| 'I miss you so much, Daddy' Posted: 11 Sep 2014 09:58 AM PDT  Nation pauses to mark 13th anniversary of Sept. 11 terror attack at hallowed New York site transformed into plaza.
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| FBI probes apparent attempt to firebomb congressman's office Posted: 11 Sep 2014 10:15 AM PDT  Federal investigators are looking into what appears to have been an attempt to firebomb a U.S. congressman's office in Missouri.
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| Man accused of killing 5 kids was ex-con with rap sheet Posted: 11 Sep 2014 08:47 AM PDT  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — APNewsBreak: Dad accused of killing 5 kids was ex-con, went on crime spree in Illinois in 2001.
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| Boko Haram under scrutiny over foreign fighters claim Posted: 11 Sep 2014 08:03 AM PDT  Cameroon's claims this week that two Tuareg fighters were among the dead when troops bombarded Boko Haram positions have sparked fresh interest in the group's links to the wider jihadi network. Boko Haram was designated an Al-Qaeda-linked terror group earlier this year while its recent land grab in Nigeria's northeast has prompted comparisons to Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq. Andrew Noakes, co-ordinator of the Nigeria Security Network of analysts, said it was "plausible" that Boko Haram had fighters from beyond the lands populated by its Kanuri tribal base. "There is most likely a relationship of convenience between Boko Haram and AQIM (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb), which may stretch to sourcing militants from outside the insurgency's traditional area of recruitment," he told AFP by email.
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| Images of 9/11 then, and what they look like today Posted: 09 Sep 2014 06:13 PM PDT  One World Trade Center and the steeple of Trinity Church are seen from Broadway and Rector Street on Wednesday, September 10, 2013. (AP/Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) |
| Stringent new abortion rule in Missouri Posted: 11 Sep 2014 07:54 AM PDT  Missouri women seeking abortions will face one of the nation's most stringent waiting periods, after state lawmakers overrode the governor's veto to enact a 72-hour delay that includes no exception for ...
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| Islamic State kidnaps 20 Iraqi villagers Posted: 11 Sep 2014 07:51 AM PDT  Islamic State jihadists kidnapped Thursday 20 people in a northern Iraqi village suspected of forming a local group to fight them, a security official and witnesses said. The kidnappings were carried out in Kirkuk province by dozens of fighters from IS, which led a major offensive that overran large areas of Iraq in June. According to rights group Amnesty International, IS kidnapped thousands of civilians as it overran minority-populated northern villages last month.
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| Gbagbo facing trial for crimes against humanity Posted: 11 Sep 2014 07:28 AM PDT  The International Criminal Court on Thursday confirmed that Ivory coast's former president Laurent Gbagbo will face trial for crimes against humanity, throwing out an appeal by the defence. "Preliminary Chamber I rejected the defence's request to appeal against the decision relative to the confirmation of the charges," the court based in The Hague said in a statement. No date has yet been set for the trial of Gbagbo on four counts of crimes against humanity, allegedly committed at the end of his 10-year rule over the troubled west African country, once he refused to accept defeat in an election in November 2010. His supporters clashed for five months mainly in the economic capital Abidjan with those of President Alassane Ouattara, who was proclaimed winner of the vote by the electoral commission, at a cost of at least 3,000 lives.
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| Score one for sharks: New curbs on threatening trade Posted: 11 Sep 2014 07:15 AM PDT  The 178 members of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) agreed in March 2013 to tighten regulations on the trade of the three types of hammerhead shark, the porbeagle and oceanic whitetip shark, and two types of manta ray. "The listing was a victory for science over politics," Andy Cornish, who heads a shark preservation initiative backed by WWF and wildlife trade monitoring network Traffic, said in a statement. More than 70 million sharks are killed worldwide every year, according to WWF, with high demand for shark fins in Asia the biggest driver of the overfishing. Traffic has estimated the total value of the shark fin trade at more than $480 million per year, with the fish hunted for their meat, leather, liver oil and cartilage.
