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Wildfire rages in forest outside Los Angeles

Wildfire rages in forest outside Los Angeles

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST

Southern California wildfiresResidents flee fire which broke out before dawn in the Angeles National Forest.

Kerry urges Syrian opposition to attend peace talks

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 11:12 AM PST

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during his news conference at Syrian Donors Conference at the Bayan Palace in Kuwait CityWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged members of the Syrian opposition to decide in favor of attending next week's peace talks in Switzerland when they vote on the question on Friday. The main umbrella opposition body in exile, known as the Syrian National Coalition, is rife with internal divisions and is expected to decide on Friday whether to send representatives to the peace conference in Montreux, Switzerland. (Reporting By Arshad Mohammed; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)

Christie tests political waters amid scandal

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 09:50 AM PST

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie gestures as he speaks to media and homeowners about the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Sandy in Manahawkin, New JerseyThe New Jersey governor will attend a $1,000-per-ticket reception for a GOP colleague.

Suspected shooter ID'd in grocery store attack

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 09:10 AM PST

Indiana State Police public information officer Sgt. Trent Smith talks to the media at the scene of a shooting at Martin's Supermarket in Elkhart, Ind., late Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014. A man fatally shot two women inside the grocery store and was lining up to shoot a third person when police officers tracked him down and killed him, authorities said. Elkhart police received a call about a gunman at Martin's Super Market about 10 p.m. Wednesday, Smith said Thursday. The 22-year-old gunman used a semi-automatic handgun to shoot and kill a 20-year-old employee and a 44-year-old shopper, Smith said. The victims' bodies were found about 12 aisles apart. (AP Photo/The Elkhart Truth, Jon Garcia)ELKHART, Ind. (AP) — A man fatally shot two women in a northern Indiana grocery store and was waving a gun at a kneeling store manager when police officers arrived and killed the gunman, authorities said Thursday.

U.N. critical of Vatican on sex abuse handling

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 09:51 AM PST

Vatican's UN Ambassador Monsignor Silvano Tomasi, left, speaks with Former Vatican Chief Prosecutor of Clerical Sexual Abuse Charles Scicluna, right, prior to the start of a questioning over clerical sexual abuse of children at the headquarters of the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR, in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. The Vatican came under blistering criticism from a U.N. committee Thursday for its handling of the global priest sex abuse scandal, facing its most intense public grilling ever over allegations that it protected pedophile priests at the expense of victims. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)GENEVA (AP) — The Vatican came under blistering criticism from a U.N. committee Thursday for its handling of the global priest sex abuse scandal, facing its most intense public grilling to date over allegations that it protected pedophile priests at the expense of victims.

Kerry urges Syria opposition to join peace talks

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 11:15 AM PST

US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a news conference on January 15, 2014Washington (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry made a powerful plea Thursday to the divided Syrian opposition to join next week's peace talks aimed at finding a new transitional government.

Speed-trap Samaritan's trial one for the law school books

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 08:10 AM PST

A Frisco, Texas, man is facing a trial after he was arrested for holding up a sign warning drivers that they were about to enter a speed trap, KHOU.com reports.

Live chat: Is college affordable? Worth it?

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 07:50 AM PST

How to Fund a College EducationUniversity experts and Yahoo users discuss higher education's price tag.

Ohio killer snorts, snores during execution with by drug combo

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 10:22 AM PST

FILE-In this undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows Dennis McGuire. A condemned Ohio killer facing a never-tried lethal injection method has arrived at the state death house a day ahead of his scheduled execution. The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction plans to use a combination of a sedative and a painkiller to put McGuire to death for the 1989 rape and fatal stabbing of Joy Stewart in Preble County in western Ohio. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, File)LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A condemned Ohio inmate appeared to gasp several times and took more than 15 minutes to die Thursday as he was executed with a combination of drugs never before tried in the U.S.

Security expert: Sochi terror attack is likely

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 07:07 AM PST

Sochi Olympics securityBill Rathburn's biggest concern is with Doku Umarov, described as "Russia's bin Laden."

Chopper crashes in besieged Daraya

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Christie hires firm to review traffic scandal

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 08:47 AM PST

In this Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 file photo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie arrives to deliver his State Of The State address at the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J. Christie, eager to get on with business amid a scandal over traffic jams that appear to have manufactured by aides, is meeting Thursday morning, Jan. 16, 2014, with homeowners affected by Superstorm Sandy even as the Legislature prepares to issue new subpoenas as part of its investigation. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)A former federal prosecutor heads up a probe for the New Jersey governor.

