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Huge Northern California wildfire gains strength

Huge Northern California wildfire gains strength

Posted: 24 Aug 2013 10:17 AM PDT

In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Forest Service, the Rim Fire burns near Yosemite National Park, Calif. The wildfire outside Yosemite National Park — one of more than 50 major brush blazes burning across the western U.S. — more than tripled in size overnight and still threatens about 2,500 homes, hotels and camp buildings. Fire officials said the blaze burning in remote, steep terrain had grown to more than 84 square miles and was only 2 percent contained on Thursday, down from 5 percent a day earlier. (AP Photo/U.S. Forest Service)A wildfire raging along the northwest edge of Yosemite National Park gained strength Saturday morning as firefighters scrambled to protect nearby mountain communities.

Aid group tallies 355 dead after Syria attack

Posted: 24 Aug 2013 09:05 AM PDT

Columns of smoke rising from heavy shelling in the Jobar neighborhood in west Damascus, in Cairo, Syria, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. President Bashar Assad's forces pressed on with a military offensive in eastern Damascus on Thursday, bombing rebel-held suburbs where the opposition said a chemical weapons attack the day before killed over 100 people. The government has denied allegations it used chemical weapons in artillery barrages on the area known as eastern Ghouta on Wednesday as "absolutely baseless." (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)Doctors Without Borders says some 355 people who showed "neurotoxic symptoms" died following the suspected chemical weapons attack this week near Syria's capital.

March to focus on continued fight for civil rights

Posted: 24 Aug 2013 09:19 AM PDT

FILE- In this Aug. 28, 1963, black-and-white file photo Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, addresses marchers during his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. NBC News says it will rebroadcast a 1963 "Meet the Press" interview with Martin Luther King Jr. in honor of the March on Washington's 50th anniversary next week. King appeared on the news program three days before his landmark Alice Long planned months ago to use vacation time to travel from Huntsville, Ala., to the 50th anniversary events for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Egypt shortens curfew after lull in unrest

Posted: 24 Aug 2013 10:14 AM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi hold posters showing victims of a military crackdown on their protest camp during a march in Cairo, Friday, Aug. 23, 2013. Arabic reads, "no for treachery", "no for military coup" and "martyrs of republican guard massacre ." Egyptian security and military forces deployed Friday around Cairo, closing off traffic in some major thoroughfares and in the city center ahead of protests by supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's government has shortened a widely-imposed evening curfew by two hours starting Saturday, responding to citizens' demands as unrest in the country wanes.

Snowden suspected of bypassing electronic logs

Posted: 24 Aug 2013 06:41 AM PDT

FILE - A Sunday, June 9, 2013, file photo provided by The Guardian newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the U.S. National Security Agency, in Hong Kong. The U.S. government's efforts to determine which highly classified materials Snowden took from the National Security Agency have been frustrated by Snowden's sophisticated efforts to cover his digital trail by deleting or bypassing electronic logs, government officials tell the AP. Such logs would have showed what information Snowden viewed or downloaded. (AP Photo/The Guardian, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government's efforts to determine which highly classified materials leaker Edward Snowden took from the National Security Agency have been frustrated by Snowden's sophisticated efforts to cover his digital trail by deleting or bypassing electronic logs, government officials told The Associated Press. Such logs would have showed what information Snowden viewed or downloaded.

Marching for King's dream: 'The task is not done'

Posted: 24 Aug 2013 10:45 AM PDT

Crowds rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. Fifty years ago, on the actual anniversary, April 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of thousands of people marched to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and down the National Mall on Saturday, commemorating the 50th anniversary of his famous speech and pledging that his dream include equality for gays, Latinos, the poor and the disabled.

Suspect arrested over Lebanese mosque bombings

Posted: 24 Aug 2013 09:30 AM PDT

Lebanese Army investigators inspect at the site of a car bomb explosion outside of the Al-Taqwa mosque in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. The coordinated explosions Friday outside two mosques in the predominantly Sunni city raised even more the already simmering sectarian tensions in fragile Lebanon, heightening fears the country could be slipping into a cycle of revenge attacks between its Sunni and Shiite communities.(AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese security forces arrested a suspect on Saturday in connection with the devastating double bombing the day before that killed at least 47 people in the northern city of Tripoli, the state news agency said.

