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• Obama backs economic effort, asks for voters' help Sep 20, 2021 08:26 PM
  
  • WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama reached out fervently Monday to skeptical voters who are still hurting long after the declared end of the recession, imploring them to stick with him in elections that could inflict catastrophic losses on Democrats in just six weeks.
  • Recognizing the economy is the campaign's Issue No.
  • 1 - and a peril for his party - Obama vigorously defended his recovery efforts and challenged tea party activists as well as the Republicans who are clamoring to take over Congress to spell just how they would do better.

  • Fake bomb left near Wrigley prompts Chicago arrest Sep 20, 2021 08:15 PM
    
    • CHICAGO - A man arrested for allegedly placing a backpack he thought contained an explosive near Chicago's Wrigley Field also talked about poisoning Lake Michigan, bombing a landmark skyscraper and assassinating Mayor Richard Daley, according to a federal complaint filed Monday.
    • Sami Samir Hassoun, 22, a Lebanese citizen living in Chicago for about three years, was charged with one count each of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and attempted use of an explosive device.
    • "He wanted to transform the city of Chicago, he wanted to make a statement and he wanted to replace the mayor of Chicago," said FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Grant.

    • Jimmy the painting chimp draws hordes to Rio zoo Sep 20, 2021 08:02 PM
      
      • RIO DE JANEIRO - A retired circus chimpanzee is the Cezanne of simians, drawing crowds to a Brazilian zoo to watch him paint.
      • The 26-year-old chimp called Jimmy has been producing surprisingly lovely paintings each day for three weeks at the Niteroi Zoo.
      • Trainer Roched Seba said Monday Jimmy doesn't like the toys and other diversions that other chimps enjoy.

      • Caffeine consumption an issue in Ky. murder trial Sep 20, 2021 07:29 PM
        
        • - The lawyer for a Kentucky man accused of strangling his wife argued at trial Monday that excessive caffeine from sodas, energy drinks and diet pills left the defendant so sleep-deprived and mentally unstable that he falsely confessed to the killing.
        • Attorney Shannon Sexton said in opening statements at the murder trial of Woody Will Smith, 33, that he did not kill his 28-year-old wife, Amanda Hornsby-Smith, on May 4, 2009.
        • The argument was a twist on Sexton's previously stated defense as outlined in earlier court documents - that a high intake of caffeine rendered Smith temporarily insane and unable to form the intent to kill his wife.

        • Torre visits new Yankee Stadium for the first time Sep 20, 2021 07:28 PM
          
          • NEW YORK - Joe Torre walked into new Yankee Stadium for the first time, signed the clubhouse wall alongside other pinstriped greats and ended his estrangement from Brian Cashman with an embrace.
          • Torre had not been to the Yankees' home since his bitter departure as manager after the 2007 season, the next-to-last season of old Yankee Stadium.
          • He announced Friday he would retire from the Los Angeles Dodgers after three seasons as their manager, and then received an invitation from Yankees chief operating office Lonn Trost to attend the ceremony.

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