| ISIL may be planning attacks on U.S. soil Posted: 15 Aug 2014 09:33 AM PDT  Exclusive: Well-armed group may have America in its cross-hairs.
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| Gore sues Al Jazeera for unpaid millions Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:48 AM PDT  Former VP says network still owes millions for Current TV network deal.
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| Israel prepares for 'next big battle' Posted: 15 Aug 2014 09:33 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — With the Gaza war seeming to have calmed, Israel is now preparing for its next big battle: a diplomatic and legal challenge over Palestinian civilian deaths in its campaign against Hamas militants.
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| More Cubans risking life and limb to get to US Posted: 15 Aug 2014 09:57 AM PDT  MIAMI (AP) — One early morning this April, Dairon Morera climbed onto a raft of aluminum tanks with 22 other people, revved up a Volvo car motor and pushed off the Cuban shore, joining a never-ending stream of islanders desperate to reach the United States.
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| Judge slaps down McDonnell request Posted: 15 Aug 2014 08:57 AM PDT  By Gary Robertson RICHMOND Va. (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday rejected defense motions that former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell and his wife be acquitted in their corruption and bribery trial. U.S. District Judge James Spencer turned down the bids after a one-hour hearing. The motions came after prosecutors wrapped up their case against McDonnell, a Republican, and his wife after almost three weeks of testimony. Defense lawyers are expected to start calling witnesses on Monday.
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| Ukraine says it's destroyed Russian military vehicles Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:37 AM PDT  KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY, Russia (AP) — Russian military vehicles crossed into Ukraine during the night, NATO said Friday, and the Ukrainian president declared that most of them were quickly destroyed by his troops.
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| Dire Ebola update from WHO Posted: 15 Aug 2014 09:27 AM PDT  The death toll from the worst ever outbreak of Ebola has risen to 1,145, the World Health Organization said on Friday, as 76 new deaths were reported in the two days to August 13 in the four West African nations affected by the epidemic. The U.N. health agency said that a total of 152 confirmed, probable and suspected new cases of the deadly hemorrhagic fever were reported in the two day period in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, bringing the total for the outbreak to 2,127.
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| EU's crucial move to save Iraq from "true catastrophe" Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:46 AM PDT  Brussels (AFP) - EU ministers agreed at an emergency meeting on Friday to back the arming of overwhelmed Iraqi Kurd fighters in the face of an onslaught by Islamic State jihadists.
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| Teen shot by cop suspect in robbery: Police Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:41 AM PDT  St. Louis suburb's police chief ID'd officer, alleged teen killed after robbery.
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| Massive Revolutionary War artifact find Posted: 15 Aug 2014 08:36 AM PDT  LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (AP) — An archaeological dig at a Colonial military site in the southern Adirondacks of New York has turned up thousands of artifacts, from butchered animal bones to uniform buttons, along with a lime kiln used to make mortar for a British fort that was never completed.
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| Va. deputy shot daughter, crashed car, say police Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:17 AM PDT  WINCHESTER, Va. (AP) — A Virginia deputy sheriff shot his 16-year-old daughter after mistaking her for an intruder, then crashed his car as he rushed her to the hospital, authorities said.
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| U.S. doctor with Ebola hopes to leave Atlanta hospital soon Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:59 AM PDT  By Colleen Jenkins WINSTON-SALEM N.C. (Reuters) - The Texas doctor being treated for Ebola said on Friday that he was "recovering in every way" at an Atlanta hospital and hoped to be released soon. Kent Brantly, 33, was one of two U.S. aid workers who were infected with the deadly virus in Liberia and evacuated earlier this month for treatment at Emory University's hospital as their health declined. Brantly said he still faced "a few hurdles" before he could be discharged from the isolation unit where he is being treated, although he gave no other details. "I am more grateful every day to the Lord for sparing my life and continuing to heal my body," Brantly said in a statement released by North Carolina-based Samaritan's Purse, the Christian relief group he worked for in West Africa.
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| The Critics: Eater New York's head restaurant critic... Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:59 AM PDT  Eater New York's head restaurant critic and data lead Ryan Sutton goes on camera with Rob Petrone of FiOS Long Island. The two men chat over clams and then Petrone superimposes Ryan Gosling's mug over Sutton's face. Sutton says: "It...
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| 5 Viruses That Are Scarier Than Ebola Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:58 AM PDT  The Ebola virus has now killed more than 1,000 people in West Africa. Although the mortality rate of the most recent outbreak isn't as high as in previous events, it's still the case that most people who become infected with Ebola will not survive. But despite this somber prognosis, health experts in the United States aren't particularly worried about the threat of Ebola in this countryor in other developed countries. "I see Ebola as a significant threat in the specific regions that it has been identified in, certainly central and west Africa," said Cecilia Rokusek, a public health expert with Nova Southeastern University's Institute for Disaster and Emergency Preparedness in Florida.
