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Obama to Congress: Listen to your conscience

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Obama to Congress: Listen to your conscience

Obama to Congress: Listen to your conscience

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 10:18 AM PDT

President Obama Urges Congress to Vote Conscience on Syria, Even If Public OpposedThe president will present his case to the nation next week.

GOP 2016 hopefuls staying away from Syria issue

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 10:22 AM PDT

Sen. Rand Paul, D-Ky. rides an escalator on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, on his way to attend a joint Senate and House intelligence closed-door briefing on Syria. A vote for war can make or break a White House hopeful. The politically fraught decision weighs on potential 2016 Republican candidates Sens. Rand Paul and Marco Rubio. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)None of the possible 2016 contenders have voiced support for Obama's call for a U.S. strike.

Afghan vets reunite with battlefield dogs

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 04:52 AM PDT

Members of the New York National Guard are reunited with eight mixed breed dogs that they found while on patrol in Afghanistan earlier this year, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013 in Port Jefferson Station, N.Y. A 65-pound mixed breed named Sheba was "adopted" by the team of soldiers earlier this year. When Sheba had a litter of puppies in March, the soldiers helped Sheba nurse them to health. A New York organization raised funds to have the dogs sent to the United States, where they will be adopted by the soldiers. (AP Photo/Frank Eltman)PORT JEFFERSON STATION, N.Y. (AP) — Army reunions have been held as long as soldiers have been going off to war, yet a reunion this week was perhaps like no other in history.

New rights worries over arrests in Egypt

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 10:14 AM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans and hold placards showing an open palm with four raised fingers, which has become a symbol of the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where Morsi supporters had held a sit-in that was violently dispersed on August, 2013, during a protest in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Sept. 6, 2013. Thousands of protesters flowed out of mosques on Friday in Muslim Brotherhood-led rallies across the country against the military-backed government a day after a car bomb in the Egyptian capital marked a substantial escalation in Egypt's violent turmoil.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)CAIRO (AP) — The detentions of an Egyptian labor lawyer and a journalist raised concerns among rights activists Friday that the military-backed government's crackdown on Islamists is sweeping with it other critics of its policies.

Zimmerman's wife seeks life insurance policy

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 09:39 AM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, June 24, 2013 file photo, George Zimmerman, left, arrives in Seminole circuit court with his wife, Shellie, on the 11th day of his trial, in Sanford, Fla. George Zimmerman's wife filed for divorce Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013 less than two months after her husband was acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin and a week after she pleaded guilty to perjury in his case. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool, File)SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman's wife is asking in divorce papers that he pay for a permanent life insurance policy with her named as the beneficiary.

Religious sect raided in Germany on abuse fears

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 08:18 AM PDT

This picture taken Thursday, Sept. 5, shows the village of Klosterzimmern near Deiningen, Germany, which is one of the homes of the "Twelve Tribes" sect. Police say they have raided the Christian religious sect in Bavaria and taken 40 children from them on allegations that they were being physically abused. Bavarian police said Friday, Sept. 6, 2013, that the children of the sect were taken into protective custody the day before as investigators look into allegations that they were being beaten and otherwise physically punished. Authorities say 28 of the children were found at one of the sect's locations in the town of Deinigen, and 12 others in Woernitz. (AP Photo/dpa, Daniel Karmann)BERLIN (AP) — Police raided a Christian sect in southern Germany, taking 40 children into foster care on suspicion they were physically abused and seizing sticks allegedly used to hit them, authorities said Friday.

Report: Ohio kidnapper called mother of 1 victim

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 09:33 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2013 file photo, Ariel Castro bows his head in the courtroom during his sentencing sentencing in Cleveland. Castro, 53, now serving a life sentence for the kidnapping and rape, was found hanging in his cell, Tuesday night, Sept. 3, 2013, at the Correctional Reception Center in Orient, Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, FILE)COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro said he called the mother of one of his captives and told the woman her daughter was alive and had become his wife, according to interrogation videotapes.

After years of decline, US births leveling off?

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 09:16 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 25, 2012 file photo, a family nurse practitioner, right, examines a newborn girl accompanied by her mother in Portland, Ore. After falling four years in a row, U.S. births may finally be leveling off. The number of births in 2012 was almost 4 million - only a few hundred less than the number in 2011, according to a government report released Friday, Sept. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)ATLANTA (AP) — After falling four years in a row, U.S. births may finally be leveling off.

