Teen charged in attempt to use phony bomb

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Undercover in Chicago

Undercover FBI agents arrested an 18-year-old American who tried to detonate what he believed was a car bomb outside a downtown Chicago bar, federal prosecutors said Saturday.

Adel Daoud, a U.S. citizen from Hillside, a Chicago suburb, was arrested Friday night in an undercover operation in which agents pretending to be extremists provided him with a phony car bomb.

The U.S. District Attorney's Office in Chicago announced the arrest Saturday and said the device was inert and that the public was never at risk.

Daoud is charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to damage and destroy a building with an explosive.

The FBI began monitoring him when authorities said he posted material online about violent jihad and the killing of Americans, federal prosecutors said.

Teachers strike

Union, district work on details to end walkout

Thousands of striking Chicago public school teachers packed a city park Saturday in a show of force as union leaders and the district tried to work out the details of a tentative deal that would end a weeklong walkout.

Months of contract negotiations came down to two main issues: job security and union opposition to a new teacher evaluation process it felt was too heavily weighted on student test scores. The wrangling in one of the nation's largest school districts was being closely watched around the country because of its implications for other labor disputes at a time when unions have been losing ground.

Union leaders who announced a framework for a deal on Friday said they would not end the strike -- the first in Chicago in 25 years -- until they see an agreement in writing. Both sides were hopeful that children could be back in class on Monday.

Eastern Pacific

Tropical Storm Lane no threat to land

Tropical Storm Lane has formed in the eastern Pacific but doesn't pose a threat to land, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Saturday.

Lane is 1,145 miles southwest of the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California.

Deadly germ

Superbug kills 7th person at Md. hospital

A deadly germ untreatable by most antibiotics has killed a seventh person at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Maryland.

The Washington Post reported Friday that the boy from Minnesota died Sept. 7. NIH said the boy arrived at the hospital in April and was being treated for complications from a bone marrow transplant when he contracted the bug.

He was the 19th patient at the hospital to contract an antibiotic-resistant strain of KPC, or Klebsiella pneumoniae. The outbreak stemmed from a single patient carrying the superbug who arrived at the hospital last summer.

It was the first new infection of the superbug at NIH since January.

Chemical fire

N. Indiana residents return after evacuation

Hundreds of northern Indiana residents returned home Saturday after spending the night at shelters, hotels or with relatives after a chemical fire at a vacant plant undergoing a federally supervised cleanup ousted them from their homes.

The fire inside a small area of the factory in Mishawaka, near South Bend, released a cloud of unknown chemicals, prompting officials to order the precautionary evacuation.

The Baycote complex was once an electroplating and metal-finishing business, but it has been vacant since 2008.

Rally for young people

Pope tells Syrians he admires their courage

Pope Benedict XVI told Syrians at a rally for young people Saturday that he admires their courage and that he does not forget those in the Middle East who are suffering.

On a day of appeals for religious freedom in the region, he said it was time for Muslims and Christians to work together against violence and war.

He spoke on the second day of his visit to Lebanon, the country with the largest percentage of Christians in the Middle East.

He arrived amid a wave of violent demonstrations across the Muslim world over an anti-Islam film.

What are the odds?

Good Samaritan helps Ohio man for 2nd time

An Ohio man is thankful for the intervention of a Good Samaritan -- the same one who helped him eight years ago.

Gerald Gronowski had a flat tire east of Cleveland recently when Christopher Manacci stopped to help. During the encounter, Gronowski began talking about a stranger eight years before who helped him pull out a hook that got stuck in his hand while he was fishing.

Manacci was that same man. He had been kayaking nearby.

Gronowski offered to take Manacci fishing, but after the hook incident, Manacci said they should go bowling instead.

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