Bo admits lapses led to top cop's US defection bid

Posted: 24 Aug 2013 08:58 AM PDT

In this photo released by the Jinan Intermediate People's Court, former Politburo member and party leader of the megacity of Chongqing Bo Xilai, in the defendant seat listens to a testimony by former Chongqing city police chief Wang Lijun, unseen, at Jinan Intermediate People's Court in Jinan in eastern China's Shandong province, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. Disgraced Chinese politician Bo told a court Saturday his wife stole government funds without his involvement and revealed how the couple became estranged after he had been unfaithful, offering a glimpse in his politically charged trial of the unraveling of one of China's elite families. Wang triggered Bo's downfall when he fled to a US consulate with revelations that Bo's wife had killed a British businessman. (AP Photo/Jinan Intermediate People's Court)JINAN, China (AP) — Ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai told a court Saturday that he made mistakes that prompted his top aide's embarrassing U.S. defection bid, but denied criminal responsibility for the incident that triggered the country's messiest political scandal in decades.

Villagers unsatisfied by life sentence for Bales

Posted: 24 Aug 2013 01:11 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2011 photo from the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales participates in an exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. On Friday, Aug. 23, 2013, a military jury sentenced the U.S. soldier who massacred 16 Afghan civilians in 2012 to life in prison without a chance of parole. Bales pleaded guilty in June in a deal to avoid the death penalty for one of the worst atrocities of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. (AP Photo/DVIDS, Spc. Ryan Hallock, File)JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — The villagers traveled nearly 7,000 miles to learn the fate of the American soldier who gunned down their children, siblings and parents, who set their lifeless bodies afire with a kerosene lantern. And when the news came, it came in a simple gesture: a thumb's up from their interpreter.

Churches changing bylaws after gay marriage ruling

Posted: 24 Aug 2013 10:11 AM PDT

City Church of Tallahassee Pastor Dean Inserra stands inside his church in Tallahassee, Fla. on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013. Inserra's church is researching how they will address the changing attitudes to gay marriage in the courts as well as among the public. "We have some gay couples that attend our church. What happens when they ask us to do their wedding?" Inserra said. "What happens when we say no? Is it going to be treated like a civil rights thing?" (AP Photo/Phil Sears)NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Worried they could be sued by gay couples, some churches are changing their bylaws to reflect their view that the Bible allows only marriage between one man and one woman.

Egypt's interim premier says security a priority

Posted: 24 Aug 2013 06:36 AM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi hold posters showing victims of a military crackdown on their protest camp during a march in Cairo, Friday, Aug. 23, 2013. Arabic reads, "no for treachery", "no for military coup" and "martyrs of republican guard massacre ." Egyptian security and military forces deployed Friday around Cairo, closing off traffic in some major thoroughfares and in the city center ahead of protests by supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's interim prime minister said Saturday his government is putting priority on increasing security to restore peace and improve the country's economy after new unrest following the coup that toppled the country's president.

Death toll in Lebanon bombings rises to 47

Posted: 24 Aug 2013 03:59 AM PDT

Lebanese Army investigators inspect at the site of a car bomb explosion outside of the Al-Taqwa mosque in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. The coordinated explosions Friday outside two mosques in the predominantly Sunni city raised even more the already simmering sectarian tensions in fragile Lebanon, heightening fears the country could be slipping into a cycle of revenge attacks between its Sunni and Shiite communities.(AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese security forces arrested a suspect on Saturday in connection with the devastating double bombing the day before that killed at least 47 people in the northern city of Tripoli, the state news agency said.

March on Washington meets post-9/11 America

Posted: 24 Aug 2013 08:38 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The March on Washington is meeting post-9/11 America.

Syria accuses rebels of using chemical weapons

Posted: 24 Aug 2013 07:25 AM PDT

Columns of smoke rising from heavy shelling in the Jobar neighborhood in west Damascus, in Cairo, Syria, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. President Bashar Assad's forces pressed on with a military offensive in eastern Damascus on Thursday, bombing rebel-held suburbs where the opposition said a chemical weapons attack the day before killed over 100 people. The government has denied allegations it used chemical weapons in artillery barrages on the area known as eastern Ghouta on Wednesday as "absolutely baseless." (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state media accused rebels of using chemical arms on Saturday against government troops trying to storm a contested neighborhood of Damascus, claiming a major army offensive in recent days had forced the opposition fighters to resort to such weapons "as their last card."

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