A look at Syria developments around the world

REUTERS The United States is considering launching a punitive strike against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, blamed by the U.S. and the Syrian opposition for an Aug. 21 alleged chemical weapons attack in a rebel-held suburb of the Syrian...

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Massive Yosemite blaze may have been sparked by illegal marijuana growers

AP Inmate firefighters walk along state Highway 120 as firefighters continue to battle the Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park, Calif., on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. The massive forest fire that has scorched 333 square miles in and around Yosemite National...

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Putin urges US to hold off on striking Syria

REUTERS Russia's President Vladimir Putin talks to journalists in the far eastern city of Vladivostok, August 31, 2013. MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin urged President Barack Obama on Saturday not to rush into a decision on striking Syria,...

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Dad arrested after 18-month-old son dies in BB gun attack

An 18-month-old Georgia boy is dead after being shot in the chest with a BB gun and his father has been charged with felony murder, police say. The toddler's father, Jesse Sellers, 23, reportedly told police he was playing with the gun when it...

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Teen students charged with rape after exteme three high school freshmen at sports camp

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Three male Somerville High School soccer players attending a school sports camp in western Massachusetts have been arrested on charges they sexually assaulted three younger campers, authorities said Friday. Berkshire District Attorney...

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Amanda Bynes 'negotiating record contract' while in psych ward

Amanda Bynes is busy making moves — even if it's within the confines of her LA psych ward. The troubled starlet is reportedly taking phone calls and negotiating a record deal, despite recommendations from her doctors at the UCLA Medical Center to stay...

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Irish poet & Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney dead at 74

DUBLIN — Seamus Heaney, Ireland's foremost poet who won the Nobel literature prize in 1995, has died after a half-century exploring the wild beauty of Ireland and the political torment within the nation's soul. He was 74.Heaney's family and publisher,...

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LiLo set to host SNL for fifth time

The Lindsay Lohan comeback train continues, and is set to stop in New York so the starlet can host "Saturday Night Live" for a fifth time. The troubled actress has been approached by NBC to possibly host the season premiere of the venerable sketch comedy...

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‘Full of grief:’ Red Sox broadcaster Remy will sit out rest of reason after son’s murder charge

AP Jerry Remy Jerry Remy has opted not to return to the Red Sox broadcast booth two weeks after his son, Jared, was charged with murder. Jerry spoke out against his son immediately after allegations of the brutal killing of his girlfriend, Jennifer...

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Cops bust troubled NBA star after 'serpentine' driving, failed sobriety tests in LA

Proving that things can always get worse, Lamar Odom was just arrested for DUI.The basketball player was pulled over by police early this morning just outside of Los Angeles, reports TMZ.The gossip site reports that Odom was pulled over for driving slowly...

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The elite FBI unit who helped hunt down Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, rescue Hannah Anderson and save a kidnapped 5-year-old

FBI The FBI's Hostage Rescue Team is responsible for the rescue of Hannah Anderson and the kidnapped Alabama boy as well as the capture of Boston bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The elite, little-known FBI unit that recently rescued a kidnapped...

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Brooklyn brownstone blaze injures 11

A massive fire tore through a Brooklyn brownstone this morning -- injuring 11 people, authorities said. The 3-story home went up in flames at 9:15 a.m. -- quickly engulfing the top two floors and reaching a second alarm in 10 minutes, the FDNY said....

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Man survives after jumping in front of train at Times Square

A 60 year-old man pushed two women out of the way before jumping in front of a train in Times Square during rush hour today, witnesses and authorities said. "It was good luck because the train was coming slowly," an MTA worker who witnessed the...

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New poll has Stringer and Spitzer in dead heat in race for Comptroller

G.N. Miller Recent poll numbers has Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer in "dead heat" with former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. Little-known Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer has caught up to the mighty "Steamroller" in the race...

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Kristen Bell considered a Super Soaker filled with 'cat urine' to get rid of a bird

Kristen Bell considered filling a Super Soaker with "cat urine" to deter a bird. The actor has been busy working on projects including dark comedy The Lifeguard and the highly-anticipated Veronica Mars movie. Kristen joked about another time consuming...

