Tuesday,  May 28, 2013 • Vol. 14--No. 312 • 23 of 31 •  Other Editions

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• 4. OBAMA GOING BACK TO JERSEY SHORE
• With Christie at his side again, the president will take a post-Hurricane Sandy tour of the coastline.

• 5. EMBATTLED RUTGERS STANDS BY NEW ATHLETIC DIRECTOR
• President Robert Barchi says Julie Hermann will start next month, despite charges she humiliated and verbally abused her Tennessee volleyball team.

• 6. PRESIDENT MAKES MEMORIAL DAY APPEAL
• "Even as we turn the page on a decade of conflict, our nation is still at war," Obama says at Arlington as combat in Afghanistan approaches 12 years.

• 7. CHARGES EXPECTED IN LIBERTY RESERVE PROBE
• The founder of the Costa Rican digital currency business was arrested in Spain on money laundering charges and a Russian citizen will also be extradited to the

• 8. NEWBORN RESCUED FROM TOILET PIPE
• Chinese firefighters sawed open the sewer pipe after a tenant in a residential building heard the baby's cries. The baby was reported safe in a nearby hospital.

• 9. WHY OBESE WOMEN ARE CHOOSING SURGERY
• A study suggests that mothers who undergo weight-loss operations give birth to slimmer offspring.

• 10. WHAT MCCARTNEY LEFT FOR ELVIS
• The former Beatle dropped a personal guitar pick on Presley's grave in his first trip to Graceland, "so Elvis can play in heaven."

AP News in Brief
As US and Russia discuss Syria peace plan, EU lifts arms embargo on Syria's outgunned rebels

• BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union has ended its arms embargo to Syria's outgunned rebels just as top U.S. and Russian diplomats try to persuade Syria's opposition and President Bashar Assad's regime to attend peace talks in Geneva.

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