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RNC threatens to cut CNN, NBC from debates over Clinton 'ads'

RNC threatens to cut CNN, NBC from debates over Clinton 'ads'


RNC threatens to cut CNN, NBC from debates over Clinton 'ads'

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 09:05 AM PDT

Republican National Committee Chairman Priebus leaves the stage after addressing the Faith and Freedom Coalition "Road to Majority" conference in WashingtonNBC is airing a Hillary Clinton miniseries, while CNN Films is producing a documentary.


Closing arguments in trial of 'vicious' Boston mobster

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 10:54 AM PDT

Former mob boss and fugitive James "Whitey" Bulger is seen in a booking mug combination photoBy Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Prosecutors on Monday described Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger as a "vicious, violent and calculating" criminal responsible for killings described by other gangsters who testified against him at his murder and racketeering trial. In closing arguments, federal prosecutor Fred Wyshak urged jurors to trust the testimony of three former members of Bulger's "Winter Hill" gang who described 19 murders the defendant was charged with committing or ordering in the 1970s and '80s. ...


Taste test: Lab-grown hamburger short on flavor

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 09:25 AM PDT

A new Cultured Beef Burger made from cultured beef grown in a laboratory from stem cells of cattle, is held by the man who developed the burger, Professor Mark Post of Netherland's Maastricht University, during a the world's first public tasting event for the food product in London, Monday Aug. 5, 2013. The Cultured Beef could help solve the coming food crisis and combat climate change according to the producers of the burger which cost some 250,000 euros (US dlrs 332,000) to produce. (AP Photo / David Parry, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVESLONDON (AP) — The food of the future could do with a pinch of seasoning — and maybe some cheese.


Immigration bill critics focus on health law delay

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 11:13 AM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 1, 2013 file photo shows immigration reform supporters blocking a street on Capitol Hill in Washington. For many House conservatives, President Barack Obama's decision to delay a central provision of his health care law has emerged as a major stumbling block _ not to health coverage, but to an immigration bill. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — You can add distrust to the list of stumbling blocks standing in the way of an immigration overhaul in the House.


Prosecutor: Bulger 'vicious, violent, calculating'

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 11:03 AM PDT

FILE - This June 23, 2011, booking photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows James "Whitey" Bulger, who fled Boston in 1994 and wasn't captured until 2011 in Santa Monica, Calif., after 16 years on the run. Prosecutors and defense attorneys are expected to present lengthy closing arguments to jurors as they lay out their cases in the racketeering trial of reputed gangster James "Whitey" Bulger on Monday, Aug. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/ U.S. Marshals Service, File)BOSTON (AP) — A prosecutor called reputed crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger "one of the most vicious, violent and calculating criminals ever to walk the streets of Boston" as he urged a jury Monday to convict Bulger of charges that include 19 killings during the 1970s and '80s.


Taliban talking secretly to Kabul government

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 11:18 AM PDT

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — The Taliban have held secret talks with representatives of Afghan President Hamid Karzai to try to jumpstart a peace process that stumbled and stalled at the starting gate, according to Afghan officials and a senior Taliban representative.

Former military chief gets life sentence in Turkey

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 09:55 AM PDT

Protesters clash with riot and paramilitary polices as they fire tear gas and use water cannons to disperse them outside the Silivri jail complex in Silivri, Turkey, Monday, Aug. 5, 2013. Some 275 people - including military officers, politicians and journalists - are facing verdicts in a landmark and divisive trial in Turkey over an alleged conspiracy to overthrow the government. The court has acquitted 21 people accused of plotting to overthrow the Islamist-rooted government in the five-year "Ergenekon" trial and sentenced of up to 47 years or life terms in jails some of the other 254 defendants.(AP Photo)ISTANBUL (AP) — In a landmark trial, scores of people — including Turkey's former military chief, politicians and journalists — were convicted on Monday of plotting to overthrow Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government soon after it came to power in 2002.


US official visits senior Egypt Islamist in jail

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 09:54 AM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans during a protest outside Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where protesters have installed a camp and hold daily rallies at Nasr City in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)CAIRO (AP) — A top U.S. diplomat held talks with a jailed senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood on Monday as part of mediation efforts to end the standoff between Egypt's military-backed government and protesters supporting ousted President Mohammed Morsi, Egyptian officials said.


Calif. gov orders inquiry, averts SF rail strike

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 11:13 AM PDT

In this file photo from Monday, July 1, 2013, commuters wait in standstill traffic to pay their tolls on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in Oakland, Calif. San Francisco Bay Area commuters braced for the possibility of another train strike as the Bay Area Rapid Transit agency and its workers approached a deadline to reach a new contract deal. The two sides were set to resume negotiations at noon on Thursday, Aug. 1, but did not appear close to an agreement. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of San Francisco Bay Area commuters got at least a temporary reprieve from a massive transit strike when Gov. Jerry Brown intervened in a labor contract dispute.


Autopsy set for Ohio killer found hanged in cell

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 10:36 AM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows Billy Slagle, who was found hanged in his death row cell just three days before his execution on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. An autopsy is expected Monday, Aug. 5. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Rehabilitation, File)COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An autopsy is being performed for a condemned Ohio killer found hanged in his death row cell just three days before his execution.


Republicans want NBC, CNN to pull Clinton programs

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 10:37 AM PDT

FILE - This July 16, 2013 file photo shows former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during the 51st Delta Sigma Theta National Convention in Washington. The Republican National Committee wants NBC and CNN to cancel upcoming programs on Hillary Rodham Clinton and is threatening to blackball the television networks from future Republican presidential debates if they fail to comply. NBC has announced a miniseries "Hillary" starring Diane Lane. It's expected to be released before the 2016 presidential election. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican National Committee charged Monday that NBC and CNN are promoting a potential presidential candicacy by Hillary Rodham Clinton, threatening to blackball them from future GOP primary debates if they air planned programs on the former secretary of state.


