| 'When will enough be enough?' Posted: 17 Sep 2013 09:48 AM PDT  The Navy Yard shooting may spur the gun debate, but little action is likely.
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| Chaos as floods submerge Acapulco, death toll rises Posted: 17 Sep 2013 10:21 AM PDT  By Luis Enrique Martinez and Alberto Fajardo ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) - Stranded tourists salvaged belongings from submerged cars in the Mexican beach resort of Acapulco which had become a floodplain on Tuesday after some of the worst storm damage in decades killed more than 50 people across the country. Television footage showed Acapulco's international airport terminal waist deep in water and workers wading out to escape floods which have prevented some 40,000 visitors leaving and blocked one of the main access routes to the city with mud. ...
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| Activists mark 2nd anniversary of Occupy Wall Street Posted: 17 Sep 2013 09:54 AM PDT  2 years after encampment was born in NYC, Occupy Wall Street activists march, hold rallies
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| Russia against use of force in Syria resolution Posted: 17 Sep 2013 07:49 AM PDT  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Moscow insisted on Tuesday that a new Security Council resolution on Syria not allow the use of force, while the Arab country's main opposition group demanded a swift international response following the U.N. report that confirmed chemical weapons were used outside Damascus last month.
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| Egypt Muslim Brotherhood spokesman arrested Posted: 17 Sep 2013 09:17 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian police arrested the main English-language spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday along with other senior members of the group, all charged with inciting violence, state media and a security official said.
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| Wave of car bombs kills 23 in Baghdad Posted: 17 Sep 2013 10:32 AM PDT  BAGHDAD (AP) — A new wave of car bombs rocked commercial streets in the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, killing 23 in the latest apparent attack by hard-line Sunni insurgents aiming to undermine confidence in the Shiite-led government.
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| Game of blind baseball helps players cope Posted: 17 Sep 2013 10:26 AM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — In the game of blind baseball, players use their sense of sound to make up for their lack of sight. They play the game known as Beep baseball with an oversized softball that beeps and bases that buzz.
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| Concordia success boosts pride for shamed Italy Posted: 17 Sep 2013 10:18 AM PDT  GIGLIO ISLAND, Italy (AP) — The extraordinary righting of the Costa Concordia from its watery Tuscan graveyard has given Italy a boost of sorely needed pride, helping erase the shame many felt after an Italian captain took the cruise ship off course in an apparent stunt, crashed it and then abandoned ship before everyone was evacuated.
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| Colo. flooding evacuees remember items left behind Posted: 17 Sep 2013 06:23 AM PDT  LYONS, Colo. (AP) — Thousands of residents have poured out of the mountain towns around Boulder, Colo., over the past week, fleeing unprecedented floods that tore down hillsides, carried away homes and piled slabs of highway like stacks of books.
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| AP survey: Sluggish global economic recovery ahead Posted: 17 Sep 2013 04:53 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A robust recovery for the global economy remains well out of reach.
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| Wave of car bombs kills 20 in Baghdad Posted: 17 Sep 2013 10:07 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A new wave of car bombs rocked commercial streets in the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, killing 20 in the latest apparent attack by hard-line Sunni insurgents aiming to undermine confidence in the Shiite-led government. |
| Acapulco tourists stranded; Mexico death toll 38 Posted: 17 Sep 2013 09:50 AM PDT  ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Emergency flights began arriving in Acapulco Tuesday to evacuate some of the tens of thousands of tourists stranded in the resort city by flooding and landslides that shut down the highway to Mexico City and swamped the international airport.
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| Iraqi Sunnis say sect targeted in southern city Posted: 17 Sep 2013 09:45 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Gunmen have shot dead 17 Sunnis in Iraq's Shiite-majority city of Basra over the past two weeks, following threats to retaliate against them for attacks on Shiites in other parts of Iraq, police and a Sunni community leader say. |
| Official: Electrical cause for NJ boardwalk fire Posted: 17 Sep 2013 09:42 AM PDT  Last week's massive boardwalk fire in New Jersey began accidentally, the result of an electrical problem, an official briefed on the investigation said Tuesday.
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| Shipwrecked Concordia hauled upright off Italy Posted: 17 Sep 2013 07:54 AM PDT  GIGLIO ISLAND, Italy (AP) — Engineers declared success Tuesday as the crippled Costa Concordia cruise ship was pulled completely upright during an unprecedented, 19-hour operation to wrench it from its side where it capsized last year off Tuscany.
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| Microsoft board boosts dividend by 22 pct Posted: 17 Sep 2013 11:01 AM PDT REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft said Tuesday that its board approved a 22 percent increase in the company's quarterly dividend to 28 cents along with a new $40 billion stock buyback program. |
| Aaron Alexis treated for mental issues Posted: 17 Sep 2013 10:51 AM PDT  But the Navy had not declared him mentally unfit, officials say.
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| Russia: No proof Assad behind chemical attack Posted: 17 Sep 2013 09:31 AM PDT  By Alissa de Carbonnel MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and France disagreed radically on Tuesday over a report by U.N. investigators into a chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds of people in Syria, highlighting the problems agreeing on action at the United Nations Security Council. Sitting beside French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius at a news conference in Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the report had produced no proof that President Bashar al-Assad's troops carried out the August 21 attack and that Russia still suspected rebels forces were behind it. ...
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| Audit: Navy cost-cutting making facilities less safe Posted: 17 Sep 2013 06:41 AM PDT  A Pentagon audit takes the Navy to task for penny-pinching when it came to security clearances for outside contractors at military facilities — including the Washington Navy Yard.
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| Stricken Costa Concordia raised upright Posted: 17 Sep 2013 06:05 AM PDT  Am upbeat spirit of international teamwork was on full display off the Italian island of Giglio early this morning after the successful raising of the Costa Concordia, the giant cruise ship that rammed into a nearby reef last January and collapsed onto its side.
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| As waters recede, Colorado worries about another problem: tourism Posted: 17 Sep 2013 07:32 AM PDT  DENVER (AP) — A little more than a year after Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper insisted his wildfire-ravaged state was still "open for business," he may have to throw another lifeline to the state's billion-dollar tourism industry as the world takes in the startling images of dramatic flood rescues and washed-out roads.
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| FRONTLINE: The inside story of Egypt's revolution gone wrong Posted: 17 Sep 2013 03:06 AM PDT  Less than three years after the popular uprising that led to President Hosni Mubarak's ouster, and just one year after Egypt's first free and fair elections, the democratically elected government has been overthrown and the Egyptian military is running the state.
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| Navy Yard gunman's access questioned Posted: 17 Sep 2013 10:48 AM PDT  Aaron Alexis had brushes with the law, but still was able to enter a Navy base.
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| 'This is a horrific tragedy' Posted: 17 Sep 2013 05:37 AM PDT  Investigators are still looking for the motive behind a deadly Navy Yards shooting spree.
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| 'Technical glitch' allows for social media in Iran Posted: 17 Sep 2013 09:31 AM PDT  A technical glitch allowed some Iranians temporary access to banned social networking websites Facebook and Twitter, an Iranian Internet official said on Tuesday.
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| Motive a mystery in D.C. shooting rampage Posted: 17 Sep 2013 03:43 AM PDT  The suspect, a former Navy reservist, killed 12 people before he was slain by police.
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