| Dems cash in on impeachment chatter Posted: 29 Jul 2014 10:27 AM PDT  Democrats have raised $7.6M since an anti-Obama lawsuit was announced in June.
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| Dozens dead in China attacks; Muslim leader calls for restraint Posted: 29 Jul 2014 09:52 AM PDT  By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police shot dead dozens of knife-wielding attackers on Monday morning after they staged assaults on two towns in the western region of Xinjiang, the official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday. A gang armed with knives had first attacked a police station and government offices in the town of Elixku, in Shache county, it said, quoting local police. The dead and injured include not just Uighurs but members of China's majority Han Chinese population, the report said. The U.S.-based Rebiya Kadeer, president of the exiled World Uyghur Congress, called for restraint, saying in a statement that she was worried "China will use this incident to step up repression, causing more people to loose their freedom." The attack took place at the end of the holy month of Ramadan, which officials had tried to get Muslims in Xinjiang to ignore, in an indication of what rights groups say is discrimination targeting the Uighurs.
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| Rat rampage at Paris' Louvre garden scares les touristes Posted: 29 Jul 2014 08:51 AM PDT  PARIS (AP) — Rats are on the rampage in the elegant garden of the Louvre Museum, so bold they romp onto the grass in broad daylight, defying sanitation workers and scaring tourists visiting the site.
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| Cease-fire elusive as Gaza burns Posted: 29 Jul 2014 09:17 AM PDT  Israel bombardment leaves scores dead on day 22 of conflict; Palestinian leaders say day-long truce on table.
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| White House: Delay climate change action, pay $150B a year Posted: 29 Jul 2014 08:33 AM PDT  Delaying efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions could cost the US $150 billion per year, the White House warned Tuesday in a report on the economic consequences of inaction on climate change. "Although delaying action can reduce costs in the short run, on net, delaying action to limit the effects of climate change is costly," the report said. "A delay that results in warming of 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels, instead of 2 degrees, could increase economic damages by approximately 0.9 percent of global output," the report said. "These costs are not one-time, but are rather incurred year after year because of the permanent damage caused by increased climate change resulting from the delay," the report said.
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| NCAA settles concussion lawsuit by creating $70 million fund Posted: 29 Jul 2014 06:12 AM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — The NCAA has agreed to settle a class-action head injury lawsuit by creating a $70 million fund to diagnose thousands of current and former college athletes to determine if they suffered brain trauma playing football, hockey, soccer and other contact sports, The Associated Press has learned.
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| Girl, 9, injured by plane that crashed on beach, has died Posted: 29 Jul 2014 10:48 AM PDT  SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Law enforcement officials in Florida say a 9-year-old girl has died from injuries suffered when she was hit by a plane that crash-landed on the beach where she was walking with her father.
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| Parents of slain Israeli teen speak out Posted: 28 Jul 2014 05:54 PM PDT  The parents of one of three teens murdered last month speak exclusively to Yahoo News.
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| Palestinians seek 24-hr. cease-fire Posted: 29 Jul 2014 05:38 AM PDT  Senior PLO official says also speaking for Hamas; at least 100 Palestinians killed Tuesday.
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| NASA's Opportunity rover sets mileage record on Mars Posted: 29 Jul 2014 06:00 AM PDT  The US space agency's Opportunity rover has now clocked more miles on Mars than any man-made vehicle to reach another celestial body, NASA said Monday. Since arriving on the Red Planet in 2004, the solar-powered robot has journeyed across 25 miles (40 kilometers) of Martian terrain. "Opportunity has driven farther than any other wheeled vehicle on another world," said Mars Exploration Rover Project Manager John Callas of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "This is so remarkable considering Opportunity was intended to drive about one kilometer and was never designed for distance."
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| People across US ask: Who is the 'woman in black'? Posted: 28 Jul 2014 03:12 PM PDT  By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - A quiet woman wearing a flowing, black dress and mysteriously strolling along busy highways in parts of the U.S. Southeast and Midwest has the curious wondering who she is and spurred a social media site to document her trek. She has been dubbed the "Woman in Black," by TV stations, police and followers on the Web, including those on a Facebook page where she has been tracked on a nearly 500-mile journey with a black bag and walking stick in hand that has taken her from Ranger, Georgia, to Athens, Ohio, since July 18. Raymond Poles told Reuters he is the woman's brother, identifying her as Elizabeth Poles, 56, a U.S. Army veteran, mother of two children and a widow from Motts, Alabama. Elizabeth Poles had been receiving treatment at Veterans Affairs hospitals to deal with the deaths of her husband in 2008 and her father in 2009, he said.
