| Fort Hood shooting rampage trial halted Posted: 07 Aug 2013 10:05 AM PDT  The suspect is deliberately pursuing the death penalty, says his standby attorney.
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| Obama: I’d benefit from refinancing — but can’t Posted: 07 Aug 2013 10:46 AM PDT  President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he would probably benefit from refinancing his Chicago home, but suggested that it's not something he can do while in office.
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| Satellite images show devastation in Syria's largest city Posted: 07 Aug 2013 08:55 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Satellite images have laid bare the suffering inflicted on Syria's largest city, a London-based rights group said Wednesday, cataloguing hundreds of damaged or destroyed houses and more than 1,000 roadblocks.
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| Bulger trial jurors seek clarification on charges Posted: 07 Aug 2013 10:04 AM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — Jurors in the racketeering trial of reputed gangster James "Whitey" Bulger asked the judge for clarification on the culpability of someone who helps in the commission of a crime as they started their second day of deliberations on Wednesday.
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| Kremlin disappointed over Obama canceling visit Posted: 07 Aug 2013 09:39 AM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin voiced disappointment Wednesday with President Barack Obama's decision to cancel his Moscow summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but said it remains ready to cooperate with the United States on bilateral and international issues.
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| Al-Qaida remains a threat, say U.N. experts Posted: 07 Aug 2013 09:54 AM PDT  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. experts say the threat from al-Qaida as a global terrorist organization has declined but the threat from its loosely linked affiliates and individuals radicalized by its "infectious ideas" persists and has become more sophisticated.
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| Desperate father starts bone marrow donation campaign Posted: 07 Aug 2013 05:50 AM PDT  Doctors say Mathew, a 3-year-old from Spain, has a 1% chance of finding a donor. But his family won't give up.
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| Live: Obama takes your housing questions Posted: 07 Aug 2013 09:52 AM PDT  The president discusses his economic vision in a Yahoo! event.
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| Egypt says diplomacy has failed to resolve crisis Posted: 07 Aug 2013 09:05 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's military-backed interim leadership proclaimed Wednesday that a crackdown against two protest sites is inevitable, saying that nearly two weeks of foreign diplomatic efforts to peacefully resolve its standoff with the Muslim Brotherhood have failed.
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| Feds, family reach deal on use of DNA information Posted: 07 Aug 2013 10:55 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Some 60 years ago, a doctor in Baltimore removed cancer cells from a poor black patient named Henrietta Lacks without her knowledge or consent. Those cells eventually helped lead to a multitude of medical treatments and laid the groundwork for the multibillion-dollar biotech industry.
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| Cleveland house in kidnap, rape case is demolished Posted: 07 Aug 2013 09:03 AM PDT  CLEVELAND (AP) — With several swipes from the arm of an excavator and a smattering of applause from spectators, demolition began Wednesday morning on the Cleveland house where three women were held captive and raped for a decade. The house was reduced to rubble in less than an hour and a half.
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| Activists: Syrian troops ambush rebels, kill 62 Posted: 07 Aug 2013 06:33 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government forces killed more than 60 rebels Wednesday in an ambush near Damascus, a blow to opposition fighters confronting a regime offensive in the capital, activists said.
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| Kenya fire: Airport reopens for domestic, cargo Posted: 07 Aug 2013 08:51 AM PDT  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A poorly equipped fire brigade reacted slowly to a small fire at Kenya's main airport, allowing it to grow into an inferno that destroyed the arrival hall Wednesday, forcing the airport to be closed and disrupting air traffic.
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| Close friend becomes suspect in California death Posted: 07 Aug 2013 02:44 AM PDT  LAKESIDE, Calif. (AP) — The children treated him like an uncle. He was close friends with their parents.
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| Lawyer: Hasan intent on getting death sentence Posted: 07 Aug 2013 09:33 AM PDT FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The standby attorney for the soldier charged in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage accused Maj. Nidal Hasan on Wednesday of deliberately charting a course toward a conviction and death sentence, an assertion that grinded the trial to an abrupt halt after only one day. |
| In rebuke, Obama cancels Moscow summit with Putin Posted: 07 Aug 2013 08:48 AM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a rare diplomatic rebuke, President Barack Obama on Wednesday canceled his Moscow summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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| Hotshot survivor 'numb' after hearing of deaths Posted: 07 Aug 2013 08:18 AM PDT  PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — The surviving member of an elite Arizona firefighting crew that was overrun by flames says he went numb after learning the 19 men he considered his brothers were dead, and he wonders why he alone was spared what he calls a "horrible, freak accident."
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| As al-Qaida grows, leaders remain a global threat Posted: 07 Aug 2013 04:11 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Far from being on the brink of collapse, al-Qaida's core leadership remains a potent threat — and one that experts say has encouraged the terror network's spread into more countries today than it was operating in immediately after 9/11.
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| Egypt army says 60 militants in Sinai killed Posted: 07 Aug 2013 08:17 AM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's military spokesman says 60 militants have been killed and 103 arrested on the Sinai Peninsula as part of the army's operations there over the past month. |
| Hasan asks no questions of 1st Fort Hood victim Posted: 07 Aug 2013 04:38 AM PDT FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Staff Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford had waited for the moment he would face the man who killed 13 of his colleagues in the 2009 massacre at Fort Hood. He'd prepared to confront Maj. Nidal Hasan, vowing to answer questions without fear in his heart. |
| Al Qaeda is thriving Posted: 07 Aug 2013 08:25 AM PDT  Failed states and revolutions are incubators for jihadists.
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| Ron Paul: Retired but not relenting Posted: 07 Aug 2013 03:57 AM PDT  Power Players Ron Paul doesn't miss much about being in Congress. The retired Texas Republican congressman and presidential candidate tells "Power Players" he's relieved to no longer have to book his flights based on House Speaker John Boehner's schedule and has left the "political shenanigans" of Washington behind. Paul, who serves as the chairman of [...]
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