Noncitizens as jurors? It's not a discrimination issue

SACRAMENTO—Bills are cascading out of the Legislature in free-fall as lawmakers race to adjournment for the year, most measures headed for the governor with little debate. It's the annual sprint to "do something" — to make a mark, regardless of how...

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State Senate Democrats propose alternative to Brown's prison plan

SACRAMENTO — Democratic leaders of the state Senate on Wednesday proposed an extra $200 million annually for rehabilitation, drug and mental health treatment as an alternative to Gov. Jerry Brown's plan for reducing prison crowding. Senate President...

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China warns U.S. against attack on Syria

BEIJING -- In what has become a predictable refrain from Beijing, the Chinese government Thursday warned the United States against conducting airstrikes against Syria. All of the major Chinese news organizations railed against military action, saying...

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Syria strike justified on humanitarian grounds, Britain's Cameron says

LONDON -- As lawmakers prepared to debate their response to alleged chemical weapons attacks by the Syrian regime, the British government laid out its arguments Thursday for the legality of military intervention "as an exceptional measure on grounds...

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Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and Nobel winner, dies at 74

LONDON -- Seamus Heaney, the Nobel Prize-winning poet whose crystalline, descriptive verse led many to consider him the best Irish poet since Yeats, died Thursday. He was 74. His death was confirmed by his publishers, Faber and Faber, which said that...

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Bo Xilai trial transcripts expose a privileged world of wealth

Starring in this dysfunctional drama is Bo Xilai, the charismatic Communist Party heavyweight angling to head China. His ice-queen lawyer wife, Gu Kailai, slowly descending into violence. The couple's spoiled son, Guagua — the name means "melon" in Chinese...

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San Diego Mayor Bob Filner resigns, faces criminal investigation

SAN DIEGO — After six weeks of civic turmoil over his treatment of women, Mayor Bob Filner submitted his resignation Friday, and the City Council approved a deal to pay for some of his expenses from a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a former aide....

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to step down in next 12 months

Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer will step down from the troubled tech giant in the next 12 months, ending the career of a man who helped usher in the modern computing age, only to watch it turn on him and threaten to devour his company....

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L.A., conservationists reach agreement to repair Mono Lake damage

Ending decades of bitter disputes over fragile Mono Lake, Los Angeles and conservationists on Friday announced an agreement to heal the environmental damage caused by diverting the lake's eastern Sierra tributary streams into the city's World War II-era...

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Slain WWII veteran honored in Spokane

SPOKANE, Wash. — When Glenn Longstorff's mind goes back to that room at the hospital a few nights ago, he hurts for his friend, the man people around here knew as Shorty. He thinks of the kid drafted to war at 18. The soldier shot in the leg on the...

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Obama defends cautious tack on Egypt, Syria

AUBURN, N.Y. -- In a televised interview, President Obama defended his cautious approach to situations in Egypt and Syria, citing international law and his concern about over-extending the U.S. military. "Sometimes what we've seen is that folks...

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Bradley Manning gets 35-year sentence in WikiLeaks case

FT. MEADE, Md. — Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the junior intelligence analyst who came to signify a new era of massive security breaches in the Internet age, was sentenced Wednesday to 35 years in prison for leaking a vast trove of military and diplomatic...

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Syrian rebels allege new gas attack by government

BEIRUT — In what the opposition called the worst atrocity of Syria's civil war, antigovernment activists accused the government of killing hundreds of civilians, including many women and children, in a poison-gas attack targeting pro-rebel Damascus suburbs....

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Garcetti, City Council reach deal on DWP labor contract, source says

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and the City Council have reached a deal on a four-year package of salaries and benefits with the union representing Department of Water and Power workers, said sources close to the negotiations. Garcetti called a news...

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Slain WWII veteran honored in Spokane

SPOKANE, Wash. — When Glenn Longstorff's mind goes back to that room at the hospital a few nights ago, he hurts for his friend, the man people around here knew as Shorty. He thinks of the kid drafted to war at 18. The soldier shot in the leg on the...

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Bo Xilai trial draws comparisons to China's greatest courtroom drama

JINAN, China -- In 1980, hundreds of millions of Chinese people gathered around communal televisions set up in schools and on basketball courts, mesmerized by the trial of Mao Tse-tung's widow and members of the so-called Gang of Four who had led the...

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Final Nixon tapes reveal bid to ease tensions with Soviets

They were great antagonists of the Cold War, the avowedly Red-hating American president and the world's most powerful communist. Yet when Richard Nixon hosted Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev for a summit in June 1973, their private exchanges had the casual,...

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Bradley Manning gets 35-year sentence in WikiLeaks case

FT. MEADE, Md. — Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the junior intelligence analyst who came to signify a new era of massive security breaches in the Internet age, was sentenced Wednesday to 35 years in prison for leaking a vast trove of military and diplomatic...

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Syrian rebels allege new gas attack by government

BEIRUT — In what the opposition called the worst atrocity of Syria's civil war, antigovernment activists accused the government of killing hundreds of civilians, including many women and children, in a poison-gas attack targeting pro-rebel Damascus suburbs....

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Garcetti, City Council reach deal on DWP labor contract, source says

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and the City Council have reached a deal on a four-year package of salaries and benefits with the union representing Department of Water and Power workers, said sources close to the negotiations. Garcetti called a news...

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Death toll in Philippines ferry sinking hits 34

CEBU, Philippines — Divers plucked two more bodies from a sunken passenger ferry Sunday and scrambled to plug an oil leak in the wreckage. The ferry's collision with a cargo ship near the central Philippine port of Cebu has left 34 dead and more...

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Egypt's arrest of Muslim Brotherhood supreme guide brings ban closer

CAIRO — Egypt's military-backed government moved closer to a complete ban on the Muslim Brotherhood with the arrest of the group's leader and an announcement that he and five others will stand trial within days on charges that include inciting murder....

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L.A. wins more contract concessions from DWP union

A day after Mayor Eric Garcetti appealed to the public to help him secure changes to a proposed Department of Water and Power labor agreement, city negotiators said they had won additional cost-cutting concessions from the utility's main employee union....

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L.A. pushed to review quake-vulnerable apartment buildings

Seismic experts and engineers have long warned that a certain type of wood-framed building is particularly vulnerable to collapse during a major earthquake, because the first story cannot support the weight of the upper stories. During Southern California's...

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