| Police: Navy Yard shooter experienced paranoia Posted: 17 Sep 2013 02:19 PM PDT  Aaron Alexis blamed PTSD from 9/11 clean-up for his problems.
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| U.S. court says no violation of rights in collecting phone data Posted: 17 Sep 2013 03:44 PM PDT  By David Ingram WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The surveillance court that oversees the U.S. government's massive collection of telephone data gave its fullest defense to date on Tuesday of why it considers the program lawful, despite the uproar after its existence was made public in June. In an opinion dated August 29 and released on Tuesday, Judge Claire Eagan of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court wrote that the program did not violate the basic privacy rights of Americans and was authorized under the 2001 law known as the Patriot Act. ...
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| Home care workers declare victory on minimum-wage fight Posted: 17 Sep 2013 12:37 PM PDT  Home care workers scored a victory on Tuesday after the Department of Labor announced that they will qualify for minimum wage and overtime.
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| Senate, House ensnared in health care controversy Posted: 17 Sep 2013 01:59 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Implacable Republican opposition to Obamacare has Congress once more veering closer to gridlock.
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| As air rescues wind down, some refuse to leave Posted: 17 Sep 2013 03:47 PM PDT  BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — In the days right after floodwaters rushed through the Rocky Mountain foothills, the helicopter crews that lifted stranded people to safety were greeted like heroes. Nearly a week later, they are often being waved away by stubborn mountain residents who refuse to abandon their homes.
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| NJ boardwalk fire linked to Sandy-damaged wiring Posted: 17 Sep 2013 02:29 PM PDT  TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — The massive fire that destroyed part of a Jersey shore boardwalk and dozens of businesses began accidentally in wiring damaged in Superstorm Sandy, and should prompt coastal property owners to get their own equipment inspected for similar danger, officials said Tuesday.
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| Man gets nearly 27 years in Mass. child porn case Posted: 17 Sep 2013 01:08 PM PDT  WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man who chatted online with other men about their desire to kidnap, rape, kill and eat children was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 27 years in prison after prosecutors showed photos of a basement dungeon he built, a child-sized coffin, butchering tools and metal restraints.
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| Russia opposes use of force in resolution on Syria Posted: 17 Sep 2013 04:19 PM PDT  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Russia insisted Tuesday that a U.N. Security Council resolution governing Syria's handling of its chemical weapons not allow the use of force, but it suggested that could change if Damascus reneges on the deal to give up its stockpile.
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| 'Hiccup Girl' on trial on murder charge in Florida Posted: 17 Sep 2013 04:09 PM PDT  CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman who appeared on several national television programs as a teen because of her uncontrollable hiccupping went on trial on a murder charge on Tuesday.
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| Conn. man gets 27 months for priest's meth sales Posted: 17 Sep 2013 04:38 PM PDT HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A man who helped a priest sell methamphetamine was sentenced Tuesday in federal court to 27 months in prison. |
| FACT CHECK: Food stamp debate has empty calories Posted: 17 Sep 2013 01:02 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaders say food stamps serve too many Americans and the almost $80 billion-a-year program needs to be slimmed down.
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| 'Mad Men' to wrap its run with 2-part final season Posted: 17 Sep 2013 12:10 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — AMC is keeping "Mad Men" around an extra year, expanding the final season of this acclaimed drama series to 14 episodes and portioning them equally in 2014 and 2015.
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| Acapulco tourists stranded; Mexico death toll 47 Posted: 17 Sep 2013 02:01 PM PDT  ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — The death toll rose to 47 Tuesday from the unusual one-two punch of a tropical storm and a hurricane hitting Mexico at nearly the same time. Authorities scrambled to get help into, and stranded tourists out of, the cutoff resort city of Acapulco.
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| Concordia success boosts pride for shamed Italy Posted: 17 Sep 2013 10:18 AM PDT  GIGLIO ISLAND, Italy (AP) — The extraordinary righting of the Costa Concordia from its watery Tuscan graveyard has given Italy a boost of sorely needed pride, helping erase the shame many felt after an Italian captain took the cruise ship off course in an apparent stunt, crashed it and then abandoned ship before everyone was evacuated.
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| Internet blocks return in Iran after brief opening Posted: 17 Sep 2013 12:27 PM PDT  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Word of the opening of Iran's blocked social media sites was spread, of course, by social media itself: in celebratory tweets and breathless Facebook posts. Hours later, the same sites Tuesday chewed over the sobering reality that the four-year-old firewalls were back in place.
