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'This one's going to bring us to our knees'

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'This one's going to bring us to our knees'

'This one's going to bring us to our knees'

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 09:54 AM PDT

Will Pitner is rescued by emergency workers, and neighbor Jeff Writer, left, after a night trapped sheltering outside on high ground above his home as it filled with water from a surge of water, after days of record rain and flooding, at the base of Boulder Canyon, Colo., Friday Sept. 13, 2013 in Boulder. Flash flooding in Colorado has left at least three people reportedly dead and the widespread high waters have hampered emergency workers' access to affected communities as heavy rains hammered northern Colorado. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)Relentless floodwaters continue to inundate Colorado.

Not easy to get of chemical weapons; just ask the U.S.

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 10:09 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2010 file photo Debra Michaels, Chemical Operations Manager uses a flashlight to inspect mustard agent shells in one of the bunkers at the Pueblo Army Chemical Storage facility in Pueblo, Colo. Three decades after the United States started destroying its own chemical weapons, the nation's stockpile stands at more than 3,000 tons _ about three times what the U.S. now says Syrian President Bashar Assad controls. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — It's not easy or quick to get rid of a nation's chemical weapons. Just ask the United States.

Is NYC unwilling to elect a gay, woman mayor?

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 10:34 AM PDT

Christine Quinn primary nightDid her gender and sexuality hurt Christine Quinn's bid to helm the nation's largest city?

4 men given death sentences in India gang rape

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 08:33 AM PDT

Indians hold a placard outside a court after a judge sentenced to death four men for the December rape and murder of a student on a moving New Delhi bus, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Sept. 13, 2013. The case has been closely followed across India, seen as a reflection on rampant mistreatment of women and the government's inability to deal with crime. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian court Friday sentenced to death four men for the gang rape and murder of a young New Delhi woman, ordering them to the gallows for a brutal attack that riveted India, where it became a symbol of the widespread mistreatment of women and the government's inability to deal with crime.

Taliban attack on US Consulate kills 2 Afghans

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 10:49 AM PDT

A damaged vehicle sits in front of the U.S. consulate after an attack by a car bomb and a gunfight in Herat Province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 13, 2013. Taliban militants attacked the U.S. consulate in western Afghanistan on Friday morning, using a car bomb and guns to battle security forces just outside the compound in the city of Herat. It was not entirely clear whether any attackers managed to breach the facility. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban attacked a U.S. Consulate in western Afghanistan with car bombs and guns on Friday, killing at least two Afghans but failing to enter the compound or hurt any Americans.

Nation's bloated nuclear spending comes under fire

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 09:10 AM PDT

FILE - This March 30, 2003 file photo shows members of the Oak Ridge Police department carrying a protestor during her arrest in front of the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The nuclear labs are getting renewed scrutiny in light of forced across-the-board federal budget cuts and high-profile security lapses. In Tennessee, the price tag for a new uranium processing facility has grown nearly sevenfold in eight years to upward of $6 billion because of problems that include a redesign to raise the roof so equipment can fit inside. And the estimated cost of an ongoing effort to refurbish 400 of the country's B61 bombs has grown from $1.5 billion to $10 billion. (AP Photo/ Jason R. Davis, File)LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — At Los Alamos National Laboratory, a seven-year, $213 million upgrade to the security system that protects the lab's most sensitive nuclear bomb-making facilities doesn't work. Those same facilities, which sit atop a fault line, remain susceptible to collapse and dangerous radiation releases, despite millions more spent on improvement plans.

37 dead in fire at Russian psychiatric hospital

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 08:10 AM PDT

MOSCOW (AP) — A pre-dawn fire swept through a Russian psychiatric hospital Friday, killing 37 people, officials said. Authorities had long warned that the mostly wooden building dating to the 19th century was unsafe.

Some employers see perks of hiring older workers

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 07:51 AM PDT

In this photo taken Aug. 23, 2013, David Mintz poses for The Associated Press inside his business, Tofutti, in Cranford, N.J. Mintz, the Tofutti CEO, maker of dairy-free products, says he wants his employees at Tofutti to have the trademarks of youth: energetic and enthusiastic, fresh thinking and quick to catch on, able to work at a frenzied pace, starting the day early and working late. He's finding them in older workers. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)Older people searching for jobs have long fought back stereotypes that they lack the speed, technology skills and dynamism of younger applicants. But as a wave of baby boomers seeks to stay on the job later in life, some employers are finding older workers are precisely what they need.

Spotlight to shine on birthplace of night football

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 08:13 AM PDT

In this Sept. 9, 2013 photo, the Mansfield University sprint football practices in Mansfield, Pa. Mansfield, which played the first night football game in 1892, is scheduled to play its first home game under the lights in more than 120 years on Saturday, Sept. 14. (AP Photo/Michael Rubinkam)MANSFIELD, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's Mansfield University hosted the first-ever night football game in 1892, a contest that ended at halftime when the ref declared it "inconvenient to continue."

