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Egypt authorizes police use of deadly force

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Egypt authorizes police use of deadly force

Egypt authorizes police use of deadly force

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 10:40 AM PDT

AP10ThingsToSee - A supporter of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi shouts during clashes with Egyptian security forces in Cairo's Nasr City district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)The measures come after demonstrators torched two government buildings.

Newtown gun permit requests on pace to double

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 07:55 AM PDT

Roadside angelsOfficials in Newtown, Conn., say requests for gun permits are set to double this year in the wake of the Dec. 14, 2012, massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Rockefeller impostor sentenced for California murder

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 10:18 AM PDT

FILE - Christian Gerhartsreiter listens to final arguments by prosecutor Habib Balian during his trial at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles in this Tuesday, April 9, 2013 file photo. Gerhartsreiter is due to be sentenced Thursday Aug. 15, 2013 but has made it evident he will not go gently. It was uncertain if sentencing would proceed. (AP Photo/San Gabriel Valley Tribune,Walter Mancini, Pool )LOS ANGELES (AP) — Christian Gerhartsreiter, who masqueraded across the U.S. as an heir to the fabled Rockefeller fortune, a movie producer and a wizard of Wall Street, was sentenced Thursday to 27 years to life in prison for a California cold-case murder.

Car bomb blast kills three in south Beirut

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 09:28 AM PDT

Cars burn at the site of an explosion in Beirut's southern suburbsBEIRUT (AP) — A powerful car bomb ripped through a southern Beirut neighborhood that is a stronghold of the militant group Hezbollah on Thursday, killing at least three people and trapping others in burning buildings, the media said.

'Underdog' from Brooklyn takes lead in NYC mayoral race

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 06:56 AM PDT

New York City mayoral candidate and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio speaks to the press outside Brooklyn Borough Hall in New YorkThere's a new front-runner in the race to succeed Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Rastas talk reparations at Jamaica gathering

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 07:36 AM PDT

Rastas talk reparations at Jamaica gatheringDozens of Rastafarians gathered in Jamaica on Wednesday to brainstorm ways of pressuring European countries to pay reparations for slavery and talk about other core beliefs of the homegrown faith. Mostly ...

10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 09:15 AM PDT

AP10ThingsToSee - A man dances in front of a "Toro Encuetado" (Fireworks Bull) during the festivities to honor Managua, Nicaragua's patron saint Santo Domingo de Guzman on Aug. 9, 2013. The festival brings together devotees of all types of social and economic status including Catholics, transvestites, sex workers and gang members to one of the poorest neighborhoods of the capital city. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)Here's your look at highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.

Car bomb kills 14 in south Beirut suburb

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 11:16 AM PDT

A Hezbollah civil defense worker walks past a burned car at a car bomb in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. The powerful car bomb ripped through a southern Beirut neighborhood that is a stronghold of the militant group Hezbollah on Thursday, killing at least three people and trapping others in burning buildings, the media said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)BEIRUT (AP) — A powerful car bomb ripped through a crowded southern Beirut neighborhood that is a stronghold of the militant group Hezbollah on Thursday, killing at least 14 people and trapping dozens of others in burning cars and buildings in the latest apparent violence linked to the civil war in neighboring Syria, officials said.

Papers: Man called teen 13 times before abduction

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 01:43 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 2011 file photo provided by Andrea Saincome, Hannah Anderson, center, reclining across the laps of others, and James Lee DiMaggio, right, pose for a picture with other members of the extended Anderson and Saincome families. Via a social media site, Hannah Anderson says longtime family friend DiMaggio SAN DIEGO (AP) — Court papers shed new light on the slayings of a California mother and son and abduction of a teenager by a family friend, revealing that the suspect tortured his victims before he killed them and exchanged more than a dozen calls earlier that day with the teen.

NASA, Navy practicing space-capsule recovery

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 10:47 AM PDT

In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, sailors assigned to the amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington practice recovering an Orion capsule Tuesday Aug. 13, 2013 into the well deck of the USS Arlington as part of NASA's first key Orion stationary recovery test at Naval Station Norfolk. NASA is partnering with the U.S. Navy to develop procedures to recover the Orion capsule and crew after splashdown. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Seaman Andrew Schneider)NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — During the glory days of the U.S. space program in the 1960s and '70s, astronauts returning to Earth splashed down at sea in their capsules and were picked up by the Navy in a stirring and triumphant moment that became a familiar scene to American TV viewers. Now, NASA and the Navy are training again for the first such recovery in more than a generation.

