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New anxiety for hard-hit Fort Hood families

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New anxiety for hard-hit Fort Hood families

New anxiety for hard-hit Fort Hood families

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 08:43 AM PDT

Fort Hood deploymentsIraq war claimed the lives of 519 soldiers from Texas base, most of any U.S. military post.

Senators propose 12-cent gas tax increase

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 10:03 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 11, 2013, file photo, a motorist puts fuel in his car's gas tank at a service station in Springfield, Ill. American motorists are bracing for further increases in gas pump prices this summer after average national prices rose 12 cents in the past week alone. AAA says drivers are experiencing "sticker shock" as increased summer demand, unrest in Egypt and production disruptions in the U.S. and other countries push up the price of crude oil and gasoline. The national average price for regular unleaded gasoline was $3.67 a gallon on Friday, July 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Two senators unveiled a bipartisan plan Wednesday to raise federal gasoline and diesel taxes for the first time in more than two decades, pitching the proposal as a solution to Congress' struggle to pay for highway and transit programs.

Trademark board slams Redskins name as 'disparaging'

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 10:12 AM PDT

The Washington Redskins logoU.S. Patent Office cancels trademarks, says nickname is "disparaging" to Native Americans.

No-frills celebrations planned for Spain's new king

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 09:26 AM PDT

(L-R) Spain's Crown Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia attend a reception marking Spain's Armed Forces Day at the Royal palace in Madrid on June 8, 2014MADRID (AP) — Crown Prince Felipe ascends to the Spanish throne at midnight Wednesday, but there won't be any ritzy official celebrations.

Abandoned Ukrainian boy transformed by U.S. surgeries

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 05:59 AM PDT

In this Wednesday, May 28, 2014 photo, therapist Katherine Hartigan works with Ihor Lakatosh at Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston. Ihor had been burned in Ukraine, where his mother abandoned him at a hospital in 2011. Neglect had caused his burned skin to contract, fusing his arm to his chest and leaving him unable to walk. He was about 8 or 9 years old and weighed less than 30 pounds when he was flown to Boston in 2012 to treatment. He eventually returned to an orphanage in Ukraine, but has returned to Boston for additional surgeries. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)BOSTON (AP) — Ihor Lakatosh struggles to describe his life before the surgeries, when his severe burns went untreated for years in his native Ukraine, leaving him with one arm fused to his body, unable to walk and abandoned by his mother.

Libya demands return of Benghazi suspect

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 07:11 AM PDT

Benghazi attack suspect in U.S. custodyLibya on Wednesday condemned U.S. special forces' arrest of a man on its soil suspected of masterminding a deadly Islamist militant attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, describing the detention as a violation of Libyan sovereignty. In the first official reaction from Tripoli, Justice Minister Saleh al-Marghani said the suspect, Ahmed Abu Khatallah, should be returned to Libya and tried there. Said al Saoud, spokesman for the foreign ministry, said:"This attack on Libya sovereignty happened at a time when Benghazi is suffering from many problems." U.S. President Barack Obama said he authorised the operation in Libya on Sunday in which U.S. commandos snatched Khatallah on Benghazi's outskirts, and that he was being transported to the United States for prosecution.

Humiliation hits Iraqi military hard

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 05:53 AM PDT

Shiite volunteers, who have joined the Iraqi army to fight against the predominantly Sunni militants from the radical Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), sit with their weapons in BaghdadSoldiers tell of how they can hardly live with the shame of their rout by Islamic militants.

Stowaway teen describes experience inside plane's wheel well

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Ukraine's Poroshenko sets out ceasefire plan after Putin call

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 03:27 AM PDT

Poroshenko Lays Out Ukraine Cease-Fire PlanBy Pavel Polityuk KIEV (Reuters) - After a late-night telephone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday set out proposals for a peace plan for eastern Ukraine involving a unilateral ceasefire by government forces. Speaking to students at a military institute in Kiev, Poroshenko outlined a 14-step plan, including an amnesty for separatist fighters who lay down arms, and tighter controls over Ukraine's border with Russia. Ukraine accuses Russia of backing the rebels in the industrial Russian-speaking east who rose up after mass protests in Kiev toppled Viktor Yanukovich, a president sympathetic to Moscow.

Chinese dog-eaters throw off activists with early feast

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 02:43 AM PDT

a dog waits to be sold for meatBEIJING (AP) — Residents in a southern Chinese city that has come under fire for an annual summer solstice festival in which thousands of dogs are slaughtered for food have held their feasts early to avoid attention.

Al-Maliki delivers upbeat message to Iraqis

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 04:24 AM PDT

FILE - In this, Feb. 27, 2013, file photo Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki listens to a question during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq. If Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki wins a third four-year term in parliamentary elections Wednesday, he is likely to rely on a narrow sectarian Shiite base, only fueling divisions as Iraq slides deeper into bloody Shiite-Sunni hatreds. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)In TV address, PM says lightning attacks by Sunni militants helped restore national unity.