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| Gunman in Navy Yard rampage was hearing voices Posted: 17 Sep 2013 12:27 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The former Navy reservist who killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard had been hearing voices and was undergoing treatment in the weeks before the shooting rampage, but was not stripped of his security clearance, officials said Tuesday.
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| Navy Yard gunman did not have assault rifle Posted: 17 Sep 2013 11:35 AM PDT  Aaron Alexis had a valid pass and a legally bought shotgun, the FBI said.
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| Chaos as floods submerge Acapulco, death toll rises Posted: 17 Sep 2013 04:37 PM PDT  By Alberto Fajardo and Luis Enrique Martinez ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico's famous beach resort of Acapulco was in chaos on Tuesday as hotels rationed food for thousands of stranded tourists and floodwaters swallowed homes and cars after some of the most damaging storms in decades killed at least 55 people across the country. Television footage showed Acapulco's international airport terminal waist deep in water and workers wading out to escape floods that have prevented some 40,000 visitors from leaving and blocked one of the main access routes to the city with mud. ...
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| 'When will enough be enough?' Posted: 17 Sep 2013 12:30 PM PDT  The Navy Yard shooting may spur the gun debate, but little action is likely.
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| Activists mark 2nd anniversary of Occupy Wall Street Posted: 17 Sep 2013 09:54 AM PDT  2 years after encampment was born in NYC, Occupy Wall Street activists march, hold rallies
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| Russia: No proof Assad behind chemical attack Posted: 17 Sep 2013 02:01 PM PDT  By Alissa de Carbonnel MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and France sharply disagreed on Tuesday over a report by U.N. investigators into a chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds of people in Syria, underscoring the difficulties in reaching agreement on action at the U.N. Security Council. Sitting beside French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius at a news conference in Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the report had produced no proof that President Bashar al-Assad's troops carried out the August 21 attack and that Russia still suspected rebel forces were behind it. ...
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| Audit: Navy cost-cutting making facilities less safe Posted: 17 Sep 2013 01:09 PM PDT  Hours after a yearlong audit of safety procedures slammed the Navy for penny-pinching on security clearances, Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel was reportedly readying a top-to-bottom review of all American military facilities around the world.
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| Stricken Costa Concordia raised upright Posted: 17 Sep 2013 06:05 AM PDT  Am upbeat spirit of international teamwork was on full display off the Italian island of Giglio early this morning after the successful raising of the Costa Concordia, the giant cruise ship that rammed into a nearby reef last January and collapsed onto its side.
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| As waters recede, Colorado worries about another problem: tourism Posted: 17 Sep 2013 07:32 AM PDT  DENVER (AP) — A little more than a year after Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper insisted his wildfire-ravaged state was still "open for business," he may have to throw another lifeline to the state's billion-dollar tourism industry as the world takes in the startling images of dramatic flood rescues and washed-out roads.
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| FRONTLINE: The inside story of Egypt's revolution gone wrong Posted: 17 Sep 2013 03:06 AM PDT  Less than three years after the popular uprising that led to President Hosni Mubarak's ouster, and just one year after Egypt's first free and fair elections, the democratically elected government has been overthrown and the Egyptian military is running the state.
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| Navy Yard gunman's access questioned Posted: 17 Sep 2013 04:43 PM PDT Aaron Alexis had brushes with the law, but still was able to enter a Navy base. |
| Shipwrecked Concordia hauled upright off Italy Posted: 17 Sep 2013 07:54 AM PDT  GIGLIO ISLAND, Italy (AP) — Engineers declared success Tuesday as the crippled Costa Concordia cruise ship was pulled completely upright during an unprecedented, 19-hour operation to wrench it from its side where it capsized last year off Tuscany.
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| 'This is a horrific tragedy' Posted: 17 Sep 2013 05:37 AM PDT  Investigators are still looking for the motive behind a deadly Navy Yards shooting spree.
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| 'Technical glitch' allows for social media in Iran Posted: 17 Sep 2013 09:31 AM PDT  A technical glitch allowed some Iranians temporary access to banned social networking websites Facebook and Twitter, an Iranian Internet official said on Tuesday.
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| Motive a mystery in D.C. shooting rampage Posted: 17 Sep 2013 03:43 AM PDT  The suspect, a former Navy reservist, killed 12 people before he was slain by police.
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