Lead prosecutor in Fort Hood case keeps close eye

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 09:08 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2013 file courtroom sketch, military prosecutor Col. Steve Henricks, right, speaks as Nidal Malik Hasan, center, and presiding judge Col. Tara Osborn look on during Hasan's court-martial Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, in Forth Hood, Texas. Hasan is representing himself against charges of murder and attempted murder for the 2009 attack that left 13 people dead at Forth Hood. For a long-awaited trial that figured to dramatically unfold over months, a swift finish without spectacle now seems more likely inside the small military courtroom where the trial is playing out with military precision. (AP Photo/Brigitte Woosley, File)FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Col. Michael Mulligan stood up and whispered to a fellow prosecutor who had just finished questioning a witness in the Fort Hood shooting trial, prompting the military lawyer to stand back up and ask how many bullet holes the gunman left behind.

AP PHOTOS: Transit misery leads to anger in Brazil

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 09:53 AM PDT

In this Aug. 7, 2013 photo, passengers ride a crowded subway train in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Chests squashed flat against backs, hours a day, every day. That's the daily commute for the 8 million citizens who ride the subway and bus lines each day in Sao Paulo, South America's largest city. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)SAO PAULO (AP) — Chests squashed flat against backs, hours a day, every day. That's the daily commute for the 8 million citizens who ride the subway and bus lines in Sao Paulo, South America's largest city.

Adorable new mammal species found 'in plain sight'

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 10:57 AM PDT

This undated handout photo provided by Mark Gurney shows a olinguito. Imagine a raccoon with a teddy bear face that is so cute it's hard to resist, let alone overlook. But somehow science did _ until now. Researchers Thursday announced a rare discovery of a new species of a mammal that belongs to the grouping of large creatures that include dogs, cats and bears: the olinguito. The raccoon-sized critters leap through the trees of the cloud forests of Ecuador and Colombia at night, according to a Smithsonian researcher who has spent the past decade tracking them. (AP Photo/Mark Gurney)WASHINGTON (AP) — Imagine a mini-raccoon with a teddy bear face that is so cute it's hard to resist, let alone overlook. But somehow science did — until now.

14 killed, over 200 wounded in Lebanon blast

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 10:31 AM PDT

A Hezbollah civil defense worker walks past a burned car at a car bomb in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. The powerful car bomb ripped through a southern Beirut neighborhood that is a stronghold of the militant group Hezbollah on Thursday, killing at least three people and trapping others in burning buildings, the media said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's state-run news agency says 14 people have been killed and over 200 wounded in a car bomb explosion that ripped through a stronghold of the militant Hezbollah group in a southern suburb of the capital Beirut.

Pole vault great condemns homosexuality at worlds

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 10:29 AM PDT

Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva poses with her gold medal in the women's pole vault as she stands on the podium during the medal ceremony at the World Athletics Championships in the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)MOSCOW (AP) — Pole vault great Yelena Isinbayeva condemned homosexuality Thursday after criticizing competitors who painted their fingernails in rainbow colors to support gays and lesbians in the face of a new anti-gay law in Russia.

British stuntman dies in wingsuit mishap in Alps

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 07:54 AM PDT

FILE In this July 27, 2012 file photo, British stuntman Mark Sutton, parachuting into the Olympic Stadium, dressed as James Bond, during the Olympic Games 2012 Opening Ceremony. The British stuntman who parachuted into the London Olympics opening ceremony as James Bond has been killed in an accident in the Swiss Alps while flying a special wing suit. Online extreme sports broadcaster Epic TV says Mark Sutton died during a gathering it had organized involving 20 wing suit pilots who were being filmed as they jumped from helicopters. Swiss police confirmed that a 42-year-old Briton died Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013, in a fall near Trient in the Valais region. (AP Photo/PA, Lewis Whyld, File) UNITED KINGDOM OUTGENEVA (AP) — He wasn't a competitor, but Mark Sutton still got one of the biggest cheers of the 2012 Olympics.

Death toll from Egypt violence rises to 525

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 07:40 AM PDT

Egyptians collect items left in damaged tents outside Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi had a protest camp in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. Egypt faced a new phase of uncertainty on Thursday after the bloodiest day since its Arab Spring began, with hundreds of people reported killed and thousands injured as police smashed two protest camps of supporters of the deposed Islamist president. Wednesday's raids touched off day-long street violence that prompted the military-backed interim leaders to impose a state of emergency and curfew, and drew widespread condemnation from the Muslim world and the West, including the United States. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities on Thursday significantly raised the death toll from clashes the previous day between police and supporters of the ousted Islamist president, saying more than 500 people died and laying bare the extent of the violence that swept much of the country.

