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Today's Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines: Source: U.S. immediately responded to Benghazi attack as terrorism Calif. man behind anti-Muslim film ordered jailed Police: Minnesota office shooter among 'several' dead Netanyahu's 'red line' mocked on Twitter GOP fires vendor after questionable registrations Clinton urges 'cool heads' in China-Japan dispute Hackers, possibly from Mideast, block American banks' websites Theater seeks dismissal of lawsuits in Colorado mass shooting Spain's crisis budget aims at spending cuts not tax rises Yosemite workers' blood examined for hantavirus clues Conn. man kills masked boy, finds out it's his son Thieves take $10,000 in wedding presents U.N. chief fooled by prank call from fake prime minister Judge strikes down lawsuit claims against Palin Chef found guilty of murder in boiled body case Is becoming a 'Bagel Head' dangerous? Source: U.S. immediately responded to Benghazi attack as terrorism Thu,27 Sep 2012 02:56 PM PDT When gunmen struck the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 of this year, the response from American officials was almost simultaneous: They immediately set about collecting information about the attackers, some of whom were quickly identified as foreigners, and tracing links from them to known extremist groups, a knowledgeable source has told Yahoo [...] Full Story Top Calif. man behind anti-Muslim film ordered jailed Thu,27 Sep 2012 07:51 PM PDT Associated Press - A federal judge on Thursday determined a California man behind a crudely produced anti-Islamic video that inflamed parts of the Middle East is a flight risk and ordered him detained. Full Story Top Police: Minnesota office shooter among 'several' dead Thu,27 Sep 2012 06:56 PM PDT Associated Press - The shooter who opened fire inside a Minneapolis sign company was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound Thursday and was among "several" people killed in the incident, the city's deputy police chief said. Full Story Top Netanyahu's 'red line' mocked on Twitter Thu,27 Sep 2012 01:24 PM PDT During his speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the completion of Iran's nuclear enrichment program threatens the stability of the Middle East, Europe and the United States—and urged world leaders to draw a "red line" to prevent Iran from continuing on. In a highly unusual [...] Full Story Top GOP fires vendor after questionable registrations Thu,27 Sep 2012 07:22 PM PDT Associated Press - Republicans on Thursday fired a vendor suspected of submitting 108 questionable new voter registrations in Florida's Palm Beach County, ground zero for disputed ballots in 2000's presidential race. Full Story Top Clinton urges 'cool heads' in China-Japan dispute Thu,27 Sep 2012 07:49 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged China and Japan on Thursday to let "cool heads" prevail in a festering dispute over a cluster of islands in the East China Sea that has soured ties between Asia's two largest economies. Clinton met Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on the sidelines of this week's U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York and said it was important to ratchet down tensions over the islands, known as the Diaoyu islands in China and the Senkaku Islands in Japan, a senior State Department official said. "The secretary ... ... Full Story Top Hackers, possibly from Mideast, block American banks' websites Thu,27 Sep 2012 02:42 PM PDT ABC News - The financial and banking industries are on high alert tonight as a massive cyberattack continues, with potentially millions of customers of Bank of America, PNC and Wells Fargo finding themselves blocked from banking online. Full Story Top Theater seeks dismissal of lawsuits in Colorado mass shooting Thu,27 Sep 2012 05:45 PM PDT Reuters - A theater chain being sued by three Colorado moviegoers who were hurt when a gunman opened fire during a July screening of the "Dark Knight Rises" said on Thursday the lawsuits should be dismissed, court papers show. James Holmes, a 24-year-old former neuroscience graduate student at the University of Colorado, has been charged with murder and attempted murder for the rampage that killed 12 people and wounded 58 others. Lawyers for Cinemark USA are seeking dismissal of the lawsuits filed last week in Denver federal court by the victims, who said the theater had lax security. ... Full Story Top Spain's crisis budget aims at spending cuts not tax rises Thu,27 Sep 2012 03:08 PM PDT Reuters - Spain announced a crisis budget for 2013 based mostly on spending cuts on Thursday in what many see as an effort to pre-empt the likely conditions of an international bailout. Ministry budgets were slashed by 8.9 percent for next year and public sector wages frozen for a third year as Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy battles to trim one of the euro zone's biggest deficits. "This is a crisis budget aimed at emerging from the crisis ... ... Full Story Top Yosemite workers' blood examined for hantavirus clues Thu,27 Sep 2012 05:00 PM PDT Reuters - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Public health officials have begun examining blood samples and questionnaire results from dozens of Yosemite National Park workers who volunteered for a study designed to shed light on an unprecedented outbreak of deadly hantavirus. This week's screening, which involved 96 workers, is the latest effort by officials to uncover clues about the rare, mouse-borne lung disease that has infected at least nine park visitors and killed three since June. ... Full Story Top Conn. man kills masked boy, finds out it's his son Thu,27 Sep 2012 07:27 PM PDT Associated Press - A man fatally shot a masked teenager in self-defense outside his neighbor's house during what appeared to be an attempted late-night burglary and then discovered it was his son, state police said. Full Story Top Thieves take $10,000 in wedding presents Thu,27 Sep 2012 04:20 PM PDT A newlywed couple's marriage is off to a rough start after thieves took more than $10,000 worth of gifts that the couple left unprotected outdoors overnight. "Somebody had come and taken all of the wedding gifts," Amy Wright, the bride, told local Pennsylvania affiliate WFMZ. "Every last card was gone, the boxes, the gift bags." [...] Full Story Top U.N. chief fooled by prank call from fake prime minister Thu,27 Sep 2012 06:42 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A pair of Canadian radio comedians said on Thursday it took them less then an hour to get U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the phone during international diplomacy's busiest week - by pretending to be Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Ban was pulled out of a meeting during the U.N. General Assembly of world leaders on Wednesday to take the phone call from Quebec comedy duo "The Masked Avengers," famous for tricking celebrities and politicians. ... Full Story Top Judge strikes down lawsuit claims against Palin Thu,27 Sep 2012 05:52 PM PDT Associated Press - A federal judge on Thursday struck down claims in a lawsuit alleging that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin acted to silence an activist who complained about traffic around the governor's mansion in 2009. Full Story Top Chef found guilty of murder in boiled body case Thu,27 Sep 2012 02:20 PM PDT Associated Press - A chef who told police he boiled his wife's body for four days to hide evidence of her death was convicted Thursday of second-degree murder. Full Story Top Is becoming a 'Bagel Head' dangerous? Thu,27 Sep 2012 03:57 PM PDT LiveScience.com - If you thought Japan's extreme fad culture would stop short of people injecting saline into their foreheads to make it look like they have bagels implanted under their skin, you were wrong. Being a "bagel head" is, indeed, currently in vogue in Tokyo. Full Story Top

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