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Obama said following the opening round of talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping at a summit in the California desert.
• Both Obama and Xi carefully avoided directly accusing each other of cyber-espionage. But they acknowledged an urgent need to find a common approach to addressing the matter.
• "We don't have the kind of protocols that have governed military issues and arms issues, where nations have a lot of experience in trying to negotiate what's acceptable and what's not," Obama said during a news conference with Xi late Friday on the grounds of the sprawling Sunnylands estate.
• The question-and-answer session with reporters was bookended by more than two hours of private talks and a working dinner. Obama and Xi will reconvene Saturday morning for another round of discussions, which mark the first time the two men have met since Xi took office in March.
• U.S. officials cast the more relaxed California summit as an opportunity for Obama and Xi to hold candid and free-flowing talks on the myriad issues that define the relationship between the two countries, including the economy, climate change and North Korea's nuclear provocations.
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• NEW YORK (AP) -- Soaking rains that spawned numerous flood warnings pushed some streams and creeks over their banks throughout the Northeast, yet the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season sped up the Eastern Seaboard without causing major damage.
• The storm was centered over eastern Long Island in New York by 5 a.m. Saturday, with winds of 45 mph, and flood warnings were in effect for parts of New England. The storm was expected to reach Canadian waters by Sunday.
• After bringing rain, strong winds and tornadoes to Florida, Andrea lost most of its tropical characteristics late Friday into Saturday. The storm was packing winds that gusted between 20 to 30 mph, and officials warned of near gale force from New Jersey to Canada through Sunday.
• The storm was blamed for one traffic-related death in Virginia.
• Late Friday, the National Hurricane Center in Miami discontinued all tropical storm warnings, but cautioned about possible coastal and localized flooding from New Jersey to New England.

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