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• 6. NUKE THREAT LEVEL RAISED
• Japan upgrades the leak of 80,000 gallons of radiation-contaminated water at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima plant to a "serious incident."
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• 7. WHO'S TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR DISRUPTING NY TIMES' WEBSITE
• A shadowy group of pro-Assad hackers known as the Syrian Electronic Army says it launched the cyberattack -- and a similar assault on Twitter.
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• 8. SCIENTISTS SAY EXISTENCE OF NEW ELEMENT CONFIRMED
• The short-lived by super-heavy element has been dubbed "ununpentium." A catchier name is likely coming.
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• 9. HOW FINANCIAL MARKETS ARE REACTING TO POSSIBLE SYRIA STRIKE
• The Dow falls 170 points, Asian stocks plunge and the price of oil soars.
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• 10. LITTLE-KNOWN AMERICAN SHOCKS EX-CHAMP
• Seventeen-year-old Victoria Duval, who's ranked 296th in the world, knocks off Samantha Stosur at the U.S. Open. Stosur won the tourney in 2011.
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AP News in Brief
US lays groundwork for possible military in Syria within the coming days
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is laying the groundwork for potential military action in Syria in the coming days, with intelligence agencies readying additional evidence about last week's alleged chemical weapons attack and high-ranking U.S. officials declaring there was "no doubt" that Bashar Assad's government was to blame.
• Administration officials also said Assad's actions posed a direct threat to U.S. national security, providing President Barack Obama with a potential legal justification for launching a strike without authorization from the United Nations or Congress. However, officials did not detail how the U.S. was directly threatened by an attack contained within Syria's borders. Nor did they present concrete proof that Assad was responsible.
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