| House sends spending bill to Senate Posted: 20 Sep 2013 08:57 AM PDT  But the temporary budget proposal strips funding from health care reform.
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| Government warned of problems with airplane escape slides before Asiana crash Posted: 20 Sep 2013 06:39 AM PDT  The Federal Aviation Administration had been concerned with the safety of escape slides during crashes even before the crash at San Francisco International Airport.
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| Tweet heat: 'blood is on the hands of the NRA' gets prof sanctioned Posted: 20 Sep 2013 10:23 AM PDT  A University of Kansas journalism professor was placed on indefinite administrative leave Friday for a tweet he wrote about the Navy Yard shootings which said, "blood is on the hands of the #NRA. ...
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| Germans favor 'Mommy' Merkel as Europe faces vote Posted: 20 Sep 2013 08:36 AM PDT  Angela Merkel is poised to win a third term as German chancellor on Sunday. But other Europeans say her economic policies are harming their countries.
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| Boston bombing victims' families face difficult question Posted: 20 Sep 2013 06:21 AM PDT  Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev returns to court Monday. He faces the possibility of the death penalty, a punishment Massachusetts hasn't rendered in 66 years.
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| Pope blasts abortion as symptom of 'throw-away culture' Posted: 20 Sep 2013 08:50 AM PDT  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis offered an olive branch of sorts to the doctrine-minded, conservative wing of the Catholic Church on Friday as he denounced abortions as a symptom of today's "throw-away culture" and encouraged Catholic doctors to refuse to perform them.
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| US and Iran eye diplomatic defrosting at UN Posted: 20 Sep 2013 07:45 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Iran's new president may meet briefly next week for the first time, marking a symbolic but significant step toward easing their countries' tense relationship. An exchange of letters between the leaders already has raised expectations for a revival of stalled nuclear talks, though Iran is still likely to seek an easing of international sanctions in exchange for significant progress.
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| Returning Coloradans find sickening flood damage Posted: 20 Sep 2013 10:27 AM PDT  LYONS, Colo. (AP) — Coloradans who ventured back into the flood-ravaged town of Lyons found scenes of stomach-churning destruction, with dozens of homes destroyed, family keepsakes missing, food spoiling and mud everywhere.
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| Syria sends watchdog chemical weapons inventory Posted: 20 Sep 2013 10:31 AM PDT  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Syria has sent the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons an "initial declaration" outlining its weapons program, the organization said Friday.
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| Brain-eating amoeba rattles nerves in La. parish Posted: 20 Sep 2013 08:14 AM PDT  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — While officials try to pin down the source of a deadly amoeba found in the water supply of a suburban New Orleans community, bottled water sales in St. Bernard Parish have skyrocketed and some people worry about washing their faces in the shower.
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| Attack points to al-Qaida surge in Yemen Posted: 20 Sep 2013 10:58 AM PDT  SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Under a heavy fog, al-Qaida militants disguised in military uniforms launched car bomb attacks on three different security and military posts in southern Yemen on Friday, killing 38 soldiers in the group's biggest attack in the country since last year.
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| Amanda Knox on retrial: 'Everything is at stake' Posted: 20 Sep 2013 08:28 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — American student Amanda Knox on Friday defended her decision not to return to Italy for a new appeals trial over the 2007 killing of her British roommate, even as she acknowledged that "everything is at stake," insisting she is innocent.
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| Chicago police: Assault-style gun used in attack Posted: 20 Sep 2013 09:42 AM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago's top police official says an assault-style weapon with a high-capacity magazine was used in a late-night attack at a southwest Chicago park in which 13 people were wounded.
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| Mexico looks for landslide victims, chopper Posted: 20 Sep 2013 10:48 AM PDT  ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Mexican soldiers dug through tons of mud and dirt Friday in the continuing search for landslide victims, as authorities looked for a federal police helicopter that went missing while carrying out relief operations on the flood-stricken Pacific coast.
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| Al-Qaida militants kill 38 troops in Yemen attack Posted: 20 Sep 2013 08:55 AM PDT  SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Taking advantage of heavy fog, al-Qaida militants disguised in military uniforms carried out three coordinated car bomb attacks on a security barracks and military posts in a southern Yemeni province Friday, killing at least 38 troops and wounding dozens others, military and security officials said.
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| Syria sends OPCW chemical weapons inventory Posted: 20 Sep 2013 08:26 AM PDT THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Syria has sent the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons an "initial declaration" outlining its weapons program, the organization said Friday. |
| 13 wounded in late-night attack on Chicago park Posted: 20 Sep 2013 07:13 AM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — A 3-year-old boy who was among 13 people wounded in a late-night attack on a southwest Chicago park was alert when he arrived at the hospital and was apparently doing well, his family and friends said early Friday.
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| Mexico looks for missing chopper in flood relief Posted: 20 Sep 2013 07:18 AM PDT  ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities are searching for a federal police helicopter that went missing while carrying out relief operations on the flood-stricken Pacific coast.
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| Brazilian rancher found guilty of ordering American nun's death Posted: 20 Sep 2013 06:53 AM PDT  SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A rancher in Brazil's Amazon was sentenced to 30 years in prison for ordering the 2005 killing of American nun and environmental activist Dorothy Stang, an emblematic case for the many conflicts over land use in Brazil's resource-rich interior. The courtroom was overflowing with Stang's supporters when Vitalmiro Bastos Moura, 43, was declared guilty just before midnight Thursday, the court in Para state said in a statement. ...
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| Groups turn to mothers for Obamacare love Posted: 20 Sep 2013 07:18 AM PDT  Health insurance exchanges want parents to convince young adults to get coverage.
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| 'Puzzle fits together' in Okla. mystery Posted:  Skeletal remains may help six families find out what happened to their loved ones.
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| EPA sets new limits on power plant pollution Posted: 20 Sep 2013 09:43 AM PDT  By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Friday announced first-ever regulations setting strict limits on the amount of carbon pollution that can be generated by any new U.S. power plant, which quickly sparked a backlash from supporters of the coal industry and are certain to face legal challenges. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's long-awaited guidelines would make it near impossible to build coal plants without using technology to capture carbon emissions that foes say is unproven and uneconomic. ...
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| Art inspired by how the brain sees Posted: 20 Sep 2013 05:15 AM PDT  Devorah Sperber creates manually pixelated art meant to mimic how the human brain processes things visually.
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| Kony ‘in a box,’ U.S. war crimes chief says Posted: 20 Sep 2013 02:46 AM PDT  U.S. training and rewards for information have the Ugandan warlord on the run.
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| Colorado floodwaters menace state's $41B agriculture sector Posted: 20 Sep 2013 03:22 AM PDT  By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Colorado farmers and ranchers are bracing for widespread damage to the agriculture industry, one of the state's leading economic engines, from deadly floodwaters that already have caused property losses estimated at nearly $2 billion. The main concern is for the state's No. 1 cash crop, corn, which yields between 140 million and 180 million bushels annually, most of it for cattle feed, according to the growers' trade association, Colorado Corn. ...
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| Boy, 3, among 13 shot in Chicago park Posted: 20 Sep 2013 03:38 AM PDT  The child and two other victims were in critical condition after the late-night shooting.
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| Syria rebels broker truce with jihadists in Azaz Posted: 20 Sep 2013 08:25 AM PDT  Syria has begun supplying details of its chemical arsenal, the world's chemical weapons watchdog said on Friday, as rebels agreed a truce with jihadists in a key border town.
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