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Gov't secretly seizes AP phone records

Posted: 13 May 2013 03:15 PM PDT

The screen on the phone console at the reception desk at The Associated Press Washington bureau, Monday, May 13, 2013. The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)Boehner's office: "The First Amendment is first for a reason."


Popular psychologist Joyce Brothers dies at 85

Posted: 13 May 2013 04:27 PM PDT

File photo of Joyce Brothers arriving for the "She Made It: Women Creating Television and Radio" salute at the Museum of Television & Radio in Beverly HillsPopular psychologist, columnist, and television and film personality Joyce Brothers has died. She was 85.


Astronaut's incredible photos from space

Posted: 13 May 2013 10:00 AM PDT

Astronaut's incredible photos from spaces

Detroit's emergency manager: City 'clearly insolvent'

Posted: 13 May 2013 04:59 PM PDT

A vacant, boarded up house is seen in the once thriving Brush Park neighborhood with the downtown Detroit skyline behind it in Detroit,The city could face bankruptcy if talks with labor unions and creditors don't make progress.


Last year was worst ever for West Nile virus deaths

Posted: 13 May 2013 02:03 PM PDT

FILE -In this May 11, 2007 , file photo, Scott Sawlis sorts mosquitos according to species and gender before testing them at a the county mosquito lab in Dallas. Health officials say 2012 was the worst for West Nile deaths since the virus was reported in the country over a decade ago. The final tally reported Monday, May 13, 2013, was 286 deaths or two more than the previous record set in 2002. But there were far fewer illnesses overall, and fewer serious cases than in many previous years. (AP Photo/LM Otero)The final tally was 286 deaths — two more than the record set in 2002.


Jury finds abortion doctor guilty of murder

Posted: 13 May 2013 12:19 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 8, 2010 photo, Dr. Kermit Gosnell speaks during an interview with the Philadelphia Daily News at his attorney's office in Philadelphia. Gosnell, an abortion doctor who catered to minorities, immigrants and poor women at the Women's Medical Society, was charged Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011 with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Daily News, Yong Kim) PA INQUIRER OUT; METRO OUT; THE EVENING BULLETIN OUT, TV OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES; MANDATORY CREDIT: PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS, YONG KIMKermit Gosnell is convicted of killing three babies after they were born alive.


Minnesota to legalize gay marriage

Posted: 13 May 2013 02:29 PM PDT

A gay marriage supporter waves the U.S. flag and a rainbow flag as supporters and opponents of Minnesota's gay marriage bill gather in the State Capitol Rotunda in St. Paul as the Senate prepared to take up the issue Monday, May 13, 2013 in St. Paul, Minn. The bill passed the Minnesota House last week. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)The Midwestern state will soon be the 12th to allow same-sex couples to wed.


Explosions, fire reported at W.Va. gas plant

Posted: 13 May 2013 04:36 PM PDT

Two workers were injured Monday when highly flammable gas used in welding exploded at a West Virginia industrial site, officials say. Fire crews were sent at about 3:20 p.m. to Airgas, a distributor of ...

Obama calls latest Benghazi claims ‘political circus'

Posted: 13 May 2013 09:47 AM PDT

The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames during a protestObama furiously dismisses allegations that the administration misled Americans.


No DNA links to other crimes for kidnap suspect

Posted: 13 May 2013 12:00 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo provided by Cuyahoga County Jail shows Ariel Castro. Cleveland officials are trying to keep Castro's house, where three women were imprisoned for a decade, intact until his trial is concluded. (AP Photo/Cuyahoga County Jail, File)CLEVELAND (AP) — The Ohio attorney general says the man accused of imprisoning three women in a Cleveland house for about a decade isn't linked to other crimes through a national database.


James Holmes pleads not guilty by reason of insanity

Posted: 13 May 2013 12:47 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 12, 2013 file photo, James Holmes, left, and defense attorney Tamara Brady appear in district court in Centennial, Colo. for his arraignment. Lawyers for Holmes, the man accused of killing 12 people and injuring 70 in a Colorado movie theater, said Tuesday May 7, 2013 he wants to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, RJ Sangosti, Pool, File)Holmes is accused of murdering 12 people in a suburban Denver movie theater.


Bangladesh search over; death toll 1,127

Posted: 13 May 2013 10:56 AM PDT

A Bangladeshi rescue worker puts a red flag, marking the end of rescue operations at the site where a Bangladesh garment-factory building collapsed on April 24 in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, May 13, 2013. Nearly three weeks after the building collapsed, the search for the dead ended Monday at the site of the worst disaster in the history of the global garment industry.(AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)The accident focused worldwide attention on the nation's garment industry.


O.J. Simpson back in court seeking new robbery trial

Posted: 13 May 2013 10:36 AM PDT

OJ Simpson sits in court with his attorney Patricia Palm in Las Vegas, NevadaThe NFL great appeared in court in blue jail garb with shortly cropped hair.


Judge rules soldier guilty of premeditated Iraq killings

Posted: 13 May 2013 11:16 AM PDT

Soldiers assisting with communications and security tasks stand outside the building at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., where the court-martial for U.S. Army Sgt. John Russell began, Monday, May 6, 2013. Russell has already pleaded guilty to killing five fellow servicemen in Iraq in 2009, and and prosecutors are expected to argue that the killings were premeditated. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)Army Sgt. John Russell faces life in prison for killing five fellow service members.


