Tuesday,  June 18, 2013 • Vol. 14--No. 333 • 21 of 30

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• 2. WOMEN GET EQUAL SHOT AT COMBAT ROLES
• The military is to announce plans today to let women train as Navy SEALS, Army Rangers and other front-line jobs.

• 3. G-8 LEADERS SEEK SYRIA AGREEMENT
• The leaders were to make a joint statement today on the civil war after Obama and Putin staked out opposite sides.

• 4. WHERE JIMMY HOFFA COULD TURN UP
• Federal agents are digging again for the Teamster boss' remains, this time in a suburban Detroit field, after a reputed mobster said Hoffa was buried there in a barn.

• 5. NSA CHIEF GOES BEFORE CONGRESS
• Army Gen. Keith Alexander is testifying before a House intelligence committee a day after the president called the agency's surveillance programs "transparent" in an interview.

• 6. WHEN ABORTIONS WOULD BE BANNED
• The Republican-controlled House is expected to pass a bill today that would ban abortions after 20 weeks; the Senate is expected to ignore it.

• 7. THE STANDING MAN IN TURKEY
• The lone protester stood silently for hours in Istanbul's Taksim Square, joined by about 20 others before police trying to contain the two-week-old unrest removed them.

• 8. PLANE PASSENGER RANTS ABOUT CIA, SPYING
• Other passengers and a flight attendant tied the screaming man up after he asked that the U.S.-bound flight be diverted to Canada.

• 9. CHEF'S HUSBAND GIVEN WARNING AFTER ASSAULT
• The British police cautioned art collector Charles Saatchi after tabloid photos emerged of him grasping food personality Nigella Lawson's throat outside a fancy restaurant.

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