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| 32 killed in Syria's Daraa, Aleppo Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:57 AM PDT  At least 22 people were killed Friday when a car bomb exploded in front of a mosque in Daraa province of southern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. In northern Syria, the Observatory reported 10 people killed when regime helicopters dropped explosive-packed "barrel bombs" on Aleppo city. North of Aleppo city, the Observatory said jihadists from the Islamic State (IS) group extended their advances, seizing Baghaydin village near the border with Turkey. On Wednesday, IS fighters captured eight villages in the area between Aleppo and the border from rival rebel groups.
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| Exclusive: Shake Shack preparing for an IPO - sources Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:57 AM PDT  (Reuters) - Shake Shack, the fast-food restaurant chain famous for its hamburgers and milkshakes, is preparing to go public, seeking to tap stock market demand for popular casual dining companies, according to people familiar with the matter. Shake Shack's majority owner, Union Square Hospitality Group LLC, has interviewed investment banks in recent weeks to appoint underwriters for an initial public offering, the people said on Friday. Shake Shack, which started out of a hot dog kiosk in New York's Madison Square Park in 2004, is expected to post earnings of around $20 million next year, one of the people added. A Shake Shack spokesman declined to comment, while Union Square Hospitality did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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| Aid group: W. Africa Ebola outbreak like 'wartime' Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:57 AM PDT  MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — The Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 1,000 people in West Africa could last another six months, Doctors Without Borders said Friday, and an aid worker acknowledged that the true death toll is unknown.
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| This is what Mars looks like in 'Destiny' Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:56 AM PDT  Millions of players explored the ruins of Earth during Destiny's recent beta, but the game's latest trailer provides a closer look at an area that's a bit more alien: Mars. According to developer Bungie, the Red Planet is home to what was once a thriving metropolis, but is now referred to solely as the exclusion zone, where relics of civilization are buried deep below the dusty surface. Whatever you call it, it looks like Mars is filled with tough new enemies and lots of action. It's also one of several off-Earth locations you'll be exploring, including the Moon and Venus. ...
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| Al Gore sues Al Jazeera over cable channel deal Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:55 AM PDT  Former US vice president Al Gore filed a lawsuit Friday claiming the owners of Al-Jazeera America improperly took back $65 million placed in escrow for the sale of his cable channel. The lawsuit filed in Delaware Chancery Court says that Al-Jazeera, owned by Qatar's royal family, failed to honor the contract in the sale of his cable channel, Current TV. "Al Jazeera America wants to give itself a discount on the purchase price that was agreed to nearly two years ago," Gore's lawyer David Boies said in a statement. "We are asking the court to order Al-Jazeera America to stop wrongfully withholding the escrow funds that belong to Current's former shareholders."
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| Russian defence ministry denies military convoy entered Ukraine Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:54 AM PDT  The Russian defence ministry denied Friday that it had sent a military convoy into Ukraine after officials in Kiev said they destroyed part of the armoured column. Major-General Igor Konashenkov said "there exists no Russian military convoy that supposedly crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border...", but better that Ukraine's armed forces "destroy phantoms instead of refugees or their own soldiers," he added, according to Russian news agencies. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told British Prime Minister David Cameron that government artillery had destroyed a "considerable part" of a small military convoy that entered the country, the presidency said in a statement earlier Friday. NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen backed reports of the "Russian incursion" after British media said it had seen the convoy of some 20 vehicles cross the border.
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| EU says status quo for Gaza 'not an option' Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:52 AM PDT  BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union offered Friday to take charge of Gaza's border crossings and work to prevent illegal arms flows, insisting on a durable truce and saying a return to the status quo before the latest war "is not an option."
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| Tax dodgers' land for sale; may be booby-trapped Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:52 AM PDT  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire compound of a tax-evading couple convicted of amassing an arsenal of weapons and holding federal law enforcement officials at bay for months is being sold at auction — even as prospective buyers have been kept off the land because some of it could still be booby-trapped.
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| Relief as Iraq's Maliki bows out, but fear little will change Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:50 AM PDT  Iraqis and foreign brokers alike breathed a sigh of relief Friday after Nuri al-Maliki stepped aside, which many saw as vital to tackling a spiralling military and humanitarian crisis. Support for Maliki's designated replacement, Haidar al-Abadi, has poured in from sources as diverse as Iran and Saudi Arabia. Jihadists advanced within miles of autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan last week, which was one of the factors that triggered US air strikes and broad foreign support for the cash-strapped Kurds. When the jihadists, who have controlled parts of Syria for months, swept across the Sunni heartland of Iraq in early June, they encountered little or no resistance.