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| Obama speech seriously ruffles Syria Posted: 11 Sep 2014 07:12 AM PDT  Foreign intervention would be act of aggression unless Damascus OKs, as US discusses strikes on IS there.
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| McCain, Carney crossfire on CNN coverage of Obama speech Posted: 11 Sep 2014 05:19 AM PDT  Sen. John McCain and former White House press secretary Jay Carney got into a heated exchange on CNN following President Barack Obama's primetime speech Wednesday.
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| Adjournment on 'culpable homicide' Posted:  Judge says Oscar Pistorius "negligent," raising possibility of culpable homicide conviction.
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| Matt Bai: For Democratic candidates, there's a lot in a name Posted: 11 Sep 2014 01:04 AM PDT  In states where the president's standing has plummeted, a bunch of Democratic senators have managed to at least stay close into this last phase of the campaign, raising hopes among party leaders that somehow they may yet be able to ride this one out.
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| NFL hires ex-FBI chief to investigate handling of Ray Rice case Posted:  Finally, there should be some real answers to how the NFL handled the Ray Rice situation.
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| Not guilty of premeditated murder Posted: 11 Sep 2014 07:17 AM PDT  Judge can still find Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide in the death of his girlfriend.
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| Obama: 'No safe haven' if you threaten America Posted: 09 Sep 2014 10:23 AM PDT  The president announces a broad military campaign to combat the Islamic State.
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| Scientists: Strong solar storm heading to Earth Posted: 10 Sep 2014 06:49 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A strong solar flare is blasting its way to Earth, but the worst of its power looks like it will barely skim above the planet and not cause many problems.
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| Highway shutdown averted at Ferguson protests Posted: 10 Sep 2014 09:27 PM PDT  Authorities arrested protesters who were planning to block part of Interstate 70 on Wednesday near the St. Louis suburb where an unarmed black 18-year-old was fatally shot by a white police officer.
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| Obama leads U.S. in remembrance of September 11 victims Posted: 11 Sep 2014 09:55 AM PDT  By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - Led by President Barack Obama, Americans commemorated the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on Thursday by observing moments of silence for the thousands killed that day at New York City's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. In what has become an annual ritual, relatives began slowly reciting the nearly 3,000 names of the victims at a ceremony in lower Manhattan, from Gordon Aamoth Jr. to Igor Zukelman. ...
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| Man pleads not guilty to fraud in 2012 U.S. meningitis outbreak Posted: 11 Sep 2014 09:00 AM PDT  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - A pharmacist who worked for the Massachusetts company that sparked a 2012 U.S. Glenn Adam Chin, 46, said in U.S. District Court in Boston that he was "not guilty" of charges he knowingly shipped a tainted steroid that sickened 700 people in 20 states. He has been confined to his Canton, Massachusetts, home since officials pulled him off a plane last week at the start of what was to be a family trip to Hong Kong for a wedding.
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| More mediation ordered over potential Detroit bankruptcy deal Posted: 11 Sep 2014 09:59 AM PDT  A federal judge on Thursday ordered ongoing mediation in Detroit's historic bankruptcy over a potential settlement between the city and one of its fiercest creditors, while adding holdout creditor Financial Guaranty Insurance Co to the list of parties whose attendance is required. District Judge Gerald Rosen, the chief mediator in the bankruptcy case, ordered that mediation, which began on Thursday, will also take place on Friday and will continue "day-to-day thereafter as deemed necessary, until released by the mediators." The city and Syncora Guarantee Inc, the bond insurer that had been the fiercest holdout creditor in the case, notified the U.S. Sealing that deal would leave FGIC, another bond insurer, as the only major holdout creditor left in the biggest-ever municipal bankruptcy Detroit filed in July 2013. FGIC, which has a $1.1 billion exposure in the case from guaranteeing payments on the city's pension debt, issued a statement on Wednesday that said it remains open to "good faith settlement discussions." Both Syncora and FGIC faced recoveries of 10 cents on the dollar or less in the bankruptcy as other creditors including the city's pension funds reached deals.
