| Gaza toll hits 788 as 15 killed at U.N. school Posted: 24 Jul 2014 09:59 AM PDT  Israeli tank shells hit a compound housing a U.N. school in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens who were seeking shelter from fierce clashes on the streets outside, Palestinian officials said, as Israel pressed forward with its 17-day war against the territory's Hamas rulers.
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| As Iraq gets new president, car bomb kills 21 Posted: 24 Jul 2014 10:31 AM PDT  Iraqi officials say a double car bombing in central Baghdad has killed 21 people and wounded 33, hours after lawmakers elected the country's new president.
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| Ukrainian prime minister resigns amid MH17 chaos Posted: 24 Jul 2014 10:22 AM PDT  Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced his resignation Thursday, opening the way for new elections that would reflect the country's starkly changed political scene after the ouster of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in February.
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| Israeli military offensive in Gaza: Day 17 Posted: 03 Jul 2014 04:35 AM PDT  A Palestinian child, wounded in an Israeli strike on a compound housing a U.N. school in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, cries at the emergency room of the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, Thursday, July 24, 2014. Israeli tank shells hit the compound, killing more than a dozen people and wounding dozens more who were seeking shelter from fierce clashes on the streets outside. Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra says the dead and injured in the school compound were among hundreds of people seeking shelter from heavy fighting in the area. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) |
| Air Algerie flight crashes, 116 aboard Posted: 24 Jul 2014 10:35 AM PDT  Search for site where Flight AH5017, from Burkina Faso to Algiers, went down underway.
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| Pope meets Sudanese woman sentenced to death Posted: 24 Jul 2014 08:38 AM PDT  ROME (AP) — Pope Francis met privately Thursday with a Sudanese woman who refused to recant her Christian faith in the face of a death sentence, blessing the woman as she cradled her infant daughter born just weeks ago in prison.
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| 'Horrifically botched' Phoenix execution prompts death penalty outrage Posted: 24 Jul 2014 08:04 AM PDT  By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - Lawyers for a double-murderer whose lethal injection in Arizona dragged on for two hours called for an outside review of the "horrifically botched execution" and prompted new calls on Thursday for the United States to abandon the death penalty. The ordeal in putting Joseph Wood to death on Wednesday at a prison facility southeast of Phoenix followed lethal injections that went awry this year in Ohio and Oklahoma, renewing the U.S. debate over capital punishment. Corrections officials said Wood was never in pain but Rob Freer, a U.S. researcher with human-rights group Amnesty International, asked, "How many more times do officials need to be reminded of the myth of the 'humane execution' before they give up on their experiment with judicial killing?" States that impose the death penalty have been scrambling to find new suppliers of chemical combinations to use in lethal injections after their former suppliers, primarily European drug makers, objected to having their products used to put people to death.
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| 'Isolated' Amazon tribe feared to have flu, which could be deadly Posted: 24 Jul 2014 04:49 AM PDT  Advocates for indigenous tribes and Brazilian officials are worried that a group of people in the Amazon who had been living in isolation from the outside world may have contracted the flu — a potentially deadly disease that these individuals had never been exposed to before. On three separate occasions, they voluntarily made contact with Ashaninka people in the village of Simpatia, just across the border in western Brazil's Acre state, said Fiona Watson, a researcher and field director with the advocacy group Survival International, who spoke with Brazilian officials who went to the region. But representatives from Brazil's Indian Affairs Department, or FUNAI, noticed that the group of seven showed signs of influenza during their visit on June 30, Watson said.
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| Matt Bai: On Bush-era torture report, confrontation ahead Posted: 24 Jul 2014 01:50 AM PDT  Sometime this summer, probably when as many Americans as possible are tanning on a beach and not paying attention, the White House is expected to release a version of a classified report on torture during the Bush years. Actually, what's likely to become public is only the executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report.
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| FAA lifts ban on US flights to Tel Aviv airport Posted: 24 Jul 2014 08:47 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration has lifted its ban on U.S. flights in and out of Israel. |
| Israeli fire hits UN facility in Gaza; 7 dead, 150 injured Posted: 24 Jul 2014 06:13 AM PDT  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza health officials say at least seven people were killed when Israeli tank shells hit a compound housing a U.N. school in the northern Gaza Strip during clashes with Palestinian militants.
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| How Arizona, Ohio, Oklahoma, executions went awry Posted: 24 Jul 2014 06:28 AM PDT  Lethal injections in the three states left inmates writhing and gasping for breath.
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| Official: Air Algerie flight 'probably crashed' Posted: 24 Jul 2014 09:57 AM PDT  ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — An Air Algerie flight carrying 116 people from Burkina Faso to Algeria's capital disappeared from radar early Thursday over northern Mali during a rainstorm, officials said. France's foreign minister said no wreckage had been found, but that the plane "probably crashed."
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| 10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos Posted: 24 Jul 2014 09:25 AM PDT  Here's your look at highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.
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| Arizona execution rekindles death penalty debate Posted: 24 Jul 2014 09:27 AM PDT  FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — The nation's third execution in six months to go awry rekindled the debate over the death penalty and handed potentially new evidence to those building a case against lethal injection as cruel and unusual punishment.
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| Planes with Ukraine bodies arrive in Netherlands Posted: 24 Jul 2014 10:12 AM PDT  KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Two more military aircraft carrying remains of victims from the Malaysian plane disaster arrived in the Netherlands on Thursday, while Australian and Dutch diplomats joined to promote a plan for a U.N. team to secure the crash site which has been controlled by pro-Russian rebels.
