IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 9/25/2013

Cherokee child handed over to adoptive parents

This photo provided by Amanda Clinton of the Cherokee Nation shows four-year-old Veronica, right, with her biological father, Dusten Brown, at a birthday party for her in Tahlequah, Okla. The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Monday, Sept. 23, 2013 said it won't intervene in an adoption dispute involving Veronica, a Cherokee girl, and dissolved a court order that was keeping her with Brown, her biological father. Amanda Clinton later confirmed that Veronica was handed over to her adoptive parents, Matt and Melanie Capobianco of South Carolina, on Monday night.(AP Photo/Cherokee Nation, Amanda Clinton)

The biological parents of the the girl were not awarded custody.

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Senate GOP leaders don't support effort to filibuster spending bill

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks to reporters after Senate luncheons at Capitol Hill in Washington

The decision could help avoid a government shutdown next week.

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Kenya official says several Americans among mall attackers

A police officer walks towards the edge of a security perimeter put into place a distance from the Westgate Shopping Centre in Nairobi, during a standoff operation between security forces and gunmen

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two or three Americans and one Briton were among those who attacked a Nairobi shopping mall, Kenya's foreign minister said Monday.

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Assad: Syria committed to destroy chemical weapons

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, speaks during an interview with Chinese state CCTV, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Sept. 23, 2013. Assad said his government will allow international experts access to its chemical weapons sites but cautioned in an interview broadcast Monday that rebels might block them from reaching some of the locations. (AP Photo/SANA)

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — President Bashar Assad pledged in an interview broadcast Monday to honor an agreement to surrender Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons, but he said that rebels might try to block international arms inspectors from doing their work.

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Va. man misidentified as DC shooter knew 1 victim

Rollie Chance stands in his home on Monday, Sept. 23, 2013 in Stafford, Va. A week ago, Chance was working the phones, worried that some of his friends at the Washington Navy Yard may have been killed in a mass shooting there. Then, he received a call that he thought was a prank: a news organization telling him that he had been identified as the shooter. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

McLEAN, Va. (AP) — A week ago, Rollie Chance was working the phones, worried that some of his friends at the Washington Navy Yard may have been killed in a mass shooting there.

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2 charged in Chicago park shooting that wounded 13

FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2013 file photo, Chicago Police detectives investigate the scene where 13 people, including a 3-year-old child, were shot in a city park in Chicago. Authorities on Monday night, Sept. 23, 2013, charged two men in connection with the shooting. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty, File)

CHICAGO (AP) — Two men have been charged in connection with a shooting last week at a Chicago park that injured 13 people, including a 3-year-old boy, Chicago officials announced Monday night.

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Ex-FBI agent to plead guilty to being AP source

FILE - In this May 14, 2013, file photo, the Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington is photographed early in the morning. Former FBI explosives expert Donald Sachtleben of Carmel, Ind., said Monday, Sept. 23, he will plead guilty to revealing secret information for an Associated Press story about a U.S. intelligence operation in Yemen in 2012. The story led to a leaks investigation and the seizure of AP phone records in the government's search for the information's source. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former FBI explosives expert said Monday he will plead guilty to revealing secret information for an Associated Press story about a U.S. intelligence operation in Yemen in 2012. The story led to a leaks investigation and the seizure of AP phone records in the government's search for the information's source.

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Pirates clinch 1st playoff berth in 21 years

Pittsburgh Pirates relief pitcher Jason Grilli, left, picks up catcher Russell Martin after a baseball game and Pirates 2-1 win over the Chicago Cubs Monday, Sept. 23, 2013, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

CHICAGO (AP) — The Pittsburgh Pirates are headed to the playoffs for the first time in 21 years, clinching at least a National League wild card Monday night when they beat the Chicago Cubs 2-1 and the Washington Nationals lost to St. Louis.

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Fairfax reaches tentative deal to buy BlackBerry

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, file photo, Thorsten Heins, CEO of Research in Motion, which is changing its name to BlackBerry, is seen in Toronto on a video link from New York as he introduces the BlackBerry Z10. Fairfax Financial Holdings has offered to buy BlackBerry in a deal that values the Canadian smartphone company at about US$4.7 billion, on Monday, Sept. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette)

TORONTO (AP) — BlackBerry's largest shareholder has reached a tentative agreement to pay $4.7 billion for the troubled smartphone maker, even as many investors fret about its potential demise.

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GOP offers smaller budget cuts on debt measure

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., smiles as he leaves the floor of the House of Representatives at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Sept. 20, 2013. The GOP-controlled House passed a bill that would prevent a government shutdown while crippling the health care law that was the signature accomplishment of President Barack Obama's first term, (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are far less ambitious this week in their demands for spending cuts to erase new debt issued to pay the government's bills than they were during a budget battle two years ago.

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Kenyan officials claim last push to end mall siege

Kenyan Defense Forces leave the near vicinity of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi Kenya Monday Sept. 23 2013. Multiple large blasts have rocked the mall where a hostage siege is in its third day. Associated Press reporters on the scene heard multiple blasts and a barrage of gunfire. Security forces have been attempting to rescue an unknown number of hostages inside the mall held by al-Qaida-linked terrorists. (AP Photo/ Jerome Delay)

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan security forces battled al-Qaida-linked terrorists in an upscale mall for a third day Monday in what they said was a final push to rescue the last few hostages in a siege that has left at least 62 people dead.

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Officials: Woman, 79, found dead in Colo. flood

Vice President Joe Biden, center right, arrives with Gov. John Hickenlooper, left, in Greeley, Colo. after surveying the flood damage in the area, Monday, Sept. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, Kathryn Scott Osler, Pool)

DENVER (AP) — A 79-year-old woman whose house was swept away by the Big Thompson River was found dead on the river bank, authorities said Monday, bringing to eight the death toll from the massive flooding in Colorado.

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Navy officials push for security clearance changes
WASHINGTON (AP) — A week after an IT contractor gunned down 12 workers at the Washington Navy Yard, Navy officials began moving to close gaps in the security clearance process, recommending that all police reports involving an individual must be included when a background check is done.

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US experts: NKorea can likely build key nuke parts

FILE - This April 30, 2012 file satellite image provided by GeoEye shows the area around the Yongbyon nuclear facility in Yongbyon, North Korea. The U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies said on May 16, 2012, that new satellite imagery showed that North Korea had resumed building work on a reactor after months of inactivity at the site. The GeoEye image shows progress in construction of the containment building for the light-water reactor at the Yongbyon facility, according to the institute, but that the reactor is unlikely to become operational before 2014 or 2015. North Korean scientists have mastered domestic production of essential components for the gas centrifuges needed to build uranium-based nuclear bombs, apparently shutting down one of the few ways outsiders could monitor secretive atomic work, according to evidence gathered by two American experts, The Associated Press reports Monday, Sept. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/GeoEye, File)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean scientists are able to build crucial equipment for uranium-based nuclear bombs on their own, cutting the need for imports that had been one of the few ways outsiders could monitor the country's secretive atomic work, according to evidence gathered by two American experts.

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IRS official at heart of tea party scandal retires

FILE - In this May 22, 2013 file photo, Lois Lerner, head of the IRS unit that decides whether to grant tax-exempt status to groups, listens on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lerner, the official at the center of the agency’s tea party scandal is retiring. Lerner headed the IRS division that handles applications for tax-exempt status when she was placed on paid leave in May. While she was in charge, the agency acknowledged that agents improperly targeted tea party groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status from 2010 to 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a possible firing, the Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the agency's tea party scandal retired Monday, ending one chapter in a ruckus that has engulfed the tax-collection agency since spring.

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IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 9/25/2013

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