| 2 dead in Wash. medical complex shooting Posted: 08 Jul 2014 11:00 AM PDT Police: A gunman fatally shot his wife before turning the weapon on himself in Spokane, Wash. |
| Obama seeks $3.7B to ease border crisis Posted: 08 Jul 2014 10:38 AM PDT  Obama: Funds would help the U.S. cope with an influx of illegal immigrants from Central America.
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| Militants attack Somalia's presidential palace Posted: 08 Jul 2014 09:43 AM PDT  Heavily armed militants launched a major bomb attack and armed assault against Somalia's heavily-fortified presidential palace late Tuesday, police and witnesses said. The attack bore all the hallmarks of Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels, who have launched a string of strikes against the country's internationally-backed but fragile government. "There was an attack on the presidential palace, with gunmen attacking a checkpoint at the rear of the compound," police officer Ali Hussein told AFP. "There was a major explosion and security forces are fighting them," he added, without confirming if the insurgents had managed to enter the city centre compound, known as the Villa Somalia.
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| Cleveland picked for 2016 U.S. Republican National Convention Posted: 08 Jul 2014 09:22 AM PDT  By Gabriel Debenedetti WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Republican Party's national convention to nominate a presidential candidate in 2016 will likely be held in Cleveland, the Republican National Committee said on Tuesday. The site selection panel chose Cleveland over finalist Dallas, and the full committee is expected to approve the choice in August. Cleveland is in the influential swing state of Ohio. No candidate has won the presidency without winning Ohio since 1960, and Republicans will likely depend on the state once again as they seek to reclaim the White House in 2016.
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| Rick Perry declines offer to meet Obama at airport Posted: 08 Jul 2014 06:01 AM PDT  When President Barack Obama travels, he is often greeted by governors when he lands. He won't be on Wednesday in Texas.
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| Ted Cruz speaks out as Mississippi's Republican civil war spreads Posted: 08 Jul 2014 06:36 AM PDT  Sen. Ted Cruz has jumped into Mississippi's political drama, a sign that the deepening dispute over the state's Republican Senate primary runoff is seeping into the national GOP. In a radio interview Monday, the conservative Texas Republican positioned himself firmly on the side of Chris McDaniel, the Mississippi state senator who lost to Sen. Thad Cochran on June 24. The tea party-backed Mr. McDaniel claims Senator Cochran "stole" the election by reaching out to Democratic voters, many of them black, who then voted "illegally" in the June 24 runoff. "These allegations need to be vigorously investigated, and anyone involved in criminal conduct should be prosecuted," Senator Cruz said on the "Mark Levin Show." "The voters of Mississippi deserve to know the truth."
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| Kim Jong-un takes center stage with apparent weakness Posted: 08 Jul 2014 12:59 AM PDT  New footage of North Korea's leader may reveal a physical problem.
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| Iraqi parliament to meet early next week Posted: 08 Jul 2014 04:38 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's parliament Tuesday officially rescheduled its next session for early next week after criticism over initial plans for a five-week break, amid pressure for political leaders to agree on a new government that can confront militants who have overrun much of the country's north and west. |
| Afghan candidate rejects election results Posted: 08 Jul 2014 10:21 AM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah defiantly told thousands of supporters Monday that he will declare victory in the country's election, claiming massive fraud was responsible for preliminary results that put his rival in the lead. The United States warned both camps against trying to seize power, saying international financial and security support was at stake. |
| Harry Potter is back in new J.K. Rowling story Posted: 08 Jul 2014 05:32 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Harry Potter is back — mysterious, married, and going gray.
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| Leukemia therapy that cured 89% of patients fast-tracked Posted: 07 Jul 2014 02:35 PM PDT  89% of leukemia patients who received the therapy saw their cancers disappear.
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| Israel army authorized to mobilize 40,000 troops Posted: 08 Jul 2014 06:03 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government has given the military permission to mobilize up to 40,000 additional reservists as it steps up an offensive in the Gaza Strip.
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| UN pushes for migrants to be called refugees Posted: 08 Jul 2014 10:47 AM PDT SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — United Nations officials are pushing for many of the Central Americans fleeing to the U.S. to be treated as refugees displaced by armed conflict, a designation meant to increase pressure on the United States and Mexico to accept tens of thousands of people currently ineligible for asylum. |
| Scientists closer to blood test for Alzheimer's Posted: 08 Jul 2014 07:26 AM PDT  British scientists on Monday announced a major step forward in developing a blood test that could predict the onset of Alzheimer's, potentially helping the search for a cure. Researchers identified blood proteins that appear in patients subsequently diagnosed with the brain-wasting disease, the most common form of dementia. "Many of our drug trials fail because by the time patients are given the drugs, the brain has already been too severely affected," said Oxford University neuroscience professor Simon Lovestone, who led the study at King's College London. "A simple blood test could help us identify patients at a much earlier stage to take part in new trials and hopefully develop treatments which could prevent the progression of the disease.
