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Soldier who ‘sucked at being a civilian’ earns Medal of Honor

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Soldier who ‘sucked at being a civilian’ earns Medal of Honor

Soldier who ‘sucked at being a civilian’ earns Medal of Honor

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 09:02 AM PDT

Staff Sgt. Ty Carter watching over a road near Dahla Dam in Afghanistan in July 2012. (Army photo)President Barack Obama will present Army Staff Sgt. Ty Carter the Medal of Honor for the gallantry shown on Oct. 3, 2009, when he faced death multiple times to assist comrades during a fierce firefight with Taliban insurgents. "The reality of the award is that I wouldn't wish it on anybody," Carter told Yahoo News. "Imagine yourself in the worst possible situation you can think of. We're talking about you've got members of your family being killed in front of you or in severe pain and you have no choice but to try to help them."

U.N. to inspect Syria gas attack site, Damascus warns U.S.

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 09:55 AM PDT

A member of Free Syrian Army is seen in a damaged building in Salah al-Din neighbourhood in central AleppoSyria agreed to allow the United Nations to inspect the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack from Monday but a U.S. official said it was already too late.

Senior U.S. official: 'Very little doubt' Assad regime behind alleged chemical attack

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 08:06 AM PDT

Senior Administration Official: 'Very Little Doubt' Assad Regime Behind Alleged Chemical AttackThe White House says there is "very little doubt" that the Assad regime is responsible for the alleged chemical attack in Syria that is said to have taken place earlier this week. "Based on the reported number of victims, reported symptoms of those who were...

Insurgents in Iraq kill 23, officials say

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 08:52 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Insurgents bent on destabilizing Iraq killed at least 23 people in eight separate attacks on Sunday, including five kidnapped Iraqi soldiers and an 8-year-old child, officials said.

Egypt courts hear cases against Mubarak, Islamists

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 07:29 AM PDT

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 85, is escorted by medical and security personnel into an ambulance to be taken by helicopter ambulance from Maadi Military Hospital to the Cairo Police Academy--turned--court, Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. Mubarak, under house arrest after being released from detention last week, is standing retrial in charges of complicity in the killings of protesters during 2011 Egyptian uprising. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian courts on Sunday heard separate court cases against former President Hosni Mubarak and top leaders of his archrival, the Muslim Brotherhood, both over allegations of killing protesters in separate instances.

Yosemite fire 'poses every challenge there can be'

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 09:55 AM PDT

Inmate firefighters walk along Highway 120 as firefighters continue to battle the Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park, Calif., on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. Fire crews are clearing brush and setting sprinklers to protect two groves of giant sequoias as a massive week-old wildfire rages along the remote northwest edge of Yosemite National Park. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)GROVELAND, Calif. (AP) — With winds gusting to 50 mph on Sierra mountain ridges and flames jumping from treetop to treetop, hundreds of firefighters have been deployed to protect mountain communities in the path of a fire raging north of Yosemite National Park.

Jerusalem pushes forth with settlement plans

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 09:59 AM PDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Jerusalem pushed forward Sunday with plans to construct 1,500 apartments in east Jerusalem in a move that could undermine recently renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

Youth see march anniversary as chance to lead

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 10:45 AM PDT

Civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., speaks at a rally to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013, in Washington. Lewis marched in the from line with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on Aug. 24, 2013, the day King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)WASHINGTON (AP) — Mary-Pat Hector of Atlanta operates much like a 1960s civil rights activist as she plans for the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. She's constantly on the phone as she confirms event details, tweaks the draft of the speech she'll give at a rally, and prepares for a presentation.

Music's hit-makers descend on Brooklyn for VMAs

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 10:08 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 12, 2013, file photo, Justin Timberlake performs during the Wireless Festival at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. This year's MTV Video Music Awards is all about looking forward as artists with some of the fall's most anticipated new music line up to perform as the show makes its first stop in New York's Brooklyn borough. Timberlake and fellow lead nominees Macklemore & Ryan Lewis are scheduled to perform, but that's just the start Sunday night, Aug. 25, 2013, at the Barclays Center, where the show kicks off at 9 p.m. EDT. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Even if the hotly rumored 'N Sync reunion doesn't happen, the MTV Video Music Awards are already shaping up as Justin Timberlake's night.

