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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Once again donning the mantle of consoler-in-chief, President Barack Obama will travel Sunday to Colorado to comfort distraught families of those gunned down in a minute and a half of real-life horror at a midnight movie showing.
• While authorities gather evidence on the suspect and the nation tries to fathom what drove the gunman, Obama will meet with loved ones struggling with pain and grief.

• "We need to embrace them and let them know we will be there for them as a nation," Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address.
• The president planned just a brief visit to Colorado -- a bit under 2 ½ hours -- during which he was also scheduled to meet with local officials in Aurora, where the shots rang out at a multiplex theater early Friday. Twelve of the victims died, 58 were injured.
• After the Colorado stop, Obama is flying to San Francisco, where on Monday he'll begin a previously scheduled three-day campaign trip that includes a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Reno, Nev., multiple fundraisers in California, Oregon and Washington state and a speech to the National Urban League convention in New Orleans.
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• BEIRUT (AP) -- An activist group says more than 2,750 people have been killed in Syria so far this month, bringing the death toll since the conflict began to more than 19,000.
• The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says if the current pace of killing continues through the end of July, it will be the deadliest month since the Syrian uprising erupted in March 2011.
• Observatory chief Rami Abdul-Rahman said Sunday that 2,752 people -- 1,933 civilians, 738 government troops and 81 rebels -- were killed in the first 21 days of July.

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