| Man's fence jump locks down White House Posted: 11 Sep 2014 04:29 PM PDT  A man's jump over the White House perimeter fence set nerves jangling.
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| Portman calls for vote on Syrian airstrikes Posted: 11 Sep 2014 12:04 PM PDT  Senator blamed mounting tensions in Mideast on withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
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| Okla. police: McCaskill wrong on extreme militarization Posted: 11 Sep 2014 11:48 AM PDT  Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Democrat of Missouri, singled out a small sheriff's department in Oklahoma as an extreme example of the over-militarization of local police forces in a Senate hearing on Tuesday.
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| Witness: Brown was 'walking dead guy,' not rushing Ferguson officer Posted: 11 Sep 2014 11:49 AM PDT An eyewitness to the shooting death of Michael Brown says the 18-year-old didn't charge Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Brown "staggered dead after the second shot, 20-25 feet, to the ground," the unidentified witness told CNN. "He was like a walking dead guy." |
| Ex-Microsoft exec giving $9M to fight Ebola Posted: 11 Sep 2014 01:45 PM PDT  Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's charity announces $9M donation to U.S. Ebola efforts.
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| Dozens of children at N.J. day care accidentally drink bleach Posted: 11 Sep 2014 12:34 PM PDT  Twenty-eight preschoolers and two adults mistakenly drank bleach at snack time at a New Jersey day care center on Thursday and were taken to a hospital after some complained their stomachs were burning. The children, aged 3 and 4, and adult staff members of the Growing Tree Learning Center in downtown Jersey City were transported in five ambulances to the Jersey City Medical Center after a late-morning call to 911, said Mark Rabson, a hospital spokesman. "There was a poisoning and many children were injured," he said, adding the children were walking on their own or were being carried out by their parents and "have smiles on their faces." Keith Kearney, executive director of United Cerebral Palsy of Hudson County, which runs the day care center that is open to all community members and serves 65 children from infants to age 4, said he had heard no reports of injuries and that the hospital visits were a precaution.
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| Thirteen years after 9/11, a slow rise from the ashes Posted: 11 Sep 2014 08:48 AM PDT  Thirteen years after the terrorist attacks, One World Trade Center is finally set to open, but the building has had a tough time finding tenants.
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| Obama's 'all in' moment Posted: 11 Sep 2014 11:41 AM PDT  In a prime-time speech, Pres. Obama rallied the nation to a war against the Islamic State.
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| Arabs back anti-IS move as Syria warns on 'attacks' Posted: 11 Sep 2014 12:49 PM PDT  Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) - Arab nations rallied Thursday behind US President Barack Obama's call to expand operations against jihadists in Iraq and Syria, as Damascus warned it would consider any action on its territory as an attack.
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| 4th Sierra Leonean doctor infected with Ebola Posted: 11 Sep 2014 03:16 PM PDT  FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Another doctor from Sierra Leone who has tested positive for Ebola will be evacuated for medical treatment, an official said Thursday, making her the first citizen of a hard-hit country to be treated abroad.
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| Indicted S.C. House speaker suspends himself from office Posted: 11 Sep 2014 12:44 PM PDT  South Carolina House Speaker Bobby Harrell suspended himself from the state legislature on Thursday, a day after he was indicted on nine criminal charges related to misuse of campaign money and misconduct in office. Harrell, a Republican, said in a letter that he was taking the step proactively and, according to House rules, had asked the speaker pro tempore to take charge of the legislative body. ...
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| U.S. sharply cutting deportations Posted: 11 Sep 2014 01:02 PM PDT  The Obama administration is on pace to deport the fewest number of immigrants since 2007.
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| N.J. ban on 'gay conversion therapy' upheld Posted: 11 Sep 2014 01:27 PM PDT  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld New Jersey's ban on counseling intended to change the sexual orientation of gay and lesbian children. Circuit Court of Appeals said the ban, which Republican Governor Chris Christie signed into law in August 2013, did not violate the free speech or religious rights of counselors offering "gay conversion therapy" to convert homosexual minors into heterosexuals. The panel also said the plaintiffs, who included licensed therapists and a Christian counseling group, lacked standing to pursue claims on behalf of their minor clients. Circuit Judge D. Brooks Smith said the ban, the second in the country after California's, appropriately advanced New Jersey's legitimate interest in protecting people under the age of 18 from harmful or ineffective professional treatment.
