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Candidates Talk Bipartisanship, Libertarianism at Congressional Debate 09/04/2014 03:45pm • Bipartisanship or libertarianism. Those were the two primary messages from the half-dozen congressional candidates participating in Tuesday’s Arlington Civic Federation candidates forum. Democrat Don Beyer, the odds-on favorite in the race to replace the retiring Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va. Autumn in NY's Hudson Valley: History and scenery 09/04/2014 09:46am • BETH J. HARPAZ AP Travel Editor TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (AP) -- Exploring the region north of New York City isn't just for locals, and autumn is one of the nicest times of year to do it. The Hudson Valley offers history, culture and outdoor attractions with Hudson River scenery as a backdrop, just an hour o Photo hacking rekindles digital privacy worries 09/04/2014 08:34am • DAVID CRARY AP National Writer As the celebrity photo-hacking scandal has made clear, privacy isn't what it used to be.Whether famous or seemingly anonymous, people from all walks of life put all sorts of things online or into cloud-based storage systems, from vital financial information to the occa Europe's job market has strengths the US doesn't 09/04/2014 05:42am • PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writers WASHINGTON (AP) -- Compare unemployment rates, and America's job market looks much stronger than Europe's. The U.S. rate for August, being released Friday, is expected to be a near-normal 6.1 percent. In the 18 countries that use the euro currency, by contrast, it's Global drive to stop jihadis going to Syria, Iraq 09/04/2014 05:40am • LORI HINNANT Associated Press PARIS (AP) -- New laws make it easier to seize passports. Suspected fighters are plucked from planes. Authorities block finances and shut down radical mosques.In cyberspace, Silicon Valley firms are wiping extremist content from websites, such as video of the recent beh Russia, Ukraine working on cease-fire plan 09/04/2014 04:52am • JIM HEINTZ Associated Press KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Russia and Ukraine said Wednesday they are working on a deal to halt months of fighting in eastern Ukraine, but Western leaders expressed skepticism -- noting it wasn't the first attempt to end the deadly conflict.On the eve of a crucial NATO summit, 6 Tools to Supercharge Retirement Savings 09/04/2014 12:00am • Saving for retirement certainly isn't easy. A recent study by the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies found that only 18 percent of those surveyed expect to be better off in retirement. While no tool can fully automate retirement planning, there are tools that can offer a lot of help. These s Anger as decapitated Lebanese soldier is buried 09/03/2014 12:45pm • HUSSEIN MALLA Associated Press FNAYDEK, Lebanon (AP) -- Thousands of angry mourners on Wednesday buried a Lebanese soldier beheaded by Islamic militants, rocking his flag-draped coffin and firing their guns into the air as they accused the government of neglect for failing to negotiate his release.T Top South America hackers rattle Peru's Cabinet 09/03/2014 08:52am • FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer LIMA, Peru (AP) -- The Peruvian hackers have broken into military, police, and other sensitive government networks in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Venezuela, defacing websites and extracting sensitive data to strut their programming prowess and make political points.N At NATO, goal is to curb Russia but not provoke it 09/03/2014 08:08am • JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG Associated Press NEWPORT, Wales (AP) -- The heady "we won the Cold War" days are over. When President Obama and other NATO leaders assemble here Thursday for a key summit meeting, their No. 1 goal will be an old and familiar one: protecting vulnerable alliance members from Russia, Northern Mexico state approves same-sex marriage 09/02/2014 08:40pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) -- The northern state of Coahuila has become the second place in Mexico after the capital to recognize same-sex marriage.State lawmaker Samuel Acevedo said Tuesday he presented the bill that was voted into law because he wants gay couples to have the same rights of straight couples. Justice Department: Texas voter ID discriminatory 09/02/2014 07:18pm • PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) -- A federal judge on Tuesday began reviewing tough new Texas voter ID rules challenged by the Obama administration in a trial that could threaten the polarizing law, although a decision isn't expected before the November election.Minority ri Inquiries begin into nude celebrity photo leaks 09/02/2014 04:32pm • ANTHONY McCARTNEY AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The FBI said Monday it was addressing allegations that online accounts of several celebrities, including Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence, had been hacked, leading to the posting of their nude photographs online.The agency did not say what Sudan government closes Iranian cultural centers 09/02/2014 01:00pm • CAIRO (AP) -- Sudan announced Tuesday it closed the Iranian cultural center in the capital and other branches, saying the establishment violated its mandate and became a social and ideological threat to the largely Sunni country.The official statement by Foreign Ministry spokesman Youssef al-Kordofa China anti-dissent playbook may fail in Hong Kong 09/02/2014 04:38am • KELVIN CHAN Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) -- China's Communist leaders have pulled out their usual playbook to suppress resistance to their plans to tightly limit the first direct election of Hong Kong's leader, but are likely to find that the results are quite different.Beijing is blaming radical