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Obama offers no time limit on Iraq military action

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Obama offers no time limit on Iraq military action

Obama offers no time limit on Iraq military action

Posted: 09 Aug 2014 09:52 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Saturday refused to give a time limit on America's renewed military involvement in Iraq, saying he doesn't think "we are going to solve this problem in weeks" as the country struggles to form a new government.

Ukraine rebel leader: We are open to a cease-fire

Posted: 09 Aug 2014 10:33 AM PDT

A local woman stands on her damaged balcony after morning shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. Several shells fell this morning in a northern Donetsk neighborhood, near the airport. No human casualties were registered. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — A top rebel leader announced Saturday that the rebel stronghold of Donetsk is surrounded by Ukrainian government troops and his forces were willing to accept a cease-fire in order to stave off a humanitarian catastrophe.

Ebola starting to take an economic toll in region

Posted: 09 Aug 2014 06:45 AM PDT

Workers are seen inside a Ebola call center, where people can phone to state their concerns about the Ebola virus, in the city of Monrovia, Liberia, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. Over the decades, Ebola cases have been confirmed in 10 African countries, including Congo where the disease was first reported in 1976. But until this year, Ebola had never come to West Africa. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)WASHINGTON (AP) — Caterpillar has evacuated a handful of employees from Liberia. Canadian Overseas Petroleum Ltd. has suspended a drilling project. British Airways has canceled flights to the region. ExxonMobil and Chevron are waiting to see whether health officials can contain the danger.

Obama offers no time limit on Iraq military action

Posted: 09 Aug 2014 10:36 AM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, about ongoing situation in Iraq before his departure on Marine One for a vacation in Martha's Vineyard. Obama announced late Thursday that he had ordered military airstrikes in northern Iraq to hold off Islamic State forces advancing on the Kurdish capital of Irbil. Obama also ordered airdrops of food and water to member of a religious minority group who fled into the mountains to escape the militants. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Saturday refused to give a time limit on America's renewed military involvement in Iraq, saying he doesn't think "we are going to solve this problem in weeks" as the country struggles to form a new government.

US aids displaced Iraqis as airstrikes help Kurds

Posted: 09 Aug 2014 10:31 AM PDT

This image provided by the U.S. Defense Department shows pallets of bottled water are loaded aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in preparation for a humanitarian airdrop over Iraq Aug. 8, 2014. Airmen with the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron airdropped 40 bundles of water for displaced citizens in the vicinity of Sinjar, Iraq. American planes conducted a second airdrop of food and water early Saturday for those trapped in the Sinjar mountains, said Pentagon chief spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Staff Sgt. Vernon Young Jr.)BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqi central government followed U.S. forces in delivering massive amounts of aid Saturday to refugees stranded high in the Sinjar mountains after they escaped a Sunni militant takeover of their towns, and President Barack Obama warned Americans that the renewed U.S. military campaign in Iraq will be "a long-term project."

Drought lessons: Water wasters attend Water School

Posted: 09 Aug 2014 10:47 AM PDT

FILE - This May 1, 2014, file photo shows irrigation water runs along a dried-up ditch between rice farms in Richvale, Calif. In Santa Cruz, Calif., dozens of residents who violated their strict water rations take a seat at Water School, hoping to get hundreds of thousands of dollars in distressing penalties waived. California is in the third year of the state's worst drought in recent history. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — Some overindulged their zucchini patch. Others didn't bother with that dripping kitchen sink. But now every Monday night in this drought-stricken beach town, dozens of residents who violated their strict rations take a seat at Water School, hoping to get hundreds of thousands of dollars in distressing penalties waived.

Ukraine rebel leader: We are open to a cease-fire

Posted: 09 Aug 2014 10:58 AM PDT

A local woman stands on her damaged balcony after morning shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. Several shells fell this morning in a northern Donetsk neighborhood, near the airport. No human casualties were registered. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian troops have surrounded the rebel-held city of Donetsk and the insurgents are willing to accept a cease-fire in order to stave off a humanitarian catastrophe, a top rebel leader announced Saturday.

Tens of thousands rally for Gaza in London

Posted: 09 Aug 2014 09:59 AM PDT

Protesters against military action in Gaza gather by the BBC building in central London, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. Israeli airstrikes struck more than 20 targets Saturday in the Gaza Strip and killed a senior Hamas member, as militant rocket fire continued following the collapse of a three-day truce aimed at ending the war between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo/John Stillwell, PA Wire) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVESLONDON (AP) — Tens of thousands of people have turned out in central London to protest the bombing of Gaza.