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| Rice video sent to NFL 3 months ago, official says Posted:  NFL has insisted it didn't see the violent images of Ray Rice punching his then-fiancee until this week.
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| Toronto Mayor Rob Ford hospitalized with suspected tumor Posted: 10 Sep 2014 06:33 PM PDT  TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has been admitted to a hospital and is believed to have a tumor in his abdomen, health officials said Wednesday.
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| Obama to brace US for mounting IS conflict Posted: 10 Sep 2014 01:14 PM PDT Exactly one year ago, Obama delivered a prime-time speech defending his Syria policy. |
| 30 killed in Baghdad attacks Posted: 10 Sep 2014 11:56 AM PDT  A series of attacks, mainly car bombings targeting security forces and markets, killed at least 30 people Wednesday in Iraq's capital, authorities said.
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| Joan Rivers: N.Y. clinic says no biopsy performed Posted: 10 Sep 2014 03:44 PM PDT  By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York clinic where comedian Joan Rivers stopped breathing a week before her death denied on Wednesday ever administering general anesthesia or conducting a vocal cord biopsy as has been alleged in media reports as contributing to her demise. It was the first time the Yorkville Endoscopy clinic issued a statement since Aug. 28, when Rivers was rushed to a nearby hospital from the center with cardiac arrest. The clinic did not mention Rivers by name but issued the statement hours after New York's Daily News newspaper reported that an unplanned vocal cord biopsy at the clinic had left the Brooklyn-born comedian unable to breathe. "A biopsy of the vocal cords has never been performed at Yorkville Endoscopy," said the clinic, which specializes in gastrointestinal procedures.
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| Denver woman pleads guilty in terror case Posted: 10 Sep 2014 10:39 AM PDT  Colorado 19-year-old is latest American to admit to attempting to join a Middle East terror group.
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| N.Y. trial opens for mother accused of killing autistic boy Posted: 10 Sep 2014 11:16 AM PDT  Socialite Gigi Jordan murdered her autistic son to avoid dealing with his developmental disorder, prosecutors said at the start of her trial on Wednesday, but the defense said it was a mercy killing to protect the boy from being raped by his father. "She wanted to ease his suffering," Allan Brenner, lead defense attorney for Jordan, a self-made millionaire pharmaceutical executive, told a jury at the state's Supreme Court in Manhattan. Jordan, 54, is accused of overdosing her 8-year-old son, Jude Mirra, with prescription pills in a ritzy Manhattan hotel room in 2010.
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| 7 charged in Chicago gang signs machete attack Posted: 10 Sep 2014 11:54 AM PDT  Seven people, including three 15-year-olds, are accused in a machete attack that left a deep wound on a man's head after he and his brother refused to flash gang signs at a Chicago train station, authorities said Wednesday.
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| Malaysia calls for new MH17 search for victims' remains Posted: 10 Sep 2014 10:33 AM PDT  Malaysia's defense minister on Wednesday called for experts to carry out a final search at the crash site of downed flight MH17 in east Ukraine to recover any remains left behind before winter hits. "It is important for us before the onset of winter in Ukraine to make one final sweep to comb the areas for any remaining passengers who have not been found," Hishammuddin Hussein said after meeting top Russian officials in Moscow. All 298 people on board the Malaysia Airlines flight died in the July 17 disaster.
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| Fragile ozone layer shows first sign of recovery: U.N. Posted: 10 Sep 2014 04:37 PM PDT  The ozone layer that shields life from the sun's cancer-causing ultraviolet rays is showing its first sign of thickening after years of dangerous depletion, a U.N. study said on Wednesday. Experts said it showed the success of a 1987 ban on man-made gases that damage the fragile high-altitude screen, an achievement that would help prevent millions of cases of skin cancer and other conditions. The ozone hole that appears annually over Antarctica has also stopped growing bigger every year, though it will be about a decade before it starts shrinking, said the report co-produced by the World Meteorological Organization and the U.N. Environment Program. "International action on the ozone layer is a major environmental success story ... This should encourage us to display the same level of urgency and unity to tackle the even greater challenge of tackling climate change," said WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud.
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