In Ohio, Obama slams China, Romney - CBS News

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By Leigh Ann Caldwell Topics Campaign 2012 President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event at Seasongood Pavilion, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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(CBS News) China has once again entered the campaign discussion as President Obama launched another round of attacks against his opponent Mitt Romney on his China policy and announced that he is filing another trade complaint against the country.

"Now, I understand my opponent has been running around Ohio claiming he's going to roll up his sleeves and take the fight to China," Mr. Obama told a crowd in Cincinnati Monday. "Ohio, you can't stand up to China when all you've done is send them our jobs."

The president was referring to Romney's time at Bain Capital, a private equity firm that bought companies and moved jobs to China. It has been a common attack on the campaign trail in an effort to smear Romney's time at Bain, although many of the outsourcing claims either happened after Romney's time at Bain or didn't happen exactly the way Romney's critics describe them. The Obama campaign renewed the attack Friday when it launched a new television ad accusing Romney of outsourcing jobs overseas and continued the barrage today.

The president also announced a new enforcement action against China for what it claims is illegally subsidizing exports of automobile parts. The administration says the subsidies totaled $1 billion and is harming American auto parts makers.

"These are subsidies that directly harm working men and women on the assembly line in Ohio and Michigan and across the Midwest... . It's not right, it's against the rules and we will not let it stand," Obama said. "American workers build better products than anyone. 'Made in America' means something. And ...when the playing field is level, America will always win."

This is the second complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) filed in recent months against China. In July, President Obama filed another complaint challenging the country for what it said was imposing illegal duties on $3 billion worth of cars and SUVs. That announcement was also first announced in an Ohio newspaper, the Toledo Blade, and was highlighted the same day at a campaign stop near Toledo.

12.4 percent of Ohio's jobs are tied to the auto industry, according to figures provided by the administration, and the state is a crucial presidential battleground state. Although both candidates heavily contest there, Ohio, is a state that President Obama has consistently held a slight advantage. In the latest Quinnipiac/CBS News/NY Times poll in August, Mr. Obama held a 6 point advantage over Romney.

When asked if the timing was political, White House spokesperson Josh Earnest said it wasn't. "The president doesn't believe that we should delay these kinds of important actions merely because we're in the middle of a campaign," Earnest told reporters en route to the Cincinnati event.

Romney, who has said on the campaign trail that he will confront China on its currency manipulation, released a statement criticizing what he called election-year tactics. "Campaign-season trade cases may sound good on the stump, but it is too little, too late for American businesses and middle-class families," Romney said. "I will not wait until the last months of my presidency to stand up to China, or do so only when votes are at stake."

"There's actually been a willingness on the part of the Obama administration to resort to the WTO in other fields," Joshua Meltzer, fellow at the Brookings Institution told CBS News.

Since taking office, Mr. Obama has filed additional complaints with the WTO against China on the issue of the country's wind energy manufacturing and raw materials exports. The WTO sided with the U.S. in both instances.

But while campaigning in Ohio and Michigan, Mr. Obama has consistently highlighted the bailout of the auto industry, the increase of manufacturing jobs and tough talk against China - all things he did at his latest campaign stop.

He said his goals are "to export more products and outsource fewer jobs," he told the crowd. "I bet on American workers. And three years later the American auto industry has come roaring back."

As he began to inject his opponent into his speech, the crowd began to jeer. Mr. Obama responded with a line he's repeatedly used on the campaign trail: "Don't boo. Vote."

Mr. Obama also reminded voters that early voting in Ohio begins October 2, and said voting early leaves more "time getting other folks to vote."

AP: US destroying secret info amid Beirut unrest - CBS News

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(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON - Diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut have started to destroy classified material as a security precaution amid anti-American protests in Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa.

