Friday, September 27, 2013

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Friday, Sep 27, 2013 06:08 PM PDT
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UN Council orders Syria chemical weapons destroyed 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 06:08 PM PDT
 Britain's Foreign Minister William Hague (L) and US Secretary of State John Kerry (R) vote to approve a resolution that will require Syria to give up its chemical weapons during a meeting September 27, 2013 at UN headquarters in New YorkThe landmark resolution passed by a unanimous vote on Friday.
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Police: Refugee boat sinks on way to Australia, 21 dead 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 08:37 PM PDT
 Women mourn death of family members who died on boat that sank off Indonesian coast, in AkkarJAKARTA (Reuters) - A boat carrying migrants to Australia sank off the Indonesian coast on Friday, killing at least 21 people, Indonesian police said, a sign that Australia's tough new immigration rules may not be enough to deter would-be asylum seekers. The latest disaster to strike refugees using Indonesia's southern coast to try to reach Australia will cast a shadow over a visit to Jakarta on Monday by Australia's new conservative prime minister Tony Abbott, whose tough stance on immigration was at the heart of his election campaign. ...
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Pop quiz: What’s wrong with the tea party? 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 11:31 AM PDT
 FILE - In this June 19, 2013, file photo, Tea Party activists rallying in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. The movement's top strategists concede the tea party is quieter today, by design. It has matured, they said, from a protest movement to a political movement. Large-scale rallies have given way to strategic letter-writing and phone-banking campaigns to push or oppose legislative agendas in Washington and state capitals. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Twenty-two percent of Americans, Gallup says, back the tea party. That's down from 32 percent shortly after the 2010 midterm elections, when the GOP captured the U.S. House. Half of respondents said they neither support nor oppose the tea party, or simply have no opinion.
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Car bomb kills 30 in town north of Syrian capital 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 11:33 AM PDT
 FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013, file photo, released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens gather at the scene of a car bomb exploded in the residential al-Tadhamon neighborhood in Damascus, Syria. Car bombs, shelling and airstrikes have become common in Syria's civil war, which has killed more than 100,000 people and driven another 7 million _ around a third of the country's pre-war population _ from their homes since March 2011. (AP Photo/SANA, File)BEIRUT (AP) — A car bomb exploded near a mosque north of the Syrian capital as worshippers emerged from Friday prayers, killing at least 30 people, causing part of the building's roof to collapse and littering the street with smoldering debris, activists said.
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Official says Kenyan forces caused mall collapse 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 11:23 AM PDT
 NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's military caused the massive collapse of three floors of Nairobi's Westgate Mall during the terrorist siege in which at least 67 people died, a top-ranking government official said Friday.
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NSA watchdog details surveillance misuse 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 10:53 AM PDT
 National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander is sworn on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013, prior to testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and National Security Agency (NSA) call records. Clapper told lawmakers he's willing to consider limits on surveillance by the National Security Agency. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)WASHINGTON (AP) — Some workers at the National Security Agency intentionally misused the government's secret surveillance systems at least 12 times over the past decade, including instances when they spied on spouses, boyfriends or girlfriends, according to embarrassing new details disclosed by the agency's inspector general. In nearly every case, the workers were allowed to retire before they could be punished.
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Climate panel: warming 'extremely likely' man-made 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 08:47 AM PDT
 A fuel refinery in foreground with Table Mountain in backdrop near the city of Cape Town, South Africa, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. Scientists are more certain than ever that humans are causing the majority of climate change - with significant impact for the planet, a key report has shown. The first part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) fifth assessment report shows that global warming is "unequivocal" and human influence on the climate is clear. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)STOCKHOLM (AP) — Scientists now believe it's "extremely likely" that human activity is the dominant cause of global warming, a long-term trend that is clear despite a recent plateau in the temperatures, an international climate panel said Friday.
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Stricken United plane captain dies in Boise 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 12:06 PM PDT
 BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials have identified the United Airlines captain who died after suffering a mid-flight heart attack as 63-year-old Henry Skillern of Humble, Texas.
