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Friday, May 03, 2013 08:30 PM PDT
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Officials: Israel launches airstrike into Syria 
Friday, May 03, 2013 08:30 PM PDT
 FILE - In this June 3, 2012 file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad delivers a speech at the parliament in Damascus, Syria. Israel launched an airstrike into Syria, apparently targeting a suspected weapons site, U.S. officials said Friday night, May 3, 2013. (AP Photo/SANA, File)Israel apparently targeted a suspected weapons site, U.S. officials said.
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Boston bomb suspect died of gunshots, blunt trauma 
Friday, May 03, 2013 08:17 PM PDT
 FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2010, photo, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, left, smiles after accepting the trophy for winning the 2010 New England Golden Gloves Championship in Lowell, Mass. Tsarnaev, the older of the brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombing, died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso, his death certificate says. (AP Photo/The Lowell Sun, Julia Malakie, File) MANDATORY CREDITA suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso, a funeral director said Friday.
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Southern Calif. wildfire threatens 4,000 homes 
Friday, May 03, 2013 08:26 PM PDT
 Resident Bryan Bonsant battles flames as the Springs Fire nears a neighbor's barn in MalibuFirefighters have built containment around about 20 percent of the fire, which has hit more than 43 square miles.
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Newtown officials discuss plans for Sandy Hook school 
Friday, May 03, 2013 08:50 PM PDT
 People put items from the old Sandy Hook School into garbage containers as they clean up the school in Sandy HookA group is considering whether to build a new one on the same site or nearby, or demolish the parts where the massacre unfolded.
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Pressure on Bangladesh, retailers to fix factories 
Friday, May 03, 2013 07:35 PM PDT
 A clothes tag lies in the rubble of a garments factory that collapsed in Savar near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 3, 2013. More than 500 bodies have been recovered from the debris of the building, even as the Bangladeshi government suspended Savar's mayor and arrested an engineer who had called for the building's evacuation last week, but was also accused of helping the owner add three illegal floors to the eight-story structure. (AP Photo/Ismail Ferdous)The country's garment manufacturers may face a choice of reform or perish.
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Obama: Same-sex provision shouldn't derail immigration move 
Friday, May 03, 2013 07:57 PM PDT
 U.S. President Obama speaks during a joint news conference with Costa Rica's President Chinchilla after their meeting at Casa Amarilla in San JoseA proposal by Sen. Patrick Leahy has cast uncertainty into the process of reaching a compromise.
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'Mockingbird' author Lee sues over copyright in N.Y. 
Friday, May 03, 2013 08:25 PM PDT
 Harper Lee, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," filed a lawsuit to re-secure the copyright to it.
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NRA official: It's a 'culture war' more than gun rights 
Friday, May 03, 2013 05:39 PM PDT
 NRA attendee Janet Bero waits to have her German Luger appraised during the NRA's Antiques Guns and Gold Showcase during the National Rifle Association's 142 Annual Meetings and Exhibits at the George R. Brown Convention Center Thursday, May 2, 2013, in Houston. NRA's Antiques Guns and Gold Showcase is a television show that runs on the Sportsman Channel.The 2013 NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits runs from Friday, May 3, through Sunday, May 5. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Johnny Hanson)The National Rifle Association kicked off its annual convention Friday.
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Jodi Arias murder trial goes to jury 
Friday, May 03, 2013 06:09 PM PDT
 Defendant Jodi Arias looks to her family during closing arguments during her trial on Friday, May 3, 2013 at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Arias is charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting death of Travis Alexander, 30, in his suburban Phoenix home in June 2008. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, Pool)The group will ponder the evidence and Arias' every-changing version of events.
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PepsiCo cuts sponsorship ties with Lil Wayne 
Friday, May 03, 2013 03:07 PM PDT
 FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2013 file photo, recording artist Lil Wayne meets fans and celebrates his contemporary street wear apparel brand TRUKFIT at his hometown Macy's, in New Orleans. A letter from Lil Wayne to the offended family of Emmett Till did not go far enough and relatives of the late civil rights icon are seeking a meeting with the rapper and representatives from PepsiCo to discuss their commercial partnership. The New Orleans rapper made the brief offensive reference to Till on Future's song "Karate Chop" earlier this year. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)The rapper made a crude reference to civil rights martyr Emmett Till in a song.
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Spider bite may have aided Slayer guitarist death 
Friday, May 03, 2013 05:27 PM PDT
 This 2009 publicity photo provided courtesy of Slayer shows, from left, Dave Lombardo, Kerry King, Jeff Hanneman and Tom Araya. Hanneman, 49, a founding member of the heavy metal band Slayer, has died. Slayer spokeswoman Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald says Hanneman died Thursday morning, May 2, 2013, of liver failure at a Los Angeles hospital with his wife, Kathy, by his side. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Slayer, Mark Seliger)Jeff Hanneman was bitten by the insect while in a friend's hot tub.
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Soccer league hires security after punch on ref 
Friday, May 03, 2013 04:08 PM PDT
 Johana Portillo, center, and her sister Ana Portillo hold hands while Dr. Shawn Smith looks on during a news conference Thursday, May 2, 2013, at Intermountain Medical Center, in Murray, Utah. Ricardo Portillo, a Utah soccer referee, is in a coma after being punched by a teenage player unhappy with one of his calls _ and his family says their only hope is for a miracle. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)A game official in Utah was punched by a teen player and sent into a coma.
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Witness recants story in stabbing murder of Calif. third-grader 
Friday, May 03, 2013 06:33 PM PDT
 The mystery deepened on Friday over the death of an 8-year-old girl who was stabbed to death last week in her northern California home while left alone with her 12-year-old brother.
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No charges for Calif. teacher accused of tying toddler 
Friday, May 03, 2013 02:43 PM PDT
 Prosecutors in Northern California have decided not to pursue any criminal charges against a former teacher accused of tying up a 2-year-old girl when she worked at a preschool.
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U.S. orders new visa reviews for international students 
Friday, May 03, 2013 03:41 PM PDT
 The Homeland Security Department ordered border agents to verify that every international student who arrives in the U.S. has a valid student visa.
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Dow, S&P close at record levels 
Friday, May 03, 2013 01:13 PM PDT
 Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock ExchangeThe markets were boosted by much stronger hiring in February and March.
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