Thursday, August 29, 2013

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Thursday, Aug 29, 2013 03:56 PM PDT
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U.S. ready to go it alone on Syria 
Thursday, Aug 29, 2013 03:56 PM PDT
In this image taken from video, Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, front left, stands to speak to the assembled parliament during a debate on Syria, in Britain's parliament, London, Thursday Aug. 29, 2013. Britain's leaders said Thursday it would be legal under humanitarian doctrine to launch a military strike against Syria even without authorization from the United Nations Security Council, but it is not certain how much support there is for the government's resolution on Syria. (AP Photo / PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVESPres. Obama is weighing military strikes without key ally Britain.
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Wildfire spreads into Yosemite ahead of holiday weekend 
Thursday, Aug 29, 2013 09:10 PM PDT
A pick-up truck and buildings destroyed by the Rim Fire, August 28, 2013The wildfire threatening Yosemite National Park is spreading further into the tourist landmark, officials said.
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Clapper to publish numbers of secret spying orders 
Thursday, Aug 29, 2013 05:28 PM PDT
Clapper testifies at Security threat hearing on Capitol Hill in WashingtonThe nation's top intelligence official said Thursday that he'll now release figures every year on how many new top secret court orders and national security letters are issued and how many people are targeted because of them.
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Feds won't sue to stop marijuana use in 2 states 
Thursday, Aug 29, 2013 04:24 PM PDT
File photo of a man holding a sign referring to Colorado legalizing marijuana with the state capitol dome in the background in downtown DenverWASHINGTON (AP) — Despite 75 years of federal marijuana prohibition, the Justice Department said Thursday that states can let people use the drug, license people to grow it and even allow adults to stroll into stores and buy it — as long as the weed is kept away from kids, the black market and federal property.
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J&J launches new cap to curb Tylenol overdoses 
Thursday, Aug 29, 2013 03:41 PM PDT
This undated product image provided by Johnson & Johnson shows a bottle of Extra Strength Tylenol bearing a new warning label on the cap alerting users to potentially fatal risks of taking too much of the pain reliever. Johnson & Johnson, the company that makes Tylenol, says the warning will appear on the cap of new bottles of Extra Strength Tylenol sold in the U.S. starting in October 2013 and on most other Tylenol bottles in coming months. (AP Photo/Johnson & Johnson)WASHINGTON (AP) — Bottles of Tylenol sold in the U.S. will soon bear red warnings alerting users to the potentially fatal risks of taking too much of the popular pain reliever. The unusual step, disclosed by the company that makes Tylenol, comes amid a growing number of lawsuits and pressure from the federal government that could have widespread ramifications for a medicine taken by millions of people every day.
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Man tells 911 he killed cancer-stricken wife 
Thursday, Aug 29, 2013 02:19 PM PDT
This photo provided by London, KY Sheriff's office shows Ernest Chris Chumbley of London, Ky. Chumbley, 48, was charged Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, with murdering his wife but said he was only complying with her request to end her suffering from cancer. Chumbley, told WKYT-TV he fired the shots that killed Virginia M. Chumbley, 44, who he says had terminal breast cancer, but didn't commit the crime he is charged with. LONDON, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man called 911 just minutes after killing his wife, sobbing and confessing to a dispatcher that he fatally shot the cancer-stricken woman, and asking to take a last look at her before his arrest, according to recordings released Thursday.
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Mont. judge's apology rejected by victim's mother 
Thursday, Aug 29, 2013 05:31 PM PDT
Auliea Hanlon receives a hug from a supporter during a Thursday Aug. 29, 2013 rally in which protesters called for the resignation of a judge who presided over the trial of a former teacher who raped Hanlon's daughter. Hanlon rejected Judge G. Todd Baugh's apology for his comment that her daughter was "older than her chronological age." before sentencing the rapist to 30 days in prison. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The mother of a 14-year-old girl who was raped by her teacher and later committed suicide appeared at a raucous Thursday protest against the judge who sentenced the man to a month in jail and said the victim was "older than her chronological age."
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Financial stress may hit your brain and wallet 
Thursday, Aug 29, 2013 02:55 PM PDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Being short on cash may make you a bit slower in the brain, a new study suggests.
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NFL agrees to pay $765M to settle concussion suits 
Thursday, Aug 29, 2013 05:08 PM PDT
FILE - In this Jan. 15, 1995, file photo, San Diego Chargers' Junior Seau, right, tackles Pittsburgh Steelers Ernie Mills during the first quarter of the AFC Championship NFL football game in Pittsburgh. Senior U.S. District Judge Anita Brody in Philadelphia, announced Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, that the NFL and more than 4,500 former players want to settle concussion-related lawsuits for $765 million. The plaintiffs include at least 10 members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, along with and the family of Seau, who committed suicide last year. The global settlement would fund medical exams, concussion-related compensation and medical research. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The NFL agreed to pay more than three-quarters of a billion dollars to settle lawsuits from thousands of former players who developed dementia or other concussion-related health problems they say were caused by the very on-field violence that fueled the game's rise to popularity and profit.
