September 18, 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.
- Obamacare, spending showdown heats up in house (CNN)
- Gunman opens fire at Washington D.C. naval yard; 13 dead (Reuters)
- U.S. oil group says FBI warns fuel storage operators to be on alert (Reuters)
- Time Magazine's "America's Weak and Waffling" Cover Not Featured in America (Reason)
- Better pay for home health care workers under U.S. Labor rule, CA Bill (Sacramento Bee)
- How Detroit went broke: The answers may surprise you - and don't blame Coleman Young (Detroit Free Press)
WORLD
- ‘War crime’: UN finds sarin gas used in Syria chemical attack (CNN)
- Report: Syria is transferring chemical weapons to Hezbollah to avoid international inspection (JPost)-
- 34 dead as big storms hit Mexico on opposite coasts (KUSI)
- Deadly Mexico storms kill 42, floods strand thousands (Reuters)
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