Rainforest warriors stand guard over Amazon

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 06:53 AM PST

The construction site of an illegal sawmill is seen from a police helicopter in Nova Esperanca do PiriaIn Brazil, officials say progress depends on awareness, education and deterrence of deforestation.

Al-Qaida asks Iraqis in embattled city for support

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 07:45 AM PST

In this Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014 photo, gunmen hold their weapons as they patrol Fallujah, 65 kilometers (40 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi airstrikes pounded a town near Fallujah that had been seized by al-Qaida linked militants and commandos swept in Wednesday to clear the area, senior military officials said. It was a rare victory for government forces that have been struggling for nearly three weeks to regain control of the mainly Sunni area west of Baghdad. (AP Photo)BAGHDAD (AP) — Members of al-Qaida's branch in Iraq have handed out pamphlets urging residents in Fallujah to take up arms and back the militants in their weekslong fight against government troops as clashes raged on around the city, residents said Thursday.

'American Hustle,' 'Gravity' lead Oscar noms

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 09:54 AM PST

This film image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Sandra Bullock in a scene from "Gravity." The film was nominated for an Academy Award for best picture on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. The 86th Academy Awards will be held on March 2. (AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures, File)The con-artist comedy and the 3-D space odyssey each get 10 nominations.

Official: Egyptian voters have backed new charter

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 08:13 AM PST

An Egyptian army soldier stands guard as voters line up outside a polling station for the first day in the country's constitutional referendum in the upscale neighborhood of Zamalek in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014. Egyptians voted Tuesday on a draft constitution that represents a key milestone in a military-backed roadmap put in place after the nation's Islamist president was overthrown in a popularly backed coup last July. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)CAIRO (AP) — An overwhelming majority of Egyptians who voted on the country's new constitution backed the draft charter, a senior Egyptian official said Thursday, despite criticism from an international monitoring group of a clampdown on free speech ahead of the election.

Obama channels 'Ike's' security warning

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 03:53 AM PST

Obama expected to support new restrictions on NSAIt's coincidence his NSA address falls on the anniversary of Eisenhower's speech, aides say.

Syrian government allows supplies in 2 rebel areas

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 09:06 AM PST

This undated image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. Two weeks of fighting between an al-Qaida-linked group and other rebel forces in Syria has killed more than 1,000 people, an activist group said Thursday, as clashes raged between the rival factions in a northwestern town. The fighting pitting the al-Qaida-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and other groups are the most serious among rebel forces since the Syrian conflict began in March 2011. (AP Photo/militant website)BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government allowed supplies to enter two besieged areas under opposition control near the capital, a relief official said Thursday, as activists say weeks of infighting between rebel forces and an al-Qaida group-linked group have killed more than 1,000 people.

India police close in on homeless men in gang rape

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 09:15 AM PST

An Indian policeman stands outside the police station which is investigating the gang-rape of a Danish tourist in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014. A 51-year-old Danish tourist was gang-raped near a popular shopping area in New Delhi after she stopped to ask for directions, police said Wednesday, the latest case to focus attention on the scourge of violence against women in India. The woman managed to reach her hotel in Paharganj area Tuesday evening and the owner called police. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police said Thursday that they were closing in on five homeless men in the gang rape of a 51-year-old Danish tourist in New Delhi, a case that highlights the plague of sexual violence in the country and threatens to tarnish its tourism industry.

Health care website passed recent security test

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 08:52 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2013, file photo, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., right, confers with the committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the start of the committee's hearing on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act's HealthCare.gov website. The top cybersecurity officer for the federal Health and Human Services department was concerned about potential vulnerabilities ahead of the launch of the Obama administration's health care website. Issa, investigating the chaotic rollout of the website contends the administration risked the personal information of millions of Americans in its zeal to meet a self-imposed Oct. 1 deadline. Cummings says the administration addressed the potential security issues through added vigilance instituted before the site went live. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare's top cybersecurity official says the Obama administration's health care website recently passed full security tests, easing her earlier concerns about vulnerabilities.

Cheating alleged in US nuclear missile force

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 10:11 AM PST

This image provided by the U.S. Air Force shows Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh, right, and Tech. Sgt. Justin Richie, a 341st Maintenance Operations Squadron team trainer, riding in a work cage on Nov. 20, 2012, inside the T-9 maintenance trainer at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont. The Air Force says 34 nuclear missile launch officers at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana have been implicated in a cheating scandal and have been stripped of their certification. It is believed to be the largest such breach of integrity in the nuclear force.(AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Beau Wade)WASHINGTON (AP) — In what may be the biggest such scandal in Air Force history, 34 officers entrusted with land-based nuclear missiles have been pulled off the job for alleged involvement in a cheating ring that officials say was uncovered during a drug probe.

