September 5, 2013 (San Diego's East County) --ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:
U.S.
- Prospects for Syira resolution dim in House (Washington Post)
- U.S. private sectors adds 176,000 jobs; jobless claims fall (Reuters)
- Edward Snowden leaks again: five takeaways from the 'black budget'
- Navy: Training, testing may kill whales, dolphins
- Obama administration extends veterans’ benefits to same-sex couples (Washington Post)
WORLD
- Fukushima: Japan plans to corral radioactive water behind frozen dam (CS Monitor)
- What’s the evidence of Syrian chemical weapons attack? (CNN)
- 5 Years After Being Covered With Water, Chinese Village Emerges (NPR)
- Obama arrives in Russia for G-20 summit (Huffington Post)
- Angry teachers paralyze Mexico City with protests (AP)
- Skyscraper melting cars: How a London building is creating a flaming death ray (CS Monitor)
- Indian `dowry deaths’ still rising despite modernization (Los Angeles Times)
- Another 'Grand Canyon' Discovered Beneath Greenland's Ice
- Facebook says governments in 74 countries have asked for user data (CS Monitor)
- Beijing’s drastic new anti-pollution rules aim to clean up the air (Mother Jones)
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