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• Lawmaker: White House security breach 'absolutely inexcusable'
• Relatives: Vet arrested at White House needs help
• St. Louis police offer 'highly entertaining' media training course
• California wildfire destroys 10 houses, 22 other structures
• New York climate march draws hundreds of thousands
• Retrial to proceed for Florida man who shot teens
• Police: Rifle carried by cop ambush suspect found
• Yemen government signs peace deal after days of fighting
• New Afghan president, but vote totals kept secret
• Pope in Albania urges Muslims to condemn extremism
• California authorities catch 4 of 5 jail escapees
• White House intruder was armed with knife: officials
• Wife of British IS hostage pleads for his release

Lawmaker: White House security breach 'absolutely inexcusable' Posted: 21 Sep 2014 12:37 PM PDT Congressmen and security experts express shock at the Secret Service's latest gaffe.

Relatives: Vet arrested at White House needs help Posted: 21 Sep 2014 04:35 PM PDT The man accused of getting inside the White House after scaling a fence is a veteran who was awarded a medal for his service in Iraq and retired due to disability, the Army said Sunday.

St. Louis police offer 'highly entertaining' media training course Posted: 21 Sep 2014 07:02 AM PDT The police response to the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo. — which included heavily armed militarized police clashing with protesters in the St. Louis suburb — is a case study for how not to manage a crisis. The St. Louis Police Academy seems to agree.

California wildfire destroys 10 houses, 22 other structures Posted: 21 Sep 2014 10:25 AM PDT By Kevin Murphy (Reuters) - Ten houses and 22 outbuildings have been destroyed in a wildfire that swept through parts of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California over the past week and continues to burn, a fire official said on Sunday. No residents of the homes were hurt, said Tom Piranio, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Firefighters were only recently able to enter the burned areas to tally the structural damage caused by the King Fire, he added. About 12,000 homes have been evacuated since the blaze began on Sept. 13, Piranio said. ...

New York climate march draws hundreds of thousands Posted: 21 Sep 2014 12:43 PM PDT By Barbara Goldberg and Natasja Sheriff NEW YORK (Reuters) - An international day of action on climate change brought hundreds of thousands of people onto the streets of New York City on Sunday, easily exceeding organizers' hopes for the largest protest on the issue in history. Organizers estimated that some 310,000 people, including United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, former U.S. ...

Retrial to proceed for Florida man who shot teens Posted: 21 Sep 2014 03:56 PM PDT By Susan Cooper Eastman JACKSONVILLE Fla. (Reuters) - Jury selection is due to begin on Monday in the north Florida retrial of a white, middle-aged man charged with killing an unarmed black teenager during a dispute about loud rap music. A Jacksonville jury previously deadlocked on a charge of first-degree murder for Michael Dunn, 47, who claimed to be acting in self-defense in the shooting death. Dunn, a software engineer, fired 10 rounds at an SUV carrying four black teens listening to music in a Jacksonville gas station parking lot in November 2012, killing 17-year-old Jordan Davis. ...

Police: Rifle carried by cop ambush suspect found Posted: 21 Sep 2014 04:51 PM PDT Authorities say they have found items abandoned or hidden by the suspected shooter in last week's deadly police barracks attack, including an AK-47-style weapon and ammunition.

Yemen government signs peace deal after days of fighting Posted: 21 Sep 2014 01:01 PM PDT SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni government officials and Shiite rebels signed a peace agreement on Sunday following days of violence that left more than 140 people dead and sent thousands fleeing their homes, state media said, although major rebel advances earlier in the day deepened a sense of uncertainty in the country.

New Afghan president, but vote totals kept secret Posted: 21 Sep 2014 04:40 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Ending months of vote-related tension, Afghanistan's election commission named a new president Sunday only hours after the leading candidates signed a power-sharing deal that names one of them as the country's new chief executive.

Pope in Albania urges Muslims to condemn extremism Posted: 21 Sep 2014 10:19 AM PDT TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Pope Francis called Sunday for Muslims and all religious leaders to condemn Islamic extremists who "pervert" religion to justify violence, as he visited Albania and held up the Balkan nation as a model for interfaith harmony for the rest of the world.

California authorities catch 4 of 5 jail escapees Posted: 20 Sep 2014 09:48 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities say four of five inmates who escaped from a central California jail have been caught.

White House intruder was armed with knife: officials Posted: 20 Sep 2014 07:39 PM PDT By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Texas man arrested on Friday for charging at the White House was armed with a knife when he climbed a fence and made it into the executive mansion after President Barack Obama had departed, the U.S. Attorney's Office said on Saturday. Previously, the U.S. Secret Service had said Omar Gonzalez, 42, had been unarmed. Gonzalez was charged with unlawfully entering a restricted building or grounds while carrying a "deadly or dangerous weapon," according to an affidavit released by the U.S. Attorney's Office on Saturday. ...

Wife of British IS hostage pleads for his release Posted: 20 Sep 2014 04:21 PM PDT London (AFP) - The wife of a British taxi driver being held hostage by Islamic State jihadists implored his captors to release him, saying Saturday she could not see how his death could assist any cause.

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