| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Pepper-sprayed students offered $30K | | The University of California is offering to pay $30,000 to each of 21 plaintiffs who were pepper-sprayed by a police officer on the Davis campus last year, according to a proposed settlement of in a class-action lawsuit announced Wednesday. |
| Battleground Ohio: China, taxes at issue | | President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney went head-to-head on China, taxes, and jobs on Wednesday as the two campaigned throughout Ohio. |
| Sources: FBI still can't get to Benghazi | | More than two weeks after four Americans -- including the U.S. ambassador to Libya -- were killed in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, FBI agents have not yet been granted access to investigate in the eastern Libyan city, and the crime scene has not been secured, sources said. |
| Assange speaks to U.N. via satellite | | The founder of WikiLeaks delivered an impassioned appeal Wednesday for the U.S. government to end its actions against him, his website and those who support it. |
| Witness: 'In every home, a dead body' | | Syrian government forces killed scores of residents of a town south of the capital in an operation that began several days ago and ended Wednesday, an opposition activist and witness told CNN. |
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