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U.S.: Syria 'dragging its feet' on weapons 
Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 02:24 PM PST
 A costal ranger from the Norwegian Naval Special Warfare Group conducts a protection mission of Norwegian cargo vessel Ark Futura that is transferring Syria's chemical agents out of the country for destruction, the harbour of Latakia, SyriaTop officials urge Damascus to immediately hand over chemical weapons cache as promised.
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Experts: U.S. will likely extradite Amanda Knox if Italy asks 
Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 04:05 PM PST
 Amanda Knox appears on NBC News' "Today" show in New York, in this image released by NBCThe United States will have little legal argument for turning down an extradition request should Italy seek the return of Amanda Knox for the 2007 murder of her British housemate. In the latest dramatic twist in the high-profile case, a court in Florence on Thursday sentenced Knox to 28 years and six months in prison for killing Meredith Kercher in the university town of Perugia. Her lawyers now plan to appeal this latest conviction in turn to the Italian Supreme Court, but if they fail Knox could find herself flying back to a country where she has already spent four years in jail. "As popular as she is here and as pretty as she is here -- because that's what this is all about, if she was not an attractive woman we wouldn't have the group love-in -- she will be extradited if it's upheld," said Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz.
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School district apologizes after taking school lunches 
Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 09:47 AM PST
 FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 file photo, a select healthy chicken salad school lunch, prepared under federal guidelines, sits on display at the cafeteria at Draper Middle School in Rotterdam, N.Y. After just one year, some schools across the nation are dropping out of what was touted as a healthier federal lunch program, complaining that so many students refused the meals packed with whole grains, fruits and vegetables that their cafeterias were losing money. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)Maybe Ebenezer Scrooge wasn't such a bad guy after all. A group of up to 40 elementary school students in Utah had their lunches taken away due to outstanding balances on their accounts, according to a report from the Salt Lake Tribune.
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Family fight: GOP debates next move on immigration 
Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 03:50 PM PST
 FILE - This Jan. 28, 2014 file photo shows House John Boehner of Ohio, accompanied by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va. speaking at Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington. House Republican leaders challenged President Barack Obama on Thursday to override the opposition of the Senate's top Democrat and help pass trade legislation the administration favors. "The president ought to stand up and lead on this issue," House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio said at a news conference at a three-day retreat for members of the party's rank-and-file. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)CAMBRIDGE, Md. (AP) — House Republicans wrestled inconclusively with the outlines of immigration legislation Thursday night, sharply divided over the contentious issue itself and the political wisdom of acting on it in an election year.
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Solid growth brightens economic outlook for 2014 
Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 02:15 PM PST
 FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, file photo, employees at Sheffield Platers Inc. work on the factory floor in San Diego. The Commerce Department releases fourth-quarter gross domestic product on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014 (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumers will spend more. Government will cut less. Businesses will invest more. And more companies will hire.
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US judge upholds Connecticut gun control law 
Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 04:06 PM PST
 File-This May 4, 2011, shows Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy speaking after signing a two-year $40.1 billion budget bill into law at the Capitol in Hartford, Conn. A federal judge upheld Connecticut's gun control law on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, saying the sweeping measure is constitutional even as he acknowledged the Second Amendment rights of gun owners who sued to block it. The law, which Malloy signed last April after months of negotiations in the legislature, was not entirely written "with the utmost clarity," U.S. District Judge Alfred Covello said in his 47-page decision. Still, several provisions are "not impermissibly vague in all of their applications and, therefore, the challenged portions of the legislation are not unconstitutionally vague." (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A federal judge upheld Connecticut's gun control law on Thursday, saying the sweeping measure is constitutional even as he acknowledged the Second Amendment rights of gun owners who sued to block it.
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Dramatic rescue of baby buried in rubble in Syria 
Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 03:17 PM PST
 In this citizen journalism image made from Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014 video provided by Nur Media Center, an anti-government activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, men dig 14-month-old Ghina Khalil out of rubble in Aleppo, Syria. The toddler was pulled out after men pulled aside rocks, concrete rubble and dust to free her, caught under a smashed building, bombed by the government forces in the area of Masaraniyeh in Aleppo. (AP Photo/Nur Media Center)Fourteen-month-old Ghina Khalil is recovering with her family in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo after being buried in rubble.
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After snow, mayor and gov play delicate blame game 
Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 02:29 PM PST
 Karen Hurst, left, carries a gas can as she helps Ann Batsun, recover her car on Interstate 75 Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, in Atlanta. Police and the National Guard helped people reunite with their abandoned cars Thursday as the logjam on Atlanta highways eased and the roads thawed, two days after a winter storm hit the Deep South. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)When the snow started falling Tuesday and cars lined up on the highways, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed were at an awards luncheon, smiling and back-slapping each other as the Republican governor introduced the Democratic mayor, who was named a local magazine's "Georgian of the Year."
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NASCAR creates winner-take-all championship format 
Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 02:43 PM PST
 NASCAR CEO Brian France speaks to the media during a news conference at the NASCAR Sprint Cup auto racing Media Tour in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. (AP Photo)CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Say goodbye to the NASCAR era when a driver, fresh off a satisfying, top-10 finish, climbs from the car and raves about what a good points day it was.
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NFL: 13 percent fewer concussions in '13 than '12 
Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 02:53 PM PST
 Jeff Miller, with the NFL, speaks during a news conference on health and safety at the NFL Super Bowl XLVIII media center, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo)NEW YORK (AP) — The number of concussions in the NFL dropped 13 percent from 2012 to 2013, according to data the league released Thursday and touted as a result of its efforts to better protect players' heads.
