| American aid worker stricken with Ebola arrives in U.S. for treatment Posted: 02 Aug 2014 10:29 AM PDT  By Steve Norder ATLANTA (Reuters) - An American aid worker infected with the deadly Ebola virus while in Liberia was flown from West Africa to the United States on Saturday and taken to an Atlanta hospital for treatment in a special isolation unit. A chartered medical aircraft carrying Dr. Kent Brantly touched down at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia shortly before noon. Brantly was driven by ambulance, with police escort, to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta where he will be treated in a specially equipped room. Hospital officials had no immediate comment.
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| Shelling disrupts MH17 search as experts find more remains Posted: 02 Aug 2014 08:59 AM PDT Shelling on Saturday forced international experts to abandon part of the crash scene of the downed Malaysia Airlines jet in east Ukraine as sniffer dogs working elsewhere on the vast site helped uncover the remains of more victims. Seventy Dutch and Australian police investigators were back for a second day to scour the wreckage strewn over some 20 square kilometres (eight square miles) but members from the probe team hurriedly left a village where some debris was lying after mortar fire nearby. "We heard at a distance of approximately two kilometres incoming artillery from where we were and that was too close to continue," said Alexander Hug, deputy chief monitor with the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mission in Ukraine. |
| Israel bombards Gaza as it searches for soldier Posted: 02 Aug 2014 03:55 AM PDT  Israeli troops searched for an officer they believe was captured by Hamas in an ambush that set the stage for a major escalation of the 26-day-old war.
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| US doctor with Ebola arrives in Atlanta Posted: 02 Aug 2014 10:26 AM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — An American doctor infected with the Ebola virus in Africa arrived in Atlanta for treatment Saturday, landing at a military base, then being whisked away to one of the most sophisticated hospital isolation units in the country, officials say.
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| Israel signals scaling back Gaza war on its terms Posted: 02 Aug 2014 10:13 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel won't participate in indirect cease-fire talks with Hamas and instead plans to scale back its 26-day-old military operation in Gaza on its own terms, Israeli officials and media reports said Saturday.
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| Netanyahu to US: Don't second guess me on Hamas Posted: 02 Aug 2014 09:09 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Following the quick collapse of the cease-fire in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the White House not to force a truce with Palestinian militants on Israel.
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| Obama hosts Africa summit with an eye on legacy Posted: 02 Aug 2014 10:24 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is gathering nearly 50 African heads of state in Washington for an unprecedented summit aimed in part at building his legacy on a continent where his commitment has been questioned.
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| Honduran man waits for asylum after 12-year fight Posted: 02 Aug 2014 10:23 AM PDT  When he arrived at the Texas border, Celvyn Mejia Romero was a scared 10-year-old, with a machete scar and memories of a murdered uncle as reminders of why he'd embarked on a long, perilous journey from Honduras.
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| Syria rebels raid Lebanese town, capture soldiers Posted: 02 Aug 2014 10:00 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — Rebels fighting in Syria's civil war crossed into Lebanon and raided a border town Saturday, killing and capturing security force members in the most serious incursion into the tiny country during its neighbor's 3-year-old conflict.
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| Ohio's 4th-largest city: Don't drink the water Posted: 02 Aug 2014 10:18 AM PDT  TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Toxins possibly from algae on Lake Erie fouled the water supply of the state's fourth-largest city Saturday, forcing officials to issue warnings not to drink the water and the governor to declare a state of emergency as worried residents descended on stores, quickly clearing shelves of bottled water.
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| Muslim movement accepts once-taboo causes Posted: 02 Aug 2014 06:21 AM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Omar Akersim prays regularly and observes the dawn-to-dusk Ramadan fast. He is also openly gay.
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| Kennedy clan gathers for RFK Jr, actress's wedding Posted: 02 Aug 2014 08:05 AM PDT  HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — Relatives and friends are gathering for the wedding of Robert Kennedy Jr. and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" actress Cheryl Hines at the Kennedy compound on Cape Cod.
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| Kentucky politics gets a side order of barbecue Posted: 02 Aug 2014 02:01 AM PDT  MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — The annual picnic at Fancy Farm always serves up a main dish of politics along with a side of delicious barbecue. And this year voters will get a rare glimpse of Kentucky's U.S. Senate candidates standing side by side as they face armies of hecklers trying to move them off their talking points.
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| Ebola: Liberians dying of ignorance, say aid workers Posted: 02 Aug 2014 04:36 AM PDT  It is a sweltering morning in the over-stretched Ebola clinic in the Liberian capital Monrovia, and Kendell Kauffeldt scowls in frustration as a jeep pulls up with a new patient. Kauffeldt, the director in Liberia of Christian aid group Samaritan's Purse, is at the forefront of the country's battle with the worst outbreak of Ebola that the world has ever seen. Ebola is a terrifying spectre for the people of Liberia's remote forests, who have seen relatives die in agonising pain.
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| House OKs bill to address border crisis Posted: 01 Aug 2014 07:34 PM PDT  House Republicans passed legislation late Friday to address the crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border by sending migrant youths back home without hearings, winning over conservatives with a companion bill that could lead to deporting more than half a million immigrants whom the Obama administration granted temporary work permits. President Barack Obama condemned the Republican action and said he'd act unilaterally, as best he could.
