Wednesday, October 8, 2014

In the news, Sunday, September 21, 2014


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SEP 20      INDEX      SEP 22
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Information from some sites may not be reliable, or may not be vetted.
Some sources may require subscription.

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from CBS News (& affiliates)

Biggest IRS scam around: Identity tax refund fraud
Con artists have been filing bogus tax returns and collecting millions. Steve Kroft finds out how far the scam has gone and why the IRS hasn't been able to stop it.

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from Christian News Network
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

60,000 Syrian Kurds Flee to Turkey from Advancing Islamic Savages

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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)

Snipers, Guards, Fences Not Enough: Secret Service Mulls Security Checkpoints Outside WH

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from Conservative Tribune

Texas Congressman: “Islamic State” is Working With Mexican Drug Cartels
Texas Congressman Ted Poe recently spoke to the media about his belief that ISIS forces and Mexican drug cartels are “talking to each other.”

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from The D.C. Clothesline
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from Fox News (& affiliates)
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from The Heritage Foundation

State Governments Are Trying to Block This Man’s Strategy to Sell You a Cheaper Car
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk wants to sell you a car, but your state government might not let him.






For nearly 40 years, there’s a been a ban on exporting crude oil from the United States to other nations in the world. Lifting the ban could boost the U.S. economy between $600 billion to $1.8 trillion and save motorists up to 12 cents a gallon at the pump.


On Friday, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals dissolved the injunction that had been issued against Wisconsin’s voter-ID law by a federal district court in April.

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from The Hill

Landrieu helps out with keg stand

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from iFIBER ONE News (WA)

Woman dies, deputy injured in Saturday morning collision

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from National Geographic

Photographer Captures Tens of Thousands Fleeing ISIS, Entering Turkey
Learning of a refugee flood, John Stanmeyer went to the border.
At least 66,000 Syrian Kurds streamed into Turkey on Saturday, fleeing the latest advances of the Islamic State—the violent Sunni group that has declared a caliphate in parts of Syria and Iraq—as it moved further north in a bid to extend territorial control. The militants’ onslaught left as many as 40 towns and villages in northern Syria, including the border city of Ayn al-Arab, called Kobani in Kurdish, virtually empty, as thousands of men, women and children sought safety.

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from NBC News (& affiliates)
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from RT (Russia Today)
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)

US admits there is a much scarier terrorist group than ISIS

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from Space.com (& CollectSpace)

NASA Spacecraft Arrives at Mars to Probe Mysteries of Red Planet's Air

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from The Spokesman-Review

32 structures destroyed in California wildfire

Buried treasures
Nine missile silos near Spokane sit abandoned or fill nonmilitary uses, but in the fall of 1962, their nuclear warheads were poised to strike

Cupich turns toward Chicago
Catholics reflect on outgoing bishop

Democrats have hope in Idaho schools chief race

Winter ticks cull moose populations across U.S.

Relative: White House intruder is Army veteran, has PTSD

Ex-stepson: White House intruder meant no harm

In brief: Shooting suspect still at large
Chrysler, GM issuing recalls
Search for UV student expands

Police say rifle carried by ambush suspect found
Authorities say they believe they’re hot on the trail of the suspect in last week’s deadly police barracks ambush hard in the heavy northeastern Pennsylvania woods and have found items they believe he abandoned or hid.

Stage, film, TV actress Polly Bergen, 84, dies
Beauty products success earned millions

Turkey hostages’ release raises questions
Questions emerged Saturday over what, if anything, Turkey gave up in exchange for 49 mostly Turkish hostages who were released by Islamic State militants in Syria after being held for more than three months.

In brief: Tropical storm dumps more misery
Tropical Storm Polo churned south of the Baja California Peninsula on Saturday night, whipping up waves along the shore and swirling more rain onto residents trying to recover from the damage inflicted by Hurricane Odile.
NATO commander blames Russia
NATO’s top general said Saturday the two-week-old truce between Ukraine and pro-Russian militants fighting in the country’s east is a “cease-fire in name only,” and he said that by enabling a free flow of weapons and fighters across the border, Russia has made it nearly impossible to determine how many of its troops are operating inside Ukraine.

El-Sissi: Egypt ready to join terror fight
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is feeling vindicated by the world’s alarm over Islamic extremism that is fueling wars and bloodshed across the Middle East.

Violence flares amid Ebola fears
Sierra Leone takes drastic measures

Scottish teens proud, passionate about vote
16-, 17-year-olds cast their ballots on independence

Time, cost of reopening New Mexico nuclear dump unknown
Site hit by fire, radiation leak

Little action expected at U.N. climate summit
World leaders gather in New York City for one-day meeting

U.S. progress on goals might provide leverage
With more than 120 world leaders expected to attend a one-day summit on Tuesday at the United Nations on climate, the United States heads to the meeting in a strong position. President Barack Obama will speak at the summit armed with some of the most significant steps the U.S. has ever taken on global warming.

Food, fun and human foosball at 25th annual Valleyfest

Community frustrated with East Central Community Center’s management

In brief: Corgi owners rally around slain dog
Sexual predators target of stings

Woman dies in collision with patrol car near Ephrata

Wildfire threatens 90 homes near Portland

In Brief: Seattle venture capitalist to speak at WSU, the Fox
St. Maries man dies from fall in Glacier park
Eight sheep killed, two dogs injured by wolves
Idaho man gets life in prison for baby’s death
House GOP settles wrongful firing lawsuit
Geoduck poacher gets four-month sentence

Planned Parenthood enters ‘telemedicine
Pilot project provides real-time ‘office visits’ via mobile device app

Members-only club targets mental illness in Medford, Oregon

Eye on Boise: Idaho treasurer’s office receives clean audit

Senate hopeful struggles in Oregon
GOP candidate Wehby’s early success has faded

Airbnb, Uber not insured in Oregon
Commissioner weighs in on consumers providing services on mobile apps

Grape-sorting system gives winemakers more control
A new grape-sorting system with the brains of a computer is giving Columbia Crest winemaker Laura Sorge more control over the grapes that make it into this year’s vintage.

Editorial: Domestic violence victims need support

Catherine Rampell: Nation’s public schools aren’t actually flunking

Carl P. Leubsdorf: Clinton must illustrate differences from Obama

Don Brunell: Beware of Inslee climate-change agenda costs

Sites across the country offer lessons on Roosevelts

BBB Tip of the Week: Credit/Security freeze

Obituary: Russel, Nola Doreeta (Tarbert)
Nola was born in Twisp, WA in January 1931 to Clyde Oliver and Dortha Delores (Brannan) Tarbert. She lived until she was five years old in Peach, WA.

Obituary: Kenney, Erma J.
Passed away in Odessa, WA; formerly of Creston, WA.

Obituary: Kimpel, Nona K. (Kunz)
Nona was born September 28, 1916 to George F. and Bess G. (Copenhaver) Kunz on the family ranch and wheat farm northeast of Wilbur near Sherman, WA.

Obituary: Dempsey, John Knowles
The Rev. Dr. John Knowles Dempsey, Ch. (Maj) USAF (ret)

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from The Wall Street Journal

Leapfrogging the Democrats' Tech Advantage
Azarias Reda, a 28-year-old data evangelist, on giving the Republican voter operation a radical upgrade for the midterms.

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from The Washington Free Beacon (DC)

The Hillary Letters
Hillary Clinton, Saul Alinsky correspondence revealed

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from The Washington Examiner (DC)
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