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Soldier convicted of murder for Fort Hood rampage

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Soldier convicted of murder for Fort Hood rampage

Soldier convicted of murder for Fort Hood rampage

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 10:38 AM PDT

In this courtroom sketch, U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is shown during closing arguments of his court martial, Thursday Aug. 22, 2013, in Fort Hood, Texas. (AP Photo/Brigitte Woosley)FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Maj. Nidal Hasan has been convicted of premeditated murder for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood. That means he's now eligible for the death penalty.

NYC pays a hefty price to house its prisoners, study shows

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 10:10 AM PDT

A view of the entrance to the Rikers Island prison complex on May 17, 2011 in New York CityNew York City spent nearly $168,000 per inmate in its jails last year, according to a report by an independent watchdog.

Putin bans rallies in Sochi near the 2014 Olympics

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 08:46 AM PDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, greets World War II veterans before an opening ceremony of newly built fountain called Children Dancing in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, once known as Stalingrad, Friday, Aug. 23, 2013. The fountain is a replica of a fountain which miraculously survived in heavy bombing in Stalingrad in 1942. The original fountain survived until 1951. This year Russia celebrated the 70th anniversary of the end of one of modern warfare's bloodiest battles (in Stalingrad) that was turning point in World War II and led to the defeat of the Nazi Germany. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree banning demonstrations and rallies for two and a half months in Sochi around the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Random attack in Spokane leaves WWII veteran dead

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 10:29 AM PDT

WWII vet dies in attackSPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Police in Spokane, Wash., have arrested one of two teens suspected of fatally beating an 88-year-old veteran of World War II who had survived the battle for Okinawa.

Syrian conflict hits 'shameful milestone'

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 07:16 AM PDT

AP10ThingsToSee - FILE - Syrian refugees cross into Iraq at the Peshkhabour border point in Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013. Around 30,000 Syrians, the vast majority of them Kurds, have fled the region over a five-day stretch and crossed the border to the self-ruled Kurdish region of northern Iraq. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)A year ago, 70,000 children had fled their homeland; today, that number is 1 million.

Microsoft CEO Ballmer to retire; share price jumps

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 09:48 AM PDT

FILE - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks at a Microsoft event in San Francisco, Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Ballmer, who helped build Microsoft into a technology empire and then struggled to prevent it from crumbling under his own leadership, will retire within the next 12 months. The world's biggest software company did not name a successor. Microsoft Corp.'s stock shot up 9 percent in premarket trading following the news. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who took over the world's largest software company from founder Bill Gates 13 years ago, said Friday that he will retire within the next year.

Police in Vegas say plot to kill officers thwarted

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 01:17 AM PDT

This image provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows David Allen Brutsche, 42, who was arrested on domestic terrorism charges in Las Vegas. A four-month undercover operation in Las Vegas led to the arrests of Brutsche and Devon Campbell Newman. The arrests stopped a plot to abduct, torture and kill police officers in an effort to bring attention the "sovereign citizen" movement, authorities said Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)LAS VEGAS (AP) — A couple spent hundreds of hours over four months plotting to abduct, torture and kill Las Vegas police officers as a way to attract attention to their anti-authority "sovereign citizens" movement, police said.

Live coverage: Egyptian Brotherhood declares 'Friday of Martyrs'

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 02:33 PM PDT

Supporters of Muslim Brotherhood and ousted Egyptian President Mursi shout slogans in CairoJoin Egyptian writers and experts as they take questions and report on the latest clashes in Egypt.

UN: Over 1 million child refugees from Syrian war

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 04:43 AM PDT

AP10ThingsToSee - FILE - Syrian refugees cross into Iraq at the Peshkhabour border point in Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013. Around 30,000 Syrians, the vast majority of them Kurds, have fled the region over a five-day stretch and crossed the border to the self-ruled Kurdish region of northern Iraq. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)GENEVA (AP) — It's shaping up to be a lost generation: The number of child refugees fleeing Syria's violence has now topped the 1 million mark.

Low turnout for pro-Morsi rallies in Egypt

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 10:18 AM PDT

Egyptian security forces deploy in Tanta, Egypt, Friday, Aug. 23, 2013, where supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi clashed with residents, killing one. As the military deployed in a show of force, hundreds of Mohammed Morsi supporters took to the streets Friday in scattered rallies across the capital, but the Muslim Brotherhood failed to bring out large numbers in a sign that the movement may be waning after the arrest of the group's senior leadership in an intense security crackdown. There were also scattered protests in other cities in Egypt, some of them descending into clashes between the demonstrators and locals who largely pelted each with rocks. In one incident in the Delta city of Tanta, police fired tear gas to stop the rival camps from clashing using birdshots and knives.(AP Photo)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's military turned out in force as thousands calling for the ousted president's reinstatement held scattered protests across Cairo, but the Muslim Brotherhood failed to bring out huge numbers in a sign that an intense crackdown has dealt a serious blow to the 85-year-old group's support base.

Jurors deliberate sentence in Afghanistan massacre

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 10:42 AM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 23, 2011, file photo, provided by the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System shows Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales during an exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. Bales, a U.S. soldier charged in the killing of 16 Afghan villagers, pleaded guilty in June in a deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty. His sentencing is scheduled to begin Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 with the selection of a military jury. (AP Photo/DVIDS, Spc. Ryan Hallock, File)JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — Six military jurors began deliberating the sentence of Staff Sgt. Robert Bales on Friday for the massacre of 16 Afghan villagers after prosecutors asked them to send a message that the civilians' lives mattered.

