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Obama 'disappointed' over court's ruling

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Obama 'disappointed' over court's ruling

Obama 'disappointed' over court's ruling

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 10:11 AM PDT

Representatives from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund stand outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, June 25, 2013, awaiting a decision in Shelby County v. Holder, a voting rights case in Alabama. The Supreme Court says a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act cannot be enforced until Congress comes up with a new way of determining which states and localities require close federal monitoring of elections. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)The Supreme Court struck down a key part of Voting Rights Act.

Senators push to suspend trade benefits for Bangladesh

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 09:13 AM PDT

Rescue workers attempt to rescue garment workers from the rubble of the collapsed Rana Plaza building, in SavarWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nine U.S. senators on Tuesday urged President Barack Obama to suspend trade benefits for Bangladesh until the country where 1,129 people died in an April garment factory collapse improved its working conditions. "We urge that the administration suspend Bangladesh's eligibility for GSP (Generalized System of Preferences), and establish a roadmap and timeline for reinstatement based upon tangible improvements in worker safety and related labor law reforms," the group of Democratic senators said. ...

Putin says no to US request to extradite Snowden

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 09:46 AM PDT

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin bluntly rejected U.S. pleas to extradite National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Tuesday, saying Snowden is free to travel wherever he wants and insisting that Russian security agencies haven't contacted him.

High court voids key part of Voting Rights Act

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 09:31 AM PDT

Representatives from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund stand outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, June 25, 2013, awaiting a decision in Shelby County v. Holder, a voting rights case in Alabama. The Supreme Court says a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act cannot be enforced until Congress comes up with a new way of determining which states and localities require close federal monitoring of elections. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — A deeply divided Supreme Court on Tuesday halted enforcement of the federal government's most potent tool to stop voting discrimination over the past half century, saying it does not reflect racial progress.

Obama hit by Snowden setbacks with China, Russia

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 06:33 AM PDT

Aeroflot flight SU150 sits at the tarmac of the Jose Marti international airport after arriving from Moscow to Havana, Cuba, Monday, June 24, 2013. Confusion over the whereabouts of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden grew on Monday after SU150 Aeroflot flight filled with journalists trying to track him down flew from Moscow to Cuba with the empty seat booked in his name.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)WASHINGTON (AP) — For President Barack Obama, National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden's globe-trotting evasion of U.S. authorities has dealt a startling setback to efforts to strengthen ties with China and raised the prospect of worsening tensions with Russia.

US consumer confidence at five-year high in June

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 07:55 AM PDT

In this Wednesday, May 15, 2013 photo, pedestrians walk in and out of the Walgreens flagship store in the Empire State Building, in New York. The private Conference Board reports on consumer confidence for June, on Tuesday, June 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans' confidence in the economy rose to its highest level in more than five years, bolstered by a more optimistic outlook for hiring.

Syrian al-Qaida branch claims suicide attacks

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 11:02 AM PDT

US ambassador to Syria Robert Ford, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, U.N.'s special representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi, US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov, from left to right, pose prior to a second meeting on Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at the United Nations (UN) office in Geneva in a bid to organize the conference on Syria. (AP Photo/Fabrice Coffrini, Pool)BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian branch of al-Qaida on Tuesday claimed responsibility for multiple suicide attacks on security compounds in Damascus that killed at least five people in a weekend assault on the center of the regime's power.

Grim milestone: Texas set to execute 500th inmate

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 09:25 AM PDT

In this photo taken June 12, 2013, death penalty opponents gather outside the Huntsville Unit before the execution of confessed killer Elroy Chester in Huntsville, Texas. Chester, convicted of the 1988 the fatal shooting of Port Arthur firefighter Willie Ryman III, was the 499th prisoner to be executed in Texas since 1982. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Jim Willett remembers the night of Dec. 6, 1982, when he was assigned to guard a mortuary van that had arrived at the death house at the Huntsville prison.

