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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is asking Congress for $500 million to train and arm vetted members of the Syrian opposition. The request comes as the U.S. looks for a way to stem a civil war that has also fueled the insurgency in neighboring Iraq. If Congress approves, the program would supplement a covert training-and-assistance program already being run by U.S. intelligence agencies.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Sen. Howard Baker is being remembered for his ability to reach across the aisle and to broker compromise. As former Senate colleague Bob Dole puts it, Baker "got things done by working with both parties when it was the right thing to do." Baker died today at his home in Tennessee. According to an email distributed at the law firm where he was senior counsel, Baker died of complications from a stroke he suffered several days ago. He was 88. He served for 18 years as a moderate Republican senator -- but became nationally known during the Senate's Watergate hearings in 1973, when he asked, "What did the president know and when did he know it?"

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A deal with federal officials will make a California wind farm the first in the nation to avoid prosecution if eagles are injured or die when they run into the giant turning blades. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the project east of San Francisco will receive a special permit allowing accidental harm to up to five eagles over five years. The agency says the permit encourages development of renewable energy while requiring the company to help protect eagles.

DETROIT (AP) — Police in Detroit aren't saying whether a 12-year-old boy has been returned to his father and stepmother, now that he's been released from a hospital. The child had been missing for 10 days before being found yesterday in his own basement. His father says he had no idea the boy was there. Police believe the child was elsewhere during part of the time he was missing.

LONDON (AP) — Rebekah Brooks says she feels vindicated by a jury's unanimous decision yesterday to acquit her in a phone-hacking case involving the News of the World tabloid. The former editor was charged with conspiring to hack phones, bribe officials and obstruct police. She and her husband, along with four of her former employees, were acquitted of wrongdoing -- but former editor Andy Coulson was convicted of conspiring with other staff to hack phones.

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