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POINTERS
A-ROD FIGHTS SUSPENSION
Major League Baseball this week suspended
13 players for doping violations. All of the
players said they would begin serving out
their punishments right away — except
for three-time American League MVP Alex
Rodriguez, who was suspended for 211
games through the 2014 season. “I am
disappointed with the penalty and intend to
appeal and fight this through the process,” he
said in a statement. His suspension will not
begin until his appeal is complete. The other
12 players face 50-game suspensions.
‘DEPART IMMEDIATELY’
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HUFFINGTON
08.11.13
An al Qaeda threat prompted the State Department to call
for non-emergency personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen
to leave the country on Tuesday. The move came two days
after the department closed 19 diplomatic posts for nearly
a week because of an intercepted message about a planned
terror attack. The department said U.S. citizens living in
Yemen should “depart immediately,” adding, its “ability to
assist U.S. citizens in an emergency... remains limited.”
ONLY 90 YEARS
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning now faces a
sentence of up to 90 years in prison, after a
military judge reduced his previous maximum
sentence of 136 years. Manning, who
gave hundreds of thousands of classified
government documents to WikiLeaks, was
convicted of 19 of 21 charges last week. The
judge, Army Col. Denise Lind, said that some of
the charges refer to the same actions, so they
don’t all apply for the purposes of sentencing.