| Google must yield on personal info, court says Posted: 13 May 2014 09:49 AM PDT  A landmark ruling Tuesday by Europe's highest court could rock the search-engine industry.
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| Ukraine: 6 soldiers ambushed, killed in the east Posted: 13 May 2014 08:17 AM PDT  Eight men have also been wounded, the Ukrainian defense ministry said.
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| Karl Rove: Hillary Clinton's health 'will be an issue in the 2016 race' Posted: 13 May 2014 06:57 AM PDT  During a panel discussion at a conference last week, the Republican strategist told an audience that if Clinton runs for president in 2016, her previous health issues — including a blood clot she suffered in 2012 — must be vetted.
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| Judge rules to try marathon suspect's three friends separately Posted: 13 May 2014 10:14 AM PDT  Three college friends of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect will be tried separately, but those trials do not need to be moved out of Massachusetts, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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| Tea party looks for a GOP primary win in Nebraska Posted: 13 May 2014 09:02 AM PDT  The tea party challenged the Republican establishment on Tuesday in a Nebraska Senate primary showdown complicated by a surging third candidate. West Virginia was poised to make history with the nomination of two women for a Senate seat always held by men and long associated with a Rockefeller.
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| Two killed at West Virginia coal mine, officials say Posted: 13 May 2014 09:44 AM PDT  Two workers died after they were trapped as the ground failed at a West Virginia coal mine with a history of safety violations, federal and state officials said Tuesday.
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| Hundreds trapped in Turkish coal mine Posted: 13 May 2014 09:04 AM PDT At least 200 people have been left trapped underground after an explosion and fire at a coal mine in western Turkey that killed one miner, an official said Tuesday. |
| Spokesman: Christie was unaware of traffic scheme Posted: 13 May 2014 09:58 AM PDT  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Chris Christie's longtime press secretary told New Jersey lawmakers Tuesday that he is confident that his boss had no knowledge of or involvement in the scheme that shut traffic near the George Washington Bridge in a political payback plot.
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| Obama to present top medal to Afghanistan veteran Posted: 13 May 2014 08:12 AM PDT  President Barack Obama is presenting the Medal of Honor to a former Army sergeant who saved a fellow soldier's life and helped secure the evacuation of other wounded Americans while under persistent fire during a 2007 ambush in Afghanistan.
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| Underwater archaeologist thinks he's discovered Columbus' Santa Maria Posted: 13 May 2014 06:29 AM PDT  More than 500 years after Christopher Columbus abandoned his Santa Maria on a reef in the Caribbean, an underwater archaeologist believes he may have discovered the ship's remains off the north coast of Haiti.
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| AirAsia to check passports against Interpol database Posted: 13 May 2014 07:04 AM PDT  Top Asian budget carrier AirAsia said Tuesday it will become the world's first airline to check the passports of all its passengers against Interpol's global database of 42 million stolen or lost travel documents by end of this month.
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| Judge denies bid to move trial of marathon suspect's friends Posted: 13 May 2014 07:20 AM PDT  A U.S. judge denied a request on Tuesday to move the trials of three friends of the accused Boston Marathon bomber, on charges that they hampered an investigation into the deadly 2013 blasts, outside of Massachusetts.
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| Man who sent poison-letters to Pres. Obama awaits sentencing Posted: 13 May 2014 10:19 AM PDT  A Mississippi man who pleaded guilty to making ricing and sending letters laced with the poison to President Barack Obama and other officials will be sentenced Tuesday in federal court.
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| Australia to spend $84 mln on Malaysian jet search Posted: 13 May 2014 03:22 AM PDT CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government plans to spend 90 million Australian dollars ($84 million) on the search for the missing Malaysian plane. |
| Medal of Honor recipient defied threat of death to help wounded comrades Posted: 13 May 2014 05:13 AM PDT Sgt. Kyle White reflects on great cost of being awarded nation's highest military award |
| Allman drops Ga. lawsuit against film producers Posted: 13 May 2014 06:13 AM PDT SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Gregg Allman agreed Tuesday drop his lawsuit against movie producers who were making a film about the singer's life when a freight train plowed into their Georgia crew and killed a camera assistant. |
| Pedophile teacher abused scores as clues missed Posted: 13 May 2014 09:15 AM PDT  He was one of the most beloved teachers in the small world of international schools that serve the children of diplomats, well-off American expatriates and local elites. He was often the first to arrive in the morning, and the last to leave each day. He led students on class trips to exotic places, treating them to cookies and milk at bedtime.
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| U.S. flies aircraft over Nigeria in hunt for girls Posted: 13 May 2014 07:29 AM PDT  American has joined the active search for almost 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria who were abducted by Islamic extremists.
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| Spying on millions of Americans in the 'United States of Secrets' Posted: 13 May 2014 05:52 AM PDT  After 9/11, the U.S. government's view of citizens' privacy was irrevocably changed.
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| Christie spokesman to testify in traffic jam case Posted: 13 May 2014 05:07 AM PDT  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Chris Christie's longtime press secretary is to testify before a New Jersey legislative committee on what he knew about the political retribution plot carried out by former aides to the governor.
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| Prosecutor says Pistorius should get mental evaluation Posted: 13 May 2014 05:01 AM PDT  The chief prosecutor in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius on Tuesday asked that the double-amputee runner be placed under psychiatric evaluation after an expert witness testified that he had an anxiety disorder.
