Tuesday, August 6, 2013

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Tuesday, Aug 06, 2013 06:41 PM PDT
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Obama chats NSA, boycotts on Leno 
Tuesday, Aug 06, 2013 06:41 PM PDT
 President Barack Obama, left, talks with Jay Leno during a commercial break during the taping of his appearance on "We don't have a domestic spying program," the president said.
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Tens of thousands rally to oust Tunisian government 
Tuesday, Aug 06, 2013 04:45 PM PDT
 Demonstrators hold Tunisian flags during a protest to demand the ouster of the Islamist-dominated government outside the Constituent Assembly headquarters in Tunis August 3, 2013. REUTERS/Anis MiliIt's the largest opposition protest since the political crisis began two weeks ago.
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Bill Clinton: Feelings about Weiner, NYC election are 'personal' 
Tuesday, Aug 06, 2013 03:07 PM PDT
 Former President Bill Clinton addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Former President Bill Clinton, who officiated the marriage of New York City mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner to Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to his wife, told CNN that he has five friends running for mayor and isn't taking sides.
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APNewsBreak: Romney warns against govt shutdown 
Tuesday, Aug 06, 2013 06:43 PM PDT
 FILE - In this March 15, 2013, file photo, former Massachusetts Gov., and 2012 Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney acknowledges the crowd prior to speaking to at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md. Romney is warning congressional Republicans against forcing a government shutdown in their quest to stop President Barack Obama's health care law in a speech to more than 200 donors at a Tuesday night, Aug. 6, 2013, fundraiser for the New Hampshire Republican Party, set just four miles from Romney's vacation home. The event is closed to the media, but his office released his prepared remarks. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)WOLFEBORO, N.H. (AP) — Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney jumped into the debate over the GOP's future Tuesday night, warning congressional Republicans against forcing a government shutdown in their quest to stop President Barack Obama's signature health care law.
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Yemen again at forefront of fight against terror 
Tuesday, Aug 06, 2013 03:22 PM PDT
 Police stop cars at a checkpoint near the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013. The State Department on Tuesday ordered non-essential personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen to leave the country. The department said in a travel warning that it had ordered the departure of non-emergency U.S. government personnel from Yemen "due to the continued potential for terrorist attacks" and said U.S. citizens in Yemen should leave immediately because of an "extremely high" security threat level. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen was thrust back into the forefront of the international fight against terrorism Tuesday when the U.S. and Britain evacuated embassy staff due to a threatened attack, a suspected U.S. drone killed four alleged members of al-Qaida, and militants shot down a Yemeni army helicopter.
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Obama 'disappointed' in Russia's Snowden decision 
Tuesday, Aug 06, 2013 09:05 PM PDT
 President Barack Obama, left, talks with Jay Leno during a commercial break during the taping of his appearance on BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he was "disappointed" that Russia granted temporary asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, defying Obama administration demands that the former government contractor be sent back to the U.S. to face espionage charges.
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Egypt bristles as US pols urge freeing prisoners 
Tuesday, Aug 06, 2013 03:45 PM PDT
 This image released by the Egyptian Presidency shows interim Vice President Mohamed Elbaradei, left, meets with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, center, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013. Top U.S., European and Arab envoys visited a jailed Muslim Brotherhood leader Monday on a mission to ease tensions between Egypt's military-backed government and supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi. The talks between Burns and Khairat el-Shater took place in the prison where the Muslim Brotherhood figure is being held.(AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)CAIRO (AP) — Two U.S. Senators came to Egypt Tuesday with a message for the country's new military-backed leaders: Release Islamist figures as a gesture to the Muslim Brotherhood or risk making "a huge mistake."
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Python's strangling of 2 boys in Canada probed 
Tuesday, Aug 06, 2013 07:21 PM PDT
 A memorial sits outside the Reptile Ocean exotic pet store in Campbellton, New Brunswick, Canada, on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013. Autopsies will be performed Tuesday on two young boys who were strangled in their sleep by a large African rock python that escaped from the pet store and slithered into the living room of an apartment upstairs from the pet store. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, John LeBlanc)TORONTO (AP) — A 100-pound (45-kilogram) python blamed in the strangling deaths of two Canadian boys apparently escaped from its enclosure, slithered through a ventilation system and fell through the ceiling into the room where the young brothers were sleeping, authorities said Tuesday.