The leader of the Shiite militant group Hezbollah called for sustained protests in a rare public appearance at a rally in Beirut. Already Monday, rioting demonstrators battled with police outside a U.S. military base in Afghanistan and the U.S. Embassy in Indonesia as violent protests over an anti-Islam film spread to Asia after a week of unrest in Muslim countries worldwide.

A State Department status report obtained Monday by The Associated Press said the Beirut embassy had "reviewed its emergency procedures and is beginning to destroy classified holdings." It also said that local Lebanese employees were sent home early due to protests by the militant Shiite group Hezbollah over an anti-Muslim film produced in the U.S.

The turmoil surrounding the low-budget movie that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad shows no sign of ebbing nearly a week after protesters first swarmed the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya in the eastern city of Benghazi. At least 10 protesters have died in the riots, and the targeting of American missions has forced Washington to ramp up security in several countries.

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In Washington, a State Department official said there was no imminent threat to the heavily fortified Beirut embassy, which is about an hour away from where the nearest demonstration is planned.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss security procedures, said the decision to "reduce classified holdings" was routine and made by embassy staff.

In Libya, the ambassador, Christopher Stevens, was at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi destroying classified documents with Sean Smith, the Foreign Service information management officer killed with Stevens in the attack Tuesday, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.

After Tuesday's incidents, the State Department ordered all U.S. embassies and consulates around the world to review their security postures. As a result, a number of missions decided to destroy classified material, the official said. It was not immediately clear which other missions besides the one in Beirut had taken that step.

The official stressed it was normal under circumstances such as those of last week for embassies to reduce the amount of classified material that they hold. Classified documents are also routinely culled as part of normal embassy operations.

Earlier Monday, the State Department renewed its warning to U.S. citizens to "avoid all travel to Lebanon because of current safety and security concerns." It said U.S. citizens "living and working in Lebanon should understand that they accept risks in remaining and should carefully consider those risks."

The new alert, which superseded a May 8 warning, said the potential for a "spontaneous upsurge in violence remains" in Lebanon and that Lebanese authorities are not able to guarantee protection if violence erupts quickly.

The warning also noted that the Fulbright and the English Language Fellow programs that gave grants to American scholars to live and work in Lebanon during the academic year have been suspended "because of the deteriorating security situation and the increased possibility of attacks against U.S. citizens in Lebanon."

Protests against the movie turned violent for the first time in Afghanistan on Monday as hundreds of people burned cars and threw rocks at a U.S. military base in the capital, Kabul. Many in the crowd shouted "Death to America!" and "Death to those people who have made a film and insulted our prophet." They also spiraled out of control in Indonesia and Pakistan, while several in the Middle East were calm.

Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah group, has rarely been seen in public since his Shiite Muslim group battled Israel in a month-long war in 2006, fearing Israeli assassination. Since then, he has communicated with his followers and gives news conference mostly via satellite link.

On Monday, he spoke for about 15 minutes before tens of thousands of cheering supporters, many of them with green and yellow headbands around their foreheads -- the colors of Hezbollah -- and the words "at your service God's prophet" written on them.

Nasrallah, who last appeared in public in December 2011 to mark the Shiite holy day of Ashoura, said the U.S. must ban the movie and have it removed from the Internet and called for his followers to maintain pressure on the world to act.

"This is the start of a serious movement that must continue all over the Muslim world in defense of the prophet of God," he said to roars of support. "As long as there's blood in us, we will not remain silent over insults against our prophet."

He called for a series of demonstrations this week to denounce the video.

First ever great white shark spot-tagged and released off Cape Cod - CBS News

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(CBS News)The end of summer brings relief for some in Cape Cod after the area saw an increased number of shark sightings in the last few months as well as the first great white attack in Massachusetts since 1936. Now, a new mission is underway to learn more about the sharks' habits. For the first time last week, a group of fisherman and scientists successfully caught, spot-tagged and released a white shark in the North Atlantic ocean, off of Cape Cod.

