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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says gun-control advocates have to do a little more listening than they do sometimes in the debate over firearms in America.
• In an interview with The New Republic, Obama says he has "a profound respect" for the tradition of hunting that dates back for generations.
• "And I think those who dismiss that out of hand make a big mistake. Part of being able to move this forward is understanding the reality of guns in urban areas are very different from the realities of guns in rural areas," he says.
• Obama has called for a ban on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines and is pushing other policies following the mass shooting last month at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. In response, gun-rights advocates have accused Obama and others of ignoring the Second Amendment rights of Americans.
• The president says it's understandable that people are protective of their family traditions when it comes to hunting.
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• DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- An official says Bangladesh's government has ordered an investigation into allegations that the sole emergency exit was locked at a garment factory where a weekend fire killed seven female workers.
• The fire Saturday at the Smart Export Garment Ltd. factory occurred just two months after a blaze killed 112 workers in another factory near the capital, raising questions about safety in Bangladesh's garment industry, which exports clothes to leading Western retailers. The gates of that factory were locked.
• Government official Jahangir Kabir Nanak says an investigation has been ordered into the cause of Saturday's fire and allegations that the emergency exit was locked.
• Doctors say most of the victims died from asphyxiation.
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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- In an earlier era, a move like the one engineered by House GOP leaders to pass a "no budget, no pay" measure probably would have been stopped in its tracks.

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