Madrid, Tokyo, Istanbul in home stretch for 2020

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 10:46 AM PDT

Spain's Olympic Committee President Alejandro Blanco speaks during a news conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Sept. 6, 2013. During the Sept. 4-10 International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board meetings in Buenos Aires, members will elect the host city for the 2020 Summer Olympics Games, with candidates being Madrid, Istanbul and Tokyo, as well as choose a new IOC president and add a sport to the 2020 program. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A day before the host of the 2020 Olympics is selected, Madrid, Tokyo and Istanbul made their closing arguments to IOC voters Friday:

Pancho the Pelican an urban celebrity in Havana

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 09:59 AM PDT

Pancho the Pelican walks along a street in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. The wayward seabird has become the toast of 23rd Street, a bustling Havana thoroughfare where Pancho waddles down the sidewalk. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)HAVANA (AP) — Pancho the Pelican apparently prefers the company of humans to his own kind, and the grit of the big city to a life spent soaring through the breeze above the Caribbean Sea.

Hitler bodyguard Rochus Misch dies at 96

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 07:55 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 10, 2005 file photo Hitler's bodyguard Rochus Misch points on a picture of Adolf Hitler he had taken in Berchtesgarden, southern Germany, in the early 1940th in his house in Berlin. Misch, who was the last remaining witness to the Nazi leader's final hours in his Berlin bunker, has died Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. He was 96. (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski, File)BERLIN (AP) — He was Adolf Hitler's devoted bodyguard for most of World War II and the last remaining witness to the Nazi leader's final hours in his Berlin bunker. To the very end, SS Staff Sgt. Rochus Misch was proud of it all.

U.S. orders diplomats out of Lebanon

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 09:29 AM PDT

Syrian refugees, fleeing the violence in their country, cross the border into the autonomous Kurdish region of northern IraqWASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department on Friday ordered nonessential American diplomats and the families of staffers at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut to leave Lebanon immediately due to security concerns as the Obama administration and Congress debate military strikes on neighboring Syria. The department also authorized the voluntary departure of diplomats and families at the U.S. Consulate in Adana, Turkey, which is the closest American diplomatic post to Syria in Turkey.

Egypt: journalist and lawyer held in crackdown

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 09:00 AM PDT

Egyptian security officers guard the scene of a bomb attack targeting the convoy of Egypt's Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim, in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. A "large" explosive targeted the convoy of Egypt's interior minister Thursday in Cairo's eastern Nasr City district, the first attack on a senior government official since a coup toppled the country's Islamist president July 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian labor lawyer and a journalist have been detained, raising rights activists' concerns that the military-led government is widening its crackdown to include non-Islamist critics of its policies.

Dropout Salinger creates mystique at Pa. college

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 07:31 AM PDT

In this Sept. 3, 2013, photo, Annie Rus, a college freshman from Parkton, Md., poses for a portrait in her dorm room that was once occupied by J.D. Salinger at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pa. Salinger spent only one semester at the college outside Philadelphia, but he left a big impression. A scholarship in his honor allows promising creative writers to live in his dorm room. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Aspiring novelist Quinn Gilman-Forlini, an ardent admirer of "The Catcher in the Rye," wouldn't mind following in its author's footsteps.

Labs seeking sarin chemical signature: 99-125-81

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 04:45 AM PDT

In this image provided by the Department of Energy, chemist Brian Dockendorff works on a mass spectrometer at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013. Three simple numbers will prove if sarin was used to gas Syrians last month: 99-125-81. Carlos Fraga, a chemist at the lab who specializes in nerve agent forensics calls those numbers sarin's fingerprint. Fraga says once chemists see those digits, they know they've got sarin. (AP Photo/Carlos Fraga)WASHINGTON (AP) — Three simple numbers will prove whether sarin was used to gas Syrians last month: 99-125-81.

Family claims body of Ohio kidnapper Ariel Castro

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 09:16 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2013 file photo, Ariel Castro bows his head in the courtroom during his sentencing sentencing in Cleveland. Castro, 53, now serving a life sentence for the kidnapping and rape, was found hanging in his cell, Tuesday night, Sept. 3, 2013, at the Correctional Reception Center in Orient, Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, FILE)COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A coroner says the family of Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro has claimed his body as authorities continue to investigate how a man who was perhaps Ohio's most notorious inmate managed to commit suicide while under close supervision in prison.

Schoolgirl shot by Taliban honored with peace prize

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 08:33 AM PDT

Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was shot and injured by the Taliban for advocating girls' education, poses for photographers after being awarded the International Children's Peace Prize 2013 during a ceremony in the Hall of Knights in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday Sept. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who survived a Taliban assassination attempt last year, was honored Friday with the Children's Peace Prize for her work promoting education for girls in her homeland.

How the class of 2017 will transform college

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 08:13 AM PDT

Technology is transforming college campuses around the country—from how undergrads nab jobs and internships to the way they interact with professors and even how they date. Join Yahoo News editors and special guests for our video live stream and chat exploring how the college experience is being shaped by this new crop of students, who have never known life without the internet.

