| Army drill sergeant accused of multiple sexual assaults Posted: 29 May 2014 11:27 AM PDT  Charges involving 12 women come amid new scrutiny of Pentagon's handling of sexual assaults.
|
| U.S. measles cases at 20-year high Posted: 29 May 2014 11:32 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Measles cases are accelerating, and in the last five months have caused more U.S. illnesses than in any entire year since 1996.
|
| FDA mandates 'black box' warning label on tanning beds Posted: 29 May 2014 10:42 AM PDT  (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said tanning beds and booths now have to carry a warning label that they should not be used by people below the age of 18 because of a higher risk of skin cancer. The regulator also said makers of tanning beds and booths now have to obtain regulatory approval before putting them on the market.
|
| Guard in hot cell death has record Posted: 29 May 2014 09:42 AM PDT  Rikers Island guard who allegedly left post in ex-Marine's death had been punished before.
|
| Jewish center shooting suspect appears in court, faces 5 new charges Posted: 29 May 2014 08:47 AM PDT  A white supremacist charged in the killings of three people at two Jewish facilities near Kansas City in April made a brief appearance in court on Thursday, acknowledging charges recently added against him.
|
| Obama says U.S. needs to choose battles more carefully Posted: 29 May 2014 08:57 AM PDT  Military strength will "only in part" define America's 21st century leadership, Obama said.
|
| Report: U.S. births up for first time in 5 years Posted: 29 May 2014 04:09 AM PDT  The baby recession may be at an end: After a five-year span in which the number of children born in the United States dropped each year, 2013 saw a minute increase. According to a new government report, ...
|
| 32 killed by rebels in Nigeria Posted: 29 May 2014 09:18 AM PDT  Gunmen mounted on motorbikes killed at least 32 people in the northeastern Nigerian village of Gurmushi, police say.
|
| Turkey's top court: YouTube ban violates rights Posted: 29 May 2014 09:15 AM PDT  Site restrictions were imposed in late March after a recording of a Turkish gov't. meeting was leaked.
|
| On Politics: Making sense of the Great Piketty Debate Posted: 29 May 2014 02:33 AM PDT  While you were grilling burgers over the long holiday weekend, a cadre of academics were locked away in their studies, poring over data sets by lamplight and banging out blog posts about the French economist Thomas Piketty. Did somebody say "party?"
|
| Julia Collins makes ‘Jeopardy!’ history, racks up nearly $400K Posted:  Julia Collins has racked up more wins than any other woman in "Jeopardy!" history, earning $391,600 in the process.
|
| Sex slavery activist accused of lying quits Posted: 29 May 2014 09:43 AM PDT  Somaly Mam quit her foundation after reports alleged her stories were fabricated.
|
| Three-man crew safe at space station Posted: 29 May 2014 05:30 AM PDT  The Soyuz craft, carrying NASA, Russian and German astronauts, docked at the International Space Station.
|
| Nigeria's leader vows to bring abducted schoolgirls home Posted: 29 May 2014 09:04 AM PDT  Nigeria's leader vowed to "do everything possible to bring our daughters home," referring to the mass abduction of more than 300 schoolgirls, and said that the Islamic extremists who kidnapped them threaten the country's democratic gains.
|
| Rebels down Ukraine helicopter, 14 dead Posted: 29 May 2014 04:54 AM PDT  A general and 13 other soldiers were killed, Ukraine's leader said.
|
| Sisi wins presidential election in landslide Posted: 29 May 2014 08:11 AM PDT  Former Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi won a landslide victory in a presidential election, but a low turnout may have deprived him of the strong mandate he needs to fix the economy and face down an Islamist insurgency.
|
| 30 percent of world is now fat Posted: 29 May 2014 06:12 AM PDT  Almost a third of the world is now fat, and no country has been able to curb obesity rates in the last three decades, according to a new global analysis.