2 U.S. inmates put to death within an hour

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 12:01 AM PDT

Death row inmate Marcus Wellons is seen in an undated picture from the Georgia Department of CorrectionsThe executions in Missouri and Georgia are the first since Oklahoma botched one in April.

Report: Ukraine president offers cease-fire

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 03:57 AM PDT

Ukraine's President-elect Petro Poroshenko (L) walks past Russian President Vladimir Putin during an international D-Day commemoration ceremony on the beach of Ouistreham, Normandy, on June 6, 2014KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's president said Wednesday that government forces will unilaterally cease fire to allow pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country a chance to lay down weapons or leave the country, a potential major development to bring peace to the country.

Militants lay siege to Iraq's largest oil refinery

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 02:58 AM PDT

File - In this Monday, Oct. 6, 2003 file photo, an oil refinery is seen in the city of Beiji, home to Iraq's largest oil refinery. On Wednesday, June 18, 2014, a top Iraqi security official said Islamic militants of the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant laid siege to Iraq's largest oil refinery late Tuesday night, threatening a facility key to the country's domestic supplies as part of their ongoing lightning offensive across the country. The Beiji refinery accounts for a little more than a quarter of the country's entire refining capacity and any lengthy outage at Beiji risks long lines at the gas pump and electricity shortages, adding to the chaos already facing Iraq. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)BAGHDAD (AP) — Islamic militants laid siege to Iraq's largest oil refinery Wednesday, threatening a facility key to the country's domestic supplies as part of their ongoing offensive north of the capital, a top security official said.

Blast hits fans at World Cup screening in northern Nigeria

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 05:00 PM PDT

FILE: May 25, 2014 - The site of a car bomb blast targeting football fansAn explosion ripped through a football viewing centre in Damaturu, northern Nigeria on Tuesday, police and residents said, as fans gathered to watch the World Cup. The blast at the Crossfire venue, in the Nayi-Nawa area of the state capital of Yobe, happened shortly after tournament hosts Brazil kicked off against Mexico at 8:00 pm (1900 GMT). Sanusi Ruf'ai, police commissioner for Yobe state, told AFP: "There was an explosion outside a soccer viewing centre here in Damaturu at around 8:15 pm. The blast comes after at least two states banned viewing centres on security grounds following previous attacks blamed on Boko Haram militants, whose five-year insurgency in northern Nigeria has claimed thousands of lives.

2 Russian journalists killed by mortar fire in Ukraine

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 04:23 PM PDT

A local resident rides a bicycle as other look at lames from a damaged gas pipe after an impact of a mortar bomb during fighting between Ukrainian government troops and pro-Russian militants, outside Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, early Monday, May 19, 2014. Heavy mortar fire outside Slovyansk damaged a large gas pipeline and set off a fire. Slovyansk has been the epicenter of fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian insurgents, who have seized government buildings across the east. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)Rossiya 24 network: Reporters were on assignment for a Russian state-owned TV channel.

Iraq strategy: Obama, Congress leaders meeting

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 10:43 AM PDT

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 17, 2014, after a Democratic caucus meeting. President Barack Obama will meet with Congressional leaders at the White House on Wednesday to discuss the turmoil in Iraq. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has shifted his focus away from airstrikes in Iraq as an imminent option for slowing the Islamist insurgency, in part because there are few clear targets the U.S. could hit, officials say.

Iraq fights militants around oil refinery

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 09:06 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi security forces battled insurgents targeting the country's main oil refinery and said they regained partial control of a city near the Syrian border Wednesday, trying to blunt a weeklong offensive by Sunni militants who diplomats fear may have also seized some 100 foreign workers.

Trademark board rules against Redskins name

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 10:12 AM PDT

The Washington Redskins name is displayed on a building at their training facility at Redskins Park during NFL football minicamp, Wednesday, June 18, 2014, in Ashburn, Va. The U.S. Patent Office ruled Wednesday, June 18, 2014, that the Washington Redskins nickname is "disparaging of Native Americans" and that the team's federal trademarks for the name must be canceled. The ruling comes after a campaign to change the name has gained momentum over the past year. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal trademark board ruled Wednesday that the Washington Redskins nickname is "disparaging of Native Americans" and that the team's trademark protections should be canceled, a decision that applies new financial and political pressure on the team to change its name.

Ukraine's president offers cease-fire in east

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 08:53 AM PDT

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, right, meets with acting Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Koval, center, in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. Ukraine's president said Wednesday that government forces will unilaterally cease fire to allow pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country a chance to lay down weapons or leave the country, a potential major development to bring peace to the country. (AP Photo/Mykhailo Markiv, pool)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's new president on Wednesday promised a unilateral cease-fire as a start toward ending the fighting that has wracked the country's east, a potential major development in efforts to bring peace to the deeply polarized nation.