How the Internet is killing the dreaded admissions essay

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 12:32 PM PDT

Tufts ApplicationApplicants are dropping their pencils and finding new ways to prove their worth to universities.

Obama to make case for Syria strikes in prime-time speech Tuesday, won't say if he'll act without Congress' OK

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 06:04 AM PDT

He has the "authority" but not the "desire," an official says.

Afghan aide targeted by the Taliban fears US may leave him behind

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 05:16 AM PDT

Janis Shinwari is one of thousands of interpreters seeking refuge in the U.S. after helping American troops in Iraq or Afghanistan. "I consider him to be a member of my unit who is still left in Afghanistan and we don't leave our brothers behind," says Matt Zeller, an Army war vet who is campaigning for Shinwari's immediate approval to the U.S. "He more than earned his and his family's tickets to a life of prosperity."

Report: NSA cracked most online encryption

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 12:55 AM PDT

This photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, on Sunday, June 9, 2013, in Hong Kong. The National Security Agency, working with the British government, has secretly been unraveling encryption technology that billions of Internet users rely upon to keep their electronic messages and confidential data safe from prying eyes, according to published reports Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013, based on internal U.S. government documents.(AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras)WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency, working with the British government, has secretly been unraveling encryption technology that billions of Internet users rely upon to keep their electronic messages and confidential data safe from prying eyes, according to published reports based on internal U.S. government documents.

What does the college of the future look like?

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 09:06 AM PDT

The campus of the futureWith steep tuition making higher education unaffordable for many families, colleges and universities are being pressed to embrace innovative learning tools that can make earning a degree far cheaper. While a four-year bachelor's degree is still considered an essential ticket into a competitive job market, experts agree that colleges have little choice but to adapt to changing technological and economic realities.

China's Xi tells Obama Syria crisis can't be resolved with military strike

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 05:36 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands as he meets with China's President Xi Jinping at the G20 Summit in St. PetersburgBy Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping told his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama on Friday that the crisis in Syria should not be resolved through a military strike and urged him to consider a political solution, state news agency Xinhua said. Xi's are the highest-level comments from China since an August 21 chemical weapons attack in Syria. They follow remarks by a foreign ministry spokesman, who urged a role for the U.N. Security Council in resolving the crisis after the United States said it had given up trying to work with the council on Syria. ...

Report: Ohio kidnapper called mother of victim

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 05:05 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 26, 2013 Ariel Castro sits in a Cleveland courtroom where he pleaded guilty to 937 counts of rape and kidnapping for holding three women captive in his home for a decade. Castro, 53, serving a life sentence for the kidnapping and rape, was found hanging in his cell, Tuesday night, Sept. 3, 2013, at the Correctional Reception Center in Orient, Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro says he called the mother of one of his victims while she was in captivity and told her she was OK, according to a videotaped FBI interrogation.

NH hospital calls 8 over brain disease chances

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 03:49 PM PDT

Dr. Joseph Pepe, president of Catholic Medical Center talks Thursday Sept. 4, 2013 in Manchester, N.H., about a patient who had brain surgery at the hospital and later died of a rare, degenerative brain disease. Health officials said there's a remote chance up to 13 others in multiple states were exposed to the fatal illness through surgical equipment. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Eight patients who may have been exposed to a fatal brain disease at a New Hampshire hospital have been contacted by the hospital's president, who said Thursday the patients aren't panicking.

Woman on death row could be freed to await retrial

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 01:22 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2013 file photo, Debra Jean Milke listens to a judge during a hearing as she awaits a retrial in the 1989 shooting death of her 4-year-old son, Christopher, at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. A judge is allowing Milke to be released on bail as she awaits retrial in the 1989 killing of her young son, a case that had her on death row since 1990 until her conviction was overturn this year. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool, File)PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona woman who has spent more than two decades on death row after being convicted of having her 4-year-old son killed for an insurance payout is expected to be released on Friday while she awaits a retrial of the case that made her one of the state's most reviled inmates.

G20 fails to heal rift on Syria at Russia talks

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 01:30 AM PDT

World leaders at the G20 summit on Friday failed to bridge their bitter divisions over US plans for military action against the Syrian regime, as Washington slammed Moscow for holding the UN Security Council "hostage" over the crisis.

Taliban deny involvement in Indian author's killing

Posted: 06 Sep 2013 07:14 AM PDT

Sushmita Banerjee holds one of her Bengali language novels during press conference in Kolkata, on March 6, 2013The Taliban on Friday denied shooting dead Indian writer Sushmita Banerjee, whose murder Afghan officials blamed on the insurgent militia fighting against the government for 12 years.

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