| Watch: Nation honors MLK's 'Dream' speech Posted: 28 Aug 2013 10:30 AM PDT  Civil rights leaders join thousands of people to commemorate march on Washington.
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| Fidel Castro: 'Grave things will happen' in Syria attack Posted: 28 Aug 2013 10:09 AM PDT  HAVANA (AP) — Fidel Castro can't stay away.
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| Jury begins deliberating sentence for Fort Hood gunman Posted: 28 Aug 2013 10:09 AM PDT  By Ellen Wulfhorst FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - Prosecutors in the trial of U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan on Wednesday asked the jury to sentence him to death for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, saying the convicted gunman is a criminal and "never will be a martyr." The military jury of 13 officers who convicted Hasan of killing 13 people and wounding 31 others, most of them unarmed soldiers, began deliberations to decide his punishment at about 11 a.m. Central Time. ...
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| NYPD designates mosques as terrorism organizations Posted: 28 Aug 2013 07:29 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department has secretly labeled entire mosques as terrorist organizations, a designation that allows police to use informants to record sermons and spy on imams, often without specific evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
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| U.S. working on details of military strike on Syria Posted: 28 Aug 2013 07:32 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials are still grappling with how to design a military strike to deter future chemical weapons attacks in Syria and trying to assess how President Bashar Assad would respond, two senior officials said Wednesday, as the Obama administration insisted the Syrian government must be punished.
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| George Zimmerman's wife pleads guilty to perjury Posted: 28 Aug 2013 08:33 AM PDT  SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman's wife pleaded guilty Wednesday to a misdemeanor perjury charge for lying during a bail hearing after her husband's arrest and was sentenced to a year's probation and 100 hours of community service.
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| Obama, former presidents celebrate MLK Posted: 28 Aug 2013 07:20 AM PDT  The president and civil rights pioneers remember the "I Have a Dream" speech.
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| AP PHOTOS: Remembering March on Washington Posted: 28 Aug 2013 08:54 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Fifty years ago Wednesday, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the nation's capital. The speech was a rousing call to arms that bolstered the growing civil rights movement, and many argue it helped lead to major legislation passed by Congress a few years later.
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| Fort Hood gunman 'will never be a martyr' Posted: 28 Aug 2013 09:57 AM PDT  FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A military prosecutor says the Army psychiatrist who fatally shot 13 people at Fort Hood "will never be a martyr" and deserves to be executed.
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| Calif. launches drone to scout for spot fires Posted: 28 Aug 2013 10:54 AM PDT  GROVELAND, Calif. (AP) — As firefighters make progress containing a raging wildfire in and near Yosemite National Park, officials have turned to unmanned aircraft to monitor for unexpected developments.
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| Detainees disappear amid Nigerian crackdown Posted: 28 Aug 2013 08:29 AM PDT  MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — In an area of Nigeria where an Islamic insurgency has caught fire, security forces are carrying out night raids in residential neighborhoods and have arrested many people. No one knows where the detainees have wound up, whether they're in good health or even if they're still alive.
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| American teen Duval stuns '11 champ Stosur at Open Posted: 28 Aug 2013 10:21 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — From the earnest explanation of why Gary the Snail is her favorite "SpongeBob SquarePants" character to the name-check of rapper Lil Wayne, Victoria Duval made quite clear she is very much a 17-year-old kid.
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| Calif. fire prompts unhealthy air warnings in Nev. Posted: 28 Aug 2013 05:13 AM PDT GROVELAND, Calif. (AP) — The giant wildfire burning at the edge of Yosemite National Park has not only destroyed buildings and threatened water supplies, electricity and sequoias, it has also unleashed a smoky haze that has worsened air quality more than 100 miles away in Nevada. |
| US mulls objectives, outcomes of a strike on Syria Posted: 28 Aug 2013 09:48 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials are still grappling with how to design a military strike to deter future chemical weapons attacks in Syria and assessing how President Bashar Assad might respond, two senior officials said Wednesday, as the Obama administration insisted the Syrian government must be punished.
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| Vt. marks 2 years since Irene's flooding, damage Posted: 28 Aug 2013 10:55 AM PDT  WILMINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Gov. Peter Shumlin is the southern Vermont town of Wilmington celebrating its recovery from Tropical Storm Irene by eating chili from the iconic Dot's restaurant.
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| Woman who gouged out eyes of Chinese boy sought Posted: 28 Aug 2013 05:37 AM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — Police in northern China launched a massive search Wednesday for a woman accused of gouging out the eyes of a 6-year-old boy.
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| UN experts head to Damascus suburb, activists say Posted: 28 Aug 2013 06:55 AM PDT  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — U.N. chemical weapons experts headed to a Damascus suburb on Wednesday for a new tour of areas struck by a purported poison gas attack, activists said, as Western powers laid the groundwork for a possible punitive strike and the U.N. chief pleaded for more time for diplomacy.
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| Iraqi PM says his country on high alert over Syria Posted: 28 Aug 2013 07:18 AM PDT  BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's prime minister says his government is on high alert ahead of a possible military strike on neighboring Syria.
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| Syria's WMD would be hard to hit Posted: 28 Aug 2013 06:31 AM PDT  Cruise missiles aren't big enough to incinerate chemical weapons in a strike.
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| What inspired King's 'Dream' speech? Posted: 28 Aug 2013 02:29 AM PDT  On Aug. 28, 1963, a quarter million people peaceably gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for The March on Washington on Jobs and Freedom. Attendant celebrities lent their Hollywood credentials. The media coverage was international. More than 22,000 police, guards, soldiers, and paratroopers were placed on alert.
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| New York Times, Twitter hacked by Syrian group Posted: 28 Aug 2013 01:21 AM PDT  By Gerry Shih and Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Media companies, including the New York Times, Twitter and the Huffington Post, lost control of some of their websites Tuesday after hackers supporting the Syrian government breached the Australian Internet company that manages many major site addresses. The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a hacker group that has attacked media organizations it considers hostile to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, claimed credit for the Twitter and Huffington Post hacks in a series of Twitter messages. ...
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