Bombing suspect could face death penalty

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• Bombing suspect could face death penalty
• Immigration fight gets personal
• ‘The Kill Team’: A U.S. unit in Afghanistan that snapped
• Obama to attend memorial service for victims of Texas explosion
• FAA furloughs start, so do airport delays
• How Mexico City fixed its air pollution problem
• Arizona's Gov. Brewer says she needs border help
• Police identify possible suspect in 4/20 celebration shooting
• Taliban take 9 hostage after helicopter's emergency landing
• Life in India: Girl vanishes. Police are called. Nothing happens.
• Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant has a serious rat problem
• 5 dead in shooting south of Seattle
• New York City aims to ban cigarette sales for under age 21
• Congress pushes for ‘Internet Freedom’ as U.N. showdown looms
• Rescuers struggle to reach China quake zone as toll climbs
• Man shoots dead five in western Russia
• Miss. River closed at Vicksburg after bridge hit
• Journalist killed in Somali capital; 5th this year
• Spain's population falls as immigrants flee crisis
• Activists fear large death toll near Damascus
• Monday in politics: Senate hearing on immigration, and more
• 2nd man arrested in rape of 5-year-old Indian girl
• FAA furloughs kick in, some flight delays appear
• Moderate earthquake strikes western Mexico, no major damage

Bombing suspect could face death penalty Posted: 22 Apr 2013 10:33 AM PDT Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is charged with "using a weapon of mass destruction."

Immigration fight gets personal Posted: 22 Apr 2013 09:12 AM PDT Senators debate over if the Boston attacks were being used politically.

‘The Kill Team’: A U.S. unit in Afghanistan that snapped Posted: 22 Apr 2013 08:54 AM PDT According to the Army, one solider in a rogue unit was both a whistleblower and a murderer.

Obama to attend memorial service for victims of Texas explosion Posted: 22 Apr 2013 10:01 AM PDT The president will meet with victims of the disaster that killed 14 people.

FAA furloughs start, so do airport delays Posted: 22 Apr 2013 06:20 AM PDT Travelers hit snags in flights into New York City and Los Angeles.

How Mexico City fixed its air pollution problem Posted: 22 Apr 2013 07:53 AM PDT The city recorded only eight days with air quality considered "good" in 1992.

Arizona's Gov. Brewer says she needs border help Posted: 22 Apr 2013 04:20 AM PDT The governor calls the region a "gateway for the criminal element."

Police identify possible suspect in 4/20 celebration shooting Posted: 22 Apr 2013 10:43 AM PDT DENVER (AP) — Denver police Monday said they have learned the identity of a suspect seen on a YouTube video of people leaving a shooting at a marijuana celebration that wounded two people and scattered a crowd of thousands.

Taliban take 9 hostage after helicopter's emergency landing Posted: 22 Apr 2013 02:44 AM PDT The chopper went down in Eastern Afghanistan, and carried civilians.

Life in India: Girl vanishes. Police are called. Nothing happens. Posted: 22 Apr 2013 04:09 AM PDT The rape of a 5-year-old girl is the latest case in which authorities seem slow to respond.

Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant has a serious rat problem Posted: 22 Apr 2013 06:42 AM PDT Cooling equipment has been shut down three times because of rodents.

5 dead in shooting south of Seattle Posted: 22 Apr 2013 10:17 AM PDT Police arrived to a chaotic scene with active gunfire and shot one person.

New York City aims to ban cigarette sales for under age 21 Posted: 22 Apr 2013 07:25 AM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City, home to bans on trans fats and salt, is taking a step toward outlawing sales of cigarettes to anyone under age 21. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, running to replace health conscious Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is due on Monday to announce legislation to increase the minimum age for buying cigarettes to 21 from 18, the current limit. On nearby Long Island, Nassau and Suffolk counties have boosted their legal age for buying cigarettes and other tobacco products to 19. ...

Congress pushes for ‘Internet Freedom’ as U.N. showdown looms Posted: 22 Apr 2013 07:00 AM PDT The House is pushing forward in an effort to block a United Nations-related group from potentially allowing countries to censor the Internet, before an international showdown this fall.

