| Video purports to show beheading of second U.S. journalist Posted: 02 Sep 2014 11:12 AM PDT  An online video purports to show the beheading of U.S. writer Steven Sotloff by ISIL.
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| Another American medical missionary has Ebola Posted: 02 Sep 2014 10:35 AM PDT  An American doctor working in West Africa has contracted the deadly Ebola virus, a missionary group announced Tuesday morning.
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| Ukraine rebels: We are poised to recapture Donetsk airport Posted: 02 Sep 2014 10:30 AM PDT  EU officials proposed sanctions on Tuesday to starve Russian firms of cash as punishment for Moscow's role in Ukraine, where rebels said they were storming Donetsk airport, potentially their biggest prize since turning the war's tide last week. Western countries accuse Moscow of sending armored columns of troops into Ukraine, where the momentum in a five-month war shifted last week decisively in favor of pro-Russian rebels, who are now advancing on a new front towards a major port. Russia denies its troops are involved in fighting on the ground, in the face of what Western countries and Ukraine say is overwhelming evidence. According to the United Nations, the war, in which pro-Russian separatists are fighting to throw off rule from Kiev, has killed more than 2,600 people and driven nearly a million from their homes in east Ukraine.
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| Family: Joan Rivers on life support Posted: 02 Sep 2014 10:46 AM PDT  Joan Rivers' family is confirming that the comedian is on life support after going into cardiac arrest last week during a procedure at a doctor's office.
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| Girl from Uzi shooting said gun was too much for her Posted: 02 Sep 2014 10:51 AM PDT  PHOENIX (AP) — A 9-year-old girl who accidentally killed an instructor with an Uzi at an Arizona shooting range said immediately after the shooting that she felt the gun was too much for her and had hurt her shoulder, according to police reports released Tuesday.
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| Celebrity lawyer: Avoid using iCloud, smartphones Posted: 02 Sep 2014 10:48 AM PDT  Celebrity representatives and security experts used the online posting of intimate photos of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence and other female entertainers to sound new warnings on Tuesday about the dangers of storing data on the Internet. Martin Garbus, a New York trial lawyer who over the years has represented actors Al Pacino, Sean Connery, Robert Redford and others, said worried clients had approached him after the apparent mass hacking over the weekend. "Everything on your iPhone, whether it be phone calls, message texts, pictures, is all available." Garbus said clients started to contact him after intimate photos of Lawrence, a star of "The Hunger Games" movie franchise and a best actress Academy Award winner for "Silver Linings Playbook," and other high-profile women came to public attention on Sunday. Personal photos of Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Kate Upton and American actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead were also posted on the image-sharing forum 4Chan.
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| 'Losing the battle' with Ebola Posted: 02 Sep 2014 09:22 AM PDT  Doctors Without Borders tells U.N. that world leaders are failing to address the epidemic.
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| Bieber in trouble again: Ontario police charge him with assault Posted: 02 Sep 2014 10:08 AM PDT  TORONTO (AP) — Canadian pop star Justin Bieber faces new charges after police said Tuesday he was arrested for dangerous driving and assault following a collision between a minivan and an ATV that led to a physical altercation in southwestern Ontario.
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| Local cops: Dude, where's my Humvee? Posted: 02 Sep 2014 02:05 AM PDT  Among the issues that Obama is likely to find is that the program lacks oversight and accountability. Once Pentagon weapons reach the 8,000 police departments that participate in the program, many of them in tiny towns, the federal government has little control over them. The departments are not allowed to sell or dispose of any of the 1033 program's "controlled" items, which include small arms and tactical vehicles. An agency in each state takes over responsibility for checking the inventory once a year and reporting anything missing to the Defense Department's Defense Logistics Agency.
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| Jury begins deliberations in ex-Va. governor's corruption case Posted: 02 Sep 2014 10:56 AM PDT  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The jury began deliberations Tuesday in the corruption case that could send former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife to federal prison if jurors conclude that the couple sold the influence of his office to a wealthy vitamin executive seeking legitimacy for his company's signature product.
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| Republicans tone down Benghazi talk as elections near Posted: 02 Sep 2014 02:06 AM PDT  When the House voted in May to authorize the select committee, which could cost taxpayers up to $3.3 million to operate, the media attention such a panel was sure to draw was a huge part of the attraction for the Republicans who pushed for it. They wanted a channel to attack President Obama and the Democrats in the lead-up to the midterm elections — so much so that House Democrats weren't even sure they wanted to appoint representatives to the panel out of fear it would legitimize the GOP's charged rhetoric on the issue. But the politics of Benghazi have shifted. Domestically, the GOP appears poised to win back the Senate for the first time in nearly a decade, and internationally, the foreign policy picture has become much more complicated, with unrest in the Middle East growing dramatically since the last election.
