| Obama to brace US for mounting IS conflict Posted: 10 Sep 2014 01:14 PM PDT  Exactly one year ago, Obama delivered a prime-time speech defending his Syria policy.
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| Arrests as Ferguson protesters plan shutdown Posted: 10 Sep 2014 03:07 PM PDT  Authorities arrested protesters who were planning to block part of Interstate 70 on Wednesday near the St. Louis suburb where an unarmed black 18-year-old was fatally shot by a white police officer.
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| Toronto mayor hospitalized with suspected tumor Posted: 10 Sep 2014 05:01 PM PDT  TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has been admitted to a hospital and is believed to have a tumor in his abdomen, health officials said Wednesday.
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| Rice video sent to NFL 3 months ago, official says Posted:  NFL has insisted it didn't see the violent images of Ray Rice punching his then-fiancee until this week.
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| 30 killed in Baghdad attacks Posted: 10 Sep 2014 11:56 AM PDT  A series of attacks, mainly car bombings targeting security forces and markets, killed at least 30 people Wednesday in Iraq's capital, authorities said.
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| Joan Rivers: N.Y. clinic says no biopsy performed Posted: 10 Sep 2014 03:44 PM PDT  By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York clinic where comedian Joan Rivers stopped breathing a week before her death denied on Wednesday ever administering general anesthesia or conducting a vocal cord biopsy as has been alleged in media reports as contributing to her demise. It was the first time the Yorkville Endoscopy clinic issued a statement since Aug. 28, when Rivers was rushed to a nearby hospital from the center with cardiac arrest. The clinic did not mention Rivers by name but issued the statement hours after New York's Daily News newspaper reported that an unplanned vocal cord biopsy at the clinic had left the Brooklyn-born comedian unable to breathe. "A biopsy of the vocal cords has never been performed at Yorkville Endoscopy," said the clinic, which specializes in gastrointestinal procedures.
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| Denver woman pleads guilty in terror case Posted: 10 Sep 2014 10:39 AM PDT  Colorado 19-year-old is latest American to admit to attempting to join a Middle East terror group.
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| N.Y. trial opens for mother accused of killing autistic boy Posted: 10 Sep 2014 11:16 AM PDT  Socialite Gigi Jordan murdered her autistic son to avoid dealing with his developmental disorder, prosecutors said at the start of her trial on Wednesday, but the defense said it was a mercy killing to protect the boy from being raped by his father. "She wanted to ease his suffering," Allan Brenner, lead defense attorney for Jordan, a self-made millionaire pharmaceutical executive, told a jury at the state's Supreme Court in Manhattan. Jordan, 54, is accused of overdosing her 8-year-old son, Jude Mirra, with prescription pills in a ritzy Manhattan hotel room in 2010.
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| 7 charged in Chicago gang signs machete attack Posted: 10 Sep 2014 11:54 AM PDT  Seven people, including three 15-year-olds, are accused in a machete attack that left a deep wound on a man's head after he and his brother refused to flash gang signs at a Chicago train station, authorities said Wednesday.
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| Malaysia calls for new MH17 search for victims' remains Posted: 10 Sep 2014 10:33 AM PDT  Malaysia's defense minister on Wednesday called for experts to carry out a final search at the crash site of downed flight MH17 in east Ukraine to recover any remains left behind before winter hits. "It is important for us before the onset of winter in Ukraine to make one final sweep to comb the areas for any remaining passengers who have not been found," Hishammuddin Hussein said after meeting top Russian officials in Moscow. All 298 people on board the Malaysia Airlines flight died in the July 17 disaster.
