| Syrian rebels to release UN peacekeepers Posted: 09 Sep 2014 04:41 PM PDT  Syrian insurgents will release 45 UN peacekeepers held captive since Aug. 28, Fiji said.
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| 5 missing S.C. children found dead in Alabama; father suspected Posted: 09 Sep 2014 04:55 PM PDT  The bodies of five children aged between 2 and 8 were found stuffed into garbage bags on Tuesday near a logging road in Alabama after their father confessed to killing them and led police to the scene, authorities said. Timothy Ray Jones, the father of the children, did not reveal a motive for the killings, which he confessed to authorities in Mississippi, Smith County Sheriff Charlie Crumpton said. "I'm a father of two, and I can't imagine what goes through a man's head when he does this," Crumpton said. "It was a horrible, horrible crime." The children, whose names have not been released, were reported missing from their home near Lexington, South Carolina, by their mother on Sept. 3, the Lexington County Sheriff's Department said in a statement.
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| Goodell doesn't rule out Rice playing again, reiterates he never saw elevator tape Posted:  CBS Evening News' Norah O'Donnell scored the first interview with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell after Ray Rice's indefinite suspension following the release of the extended video tape showing Rice hitting his then-fiancée in an Atlantic City hotel.
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| U.S. extends Padilla terror sentence to 21 years Posted: 09 Sep 2014 02:39 PM PDT  Jose Padilla, a US citizen convicted of helping a homegrown Al-Qaeda cell, saw his prison sentence extended to 21 years Tuesday after his initial 17-year penalty was deemed too lenient. Padilla was the subject of a fierce tug-of-war between the administration of former president George W. Bush and civil liberties groups after he was detained without charge for nearly four years on a military brig following his arrest in 2002. He was convicted two years later of aiding a homegrown Al-Qaeda cell that supplied recruits and funding to Islamic extremists abroad, and of conspiring to murder, kidnap and maim people in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Bosnia and other countries from 1993 to 2001.
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| Bodies of 5 missing S.C. children found, D.A. says Posted: 09 Sep 2014 05:03 PM PDT  A district attorney says the bodies of five children missing from South Carolina have been found in rural Alabama. The children's father is in custody.
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| Obama: I have authority for IS campaign Posted: 09 Sep 2014 04:53 PM PDT  Obama says he still welcomes action by Congress that would aid effort, demonstrate unity.
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| Curt Schilling returning to ESPN after battling cancer Posted:  Curt Schilling will be back talking baseball this week after announcing in August that he'd won his cancer fight.
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| Orangutan that picked 7 straight Super Bowl winners dies in Utah Posted:  An orangutan who became famous by correctly predicting the winner of the Super Bowl for the last seven straight years has died at a zoo in Utah, its keepers reported.
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| Shark kills man in Australia despite rescue attempt Posted: 09 Sep 2014 03:50 PM PDT  SYDNEY (AP) — A shark killed a 50-year-old swimmer Tuesday at eastern Australia's popular Byron Bay despite a beachgoer's brave rescue attempt, police said.
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| Six Flags' Colossus coaster goes out in flames Posted:  The Colossus roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain has fallen down to the ground after going up in flames.
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| White House says beheaded U.S. journalist not 'sold' to Islamic State Posted: 09 Sep 2014 03:13 PM PDT  The United States has no information indicating beheaded American journalist Steven Sotloff was "sold" to Islamic State militants by moderate Syrian opposition rebels, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Tuesday. Sotloff family spokesman Barak Barfi told CNN on Monday night the family believed Islamic State paid up to $50,000 to rebels who told the militant group the 31-year-old journalist had entered Syria.
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| Eagles RB leaves 20-cent tip on $61.56 bill, restaurant says Posted:  LeSean McCoy is a good running back. And, it would appear, a bad tipper.
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| India-Pakistan flood toll hits 400, thousands still stranded Posted: 09 Sep 2014 01:04 PM PDT  Emergency workers battled Tuesday to reach hundreds of thousands of people marooned by floods in India and Pakistan that have claimed more than 400 lives, as anger grew over the speed of the rescue effort. The army said it was airlifting boats to the worst-hit areas of Indian Kashmir, where whole villages have been submerged and an estimated 400,000 people are stranded in the region's worst flooding for half a century. "The situation in Kashmir Valley is still very grim, it is quite critical," said Rajesh Kumar, police Inspector General of the Jammu region in India's Jammu and Kashmir state.
