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US sanctions Syrian government officials 05/08/2014 07:10pm • DEB RIECHMANN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Stepping up pressure on Syria, the Treasury Department on Thursday sanctioned six Syrian officials and a Russian bank for their alleged support of the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, who has been fighting opposition forces in a 3-year-ol Feds: Woman stole dead mom's checks for 30 years 05/08/2014 03:51pm • CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) -- Federal prosecutors say a Pennsylvania woman has agreed to plead guilty to stealing more than $520,000 in Social Security checks over the span of 30 years.Investigators say 71-year-old Susan Stock, of Carlisle, continued cashing the checks following her mother's death in 1983.T Judge: Indiana must still recognize 1 gay marriage 05/08/2014 02:30pm • CHARLES D. WILSON Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The state of Indiana must recognize a lesbian couple's out-of-state marriage throughout their legal fight to have one of the women named as a spouse on her terminally ill partner's death certificate, a judge ruled Thursday. The Indiana attorney German lawmakers want to interview Snowden 05/08/2014 02:11pm • KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) -- German lawmakers agreed Thursday to ask NSA leaker Edward Snowden to testify in their inquiry into surveillance of Chancellor Angela Merkel by the U.S. National Security Agency.Snowden's documents showing that the NSA targeted Merkel's cellphone cau 'Face of the campaign' mired in health law snags 05/08/2014 10:32am • CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) -- Celeste Castillo, a Guatemalan immigrant, was invited to a news conference with Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius early last year to help promote enrollment in the country's new health insurance market Islamic militant attack in Nigeria kills hundreds 05/08/2014 06:44am • MICHELLE FAUL Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Islamic militants who have triggered international outrage over the kidnapping of more than 270 Nigerian schoolgirls opened fire on a busy marketplace, killing hundreds of people in a new spasm of violence in the country's northeast.The attack es China's Alibaba seeks blockbuster IPO in US 05/07/2014 06:20pm • MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Alibaba Group, the king of e-commerce in China, is dangling a deal that could turn into one of the biggest IPOs in history.In a long-awaited move Tuesday, Alibaba filed for an initial public offering of stock in the U.S. that could surpass t Colombia: Hacker tried to sabotage peace talks 05/06/2014 11:40pm • CESAR GARCIA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Authorities arrested a suspected hacker for trying to obtain information to sabotage government peace talks with Colombia's biggest rebel movement, the chief prosecutor's office said Tuesday.The announcement described Andres Sepulveda as the lea Glance: Alibaba's tentacles into Chinese retail 05/06/2014 10:00pm • The Associated Press Alibaba Group, the Chinese e-commerce powerhouse that filed to offer its shares to U.S. investors Tuesday, has stretched its tentacles deep into China's other major Internet companies.Its mainstay retail businesses, accounting for 83 percent of its $6.51 billion in revenue in t Local al-Qaida leader in Syria killed in blast 05/06/2014 03:34pm • DIAA HADID Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) -- A roadside bomb in Syria killed a local al-Qaida leader and his wife, activists said Tuesday, an attack that could ignite a new round of infighting among disparate rebel groups in the country.The commander, identified as Ali al-Nuaimi of the Nusra Front, wa Officials: 1 in custody after Ga. college shooting 05/05/2014 11:18pm • AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) -- The second shooting in two days at a Georgia college Monday left a student with a life-threatening gunshot wound to the head and prompted authorities to pledge to bolster security at the school.A 21-year-old man was taken into custody and was being called a person of interest in Officials: 1 in custody after Ga. college shooting 05/05/2014 11:18pm • AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) -- The second shooting in two days at a Georgia college Monday left a student with a life-threatening gunshot wound to the head and prompted authorities to pledge to bolster security at the school.A 21-year-old man was taken into custody and was being called a person of interest in Officials: 1 in custody after Ga. college shooting 05/05/2014 11:18pm • AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) -- The second shooting in two days at a Georgia college Monday left a student with a life-threatening gunshot wound to the head and prompted authorities to pledge to bolster security at the school.A 21-year-old man was taken into custody and was being called a person of interest in White House seeks stronger privacy laws for data 05/05/2014 04:40pm • JULIE PACE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is asking Congress to pass new privacy laws that would add more safeguards for Americans' data and provide more protections for emails sought in the course of a law enforcement investigation.The recommendations are among six offered by P Bomb attacks: Kenya deputy president blames judges 05/05/2014 04:20pm • TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Faced with rising public anger over a wave terror attacks, Kenya's deputy president appeared on Monday to blame the attacks on judges who have given bail to terror suspects.William Ruto said that terror suspects Jamal Mohammed Awadh and Suleiman Moha