Sunday, August 25, 2013

IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 8/26/2013





NY sues Donald Trump for $40M
Is privacy endangered in America?The state's attorney general says Trump helped run a phony "Trump University."



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Poll: Americans oppose intervention in Syria
A Free Syrian Army fighter rests next to his weapons in al-Swaika district in AleppoRespondents say Washington should stay out of the conflict.



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Popular Pa. teacher vanishes in Calif. wilderness
In this undated photo released by Tiffany Minto, Matthew Greene is shown. Greene a math teacher at Nazareth Area High School in eastern Pennsylvania, vanished while on a backpacking trip in California in July of 2013. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Family)When the fall term begins at Nazareth Area High School on Monday, one teacher will be conspicuous by his absence.



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Marching for King's dream: 'The task is not done'
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of thousands of people marched to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and down the National Mall on Saturday, commemorating the 50th anniversary of King's famous speech and pledging that his dream includes equality for gays, Latinos, the poor and the disabled.



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Calif. service for Hannah Anderson's mom, brother
Hannah Anderson positions a photo of her mother, Christina Anderson, and brother, Ethan Anderson on an easel at the memorial service in Guardian Angels Catholic Church on Saturday Aug. 24, 2013 in Santee, Calif. The two were murdered by family friend James Lee DiMaggio, before kidnapping Hannah earlier this month. Hannah was rescued and DiMaggio was killed in a shoot out with FBI agents in Idaho. (AP Photo/U-T San Diego, Howard Lipin, Pool)SANTEE, Calif. (AP) — Calling their deaths "an abomination," a priest memorialized a California mother and young son killed by a family friend who also abducted the woman's 16-year-old daughter.



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Egypt shortens curfew as unrest over coup wanes
An Egyptian man builds his tent at Tahrir Square where a few protesters have built their camp protesting against the release of Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's government on Saturday shortened a widely-imposed evening curfew, signaling that authorities sense turmoil is waning after unrest following the president's ouster threatened to destabilize the country this month.



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3 dead, 2 wounded in Fla. truck company shootings
LAKE BUTLER, Fla. (AP) — A longtime employee of a Florida trucking company drove around Saturday shooting former co-workers and his onetime boss, killing two and wounding two, authorities said. The gunman then killed himself.

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NY AG sues Trump, 'Trump University,' claims fraud
FILE- In this May 23, 2005 file photo, real estate mogul and Reality TV star Donald Trump, left, listens as Michael Sexton introduces him at a news conference in New York where he announced the establishment of Trump University. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is suing Trump for $40 million, saying that “Trump University” didn’t deliver on its advertised promise to make students rich, but instead steered them into expensive yet mostly useless seminars. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York's attorney general sued Donald Trump for $40 million Saturday, saying the real estate mogul helped run a phony "Trump University" that promised to make students rich but instead steered them into expensive and mostly useless seminars, and even failed to deliver promised apprenticeships.



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Julie Harris, Broadway star, dies at 87
File-This June 2, 2002 file photo shows Julie Harris celebrating her special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre during the 56th annual Tony Awards at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Harris, who won an unprecedented five Tony Awards for best actress, has died. She was 87. Actress and family friend Francesca James says Harris died Saturday Aug. 24, 2013 at her home in West Chatham, Mass. She had previously suffered two strokes. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Julie Harris, one of Broadway's most honored performers, whose roles ranged from the flamboyant Sally Bowles in "I Am a Camera" to the reclusive Emily Dickinson in "The Belle of Amherst," died Saturday. She was 87.



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Sanchez hurt in Jets' 24-21 OT win over Giants
New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez (6) reacts to an injury during the second half of a preseason NFL football game against the New York Giants, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013, in East Rutherford, N.J. He left the game with what appeared to be a shoulder injury. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Rookie Geno Smith may end up being the Jets' No. 1 quarterback by default.



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DC panda that birthed live cub has stillborn 1 too
In this image from video provided by the Smithsonian National Zoo, Mei Xiang gives birth to a cub two hours after her water broke Friday, Aug. 23, 2013, at the National Zoo in Washington. The zoo has been on round-the-clock panda watch since Aug. 7, when Mei Xiang began showing behavioral changes consistent with a pregnancy or pseudopregnancy. (AP Photo/Smithsonian National Zoo)WASHINGTON (AP) — A panda at Washington's National Zoo that has been tending to her squealing newborn cub also gave birth to a stillborn cub Saturday that wasn't fully formed and was never alive outside the womb, a zoo official said.



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Cundiff OT field goal leads Jets 24-21
New York Giants defensive end Justin Tuck (91) talks with teammates Terrell Thomas (24) and Aaron Ross (31) as he leaves the field after the first half of a preseason NFL football game against the New York Jets, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The Jets' quarterback picture got even murkier despite winning the annual bragging rights game with the Giants.



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US moves forces toward Syria, inquiry continues
A picture taken through a window shows the United Nations high representative for disarmament affairs, Angela Kane, second left, at a hotel in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. The United Nations disarmament chief arrived today to press President Bashar Assad's regime to allow U.N. experts to investigate an alleged chemical weapons attack this week that reportedly killed more than 130 people. Kane who was dispatched by the U.N. secretary-general to push for a speedy investigation into Wednesday's purported attack outside the Syrian capital, did not speak to reporters upon her arrival in Damascus. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence officials sought Saturday to determine whether Syria's government unleashed a deadly chemical weapons attack on its people. At the same time, the Obama administration prepared for a possible military response by moving naval forces closer to Syria.



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AP PHOTOS: Marchers in Washington across 50 years
In this combination of Associated Press file photos, at left, the top of the Washington Monument and part of a U.S. flag are reflected in the sunglasses of Austin Clinton Brown, 9, of Gainesville, Fla., during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963; and at right, Claudia Hanes, from Kentucky, takes part in a rally to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 march, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013, right. Tens of thousands of people marched toward the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and down the National Mall on Saturday, commemorating the 50th anniversary of King's famous speech and pledging that his dream includes equality for gays, Latinos, the poor and the disabled. (AP Photo/File)Some 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation freed America's slaves, many Americans embraced the ideal of racial equality but were frustrated with the glacial pace of change. Organizers were making plans to bring people from across the country to the nation's capital to express their exasperation in a peaceful, nonviolent manner.



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Bo admits lapses led to top cop's US defection bid
In this photo released by the Jinan Intermediate People's Court, former Politburo member and party leader of the megacity of Chongqing Bo Xilai, in the defendant seat listens to a testimony by former Chongqing city police chief Wang Lijun, unseen, at Jinan Intermediate People's Court in Jinan in eastern China's Shandong province, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. Disgraced Chinese politician Bo told a court Saturday his wife stole government funds without his involvement and revealed how the couple became estranged after he had been unfaithful, offering a glimpse in his politically charged trial of the unraveling of one of China's elite families. Wang triggered Bo's downfall when he fled to a US consulate with revelations that Bo's wife had killed a British businessman. (AP Photo/Jinan Intermediate People's Court)JINAN, China (AP) — The trial of ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai resumed Sunday, a day after he said he made mistakes that prompted his top aide's embarrassing U.S. defection bid, but denied criminal responsibility for the incident that triggered the country's messiest political scandal in decades.



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Trump lawyer denies NY AG's lawsuit claims
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Donald Trump's attorney accuses New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman of trying to extort campaign contributions from the real estate mogul through his investigation of Trump University.

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