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US: Chemical attacks make Syria top security risk

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 01:02 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. In declaring Syria a national security threat, the Obama administration is warning Americans as much about the leaders of Iran and North Korea as about President Bashar Assad. And America's credibility with those countries will be an immediate casualty if fails to respond to Syria now, administration officials say in making their case for U.S. missile strikes. It's a connection that's not immediately clear to most Americans _ especially after the White House refused to send military support earlier in the Syrian war. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — In declaring Syria a national security threat, President Barack Obama is warning as much about the leaders of Iran and North Korea as about Bashar Assad.

'Blurred Lines' named Billboard song of the summer

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 12:47 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2013 file photo, singers Robin Thicke, left, and Miley Cyrus perform NEW YORK (AP) — To no one's surprise, Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" is Billboard's song of the summer.

Obama lobbying lawmakers from overseas

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 12:01 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama sits next to Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff during the start of the G20 Working Session at the Konstantin Palace in St. PetersburgThe president has discussed Syria with at least 60 senators and 125 House members.

Study: The right bacteria might help fight obesity

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 11:28 AM PDT

This handout photo provided by the Washington University School of Medicine shows Dr. Jeffrey Gordon and graduate student Vanessa Ridaura of Washington University in St. Louis example samples of gut bacteria taken from fat or lean people. Their research transplanted human intestinal microbes into germ-free mice and found certain bugs may help fight obesity, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013, at the university in St. Louis. Call it a hidden ally: The right germs just might be able to help fight fat. Different kinds of bacteria that live inside the gut can help spur obesity or protect against it, say scientists at Washington University in St. Louis who transplanted intestinal germs from fat or lean people into mice and watched the rodents change. And what they ate determined whether the good germs could move in and do the job. (AP Photo/Elizabethe Holland, Washington University School of Medicine)WASHINGTON (AP) — Call it a hidden ally: The right germs just might be able to help fight fat.

UK: More proof of Syria chemical attack

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 10:58 AM PDT

David Cameron attends the first working session at the G20 summit on September 5, 2013 in Saint PetersburgA source says samples from the site 'tested positive for sarin.'

USFS: Hunter caused huge wildfire near Yosemite

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 10:12 AM PDT

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — A gigantic wildfire in and around Yosemite National Park began when a hunter allowed an illegal fire to escape, the U.S. Forest Service said Thursday.

APNewsBreak: NY judge allows bite mark analysis

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 09:11 AM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Bite mark evidence that may connect a murder suspect to the victim will be allowed at his trial, a judge decided Thursday, disappointing those who hoped the case would help get the forensic technique banished from the nation's courtrooms.

Egypt:probe point to a car bomb behind attack

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 08:08 AM PDT

Egyptian security personnel gather at 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 CAIRO (AP) — Egypt security officials say that initial investigations show a car bomb was used in an attack that targeted the convoy of the interior minister.

Cleveland kidnapper-rapist lacked his victims' strength, says relative

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 07:52 AM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 1, 2013 file photo shows Ariel Castro in the courtroom during the sentencing phase in Cleveland. Castro, who held 3 women captive for a decade, has committed suicide, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, file)CLEVELAND (AP) — A victim's relative says Ariel Castro's suicide shows he was not a strong person like the three women he held captive in his home for a decade.

National Zoo: 2-week-old panda cub is female

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 06:50 AM PDT

This handout photo provided by the Smithsonian's National Zoo, taken Aug. 29, 2013, shows teh zoo's Panda mother Mei Xiang with her cub at the zoo in Washington. The zoo said Thursday its 2-week-old giant panda cub is female. The Washington zoo also revealed Thursday that the cub's father is National Zoo panda Tian Tian. (AP Photo/Smithsonian's National Zoo)WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a girl!

With smiles, Obama, Putin greet each other

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 06:34 AM PDT

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed President Barack Obama with a smile and a handshake to the Group of 20 summit, in one of the most closely watched greetings of international diplomacy.

Scarlett Johansson engaged to Frenchman

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 05:32 AM PDT

Actress Scarlett Johansson arrives on the red carpet for the screening of the film Under The Skin at the 70th edition of the Venice Film Festival held from Aug. 28 through Sept. 7, in Venice, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)PARIS (AP) — Apparently love didn't get lost in translation for Scarlett Johansson, who is engaged to a Frenchman and onetime journalist.

Syrian rebels fight army near Christian village

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 05:15 AM PDT

In this image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, smoke rises from buildings due to heavy clashes between Free Syrian army fighters and government forces in Daraya, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government troops battled al-Qaida-linked rebels over a regime-held Christian village in western Syria for the second day Thursday, as world leaders gathered in Russia for an economic summit expected to be overshadowed by the prospect of U.S.-led strikes against the Damascus regime.

Divided vote foreshadows Obama challenge on Syria

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 04:42 AM PDT

Secretary of State John Kerry testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013, before the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing to advance President Barack Obama's request for congressional authorization for military intervention in Syria, a response to last month's alleged sarin gas attack in the Syrian civil war. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate panel's deep divide over giving President Barack Obama the authority to use U.S. military force against Syria underscores the commander in chief's challenge in persuading skeptical lawmakers and wary allies to back greater intervention in an intractable civil war.

