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As LA-area fire wanes, dangerous conditions remain

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As LA-area fire wanes, dangerous conditions remain

As LA-area fire wanes, dangerous conditions remain

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 10:04 AM PST

An aircraft drops fire retardant on the Colby Fire on Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, near Azusa, Calif. Firefighters were chasing flare-ups Friday morning in the damaging wildfire that was largely tamed but kept thousands of people from their homes in the foothill suburbs northeast of Los Angeles.(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)GLENDORA, Calif. (AP) — A wildfire in the suburbs of Los Angeles was a smoldering shadow of its former self, but hundreds of residents of a foothill neighborhood remained evacuated and extremely dangerous fire conditions were expected to last well into Saturday.

Officials: Iranian diplomat killed in Yemen

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 06:06 AM PST

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Gunmen killed an Iranian diplomat in a drive-by shooting in Yemen's capital Saturday, security and medical officials said, the latest attack on Iran's diplomatic corps in the Middle East in recent months.

Police: 2nd Philly school suspect to surrender

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 09:11 AM PST

Police walk to the Delaware Valley Charter School Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, in Philadelphia. Police say two students have been shot at a Philadelphia high school. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police say a boy charged with aggravated assault was expected to surrender Saturday in connection with a shooting that wounded two students at a high school gymnasium.

Obama fuels reform on some but not all NSA spying

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 12:54 AM PST

In this Jan. 17, 2014, photo, President Barack Obama Talks about National Security Agency surveillance at the Justice Department in Washington. Obama's orders to change some U.S. surveillance practices put the burden on Congress to deal with a national security controversy that has alarmed Americans and outraged foreign allies. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's orders to change some U.S. surveillance practices put the burden on Congress to deal with a national security controversy that has alarmed Americans and outraged foreign allies. Yet he avoided major action on the practice of sweeping up billions of phone, email and text messages from across the globe.

Many remain wary of W.Va. water as smell lingers

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 10:22 AM PST

Sarah Bergstrom poses for a photo with her son Blake, 4, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, in her home in Charleston, W.Va. The 29-year-old nurse who is 4 months pregnant with her second child was devastated when she learned after a ban on tap water was lifted days after a chemical leak that health officials urged pregnant women not to drink tap water until the chemical is entirely undetectable. (AP Photo/John Raby)CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The smell lingers — the slightly sweet, slightly bitter odor of a chemical that contaminated the water supply of West Virginia's capital more than a week ago. It creeps out of faucets and shower heads. It wafts from the Elk River, the site of the spill. Sometimes it hangs in the cold nighttime air.

APNewsBreak: Pope defrocked 400 priests in 2 years

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 12:41 PM PST

A copy of an internal Vatican document used by Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican's U.N. ambassador in Geneva, during the Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014 hearing before the U.N. committee monitoring implementation of the Convention for the Rights of the Child. Tomasi cited some of the 2012 figures contained in the document, which was prepared to help the Holy See defend itself. The document obtained by the Associated Press shows that as more than 800 new sex abuse cases poured into the Vatican in 2011-2012, the pope defrocked nearly 400 priests for molesting children. (AP Photo)VATICAN CITY (AP) — A document obtained by The Associated Press on Friday shows Pope Benedict XVI defrocked nearly 400 priests over just two years for sexually molesting children.

Obama: 2014 can be breakthrough year for US

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 04:20 AM PST

President Barack Obama signs the $1.1 trillion spending bill that funds the federal government through the end of September, in Washington, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014 at Jackson Place, a conference center near the White House. Obama signed the measure the day before federal funding was set to run out and was joined by aides who did much of the work negotiating it. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he believes 2014 can be a breakthrough year for the country.

Thai prime minister struggles to stay in power

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 07:30 AM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2014 file photo, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra gestures as she answers questions during an interview with the foreign media at the office of Permanent Secretary for Defense on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand. From inside her BANGKOK (AP) — From inside her "war room" in a temporary office at the Defense Ministry, Thailand's beleaguered Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is watching television feeds of flag-waving protesters trying to bring down her government.

Unclear future for executions after Ohio's longest

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 12:25 AM PST

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows inmate Dennis McGuire. McGuire appeared to gasp several times and took an unusually long time to die — more than 20 minutes — in an execution carried out Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, with a combination of drugs never before tried in the U.S. An attorney for McGuire's family said it plans to sue the state over what happened. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, File)COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's latest experience with putting an inmate to death raises new question about the ability of states to carry out executions in constitutional fashion.

18 dead in stampede after India Muslim leader dies

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 12:55 AM PST

Indian Muslims join the funeral procession of the head of the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014. A pre-dawn stampede killed more than a dozen people Saturday as tens of thousands of people gathered to mourn the death of Muslim spiritual leader Burhanuddin in the India's financial capital, police said. Burhanuddin died Friday at the age of 102. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)MUMBAI, India (AP) — A pre-dawn stampede killed 18 people Saturday as tens of thousands of people gathered to mourn the death of a Muslim spiritual leader in India's financial capital, police said.