Afghan Taliban attack US Consulate, kill 2 Afghans

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 08:44 AM PDT

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban militants unleashed car bombs at the U.S. Consulate in western Afghanistan on Friday morning, triggering a firefight with security forces in an attack that killed at least two Afghans and wounded 17. The U.S. said its personnel from the mission were safe and that most of them were temporarily relocated to Kabul, while American forces secured the site.

Man using cluster balloons lands in Newfoundland

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 06:44 AM PDT

In this photo provided by Mark McBreairty, a balloon cluster carrying Jonathan Trappe lifts off from Caribou, Maine, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013. Unlike a conventional hot-air balloon, Trappe lifted off Thursday using hundreds of helium-filled balloons clustered together. Trappe hopes to be the first person to successfully complete a trans-Atlantic flight using the balloon cluster. (AP Photo/Mark McBreairty)YORK HARBOR, Newfoundland (AP) — A balloonist who was trying to cross the Atlantic Ocean using hundreds of helium-filled balloons landed short of his goal in Newfoundland.

Colo. flooding leads to thousands more evacuations

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 10:34 AM PDT

A couple plays in flood water at Utah Park in Aurora, Colo., on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013. The park was under water due to flooding. Flash flooding in Colorado has cut off access to towns, closed the University of Colorado in Boulder and left at least three people dead.(AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)LYONS, Colo. (AP) — This is what Associated Press reporters on the scene Friday are learning about the unfolding events:

Christie: Boardwalk fire is '95 percent' contained

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 09:11 AM PDT

SEASIDE PARK, N.J. (AP) — Hot spots could keep flaring up for days on a New Jersey shore boardwalk where a fire leveled four blocks and about 30 businesses just 10 months after the same area was devastated by Superstorm Sandy.

Rights group: Syrian regime behind mass killings

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 04:43 AM PDT

In this Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013 photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian government solider aims his weapon during clashes with Free Syrian Army fighters, not pictured, in Maaloula village, northeast of the capital Damascus, Syria. Heavy fighting between Syrian government troops and rebels flared again on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013 in the ancient, predominantly Christian village of Maaloula. Troops are trying to flush out rebel units, including two that are linked to al-Qaida, from the hilltop enclave which they broke into last week. (AP Photo/SANA)BEIRUT (AP) — An international human rights group on Friday accused Syrian government forces and pro-regime militias of carrying out summary executions earlier this year that left at least 248 people dead in two predominantly Sunni Muslim towns along the Mediterranean coast.

Tweetable facts about Twitter's IPO

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 02:25 AM PDT

FILE - This Feb. 2, 2013, file photo shows a Twitter icon on the display of a smartphone in Berlin. The company tweeted Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013, that it has NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter has redefined the way we communicate, get news and share tidbits of our lives. It has even been credited with starting a revolution or two. The company, based in San Francisco, announced Thursday that it intends to sell stock to the public for the first time. Naturally, it did it via a tweet.

Friends of Boston bomber plead not guilty to cover-up charges

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 09:45 AM PDT

This undated photo added on April 18, 2013 to the VK page of Dias Kadyrbayev shows, from left, Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, from Kazakhstan, with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Times Square in New York. Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov, two college buddies of Tsarnaev, were jailed by immigration authorities the day after Tsarnaev's capture. They are not suspects, but are being held for violating their student visas by not regularly attending classes, Kadyrbayev's lawyer, Robert Stahl said. They are being detained at a county jail in Boston. (AP Photo/VK)By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Two college friends of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges that they helped cover his tracks when the FBI was trying to find the people responsible for the April 15 attack. The appearance in federal court in Boston of a third man charged in the same case was postponed until later on Friday. ...

Syria deliberately targeting hospitals

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 08:03 AM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012 file photo, night falls on a Syrian rebel-controlled area as destroyed buildings, including Dar Al-Shifa hospital, are seen on Sa'ar street after airstrikes targeted the area last week, killing dozens in Aleppo, Syria. More than two years into Syria's civil war, the once highly-centralized authoritarian state has effectively split into three distinct parts, each boasting its own flags, security agencies and judicial system. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras, File)Assad is committing war crimes with such attacks, says a U.N. report.

Bloomberg won't endorse in NYC mayoral race

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 07:42 AM PDT

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during a news conference at City Hall in New YorkBloomberg says he'll stay off the campaign trail and focus instead on a smooth transition with his successor.