|
| Australia: Missing jet not where 'pings' heard Posted: 29 May 2014 05:26 AM PDT  Investigators say the area can now be "discounted" as Flight MH370's final resting place.
|
| Oil tanker listing off Japan after huge explosion Posted: 29 May 2014 01:07 AM PDT  A 998-tonne oil tanker was listing off the Japanese coast on Thursday after a large explosion and subsequent fire that sent towering columns of acrid smoke into the sky. The tanker had unloaded its cargo of crude oil last week and was stationary close to the coast of Hyogo prefecture, around 450 kilometres (280 miles) west of Tokyo, when the explosion happened. "The ship unloaded crude oil at a port in Hyogo prefecture, and the tanker was virtually empty when the accident occurred," he told AFP by telephone. News of the incident, which happened at around 9:30 am (0030 GMT), caused Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to interrupt debate in parliament.
|
| China suggests U.S. may have fabricated evidence for cyberattacks Posted: 29 May 2014 06:10 AM PDT  China's suggested on Thursday that the United States had fabricated evidence to underpin accusations of cyber attacks and had incited China's neighbors to "stir up trouble" in disputed waters. The United States last week accused five Chinese military officers of hacking into U.S. companies to steal trade secrets. Asked about proof behind the U.S. allegations, ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said it would be easy for the United States to fabricate evidence. "In the field of Internet technology and infrastructure, the U.S. is blessed with an advantage, so fabricating some so-called 'evidence' is certainly no hardship," spokesman Geng Yansheng told a briefing, according to a statement on the ministry's website.
|
| North Korea agrees to reopen probe into Japan abductees Posted: 29 May 2014 06:37 AM PDT  By Elaine Lies and Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - North Korea has agreed to reopen an investigation into the fate of Japanese citizens it kidnapped decades ago, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Thursday, a potential breakthrough in a bitter dispute between Tokyo and Pyongyang. Japan has agreed to ease some sanctions against North Korea once the probe had been reopened and will consider providing humanitarian aid depending on how the investigation progresses, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said separately. "This is a first step toward an overall resolution." North Korea promised in 2008 to re-open the probe - but it never followed through.
|
| Brad Pitt attacked at Hollywood premiere of 'Maleficent' Posted:  What was supposed to be a night of celebration for Angelina Jolie took a turn for the bizarre when her date for the Hollywood premiere of Maleficent, Brad Pitt, was assaulted on the red carpet.
|
| Activists hail arrest of 73-year-old in Reno 'stand your ground' case Posted: 28 May 2014 02:36 PM PDT  RENO, Nev. (AP) — A 73-year-old man has been charged with murder in a recent shooting that killed a man and wounded a woman who had done meth and entered his vacant duplex without permission in suburban Reno.
|
| Sounds like a deal: Apple confirms $3 billion Beats purchase Posted: |
| Study links watching pornography to brain changes Posted: 28 May 2014 01:24 PM PDT  The study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, can't say watching porn caused the decrease in brain matter and activity, however. It's not clear, for example, whether watching porn leads to brain changes or whether people born with certain brain types watch more porn, said Simone Kühn, the study's lead author from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, in an email. But, she noted, the results provide the first evidence for a link between pornography consumption and reductions in brain size and brain activity in response to sexual stimuli.
|
| Witnesses say at least 30 killed at Central African Republic church Posted: 28 May 2014 02:14 PM PDT  BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Muslim rebels stormed a Catholic church compound in the capital of Central African Republic on Wednesday, killing as many as 30 people in a hail of gunfire and grenades, witnesses said.
|
| Report confirms VA wait list allegations Posted: 28 May 2014 11:30 AM PDT  Internal review has "substantiated serious conditions" in Phoenix, averaging 115-day waits.
|
| Prosecutor: Ex-NFL star Hernandez killed pair over spilled drink Posted: 28 May 2014 12:08 PM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez gunned down two men he did not know in their car because one of them bumped into him while dancing at a Boston nightclub, spilling his drink, prosecutors said in court Wednesday.
|