CBS News special correspondent Jeff Glor joined OCEARCH, a group of scientists, at sea as they attempted to tag white sharks with GPS tags so they can track their migration and breeding patterns. Despite the notoriety and widespread fear of sharks, scientists have acquired astonishingly little information about their numbers and day-to-day habits.

"I think everybody on the boat felt like this was the most important shark we've ever caught," OCEARCH co-captain Brett McBride told Glor of the shark the team caught last Thursday.

Chris Fischer says he founded the non-profit OCEARCH with the goal of uniting the world's best fisherman and the world's top scientists in an effort to study and protect sharks.

Fischer estimates there are "hundreds" of sharks off the coast of New England," and said "they're supposed to be a a lot of sharks in the ocean. They're the great balance keeper."

"We don't know where they breed, we don't know where they feed, we don't know where they give birth," Fischer told Glor. "So until we figure that out, we can't even put policy in place to protect them."

Fischer believes that their techniques are more humane than previous practices. "Back in the day, when these scientists wanted to learn about white sharks, they would go out and kill them all and sample them. Now at least we have a system where we let them all go alive."

This system involves affixing satellite-enabled tags to the sharks' dorsal fins. Once sharks are tagged and released, they can be tracked in real-time, anywhere in the world for five years.

For his part, McBride claims the work is "not as dangerous as it looks" and maintains "I'm not a thrill seeker...I've got to go home to a wife and kids...I'm not going to go home with just one less arm."

In Cape Cod, OCEARCH has partnered with Dr. Greg Skomal, of the Massachsetts Division of Marine Fisheries. Skomal is also seeking answers to the recent uptick of shark activity in his area and says there has been little focus on finding out any real information about sharks.

"We've spent a lot of time trying to figure out why they occassionally bite people and not necessarily how they live," Skomal told Glor.

After the group caught and spot-tagged a great white shark last Thursday -- who the group named Genie -- for the first time ever in the North Atlantic ocean, Fischer gushed about the importance of OCEARCH's work.

"The ocean is getting hammered, it doesn't have a lot of time left," he said. "It's the one place where I find real clarity and peace. And, if we don't do it, then who?"

Redskins' Brian Orakpo and Adam Carriker to miss rest of season with injuries - CBS News

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Topics Football Washington Redskins outside linebacker Brian Orakpo sits on the bench in the final seconds of an NFL football game against the St. Louis Rams, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012, in St. Louis. The Rams won 31-28.

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(CBS News) ASHBURN, Va. - The Washington Redskins lost more than a football game Sunday - they lost two of their top defenders to season-ending injuries.

The team said Monday that linebacker Brian Orakpo and defensive end Adam Carriker are expected to be out for the season after being hurt in Sunday's 31-28 loss to the St. Louis Rams.

Carriker, who registered 5.5 sacks last season, suffered a right knee injury and will be sidelines about five months after surgery.

Orakpo, who was had injured his left shoulder, said after the game that "it just ripped on me, man. Same injury as before. It's just frustrating, man." It was actually not the same injury, according to the team's official Twitter feed:

Shanahan says #Redskins OLB Brian Orakpo tore a different part of his left pec, also done for the season (four month recovery time).

— Redskins (@Redskins) September 17, 2012

Orakpo had 59 tackles and 9 sacks last season and coach Mike Shanahan said that the team will miss his production.

"He can do it all," Shanahan said. "He's everything you look at in a Pro Bowl linebacker."

He said both players will get surgery within the next week.

According to CBSSports.com's Ryan Wilson, Rob Jackson and Chris Wilson will get the chance to take over for Orakpo while Doug Worthington and Chris Baker will be given opportunities to replace Carriker.

"Fatal Vision" murder convict Jeffrey MacDonald hopes DNA evidence will clear ... - CBS News

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(CBS News) Jeffrey MacDonald's lawyers are going back to court over DNA evidence in the so-called "Fatal Vision" murders.

MacDonald has served 30 years for the killings of his wife and two young daughters. The former Green Beret doctor has always maintained his innocence. And he wants one more chance to get out of prison.