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Overjoyed father reunites with young son after believing him killed in Syrian attack

No language skills are needed here. Syrian activists posted this YouTube video, purportedly showing a man reunited with his little boy who he thought was dead. It's either an elaborate propaganda hoax — or more likely one of the first pieces of heart-warming...

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US officials confirm Assad chemical weapons strike after call intercepted from Syrian forces discussing gas attack

AFP/Getty Images A Syrian couple mourns in front of bodies wrapped in shrouds killed by an alleged chemical weapon attack by pro-government forces last week. US officials are certain that the chemical weapon strike in Syria that killed hundreds of...

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Snap out of it! Researchers curb Facebook use with electric shocks

Spending too much time on Facebook? Maybe a "shock" will set you straight. Two Ph.D. students at MIT's Media Lab invented a contraption that gave them an electric shock through their keyboard every time they lingered on Facebook. The "Pavlov Poke"...

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'A--holes back Spitzer': Stringer tells state Assemblyman

Gabriella Bass Scott Stringer Scott Stringer last night called a Bronx lawmaker an "a--hole" for backing rival Eliot Spitzer in the Democrat race for comptroller, The Post has learned. The confrontation between Stringer and state Assemblyman and...

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Painting of Putin lounging in lingerie seized by Russian cops

AFP/Getty Images A visitor looking at an artwork by Russian artist Konstantin Altunin representing Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in women's lingerie during the "Leaders" exhibition in the central St. Petersburg....

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Student admits to posting anti-Islam fliers and Nazi flags around liberal college - claims it was a 'provocative joke'

Getty Images Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. OBERLIN, Ohio — An Oberlin College student acknowledged posting anti-Islam fliers and racist cards around the campus of the historically liberal Ohio university earlier this year, saying he meant them as a "joke"...

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Thousands of brave firefighters continue to battle raging California wildfire

AP The raging California wildfire or "Rim Fire" has already destroyed nearly 225 miles of forests. TUOLUMNE CITY, Calif. — Hundreds of firefighters were digging trenches, clearing brush and starting back blazes to keep a wildfire raging north of...

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Giants best defensive player Jason Pierre-Paul will be eligible to play in opener

Ron Antonelli New York Giants Jason Pierre-Paul (90) was taken off the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list Monday morning, Aug. 26th after spending the summer in recovery from back surgery. The Giants took Jason Pierre-Paul off the Physically...

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Battle of the sexes tennis match between Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs an 'elaborate mob setup'

AP Tennis star Bobby Riggs, top, and Billie Jean King are shown in action during the "Battle of the Sexes" match in the Astrodome in Houston, on Sept. 20, 1973. The greatest woman-beats-man match in sports history could have been an elaborate, mob-set...

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Second teen arrested in fatal beating of 88-year-old WWII veteran

REUTERS/Spokane Police Department Kenan Adams-Kinard, 16, in an undated photo released by the Spokane Police Department is the second teenager to be arrested in the fatal beating of an 88-year-old World War II veteran. SPOKANE, Wash. — Police arrested...

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America should be 'proud' of civil rights progress: Colin Power

AP Former Secretary of State Colin Powell speaks on CBS's "Face the Nation" during a pre-taped interview in Washington. WASHINGTON – Former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell today said that Americans should be "proud" of the great advancements...

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NSA officers spy on love interests so often that the practice has its own spycraft label

Reuters Tthe National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters building in Fort Meade, Maryland. WASHINGTON—National Security Agency officers on several occasions have channeled their agency's enormous eavesdropping power to spy on love interests, U.S....

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Five new Salinger books to be released more than fives years after legendary writer's death: documentarians

AP J.D. Salinger at home in Cornish, N.H., with Emily Maxwell, the wife of William Maxwell, a close friend and Salinger's editor at The New Yorker. The authors of a new J.D. Salinger biography are claiming they have cracked one of publishing's greatest...

