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  • Also: There's a report that two people have been arrested in last week's Chicago mass shooting; Congress' budget stalemate continues; a deadly typhoon crashes into southern China; 'Breaking Bad' and other Emmy winners; and the last VW van is close to rolling off the line.
  • Also: Tropical Storm Karen is headed for the U.S. Gulf coast; tornadoes are predicted for the Midwest; more than 100 migrants died in the shipwreck near Sicily; Ireland is voting over whether to abolish its Senate; and Hungarian students protest a new dress code by stripping.
  • Also: The FBI asks Edward Snowden's father to persuade him to come home; polls open in Zimbabwe; a French luxury watch store is robbed days after a thief steals diamonds from a nearby shop; and actress Eileen Brennan dies.
  • Also: U.S. spied on United Nations, German media report; jurors to soon begin weighing death penalty for Fort Hood killer; George Zimmerman will ask state of Florida to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal bills.
  • Also: several car bombs in Baghdad kill many people; the Taliban kidnap a female Afghan lawmaker; the destructive Idaho wildfire is expensive to fight; and now that small amounts of marijuana are legal in Washington state, Seattle police will hand out Doritos at a weekend pot festival.
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  • Also: The Senate reaches a deal to move presidential nominations forward; Russian financier Mikhail Khodorkovsky is freed after Putin's pardon; a credit rating agency cuts the European Union's rating; and a truck spills thousands of roasts on a Georgia highway, triggering a "ham jam".
  • Also: A terminally ill lawyer convicted of aiding terrorism is freed; U.S. stock markets set records in 2013; while peace talks open for South Sudan, bloody fighting continues; and passengers aboard a ship stuck in Antarctic ice ring in the New Year.
  • Also: A train with crude oil derails in a fiery explosion in North Dakota; Israel releases several Palestinian prisoners; arrest warrants are issued for the owners of a Bangladeshi building that collapsed, killing hundreds; and a same sex wedding planned for a Rose Bowl float draws protests.
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