Fewest Americans since 2007 seek jobless benefits

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 08:35 AM PDT

In this Wednesday, Aug., 14, 2013, photo, job seeker Kelsey Devoe, of Miramar, Fla., fills out a contact form at a job fair in Miami Lakes, Fla. The Labor Department reports on the number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits last week on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits dropped 15,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 320,000, the fewest since October 2007 — a sign of dwindling layoffs and steady if modest job growth.

Obama denounces Egypt massacre

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 08:19 AM PDT

The widow of a dead Muslim Brotherhood supporter reacts after seeing her husband's body at the El Eyman mosque in CairoThe president cancels a joint military exercise after the crackdown on demonstrators.

Is ‘Armageddon’ coming? NASA’s asteroid hunter Don Yeomans won’t miss a thing

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 04:30 AM PDT

Dinosaur-Killing Comet Didn't Wipe Out Freshwater SpeciesAt first glance, Don Yeomans looks like your friendly suburban neighbor. But behind the calm and cool exterior, the NASA scientist has one of the most important jobs imaginable: finding the galaxy's deadliest asteroids before they pose a threat to all life on Earth.

Rio Olympics coordinating chief resigns

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 08:33 AM PDT

The head of the public body coordinating planning for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro has resigned, raising concerns about the city's ability to stage the first games in South America. The resignation ...

At least three die in south Beirut blast

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 09:06 AM PDT

Cars burn at the site of an explosion in Beirut's southern suburbsBEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's state-run news agency says at least three people have been killed and 20 others wounded in an explosion that ripped through a stronghold of the militant Hezbollah group in a southern suburb of the capital Beirut.

Cops dealing Doritos at post-legalization Hempfest

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 07:23 AM PDT

Matt Galanti, 17, of Bothell, Wash., smokes marijuana from a glass bong at the opening day of the pro-marijuana rally Seattle Hempfest, Aug. 17, 2012, as friends Zach Casselman, 18, of Bothell, and Clay Graeber, 20, of Bothell, look on. Organizers expected more than 150,000 people to attend the three-day event, which comes as citizens in Washington state prepare to vote on an initiative that would legalize and tax the sale of up to an ounce of cannabis at state-licensed stores. (AP Photo/Gene Johnson)SEATTLE (AP) — A few things will be different at this year's Hempfest, the 22-year-old summer "protestival" on Seattle's waterfront where tens of thousands of revelers gather to use dope openly, listen to music and gaze at the Olympic Mountains in the distance.

Vote to legalize alcohol on SD's Pine Ridge reservation passes

Posted: 14 Aug 2013 10:55 PM PDT

In this Aug. 9, 2013 photo is Bryan Brewer, president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, who opposes the legalization of alcohol on the reservation in Pine Ridge, S.D. A special election is being held Tuesday, Aug. 13, on whether to end prohibition and allow the tribe to sell alcohol and use the profits for education and detoxification and treatment centers, for which there is currently little to no funding. (AP Photo/Carson Walker)SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Native Americans on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation — home to some of the highest rates of unemployment, domestic abuse and suicide in Indian Country — have voted to end prohibition and legalize alcohol so the tribe can use the profits for education and treatment.

U.N. leader wants inquiry into Egyptian crackdown

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 07:20 AM PDT

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay speaks to Reuters at her hotel in MadridSigns indicate an "extreme use" of force against demonstrators, says the organization's High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Utah fire destroys 14 homes near resort town

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 09:59 AM PDT

A helicopter with a water bucket dips into Rockport Reservoir to drop water on hot spots about two miles to the south of the wildfire that started Tuesday and destroyed a dozen homes in the Rockport Estates in Wanship, Utah. Helicopters flew hundreds of water drops to fight the fire. The lightning-sparked blaze was among several in the West where fires have devoured dry grass and brush and burned to the edges of small communities. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Al Hartmann) DESERET NEWS OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; MAGS OUTA wildfire devours brush and threatens homes outside Park City.

Muslim Brotherhood says to bring down 'military coup'

Posted: 14 Aug 2013 11:56 PM PDT

Army vehicles are seen as smoke rises in the background during clashes between security forces and supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mursi at Rabba el Adwia Square, where the protesters are camping, in CairoThe group says it would bring down the "military coup" by peaceful means.

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