04 Sep 2013 10:46 AM PDT COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Cleveland man serving a life sentence for holding three women captive in his home for a decade hanged himself in his prison cell with a bedsheet, officials said Wednesday in another shocking twist in the case that transfixed and appalled the city. |
| Immigrant fights to become California lawyer Posted: 04 Sep 2013 02:12 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A majority of California Supreme Court justices appeared reluctant Wednesday to grant a law license to Sergio Garcia, who graduated law school and passed the state's bar exam but has been living illegally in the United States for 20 years.
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| Trailing in the polls, Christine Quinn tries to regain momentum in NYC mayoral race Posted: 04 Sep 2013 05:03 AM PDT  Quinn, who is vying to be the city's first female and gay mayor, faces the fight of her political life ahead of the Sept. 10 primary.
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| No cell phones allowed: Some colleges ban modern-day gadgets Posted: 04 Sep 2013 05:43 AM PDT  One college bans technology on campus for a more traditional, face-to-face approach to learning
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| UK's Cameron: Syria will use chemical weapons again without U.S. strike Posted: 04 Sep 2013 05:01 AM PDT  LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday he believed the Syrian government would use chemical weapons against its own people again if the United States stepped back from taking military action against it. When asked by an opposition Labour party lawmaker whether he would push for a ceasefire in Syria rather than a "bombing raid", Cameron told parliament that U.S. President Barack Obama had issued a clear warning to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on chemical weapons and was right to stick to it. ...
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| Obama: Congress, world credibility at stake Posted: 04 Sep 2013 06:31 AM PDT  STOCKHOLM (AP) — President Barack Obama says the international community and Congress's credibility are on the line if a chemical attack on civilians in Syria goes unanswered. Obama is seeking congressional and international support for military action against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
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| Cleveland kidnapper Castro commits suicide in prison cell Posted: 04 Sep 2013 03:15 PM PDT  By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Ariel Castro committed suicide by hanging himself with a bed sheet in his prison cell, an Ohio coroner said on Wednesday, just one month into a life sentence for the kidnapping, rape and beatings of three women he kept imprisoned for a decade. The former school bus driver, who pleaded guilty to 937 counts in July, was found hanged in his cell at an Ohio prison late Tuesday. An autopsy on Wednesday confirmed the cause of death was suicide by hanging, said Dr. Jan Gorniak, the Franklin County coroner. ...
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| Joined hands heal scars of France and Germany's past Posted: 04 Sep 2013 01:34 PM PDT  The presidents of Germany and France on Wednesday joined hands with a survivor of the Nazis' worst atrocity on French soil in a historic moment of reconciliation.
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| France: Syria action would 're-balance' situation Posted: 04 Sep 2013 04:01 AM PDT  PARIS (AP) — France's government offers a preview Wednesday of what the Obama administration faces next week, as lawmakers debate the wisdom and necessity of a military response to a chemical weapons attack in Syria that killed hundreds.
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| Ohio man who held 3 women captive commits suicide Posted: 03 Sep 2013 11:30 PM PDT COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The man who held three women captive in his home for nearly a decade before one escaped and alerted authorities has been found dead and is believed to have committed suicide, a prison official said. |
