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WORLD BRIEFING Islamic extremism grows in Sinai El-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — After decades of neglect and with the col- lapse of government authority the past 18 months, Egypt's Sinai Peninsula has become fer- tile ground for Islamic extremists. Militant groups have taken root, carrying out attacks against neighboring Israel and now turning their guns against Egypt's mili- tary as they vow to set up a puritanical Islamic state. At a mosque in the northern Sinai village of Sheikh Zuweyid, a Bedouin tribal sheik ges- tures out toward the deserts that stretch out- side of town. There, Sheik Arafa Khedr said, it's well known that militants have set up training camps. Jihadists recruit young Bedouin. Palestinian mili- tants from neighboring Gaza help in weapons training. The danger, Khedr said, is that Sinai could become another Yemen, where al-Qaida-linked militants last year man- aged to take over a swath of territory in the south. ''We're expecting the Thursday, August 9, 2012 – Daily News 5A architects of work requirements acknowl- edge. ''If Washington were different and ... people could sit down and reason together, it's not impossi- ble to think that Republi- cans and Democrats would come to an agree- ment on waivers similar to what the administration is proposing,'' said Ron Haskins, co-director of the Brookings Center on Children and Families. As a senior House GOP aide in the 1990s, Haskins helped write the original welfare-to-work legisla- tion. The Obama adminis- tration says it does not want to waive work requirements, but instead primarily federal adminis- trative rules, including some that tie up state caseworkers who could be serving clients. The 1996 welfare reform law, a pillar of social policy for conserv- atives, replaced a federal entitlement with grants to the states, while putting a time limit on how long families can get aid and requiring recipients to eventually go to work. As Syrian refugee entire region to be like Jaar,'' he said, referring to a southern Yemeni town that militants held for months until Yemeni troops uprooted them ear- lier this year. Egypt's army and secu- rity forces on Tuesday launched an offensive to ''restore control'' over Sinai after a stunning attack this week made clear the militants' grow- ing strength. On Sunday, gunmen attacked an army checkpoint near where the borders of Egypt, Israel and Gaza meet, killing 16 soldiers, stealing vehicles and driving them into Israel in an apparent attempt to carry out another attack before they were hit by Israeli forces. Syria Aleppo TEL RIFAT, Syria (AP) — Syria launched a ground assault Wednes- day on rebel-held areas of the besieged city of Alep- po, the center of battles between government forces and opposition fighters for more than two weeks. It was not immediately clear if the offensive was ''the mother of all bat- tles'' that Syria's state- controlled media vowed last month would take place for control of Alep- po. In recent weeks, the regime's blistering attacks on rebel positions seem to have slowly chipped away at the opposition's grip on its strongholds in the country's largest city. The official SANA launches ground assault in based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said troops met resistance in the offensive. About 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Alep- po, Syrian fighter jets car- ried out airstrikes early Wednesday on the village of Tel Rifat, hitting a home and a high school and killing six people from the same family, res- idents said. Martian 'Earth-like' PASADENA (AP) — The ancient Martian crater where the Curios- ity rover landed looks strikingly similar to the Mojave Desert in Cali- fornia with its looming mountains and hanging haze, scientists said Wednesday. ''The first impression that you get is how Earth-like this seems looking at that land- scape,'' said chief scien- tist John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology. Overnight, the car- crater looks Survey changes would drop use of 'Negro,' count Latinos — To keep pace with rapidly changing notions of race, the Census Bureau wants to make broad changes to its sur- veys that would treat 'Hispanic' as a distinct category regardless of race, end use of the term ''Negro'' and offer new ways to identify Middle Easterners. as a separate WASHINGTON (AP) size rover poked its head out for the first time since settling in Gale Crater, peered around and returned a flood of black-and- white pictures that will be stitched into a panorama. It provided the best news agency said regime forces have fully regained control of the Salaheddine neighborhood, the main rebel area in Aleppo. 