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| Fragile ozone layer shows first sign of recovery: U.N. Posted: 10 Sep 2014 04:37 PM PDT  The ozone layer that shields life from the sun's cancer-causing ultraviolet rays is showing its first sign of thickening after years of dangerous depletion, a U.N. study said on Wednesday. Experts said it showed the success of a 1987 ban on man-made gases that damage the fragile high-altitude screen, an achievement that would help prevent millions of cases of skin cancer and other conditions. The ozone hole that appears annually over Antarctica has also stopped growing bigger every year, though it will be about a decade before it starts shrinking, said the report co-produced by the World Meteorological Organization and the U.N. Environment Program. "International action on the ozone layer is a major environmental success story ... This should encourage us to display the same level of urgency and unity to tackle the even greater challenge of tackling climate change," said WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud.
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| Tears, vomit, emotion infuse Pistorius trial Posted:  Verdict in marathon five-month inquiry expected this week.
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| Syrian rebels name new chiefs after blast kills nearly 50 Posted: 10 Sep 2014 07:56 AM PDT  Syria's Islamist Ahrar al-Sham rebel brigade named new chiefs on Wednesday after a devastating blast killed nearly 50 members of its leadership in a northwestern province largely under rebel control. The blast in Idlib province on Tuesday evening killed the key rebel group's leader Hassan Abboud, known by the name Abu Abdullah al-Hamawi, along with 46 other top members. On Wednesday morning, in a video posted on YouTube, Ahrar al-Sham announced that Hashem al-Sheikh, known as Abu Jaber, would replace Abboud as head of the group, with Abu Saleh Tahhan as military commander. Ahrar al-Sham is a key component in the Islamic Front rebel coalition, which has been battling both President Bashar al-Assad's regime and jihadists of the Islamic State group.
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| Six arrested in ivory poaching ring Posted: 10 Sep 2014 09:10 AM PDT  Wildlife campaigners in Mozambique say police have cracked an ivory poaching ring believed to be responsible for the deaths of at least 39 elephants. The Wildlife Conservation Society said six suspects were arrested in Niassa National Reserve at the weekend, in what is seen as a major breakthrough in the anti-poaching fight. The head of the group, which manages the park, Cristian Samper hailed "strengthened security and intelligence" for the arrests, in a country experiencing an ivory poaching crisis. The park is "on the front line of the crisis in ivory," Samper said.
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| France ready to participate in Iraq airstrikes Posted: 10 Sep 2014 11:25 AM PDT  France's foreign minister said Wednesday his country is ready to take part in airstrikes against extremist fighters in Iraq if needed.
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| Father to be charged with murder in deaths of his five children Posted: 10 Sep 2014 04:39 PM PDT  PINE APPLE, Ala. (AP) — Their little bodies shrouded in plastic bags, the five children of Timothy Ray Jones Jr. had been dead for days by the time he led investigators to the spot where they had been dumped among dead trees and scrub brush.
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| Poll: IS jihadists' actions take toll on Americans' sense of security Posted: 10 Sep 2014 07:39 AM PDT  On the eve of the 13th anniversary of 9/11, almost half of Americans feel less safe than they did before the attacks, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds.
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| Missouri executes man for killing 2 in robbery Posted: 09 Sep 2014 10:46 PM PDT  BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri inmate was put to death Wednesday for killing two people during a restaurant robbery in 1998, the eighth execution in the state this year and the 10th since November.
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| 12 US military helicopters descend on Polish farm Posted: 10 Sep 2014 06:11 AM PDT  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's military says a dozen U.S. Army helicopters made an unplanned landing in farmers' fields because of poor visibility in stormy weather.
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| Former exotic dancer sues Cowboys' owner for sexual harassment Posted: 10 Sep 2014 10:28 AM PDT  The suit seeks at least $1 million from Jerry Jones.
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| With World Trade site largely rebuilt, New York marks September 11 Posted: 10 Sep 2014 04:12 PM PDT  By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Until a few months ago, the part of New York City where crowds will gather on Thursday morning to mark the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States had been mostly fenced off to the public. This year, for perhaps the first time since the attacks, a sense of normalcy and openness has taken root in the city blocks where two airliners hijacked by militants from al Qaeda crashed into the World Trade Center's twin towers. The area, by turns a smoldering grave and an off-limits construction site for more than a decade, is now increasingly reconnected with the surrounding streets. Similar ceremonies will also be held in Washington, where a hijacked plane plowed into the Pentagon, and the field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where another hijacked plane crashed.