AC casino hopes for quick end to fake-chips probe

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 01:37 AM PST

FILE - This June 26, 2013 file photo shows the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, N.J. The casino and state gambling regulators suspended a poker tournament at the Borgata on Jan. 17, 2014 amid an investigation into whether someone used counterfeit gambling chips. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — An Atlantic City casino where someone may have used fake chips at a poker tournament hopes to learn on Saturday whether the suspended games should be allowed to continue.

BASEBALL REPLAY: New system, new strategies

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 01:06 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2013, file photo, St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Adam Wainwright watches as umpires discuss a ruling during the first inning of Game 1 of baseball's World Series against the Boston Red Sox in Boston. Major League Baseball announced Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, that it will greatly expand instant replay to review close calls starting this season. Each manager will be allowed to challenge at least one call per game. If he's right, he gets another challenge. After the seventh inning, a crew chief can request a review on his own. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)Come Sunday, NFL fans might see coaches Bill Belichick or Jim Harbaugh hollering at the referee and throwing a red flag on the field to challenge a call.

2 American university employees among Kabul dead

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 03:41 AM PST

Afghan security forces investigate the aftermath of Friday's suicide attack and shooting in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Kabul restaurant, seen in the background, filled with foreigners and affluent Afghans, while two gunmen snuck in through the back door and opened fire Friday in a brazen dinnertime attack that killed 16 people, officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The American University of Afghanistan says that two of its U.S. employees were among those killed in a Taliban attack on a popular Kabul restaurant that left 21 people dead, including 13 foreigners.

Americans, U.N. officials among 21 killed in Kabul attack

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 08:11 AM PST

A Taliban suicide bomber and gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in the Afghan capital.

UN team in Iran to oversee landmark nuclear deal

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:26 AM PST

Iranian students form a human chain during a rally to defend their country's nuclear programme outside the Fordo Uranium Conversion Facility in Qom, in the north of the country, on November 19, 2013Inspectors from the UN nuclear watchdog arrived in Tehran Saturday to oversee implementation of process that puts temporary curbs on Iran's nuclear program, state media reported.

Obama's proposed changes in NSA spy programs

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 01:06 AM PST

President Barack Obama talks about National Security Agency (NSA)surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington.Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, the president called for ending the government's control of phone data from -hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court's permission before accessing the records. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)The president is calling for major changes in the way the U.S. intelligence community collects and stores information about people in the U.S. and abroad.

Indonesian floods kill 23, displace thousands

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 03:19 AM PST

Vehicles drive on a flooded road in Jakarta on January 17, 2014The death toll in days of floods and landslides in Indonesia has climbed to 23, an official said Saturday, as torrential rain pounded the capital. Families in Jakarta neighbourhoods waded through murky chest-high flood waters, clutching their belongings, while others were ferried to safety in rubber dinghies, local TV stations showed. "Five people have died in Jakarta so far from drowning or electrocution in the floods," National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nurgoho told AFP. Meanwhile the death toll rose to 18 late Friday in the northern part of Indonesia's Sulawesi island, which has suffered flash floods and landslides.

NTSB: Pilots confused by wrong airport's lights

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 04:02 PM PST

Southwest Airlines Flight 4013 sits at the M. Graham Clark Downtown Airport in Hollister, Mo., Monday, Jan. 13, 2014. The plane was supposed to land at the nearby Branson Airport on Sunday evening, but instead landed at Clark Airport, also known as Taney County Airport, which has a much shorter runway than at Branson, about 7 miles away. (AP Photo/Springfield News-Leader, Valerie Mosley)Southwest pilots landed a 737 at landing strip about half the size of destination airport.

Federal judge sent hundreds of bigoted emails

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 05:18 PM PST

U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull is seen in this undated file photo provided by the United States District Court in Montana. Cebull, Montana's chief federal judge, will retire following an investigation into an email he forwarded that included a racist joke involving President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/United States District Court District of Montana, HO)A former Montana judge who was investigated for forwarding a racist email involving President Barack Obama sent hundreds of other inappropriate messages from his federal email account, according to the findings of a judicial review panel released Friday.

Eight questions about Obama’s spying overhaul

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 10:43 AM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the National Security Agency from the Justice Department in WashingtonSpeech served mostly to feed, not resolve, big debates over NSA surveillance.

Dramatic photos of 1986 shuttle disaster found in attic

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 08:01 AM PST

Dramatic photos of 1986 shuttle disaster found in atticThe tragic launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on morning of January 28th, 1986. (Michael Hindes)

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