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• Kerry Washington didn't make Emmy history, yet it didn't stop the "Scandal" star from celebrating at HBO's after-party.
• Washington was a popular target for partygoers' photo requests and she graciously obliged at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, Calif. Had she triumphed Sunday night, Washington would have become the first African-American to win for best actress in a drama series.
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Obama memorializes Navy Yard victims by calling for transformation in firearms laws

• WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama memorialized the victims of the Washington Navy Yard shooting as patriots but also individuals -- one with a talent for fixing cars, another who coached softball and yet another who loved hockey and her cats.
• It's not enough to cry over their deaths, Obama said.
• "If we really want to honor these 12 men and women, if we really want to be a country where we can go to work and go to school and walk our streets free from senseless violence without so many lives being stolen by a bullet from a gun, then we're going to have to change," the president said.
• Speaking Sunday at the city's Marine Barracks, just blocks away from where the shootings happened a week ago Monday, Obama called on Americans not to give up on trying to change gun laws that he argued are to blame for an epidemic of violence.
• Gun control measures Obama had backed failed to pass earlier this year and showed no new momentum in the days following the rampage at the Navy Yard, a military installation just blocks from the Capitol.
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Angry Pakistani Christians protest church attack as death toll rises overnight to 81

• PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Angry Pakistani Christians on Monday denounced the deadliest attack ever in this country against members of their faith as the death toll from the church bombings climbed overnight to 81.
• A pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up amid hundreds of worshippers outside a historic church in northwestern Pakistan.
• The attack on the All Saints Church in the city of Peshawar, which also wounded over 140 people, occurred as worshippers were leaving after services to get a free

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