Trial shows greed, machinations of China's elite

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 08:16 AM PDT

In this image taken from video, Former Chinese politician Bo Xilai, left, sits and speaks in a court room at Jinan Intermediate People's Court in eastern China's Shandong province, Friday, Aug. 23, 2013. Bo is accused of corruption and interference in the investigation of his wife's murder of a British businessman. (AP Photo/CCTV via AP Video) CHINA OUT, TV OUTJINAN, China (AP) — Greed, machinations and betrayal in one of China's elite families were on display Friday when prosecutors in the corruption trial of disgraced politician Bo Xilai released testimony from his wife on a businessman's gifts to the family that included a French villa and plane tickets to three continents.

Koreas agree to reunions for first time in 3 years

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 06:45 AM PDT

In this photo released by the South Korean Unification Ministry, head of the North Korean working-level delegation Park Yong Il shakes hand his South Korean counterpart Lee Duk-haeng, right, as he crosses border line to hold their meeting at the Peace House of south side of the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 23, 2013. North Korea on Thursday accepted South Korea's request that this week's talks on reuniting families separated by war be held at a border village, Seoul officials said, the latest in a series of conciliatory gestures Pyongyang has recently taken. (AP Photo/South Korea Unification Ministry)SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea agreed Friday to allow reunions next month of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, the first such meetings in three years and the latest conciliatory gesture from the North after a spring that saw it threaten Seoul and Washington with missile strikes and nuclear war.

Jury mulling fate of admitted Fort Hood shooter

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 08:35 AM PDT

An armed soldier stands guard along a security barrier outside the courthouse holding the the court martial of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan Friday, Aug. 23, 2013, in Fort Hood, Texas. Military jurors are deliberating for a verdict against Hasan, on trial for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood. (AP Photo/LM Otero)FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Military jurors resumed deliberations Friday in the trial of the Army psychiatrist who told them he was responsible for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood and mounted nearly no defense, even as prosecutors asked for a sweeping conviction that would allow a death sentence.

Egypt security deploys as Morsi supporters rally

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 09:46 AM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans during a protest in Giza Square, in Cairo's sister city of Giza, Egypt, Friday, Aug. 23, 2013. Hundreds of supporters of Mohammed Morsi took to the streets Friday, holding scattered rallies across the city in a test of whether the ousted Egyptian president's allies can keep up the pressure on the government despite the arrest of much of their senior leadership.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's military turned out in force as thousands calling for the ousted president's reinstatement held scattered protests across Cairo, but the Muslim Brotherhood failed to bring out huge numbers in a sign that an intense crackdown has dealt a serious blow to the 85-year-old group's support base.

Defense asks jurors for leniency in Afghan murders

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 09:35 AM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 23, 2011, file photo, provided by the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System shows Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales during an exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. Bales, a U.S. soldier charged in the killing of 16 Afghan villagers, pleaded guilty in June in a deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty. His sentencing is scheduled to begin Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 with the selection of a military jury. (AP Photo/DVIDS, Spc. Ryan Hallock, File)JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — A lawyer for the U.S. soldier who massacred 16 Afghan villagers last year is asking jurors to consider his previous service and life as they weigh whether he should ever have a chance of being released from prison.

Prosecutors: Bales deserves no chance of release

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 08:50 AM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 23, 2011, file photo, provided by the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System shows Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales during an exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. Bales, a U.S. soldier charged in the killing of 16 Afghan villagers, pleaded guilty in June in a deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty. His sentencing is scheduled to begin Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 with the selection of a military jury. (AP Photo/DVIDS, Spc. Ryan Hallock, File)JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — Staff Sgt. Robert Bales' own "stomach-churning" words prove he knew what he was doing when he massacred 16 Afghan villagers during pre-dawn raids last year, a prosecutor told jurors Friday during closing arguments in the sentencing hearing.

Obama: Syria attack a 'big event of grave concern'

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 06:37 AM PDT

This image provided by by Shaam News Network on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, purports to show several bodies being buried in a suburb of Damascus, Syria during a funeral on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. 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. 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/Shaam News Network)AUBURN, N.Y. (AP) — President Barack Obama says a possible chemical weapons attack in Syria this week is a "big event of grave concern" that has hastened the timeframe for determining a U.S. response.

Obama defends government surveillance programs

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 04:47 AM PDT

U.S. President Obama greets well-wishers upon his arrival in BuffaloAUBURN, N.Y. (AP) — President Barack Obama is acknowledging he must "do a better job" of giving Americans confidence in the programs the National Security Agency has deployed to guard against terrorism.

FBI worries about Americans fighting in Syria

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 04:26 AM PDT

FBI Director Warns of Americans' Joining Islamic Radicals in SyriaThe agency is monitoring a stream of fighters joining the civil war.

What are the West's military options in Syria?

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 06:20 PM PDT

Demonstrators calling for help from US President Obama for Syria, protest in front of the White House August 21, 2013Pressure is mounting on the U.S. and its allies to intervene.

San Diego officials to weigh mayoral agreement

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 09:46 AM PDT

Greg Timms, left, signs a petition to recall San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, alongside Tana Piontek, right, at a stand set up in the parking lot of a shopping center Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, in San Diego. Pressure is mounting against San Diego's mayor to resign after a sexual harassment lawsuit was filed against him, and the Democratic National Committee plans to vote on a resolution Friday urging him to step down immediately. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)SAN DIEGO (AP) — Mayor Bob Filner, besieged by sexual harassment allegations, sat down to the negotiating table with a key bargaining chip: his refusal to resign.

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