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| Warmer air caused ice shelf collapse off Antarctica Posted: 11 Sep 2014 11:09 AM PDT  Warmer air triggered the collapse of a huge ice shelf off Antarctica in 2002, according to a report on Thursday that may help scientists predict future break-ups around the frozen continent. Antarctica is a key to sea level rise, which threatens coastal areas around the world.. It has enough ice to raise seas by 57 meters (190 feet) if it ever all melted, meaning that even a tiny thaw at the fringes is a concern. Until now, the exact cause of the collapse of the Larsen-B ice shelf, a floating mass of ice bigger than Luxembourg at the end of glaciers in the Antarctic Peninsula, had been unknown.
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| Nation pauses to mark 13th anniversary of 9/11 Posted: 11 Sep 2014 12:26 PM PDT  Nation pauses to mark 13th anniversary of Sept. 11 terror attack at hallowed New York site transformed into plaza.
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| FBI cites apparent attempt to bomb congressman's office Posted: 11 Sep 2014 02:10 PM PDT  Federal investigators are looking into what appears to have been an attempt to firebomb a U.S. congressman's office in Missouri.
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| Man accused of killing 5 kids was ex-con with rap sheet Posted: 11 Sep 2014 08:47 AM PDT  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — APNewsBreak: Dad accused of killing 5 kids was ex-con, went on crime spree in Illinois in 2001.
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| Boko Haram under scrutiny over foreign fighters claim Posted: 11 Sep 2014 08:03 AM PDT  Cameroon's claims this week that two Tuareg fighters were among the dead when troops bombarded Boko Haram positions have sparked fresh interest in the group's links to the wider jihadi network. Boko Haram was designated an Al-Qaeda-linked terror group earlier this year while its recent land grab in Nigeria's northeast has prompted comparisons to Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq. Andrew Noakes, co-ordinator of the Nigeria Security Network of analysts, said it was "plausible" that Boko Haram had fighters from beyond the lands populated by its Kanuri tribal base. "There is most likely a relationship of convenience between Boko Haram and AQIM (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb), which may stretch to sourcing militants from outside the insurgency's traditional area of recruitment," he told AFP by email.
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| Images of 9/11 then, and what they look like today Posted: 09 Sep 2014 06:13 PM PDT  One World Trade Center and the steeple of Trinity Church are seen from Broadway and Rector Street on Wednesday, September 10, 2013. (AP/Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) |
| Stringent new abortion rule in Missouri Posted: 11 Sep 2014 07:54 AM PDT  Missouri women seeking abortions will face one of the nation's most stringent waiting periods, after state lawmakers overrode the governor's veto to enact a 72-hour delay that includes no exception for ...
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| Islamic State kidnaps 20 Iraqi villagers Posted: 11 Sep 2014 07:51 AM PDT  Islamic State jihadists kidnapped Thursday 20 people in a northern Iraqi village suspected of forming a local group to fight them, a security official and witnesses said. The kidnappings were carried out in Kirkuk province by dozens of fighters from IS, which led a major offensive that overran large areas of Iraq in June. According to rights group Amnesty International, IS kidnapped thousands of civilians as it overran minority-populated northern villages last month.
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| Gbagbo facing trial for crimes against humanity Posted: 11 Sep 2014 07:28 AM PDT  The International Criminal Court on Thursday confirmed that Ivory coast's former president Laurent Gbagbo will face trial for crimes against humanity, throwing out an appeal by the defence. "Preliminary Chamber I rejected the defence's request to appeal against the decision relative to the confirmation of the charges," the court based in The Hague said in a statement. No date has yet been set for the trial of Gbagbo on four counts of crimes against humanity, allegedly committed at the end of his 10-year rule over the troubled west African country, once he refused to accept defeat in an election in November 2010. His supporters clashed for five months mainly in the economic capital Abidjan with those of President Alassane Ouattara, who was proclaimed winner of the vote by the electoral commission, at a cost of at least 3,000 lives.