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| Obama to meet Texas governor, a critic in U.S. border crisis Posted: 08 Jul 2014 10:56 AM PDT  The president is talking to Lone Star faith leaders & local officials.
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| Lloyd Webber to revive "Cats" in London, hints at movie Posted: 08 Jul 2014 05:00 AM PDT  By Rollo Ross LONDON (Reuters) - Andrew Lloyd Webber is about to find out if felines have more than one life - and possibly a cinematic one as well - as he prepares to bring his 1980s hit musical "Cats" back to London's West End for a limited run. The creator of hit musicals including "Evita" and "Jesus Christ Superstar", announced plans this week to revive "Cats", his 1981 show based on poet T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats", for a 12-week run beginning on Dec. 6. Lloyd Webber said he would also consider bringing back some of his other hits, such as "Phantom of the Opera" and "Starlight Express", and that movie versions were a possibility. "Yes I think it's very possible that I might have a look at one or two of my shows," Lloyd Webber said. His most recent foray into the West End was "Stephen Ward", about the 1961 British politics-and-sex scandal known as The Profumo Affair which arose from a sexual liaison between the then Secretary of War, John Profumo, and aspiring model Christine Keeler.
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| Israel launches military offensive against Gaza Posted: 08 Jul 2014 04:36 AM PDT  Israel strikes at least 50 sites in Gaza and mobilizes troops for a possible ground invasion.
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| One dead as powerful typhoon hits Japan's Okinawa Posted: 08 Jul 2014 02:50 AM PDT  By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - One man died, more than 500,000 people were urged to evacuate and hundreds of flights were canceled in Japan as a strong typhoon brought torrential rain and high winds to its southwestern islands and could bring heavy rain to Tokyo later this week. Typhoon Neoguri weakened from its original status as a super typhoon but remained intense, with gusts of more than 250 km per hour (155 mph). It was powering through the Okinawa island chain where emergency rain and high-seas warnings were in effect. The storm was at its most powerful when passing Okinawa, some 1,600 km (1,000 miles) southwest of Tokyo on Tuesday, but the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) warned of heavy rains and potential flooding in Kyushu, the westernmost of Japan's main islands, as well as heavy rain in the rest of the nation as the storm turns east later in the week.
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| Pistorius defense team closes case Posted: 08 Jul 2014 01:24 AM PDT  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The defense team for Oscar Pistorius closed its case in the athlete's murder trial on Tuesday, bringing a legal case that has transfixed South Africans and others around the world closer to a verdict.
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| Washington poised to start legal marijuana sales Posted: 08 Jul 2014 07:58 AM PDT  BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Marijuana growers loaded trucks with boxes of packaged pot on Tuesday as lines of customers grew outside a handful of stores poised to be the first to sell recreational cannabis legally in Washington state.
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| Israel foils seaborne attack from Gaza Strip Posted: 08 Jul 2014 10:57 AM PDT  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military launched a major offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Tuesday, striking more than 100 sites and mobilizing troops for a possible ground invasion in what Israel says is an operation aimed at stopping a heavy barrage of rocket attacks from the Palestinian territory.
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| Legal marijuana goes on sale in Washington Posted: 08 Jul 2014 09:37 AM PDT BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Washington on Tuesday became the second state to allow people to buy marijuana legally in the U.S. without a doctor's note as eager customers who lined up outside stores made their purchases and savored the moment. |
| EU's united front on Russia falling amid gas needs Posted: 08 Jul 2014 08:55 AM PDT  VIENNA (AP) — A clutch of countries is breaking ranks with the EU's efforts to put economic and diplomatic pressure on Russia over Ukraine and building a pipeline meant to carry huge amounts of Russian gas to their doorstep.
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| Cleveland tops Dallas in bid to host RNC in 2016 Posted: 08 Jul 2014 10:59 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Cleveland won the backing of a Republican National Committee panel on Tuesday, all but guaranteeing the GOP's 2016 presidential pick will accept the party's nomination in perennially hard-fought Ohio.
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| Militants attack Somalia presidential palace Posted: 08 Jul 2014 10:50 AM PDT MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Militants stormed the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, police said, sparking heavy gunfire as government troops and guards tried to repel them. |
| NYPD arrests mother of abandoned baby Posted: 08 Jul 2014 09:58 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — A woman accused of abandoning her baby at a Manhattan subway station was arrested Tuesday after telling detectives she was homeless and felt she could no longer take care of the little girl, a police department spokesman said.