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| FBI: Air marshal attacked with syringe in Nigeria Posted: 09 Sep 2014 02:18 PM PDT The FBI says a U.S. air marshal was attacked with a syringe at a Nigerian airport. |
| Remains of Tennessee student found Posted: 09 Sep 2014 12:53 PM PDT  Partial remains of missing student Holly Bobo have been found more than three years after her disappearance.
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| 28 leaders of Islamist group killed in Syria blast Posted: 09 Sep 2014 01:39 PM PDT  An explosion killed the leader of one of Syria's most powerful Islamist insurgent groups Ahrar al-Sham on Tuesday, the group said, and an organization that monitors violence in the civil war said at least 28 of its commanders had died. Ahrar al-Sham is a hardline Islamist group and part of the Islamic Front alliance that has been in armed conflict with the Islamic State group which has seized swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq. A statement posted on Ahrar al-Sham's official Twitter feed said the blast had hit a meeting in Idlib province in northwest Syria and confirmed Hassan Aboud, the group's leader, among at least 12 dead. "We don't know the cause of the explosion yet," Abu Mustafa al-Absi, a member of Ahrar al-Sham's politburo told Al-Jazeera TV in an interview.
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| U.S. bombs Islamic State in Iraq Posted: 09 Sep 2014 12:05 PM PDT  Pentagon: U.S. warplanes have carried out more airstrikes against Iraqi jihadists.
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| Medical flight got wrong fuel before crash Posted:  Federal safety investigators say an air ambulance got the wrong fuel at a New Mexico airport before it took off and crashed, killing all four people aboard.
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| Documentary shows atrocities in fight against Boko Haram jihadis Posted: 09 Sep 2014 09:13 AM PDT  Atrocities in fight against Boko Haram jihadists depicted in FRONTLINE documentary.
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| Longer Rice video shows obscenities, spitting Posted:  A longer, more detailed video of the fight between Ray Rice and Janay Palmer shows them shouting obscenities at each other, and she appears to spit in the face of the three-time Pro Bowl running back before he throws a brutal punch.
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| U.S. Ebola cases we haven't heard about Posted: 09 Sep 2014 09:25 AM PDT  Company contracted by State Dept. has evacuated to U.S. an undisclosed number of people exposed to virus.
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| Apple announces 2 new iPhones, Apple Pay, iWatch Posted:  Apple announcement
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| Fueling error doomed four aboard New Mexico air ambulance Posted: 09 Sep 2014 10:22 AM PDT Federal safety investigators say an air ambulance got the wrong fuel at a New Mexico airport before it took off and crashed, killing all four people aboard. |
| Canada finds ship lost 160 years ago in Arctic Posted: 09 Sep 2014 03:18 PM PDT  TORONTO (AP) — One of two British explorer ships that vanished in the Arctic nearly 170 years ago during a search for the fabled Northwest Passage has been found, Canada's prime minister announced Tuesday in a discovery that could unlock one of history's biggest mysteries and swell Canadian pride.
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| UK parties trying hard to lure Scotland away from separation vote Posted: 09 Sep 2014 01:06 PM PDT  The leaders of Britain's three main political parties announced a last-minute trip to Scotland on Tuesday to boost the campaign against independence after a surge in separatist support ahead of next week's referendum. Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron and opposition Labour leader Ed Miliband agreed to skip their weekly debate in the House of Commons on Wednesday and instead head north, reflecting a new sense of urgency in the unionist camp. Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister in the coalition government, will also hit the campaign trail after opinion polls suggest the break-up of the 300-year-old union is now a real possibility. "So tomorrow the right place to be isn't in Westminster at prime minister's questions, it's being in Scotland listening to people, talking to people."
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| Ebola patient arrives at Atlanta hospital Posted: 09 Sep 2014 09:38 AM PDT  Identity and condition of the patient were not disclosed by Emory University's hospital, citing confidentiality.
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| Trump threatens to close Taj Mahal Posted: 09 Sep 2014 11:44 AM PDT  Unless workers agree to concessions, the Atlantic City casino will shutter on Nov. 13.
