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November 9, 2012

World Dispatches

DOHA, Qatar Syrian opposition works toward leadership group Syrian opposition leaders say they have made progress toward forging a broad-based leadership group sought by the international community. Riad Seif, the author of the proposal, said the main opposition bloc, the Syrian National Council, deferred a decision until after a final round of internal elections Friday. […]
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November 9, 2012

San Francisco to cover sex change surgery

SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco is preparing to become the first U.S. city to provide and cover the cost of sex reassignment surgeries for uninsured transgender residents. The city’s Health Commission voted Tuesday to create a comprehensive program for treating transgender people experiencing mental distress because of the mismatch between their bodies and their gender […]
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November 9, 2012

Navy SEALs punished for leaking classified secrets

Seven members of SEAL Team 6, including one involved in the mission to get Osama bin Laden, have been punished for disclosing classified information, officials said Thursday.
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November 9, 2012

The ‘fiscal cliff’: Righting the economy a balancing act

The president, silent since his re-election, is expected to outline his approach in remarks on Friday.
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November 8, 2012

Votes legalizing pot in 2 states challenge US drug war

While the measures earned broad support from the electorate in Colorado and Washington on Tuesday, they are likely to face resistance from federal drug warriors.

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November 8, 2012

Soldier: Woman denied Army general had raped her

Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair faces charges including forcible sodomy, wrongful sexual conduct and adultery, a crime in the military.
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November 8, 2012

Giffords shooter gets life sentence

Jared Lee Loughner, 24, is sentenced for the January 2011 shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded 13 others, including former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
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November 8, 2012

Storm brings new outages for Sandy-battered states

From Brooklyn to storm-battered sections of the Jersey shore and Connecticut, about 750,000 customers in the region were without power in temperatures near freezing.
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November 8, 2012

Roman dig yields mammoth skeleton

PARIS – Archaeologists in France have unearthed a nearly complete skeleton of a mammoth. The bones — thought to belong to a hairy, long-tusked creature that roamed the earth between 200,000 and 50,000 years ago — were discovered by accident during the excavation of an ancient Roman site 30 miles east of Paris. It may […]
Published
November 8, 2012

World Dispatches

SAN MARCOS, Guatemala 7.4 quake kills at least 39, destroys about 30 homes A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific coast of Guatemala on Wednesday, killing at least 39 people as it ravaged a small state near the Mexican border, the country’s president said. The mountain village of San Marcos, 80 miles from the epicenter, […]