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| Could E.coli bacteria be a fossil fuel alternative? Posted: 02 Sep 2014 08:05 AM PDT  In possibly five to 10 years, commercial production may be possible.
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| Halliburton's $1.1 billion settlement Posted: 02 Sep 2014 09:25 AM PDT  Oil services company Halliburton said Tuesday it would pay a $1.1 billion settlement over its role in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil rig blowout that led to the United States' most disastrous oil spill. Halliburton said the money would be paid to the Gulf fishing industry and other victims of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, including some claims made in suits against oil giant BP. Under contract with BP, Halliburton constructed the cement casing of the offshore deepwater Macondo well that blew out on April 20, 2010, killing 11 people. The blast sank the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and sent millions of barrels of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico over 78 days, soaking shores in several states, killing wildlife, and shutting down the fishing industry on much of the US gulf coast.
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| Controversial Texas voter ID law heads to trial Posted: 02 Sep 2014 11:29 AM PDT  Republicans claim the law is not discriminatory.
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| Russia and NATO go head to head Posted: 02 Sep 2014 09:42 AM PDT  Russia declared NATO a major "threat" on Tuesday after the Western military alliance announced plans to reinforce defences in eastern Europe because of the Kremlin's perceived stoking of war in Ukraine. Moscow's surprise declaration of a shift in its military doctrine came just ahead of a NATO summit in Wales on Thursday at which beleaguered Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will lobby US President Barack Obama for military support.
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| U.S. military attacks Islamists in Somalia Posted: 02 Sep 2014 10:25 AM PDT  A Somali official says the strike targeted the Islamic extremist network's fugitive leader.
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| Islamic State issues video of beheading of U.S. hostage: SITE Posted: 02 Sep 2014 11:22 AM PDT  The Islamic State released a video purporting to show the beheading of American hostage Steven Sotloff, a monitoring service said on Tuesday, as the militant group raised the stakes in its confrontation with Washington over U.S. A masked figure in the video also issued a threat against a British hostage, a man the group named as David Haines, and warned governments to back off "this evil alliance of America against the Islamic State", the SITE monitoring service said.
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| U.S. missionary doctor in Liberia tests positive for Ebola: group Posted: 02 Sep 2014 10:27 AM PDT An American missionary doctor working in Liberia has tested positive for the Ebola virus after working with obstetrics patients at a missionary hospital in Monrovia, the church-affiliated organization SIM USA said on Tuesday. The Charlotte, North Carolina-based group did not identify the physician but said he was not treating Ebola patients and isolated himself immediately when symptoms began. He was later transferred to an Ebola isolation unit on the group's 136-acre campus in Monrovia. "The doctor is doing well and is in good spirits," SIM USA said in a statement. |
| Hong Kong police arrest 19 in pro-democracy scuffles Posted: 01 Sep 2014 08:06 PM PDT  Hong Kong police said on Tuesday they arrested 19 people during scuffles with pro-democracy activists prompted by China's decision not to allow the Asian financial hub to choose its next leader. The 19, aged between 20 and 45, were arrested on Monday for illegal assembly, trying to force their way on to a carriageway, charging a police line and for pushing barriers, a police spokeswoman said. Police used pepper spray to disperse activists as Hong Kong center braces for a wave of disruptive protests against China's decision. Hong Kong is in the midst of a political upheaval as activists in the former British colony push for full democracy.
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| Peru police display record 7.7-ton cocaine haul Posted: 01 Sep 2014 03:52 PM PDT  LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian police displayed in a Lima airport police hangar on Monday what officials called the largest cocaine haul ever in the Andean nation, 7.7 metric tons (8.5 tons).
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| Cuba's new crackdown takes effect Posted: 01 Sep 2014 01:09 PM PDT  New government restrictions are upsetting travelers to the island nation.
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| Nigerian troops battle Boko Haram pre-dawn raid Posted: 01 Sep 2014 11:33 AM PDT  Boko Haram militants on Monday launched a pre-dawn raid on Nigerian troops as they prepared for a major offensive to retake a town that the group's leader declared part of his Islamic caliphate. Scores of Boko Haram fighters stormed the town of Bama as soldiers readied for an attack on the nearby town of Gwoza, which was seized by the Islamists on August 7. Bama is just 70 kilometres (45 miles) by road from the Borno state capital, Maiduguri. Boko Haram has seized a number of towns and villages in southern Borno and near the border with Cameroon in recent weeks, leading to claims that it is planning to encircle Maiduguri and make it the centre of a hardline Islamic state.
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