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Amanda Knox's murder conviction upheld on appeal 
Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 03:58 PM PST
 FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — More than two years after Amanda Knox returned home to the U.S. a free woman, an Italian court Thursday reinstated her murder conviction in the stabbing of her roommate and increased her sentence to 28½ years in prison, raising the specter of a long, drawn-out extradition fight.
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Bieber vs. Ford: Canada's favorite bad boys 
Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 03:31 PM PST
 Toronto Mayor Rob Ford speaks from the council floor in Toronto on Thursday, Jan. 30 , 2014. Ford is sticking up for another headline-grabbing Canadian, Justin Bieber. Ford was asked about the pop singer when he spoke by phone today to hosts on the Washington, D.C.-based Sports Junkies radio show. Ford said Bieber is only 19 and asked the radio personalities, who called Bieber "Canada's worst export," to think back to when they were that age. On Wednesday, Bieber was charged in Toronto with assault. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young)TORONTO (AP) — Pop star Justin Bieber is giving Toronto Mayor Rob Ford a brief respite as Canada's favorite bad boy and butt of all jokes.
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Key dates in Knox prosecution 
Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 01:55 PM PST
 FILE - In this Tuesday Sept. 16, 2008 file photo, then murder suspect Amanda Knox is escorted by Italian penitentiary police officers from Perugia's court after a hearing, central Italy. Few international criminal cases have cleaved along national biases as that of American student Amanda Knox, awaiting half world away her third Italian court verdict in the 2007 slaying of her British roommate, 21-year-old Meredith Kercher. Whatever is decided this week, the protracted legal battle that has grabbed global headlines and polarized trial-watchers in three nations probably won't end in Florence. With the first two trials producing flip-flop guilty-then-innocent verdicts against Knox and her former Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, the case has produced harshly clashing versions of events. A Florence appeals panel designated by Italy's supreme court to address errors in the appeals acquittal is set to deliberate Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, with a verdict expected later in the day .(AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Key dates in case of American student Amanda Knox, convicted then acquitted in slaying of British roommate Meredith Kercher.
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Police: 9 family members killed in Ky. house fire 
Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 05:53 PM PST
 GREENVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The bodies of eight children and their mother were found huddled together in a master bedroom and a ninth body was found just steps away, victims of an early-morning fire Thursday from which only the father and an 11-year-old daughter escaped after it ripped through a modest home in western Kentucky.
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Ukraine leader's sick leave prompts guessing game 
Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 12:51 PM PST
 FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013 file photo Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych speaks during a press conference in Kiev, Ukraine. Ukraine's embattled president Viktor Yanukovych is taking sick leave on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, as the country's political crisis continues without signs of resolution. A statement on the presidential website Thursday said Yanukovych has an acute respiratory illness and high fever. There was no indication of how long he might be on leave or whether he would be able to do any work. (AP Photo/Mykhailo Markiv, Pool)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Amid the deepest turmoil since the Orange Revolution, President Viktor Yanukovych's announcement Thursday that he was taking indefinite sick leave prompted a guessing game among Ukrainians about what was happening to their country.
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Doctors trying to bring Schumacher out of coma 
Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 12:30 PM PST
 FILE - In this Nov. 23, 2012 file photo, Grand Prix driver Michael Schumacher, of Germany, sits in his car during a free practice at the Interlagos race track in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Michael Schumacher's doctors have started the process of bringing the former Formula One champion out of the coma he has been in since a skiing accident a month ago, his manager said Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. The 45-year-old Schumacher suffered serious head injuries when he fell and hit the right side of his head on a rock in the French resort of Meribel on Dec. 29. (AP Photo/Victor Caivano, File)LONDON (AP) — Michael Schumacher's doctors have started trying to wake up the Formula One great from the medically induced coma he's been in since a skiing accident last month, his manager said Thursday.
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House GOP leaders' immigration plan doesn't rule out citizenship 
Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 01:49 PM PST
 FILE - This Jan. 28, 2014 file photo shows House John Boehner of Ohio, accompanied by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va. speaking at Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington. House Republican leaders challenged President Barack Obama on Thursday to override the opposition of the Senate's top Democrat and help pass trade legislation the administration favors. "The president ought to stand up and lead on this issue," House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio said at a news conference at a two-day retreat for members of the party's rank-and-file. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)House GOP leaders released a document of "standards" for immigration reform on Thursday.
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Stories from the storm: Middle fingers, horns and motherly love 
Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 09:41 AM PST
 First Person: Surviving an Atlanta Snowstorm and Escaping AccidentsTales from this week's storm that dumped three inches of snow on metro Atlanta, iced roads, forced the cancellation of almost 800 flights, caused roughly 1,200 accidents, injured at least 130 people, killed two, wrecked countless commutes and stranded thousands in local schools and business.
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Obama's 'phone and a pen' problem 
Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 02:20 AM PST
 U.S. President Barack Obama signs a Presidential Memorandum at General Electric's Waukesha Gas Engines facility in WisconsinWith three years left in his presidency, he still has time to be a generational leader.
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Feds to seek death for Boston bombing suspect 
Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 03:09 PM PST
 Will Dzhokhar Tsarnaev face the death penalty?Attorney general makes final decision to seek death penalty against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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