State Dept: Posts in 19 cities to remain closed

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 08:09 AM PDT

A Yemeni soldier stops a car at a checkpoint in a street leading to the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. Security forces close access roads, put up extra blast walls and beef up patrols near some of the 21 U.S. diplomatic missions in the Muslim world that Washington ordered closed for the weekend over a ``significant threat'' of an al-Qaida attack. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. diplomatic posts in 19 cities in the Mideast and Africa will remain closed for the rest of the week amid intercepted "chatter" about terror threats, which lawmakers briefed on the information likened to intelligence picked up before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.


Vendors recall hit-and-run driver at LA boardwalk

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 02:35 AM PDT

Mustafa, left, and his wife, Yesim Balci pose at their stand along the Venice, Calif., beach boardwalk Sunday Aug. 4, 2013 near where a Saturday incident involving a driver who accelerated through a crowd of beachgoers, hitting one person after another as bystanders tried desperately to get out of the way. The hit-and-run killed an Italian woman on her honeymoon and hurt 11 others. Yesim shows her injured right leg where she was struck by the driver. Theirs was the first stand hit. (AP Photo/Tami Abdollah)LOS ANGELES (AP) — One minute, Mustafa Balci was sitting in a lawn chair next to his wife at their booth on the Venice Beach boardwalk, enjoying the leisurely summer scene.


Will fast-food protests spur higher minimum wage?

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 05:44 AM PDT

Fast-food worker Michelle Osborn, 23, of Flint, Mich. shouts out chants as she and a few dozen others strike outside of a McDonald's restaurant on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 in Flint. A few thousand fast-food workers in seven cities took to the streets demanding better pay, the right to unionize and a more than doubling of the federal minimum hourly wage from $7.25 to $15. (AP Photo/The Flint Journal, Jake May)Terrance Wise has two jobs in Kansas City — one at a burger joint, a second at a pizza restaurant — but he says his paychecks aren't enough to buy shoes for his three daughters and insure his 15-year-old car. So he decided to draw attention to his plight: He walked off work in protest.


AP source: A-Rod can play during suspension appeal

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 08:31 AM PDT

New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez answers questions from the media during a press conference after a minor league baseball rehab start with the Trenton Thunder in a game against the Reading Fightin Phils, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013 at Arm & Hammer Park in Trenton, N.J.. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Rodriguez may have to wait a little longer Monday for official word on his suspension.


Boston bomber followed conspiracy theories on 9/11, Oklahoma City

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 07:37 AM PDT

FILE - This Monday, April 15, 2013 file photo provided by Bob Leonard shows bombing suspects Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, center right in black hat, and his brother, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, center left in white hat, approximately 10-20 minutes before the blasts that struck the Boston Marathon. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's legal defense is in the hands of Miriam Conrad, the chief federal public defender for Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. Conrad has asked a judge to appoint two additional lawyers with experience in death penalty cases. (AP Photo/Bob Leonard, File)Tamerlan Tsarnaev had an article about "the rape of our gun rights," the BBC says.


New JFK book claims details on affairs, drug use

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 07:43 AM PDT

Marilyn Monroe thought JFK would marry her, book claimsA new book about President John F. Kennedy's last year alive alleges details of his affair with Marilyn Monroe and his drug use. Excerpts from "These Few Precious Days," which was written by Christopher Andersen, a Kennedy biographer and journalist, asserts that first lady Jacqueline Kennedy knew about her husband's infidelities, but was bothered by his alleged romance with Marilyn Monroe the most.


Cleanup underway at derailment site in Louisiana

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 07:23 AM PDT

Potentially deadly chemicals on-board derailed train forces La. evacuationsAbout 100 homes remained evacuated.


Obama to take your housing questions in Zillow roundtable

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 07:01 AM PDT

Zillow Zestimate for the White HousePlus: How much would the White House cost?


Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an 'emergency'

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 10:38 AM PDT

View of destroyed roof of No.3 reactor building of TEPCO's tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is seen in Fukushima prefectureContaminated groundwater has breached an underground barrier.


Terror threat to keep U.S. embassies closed in 19 countries

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 05:48 AM PDT

A Yemeni soldier stops a car at a checkpoint in a street leading to the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. Security forces close access roads, put up extra blast walls and beef up patrols near some of the 21 U.S. diplomatic missions in the Muslim world that Washington ordered closed for the weekend over a ``significant threat'' of an al-Qaida attack. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid online "chatter" about terror threats, U.S. diplomatic posts in 19 cities in the Muslim world will be closed at least through the end of this week, the State Department said.


U.S. embassies stay closed amid 'serious threat'

Posted: 04 Aug 2013 09:28 PM PDT

A flag flutters outside the U.S. embassy in Tel AvivEmbassies in the Middle East and Africa will remain shut through the end of the week.


Hit-and-run driver accelerated onto LA boardwalk

Posted: 04 Aug 2013 05:33 PM PDT

In this still frame made from security camera footage from Snapchat, Inc. headquarters, pedestrians scatter as a car drives through a packed afternoon crowd along the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. A driver plowed into crowds at the Venice Beach boardwalk in a seemingly intentional hit-and-run that killed a woman and injured 11 others. (AP Photo/Snapchat Inc.)LOS ANGELES (AP) — The driver parked outside a hotel and surveyed the leisurely summer scene at the Venice Beach boardwalk: Hundreds of people were sitting at cafes, walking along the seashore or shopping at vendors selling jewelry or art.


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