Police-mayor tensions mount over chokehold death

Posted: 09 Aug 2014 06:45 AM PDT

FILE- In this July 31, 2014 file photo provided by the New York City Mayoral Photography Office, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, center, is seated between New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton, left, and the Rev. Al Sharpton, during a round table discussion convened to ease tensions over the July 17, police involved death of Eric Garner. In an interview with The Associated Press, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said he wanted to counter "some of the misimpressions and some of the momentum that's been gained by self-serving interests" in the wake of the videotaped death last month of Garner. (AP Photo/New York City Mayoral Photography Office, Bob Bennett, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Police have become increasingly at odds with Mayor Bill de Blasio over the appearance he is taking sides against them after the chokehold death of a black suspect last month — a conflict that has prompted the city's top law enforcement official to do damage control by calling the mayor "very pro-cop."

As bombs fall over Iraq, old emotions rise in US

Posted: 09 Aug 2014 09:34 AM PDT

Melrose Larry Green, 62, a comedian and occasional guest on Howard Stern's radio show, peddles bus tours of celebrity homes on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles on Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. Green thinks President Obama's decision to conduct airstrikes on militants in Iraq is one of political expediency, and he said removing U.S. forces from Iraq in 2011 was a mistake. On Friday, the U.S. unleashed its first airstrikes in northern Iraq against militants of the Islamic State group as a humanitarian crisis worsens.(AP Photo/Matt Hamilton)It was supposed to be over, America's war in Iraq. So all the old emotions boiled up anew as Americans absorbed the news that U.S. bombs were again striking targets in the nation where the United States led an invasion in 2003, lost almost 4,500 troops in the fight to stabilize and liberate it and then left nearly three years ago.

Turkish elections could shift president's role

Posted: 09 Aug 2014 12:18 AM PDT

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife Emine Erdogan wave to supporters after a rally in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. Some 53 million Turks go the polls on Sunday to choose their 12th president in an election considered a turning point for the country of 76 million people, with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vying for the position he has pledged to transform from a symbolic role into a position of power. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the former chief of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas are also running. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the front-runner in Turkey's first direct presidential election on Sunday, says that if elected he will be an active head of state who "sweats, runs and rushes around" — not just a ceremonial figurehead as presidents have been in the past.

HIV infections rise, thwart Brazil's AIDS efforts

Posted: 09 Aug 2014 12:26 AM PDT

In this July 31, 2014, photo, a sex worker waits for costumers in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Even as HIV infection rates have begun declining in many other places, cases have been slowly rising in Brazil _ with the sharpest jump among youths 15 to 24. The national Health Ministry says overall numbers of HIV infections has reached nearly 800,000. That's half of all the HIV cases in all of Latin America. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)SAO PAULO (AP) — The devastating news didn't make sense to Brazilian Pierre Freitaz. How was it possible that, at age 17, he was infected with HIV if his only boyfriend seemed fit and healthy?

Rockets, airstrikes after Gaza war truce collapses

Posted: 09 Aug 2014 12:48 AM PDT

Palestinians carry religion books they salvaged from the Martyr Imam Hassan al-banna mosque in Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City, after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes struck more than 20 targets Saturday in the Gaza Strip and killed a senior Hamas member, as militant rocket fire continued following the collapse of a three-day truce aimed at ending the war between Israel and Hamas.

Obama’s new Iraq mission: No end date, but not ‘prolonged’

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 02:16 PM PDT

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters stand guard as smoke rises after airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants near the Khazer checkpoint outside of the city of Irbil in northern Iraq, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. Iraqi Air Force has been carrying out strikes against the militants, and for the first time on Friday, U.S. war planes have directly targeted the extremist Islamic State group, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)How long will American airstrikes pummel fighters belonging to the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)? The White House said Friday that the mission is open-ended but repeatedly promised that it will not be "prolonged."

A warning on 'torture report' release

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 04:32 PM PDT

A protester burns a U.S. flagRelease of report on CIA tactics could inflame anti-U.S. passions: intelligence officials.

