Sarah Palin on immigrants: 'When you're here, let's speak American'

Sarah Palin on immigrants: 'When you're here, let's speak American'
Israel's Netanyahu rejects call to take in Syrian refugees
Powell, Wasserman Schultz support Iran nuclear deal
Pope calls on Europe's parishes to help shelter families fleeing war, hunger
6 'Trumpisms' that would spell trouble for anyone but Trump
60-something socialist is Britain's unlikely political star
Four dead in Dallas traffic accident
Portion of Chicago park closed after body parts of child found
Guatemala voters choose new president amid fraud scandal
Rally to support defiant clerk jailed over marriage licenses
Clinton says family paid State Dept employee for email work
Nepal's 'ice doctors' risk all for sole Everest hopeful

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The former Alaskan governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee weighs in on the war of words between 2016 GOP hopefuls Jeb Bush and Donald Trump.

Israel's Netanyahu rejects call to take in Syrian refugees

Posted: 06 Sep 2015 04:35 AM PDT

By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected a call by Israel's opposition leader to provide refuge to Syrian refugees, saying the country is too small to take them in. Images in recent days of thousands of refugees herded on and off trains in Europe as they sought a safe haven from Middle East conflict struck a chord in Israel, a state created three years after the Nazi Holocaust which killed six million Jews. Isaac Herzog, head of the main opposition Zionist Union party, appealed to Israeli leaders to "absorb refugees from the fighting in Syria", a northern neighbor that Israel considers an enemy state.

Powell, Wasserman Schultz support Iran nuclear deal

Posted: 06 Sep 2015 10:39 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Already a done deal in Congress, the Iran nuclear agreement gained more momentum Sunday when former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the head of the Democratic National Committee, announced their support.

Pope calls on Europe's parishes to help shelter families fleeing war, hunger

Posted: 06 Sep 2015 08:30 AM PDT

The Vatican will shelter two families of refugees newly arrived from the Middle East.

6 'Trumpisms' that would spell trouble for anyone but Trump

Posted: 06 Sep 2015 05:22 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lobbing rhetorical stink bombs at a large group of voters is not the normal way to get ahead in U.S. politics. Nor is alienating prominent figures of your own party.

60-something socialist is Britain's unlikely political star

Posted: 06 Sep 2015 02:48 AM PDT

LONDON (AP) — Britain's surprising new political star is a rumpled 66-year-old with a set of socialist ideas many thought had faded with the Cold War.

Four dead in Dallas traffic accident

Posted: 05 Sep 2015 11:20 PM PDT

(Reuters) - Four people were killed on Saturday night in a traffic accident in Dallas, police said, and authorities have taken four people into custody after they fled the scene of the deadly crash.

Portion of Chicago park closed after body parts of child found

Posted: 06 Sep 2015 09:35 AM PDT

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A portion of a Chicago park was closed on Sunday after a passerby found body parts of a child a day earlier, police said.

Guatemala voters choose new president amid fraud scandal

Posted: 06 Sep 2015 09:26 AM PDT

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — An uncomfortable challenge confronted Guatemala's presidential candidates on Sunday: trying to win the votes of a nation that has put the last elected leader in court custody.

Rally to support defiant clerk jailed over marriage licenses

Posted: 05 Sep 2015 01:42 PM PDT

They stood chanting outside the jail house, "Thank you, Kim; Thank you, Kim," and prayed that the defiant county clerk locked inside could hear them.

Clinton says family paid State Dept employee for email work

Posted: 05 Sep 2015 02:17 PM PDT

Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday that her family paid a State Department employee to maintain the private email server she used while secretary of state and compensated him "for a period of time" for his technical skills.

Nepal's 'ice doctors' risk all for sole Everest hopeful

Posted: 05 Sep 2015 09:16 PM PDT

Ang Kami Sherpa is one of Nepal's most experienced "ice doctors" -- the mountaineers who brave Mount Everest's treacherous Khumbu icefall to prepare it for the climbing season -- but even he is more nervous than usual this time round. Sherpa is among a group of ice doctors who returned to the 8,848-metre (29,029-foot) mountain in August -- four months after a huge earthquake that triggered a deadly avalanche at its base camp. This year, Japan's Nobokazu Kuriki is the only climber planning an attempt on the summit, although a six-person support team is expected to accompany him to Camp 2, about 6,400 metres high and usually around two days of trekking beyond base camp.