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| Iraqis: Jihadis destroy ancient mosque in Mosul Posted: 24 Jul 2014 09:59 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Islamic extremist militants blew up a revered Muslim shrine traditionally said to be the burial place of the Prophet Jonah in Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul, on Thursday, residents of the city said. |
| Pope meets Sudanese woman sentenced to death Posted: 24 Jul 2014 09:17 AM PDT ROME (AP) — Pope Francis met privately Thursday with a Sudanese woman who refused to recant her Christian faith in the face of a death sentence, blessing the woman as she cradled her infant daughter born just weeks ago in prison. |
| Porch shooter: I didn't know gun was loaded Posted: 24 Jul 2014 07:46 AM PDT  DETROIT (AP) — A suburban Detroit man who killed an unarmed woman on his porch immediately suggested to police it was an accident and that he didn't know his shotgun was loaded, according to recorded remarks played in court Thursday.
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| House advances lawsuit bill Posted: 24 Jul 2014 10:02 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans cleared the way Thursday for a House vote on legislation authorizing an election-year lawsuit that accuses President Barack Obama of failing to implement the 4-year-old health care law. |
| Wyoming cave with fossil secrets to be excavated Posted: 24 Jul 2014 09:53 AM PDT  CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — For the first time in three decades, scientists are about to revisit one of North America's most remarkable troves of ancient fossils: the bones of tens of thousands of animals piled at least 30 feet deep at the bottom of a sinkhole-type cave.
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| Ukraine fighting rages as Australia ready for MH17 site deployment Posted: 24 Jul 2014 10:06 AM PDT  Fighting between Ukrainian troops and rebels raged Thursday near the crash site of Malaysian flight MH17, as countries which lost 298 citizens in the disaster moved to deploy their police to secure the impact zone. The Dutch team leading the crash probe was stuck in Kiev, unable to join a handful of international investigators at the rebel-controlled site. Meanwhile, Ukraine's army reported four soldiers killed over the last 24 hours in its offensive to retake the eastern industrial heartland from the pro-Russian insurgents. Two Ukrainian fighter jets were shot down Wednesday 45 kilometres (28 miles) from the crash site, just as the first bodies recovered from the fated flight were flown out to the Netherlands, which counts 193 citizens lost in the disaster.
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| Judge strikes down Colorado gay marriage ban Posted: 23 Jul 2014 06:34 PM PDT  A federal judge in Denver has declared Colorado's gay marriage ban unconstitutional, but he issued a temporary stay of the ruling until an appeals court hearing next month.
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| Senator: PTSD influenced thesis plagiarism Posted: 23 Jul 2014 05:13 PM PDT  Sen. John Walsh of Montana said Wednesday his failure to attribute conclusions and verbatim passages lifted from other scholars' work in his thesis to earn a master's degree from the U.S. Army War College was an unintentional mistake caused in part by post-traumatic stress disorder.
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| UN: Rockets 'have gone missing' Posted: 23 Jul 2014 03:25 PM PDT  Twenty rockets found in an abandoned Gaza school this week are missing: U.N.
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| Montana senator accused of plagiarizing thesis Posted: 23 Jul 2014 03:27 PM PDT Montana Sen. John Walsh's thesis written to earn a master's degree from the U.S. Army War College contains unattributed passages taken word-for-word from previously published papers. |
| 2 Americans charged with helping al-Qaida-linked group Posted: 23 Jul 2014 11:55 PM PDT  Five people, including two women in the U.S., were charged Wednesday with funneling money to the al-Qaida-linked extremist group al-Shabab in Somalia, prosecutors said.
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| Inside the first Conservatarian hackathon Posted: 23 Jul 2014 05:57 AM PDT  The Koch network is teaming up with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to connect coders with D.C politicos
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| Ark. military base on lockdown after suspicious person reported Posted: 23 Jul 2014 12:48 PM PDT  Little Rock Air Force Base went on lockdown Wednesday amid reports of a suspicious person, though military officials have offered few details about the incident.
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| Officials release sketch of suspect in peacock shooting death Posted: 23 Jul 2014 02:49 PM PDT  Officials have released a sketch of a man suspected of shooting and killing a peacock from his Mercedes-Benz earlier this month in Southern California.
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| Teen dies during record-attempt flight Posted: 23 Jul 2014 03:40 PM PDT  17-year-old Haris Suleman and his father were flying around the world together.
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| Hamas gives conflicting truce signals Posted: 23 Jul 2014 12:39 PM PDT  Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said ready to accept truce in Gaza but had terms for full ceasefire.
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| Ariz. execution to proceed after court denies last-ditch appeal Posted: 23 Jul 2014 11:48 AM PDT The highest courts in Arizona and the nation have cleared the way for the state to carry out its third execution in the last year Wednesday, following a closely watched First Amendment fight over the secrecy surrounding lethal injection drugs. |
| Family was the reason woman booked seat on MH17 Posted: 23 Jul 2014 08:03 AM PDT  In a bedroom in a townhouse near Amsterdam, Miguel Panduwinata reached out for his mother. "Mama, may I hug you?"
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| Exclusive: CDC says lab director behind anthrax mishap resigns Posted: 23 Jul 2014 01:24 PM PDT  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The director of a U.S. government bioterror lab that potentially exposed scores of workers to live anthrax last month has resigned, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday. Michael Farrell, head of the CDC's Bioterror Rapid Response and Advanced Technology Laboratory (BRRAT) in Atlanta, had been reassigned from his position last month after the agency disclosed the safety breaches. He submitted his resignation on Tuesday, the CDC said. "I can confirm that he was the team lead for the BRRAT lab since 2009 and that he's resigned from that position," said CDC spokesman Thomas Skinner.
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