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During the last few seconds, a rocket-powered space- craft hovered as cables lowered Curiosity to the ground. In the latest photos, Curiosity looked out toward the northern horizon. Nearby were scour marks in the sur- face blasted by thrusters, which kicked up a swirl of dust. There were concerns that Curiosity got dusty, but scientists said that was not the case. The recommendations released Wednesday stem from new government research on the best ways to count the nation's demographic groups. Still it could face stiff resis- tance from some racial and ethnic groups who worry that any kind of wording change in the high-stakes government count could yield a lower tally for them. ''This is a hot-button when questions were altered to address this concern, response rates and accuracy improved notably. For instance, because Hispanic is currently defined as an ethnicity and not a race, some 18 million Latinos — or roughly 37 percent — used the ''some other race'' category on their census forms to establish a Hispanic racial identity. Under one proposed change to the census forms, a new question would simply ask a per- son's race or origin, allowing them to check a single box next to choices including black, white, or Hispanic. Sikh temple gunman died of self- inflicted again, why that building, that temple, at that time, that may have died with Page.'' tives are sifting through the gunman's life, assem- bling the biography of a man who apparently had few relatives, a spotty work history and a thin criminal record. The FBI's special agent in charge in Milwaukee, Teresa Carlson, said investigators haven't linked anyone else to the attack or found any kind of note left by Page. At the moment, detec- Obama's welfare waiver camps swell, fears rise of exodus upsets the There's no trial to pre- pare, no jury to persuade, no judge to hand down a sentence. Wade Michael Page is gunshot MILWAUKEE (AP) — issue,'' said Angelo Fal- con, president of the National Institute for Latino policy in New York City and a commu- nity adviser to the census. ''The burden will be on the Census Bureau to come up with evidence that wording changes will not undermine the Latino numbers.'' on an experiment con- ducted during the 2010 census in which nearly 500,000 households were given forms with the race and ethnicity questions worded differently. The findings show that many people who filled out the traditional form did not feel they fit within the five government-defined cate- gories of race: white, black, Asian, Pacific Islander and American Indian/Alaska Native; The research is based dead, having shot himself in the head after killing six people at a Sikh tem- ple outside Milwaukee. Although detectives have interviewed more than 100 people, combed through Page's email and recovered hundreds of pieces of evidence from his residences to the tem- ple, their findings might never be presented in court. are developing theories but also may never know for certain why he chose to attack total strangers in a holy place. ''We're trying to piece Federal investigators C & C PROPERTIES — Welfare is causing a ruckus in the presidential campaign. But the pro- gram is a shadow of its old self from the 1970s, when Ronald Reagan used the image of ''wel- fare queens'' to assail government poverty pro- grams promoted by liber- als. political right WASHINGTON (AP) pressures YAYLADAGI, Turkey (AP) — His two-story house with a garden became a military post when government forces moved into his village in northeastern Syria. More than a year has passed for Amin Idlibi and his fami- ly, now sharing a crowded tent in a Turkish refugee camp, and the limbo of more than 250,000 others who have fled Syria's civil war into neighboring countries. ''Time passes so slow- ly here as we wait to return home,'' said Idlibi, a 58-year-old retired civil servant as he sat in this camp on the edge of a Turkish farming commu- nity, one of eight Turkish- run camps that have taken in thousands more refugees just in the past week. likely to rise. A government offen- And the numbers are Nowadays government cash assistance to the poor is mainly condi- tioned on work. And the Obama administration waivers excoriated by Mitt Romney as gutting welfare reform are unlike- ly to reverse that basic policy, as even some sive Wednesday against rebel strongholds in Syria's largest city, Alep- po, could touch off another major exodus into nearby Turkey. In Jordan, authorities are straining to build more camps to accommodate refugees from Syria's south — where the upris- ing against President Bashar Assad's regime began more than 17 months ago. On one recent night alone, an estimated 4,000 Syrians arrived in Jordan. 741 Main Street, Suite #2 Red Bluff, CA 96080 1-800-287-2187 (530) 527-2187 An Independently owned and operated Member of Coldwell Banker Residential Affiliates. 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