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South Korean police stand guard beside a comfort woman statue in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul in May. The Southern California city of Glendale will dedicate an identical statue on Tuesday.

Statue Brings Friction Over WWII Comfort Women To California

2:24pm August 22, 2013

by Aaron Schrank

A sculpture memorializing the East Asian women forced to provide sex to Japanese soldiers during World War II is causing a stir in Glendale, Calif. An identical statue in Seoul has become a focal point of tension among former "comfort women" and some Japanese who say the women's stories are untrue.

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Hackers attend the 2011 Def Con conference in Las Vegas. The 2013 conference as well as the Black Hat hacker conference kicks off this week.

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What We're Watching As World's Big Hackers Meet In Las Vegas

2:24pm August 22, 2013

by Steve Henn

Each summer, thousands of security researchers, hacktivists, black hats, white hats and feds descend on Las Vegas for Black Hat and Def Con. A look at the stories and trends we're keeping an eye on.

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Some images of lung cancer are clear cut. But in many others, a nodule on the screen turns out not to be cancer at all.

Panel Urges Lung Cancer Screening For Millions Of Americans

2:24pm August 22, 2013

by Richard Knox

Most people get diagnosed with lung cancer when it's too late to effectively treat it. A federal panel is trying to improve the odds by saying that longtime smokers and former smokers should get annual CT scans to check for lung cancer.

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The Eastman Kodak Co. corporate headquarters in Rochester, N.Y.

Kodak Reinvents Itself As Judge Approves Bankruptcy Exit

1:54pm August 22, 2013

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Allan Gropper has approved Kodak's plan to emerge from court oversight. That paves the way for it to be a much smaller company focused on commercial and packaging printing.

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President Obama is seen on a video camera as he delivers a speech in Youngstown, Ohio, in 2010. In addition to footage of official events, the White House now has thousands of hours of behind-the-scenes video that it will archive.

Future Historians: Good Luck Sifting Through Obama Video

12:43pm August 22, 2013

by Ari Shapiro

While a photographer has been an official part of the White House staff since John F. Kennedy was president, an official videographer is something new. Scholars say the thousands of hours of behind-the-scenes footage could be a vital resource, but it may not be very easy to use.

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FISA Court: NSA Surveillance Program Was Unconstitutional

12:43pm August 22, 2013

by Tom Gjelten

The National Security Agency illegally collected emails of tens of thousands of Americans. The numbers are revealed in a newly declassified secret court opinion. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court found the collection of those emails unconstitutional and ordered the NSA to fix the problem.

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Project Puffin staffers "grub" for puffin chicks beneath boulders.

On A Rocky Maine Island, Puffins Are Making A Tenuous Comeback

8:12pm August 21, 2013

by Fred Bever

The windswept island about 6 miles off the coast was a haven for a hugely diverse bird population until fishermen decimated the birds' ranks. Puffins have been successfully reintroduced to Eastern Egg Rock, but warming ocean waters may be threatening their ability to survive.

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President Obama steps off his bus, nicknamed "Ground Force One," as he arrives for breakfast at the Ossorio Bakery and Cafe in Cocoa, Fla., during a two-day bus tour last year.

Obama Heads Back To School To Talk College Affordability

6:51pm August 21, 2013

by Scott Horsley

The president will spend the next two days on a bus tour of New York and Pennsylvania that includes stops at three colleges and a high school. At each stop, he'll be talking about ways to keep higher education costs down.

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Participants in the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride sit on a bus that will travel from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., Sept. 23, 2003.

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Summer Of '63: Old Lessons For A New Movement

6:38pm August 21, 2013

by Shereen Marisol Meraji

Today's undocumented activists are using strategies borrowed from the civil rights movement and calling their struggle "The Civil Rights Movement of the 21st Century."

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VA Still Under Pressure To Reduce Disability Claim Backlog

6:38pm August 21, 2013

by Quil Lawrence

A veterans group handed the White House a petition to take action on the "million veteran backlog" on Tuesday. But the Veterans Administration says that backlogged claims are dropping for the fifth month in a row and are now under half a million.

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