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| Arrests made in protest over Missouri shooting Posted: 10 Sep 2014 04:33 PM PDT  Protesters sitting or standing in the road around Interstate 70 on-ramps near where Michael Brown, 18, was shot and killed by Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9 were arrested, St. Louis County Police spokesman Brian Schellman said. The Missouri State Highway Patrol did not respond to requests for comment. Organizers told the newspaper the protests involved Missouri Governor Jay Nixon's refusal to replace the St. Louis County prosecutor investigating the fatal shooting.
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| Obama authorizes $25 million in immediate military aid to Iraq: White House Posted: 10 Sep 2014 01:44 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama authorized $25 million in "immediate military assistance" on Wednesday for the Iraqi government and Kurdistan Regional Government to help with military education and training, according to a memorandum posted on the White House website. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton; Editing by Doina Chiacu)
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| Broadway to dim lights for Joan Rivers after all Posted: 10 Sep 2014 07:42 AM PDT  Theater executives reversed a decision that Rivers did not deserve the honor.
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| Syria said to be using chemical weapons again Posted: 10 Sep 2014 06:47 AM PDT  Inspectors from Hague-based watchdog cite "compelling evidence" chlorine gas used as weapon in northern Syria this year.
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| Russia tests nuclear missile, plans more Posted: 10 Sep 2014 05:59 AM PDT  New Bulava intercontinental missile flew successfully Wednesday as test drills ramp up.
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| 13 years after 9/11 attacks, families still wait for justice Posted: 10 Sep 2014 01:52 AM PDT  On a May morning more than two years ago, Rita Lasar and Debra Burlingame waited in silence as the lights dimmed in a movie theater on an Army base deep in Brooklyn. The hundreds of seats in the Fort Hamilton theater are, on other occasions, filled with soldiers and their families watching blockbusters. But today, the nearly empty theater has been repurposed to show close family members of 9/11 victims the opening day of the long-awaited trial of the five men accused of masterminding the attacks that killed their loved ones.
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| US to bid adios to hacked security clearance contractor Posted: 10 Sep 2014 05:20 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal Office of Personnel Management plans to terminate its massive contracts with USIS, the major security clearance contractor targeted last month by a cyberattack, agency, congressional and company officials say. The computer network intrusion compromised the personal files of as many as 25,000 government workers.
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| Obama outlining plan to fight IS militants Posted: 10 Sep 2014 03:52 PM PDT  The president will discuss his strategy during a prime-time address Wednesday night.
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| Brown wins New Hampshire Republican Senate primary Posted: 09 Sep 2014 05:47 PM PDT  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Former Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Scott Brown won New Hampshire's Republican U.S. Senate primary on Tuesday, moving forward in his attempt to get back to Washington from another state.
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| Ferguson council faces calls for reform at first meeting since teen's shooting Posted: 09 Sep 2014 10:04 PM PDT  By Carey Gillam FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - City leaders in Ferguson, Missouri, confronted demands for reform from an angry crowd on Tuesday night at their first public meeting since last month's fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen by a white police officer ignited weeks of protests. The atmosphere was charged from the opening minutes as members of a largely black audience that numbered in the hundreds shouted over remarks by city council members, rising out of their seats and chanting in solidarity. Some wore T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan "Hands Up Don't Shoot," a phrase that has become a national rallying cry for activists protesting the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, and other acts of what they say are police abuse. As council leaders attempted to discuss routine city business, one man shouted: "What about Mike Brown?" Tensions have been high in the mostly black community of 21,000 people since the Aug. 9 shooting of Brown.
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| Syrian rebels to release UN peacekeepers Posted: 09 Sep 2014 10:25 PM PDT  Syrian insurgents will release 45 UN peacekeepers held captive since Aug. 28, Fiji said.
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