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| Push for charges in NYC police chokehold death Posted: 02 Aug 2014 02:15 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers enraged by a man's death in police custody see a medical examiner's ruling that blames a prohibited chokehold as a clear indication the officers involved should face criminal charges.
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| Obama has room to maneuver on immigration changes Posted: 02 Aug 2014 02:00 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — What can President Barack Obama actually do without Congress to change U.S. immigration policies? A lot, it turns out.
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| Official: NYC Police chokehold ruled a homicide Posted: 01 Aug 2014 01:31 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — A chokehold used by a police officer on a New York City man during his arrest for selling untaxed, loose cigarettes last month caused his death, the medical examiner announced Friday, ruling it a homicide.
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| Obama: After 9/11, ‘we tortured some folks’ Posted: 01 Aug 2014 01:47 PM PDT  President Obama urged that US officials who used torture not be judged too harshly.
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| Hamas: Missing soldier likely killed in strike Posted: 01 Aug 2014 08:44 PM PDT GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Hamas military on Saturday distanced itself from the disappearance of a soldier Israel says is suspected to have been captured by Hamas fighters in Gaza. |
| 2 Americans with Ebola arrive in the US Posted: 01 Aug 2014 03:23 PM PDT  Two Americans seriously ill with the deadly Ebola virus should arrive in the U.S. from West Africa by early next week.
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| War of words erupts between Larry King & Piers Morgan Posted: 01 Aug 2014 01:59 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Clearly, former CNN prime-time stars Larry King and Piers Morgan aren't big fans of each other.
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| Canadian police launch anti-sexting app for kids Posted: 01 Aug 2014 01:30 PM PDT  A Canadian police sex crimes unit offered a sneak peak Friday of an app to help kids rebuff requests for naked pics online, amid what authorities called a sexting "epidemic." The "Send This Instead" free app, to be offered by the Ontario Provincial Police, provides 57 humorous and sarcastic retorts to sexting requests, as well as a link to police to report sexual harassment. It is aimed at Canadian teens, but will be available worldwide when it is officially launched at the Crimes Against Children Conference in Dallas, Texas on August 11-14. "When you are feeling pressured to send intimate images to someone online, Send This Instead," reads a description of the app on Apple's and Google's app stores.
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| Virginia ex-governor's corruption trial jury sees racy email Posted: 01 Aug 2014 03:37 PM PDT  By Gary Robertson RICHMOND Va. (Reuters) - The federal jury hearing the corruption trial of former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell on Friday saw a racy email his wife sent to a businessman, a communication defense attorneys said was proof that the two were having an affair. Lawyers for McDonnell's wife, Maureen, said at the start of the trial that the couple's marriage had been unraveling at the time they accepted gifts from a businessman they said Maureen McDonnell had a "crush" on. Maureen McDonnell's attorney on Friday showed the jury at U.S. District Court in Richmond an email his client sent to Williams on Aug. 23, 2011, the day an earthquake rocked the U.S. East Coast. Defense attorneys tried to distance the former governor from Williams, saying the interaction was primarily between the businessman and Maureen McDonnell.
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| Obama: Israeli soldier must be freed Posted: 01 Aug 2014 12:00 PM PDT  'Unconditional release' is required If Hamas wants to resolve Gaza conflict, Obama says.
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| Ebola-hit countries move to seal off hot zones, borders Posted: 01 Aug 2014 07:11 PM PDT  West Africa's Ebola-hit nations have agreed to impose a cross-border isolation zone at the epicentre of the world's worst-ever outbreak, amid warnings that the deadly epidemic is spiralling out of control. The announcement came at an emergency summit in the Guinean capital on Friday to discuss the outbreak, which has killed more than 700 people, with the World Health Organization warning Ebola could cause "catastrophic" loss of life and severe economic disruption if it continued to spread. "We have agreed to take important and extraordinary actions at the inter-country level to focus on cross-border regions that have more than 70 percent of the epidemic," said Hadja Saran Darab, the secretary-general of the Mano River Union bloc grouping the nations. Opening the summit, WHO chief Margaret Chan told leaders that the response of the three countries to the epidemic had been "woefully inadequate", revealing that the outbreak was "moving faster than our efforts to control it".
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| Teen girl to get head examined after setting 2K acre wildfire Posted: 01 Aug 2014 12:53 PM PDT  A teenage girl charged with setting a California wildfire that burned 2,000 acres (800 hectares) and destroyed some 40 structures north of San Diego in May has been ordered by a judge to submit to a mental competency exam, prosecutors said on Friday. She has been identified only by her first name, Cheyenne, because she is a minor. Cheyenne, who could be required to stand trial as an adult, was ordered to undergo the mental competency evaluation by a judge during a hearing earlier this week, San Diego County District Attorney's spokeswoman Tanya Sierra said.
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| New alcohol rehab center opens in...Iran? Posted: 01 Aug 2014 11:42 AM PDT  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has opened the country's first, state-run rehab and treatment center for alcoholism, an Iranian semi-official news agency reported on Friday.
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