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Wednesday, February 12, 2014 (2014x31)

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2014/02/12 Headlines: House GOP Drops Standoff over Debt Ceiling; Washington State Freezes Death Penalty; Holder Calls for Restoration of Felons' Voting Rights; Websites Stage Global Action Against NSA Surveillance; Appeals Court Rejects Halt to Guantánamo Force-Feeding, Allows Challenges to Prison Conditions; New Spill in West Virginia With Leak From Coal Slurry; Environmentalists: N.C. Trying to Avoid Scrutiny of Duke Energy Deal Following Toxic Leak; 1 Missing After Natural Gas Explosion at Pennsylvania Well; U.N. Envoy Calls on Russia, U.S. to Help Salvage Syrian Peace Talks; Syrian Forces Interrogate Males Evacuated from Homs; Thousands Mark Pro-Democracy Uprising Anniversary in Bahrain; Okinawa Residents Protest U.S. Base During Ambassador's Visit; Hollande: France, U.S. Have Resolved Spying Row; Obama Warns Firms on Iran Sanctions; Study Casts Doubt on Effectiveness of Mammograms; Florida Man Who Killed Unarmed Teen over Music Testifies at Murder Trial