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We look at a few stories making the rounds that examine what U.S. options are for a strike against the Damascus regime and what might follow such an attack.

The survey paints a complex picture of a war-weary American electorate, who are generally opposed to a war in Syria but who support limited strikes on chemical warfare infrastructure.

Seamus Heaney was possibly the most-read living poet. He was admired by peers and critics and loved by the general public, which bought his books by the thousands. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Heaney died Friday in Dublin after what his family described in a statement as a 'brief illness." He was 74 years old.

It's been another long college football off-season complete with a scandal involving reigning Heisman Trophy winner, Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziell. That scandal has passed, for now, but it's another in a list of headaches for the NCAA as it kicked off the regular season last night. Sportswriter Stefan Fatsis joins Robert Siegel to talk about it all.

Despite more than two years of fighting that has left 100,000 people dead, President Obama has resisted intervening in Syria. But he appears to have concluded that the use of chemical weapons demands a response, even if it risks drawing the U.S. deeper into the conflict.

The former South African president and anti-apartheid leader is still in a Pretoria hospital with a lung infection despite reports that he'd returned home.

The man, who was 17 when the crime took place, is one of six accused in a case that has shocked the nation and sparked international outrage.

The government in Shanghai says 26 other people were also hurt in the leak and that six of them are in critical condition.

President Obama, speaking from the Rose Garden, said he'd decided to use military force against Syria, but was also seeking congressional authorization for the action.

Many congressional leaders had pushed for the White House to seek authorization before going ahead with a strike against the Damascus regime.