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UPCOMING
Illinois-Boxing-Trainer-Dies
Famed boxing trainer Emanuel Steward -- who was in the corner for champions such as Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns and Oscar De La Hoya -- died Thursday in a Chicago hospital, his executive assistant said.
New-York-Officer-Cannibalism
A New York City police officer accused of conspiring to kidnap, rape, torture and cook a number of women and eat their body parts has been arrested and charged in the case, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan said Thursday.
POL-Virginia-Fraud-Claim
The Justice Department Thursday was reviewing a request from Virginia Democratic lawmakers to launch a federal inquiry into a firm allegedly involved in destroying voter registration applications.
POL-Obama-Fundraising
President Barack Obama's re-election effort brought in $90.5 million in the first part of October, lower than the nearly $112 million raised by his rival Mitt Romney during the same period.
POL-Panetta-Benghazi
The U.S. military did not get involved during the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya last month because officials did not have enough information into what was going on before the attack was over, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said Thursday.
SPORT-MLB-World-Series
The San Francisco Giants looked to take a 2-0 lead in the World Series as they played host to the Detroit Tigers in a game that was scheduled to start at 8:07 p.m.
Tropical-Weather-Sandy (will update)
As the Bahamas got hammered by Sandy, a Category 2 hurricane, residents on the East Coast of the United States started to make preparations in case the storm headed their way early next week.
Israel-Elections
In a brief press conference Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman announced they would run together in the upcoming elections.
Syria-Civil-War (will update)
The guns that have ravaged much of Syria since March 2011 may fall silent Friday, now that Syria's government has agreed to a cease-fire.
Syria-Eid
Artillery shelling, water outages, and food shortages rather than presents and sweets greeted many Syrians on the most important Muslim holiday of the year.
Bolivia-Social-Media
A top Bolivian official has a stern warning for those who criticize President Evo Morales on social networks: he's watching what they say, and taking names. "I am always going online, and I am writing down the first and last names of the people who insult him on Facebook and Twitter," Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera said at a rally Tuesday. The vice president's comments, widely reported in Bolivian media, have drawn sharp criticism from free speech advocates. But lawmakers from Morales' Socialist Movement party now say they hope to push a proposed law regulating social media through the country's Congress.
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US-Rape-God's-Will -- By Wayne Drash
The pregnant 12-year-old girl was strung out on heroin and looked like a walking skeleton when she arrived at the hospital. The conversation that followed, said Phoenix police chaplain John South, has stuck with him ever since. "Do you know who the father is?" South recalled asking her. "She said, 'Yes, it's my biological father. He's the one who hooked me on heroin so he could continue to rape me whenever he wanted to.' " The Protestant chaplain has consoled about 50 pregnant rape victims -- typically girls raped by their fathers -- in his years working with the Phoenix Police Department. South describes himself as "pro-life," but when it comes to dealing with a girl or woman impregnated by a rapist, he keeps his personal views to himself. "I don't give them a lecture or preach at them," South said. "I've seen crimes beyond comprehension." Republican U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock stirred controversy during a debate in Indiana Tuesday when he said pregnancies from rape are "something that God intended to happen." The instant reaction in political circles was predictable: Democrats decried him, and many conservative Republicans defended his position as steadfastly "pro-life."
INTERNATIONAL
Tropical-Weather-Sandy
Given their geography, Bahamians know a thing or two about hurricanes. As Hurricane Sandy began to blow through the Bahamas after pummeling eastern Cuba, Nassau resident Stephan Rolle wasn't overly worried. It is a "small storm" with "mediocre wind," he said of the Category 2 hurricane with winds of 105 mph. But as the center of the storm churned 125 miles east-southeast of Nassau on Thursday, Rolle and others also knew they had to prepare.
Syria-Civil-War
The guns that have ravaged much of Syria since March 2011 may fall silent Friday, now that Syria's government has agreed to a cease-fire.
Sudan-Factory-Attack
Sudan remained defiant and angry Thursday after a fatal late-night bombing of a weapons factory in that east African country -- a sophisticated attack a Sudanese official continued to blame on Israel.
Pope's-Former-Butler-Heads-to-Jail
If Paolo Gabriele ever does get the pope's pardon, it won't be before he serves some jail time. Gabriele, a former butler to Pope Benedict XVI, will start his 18-month sentence in a Vatican cell Thursday for taking secret papers from the pope's personal apartment and leaking them to an author who included them in a best-selling book, the Vatican said.
Japan-Fukushima
Radiation levels in fish caught near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant remain high long after the 2011 meltdowns there, suggesting contamination from the site might still be seeping into Pacific waters, a U.S. researcher reported Thursday.
North-Korea-power-consolidation