James Brady's death ruled a homicide

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 08:26 PM PDT

FILE - This Jan. 6, 1981 file photo shows James Brady, selected by president-elect Ronald Reagan to become his press secretary, talking to reporters after the announcement was made in Washington. Brady, the affable, witty press secretary who survived a devastating head wound in the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan and undertook a personal crusade for gun control, died Monday. He was 73. (AP Photo/Walt Zebowski, File)Surprise determination made by D.C. medical examiner.

Judge sides with athletes in NCAA compensation case

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Twenty athletes involved in lawsuit that challenged the NCAA's regulation of college athletics on antitrust grounds.

Surfers take to waves as flooding hits Hawaii

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 02:34 PM PDT

Two surfers head for the waves in Honolulu on Friday, Aug, 8, 2014. High surf is expected in some spots on Oahu due to Tropical Storm Iselle. Iselle came ashore early Friday as a weakened tropical storm, while Hurricane Julio, close behind it, strengthened and is forecasted to pass north of the islands. Iselle is the first tropical storm to hit the state in 22 years. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)As the first tropical storm to hit Hawaii in 22 years passed by the islands, some coffee farmers on the Big Island began navigating flooded roads to assess damage to their crops Friday while tourists wandered the beaches of Oahu and surfers took to the waves despite driving rain and wind.

Police: Texas boy, 7, shoots 8-year-old cousin

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 11:41 AM PDT

Crime Scene GenericTexas City police say an 8-year-old boy is in critical condition but does not appear to have life-threatening injuries after being shot in the face by his 7-year-old cousin.

Ebola-infected U.S. doctor: I'm growing stronger

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 01:15 PM PDT

This undated handout photo obtained on July 30, 2014 courtesy of Samaritan's Purse shows Dr. Kent Brantly near Monrovia, LiberiaKent Brantly's first public comments since nearly dying in Africa last month.

New round of U.S. airstrikes near Irbil

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 01:27 PM PDT

Smoke rises after airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants near the Khazer checkpoint outside of the city of Irbil in northern Iraq, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. Iraqi Air Force has been carrying out strikes against the militants, and for the first time on Friday, U.S. war planes have directly targeted the extremist Islamic State group, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)Pentagon: U.S. launches second round of Iraq strikes using drones, F/A-18 fighter jets.

Center of Iselle makes landfall on Hawaii's Big Island

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 03:45 PM PDT

Hurricane Iselle and Hurricane Julio are pictured en route to Hawaii in this NASA handout satellite imageThe center of Tropical Storm Iselle made landfall on Hawaii's Big Island on Friday, bringing strong winds and heavy rain, knocking down trees and causing power outages ahead of a more powerful storm gathering strength behind it. While Iselle weakened into a tropical storm before reaching the islands, it was being closely followed by Julio, a Category 3 hurricane set to reach the area as early as Sunday morning - although the latest forecasts showed it tracking just north of the archipelago. As Iselle bore down, more than 1,200 people flocked to evacuation shelters across the Big Island, according to County of Hawaii Civil Defense, as heavy rains and strong winds pummeled eastern areas of the island from Puna to Hilo.

Sheriff: Suspect in Wash. girl's disappearance likely got muddy

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 12:05 PM PDT

Jenise Paulette WrightSEATTLE (AP) — The person who might be responsible for the disappearance of a 6-year-old Washington girl would have been "covered in mud," and authorities on Friday asked for the public's help in recalling whether they had seen anyone who fit that description over the weekend.

New round of U.S. airstrikes near Irbil

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 12:55 PM PDT

This image made from AP video shows smoke rising from airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants near the Khazer checkpoint outside of the city of Irbil in northern Iraq, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. The Iraqi Air Force has been carrying out strikes against the militants, and for the first time on Friday, U.S. war planes have directly targeted the extremist Islamic State group, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq.(AP Photo via AP video)Pentagon: U.S. launches second round of Iraq strikes using drones, F/A-18 fighter jets.

VA apologizes for error in patient-death report

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 11:34 AM PDT

President Barack Obama, right, talks with new Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald at the Wallace Theater in Fort Belvoir, Va., Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014, after the president signed H.R. 3230, the Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014. The bill gives resources to the Department of Veterans Affairs to improve access and quality of care for veterans. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)The Department of Veterans Affairs has apologized for what it called an "inadvertent" mistake that underreported the number of deaths linked to delays in cancer treatment at VA medical facilities.

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