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Syrian forces launch new Aleppo strikes 
Saturday, Feb 01, 2014 01:35 PM PST
In this citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center (AMC), an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrians inspect the rubble of destroyed buildings following a Syrian government airstrike in Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Jan. 31, 2014 . Activists said the latest Syrian government shelling has killed and wounded several people in a rebel-held area of the northern city of Aleppo. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)Syrian military helicopters dropped barrels packed with explosives, activists said.
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GOP ponders scandal's toll on Christie's future 
Saturday, Feb 01, 2014 03:07 PM PST
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during a ceremony to pass official hosting duties of next year's Super Bowl to representatives from Arizona, Saturday Feb. 1, 2014 in New York. Fellow Republicans are assessing the damage of new allegations that Gov. Christie knew about a traffic-blocking operation orchestrated by top aides. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Fellow Republicans on Saturday debated the fallout over new suggestions that Gov. Chris Christie knew about a traffic-blocking operation orchestrated by top aides as apparent political payback earlier than he has acknowledged.
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Dylan Farrow resurrects Allen molestation claim 
Saturday, Feb 01, 2014 08:03 PM PST
FILE - This Aug. 27, 2013 file photo shows director and actor Woody Allen at the French premiere of "Blue Jasmine," in Paris. Allen was nominated for an Academy Award for best original screenplay on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014 for the film. The 86th Academy Awards will be held on March 2. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Dylan Farrow renewed molestation allegations against Woody Allen, claiming the movie director sexually assaulted her when she was 7 after he and actress Mia Farrow adopted her.
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Christie going on offensive over accusation 
Saturday, Feb 01, 2014 05:44 PM PST
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during a ceremony to pass official hosting duties of next year's Super Bowl to representatives from Arizona, Saturday Feb. 1, 2014 in New York. Fellow Republicans are assessing the damage of new allegations that Gov. Christie knew about a traffic-blocking operation orchestrated by top aides. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is going on the offensive after a former loyalist said he has evidence the Republican governor knew more than he has admitted about an apparently politically motivated traffic jam ordered by one of his staffers last year.
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Polls open in tense Thai national election 
Saturday, Feb 01, 2014 07:29 PM PST
Thai Prime Minister and Pheu Thai party leader Yingluck Shinawatra, right, poses before casting her ballot for the general election at a polling station in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014. Thailand's tense national election got underway Sunday amid signs of disruptions at several polling stations and fears of violence, a day after gun battles between protesters and would-be voters broke out at a busy Bangkok intersection.(AP Photo/Wally Santana)BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's tense national election got underway Sunday with protesters forcing the closure of several polling stations in the capital amid fears of more bloodshed a day after gun battles in Bangkok left seven people wounded.
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United Airlines drops Cleveland as hub airport 
Saturday, Feb 01, 2014 07:08 PM PST
WASHINGTON (AP) — United Airlines said Saturday it will drop its money-losing hub in Cleveland, slashing its daily flights and eliminating 470 jobs.
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Kerry: Ukraine should be free to align with Europe 
Saturday, Feb 01, 2014 09:48 AM PST
US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel , center, and Wolfgang Ischinger, right, chairman of the Munich Security Conference, listen as US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks during the Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel Saturday Feb. 1, 2014 in Munich, southern Germany. The annual meeting was set to deal with thorny international issues, from the Syrian war and Ukraine's turmoil to Iran's nuclear program and US online surveillance. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski,Pool)MUNICH (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday that Ukraine, confronting a political crisis and massive anti-government protests, should be free to align with Europe if it wants and not feel coerced by more powerful neighbors such as Russia.
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SC Supreme Court to rule on public autopsy reports 
Saturday, Feb 01, 2014 08:44 AM PST
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Are autopsies medical records or public records?
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Guy, Brooks, Jones among 7 elected to Hall of Fame 
Saturday, Feb 01, 2014 06:07 PM PST
FILE - In this Jan. 25, 1981 file phot, Oakland Raiders punter Ray Guy kicks during the Super Bowl in New Orleans. Guy has become the first punter elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday Feb. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/File)NEW YORK (AP) — The hang time is over for Ray Guy. The longtime punter for the Oakland Raiders is all by himself once again.