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Louisiana chimpanzee wins 1st prize in art contest 
Thursday, Aug 29, 2013 05:06 PM PDT
This undated image provided by Chimp Haven, Inc. shows Brent, a chimpanzee at Chimp Haven in Keithville, La. The 37-year-old chimpanzee who paints with his tongue has won $10,000 for a sanctuary in northwest Louisiana, as the top vote-getter in an online chimp art contest organized by the Humane Society of the United States. Brent was unavailable for comment. Chimp Haven president Kathy Willis-Spratz says the money will go toward construction to prepare the sanctuary in Keithville for chimpanzees being retired from a lab in New Iberia. (AP Photo/Chimp Haven, Inc.)NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A painting by a 37-year-old Louisiana primate who applies color with his tongue instead of a brush has been deemed the finest chimpanzee art in the land.
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AP sources: Intelligence on weapons no 'slam dunk' 
Thursday, Aug 29, 2013 06:36 PM PDT
FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013 file citizen journalism image provided by the United media office of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a member of a UN investigation team takes samples of sands near a part of a missile is likely to be one of the chemical rockets according to activists, in the Damascus countryside of Ain Terma, Syria. The intelligence linking the Syrian regime and President Bashar Assad to the alleged chemical weapons attack that killed at least 100 Syrians is no WASHINGTON (AP) — The intelligence linking Syrian President Bashar Assad or his inner circle to an alleged chemical weapons attack is no "slam dunk," with questions remaining about who actually controls some of Syria's chemical weapons stores and doubts about whether Assad himself ordered the strike, U.S. intelligence officials say.
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Powers limited, Obama, Biden seek action on guns 
Thursday, Aug 29, 2013 02:45 PM PDT
Vice President Biden, center, flanked by Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) Director Todd Jones, left, and Attorney General Eric Holder, speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, after the ceremonial swearing-in for Jones. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)WASHINGTON (AP) — Months after gun control efforts crumbled in Congress, Vice President Joe Biden stood shoulder to shoulder Thursday with the attorney general and the top U.S. firearms official and declared the Obama administration would take two new steps to curb American gun violence.
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NFL to spend $765M to settle concussion lawsuits 
Thursday, Aug 29, 2013 03:52 PM PDT
FILE - In this Jan. 15, 1995, file photo, San Diego Chargers' Junior Seau, right, tackles Pittsburgh Steelers Ernie Mills during the first quarter of the AFC Championship NFL football game in Pittsburgh. Senior U.S. District Judge Anita Brody in Philadelphia, announced Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, that the NFL and more than 4,500 former players want to settle concussion-related lawsuits for $765 million. The plaintiffs include at least 10 members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, along with and the family of Seau, who committed suicide last year. The global settlement would fund medical exams, concussion-related compensation and medical research. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The NFL agreed to pay more than three-quarters of a billion dollars to settle lawsuits from thousands of former players who developed dementia or other concussion-related brain disorders they say were caused by the very on-field violence that fueled the game's rise to popularity and profit.
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Fast-food workers stage largest protests yet 
Thursday, Aug 29, 2013 05:57 PM PDT
Protesting fast food workers fill a McDonald's restaurant on New York's Fifth Avenue, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. Organizers say thousands of fast-food workers are set to stage walkouts in dozens of cities around the country Thursday, part of a push to get chains such as McDonald's, Taco Bell and Wendy's to pay workers higher wages. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)NEW YORK (AP) — Fast-food workers and their supporters beat drums, blew whistles and chanted slogans Thursday on picket lines in dozens of U.S. cities, marking the largest protests yet in their quest for higher wages.
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US making case for action against Syria 
Thursday, Aug 29, 2013 03:42 PM PDT
White House deputy press secretary Josh Earnest answers reporters questions in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, where he talked about Syria and the use of chemical weapons as the administration debates what action to take. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama faced deep resistance Thursday to plans for a possible military strike against Syria, with U.S. lawmakers demanding more proof that Bashar Assad's government perpetrated a deadly chemical weapons attack and Britain's Parliament rejecting military action in a stunning late night vote. Even so, the U.S. could launch action within days.
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Syria defiant as UN chemical probe nears end 
Thursday, Aug 29, 2013 03:23 PM PDT
UN vehicles leave the Four Season Hotel in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. U.N. experts investigating purported poison gas attacks left their Damascus hotel Thursday, but anti-regime activists said the team's destination was not immediately known. (AP Photo)DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — President Bashar Assad vowed Thursday that "Syria will defend itself" against Western military strikes over a suspected chemical weapons attack, and the U.N. said inspectors will leave within 48 hours carrying information that could be crucial to what happens next.
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President talks with House Speaker Boehner on Syria 
Thursday, Aug 29, 2013 12:02 PM PDT
departs after a news conference on Capitol Hill in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called Speaker of the House John Boehner by telephone on Thursday to discuss his deliberations on Syria, a spokesman for Boehner said, adding that more consultation with Congress and the U.S. public was needed. The two discussed issues that Boehner raised in a letter to Obama on Wednesday, including the legal justification for any military strike, precedents a strike might set and the objectives and strategy for any action, he said. ...
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