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Bush feeling 'pretty good' after heart procedure 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 11:02 AM PDT
 IRVING, Texas (AP) — Former President George W. Bush says he's feeling "pretty good" after undergoing a heart procedure last month and able to go mountain biking and play golf.
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Mount Vernon opens library dedicated to Washington 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 01:26 PM PDT
 This photo taken Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013 shows Curt Viebranz, president and CEO of George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate, Museum, and Gardens, looking at a book that belonged to George Washington in the Rare Books Suite of the new Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington, in Mount Vernon, Va. After years of planning and a $100 million fundraising campaign, George Washington's Mount Vernon estate is formally opening a new library dedicated to the study of America's first president and the Founding Fathers. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)MOUNT VERNON, Va. (AP) — George Washington's Mount Vernon estate on Friday formally opened a new $47 million library dedicated to the study of America's first president, with plans to host a series of scholars who will examine the lives of Washington and the Founding Fathers.
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Jury deliberates suit against Jackson promoter 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 10:50 AM PDT
 Baliffs are sworn in to protect the jury as Brian Panish, foreground, attorney for the Michael Jackson family waits in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013. Katherine Jackson's negligence lawsuit against concert promoter AEG Live LLC has gone to the jury. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Al Seib, Pool)LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a bitterly fought five-month trial, a negligence lawsuit by Michael Jackson's mother against his concert promoter is in the hands of a jury after a final plea by a Jackson lawyer to punish the company he portrayed as a heartless, money-making machine.
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Exxon to offer benefits to same-sex couples in US 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 11:44 AM PDT
 FILE - In this May 1, 2008 file photo, a truck passes a pump at an Exxon Mobil station in Williamsville, N.Y. Exxon Mobil Corp. said Friday, Sept. 28, 2013, that it will begin offering benefits to legally married same-sex couples in the U.S. for the first time starting the first week of October 2013. The company says it will recognize "all legal marriages" when it determines eligibility for health care plans for the company's 77,000 employees and retirees in the U.S. (AP Photo/David Duprey, file)NEW YORK (AP) — Exxon says it will begin offering benefits to legally married same-sex couples in the U.S. for the first time as of Oct. 1.
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Syrian chemical arms inspections could begin soon 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 11:43 AM PDT
 In this image taken from Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013, video obtained from the Sham News Network, Syrian opposition fighters fire at government forces near Daraa customs in Daraa al-Balad, Syria. Russia offered on Thursday to provide troops to guard facilities where Syria's chemical weapons would be destroyed, as U.N. inspectors prepared to continue their probe on the use of such agents in the country's civil war. (AP Photo/Sham News Network via AP video)THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The world's chemical weapons watchdog was preparing Friday to launch a risky United Nations-backed mission into the heart of Syria's deadly civil war to verify and destroy the country's chemical arsenal in a matter of months.
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8 dead, dozens missing in India building cave-in 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 07:55 AM PDT
 Rescue workers carry a girl out from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Mumbai, India, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. The apartment building collapsed in India's financial capital of Mumbai early Friday, killing people and sending rescuers racing to reach dozens of people trapped in the rubble. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)MUMBAI, India (AP) — Rescuers pulled a small girl alive from a collapsed apartment building in India's financial capital nearly 12 hours after the structure caved in Friday, killing at least eight people and leaving dozens trapped under the rubble.
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Rouhani: Obama has struck new tone on Iran 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 10:04 AM PDT
 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a news conference at the Millennium Hotel in midtown Manhattan, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran's new president said Friday that President Barack Obama struck a new tone in his U.N. speech this week that left him optimistic about easing tensions between the two countries.
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Clinton meeting showcases a political family 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 09:13 AM PDT
 FILE - This Sept. 24, 2013 file photo shows former President Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. On its face, the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting here provided a platform for Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton to announce a series of financial commitments from corporations, non-governmental organizations and philanthropists to address intractable problems around the globe. Perhaps more than any other year, however, the New York gathering of Clinton loyalists and luminaries offered a vivid look at the past, present and future of one of America's most dominant political families. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)NEW YORK (AP) — On its face, the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting provides a platform for Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton to announce a series of financial commitments from corporations, nongovernmental organizations and philanthropists to address intractable problems around the globe.
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