Insurgents launched attacks on the US Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in Afghanistan’s capital Tuesday, raising doubts about the Afghans’ ability to secure their nation as US and other foreign troops start to withdraw. (Sept. 13)
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Retired media executive and political novice Bob Turner defeated Democratic state Assemblyman David Weprin in a special election Tuesday to succeed Rep. Anthony Weiner, a seven-term Democrat who resigned in June after a sexting scandal. (Sept. 14)
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A passenger train collided with another train stopped at a signal in southern India, killing 10 people and injuring dozens more. (Sept. 14)
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The uncle of Brandon Wright, who was saved by strangers who lifted a burning car off of him, says his nephew has not seen the video yet, but knows people saved him and is grateful for their action. (Sept. 13)
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Children 12 years old and younger soon will no longer be required to remove their shoes at airport security checkpoints, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told Congress on Tuesday. (Sept. 13)
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The US census bureau says 46 million people now live in poverty. 70 miles outside Chicago is Pembroke, where 50 percent of the people are unemployed. (Sept. 13)
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Truckers and other commercial drivers should be banned from talking on the phone and texting when they are behind the wheel, a federal safety agency decided Tuesday. (Sept. 13)
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Marja Vongerichten on the PBS series ‘Kimchi Chronicles’ about Korean food and culture, which she co-hosts with her husband, Chef Jean Georges. (Sept. 13)
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Members of a special House-Senate deficit-cutting “supercommittee” urged their colleagues Tuesday to go beyond the panel’s minimum spending-cut target of $1.2 trillion over the coming decade. (Sept. 13)
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