| Obama faces more calls to act on Syria Posted: 22 Aug 2013 10:26 AM PDT  White House officials insist they must wait for confirmation on chemical weapons.
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| Ex-Patriot Hernandez indicted on murder charge Posted: 22 Aug 2013 10:53 AM PDT  ATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP) — Former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez was indicted Thursday on a first-degree murder charge in the death of a friend whose bullet-riddled body was found in an industrial park about a mile from the ex-player's home.
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| U.S. map gets redrawn based on population Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:52 AM PDT  An artist and urban planner has redrawn the U.S. map to show what it would look like if the same number of people occupied each state.
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| Former NFL player takes stand in massacre case Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:40 AM PDT  JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — Former pro football player Marc Edwards took the witness stand Thursday at the sentencing of the U.S. soldier who massacred 16 Afghan villagers last year, telling jurors he remembered him as a great leader from their high school days.
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| Obama takes on college costs Posted: 22 Aug 2013 07:56 AM PDT  Schools will be ranked by the value they offer students under his new plan.
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| Russia defends anti-gay law in letter to International Olympic Committee Posted: 22 Aug 2013 06:45 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — The Russian government assured the IOC on Thursday it will not discriminate against homosexuals during the Sochi Olympics, while defending the law against gay "propaganda" that has provoked an international backlash.
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| Lebanon rockets hit northern Israel Posted: 22 Aug 2013 07:32 AM PDT  No injuries are reported, but tensions rise along the volatile front.
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| 10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:22 AM PDT  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.
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| Innovative NY program picks up college tuition Posted: 22 Aug 2013 10:27 AM PDT  BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — When 18-year-old Cheyenne Ketter-Franklin begins classes at the University at Buffalo next week, she will be spared at least one anxiety — the prospect of being saddled with a mountain of higher-education debt.
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| Manning wants to live as a woman named Chelsea Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:11 AM PDT  FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Bradley Manning wants to live as a woman named Chelsea and begin hormone treatment as soon as possible, the soldier said a day after being sentenced to 35 years in prison for giving government secrets to WikiLeaks.
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| NSA reveals more secrets after court order Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:37 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has given up more of its surveillance secrets, acknowledging that it was ordered to stop scooping up thousands of Internet communications from Americans with no connection to terrorism — a practice it says was an unintended consequence when it gathered bundles of Internet traffic connected to terror suspects.
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| Cali. girl says she texted man before abduction Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:55 AM PDT  SAN DIEGO (AP) — A California teen whose mother and brother were killed by a family friend said on national television Thursday that she once confided with the man about troubles with her mother and explained text messages exchanged on the day of the attack.
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| Govt to sue Texas over voter ID law Posted: 22 Aug 2013 10:12 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Thursday it will sue Texas over the state's voter ID law and will seek to intervene in a lawsuit over the state's redistricting laws. |
| No closing argument from Fort Hood rampage suspect Posted: 22 Aug 2013 10:53 AM PDT  FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The soldier on trial for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood didn't give a closing argument on Thursday even after prosecutors laid out a detailed roadmap of their case and asked jurors for a verdict that would allow the death penalty.
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| Voices opposing immigration law muted this August Posted: 22 Aug 2013 07:08 AM PDT  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — It was the kickoff of a "Stop Amnesty Tour" organized by the Tea Party Patriots and other groups. But the crowd was so sparse that immigrant advocates were soon gleefully circulating photos of the featured speaker, Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa, standing alone on an empty stage.
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| Syrian forces bomb area of alleged chemical attack Posted: 22 Aug 2013 10:23 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government forces pressed their offensive in eastern Damascus on Thursday, bombing rebel-held suburbs where the opposition said the regime had killed more than 100 people the day before in a chemical weapons attack. |
| Prosecutor: No question Hasan was Fort Hood gunman Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:56 AM PDT FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Military prosecutors asked jurors on Thursday to unanimously convict the soldier accused in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, insisting that evidence left "no doubt" that he planned and carried out the deadliest mass shooting ever on a U.S. military base. |
| Court: UK govt can eye items taken in Snowden case Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:09 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — A British court ruled Thursday that if national security issues are at stake, the U.K. government may look through items seized from the partner of a journalist who has written stories about documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
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| Disgraced Chinese politician mounts feisty defense Posted: 22 Aug 2013 07:37 AM PDT  JINAN, China (AP) — Disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai denied taking $3.5 million in bribes from businessmen and cross-examined one of them with a lawyer's precision Thursday, launching an unexpectedly spirited defense at a trial aimed at capping China's biggest scandal in decades. It appeared to be a last-ditch effort by the former political star to repair the reputation he had so carefully cultivated of being a man of the people.
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| Egypt's ousted leader Hosni Mubarak released; flown to military hospital Posted: 22 Aug 2013 08:24 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's ousted leader Hosni Mubarak, wearing a white shirt and loafers while flashing a smile, was released from prison Thursday and transported to a military hospital in a Cairo suburb where he will be held under house arrest.
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| WikiLeaker Manning would like to live as 'Chelsea' Posted: 22 Aug 2013 10:52 AM PDT  By Susan Heavey and Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier sentenced to 35 years in military prison for the biggest breach of classified documents in the nation's history, said on Thursday he is female and wants to live as a woman named Chelsea. Manning, 25, launched an unprecedented bid to get female hormone treatment in a military prison a day after he was sentenced for leaking documents to the WikiLeaks website. "As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. ...
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| Dozens of Christian churches burned in Egypt, group says Posted: 22 Aug 2013 03:10 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — An international human rights group has chronicled attacks on 42 churches, dozens of Christian institutions and schools as well as homes and business owned by Christians amid an intimidation campaign believed to be waged by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.
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| Kidnapped Calif. teen calls herself a survivor in TV interview Posted: 21 Aug 2013 07:23 PM PDT  By Dan Whitcomb and Marty Graham (Reuters) - Hannah Anderson, a 16-year-old California girl kidnapped by a man and taken to Idaho after he killed her mother and younger brother, said in a television interview that she considers herself a survivor who was raised to be strong. The interview, which aired on Wednesday, comes just over a week after Anderson was rescued in the Idaho wilderness by FBI agents who shot and killed her captor, 40-year-old James Lee DiMaggio. ...
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| Tentative deal in San Diego mayor harassment suit Posted: 21 Aug 2013 10:26 PM PDT  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Embattled San Diego Mayor Bob Filner on Wednesday reached a tentative deal involving a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against him — but details were not made public, including whether settlement hinged on the former congressman resigning.
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