Prosecutors want to admit calls in Zimmerman trial

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 11:07 AM PDT

POOL - George Zimmerman, right, talks with defense attorney Don West in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla., Monday, June 24, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank,Pool)SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Past police dispatcher calls in which George Zimmerman complained about "suspicious" characters in his neighborhood should be presented to jurors at his second-degree murder trial since they show his state of mind and provide context to his fatal encounter with 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a prosecutor argued Tuesday.

Senate passage of immigration bill on track

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 07:06 AM PDT

Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., speaks with reporters after the immigration bill got more than 60 needed votes to advance in the Senate, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, June 24, 2013. A measure he crafted with Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., includes changes to the original border security provisions in the bill that would double the size of the U.S. Border Patrol and completes 700 miles of fencing on the border with Mexico. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate passage of historic immigration legislation offering citizenship to millions looks near-certain after the bill cleared a key hurdle with votes to spare.

94 in Alaska? Weather extremes tied to jet stream

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 09:31 AM PDT

FILE - People swim and sunbathe at Goose Lake in Anchorage, Alaska on Monday, June 17, 2013. Alaska's largest city and other parts of the state are experiencing a long stretch of higher than normal temperatures. The jet stream, the river of air high above Earth that generally dictates the weather, usually rushes rapidly from west to east in a mostly straight direction. But lately it seems to be wobbling and weaving like a drunk driver, wreaking havoc as it goes. The most recent example is mid-June where some towns in Alaska hit record highs. (AP Photo/Rachel D'Oro)WASHINGTON (AP) — Lately, the jet stream isn't playing by the rules. Scientists say that big river of air high above Earth that dictates much of the weather for the Northern Hemisphere has been unusually erratic the past few years.

Taliban militants storm Afghan government compound

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 08:56 AM PDT

Afghan security force members investigate nearby the entrance gate of the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan Tuesday, June 25, 2013. Suicide attackers blew up a car bomb and battled security forces outside Afghanistan's presidential palace Tuesday after infiltrating one of the most secure areas of the capital. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the Kabul palace attack, which came as reporters were gathering for a news event on Afghan youth at which President Hamid Karzai was expected to talk about ongoing efforts to open peace talks with the militant group. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban militants stormed the presidential compound Tuesday after bluffing their way past two checkpoints, triggering a gunbattle that left eight attackers and three guards dead and sent journalists attending an official event scrambling for cover, officials and witnesses said.

Obama takes aim at changing climate

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 10:57 AM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks during his meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, June 24, 2013, with CEOs, business owners and entrepreneurs to discuss immigration reform. From left are, Cecilia Muñoz, direcor of the White House Domestic Policy Council, the president, senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling, and Dilawar Syed, CEO Yonja Media Group. Obama hosted the meeting to discuss the importance of commonsense immigration reform including the Congressional Budget Office analysis that concludes immigration reform would promote economic growth and reduce the deficit. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says scientists concur that the Earth warming and that human activity contributes to it.

Qatar ruler hands power to son to mark 'new era'

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 06:41 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 26, 2013 file photo, Emir of Qatar Sheik Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, center, attends the opening session of the Arab League Summit in Doha. Qatar's emir moves to hand power over to his son, aiming to bring a youthful new face to rule in a tiny Gulf nation that has become one of the most powerful in the Middle East, aggressively spreading its influence through cash. (AP Photo/Ghiath Mohamad, File)DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar's ruler formally handed power Tuesday to his 33-year-old son, capping a carefully crafted transition that puts a new generation in charge of the Gulf nation's vast energy wealth and rising political influence after the upheavals of the Arab Spring.

Germany probes model plane attack suspects

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 10:20 AM PDT

Members of a special response unit of the German state police leave the site of a search operation in Fellbach, Germany, Tuesday, June 25, 2013, as German prosecutors said they are investigating two men suspected of planning terrorist attacks using model airplanes. Authorities in Germany and neighboring Belgium conducted a series of searches of nine properties in Germany and Belgium. (AP Photo/dpa, Franziska Kraufmann)BERLIN (AP) — German authorities are investigating two men of Tunisian origin suspected of planning to use model airplanes for terrorist attacks, prosecutors said Tuesday, as police in Germany and Belgium raided a series of sites searching for evidence of "possible attack plans and preparations."

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