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WASHINGTON (AP) — In an appeal published in Arabic, Hebrew and English, President Barack Obama is calling on Israelis and Palestinians to end violent acts of retribution. Obama says in an op-ed in an Israeli newspaper (Haaertz), that all parties should "protect the innocent and act with reasonableness and restraint, not vengeance." That was a reference to the recent killing of three Israeli teens and a Palestinian teen. Israel launched airstrikes Tuesday in Gaza, in response to rockets from Gaza being launched into southern Israel.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A lawyer representing a woman punched by a California Highway Patrol officer during a videotaped arrest says her lawsuit was written the moment her client was struck in the face. Attorney Caree Harper alleges the officer was angered because in Harper's words - a grandmother made him look like an idiot. CHP says the officer was trying to restrain the woman.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Department of Education reports finds that graduates with degrees in science, technology, engineering or math are more likely to find high-paying jobs. And a survey of the class of 2008 found that what students studied mattered more than the schools they attended. The students with the higher-demand degrees also reported lower unemployment rates than the national average.
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) — Instead of a few minutes, a roller coaster ride is over after three hours at Southern California's Six Flags Magic Mountain. Firefighters and park maintenance workers took about three hours to rescue all of the 22 people stuck on the Ninja coaster, which hit a tree branch and derailed. Four people had minor injuries.
ATLANTA (AP) — A government survey shows more American households are getting rid of their old telephones: 4 out of 10 only use cellphones. That's twice the rate who've dumped their landlines from just five years ago, although the pace seems to have slowed down in recent years. The number of households only using cellphones had been rising by about 5 percentage points each year in the past decade. The increase was 3 percent higher last year.
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