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| Score one for sharks: New curbs on threatening trade Posted: 11 Sep 2014 07:15 AM PDT  The 178 members of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) agreed in March 2013 to tighten regulations on the trade of the three types of hammerhead shark, the porbeagle and oceanic whitetip shark, and two types of manta ray. "The listing was a victory for science over politics," Andy Cornish, who heads a shark preservation initiative backed by WWF and wildlife trade monitoring network Traffic, said in a statement. More than 70 million sharks are killed worldwide every year, according to WWF, with high demand for shark fins in Asia the biggest driver of the overfishing. Traffic has estimated the total value of the shark fin trade at more than $480 million per year, with the fish hunted for their meat, leather, liver oil and cartilage.
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| Obama speech seriously ruffles Syria Posted: 11 Sep 2014 01:07 PM PDT  Foreign intervention would be act of aggression unless Damascus OKs, as US discusses strikes on IS there.
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| McCain, Carney crossfire on CNN coverage of Obama speech Posted: 11 Sep 2014 05:19 AM PDT  Sen. John McCain and former White House press secretary Jay Carney got into a heated exchange on CNN following President Barack Obama's primetime speech Wednesday.
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| Adjournment on 'culpable homicide' Posted:  Judge says Oscar Pistorius "negligent," raising possibility of culpable homicide conviction.
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| Matt Bai: For Democratic candidates, there's a lot in a name Posted: 11 Sep 2014 01:04 AM PDT  In states where the president's standing has plummeted, a bunch of Democratic senators have managed to at least stay close into this last phase of the campaign, raising hopes among party leaders that somehow they may yet be able to ride this one out.
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| NFL hires ex-FBI chief to investigate handling of Ray Rice case Posted:  Finally, there should be some real answers to how the NFL handled the Ray Rice situation.
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| Not guilty of premeditated murder Posted: 11 Sep 2014 07:17 AM PDT  Judge can still find Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide in the death of his girlfriend.
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| Obama: 'No safe haven' if you threaten America Posted: 09 Sep 2014 10:23 AM PDT  The president announces a broad military campaign to combat the Islamic State.
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| Scientists: Strong solar storm heading to Earth Posted: 10 Sep 2014 06:49 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A strong solar flare is blasting its way to Earth, but the worst of its power looks like it will barely skim above the planet and not cause many problems.
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| Obama leads U.S. in remembrance of September 11 victims Posted: 11 Sep 2014 09:55 AM PDT  By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - Led by President Barack Obama, Americans commemorated the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on Thursday by observing moments of silence for the thousands killed that day at New York City's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. In what has become an annual ritual, relatives began slowly reciting the nearly 3,000 names of the victims at a ceremony in lower Manhattan, from Gordon Aamoth Jr. to Igor Zukelman. ...
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| St. Louis grand jury weighs charges in Ferguson shooting Posted: 11 Sep 2014 04:19 PM PDT  By Carey Gillam ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - The white officer who shot dead unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in August, spurring a wave of violent protests, would be the first policeman charged for killing a suspect in St. Louis County in more than two decades. For weeks, protesters in the mostly black St. Louis suburb of Ferguson have piled pressure on authorities, demanding that the officer, Darren Wilson, be charged and Prosecutor Bob McCulloch be replaced with a special prosecutor. The prosecutor opted not to press charges and presented the case to the grand jury because of conflicting testimony from witnesses, his office said. If people don't feel like they get justice, it will be very hard to hold these folks back," said St. Louis Alderman Antonio French.
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| Man pleads not guilty to fraud in 2012 U.S. meningitis outbreak Posted: 11 Sep 2014 09:00 AM PDT  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - A pharmacist who worked for the Massachusetts company that sparked a 2012 U.S. Glenn Adam Chin, 46, said in U.S. District Court in Boston that he was "not guilty" of charges he knowingly shipped a tainted steroid that sickened 700 people in 20 states. He has been confined to his Canton, Massachusetts, home since officials pulled him off a plane last week at the start of what was to be a family trip to Hong Kong for a wedding.
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| Toronto Mayor Rob Ford hospitalized with suspected tumor Posted: 10 Sep 2014 06:33 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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