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What was Obama doing while terrorists attacked Americans in Benghazi? You couldn’t help but feel for Robert Lovell. The retired brigadier general is haunted by the failure of AFRICOM, the U.S. military’s Africa Command, to respond when Americans were under siege in Benghazi on September 11, 2012. His congressional testimony this week was somber — no faux “What difference, at this point, does it make?” indignation, no “Dude, this was two years ago” juvenilia for him. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the State Department’s Sean Smith were killed in the early stage of the jihadist attack. By then, the actions that...

LA CRESCENTA (CBSLA.com) — A motorcyclist was hurt Wednesday night after getting caught in clear duct tape that had been stretched across the road in La Cañada Flintridge. The incident happened just before 11 p.m. on Oak Grove Drive near Foothill Boulevard. Deputies with the Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station said the tape was placed about four feet in the air. The motorcyclist was rushed to the hospital with injuries. Authorities said the incident is part of prank, which has been showcased in numerous YouTube videos. In some videos, cars turn around when they see the tape, while others drive through...

WASHINGTON — Federal officials on Thursday defended their response to historic flooding in Tennessee that killed 22 people earlier this year, while acknowledging they could have done a better job of warning the public of the potential devastation.

BY ADAM LISBERG DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Sunday, November 2nd 2008, 1:23 AM DelMundo for News A makeshift memorial of stuffed toys grows outside Jennifer Hudson's slain mom's South Side, Chicago, home. Jennifer Hudson and her nephew Julian King Hudson's mother Darnell Donerson Hudson's brother Jason Hudson CHICAGO - For a few days last week, the weed-choked South Side block where Jennifer Hudson's family was killed became an oasis of safety in the nation's deadliest big city. "If she wasn't famous, all of the media wouldn't be here," said Michelle Strickland, 23, standing near the hundreds of teddy bears piled...