Pope wades into Mideast peace with prayer summit

Pope wades into Mideast peace with prayer summit
Bergdahl says he was tortured by Taliban captors
Clinton decision on 2016 run could come next year
New Egypt president sworn in, calls for stability
Quebec sees second jailbreak involving helicopter
Egypt's el-Sissi: No reconciliation with Islamists
Nadal tops Djokovic: 9th French Open, 14th major
Feds probe truck safety after Tracy Morgan crash
Trial that could reshape college athletics begins
Aerial reenactment caps D-Day celebrations
Guantanamo prisoners set to leave amid trade furor
Threats made against Bergdahl’s family
California Chrome's Triple try ends in defeat
Driver charged in crash that injured actor
California Chrome's Triple Crown quest collapses

Posted: 08 Jun 2014 11:35 AM PDT

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis waded head-first into Mideast peace-making Sunday, welcoming the Israeli and Palestinian presidents to the Vatican for an evening of peace prayers just weeks after the last round of U.S.-sponsored negotiations collapsed.

Bergdahl says he was tortured by Taliban captors

Posted: 08 Jun 2014 11:12 AM PDT

He tells military officials that after he tried to escape, he was tortured, beaten, and caged by his Taliban captors, a senior U.S. official says.

Clinton decision on 2016 run could come next year

Posted: 08 Jun 2014 08:11 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton's decision on seeking the White House again could stretch into 2015, and she's making no commitments about testifying before a select congressional committee investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

New Egypt president sworn in, calls for stability

Posted: 08 Jun 2014 07:14 AM PDT

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's former army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi was sworn in Sunday as president for a four-year term, assuming the highest office of a deeply polarized nation roiled by deadly unrest and an economic crisis since its Arab Spring uprising in 2011.

Quebec sees second jailbreak involving helicopter

Posted: 08 Jun 2014 10:43 AM PDT

MONTREAL (AP) — The search widened Sunday for three inmates who escaped with the help of a helicopter from a detention center in Quebec City as dusk approached a day earlier.

Egypt's el-Sissi: No reconciliation with Islamists

Posted: 08 Jun 2014 11:30 AM PDT

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's newly sworn-in president has vowed there will not be any reconciliation with anyone who had "committed crimes" or "adopted violence" against Egyptians, a thinly veiled reference to the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists.

Nadal tops Djokovic: 9th French Open, 14th major

Posted: 08 Jun 2014 11:28 AM PDT

PARIS (AP) — Trying to beat Rafael Nadal at the French Open is, without a doubt, the toughest task in tennis. Indeed, must be among the greatest challenges in all of sports.

Feds probe truck safety after Tracy Morgan crash

Posted: 08 Jun 2014 11:12 AM PDT

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Federal investigators on Sunday were looking into commercial trucking and other safety issues in the wake of a deadly chain-reaction crash on the New Jersey Turnpike that left actor-comedian Tracy Morgan and two others critically injured and another man dead.

Trial that could reshape college athletics begins

Posted: 08 Jun 2014 10:29 AM PDT

Some believe it could upend the way college sports operate. Others say Ed O'Bannon's legal crusade against the NCAA already has.

Aerial reenactment caps D-Day celebrations

Posted: 08 Jun 2014 07:16 AM PDT

LA FIERE, France (AP) — Nearly 1,000 paratroopers dropped out of the sky in Normandy on Sunday — but this time they did so in peace, instead of to wrest western France from the Nazis as they did during World War II.

Guantanamo prisoners set to leave amid trade furor

Posted: 08 Jun 2014 08:35 AM PDT

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — Some of the men held here for more than a decade have been drafting plans for work and marriage on the outside or studying languages, preparing for a not-too-distant future beyond the coiled razor wire that surrounds the U.S. prison perched at the edge of the Caribbean Sea.

Threats made against Bergdahl’s family

Posted: 07 Jun 2014 08:06 PM PDT

The father of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has received several hate emails, police say.

California Chrome's Triple try ends in defeat

Posted: 07 Jun 2014 07:35 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — California Chrome failed in his bid to win the first Triple Crown in 36 years on Saturday, losing the Belmont Stakes to long shot Tonalist and leaving his owner to complain others took "the coward's way out" by skipping the first two legs of the Triple Crown.

Driver charged in crash that injured actor

Posted: 07 Jun 2014 05:06 PM PDT

One man was killed and four were hurt, including comedian Tracy Morgan, in the crash.

California Chrome's Triple Crown quest collapses

Posted: 07 Jun 2014 05:03 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — California Chrome failed in his bid to win the first Triple Crown in 36 years on Saturday, losing the Belmont Stakes to 9-1 long shot Tonalist.