Daniel Chong, a University of California student, was swept up in a Drug Enforcement Administration raid and placed in a holding cell, where he said he was forgotten for four days, without food or water.
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California Man Left for Days in Holding Cell
For President Obama, the days leading up to his re-election kickoff have been spent straddling the precarious line between hawk and dove, and possibly redefining his party for years to come.
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White House Memo: For Obama, a Delicate New Balance on National Security
The Washington Redskins will meet their greatest need Thursday when they likely draft Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III with the No. 2 overall pick. The Heisman Trophy winner is expected to give the Redskins their first elite-level quarterback since the days of Joe Theismann. Read full article > >
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2012 NFL draft: Redskins’ offensive needs
TEHRAN — Iranian security forces have arrested an Israeli-backed “terrorist team” that was planning attacks inside Iran, the Intelligence Ministry announced Tuesday, four days before crucial nuclear talks with world powers . Read full article > >
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Iran says it captured Israel-backed ‘terrorist team’
A top official at the General Services Administration was placed on administrative leave Monday, four days after a video that features him joking about the lavish spending at a Las Vegas conference became public. Read full article > >
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Another top GSA official placed on administrative leave
MOSCOW — The authoritarian system Vladimir Putin built is propelling him toward virtually assured victory in Sunday’s presidential election, but its increasingly visible weaknesses present grave challenges in the days ahead for him, Russia and the world. Read full article > >
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Putin heads toward Russia’s presidency
Transcripts of phone conversations in the days after last year’s tsunami in Japan, released Tuesday by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, show an early sense of urgency, as well as confusion, about the emergency at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor complex. Read full article > >
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NRC Fukushima transcripts show urgency, confusion early on
When I travel abroad, which I do frequently for work, I try to run every day for an hour. It gives me energy and a great look at my new surroundings. After starting a run in Manila recently, I stopped three minutes into it. My breathing was shallow and labored. I also had nagging pain in my calves. The discomfort had been with me since I landed in the Philippines four days earlier. Read full article > >
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An achy calf and shortness of breath point a traveler to deep vein thrombosis
BEIJING — In the days after Kim Jong Il’s death, China’s most powerful leaders hurried to the North Korean Embassy in Beijing, where they fanned across the embassy’s parquet floor and bowed three times to Kim’s portrait. One Chinese state councilor was “hardly” able to keep back tears , North Korea’s state-run news agency later said. Read full article > >
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Amid N. Korea succession, China makes push for stability
BERLIN — Economist Lucas Papademos will be Greece’s next prime minister, the Greek president’s office announced Thursday, giving Europe a partner who promises to implement a bailout plan that forces tough austerity measures on the country before elections are held next year. The selection of Papademos, a former vice president of the European Central Bank, ended four days of squabbling by the country’s bitterly divided political parties over how to structure a unity government. Read full article > >
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Economist Papademos to lead Greece’s unity government
SALT LAKE CITY — A 64-year-old man who broke his leg while hiking crawled through the Utah desert for four days near Canyonlands National Park before rangers rescued him. Amos Wayne Richards of Concord, N.C. is now recovering at home. He was hiking alone Sept. 8 in the rugged Maze District when he fell 10 feet. Read full article > >
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Man with broken leg survives 4 days in Utah desert after rangers find him crawling to safety
He just got in the race, but Rick Perry is already Republicans’ top choice for the presidential nomination, according to a new Gallup Poll . In the first long-running national poll taken since the Texas governor jumped into the 2012 presidential contest, Perry nabbed 29 percent of respondents’ support in the survey of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents. The poll was taken August 17 to 21, four days after Perry announced his candidacy. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney , heretofore the weak front-runner of the GOP pack, placed a distant second, with 17 percent Read full article > >
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Rick Perry, new GOP frontrunner
There is no more argument that the days of Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez as the prototypical five-tool player.
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