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Saturday, Aug 03, 2013 08:35 PM PDT

Police: Driver who hit beachgoers fled 
Saturday, Aug 03, 2013 08:35 PM PDT
In this image take from a security camera, pedestrians scatter as a car drives through a packed afternoon crowd along the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. At least a dozen people were injured, two of them critically, according to police. (AP Photo/Snapchat)A driver ran into a crowd at the Venice Beach boardwalk in L.A. on Saturday.
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Top U.S. officials meet over embassy threat 
Saturday, Aug 03, 2013 06:25 PM PDT
Map shows U.S. embassies and consulates that will close; 3c x 3 inches; 146 mm x 76 mm;President Obama's national security team reviews the terror threat.
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Obama administration overrules Apple import ban 
Saturday, Aug 03, 2013 09:00 PM PDT
FILE - In this May 27, 2011, file photo, a salesperson at a mobile phone shop displays an Apple iPhone 4 to a customer in New Delhi. U.S. President Obama's trade representative on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013, vetoed a ban on imports of the iPhone 4 and some variations of the iPad 2, reversing a ruling in favor of rival South Korean electronics company Samsung. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)President Obama's trade representative on Saturday vetoed a ban on imports of some Apple iPads and older iPhones, dealing a setback to rival South Korean electronics company Samsung.
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Injuries after California power plant razed 
Saturday, Aug 03, 2013 05:53 PM PDT
An explosion knocks down one of the remaining towers at the old Kern Power Plant, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013 in Bakersfield, Calif. Five spectators were injured after shrapnel was sent flying at the demolition of the decommissioned steam power plant, authorities said. More than 1,000 people had gathered at 6 a.m. in a nearby parking lot to watch the planned implosion at the plant owned by Pacific Gas and Electric in Bakersfield. After structures on the property came crashing down, a police officer at the scene heard a man screaming for help and saw his leg had been severed, police said. (AP Photo/The Bakersfield Californian, Autumn Parry) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES; TV OUTOne man lost part of his leg and four other people were injured by flying debris.
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Longtime NBC news correspondent John Palmer dies 
Saturday, Aug 03, 2013 07:04 PM PDT
FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2012 file photo, John Palmer attends the "Today" show 60th anniversary celebration at the Edison Ballroom in New York. Palmer, a veteran reporter for NBC News over a span of 40 years, died Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013 at George Washington University Hospital of pulmonary fibrosis. He was 77. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — John Palmer, a veteran reporter for NBC News who covered wars and Washington over a career that spanned 40 years, died Saturday after a brief illness at a Washington hospital.
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Zimbabwe: Mugabe declared winner in disputed vote 
Saturday, Aug 03, 2013 01:55 PM PDT
Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in Harare, Thursday, Aug. 1 2013. Tsvagirai said the election is "null and void" due to alleged violations in the voting process, but president Robert Mugabe has denied vote rigging. (AP Photo)HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe's electoral panel on Saturday declared that longtime President Robert Mugabe had won re-election by a landslide, a result that could exacerbate tensions in the country, where the 89-year-old's chief rival and former coalition partner has accused him of poll-rigging.
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From soybeans to baseball, Henry has had success 
Saturday, Aug 03, 2013 02:24 PM PDT
FILE - Boston Red Sox owner John Henry stands on the field before a baseball game in Boston, in this May 11, 2013 file photo. The principal owner of the Boston Red Sox has entered into an agreement to buy The Boston Globe. The Globe says the impending purchase marks businessman John Henry's "first foray into the financially unsettled world of the news media." It said early Saturday Aug. 3, 2013 the deal will give Henry the 141-year-old newspaper, its websites and affiliated companies. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)BOSTON (AP) — John W. Henry took a backward ballclub in a dilapidated park and transformed it into a two-time World Series champion that is one of baseball's model franchises.