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| A key Galaxy S6 detail may have just leaked Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:50 AM PDT  File this one under "we'll believe it when we see it," but G for Games points us to a new report from Chinese publication Sina.com that claims Samsung's Galaxy S6 is going to feature… wait for it… an all-metal build. Stop us if you've heard this one before. According to G for Games' interpretation, Sina.com's supply chain sources say that Samsung sees both the recently announced Galaxy Alpha and the upcoming Galaxy Note 4 as stepping stones for implementing a more complete premium design starting next year with its flagship Galaxy S6 handset. The Galaxy Alpha was the first Samsung phone to release with a sturdy metal frame, even though the phone's rear casing was still made of Samsung's hallmark plastic. And
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| Ebola outbreak could take six months to control, say MSF Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:49 AM PDT The Ebola epidemic is moving faster than the authorities can handle and could take six months to bring under control, the medical charity MSF said Friday. The warning came a day after the World Health Organization said the scale of the epidemic had been vastly underestimated and that "extraordinary measures" were needed to contain the killer disease. The UN health agency said the death toll from the worst outbreak of Ebola in four decades had now climbed to 1,145 in the four afflicted West African countries -- Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. "It is deteriorating faster, and moving faster, than we can respond to," Joanne Liu, the chief of Doctors without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, told reporters in Geneva. |
| The internet is so big that it's breaking routers Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:47 AM PDT  The internet may soon be too large for many border routers to handle, according to a new report from analysts at Renesys. As Cowie puts it, "we'll be looking to see if the temperature of the internet is rising."
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| Day of prayer and truce in Gaza Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:47 AM PDT  Palestinian worshippers attended weekly prayers, relatively confident of their safety Friday as a fragile ceasefire held for a second day and tough talks loomed on a more lasting peace. For the first time since fighting began between Israel and Hamas on July 8, residents in Gaza City were able to attend the main weekly Friday prayers without fear of being killed. The imam at the mosque in the Shati camp called during the sermon for the destruction of Israel. Israel justified striking civilian targets such as schools and hospitals on the grounds that Hamas used them to launch rocket attacks.
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| Ferguson police got surplus military equipment Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:47 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Images of police outfitted in paramilitary gear clashing with protesters in suburban St. Louis are giving new impetus to efforts to rein in a Pentagon program that provides free machine guns and other surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies.
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| @RidingShotgunLA: "2Day's last day of filming&it's bittersweet... Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:46 AM PDT  "2Day's last day of filming&it's bittersweet but ending in a bang. Talkin bout Grand Royal in an X-Large way w/Diamonds.#StreetFood #CNN #LA" — LA chef Roy Choi has wrapped filming of his new CNN show.
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| Motorsport - NASCAR to restrict drivers exiting cars after Ward death Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:42 AM PDT  - In the wake of the death of 20-year-old racer Kevin Ward, NASCAR Friday implemented a new rule restricting drivers from exiting their cars during races except in cases of emergency. The new rule was announced at Michigan International Speedway, venue for Sunday's elite-level Sprint Cup race, but will apply to all of the racing series that NASCAR sanctions. It comes six days after three-time Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart struck and killed Ward -- who had left his damaged vehicle in mid-race -- during a low-level dirt-track race at Canandaigua Motorsports Park in New York. Under the new rule, a driver in a damaged or stopped vehicle should stay in the car "unless extenuating emergency conditions exist with the racecar (i.e.
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| Grand jury indicts couple in stripper's death Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:39 AM PDT  GRETNA, La. (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a couple in the killing and dismemberment of a stripper in New Orleans' French Quarter.
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| Execution drug cost quadruples for Texas prisons Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:39 AM PDT  HOUSTON (AP) — Texas is paying four times more for its execution drugs from a new supplier, putting it in line with a local consumer rate but well below the cost in at least one other death penalty state.
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| EU ministers 'alarmed' by Russian troops in Ukraine Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:37 AM PDT EU ministers urged Russia on Friday to put an "immediate stop" to all forms of hostilities near the Ukrainian border after reports that a Russian armoured convoy had entered conflict-torn eastern Ukraine. In a statement at the end of a meeting primarily on the crisis in Iraq, the ministers said Russia must "put an immediate stop to any form of border hostilities, in particular to the flow of arms, military advisers and armed personnel into the conflict region, and to withdraw its forces from the border." While arriving for talks focused mainly on the unfurling crisis in Iraq, ministers expressed deep concern at the reported Russian incursion and threatened a vigorous response if Moscow failed to reverse course. "I am very alarmed by the report," said British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond as Britain summoned Moscow's ambassador to London over the latest events. |
| Ferguson police ID officer in shooting Posted: 15 Aug 2014 06:34 AM PDT  Darren Wilson was policeman involved. Jason Sickles on the scene.
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| Try commuting in this three-wheeler Posted: 15 Aug 2014 07:29 AM PDT  ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) — Your next commuter car could have two seats, three wheels and get 84 miles to the gallon.
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