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1. Militants Attack Iraq Oil Refinery
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Extremists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria attacked the country's largest oil refinery that accounts for more than a quarter of Iraq's entire refining capacity, a top security official said on Wednesday, as the U.S. weighs its strategy for countering the insurgency

2. Two States Carry Out First Executions Since Botched Injection
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A Georgia inmate who had been convicted of rape and murder was executed on Tuesday night, marking the first since a botched lethal injection in April raised new concerns about capital punishment, and another in Missouri was put to death soon afterward

3. There Is a Fast Track Through College
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A new movement is underway to speed up the pace at which students get through college—allowing for an associate's degree in a year rather than two and a bachelor's in three, not four—to save them and taxpayers money as well as improve low graduation rates, because the longer it takes students to reach the finish line, the less likely they will

4. More Millennial Mothers Are Single Than Married
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Researchers who have been tracking the decline of marriage as an individual's milestone or goal in life—love, then marriage, then a baby—find in a new study that only one-third of mothers in their late twenties are married and the number of millennial single mothers is actually rising

5. Dick Cheney Slams Obama's Policy on Iraq
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney called out President Obama's foreign policy decisions amid the chaos unfolding in Iraq by holding him responsible for gains made by Sunni insurgents and saying that an American leader has rarely been "so wrong about so much"

6. What You Should Expect at Amazon's Phone Announcement
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Amazon thinks there's room for another smartphone in the market and is likely to unveil its own in Seattle on Wednesday, and because the company's business model revolves around selling content, it's safe to expect that music, movies, books and games will play a big role

7. Senate Confirms First Openly Gay Black Man to Federal Bench
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The Obama appointee was approved unanimously by the Senate

8. U.S. Aims for Trial of Captured Benghazi Suspect
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(WASHINGTON) — The capture of an alleged leader of the deadly 2012 attacks on Americans in Benghazi, Libya, gave U.S. officials a rare moment of...

9. Colin Firth Won't Voice Paddington Bear in New Film
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The split was amicable, both Firth and filmmakers say, and the film is still on schedule for a Christmas release

10. Japan Finally Bans Child Pornography
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Japan's parliament passed a bill to ban the possession of child pornography, a move that comes after years of international pressure to tighten its laws and carries a steep punishment for offenders, but which includes an exception for explicit anime and manga

11. Facebook Hopes Slingshot Is the New Snapchat
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Facebook has challenged Snapchat by releasing Slingshot, an app that allows users to share messages and images with friends that vanish quickly after they're viewed, but went a step further by requiring anyone who receives one to respond or be barred from the original

12. Russia, South Korea Hold to 1-1 in World Cup Match
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Blundering Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev was bailed out by teammate Alexander Kerzhakov in a 1-1 draw with South Korea in the World Cup on Tuesday that exposed both teams' deficiencies.

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