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| 'A 3-hour tour...a 3-hour tour...' ends safely in Boston Posted: 29 Jul 2014 05:18 AM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — Passengers on a whale watch boat are back on dry land after spending a long night stuck at sea outside Boston.
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| Immigration debate roils politics in ... Maine? Posted: 29 Jul 2014 09:13 AM PDT  LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — In the whitest U.S. state, thousands of miles from the Mexican border, the debate over immigration is becoming a central issue in one of the nation's most closely watched governor's races.
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| Radicals unleash their vision in Iraqi's Mosul Posted: 28 Jul 2014 10:37 AM PDT  BAGHDAD (AP) — Residents of Mosul have watched helplessly as extremists ruling the northern Iraqi city blew up some of their most beloved landmarks and shrines to impose a stark vision of Islam. Next up for destruction, they feared: the Crooked Minaret, a more than 840-year-old tower that leans like Italy's Tower of Pisa.
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| China's feared ex-domestic spy chief facing graft investigation Posted: 29 Jul 2014 10:04 AM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — China's ruling Communist Party announced an investigation into a feared ex-security chief on Tuesday, demonstrating President Xi Jinping's firm grip on power and breaking a longstanding taboo against publicly targeting the country's topmost leaders.
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| U.S. says Russia violated nuclear treaty, urges immediate talks Posted: 29 Jul 2014 12:42 AM PDT  By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In another sign of deteriorating relations between the United States and Russia, the U.S. government said on Monday that Moscow had violated the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces treaty, and urged immediate bilateral talks on the issue. "This is a very serious matter which we have attempted to address with Russia for some time now," an administration official said in a statement. "We encourage Russia to return to compliance with its obligations under the treaty and to eliminate any prohibited items in a verifiable manner," the official said. The official did not describe how Russia violated the treaty.
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| Israel hits symbols of Hamas rule; scores killed Posted: 29 Jul 2014 10:46 AM PDT GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel on Tuesday unleashed its heaviest bombardment in a 3-week-old war against Hamas, striking symbols of the militant group's control in Gaza and firing tank shells that Palestinian officials said shut down the strip's only power plant. |
| House to vote on slimmed-down bill for border Posted: 29 Jul 2014 09:52 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans unveiled a slimmed-down bill Tuesday to address the immigration crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border by sending in National Guard troops and speeding migrant youths back home. The election-year measure would allow Republicans to say they tried to solve the humanitarian problem in South Texas, even though it stands no chance of becoming law.
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| China reports deadly attack in northwest Posted: 29 Jul 2014 08:50 AM PDT BEIJING (AP) — A mob armed with knives rampaged through part of China's volatile northwestern region of Xinjiang and police responded with gunfire, leaving dozens of people dead in the latest violence blamed on Islamic militants, state media reported Tuesday. |
| Lawmakers try to seal $225M aid package for Israel Posted: 29 Jul 2014 10:56 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic and Republican members of Congress scrambled Tuesday to seal a $225 million boost to Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system before they break this week for a month-long recess.
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| Shelling adds to mounting civilian toll in Ukraine Posted: 29 Jul 2014 08:39 AM PDT DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Shelling in at least three cities in eastern Ukraine has hit a home for the elderly, a school and several apartment blocks, adding to a rapidly growing civilian death toll Tuesday. |
| AP PHOTOS: Building boom in N. Dakota's oil patch Posted: 29 Jul 2014 09:49 AM PDT  WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) — President Theodore Roosevelt once came to North Dakota's Badlands to find solitude and solace amid the area's "desolate, grim beauty." But Roosevelt's Dakota is barely visible today.
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| Sources: EU adopts tough new sanctions on Russia Posted: 29 Jul 2014 10:09 AM PDT BRUSSELS (AP) — Frustrated by the apparent ineffectiveness of previous sanctions and outraged by the deaths of 298 people aboard the Malaysia Airlines plane downed over eastern Ukraine, the European Union adopted tough new economic sanctions against Russia on Tuesday, EU officials and diplomats said. |
| NCAA settles head-injury suit, will change rules Posted: 29 Jul 2014 09:53 AM PDT CHICAGO (AP) — The NCAA agreed Tuesday to settle a class-action head-injury lawsuit by creating a $70 million fund to diagnose thousands of current and former college athletes to determine if they suffered brain trauma playing football, hockey, soccer and other contact sports. |
| Full appeals court upholds labels on meat packages Posted: 29 Jul 2014 10:27 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld new government rules requiring labels on packaged steaks, ribs and other cuts of meat to say where the animals were born, raised and slaughtered. |
