| White House intruder identified as Army veteran Posted: 21 Sep 2014 10:27 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The man accused of getting inside the White House after scaling a fence is a veteran who was awarded a medal for his service in Iraq and retired due to disability, the Army said Sunday.
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| New Afghan president, but vote totals kept secret Posted: 21 Sep 2014 10:03 AM PDT  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Ending months of vote-related tension, Afghanistan's election commission named a new president on Sunday only hours after the two leading candidates signed a power-sharing deal that names one of them as the country's new chief executive.
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| Yemen PM quits as Shiite rebels seize government HQ Posted: 21 Sep 2014 09:39 AM PDT  Sanaa (AFP) - Shiite rebels seized the Yemeni government headquarters Sunday and the premier resigned as violence raged despite a UN announcement of a power-sharing deal to end days of fighting, officials said.
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| California wildfire destroys 10 houses, 22 other structures Posted: 21 Sep 2014 10:25 AM PDT  By Kevin Murphy (Reuters) - Ten houses and 22 outbuildings have been destroyed in a wildfire that swept through parts of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California over the past week and continues to burn, a fire official said on Sunday. No residents of the homes were hurt, said Tom Piranio, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Firefighters were only recently able to enter the burned areas to tally the structural damage caused by the King Fire, he added. About 12,000 homes have been evacuated since the blaze began on Sept. 13, Piranio said. ...
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| Massive New York march aims to focus world's eyes on climate change Posted: 21 Sep 2014 07:11 AM PDT  By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - World leaders including U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon were set to join farmers, fishermen, children and others in a massive demonstration on Sunday to demand action on climate change. Organizers are expecting 100,000 to join the People's Climate March in midtown Manhattan ahead of this week's U.N. General Assembly, which brings together 120 world leaders to discuss reducing carbon emissions that threaten the environment. ...
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| Selling Mitch McConnell: What's love got to do with it? Posted: 21 Sep 2014 05:02 AM PDT  By Richard Cowan PADUCAH Ky (Reuters) - Mitch McConnell is hardly a lovable guy. The Republican leader in the U.S. Senate has a dour public persona and many of his constituents don't view him as a "real Kentuckian," according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that underscores what his election campaign already knows - McConnell has an image problem. While other politicians might be deterred by polls showing how unpopular they are in their home state, McConnell has risen to the challenge as he seeks a sixth term in what is perhaps his toughest re-election battle in a 30-year Senate career. ...
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| Pope in Albania urges Muslims to condemn extremism Posted: 21 Sep 2014 10:19 AM PDT  TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Pope Francis called Sunday for Muslims and all religious leaders to condemn Islamic extremists who "pervert" religion to justify violence, as he visited Albania and held up the Balkan nation as a model for interfaith harmony for the rest of the world.
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| California authorities catch 4 of 5 jail escapees Posted: 20 Sep 2014 09:48 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities say four of five inmates who escaped from a central California jail have been caught.
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| White House intruder was armed with knife: officials Posted: 20 Sep 2014 07:39 PM PDT  By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Texas man arrested on Friday for charging at the White House was armed with a knife when he climbed a fence and made it into the executive mansion after President Barack Obama had departed, the U.S. Attorney's Office said on Saturday. Previously, the U.S. Secret Service had said Omar Gonzalez, 42, had been unarmed. Gonzalez was charged with unlawfully entering a restricted building or grounds while carrying a "deadly or dangerous weapon," according to an affidavit released by the U.S. Attorney's Office on Saturday. ...
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| Wife of British IS hostage pleads for his release Posted: 20 Sep 2014 04:21 PM PDT  London (AFP) - The wife of a British taxi driver being held hostage by Islamic State jihadists implored his captors to release him, saying Saturday she could not see how his death could assist any cause.
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| Tracing shift from everyday American to jihadis Posted: 20 Sep 2014 11:27 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A college dropout from Florida. A nurse's aide from Denver. The owner of a pizza-and-wings joint from upstate New York.
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