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DC panda 'groomed her stillborn cub for 17 minutes before letting it fall to the floor' a day after delivering healthy baby

ap Mei Xiang gives birth to a cub two hours after her water broke Friday, Aug. 23, 2013, at the National Zoo in Washington. Mei Xiang gave birth to a second cub, who was stillborn, on Saturday. WASHINGTON — A panda at Washington's National Zoo that...

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Three shot after early morning scuffle at PATH train station

Three people were injured and one person is in custody after a shooting at a PATH train station, sources said.The gunfire erupted just before 5 a.m. as the train pulled into the Pavonia-Newport Station.Witnesses said a rider bumped into a woman and the...

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Another taxi road rage incident in Midtown causes cab to lose control, days after amputation of tourist

Wolff/INFphoto.com Scene of the crash at 37th and 6th Avenue A road rage accident involving two cabbies nearly caused another tragedy when one of the drivers jumped the curb and smashed into scaffolding just 12 blocks south of where a British tourist...

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Katy Perry accused of being a copy cat with new 'Roar' single

Pop star Katy Perry has been accused of being a copy cat.The songstress was called out by MTV VJ Dave Holmes last week who picked up on the similarities between Perry's latest single "Roar" and Sara Bareilles' song, "Brave," which was released in April.Since...

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Kelly Clarkson throws out plans for big wedding, says she's eloping

Seems like Kelly Clarkson has ditched plans for that big ole country wedding she wanted, declaring that she and fiance Brandon Blackstock will probably "just elope". In an interview with People magazine, Clarkson said that the couple are finding it...

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One year after 'red line' speech, Obama won't rush into a 'costly new war' with Syria

REUTERS A gas-masked activist in the Zamalka region of Damascus. President Barack Obama called the apparent gassing of hundreds of Syrian civilians a "big event of grave concern" but stressed on Friday that he would not rush to embroil Americans...

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'Hi, it's the Pope' - Francis surprising letter writers with personal phone calls

AFP/Getty Images Pope Francis waves to pilgrims after delivering his Sunday Angelus prayer on Aug. 18th. VATICAN CITY -- A word of warning to those who write personal notes to Pope Francis: He might just call you back. Francis has charmed the masses...

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Syrian government bombs Damascus suburbs where rebels say chemical weapons attack occurred just the day before

Erbin News / Demotix A mother and father weep over their child's body who was killed in a suspected chemical weapons attack. BEIRUT — Syrian government forces pressed on with a military offensive in eastern Damascus on Thursday, bombing rebel-held...

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'SVU' to merge Paula Deen scandal with Trayvon Martin shooting in upcoming ep

"Law & Order SVU" is staying true to its "ripped from the headlines" roots, taking inspiration from both the Trayvon Martin trial and Paula Deen scandal for an upcoming episode. In the episode, Cybill Shepard plays Jolene Castille, a famous southern...

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Court order reveals NSA collected 56K e-mails from innocent Americans, Obama administration claims it 'an unintended consequence'

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has given up more of its surveillance secrets, acknowledging that it was ordered to stop scooping up thousands of Internet communications from Americans with no connection to terrorism - a practice it says was an...

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San Diego Mayor accused of sexual harassment reaches deal with city - unclear whether includes resignation

Getty Images Mayor Bob Filner of San Diego speaks at a press conference announcing his intention to seek professional help for sexual harassment issues SAN DIEGO — A tentative deal has been reached involving the sexual harassment lawsuit against...

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Photographer, 79, found guilty of California's 'Alphabet murders' in 1970s; letters in first and last names of four victims matched

REUTERS Joseph Naso An elderly former photographer acting as his own attorney was found guilty on Tuesday of first-degree murder in the serial slayings of four northern California prostitutes dating to the 1970s. Joseph Naso, 79, now faces the possibility...

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EPA Palestinian Khalil Shreateh at his home in the West Bank town of Yatta, south of Hebron. A man who hacked into Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page to expose a software bug is getting donations from hackers around the world after the company declined...

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