Egypt: Interior minister survives bomb attack

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 04:27 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, file photo, Egyptian Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim is seen before the military funeral of two policemen in Cairo, Egypt. The policemen were killed Saturday in Port Said violence. An explosion on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013, targeted the convoy of the interior minister in Cairo's eastern Nasr City district, security officials and state television said. Ibrahim survived the attack. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)CAIRO (AP) — 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 two months ago.

Iran will support Syria 'to the end,' says military chief

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 03:56 AM PDT

Iranian soldiers take part in the 'Army Day' parade in Tehran, on April 18, 2009Iran will support Syria "until the end" in the face of possible US-led military strikes, the chief of Iran's elite Quds Force unit was quoted Thursday by the media as saying.

Obama arrives in Russia for G-20 meetings

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 03:38 AM PDT

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — President Barack Obama is in St. Petersburg, Russia, for meetings with world leaders at the Group of 20 summit.

Scarlett Johansson engaged to French journalist

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 03:06 AM PDT

Actress Scarlett Johansson arrives on the red carpet for the screening of the film Under The Skin at the 70th edition of the Venice Film Festival held from Aug. 28 through Sept. 7, in Venice, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)PARIS (AP) — Apparently love didn't get lost in translation for Scarlett Johansson, who is engaged to a Frenchman and onetime journalist.

SPIN METER: Obama on use of US military might

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 02:20 AM PDT

In this Aug. 31, 2013, photo, President Barack Obama arrives to make a statement about Syria in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington. As a candidate Obama championed restraint and global cooperation when faced with security threats but noww, as commander in chief of a world superpower, his rhetoric of the past is being tested by the reality of today as he presses Congress to allow the United States to launch a military strike against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad over the objections of most major U.S. allies. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — As a candidate focused on his own election, Barack Obama championed restraint and global cooperation when faced with security threats.

Concussions in forefront as NFL season opens

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 12:46 AM PDT

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell speaks during a news conference at Tiffany & Co. in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013. The retrieval of the trophy from Tiffany is one of many events leading up to the Super Bowl in New Jersey on Feb. 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)The NFL is accused of hiding what it knew about players' head injuries. The players' union is getting second-guessed for not taking safety more seriously. And another judge is getting familiar with all the legal arguments.

US spies missed signs of Aug. 21 Syrian WMD Strike

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 12:14 AM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 25, 2013 file photo shows black columns of smoke rising from heavy shelling in the Jobar neighborhood in East of Damascus, Syria. U.S. intelligence agencies did not detect the Syrian regime readying a massive chemical weapons attack in the days ahead of the strike, only piecing together what had happened after the fact, U.S. officials say. One of the key pieces of intelligence Secretary of State John Kerry later used to link the attack to the Syrian government _ intercepts of communications telling Syrian military units to prepare for the strikes _ was in the hands of U.S. intelligence agencies but had not yet been WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence agencies did not detect the Syrian regime readying a massive chemical weapons attack in the days ahead of the strike, only piecing together what had happened after the fact, U.S. officials say.

Ohio reviewing Ariel Castro's prison cell suicide

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 11:58 PM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 1, 2013 file photo shows Ariel Castro in the courtroom during the sentencing phase in Cleveland. Castro, who held 3 women captive for a decade, has committed suicide, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, file)CLEVELAND (AP) — Ohio's prison system is reviewing how Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro — perhaps the most notorious figure behind bars in the state — managed to hang himself with a bedsheet while in protective custody.

Hidden by glowing stats, Germany's poor struggle

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 11:42 PM PDT

In this Aug. 29, 2013 photo, 70-year-old Christel Paweski, who worked in a hospital and a nursing home before retiring six years ago, stands near a window during an interview with The Associated Press in Berlin. Paweski's plight and that of millions of other Germans living below or close to the poverty line burst onto the campaign for the Sept. 22 national election after she tearfully confronted Chancellor Angela Merkel on national television, asking whether the country's leader had forgotten the growing numbers of retirees and working poor who have missed out on Germany's economic success. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)BERLIN (AP) — At first glance Christel Paweski's small plot of land, with its garden gnome and flowerbeds, appears to be the epitome of comfortable German retirement. Tucked away among the flowers are rows of potatoes, peppers and cabbage that the former nurse carefully tends.

War overshadows economy as G20 leaders meet

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 11:26 PM PDT

A car drives past the Constantine Palace, which will be the venue for a G20 meeting, in St. Petersburg, Russia on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama will seek to bolster international support for a strike against Syria during talks with world leaders this week at the Group of 20 summit. Those efforts will pit him against Russian president and summit host Vladimir Putin, who has perhaps done the most to stymie international efforts to oust Syria's Bashar Assad. The G20 summit will run from Sept. 5-6. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — The threat of missiles over the Mediterranean is weighing on world leaders meeting on the shores of the Baltic this week — and eclipsing economic battles that usually dominate when the Group of 20 leading world economies convenes.

Study finds online privacy concerns on the rise

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 10:56 PM PDT

Lynn Boyden, an information architect in web services at the University of Southern California, poses with a dating website on her computer at the USC information technology services center in Los Angeles Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013. Boyden says she has developed two identities online: a public one for her professional life and a private one that only a few close friends can access. She tries to block advertising trackers when she can and limits what personal data might wind up on public sites. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)WASHINGTON (AP) — Lynn Boyden, a college professor in Los Angeles who teaches website design, says she has developed two identities online: a public one for her professional life and a private one that only a few close friends can access. She tries to block advertising trackers when she can and limits what personal data might wind up on public sites.
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