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| Ex-Israeli PM Olmert sentenced to 6 years in prison Posted: 13 May 2014 03:53 AM PDT  By Rami Amichai TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel's ex-prime minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced to six years in jail on Tuesday for taking bribes in a real estate deal, a crime the judge said was akin to treason. The first criminal conviction of a former Israeli head of government all but ended speculation that Olmert - a centrist credited internationally with working towards a peace settlement with the Palestinians - might return to political life. \"A public servant who takes bribes is akin to a traitor,\" said Judge David Rozen in the Tel Aviv District Court, as he handed down a six-year prison term sought by prosecutors and fined Olmert 1 million shekels ($289,500).
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| Sterling slams Magic Johnson in interview Posted:  The disgraced Clippers owner says the Lakers great "should be ashamed of himself."
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| U.S. deploys surveillance aircraft over Nigeria to find girls Posted: 12 May 2014 06:56 PM PDT  The United States has deployed manned surveillance aircraft over Nigeria and is sharing satellite imagery with the Nigerian government to find more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist insurgents, a senior Obama administration official said on Monday. Washington has sent military, law-enforcement and development experts to Nigeria to help search for the missing girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram militants from a secondary school in Chibok in remote northeastern Nigeria on April 14. \"We have shared commercial satellite imagery with the Nigerians and are flying manned ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) assets over Nigeria with the government's permission,\" the U.S. official said. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told a news briefing on Monday that the U.S. was providing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support.
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| Judge expresses concerns over Casey Kasem's safety Posted: 12 May 2014 03:41 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge on Monday ordered an investigation into the whereabouts of Casey Kasem after an attorney for the ailing radio personality's wife said the former "Top 40" host had been removed from Los Angeles without his children's knowledge.
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| Woman's family files new suit against GM Posted: 12 May 2014 02:41 PM PDT  Parents who settled claims last year say GM hid critical evidence on faulty ignitions.
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| Police: Officer involved in shooting, explosion at N.H. home Posted: 12 May 2014 06:13 PM PDT  BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A police officer was involved in a shooting at a home in New Hampshire just before a fire and explosion destroyed the house Monday afternoon, authorities said.
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| White House: No, #BringBackOurGirls won’t sway kidnappers Posted: 12 May 2014 01:39 PM PDT  The White House on Monday defended the #BringBackOurGirls social media campaign as a valuable part of the global response to the abduction of more than 200 Nigerian girls. But spokesman Jay Carney dismissed suggestions that hashtag activism would lead Boko Haram kidnappers to free their hostages.
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| Orphan is first Haitian to be fitted with 3-D prosthesis Posted: 12 May 2014 03:32 PM PDT  By Amelie Baron PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - A 12-year-old orphan boy handicapped from birth became the first recipient of a 3-D printer prosthesis in Haiti last month, thanks to a British-born software engineer in California. Born without fingers on either hand, Stevenson Joseph had little hope of treatment in a country where programs for the disabled are rare apart from a handful of charities. In 2010, Stevenson was brought to Bernard Mevs hospital in the capital, Port-au-Prince, where an orthopedic team was working to fit prosthetic limbs after a devastating earthquake caused injuries that required amputations. \"We couldn't do anything for him here,\" recalled Thomas Iwalla, a Kenyan orthopedic technician at hospital.
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| N.C. entrepreneur in primary battle with singer Clay Aiken dies Posted: 12 May 2014 02:03 PM PDT  ASHEBORO, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina textile entrepreneur locked in a too-close-to-call Democratic Party primary with former "American Idol" singer Clay Aiken has died.
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| Iranian press: Drone replica proves 'nightmare has become reality' Posted: 12 May 2014 01:02 PM PDT  Iran has unveiled its own copy of an American stealth drone it captured in late 2011, claiming to have cracked the "secrets" of the bat-wing craft and added weapons capabilities. Today, Fars News Agency reported that while Iran's duplicate of the US RQ-170 Sentinel drone was smaller, it also had a "bombing capability to attack the US warships in any possible battle." The story in Persian was headlined: "America's nightmare has become reality." State television showed footage on Sunday it said was of a US aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf filmed by an Iranian drone. The drone replica was unveiled at an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) exhibition on Sunday, where Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was briefed on how the drone, its systems, and structure had been reverse-engineered. Aerospace chief Amir Ali Hajijadeh said today that they are working on two more models of the replica drone.
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| Texas lawmakers tour embattled California hot sauce plant Posted: 12 May 2014 03:47 PM PDT  The maker of the popular hot sauce Sriracha said Monday that he has no plans to move his contested plant out of California but would consider expanding into Texas if the Lone Star State can produce peppers ...
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| Studies: Antarctic ice sheet at point of no return Posted: 12 May 2014 11:55 AM PDT  Melt seen as outpacing predictions, crossing threshold that sets up domino-like process.
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| Mannequins banned from shops in Syrian jihadist stronghold Posted: 12 May 2014 11:48 AM PDT  Syria's most extreme jihadist faction issued a ban Monday on mannequins in shop displays and the sale of women's underwear to male customers, a monitoring group said. The decision by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in their northern stronghold of Raqa also bans men and women shopping together unless he is her husband, father or brother, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Observatory also said ISIL has decided that traditional garments on sale must be neither \"tight, transparent or ornate\". Raqa is the only provincial capital in Syria to have fallen from the hands of President Bashar al-Assad's regime, and it is now completely under ISIL control.
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