Consulate attack's impact on Syria debate

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 05:42 AM PDT

Afghan security personnel investigate the site of a suicide car bombing and a gunfight near the U.S. consulate in Herat Province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 13, 2013. Taliban militants attacked the U.S. consulate in western Afghanistan on Friday morning, using a car bomb and guns to battle security forces just outside the compound in the city of Herat. It was not entirely clear whether any attackers managed to breach the facility. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi)Afghan security woes remain a big problem 12 years after the U.S. intervened there.

US balloonist fails in bid to cross Atlantic

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 09:25 AM PDT

In this photo provided by Mark McBreairty, a balloon cluster carrying Jonathan Trappe lifts off from Caribou, Maine, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013. Unlike a conventional hot-air balloon, Trappe lifted off Thursday using hundreds of helium-filled balloons clustered together. Trappe hopes to be the first person to successfully complete a trans-Atlantic flight using the balloon cluster. (AP Photo/Mark McBreairty)An American adventurer's bid to float across the Atlantic to Europe under a cluster of 370 colorful helium balloons failed when he was forced to land in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, he said Friday.

After fires, Jersey towns hit by Sandy must rebuild—again

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 09:42 AM PDT

New Jersey firefighters arrive to control a massive fire in Seaside Park in New JerseyBy Dave Warner SEASIDE PARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - Two New Jersey beach towns devastated by Superstorm Sandy will once again need to rebuild, after a fast-moving fire reduced dozens of businesses along the towns' boardwalk to rubble. About 100 firefighters remained on the scene on Friday, putting out hot spots after containing a fire that started at a frozen custard stand in Seaside Park on Thursday and blazed out of control for hours, moving several blocks into neighboring Seaside Heights. ...

Embers remain a problem in N.J. boardwalk fire

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 05:05 AM PDT

Firefighters battle a blaze in a building on the Seaside Park boardwalk on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013, in Seaside Park, N.J. The fire began in a frozen custard stand on the Seaside Park section of the boardwalk and quickly spread north into neighboring Seaside Heights. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)SEASIDE PARK, N.J. (AP) — About 100 firefighters are on the boardwalk in two Jersey shore towns trying to control hot spots after a boardwalk rebuilt after Superstorm Sandy was reduced to smoldering remains by a fire.

Men held over 'audacious plot' to take over Santander UK computers

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 05:09 AM PDT

Pedestrians walk past the main entrance to the Surrey Quays shopping centre in south LondonBy Matt Scuffham LONDON (Reuters) - British police said on Friday they had smashed an "audacious" and sophisticated plot to take control of the bank Santander UK's computer systems and steal millions of pounds. Detectives, who described the plot as the most significant case of its kind, said they had arrested 12 men who had allegedly fitted a device in a Santander branch in southeast London capable of transmitting the entire desktop contents of the bank computer. ...

Thousands more people told to evacuate their Colo. homes

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 04:36 AM PDT

A couple plays in flood water at Utah Park in Aurora, Colo., on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013. The park was under water due to flooding. Flash flooding in Colorado has cut off access to towns, closed the University of Colorado in Boulder and left at least three people dead.(AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)LYONS, Colo. (AP) — With rain still falling and the flood threat still real, authorities called on thousands more people in the inundated city of Boulder and a mountain hamlet to evacuate as nearby creeks rose to dangerous levels.

Liberal activists developing Syria envy?

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 03:00 AM PDT

In this Sept. 10, 2013, photo, President Barack Obama addresses the nation in a live televised speech from the East Room of the White House in Washington. Some of Obama's top allies say the president misread a few crucial political forces when he asked Congress to support his bid to strike Syria over last month's chemical weapons attack. They say the chief one is the nation's profound weariness with military entanglements in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)Some wonder if Obama can be as intense with hot-button domestic issues.

Three dead as Colorado floods worsen, smashing rainfall records

Posted: 13 Sep 2013 07:31 AM PDT

By Keith Coffman BOULDER, Colo (Reuters) - Flooding that killed at least three people in Colorado, toppling buildings and stranding drivers, worsened overnight as record rains pounded the state, forcing thousands more residents to flee to higher ground, officials said. The unusual late-summer downpours drenched Colorado's biggest urban centers, stretching 130 miles along the eastern slopes of the Rockies from Fort Collins near the Wyoming border south through Boulder, Denver and Colorado Springs. ...

Firefighters make progress against N.J. boardwalk blaze

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 08:24 PM PDT

New Jersey firefighters look at rising smoke as they work to control a massive fire in Seaside Park in New JerseyOfficials Hope to Save Portion of Boardwalk Just Rebuilt After Sandy

Reports: U.S.-born 'jihadist rapper' killed in shootout with terror group

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 01:45 PM PDT

American Jihadist Omar Hammami Likely Killed in SomaliaOne of the FBI's most wanted terrorists, Alabama-born Omar Hammami, has been killed in a shootout with Shebab militants linked to al-Qaida, according to reports by the AFP.

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