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• US Army chief warns budget cuts could have dire effect
• Afghanistan says differences remain on U.S. security pact
• SOCIETY IS POORER FOR LACK OF OLD-TIME NEWS REPORTING
• Iraq veteran's SpongeBob gravestone removed
• Syria rebels say regime freed no detainees despite deal
• "Fifth Estate" Screenwriter Reveals All
• What Obama must do for Syria peace talks
• Arizona Air National Guard members indicted on fraud charges
• Kuwait to host Syria donors meeting in January
• Obama's tech-savvy administration is threatening to Blue Screen of Death its largest initiative
• Can Video Games Make Us Safer?
• Book celebrates StoryCorps' 10-year anniversary
• UN envoy says all states with Syria stake must join talks
• Attack on government buildings in Iraq kills two
• Coordinated attack in Iraq kills 7 policemen
• 10 things you need to know today: October 21, 2013
• Coordinated attack in Iraq kills 5 policemen
• Today in History

US Army chief warns budget cuts could have dire effect Posted: 21 Oct 2013 04:39 PM PDT Washington (AFP) - A top commander warned Monday that looming budget cuts and misguided military planning could potentially cripple the US Army if reductions in troop levels are taken too far.

Afghanistan says differences remain on U.S. security pact Posted: 21 Oct 2013 04:33 PM PDT By Hamid Shalizi and Jessica Donati KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan and the United States have not yet agreed on several issues in a bilateral security pact, a senior Afghan spokesman said, raising the prospect that Washington could pull out all its troops from the war-ravaged nation next year if the differences could not be ironed out. Two years ago, the United States ended its military mission in Iraq with a similar "zero option" outcome after the failure of bilateral talks with Baghdad. ...

SOCIETY IS POORER FOR LACK OF OLD-TIME NEWS REPORTING Posted: 21 Oct 2013 04:00 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- As I look upon the chaos that has been our nation's capital lately, I find myself playing a game about what we could do without. We could do without many congressmen. We could do without Internet programs that don't work. We could do without hedge fund owners who think they own the world -- and who often, in fact, do.But there is one thing I know from the deepest depths of my heart that we cannot do without. We cannot do without reporters!You look at me with a curious, confused expression, wondering why this should come up now. ...

Iraq veteran's SpongeBob gravestone removed Posted: 21 Oct 2013 02:40 PM PDT CINCINNATI (AP) — An Iraq war veteran's towering SpongeBob SquarePants headstone has been removed from her final resting place because officials at the historic Cincinnati cemetery deemed it inappropriate for their traditional grounds.

Syria rebels say regime freed no detainees despite deal Posted: 21 Oct 2013 02:15 PM PDT Beirut (AFP) - A Syrian rebel group said Monday that Damascus had failed to free dozens of female detainees who were supposed to have been released from regime jails as part of a weekend hostage exchange.

"Fifth Estate" Screenwriter Reveals All Posted: 21 Oct 2013 02:10 PM PDT When Josh Singer sold his first feature-film script to Dreamworks in 2010, he had no idea what he was signing up for. The deal meant the company could name his next assignment, and six months later he was back taking notes from his old professors at Harvard Law School, and flying to Berlin and London to speak with the insiders involved in history's biggest-ever leak of government information to the media.

What Obama must do for Syria peace talks Posted: 21 Oct 2013 01:44 PM PDT Just two months ago, President Obama almost launched a unilateral military attack on Syria to prevent another use of sarin gas on civilians. His goal was to uphold a "global norm" against such weapons. The threat was real enough to convince Syria to start dismantling its chemical stockpiles under international supervision.

Arizona Air National Guard members indicted on fraud charges Posted: 21 Oct 2013 01:11 PM PDT PHOENIX (Reuters) - Members of an Arizona Air National Guard unit in Tucson have been indicted on charges they falsified military records to defraud the U.S. government out of hundreds of thousands of dollars of extra pay meant for troops on deployment, authorities said on Monday. Eight officers and 13 enlisted members of the Guard's 214th Reconnaissance Group were accused of using fake home addresses to collect as much as five times as much pay as they were due, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne said on Monday. ...

Kuwait to host Syria donors meeting in January Posted: 21 Oct 2013 12:58 PM PDT Kuwait City (AFP) - Kuwait said on Monday it will host in January a second donor's conference to raise aid for Syrian refugees at the request of the UN secretary general.

Obama's tech-savvy administration is threatening to Blue Screen of Death its largest initiative Posted: 21 Oct 2013 12:41 PM PDT Rob Walker on the technical failures of Obamacare

Can Video Games Make Us Safer? Posted: 21 Oct 2013 11:08 AM PDT Perhaps Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was onto something when he was busted playing video games during a Senate hearing?

Book celebrates StoryCorps' 10-year anniversary Posted: 21 Oct 2013 09:59 AM PDT "Ties That Bind: Stories of Love & Gratitude From the First Ten Years of StoryCorps" (The Penguin Press), by Dave Isay

UN envoy says all states with Syria stake must join talks Posted: 21 Oct 2013 08:16 AM PDT Baghdad (AFP) - UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi called for all countries with a stake in war-wracked Syria to participate in planned peace talks in Geneva, during a visit to Iraq on Monday.

Attack on government buildings in Iraq kills two Posted: 21 Oct 2013 07:18 AM PDT Fallujah (Iraq) (AFP) - Militants attacked police and electricity headquarters in the Iraqi city of Fallujah on Monday, killing two police, in the second such attack in two days, officers and a doctor said.

Coordinated attack in Iraq kills 7 policemen Posted: 21 Oct 2013 05:18 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A coordinated attack Monday against police headquarters in a former al-Qaida stronghold in central Iraq killed seven policemen, officials said.

10 things you need to know today: October 21, 2013 Posted: 21 Oct 2013 01:26 AM PDT 1. HHS launches a "tech surge" to patch its ObamaCare siteThe Department of Health and Human Services said Sunday that it was calling in outside IT experts to help fix the ObamaCare website, which has been plagued with glitches since launching Oct. 1. HHS says this "tech surge" aims to patch bugs in off-peak hours and prevent new problems. "HealthCare.gov has not lived up to the expectations of the American people," the agency said in a blog post. "We are committed to doing better. ...

Coordinated attack in Iraq kills 5 policemen Posted: 21 Oct 2013 12:52 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say a coordinated attack involving two suicide bombers and several gunmen has killed five policemen in a former al-Qaida stronghold.

Today in History Posted: 20 Oct 2013 09:01 PM PDT Today is Monday, Oct. 21, the 294th day of 2013. There are 71 days left in the year.

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