Extreme heat brings Australian Open to a halt

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 03:35 AM PST

Varvara Lepchenko of the U.S. receives treatment for heat related illness during her second round match against Simona Halep of Romania during her second round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The scorching weather finally brought play to a halt on the fourth day of the Australian Open when the temperature topped 43 Celsius (109F), but not soon enough for some players who criticized officials for not stopping matches earlier.

Alcoholics work for beer in Amsterdam program

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 06:01 AM PST

Ramon Mohamed Halim Smits, left, and Fred Schiphorst, participants in a pilot project for alcoholics, pause for a beer and cigarettes in their clubhouse in Amsterdam's eastern part Wednesday Jan. 15, 2014. In a pilot project that has drawn attention in the Netherlands and around the world, the city has teamed up with a charity organization in hopes of improving the neighborhood and possibly improving life for the alcoholics. Not by trying to cure them, but instead by offering to fund their drinking outright. That is, participants are given beer in exchange for a little work collecting litter, eating a decent meal, and sticking to their schedule. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)AMSTERDAM (AP) — The men streaming in and out of a small clubhouse in east Amsterdam could almost be construction workers at the end of a hard day, taking off their orange reflective vests and cracking jokes as they suck down a few Heinekens, waiting for their paychecks.

Banks robbed, cars taken: S Sudan's looting spree

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 07:29 AM PST

FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014 file photo, South Sudanese government forces ride on a vehicle through the still-smoldering town, after government forces on Friday retook from rebel forces the provincial capital of Bentiu, in Unity State, South Sudan. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014 strongly condemned the commandeering of humanitarian vehicles and the theft of food and other desperately needed aid by government and anti-government forces in violence-torn South Sudan. (AP Photo/Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin, File)JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The U.N.'s top aid official in South Sudan watched helplessly as armed men in uniform stole a car from an aid group. Thugs took $50,000 of goods from Mercy Corps. Tons of food have been stolen, and $500,000 taken from a bank.

Mass. monks brewing beer like European brothers

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 12:36 AM PST

In this Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 photo Father Damion, Abbot at St. Joseph's Trappist Abbey in Spencer, Mass., stands in the community's library. St. Joseph's is a community of 63 Trappistine monks. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)SPENCER, Mass. (AP) — For more than a century, Catholic Cistercian monks known as Trappists have been brewing and selling what many beer lovers consider some of the best in the world. Eight monasteries — six in Belgium and one each in Holland and Austria — produce the only beer recognized by the International Trappist Association as authentic Trappist beer.

Activists: 1,069 killed in Syrian rebel infighting

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 07:48 AM PST

BEIRUT (AP) — Two weeks of fighting between an al-Qaida-linked group and other rebel forces in Syria has killed more than 1,000 people, an activist group said Thursday, as clashes raged between the rival factions in a northwestern town.

Senate ready to send $1.1T spending bill to Obama

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 12:35 AM PST

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio leaves the House chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, after the final vote on a massive $1.1 trillion spending bill. The measure sailed through the House with no suspense and little dissent — fueled additionally by lawmakers' desire to avoid an election-year replay of last fall's widely unpopular 16-day federal shutdown. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Drained of much of its vitriol over the budget, Congress is poised to adopt a $1.1 trillion package financing federal agencies this year, a bipartisan compromise that all but banishes the specter of an election-year government shutdown.

Cybersecurity chief had qualms over health website

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 04:59 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2013, file photo, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., right, confers with the committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the start of the committee's hearing on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act's HealthCare.gov website. The top cybersecurity officer for the federal Health and Human Services department was concerned about potential vulnerabilities ahead of the launch of the Obama administration's health care website. Issa, investigating the chaotic rollout of the website contends the administration risked the personal information of millions of Americans in its zeal to meet a self-imposed Oct. 1 deadline. Cummings says the administration addressed the potential security issues through added vigilance instituted before the site went live. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The top cybersecurity officer for the Health and Human Services Department said he was concerned about potential vulnerabilities ahead of the launch of the Obama administration's health care website.

Gunman, 2 others dead in Indiana supermarket shooting

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The shooting happened inside a Martin's Super Market in Elkhart, Ind., police say.

Egyptians back constitution, opening way to Sisi presidential run

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 11:35 AM PST

By Tom Perry and Maggie Fick CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptians overwhelmingly approved a new constitution by referendum, state media reported on Thursday, a widely expected outcome that nudges army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ever closer to a bid for the presidency. The vote advances a transition plan the military-backed government unveiled after deposing Islamist president Mohamed Mursi last July following mass anti-government unrest. The constitution won wide support among the many Egyptians who favored Mursi's removal. The Muslim Brotherhood had called for a boycott, saying the vote was part of a coup that deposed an elected leader and revived a brutal police state.