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Study disputes link between combat and suicide 
Tuesday, Aug 06, 2013 02:32 PM PDT
 FILE - A U.S. soldier walks atop his armored vehicle at sunset as he prepares for a nighttime military exercise in the Kuwaiti desert south of the Iraqi border on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2002. Combat appears to have little or no influence on suicide rates among U.S. troops and veterans, according to a military study that challenges the conventional thinking about war's effects on the psyche published Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)CHICAGO (AP) — Combat appears to have little or no influence on suicide rates among U.S. troops and veterans, according to a military study that challenges the conventional thinking about war's effects on the psyche.
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Rob Zombie complains of skate park noise in Conn. 
Tuesday, Aug 06, 2013 02:22 PM PDT
 FILE-- This April 8, 2010 file photograph shows singer Rob Zombie as he performs during the second annual Revolver Golden Gods Awards in Los Angeles. The town of Woodbury, Conn. has taken steps to reduce noise following complaints from Zombie and his wife about a skate park near their home in the small Litchfield County community. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The noise from a new skate park in Connecticut is too much for rocker Rob Zombie.
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Electronic trail helped MLB gain Biogenesis bans 
Tuesday, Aug 06, 2013 04:11 PM PDT
 New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez leaves the dugout to take batting practice before a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013 in Chicago. (AP Photo/David Banks)NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook friends. Transcripts of BlackBerry instant messages. Records of texts.
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President George W. Bush has stent procedure 
Tuesday, Aug 06, 2013 03:00 PM PDT
 President George W. Bush visits PentagonFormer President George W. Bush successfully underwent a heart procedure in Dallas on Tuesday after doctors discovered a blockage in an artery during his annual physical, Bush spokesman Freddy Ford said.
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Can Amazon CEO ship online savvy to Wash. Post? 
Tuesday, Aug 06, 2013 05:11 PM PDT
 An American flag, left, and a District of Columbia fly outside the Washington Post building in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013. Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post for $250 million. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos is revered as one of the brightest minds in corporate America, but even he is still puzzling over how to reverse the financial slide threatening The Washington Post and other major U.S. newspapers.
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Reports: First charges filed in Benghazi attack 
Tuesday, Aug 06, 2013 05:15 PM PDT
 FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012 file photo, a man looks at documents at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. News reports say the Justice Department has filed the first criminal charges in the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. CNN, NBC News and The Wall Street Journal said Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, that unspecified counts had been filed in the 2012 attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Alaguri, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has filed the first criminal charges in the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, news reports said Tuesday.
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US embassy closures a window into threat concern 
Tuesday, Aug 06, 2013 05:24 PM PDT
 Police stop cars at a checkpoint near the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013. The State Department on Tuesday ordered non-essential personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen to leave the country. The department said in a travel warning that it had ordered the departure of non-emergency U.S. government personnel from Yemen "due to the continued potential for terrorist attacks" and said U.S. citizens in Yemen should leave immediately because of an "extremely high" security threat level. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)WASHINGTON (AP) — The map of closed American embassies — and those that remain open — in the Middle East and Africa provides a window into the Obama administration's concern about a potentially imminent al-Qaida terrorist attack on overseas U.S. interests.
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A look at Al-Qaida In Arabian Peninsula 
Tuesday, Aug 06, 2013 01:03 PM PDT
 FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2010 file image taken from video and released by SITE Intelligence Group on Monday, Anwar al-Awlaki speaks in a video message posted on radical websites. Al-Awlaki, a key member of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, was killed on Sept. 30, 2011 in a drone strike in the mountains of Yemen. The 40-year-old American-Yemeni cleric emerged as an enormously influential preacher among militants living in the West, with his English-language Internet sermons calling for jihad, or holy war, against the United States. He was in contact with the accused perpetrators of the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood that killed 13 people, the 2010 car bomb attempt in New York's Times Square and the Christmas 2009 attempt to blow up an airliner heading to Detroit.(AP Photo/SITE Intelligence Group, File)Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the product of a merger between the terror group's Yemeni and Saudi branches, is considered al-Qaida's most dangerous branch of all.
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