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• CIA chief admits affair, resigns
• How Sandy spurred an Airbnb revolution
• Up to 11,000 people flee Syria in 24-hours
• How Oregon almost became a pot-dealing state
• Obama: Americans voted for tax hikes on the rich
• New timeline shows military response to Benghazi attack
• Say goodbye to Clinton, Geithner and Carney
• Mexico charges agents with trying to kill CIA officers
• Lakers fire coach Mike Brown after dismal start
• Supreme Court to take on major voting rights case
• Revered author Philip Roth says he's done with writing
• Tentacled snakes born at National Zoo
• Waffle House chairman accused of sexual harassment
• Iran issues warning after targeting U.S. drone

CIA chief admits affair, resigns Posted: 09 Nov 2012 12:13 PM PST Former Army general David Petraeus rocketed to global prominence as the man in charge of the "surge" in Iraq.

How Sandy spurred an Airbnb revolution Posted: 09 Nov 2012 11:17 AM PST Someone should do an exposé of Airbnb, the shadowy "vacation rental service" that's giving away free rooms to refugees of superstorm Sandy.

Up to 11,000 people flee Syria in 24-hours Posted: 09 Nov 2012 12:58 PM PST Some of them desperately clambered through a razor-wire fence into Turkey on Friday to escape fierce fighting between rebels and government forces.

How Oregon almost became a pot-dealing state Posted: 09 Nov 2012 01:44 PM PST Oregon's law was kind of wacky: It would have turned the state, effectively, into a pot dealer.

Obama: Americans voted for tax hikes on the rich Posted: 09 Nov 2012 10:59 AM PST "Our job now is to get a majority in congress to reflect the will of the American people," the president said today.

New timeline shows military response to Benghazi attack Posted: 09 Nov 2012 02:14 PM PST Pentagon details show that the first U.S. military unit arrived in Libya more than 14 hours after the attack was over.

Say goodbye to Clinton, Geithner and Carney Posted: 09 Nov 2012 11:51 AM PST Come January, the Obama administration will begin again, and people whose names and faces have grown familiar the last four years will leave for other livelihoods.

Mexico charges agents with trying to kill CIA officers Posted: 09 Nov 2012 11:54 AM PST Mexican prosecutors on Friday charged 14 federal police officers with trying to kill two CIA officers and a Mexican navy captain in an August ambush south of the capital.

Lakers fire coach Mike Brown after dismal start Posted: 09 Nov 2012 11:40 AM PST It is unclear whether the organization will make a run at bringing back Phil Jackson, but one candidate prominently being discussed: Mike D'Antoni.

Supreme Court to take on major voting rights case Posted: 09 Nov 2012 02:10 PM PST Only three days after the contentious 2012 election, the Supreme Court announced today that it would take up a major voting rights case; it will be heard in the next few months and decided by June. At issue is Section 5 of the Voting Rights...

Revered author Philip Roth says he's done with writing Posted: 09 Nov 2012 03:11 PM PST (Reuters) - Seminal American author Philip Roth, whose novels explored modern Jewish-American life, has told a French magazine that he will write no more books because he has lost his passion for it. The author of such novels as "American Pastoral", for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, and "Portnoy's Complaint" slipped his retirement announcement into an interview last month with French magazine Les Inrocks. On Friday, Houghton Mifflin confirmed his decision. "He told me it was true," said Lori Glazer, executive director of publicity at the publisher. ...

Tentacled snakes born at National Zoo Posted: 09 Nov 2012 02:36 PM PST Indiana Jones and Samuel L. Jackson may need to start their own group therapy session: Eight tentacled snakes were recently hatched at the Smithsonian's National Zoo. These babies belong to an aquatic species of snake native to Southeast Asia, formally known as Erpeton tentaculatus, according to the Mother Nature Network. Scientists say it is the [...]

Waffle House chairman accused of sexual harassment Posted: 09 Nov 2012 01:27 PM PST A Georgia woman is accusing the chairman of Waffle House, her employer, of demanding that she perform sex acts on him as part of her job's duties over a period of nearly 10 years.

Iran issues warning after targeting U.S. drone Posted: 09 Nov 2012 04:17 AM PST Iran said it would deal decisively with any foreign encroachment into its airspace, an apparent warning to the United States after one of its surveillance drones was targeted by Iranian warplanes last week.

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