Obama NSA announcements just the start

Posted: 15 Jan 2014 10:37 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks during an end-of-the year news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington. Obama is expected to endorse changes to the way the government collects millions of Americans' phone records for possible future surveillance, but leave many of the specific reforms for Congress to sort out, according to three U.S. officials familiar with the White House intelligence review. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)The president is expected to back changing the program, but Congress will handle specifics.

Boy in New Mexico school shooting took gun from home: police

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 10:41 AM PST

Law enforcement personnel set up a perimeter following an early morning shooting at Berrendo Middle School in Roswell(Reuters) - A 12-year-old boy accused of opening fire with a shotgun at a New Mexico middle school and seriously wounding two students, has been charged with three counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, authorities said on Thursday. The boy, Mason Campbell, will be tried as a juvenile in connection with the shooting at Berrendo Middle School in Roswell, said New Mexico State Police Lieutenant Emmanuel Gutierrez. The charges were filed in children's court on Wednesday in the state's Fifth Judicial District Court, and the documents name the accused child. Campbell is believed to have taken a 20-gauge shotgun from his home, modifying it and planning the attack.

Obama makes vow to Senate Democrats

Posted: 15 Jan 2014 04:47 PM PST

President Barack Obama speaks about the economy, jobs, and manufacturing, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Says he'll use executive authority to act in 2014 when Congress stands in his way.

Mixed-breed dogs get a 'paw in the door' at Westminster

Posted: 15 Jan 2014 02:14 PM PST

A rat terrier is introduced as a new breed during a news conference to announce the line up for the 138th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan in New YorkBy Marina Lopes NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three new breeds, Chinooks, Portuguese Podengo Pequenos and Rat Terriers, will be vying to be top dog at the 138th Westminster Kennel Club in New York in February, organizers said on Thursday. The two-day show on February 10 and 11 at Madison Square Garden and Piers 92 and 94 will open with a separate agility competition in which mixed-breed dogs will be allowed to compete for the first time in more than 100 years. It's fun to see the new breeds, hearing what they were bred to do and trying to envision them doing that," said David Frei, a co-host of the show. The Chinook, a breed that was developed in New Hampshire in the 1920's, is highly trainable and used in sledding, scootering and carting, and the Rat Terrier, a small, playful American farm dog is known for hunting rodents and vermin.

Nevada marina mystery: Why have all the fish died?

Posted: 15 Jan 2014 04:42 PM PST

Thousands of fish dead in Nevada marina mysteryState wildlife officials are trying to figure out why all the fish have died in a northern Nevada marina where the stocked fishery has flourished since the man-made lake was created nearly 15 years ago. ...

Air Force: Officers caught cheating on nuke launch exams

Posted: 15 Jan 2014 01:07 PM PST

This image provided by the U.S. Air Force shows Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh, right, and Tech. Sgt. Justin Richie, a 341st Maintenance Operations Squadron team trainer, riding in a work cage on Nov. 20, 2012, inside the T-9 maintenance trainer at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont. The Air Force says 34 nuclear missile launch officers at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana have been implicated in a cheating scandal and have been stripped of their certification. It is believed to be the largest such breach of integrity in the nuclear force.(AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Beau Wade)WASHINGTON (AP) — Thirty-four nuclear missile launch officers have been implicated in a cheating scandal and have been stripped of their certification in what the Air Force believes is the largest such breach of integrity in the nuclear force, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said Wednesday.

House OKs massive $1.1T spending bill

Posted: 15 Jan 2014 02:10 PM PST

A US Park Police officer watches at left as a National Park Service employee posts a sign on a barricade closing access to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law stalled a temporary funding bill, forcing about 800, 000 federal workers off the job and suspending most non-essential federal programs and services. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Budget-battle weary Congress packs bill with victories, concessions for both parties.

Congress' popularity paradox

Posted: 15 Jan 2014 10:52 AM PST

FILE - In this June 17, 2013, file photo, the U.S. Capitol, with the Senate at right and the House of Representatives at far left, is seen in Washington. Call it a steady diet of gridlock, with Green Eggs and Ham on the side. Congress did not pass White House-backed immigration or gun control legislation in 2013. Or raise the minimum wage. Or approve many other items on President Barack Obama's agenda. But tea party-inspired House Republicans did propel the country into a 16-day partial government shutdown that cost the still-recovering economy $24 billion by one estimate. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Despite 13 percent overall approval, voters see their lawmaker as a fish out of water.

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