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A-Rod says he's ready to rejoin Yanks, play Monday 
Saturday, Aug 03, 2013 08:11 PM PDT
New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez defends his position during the first inning of a Class AA baseball game with the Trenton Thunder against the Reading Phillies Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013, in Trenton, N.J. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Alex Rodriguez brushed aside any worries about a pending suspension, saying he's headed to Chicago and plans to play for the New York Yankees on Monday night.
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Fort Hood and the rarity of military executions 
Saturday, Aug 03, 2013 04:41 PM PDT
FILE- In this Nov. 5, 2009, file photo, Sgt. Anthony Sills, right, comforts his wife as they wait outside the Fort Hood, Texas, army base where their young son was in daycare. Nidal Hasan is charged in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 dead and more than 30 others wounded. Hasan doesn't deny that he carried out the rampage, but military law prohibits him from entering a guilty plea because authorities are seeking the death penalty. If he is convicted and sentenced to death in a trial that starts Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, there are likely years, if not decades, of appeals ahead. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett, File)DALLAS (AP) — Hundreds of unarmed soldiers, some about to deploy to Afghanistan, were waiting inside a building for vaccines and routine checkups when a fellow soldier walked in with two handguns and enough ammunition to commit one of the worst mass shootings in American history.
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12 hurt as car drives into crowd at LA boardwalk 
Saturday, Aug 03, 2013 08:24 PM PDT
In this image take from a security camera, pedestrians scatter as a car drives through a packed afternoon crowd along the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. At least a dozen people were injured, two of them critically, according to police. (AP Photo/Snapchat)LOS ANGELES (AP) — A car drove into a packed Saturday early evening crowd walking along the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles, injuring at least a dozen people, two of them critically.
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AP sources: A-Rod, union reach out to Yankees, MLB 
Saturday, Aug 03, 2013 06:51 PM PDT
New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez defends his position during the first inning of a Class AA baseball game with the Trenton Thunder against the Reading Phillies Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013, in Trenton, N.J. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball and the New York Yankees turned down requests Saturday to meet with Alex Rodriguez's camp and the union about the embattled star's expected drug penalty, two people familiar with the talks told The Associated Press.
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9 Afghans killed in attack on Indian consulate 
Saturday, Aug 03, 2013 11:31 AM PDT
Security officials conduct investigation at the scene of suicide bomb attacks in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Saturday, 3, 2013. Three suicide attackers killed at least nine civilians, most of them children, in a botched attack Saturday on the Indian consulate in an eastern Afghan city near the border with Pakistan, security officials said. (AP Photo/Babrak)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Three suicide bombers tried to attack the Indian consulate in an eastern Afghan city on Saturday, sparking a shootout with guards on a bustling downtown street that left at least nine civilians dead, official said.
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Terror threat prompts weekend US embassy closings 
Saturday, Aug 03, 2013 09:49 AM PDT
Map shows U.S. embassies and consulates that will close; 3c x 3 inches; 146 mm x 76 mm;WASHINGTON (AP) — The threat of a terrorist attack led to the weekend closure of 21 U.S. embassies and consulates in the Muslim world and a global travel warning to Americans, the first such alert since an announcement before the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 strikes.
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A-Rod homers; awaits likely drug penalty from MLB 
Saturday, Aug 03, 2013 07:05 AM PDT
New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez answers questions from the media at a news conference following a Class AA baseball game with the Trenton Thunder against the Reading Phillies, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013, in Trenton, N.J. (AP Photo/Tom Mihalek)NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Rodriguez feels singled out — by Major League Baseball in its drug investigation and by his New York Yankees.
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Obama tees off into birthday weekend with golf 
Saturday, Aug 03, 2013 01:38 PM PDT
President Barack Obama, second from right, leaves Andrews Air Force Base, Md., for a weekend in Camp David, Md., Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. The President turns 52 Sunday and will be spending his birthday at Camp David. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama kicked off his birthday weekend Saturday with a round of golf with friends and a getaway to Camp David.
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