Timeline of events in the Jeffrey MacDonald case
"48 Hours": Jeffrey MacDonald: Time For Truth

MacDonald insists that a group of drug-crazed hippies invaded his home in Fort Bragg, N.C., on February 17, 1970, that they attacked him and savagely stabbed his wife Collette, and their two daughters, Kimberly, 5, and Kristen, 2.

He recounted the story to CBS News' "48 Hours" in 2007, saying, "I heard a female voice say, 'Acid is groovy. Kill the pigs.'"

The brutal crimes - just months after the murders committed by Charles Manson and his followers - became a national sensation and even led to a best-selling book and NBC mini-series, "Fatal Vision."

MacDonald has been in prison since 1982, serving three life terms for the murders. But a new book by acclaimed filmmaker and author Errol Morris says MacDonald was telling the truth all along.

Morris - whose 1988 movie "The Thin Blue Line" helped win freedom for a man wrongfully convicted of murdering a police officer - told Rita Braver of "CBS Sunday Morning" that DNA evidence not available at the time of MacDonald's trial now points to his innocence.

"Sunday Morning": True crime? Errol Morris reexamines the evidence

Morris said, "They did find hair under the fingernails of one of the girls that could not be sourced to anybody in the house."

And it wasn't MacDonald's, Morris said.

Morris also said MacDonald's story is supported by Helena Stoeckly, who repeatedly confessed to being in the house with her drug-using friends the night of the murders.

Stoeckly said in a 1982 interview with CBS News, "I walked into the master bedroom (while MacDonald was unconscious). ... Collette was sleeping on the bed."

But during MacDonald's trial, Stoeckly suddenly couldn't remember many of the details of that night, and Morris said he knows why. "The prosecutor threatened her and told her essentially to change her story, or he would indict her for murder," Morris told "CBS This Morning."

MacDonald faces an uphill legal battle and prosecutors still believe they got the right guy. But MacDonald remains hopeful he will be released someday. He told "48 Hours," "There's a legitimate possibility that I will be winning this case."

Watch Anna Werner's full report in the video above.

Palace legal action fanning interest in Kate topless photos? - CBS News

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(CBS News) Lawyers for Prince William and his wife, Catherine, will be in a Paris court later Monday. They plan to make a criminal complaint against the photographer who took topless pictures of her.

But there's an argument about whether the royals taking legal action will limit the photos or just make them more intriguing.

One place where all the fuss about a royal's topless photos may seem spectacularly out of place is where William and Catherine, the former Kate Middleton, happened to be Monday - the South Pacific paradise of the Solomon Islands - where the unclothed human form is no big deal.

Royal family seeks injunction over topless pics

The remote islands may seem like another world to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Back in their real world, though, their lawyers were busy taking action in the courts in France.

A Paris celebrity gossip magazine was first to publish pictures of the frolicking, half-naked couple enjoying what they thought was a private holiday at the queen's nephew's house. The royal lawyers are making a formal criminal complaint against the photographer who took the pictures and against the magazine.

That didn't stop another European publication - this time in Italy - from putting out a special issue containing a 26-page photo spread of the couple. An Irish newspaper has printed them, as well. Outside of Britain, the royals are treated with less reverence.

Neil Wallis, a newspaper editor, told CBS News, "It is seen as, if you like, another celebrity complaining about their privacy. How ever much as I sympathize with Kate, it's not going to close the door. The horse has bolted."

(CBS News correspondent Seth Doane is traveling with the royal couple on their tour through Asia. Watch his latest report in the video below.)

Palace lawyers are said to be considering what to do as the photos show up more and more places. Should they launch suits everywhere or make an example of the French? Because the more they talk about the photos, the more everybody else does, too.

Wallis said, "They are literally financially becoming more valuable, the pictures you must not see, the pictures they tried to ban, that literally is music to the (paparazzo's) ears."