US man, 89, is held on Nazi death camp charges

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 10:35 AM PDT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An 89-year-old Philadelphia man was ordered held without bail Wednesday on a German arrest warrant charging him with aiding and abetting the killing of 216,000 Jewish men, women and children while he was a guard at the Auschwitz death camp.

Defrocked Methodist pastor appealing punishment

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 10:35 AM PDT

In this June 14, 2014 photo, Frank Schaefer, left, and his son Tim Schaefer speak before a ceremony where Frank Schaefer received an award for his public advocacy marking 10 years of legal gay marriage in Massachusetts, at Old South Church, in Boston. Schaefer, a Methodist pastor who was defrocked for officiating his son Tim's wedding to another man, accepted the award the weekend before a Methodist judicial panel was scheduled to hear his appeal to continue in the ministry. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)Frank Schaefer lost his job but not his voice.

AMAZON LIVE: New Fire Phone at Seattle event

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 10:56 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2012 file photo, Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon, introduces the Amazon Kindle Fire during an event in Santa Monica, Calif. Amazon, the corporate juggernaut that started out with books and soon moved into music, video, cloud computing and Kindle e-readers, is hosting a launch event Wednesday, June 18, 2014 in Seattle, and media reports indicate the product will be an Amazon phone — perhaps one with multiple cameras that can produce 3-D photos. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has unveiled a new smartphone called Fire Phone.

BRAZIL BEAT: Chilean fans start party early

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 10:44 AM PDT

A chile supporter with a painted cheek smiles prior the group B World Cup soccer match between Spain and Chile at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The game started way before kickoff at the Maracana for the boisterous red-shirted Chile fans who have taken over Rio de Janeiro the last few days.

Fierce feline who terrorized family stumps TV host

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 09:05 AM PDT

This undated photo provided by Animal Planet shows a cat named Lux, in Portland, Ore., who is featured on Animal Planet's "My Cat From Hell." If you watched the TV reality show this past weekend, you saw the feline behaviorist Jackson Galaxy trying to tame the Portland cat who became notorious after its owner placed a 9-1-1 call about Lux attacking the couple's baby and then chasing the family into a bedroom. The show's ending is a cliff-hanger. (AP Photo/Animal Planet)PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — In what truly epitomized the title of his TV show, "My Cat From Hell," feline behaviorist Jackson Galaxy is calling his attempt to tame the Portland cat notorious for attacking a baby and boxing his panicked owners into a bedroom "the hardest case I have ever worked."

Clinton: U.S. 'not prepared' to back working with Iran

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 05:17 PM PDT

HiIlary Rodham Clinton smiles as she arrives at a book signing for her new book "Hard Choices," at Harvard Book Store, Monday, June 16, 2014, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed caution Tuesday about the United States working with Iran to combat fast-moving Islamic insurgents in Iraq, saying the U.S. needs to understand "what we're getting ourselves into."

'Nightmares' plague circus acrobats injured in R.I.

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 06:22 PM PDT

Circus acrobats Julissa Segrera, second from left, of the United States, and Dayana Costa, right, of Brazil, are tearful as Costa reads a statement to members of the media at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Tuesday, June 17, 2014, in Boston. Eight acrobats were injured during a May 4 performance of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Providence, R.I., when the apparatus from which they were suspended fell, sending them plummeting to the ground. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)Four of the performers seriously injured in Rhode Island are planning a lawsuit as they come to terms with the idea their lives might never be the same.

Captured Benghazi suspect had been living openly

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The Libyan militant suspected in the deadly Sept. 11, 2012 attack on Americans in Benghazi was not a difficult man to find.

Trout taken from Calif. hatcheries amid drought

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 12:29 PM PDT

California DroughtMillions of young rainbow and steelhead trout are being evacuated from California's most productive hatchery complex as summer heat and the state's ongoing drought combine to make the water too warm for them to survive, officials said.

Italy's churches swap pews for cots as migrant crisis worsens

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 10:48 AM PDT

In this picture taken Sunday, June 15, 2014, migrants from Africa are temporarily sheltered in the Catholic church of St. Curato D'Ars in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The Italian coast guard and navy have rescued more than 300 migrants whose boats ran into trouble in the Mediterranean Sea and recovered the bodies of 10 migrants whose dinghy had overturned, Sunday. Naval official Salvatore Scimone said 39 survivors on Saturday night had grabbed onto the dinghy until rescuers plucked them to safety aboard another boat. He said he feared that an undetermined number of others were missing in the sea north of Libya. In a separate rescue, three Italian ships took aboard 281 migrants who said they were Syrian and whose fishing boat ran into problems. (AP Photo/Alessandro Fucarini)Italy's immigration crisis has so overloaded the government's centers that churches are now opening their doors to newly arrived migrants, many of them fleeing conflicts in Syria and Africa.

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