Rescuers struggle to reach China quake zone as toll climbs Posted: 22 Apr 2013 01:33 AM PDT By Michael Martina and Maxim Duncan LUSHAN, China (Reuters) - Rescuers struggled to reach a remote, rural corner of southwestern China on Sunday as the toll of the dead and missing from the country's worst earthquake in three years climbed to 208 with almost 1,000 serious injuries. The 6.6 magnitude quake struck in Lushan county, near the city of Ya'an in the southwestern province of Sichuan, close to where a devastating 7.9 quake hit in May 2008, killing 70,000. ...

Man shoots dead five in western Russia Posted: 22 Apr 2013 06:31 AM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - A gunman shot dead five people in the western Russian city of Belgorod on Monday before speeding away in a car, local police said. Police said one of the victims was a 14-year-old girl and that a sixth person had been wounded. The motive was not immediately clear. Amateur footage online showed corpses in the street covered with light blue plastic body bags and a crowd of onlookers gathered in a main street of Belgorod, near a school. A local law enforcement source said police had surrounded a car fair, where they were looking for the suspect. ...

Miss. River closed at Vicksburg after bridge hit Posted: 22 Apr 2013 06:19 AM PDT The Coast Guard closed the Mississippi River at Vicksburg after barges hit a railroad bridge there Sunday and about 30 barges broke free from the towboat "Captain Buck Lay." Nine towboats — six ...

Journalist killed in Somali capital; 5th this year Posted: 22 Apr 2013 06:17 AM PDT A Somali radio station editor says unidentified gunmen have shot dead a journalist in Mogadishu, the fifth to be killed in the country his year. Mohamed Abdullahi Haji, a news editor at the state-run radio ...

Spain's population falls as immigrants flee crisis Posted: 22 Apr 2013 06:45 AM PDT By Fiona Ortiz MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's official population fell last year for the first time since records began as immigrants fled a five-year on-and-off recession that has sent unemployment soaring. The number of residents fell by 206,000 to 47.1 million, the National Statistics Institute said on Monday, a figure entirely accounted for by the fall in the number of registered foreign residents. It was the first time a population drop had been recorded in official statistics since records began in 1857 - although until 1998 figures were published roughly every decade, rather than annually. ...

Activists fear large death toll near Damascus Posted: 22 Apr 2013 02:26 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Six days of clashes in two Damascus suburbs may have killed hundreds of people, a dramatic spike in the rising death toll in the Syrian civil war, activists said Monday.

Monday in politics: Senate hearing on immigration, and more Posted: 22 Apr 2013 03:03 AM PDT A long list of witnesses is scheduled to testify Monday at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the immigration reform bill, which was unveiled last week. [Judiciary Committee plans 20-witness hearing on immigration bill Monday] Some Republicans have called for slowing down action on the legislation, but Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy [...]

2nd man arrested in rape of 5-year-old Indian girl Posted: 22 Apr 2013 06:28 AM PDT NEW DELHI (AP) — A second suspect was arrested Monday in the rape of a 5-year-old girl who New Delhi police say was left for dead in a locked room, a case that has brought a new wave of protests against how Indian authorities handle sex crimes.

FAA furloughs kick in, some flight delays appear Posted: 22 Apr 2013 06:18 AM PDT Commercial airline flights started backing up and delayed some travelers Monday, a day after air traffic controllers started going on furlough because of government spending cuts.

Moderate earthquake strikes western Mexico, no major damage Posted: 21 Apr 2013 08:47 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck western Mexico on Sunday, shaking buildings in the capital, but there were no reports of significant damage or injuries, officials said. The quake, initially reported as a magnitude 6.2 off the coast, was centered 33 km (20 miles) northwest of La Union, on the border between Guerrero and Michoacan states, close to the Pacific coast, the U.S. Geological Survey said. State oil monopoly Pemex said shortly after the quake that the power supply to its Tula refinery was interrupted. ...

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