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| Millions of job openings, so why aren’t companies hiring? Posted: 04 Sep 2014 11:34 AM PDT  When it comes to jobs, the number of them added for August came in lighter than expectations at 142,000 (analysts were looking for 230,000). Other data reveals plenty of help is wanted, but employers aren't hurrying to hire. We talk to University of Chicago economist Steven Davis about why firms are waiting the longest to fill job openings in 13 years, according to an index he created.
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| Hundreds die in India & Pakistan Posted: 09 Sep 2014 08:43 AM PDT  By Abu Arqam Naqash and Adnan Abidi MUZAFFARABAD/SRINAGAR (Reuters) - The death toll from the heaviest rain to fall on Kashmir in 50 years rose to more than 400 on Tuesday, with thousands still trapped on rooftops and residents criticizing Indian and Pakistani authorities for not doing enough to help them. "The damage is shocking," a senior official from India's National Disaster Response Force said in New Delhi. "People have been stranded on the rooftops of their homes for the last three days in some parts of Kashmir." The official, who requested anonymity, said he would have deployed disaster-response teams earlier, but "we were all caught off guard because there was not a single warning issued by the weather office. India's meteorological department had forecast heavy rain in Kashmir last week, but the Central Water Commission, which issues flood advisories, has been criticized by Indian media for not warning the state.
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| Ferguson city leaders to create police review board Posted: 09 Sep 2014 02:08 PM PDT  FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — City leaders in Ferguson, where the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old by a white police officer sparked days of sometimes violent protests, say they will establish a review board to help guide the police department and make other changes to fix the city's relationship with its residents.
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| Legality of newlyweds' union, ages 96 and 95, in doubt Posted: 09 Sep 2014 11:08 AM PDT  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — In some ways, Rebecca Wright doesn't understand all the fuss over her 96-year-old mother's recent marriage. After all, she says, "Anybody who wants to get married must have a little dementia."
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| Formula One champion Schumacher leaves hospital Posted: 09 Sep 2014 06:57 AM PDT  GLAND, Switzerland (AP) — Former Formula One champion Michael Schumacher has left a Swiss hospital and will continue his recovery at home, his manager said Tuesday.
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| Is Putin's next target Estonia? Posted: 09 Sep 2014 04:44 AM PDT  Arrest of Estonian policeman raises fears Moscow is testing NATO's resolve to defend Baltic allies.
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| Plane carrying 4th US aid worker with Ebola lands in Atlanta Posted: 09 Sep 2014 01:26 PM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — The fourth U.S. aid worker sickened with Ebola arrived in Atlanta on Tuesday, mirroring the carefully choreographed routine of the two Americans already successfully treated and released from Emory University Hospital's special isolation unit.
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| Spitting, punching, obscenities In 'director's cut' of Rice video Posted: 09 Sep 2014 04:41 PM PDT  ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — As questions arose about the NFL's original investigation of Ray Rice, Commissioner Roger Goodell said Tuesday the league asked for, but was not given, a just-released video showing the ex-Ravens running back punching his then-fiancee on an elevator.
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| Sarah Palin finally gets real Posted: 09 Sep 2014 01:55 AM PDT  I watched all 77 videos on her new online TV channel and lived to tell the tale. In fact, I was actually kind of … moved.
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| Ahead of speech, Obama briefs Congress on Islamic State strategy Posted: 09 Sep 2014 04:20 PM PDT  By Steve Holland and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told leaders of Congress on Tuesday that he did not need for them to authorize his strategy to fight Islamic State, ahead of a speech to Americans that may herald expanded operations against the group in Iraq and perhaps Syria. Obama's White House speech at 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday (0100 GMT on Thursday) will be his most significant effort to outline a strategy against a group whose savage methods have included the beheading of two American captives. Obama met Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrats in the U.S.
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| In Missouri, Michael Brown memorial preserved, protected Posted: 09 Sep 2014 04:34 PM PDT  By Carey Gillam FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - It's still there. The stuffed animals, flowers, and candles mounded into a memorial in the middle of the street where 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer changes almost daily. It has been a month since the unarmed Brown was shot at least six times in an altercation with Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Crowds no longer gather daily at the site where Brown died, a quiet street that runs between the Canfield Green apartment buildings.
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| Analysis: Coalition building can be tricky Posted: 09 Sep 2014 12:18 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The first President Bush had one, so did President Bill Clinton, and the second President Bush had two. Now, President Barack Obama wants to build a coalition of nations to join the U.S. to combat the threat posed by the Islamic State group in the Middle East and beyond. |
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