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AP PHOTOS: Gunfire erupts on eve of Thai elections 
Saturday, Feb 01, 2014 11:45 AM PST
Gunfire erupted during protests in Thailand's capital Saturday, injuring 7 people, including an American photojournalist, and sending people scrambling for cover. The shooting broke out as government supporters clashed with protesters trying to derail nationwide elections one day before the vote begins. People caught in the mayhem crouched behind cars and ducked behind a pedestrian bridge while other fled inside a nearby shopping mall.
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UN chief pushes for quick return to Syria talks 
Saturday, Feb 01, 2014 10:35 AM PST
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon addresses during the 50th Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The United Nations' secretary-general pressed the U.S. and Russia to help ensure that peace talks aimed at stemming Syria's civil war can soon resume, while Russia's foreign minister said Saturday that it was "very difficult" to push Syrian President Bashar Assad's government to make concessions.
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Christie going on offensive about accusation 
Saturday, Feb 01, 2014 04:37 PM PST
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during a ceremony to pass official hosting duties of next year's Super Bowl to representatives from Arizona, Saturday Feb. 1, 2014 in New York. Fellow Republicans are assessing the damage of new allegations that Gov. Christie knew about a traffic-blocking operation orchestrated by top aides. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is going on the offensive after a former loyalist said he has evidence the Republican governor knew more than he has admitted about an apparently politically motivated traffic jam ordered by one of his staffers last year.
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Different QB styles clash at Super Bowl 
Saturday, Feb 01, 2014 01:43 PM PST
Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning passes during practice Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, in Florham Park, N.J. The Broncos are scheduled to play the Seattle Seahawks in the NFL Super Bowl XLVIII football game Sunday, Feb. 2, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo)EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (AP) — This Super Bowl has just about everything a fan, a player, a coach — and certainly a league — could ask for.
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NJ Gov. Christie playing offense over accusation 
Saturday, Feb 01, 2014 03:55 PM PST
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during a ceremony to pass official hosting duties of next year's Super Bowl to representatives from Arizona, Saturday Feb. 1, 2014 in New York. Fellow Republicans are assessing the damage of new allegations that Gov. Christie knew about a traffic-blocking operation orchestrated by top aides. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Chris Christie is going on the offensive over suggestions he knew more than he has said about apparently politically motivated traffic jams ordered by one of his staffers.
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Knox's judge says he suffered over guilty verdict 
Saturday, Feb 01, 2014 08:13 AM PST
Amanda Knox co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito leaves the Udine police station, northern Italy, Friday, Jan 31, 2014. Police on Friday found Amanda Knox's ex-boyfriend near Italy's border with Slovenia and Austria, hours after he and the American student were convicted for a second time in the death of British student Meredith Kercher. They brought him to the Udine police station, took his passport and put a stamp in his Italian identity papers showing that he cannot leave the country, as mandated by the appeals court in Florence. (AP Photo/Paolo Giovannini)ROME (AP) — The judge who presided over Amanda Knox's second murder conviction says he suffered over the verdict, but that he and the jury reached agreement that she was guilty in the death of British student Meredith Kercher.
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Trial of Egypt's ousted leader resumes 
Saturday, Feb 01, 2014 08:57 AM PST
A supporter of the head of Egypt's military, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, left, wearing a t-shirt with his image, scuffles with a Muslim Brotherhood lawyer, Ahmed Kamel, after she struck him outside a makeshift courtroom at the national police academy, in an eastern suburb of Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014. The trial of Egypt's ousted president, Mohammed Morsi and 14 others also accused of inciting the killing of protesters resumed on Saturday. The trial is one of four Morsi and top leaders of his Muslim Brotherhood face with the charges levelled against them mostly carrying the death penalty. (AP Photo/Ahmed Omar)CAIRO (AP) — A lawyer for Egypt's ousted president on Saturday told a Cairo court that it lacked jurisdiction to try Mohammed Morsi, saying the Islamist leader remained Egypt's legitimate president because there has been no official decree removing him from office.
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SpaceX's Elon Musk, Joseph Gordon-Levitt talk manned Mars missions 
Saturday, Feb 01, 2014 04:49 AM PST
SpaceX's Elon Musk and Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talk Manned Mars Missions (Video)Billionaire Musk shared his big vision for a "self-sustaining civilization" on Mars with actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a short documentary set to air this weekend.
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