Powell: Trayvon Martin verdict 'questionable'

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 05:02 AM PDT

Sabrina Fulton, mother of slain teenager Trayvon Martin, speaks at the podium in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013, with Rev. Al Sharpton, left, Tracy Martin, father of Trayvon Martin, second from right, and Jahvaris Fulton, brother of Trayvon Martin, right, during the 50th anniversary commemoration of the of the Aug. 28, 1963, March on Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says the jury verdict that freed the killer of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin was "questionable." But he isn't sure it will have staying power in the public consciousness.

Yosemite fire: Crews bracing for strong winds

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 08:34 AM PDT

Inmate firefighters walk along state Highway 120 as firefighters continue to battle the Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park, Calif., on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. Fire crews are clearing brush and setting sprinklers to protect two groves of giant sequoias as a massive week-old wildfire rages along the remote northwest edge of Yosemite National Park. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)GROVELAND, Calif. (AP) — A wildfire burning on the northern border of Yosemite National Park grew more than 7 square miles overnight as firefighters have gained little ground in slowing it.

Bo slams wife, ex-aide at trial exposing elite

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 07:23 AM PDT

In this image taken from video, Former Chinese politician Bo Xilai speaks in a court room at Jinan Intermediate People's Court in Jinan, eastern China's Shandong province, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. Bo on Sunday sought to discredit his former top aide as a lying, unreliable witness as the ousted leader denied criminal responsibility in the country's messiest political scandal in decades.decades. (AP Photo/CCTV via AP Video) CHINA OUT, TV OUTJINAN, China (AP) — The defense strategy of fallen Chinese politician Bo Xilai, who is battling accusations of corruption and shielding a murderer, boils down to this: One of the prosecution's key witnesses is a liar, and the other is crazy.

Insurgents in Iraq kill 18, officials say

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 08:03 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Insurgents bent on destabilizing Iraq killed at least 18 people in separate attacks on Sunday, including five kidnapped Iraqi soldiers and an 8-year-old child, officials said.

Car bomb kills governor of Syrian province

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 08:19 AM PDT

In this photo taken on a government organized media tour, Syrian army soldiers are seen deployed in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. 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." State TV broadcast images of plastic jugs, gas masks, vials of an unspecified medication, explosives and other items that it said were seized from rebel hideouts. It did not, however, show any video of soldiers reportedly affected by toxic gas in the fighting in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus. (AP Photo)DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state television says a car bomb has killed the governor of the central province of Hama.

Top lawmakers call for military response in Syria

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 06:55 AM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, file citizen journalism image provided by the Media Office Of Douma City, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a Syrian man mourns over a dead body after an alleged poisonous gas attack fired by regime forces, according to activists, in Douma town, Damascus, Syria. Humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders said Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013, some 355 people showing "neurotoxic symptoms" died after a suspected chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs earlier this week. The group says three hospitals it supports had reported receiving about 3,600 patients with such symptoms in less than three hours that day. (AP Photo/Media Office Of Douma City, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Two top lawmakers are calling for an immediate U.S. military response to the Syria's suspected chemical weapons attack that killed at least a hundred civilians last week.

Last of 5 suspects in Mumbai gang rape arrested

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 03:41 AM PDT

Police officials escort an accused, with the head covered with black cloth, in the gang rape of a photojournalist after producing him before a court in Mumbai, India, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. Police on Sunday arrested the last of five men wanted in the gang rape of a 22-year-old Indian woman in Mumbai, and said charges would be filed soon in a case that has incensed the public and fueled debate over whether women can be safe in India.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)NEW DELHI (AP) — Police on Sunday arrested the last of five men wanted in the gang rape of a photojournalist in Mumbai, and said charges would be filed soon in a case that has incensed the public and fueled debate over whether women can be safe in India.

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