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| Fans start gathering for Brazil-Germany semifinal Posted: 08 Jul 2014 09:27 AM PDT  BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (AP) — At a local bar long before noon, a German supporter danced along with Brazilians playing samba.
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| White House says most children at border to be sent home Posted: 08 Jul 2014 10:32 AM PDT  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Monday that most unaccompanied minors flooding into the United States from Central America will not be allowed to stay as the Obama administration prepares to ask Congress for $2 billion to address the border crisis. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said most of the border-crossers would not qualify to stay in the United States. Those who possibly could get asylum are children who have been victims of domestic abuse. The strong warning came as the White House is expected to lay out on Tuesday what it wants in emergency funding from the U.S. Congress to deal with the flood of children.
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| Poll: Americans are down on America Posted:  That's the bottom line in a new Gallup poll measuring the extent of freedom in 135 nations.
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| Border policy changes: Obama holding off for now Posted: 07 Jul 2014 05:35 PM PDT  White House efforts addressing border crisis to focus on immigration judges, detention facilities and legal aid for now.
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| Brazil bandits steal $36M of Samsung phones, computers Posted: 07 Jul 2014 04:45 PM PDT  Bandits attacked a Samsung Electronics Co Ltd factory near Sao Paulo late Sunday and held workers hostage while they robbed truckloads of smartphones, tablets and notebook computers that police valued at $36 million. The dramatic heist, carried out by armed robbers who carjacked a shuttle used by factory employees, took place overnight during nearly four hours in Campinas, an industrial hub in the southeastern state of Sao Paulo. A spokesman for the state's public security secretariat said the bandits made off with seven trucks laden with more than 40,000 Samsung products. A spokesman for Samsung in Sao Paulo confirmed the heist but said police estimates for the value of the stolen goods were too high.
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| Calif. deputy who shot teen won't face criminal charges Posted: 07 Jul 2014 05:47 PM PDT  Prosecutors said Monday they will not file criminal charges against a Northern California sheriff's deputy who shot and killed a 13-year-old boy carrying a pellet gun he mistook for an assault rifle.
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| Japan issues highest alert over super typhoon Neoguri Posted: 07 Jul 2014 03:08 PM PDT  Japan was bracing Tuesday for one of its worst storms in over a decade as typhoon Neoguri barreled towards the southern Okinawa island chain, with 55,000 people urged to evacuate as the weather agency issued its highest alert. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued the alert for Okinawa's main island, home to around 1.2 million people, as well as the outlying Miyako islands. The Kadena Air Force Base, the biggest US Air Force base in the Pacific, located on Okinawa's main island, evacuated some of its aircraft as officers stressed that Neoguri may be deadly. Waves could reach as high as 14 metres (45 feet), a weather agency official said in a warning that was likely to revive memories of Japan's quake-tsunami disaster in 2011.
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| Gaza militants attack Israel with heavy rocket fire Posted: 07 Jul 2014 07:30 PM PDT  Militants in the Gaza Strip unleashed dozens of rockets on southern Israel late Monday, setting off air raid sirens and forcing hundreds of thousands of Israelis to stay indoors as the military rushed more forces to the border and warned that even heavier fighting looked likely.
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| U.N. recognizes gay marriages for all staff members Posted: 07 Jul 2014 04:43 PM PDT  The United Nations is recognizing the gay marriages of all its staffers, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Monday.
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| Honduras ends search for 8 trapped miners Posted: 07 Jul 2014 01:23 PM PDT  The government of Honduras says it is suspending the search for eight miners trapped for six days in a collapsed gold mine in the south of the country.
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| Judge approves landmark NFL concussion deal Posted: 07 Jul 2014 01:56 PM PDT  A federal judge on Monday granted preliminary approval to a landmark deal that would compensate thousands of former NFL players for concussion-related claims.
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| What the legal pot industry needs to thrive Posted:  Washington State hits snags rolling out newly approved recreational marijuana industry.
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| N.Y. becomes 23rd state to approve medical marijuana Posted: 07 Jul 2014 01:42 PM PDT  Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Monday he had signed legislation making New York the 23rd state to allow medical marijuana, calling his approach, which forbids smoking of the drug and includes strict limits, the "smartest" any state had taken so far. "This new law takes an important step toward bringing relief to patients living with extraordinary pain and illness," Cuomo told a news conference at the New York Academy of Medicine, flanked by lawmakers and 9-year-old Amanda Houser, who suffers from seizures. The legislation "gets us the best that medical marijuana has to offer in the most protected, controlled way possible," the Democratic governor said. Medical marijuana is also legal in the District of Columbia.
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| Real Madrid legend Di Stefano dies at 88 Posted: 07 Jul 2014 04:03 PM PDT  Alfredo Di Stefano, a key player in the team's ascent as a global powerhouse, has died.
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