Legal action over Kate topless photos

The problem for William and Kate is that the penalties under French law for invasion of privacy are piddling compared to the circulation boost for the magazine -- about $45,000, although there is provision for jailing the editor for a year. Still, the couple are said to be livid as the photos continue to be published. They're going to have to make a decision whether to continue the legal pressure - and so the concentration on the photos - or move on.

Watch Mark Phillips' report in the video above.

Teens who "sext" more likely to have sex, study finds: What can parents do to ... - CBS News

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By Ryan Jaslow Topics News ,Kids and family ,Research (Credit: istockphoto) (CBS News) Teens who "sext" - or send sexually explicit text messages - aren't keeping their risky behaviors within the confines of their smartphone, new research suggests.

Rather than serving as a substitute for risky behaviors, the study of nearly 2,000 teens found kids who sent such messages were more likely to engage in risky behaviors, such as being sexually active and having unprotected sex, raising their risk for sexually transmitted diseases.

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"No one's actually going to get a sexually transmitted disease because they're sexting," Dr. Eric Rice, a researcher from the School of Social Network at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, told Reuters. "What we really wanted to know is, is there a link between sexting and taking risks with your body? And the answer is a pretty resounding 'yes.'"

For Rice's study, published online in the Sept. 17 issue of Pediatrics, he and his team looked at survey data from more than 1,800 Los Angeles-area teens between grades nine and 12, who were part of a nationally representative Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study of youth-risk behaviors. They determined 15 percent of the adolescents who had a cell phone said they sexted, with more than 50 percent of the responders saying they knew someone who had sent a sext. The majority of students with a cell phone who were surveyed did not engage in sending such messages.

Not surprisingly, teens whose peers sexted were more likely to sext themselves - about 17 times more likely than their counterparts who didn't send the messages.

But teens who said they themselves sexted were seven times more likely to be sexually active, and nearly two times more likely to engage in unprotected sex than their peers.

Teens who identified as Black/African American were found to be more likely to sext than other groups studied. Teens who identified as LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning/unsure) were more likely to sext and say they both had sex and had unprotected sex than students who identified as heterosexual.

The researchers called the latter finding "particularly alarming," since unprotected sex raises risk for transmission of HIV and of other sexually transmitted diseases.

Though the researchers found only a minority of surveyed teens overall said they sent sext messages, they believe this behavior could serve as a place for parents, doctors and educators to intervene and head off risky behaviors.

"We recommend that clinicians discuss sexting as an adolescent-friendly way of engaging patients in conversations about sexual activity, prevention of sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancy," the authors wrote, adding such discussions should also be built into the health curriculum at school.

A link between teens who sext and teens who have sex was also confirmed by a July study in Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine. That study of teens at Texas public schools also found that teens who were merely propositioned to send a naked picture were also more likely to have sex. More than seventy-five percent of teens in that study who were asked to send a sext, even if they didn't agree to do it, admitted to having had sexual intercourse, compared to fewer than 40 percent of teens who had not been propositioned.

"While some have suggested that sexting may be a safe alternative to sexual behavior, it is not surprising that these online behaviors are entangled in teens' face-to-face interactions," Shari Kessel Schneider, a senior research associate at the Education Development Center in Newton, Mass., who was not involved in the new research, commented to HealthDay. "If a parent finds out their child is sexting, it's an important opportunity to engage their son or daughter in a discussion of what constitutes a healthy relationship and how youth can stay safe both emotionally and physically."

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends parents speak to their kids about sexting, even if the issue hasn't directly impacted their community, to gauge their child's understanding of the issue. For younger kids with cell phones who don't yet know about sex, it is important to use an age-appropriate example, such as by saying texts should never contain pictures of people without their clothes on. For teens, the academy recommends being very specific, telling them "sexting" often involves pictures of a sexual nature and is considered pornography.

The AAP has more tips for parents talking to their children about social media and sexting.

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