Home intruder stabbed to death by woman

Posted: 13 May 2013 12:55 PM PDT

NORTH BEND, Wash. (AP) — As her husband fought with an intruder in their home early Monday, a woman grabbed a knife and stabbed the stranger to death, investigators said.

Saudi man arrested after taking pressure cooker on flight

Posted: 13 May 2013 12:32 PM PDT

By Bernie Woodall DETROIT (Reuters) - A Saudi Arabian man was arrested in Detroit and charged with making a false statement about why he brought a pressure cooker with him on a flight from Amsterdam, according to a criminal complaint filed on Monday. Hussain al-Khawahir, 33, arrived at the Detroit airport on Saturday and was questioned about why he had brought a pressure cooker with him. The man's name was spelled al-Khawahir in the criminal complaint, while a spokeswoman at the U.S. attorney's office had earlier said it was al-Kwawahir. ...

Drug manufacturer agrees to $500 million penalty in FDA deal

Posted: 13 May 2013 03:33 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A subsidiary of India's largest pharmaceutical company has agreed to pay a record $500 million in fines and penalties for selling adulterated drugs and lying to federal regulators in a case that is part of an ongoing crackdown on the quality of generic drugs flowing into the U.S.

Bombing bombing suspect's Va. burial was legal, mortician says

Posted: 13 May 2013 11:32 AM PDT

BOSTON (AP) — The director of the Massachusetts funeral home where Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body was held for days said Monday that his family had the right to bury the body as they did, even if he didn't agree with their methods.

Body of Chicana author found mummified in New Mexico home

Posted: 13 May 2013 12:56 PM PDT

Louis Ponce, brother-in-law of Bobbi Salinas-Norman, walks through the apartment on May 10, 2013, where Salinas-Norman was found dead. Ponce discovered The remains of Salinas-Norman, a Chicana activist, teacher and author, last week and authorities say she may have been dead for more than a year. (AP Photo/The Santa Fe New Mexican,Luis Sanchez Saturno)SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A 70-year-old woman whose mummified body was recently found in her Santa Fe apartment was identified as a Chicana activist, teacher and author.


Obama vows action on 'outrageous' abuse

Posted: 13 May 2013 07:19 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama and Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron hold a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in WashingtonIf the IRS targeted conservative groups, they'll be held accountable, he says.


Syrian rebel's gruesome act caught on video, according to report

Posted: 13 May 2013 05:38 AM PDT

People view the scene at one of the Saturday explosion sites that killed 46 and injured about 50 others, in Reyhanli, near Turkey's border with Syria, Sunday, May 12, 2013. The bombings on Saturday marked the biggest incident of cross-border violence since the start of Syria's bloody civil war and has the raised fear of Turkey being pulled deeper into the conflict. (AP Photo)A founder of the rebel Farouq Brigade is seen cutting into a corpse's torso.


Two diseases threaten global outbreaks

Posted: 13 May 2013 07:17 AM PDT

2 new diseases could both spark global outbreaksTwo respiratory viruses have captured the attention of officials.


Supreme Court rules for Monsanto in patent case

Posted: 13 May 2013 02:49 PM PDT

Jane Michalek drinks soup during an eat-in protest in front of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition in College ParkThe court says farmers their seeds have to pay, no matter where they get them.


Bomb in Benghazi kills 9 people

Posted: 13 May 2013 06:34 AM PDT

A car bomb exploded near a hospital and children are among the dead.

Infamous terrorist Carlos the Jackal tries to get released

Posted: 13 May 2013 06:26 AM PDT

FILE - Undated 1970s file of Illich Ramirez Sanchez, also known as " Carlos The Jackal", who was sentenced to life in prison by a French court in Paris early Wednesday Dec 24, 1997. Carlos, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the flamboyant terrorist and self-proclaimed revolutionary who was once one of the Cold War's most wanted men, is appealing Monday May 13, 2013 his two life sentences for orchestrating bombings in France two decades ago. He's been jailed since 1994 after French agents seized him in Sudan. (AP Photo/French Police)Ilich Ramirez Sanchez is in jail for life in France for a triple murder and bombings.


Police seek man seen in New Orleans shooting video

Posted: 13 May 2013 07:18 AM PDT

19 shot during Mother's Day parade in New OrleansA shooting at a Mother's Day parade injured 19.


Obama to welcome British PM Cameron to White House

Posted: 13 May 2013 01:47 AM PDT

The two leaders will hold talks on a wide range of subjects, including Syria's civil war.

Lashes for Iran's Ahmadinejad? Iran's president may face charges

Posted: 13 May 2013 04:04 AM PDT

Iran's President Ahmadinejad waves during a ceremony to swear Venezuela's President Maduro into office, in CaracasHe might have broken the law when he accompanied his former chief of staff.


Bangladesh collapse survivor gives up garment work

Posted: 13 May 2013 07:42 AM PDT

Reshma Begum, who survived 17 days before being rescued from a collapsed garment factory building, receives treatment at a hospital in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, May 11, 2013. Begum was exhausted, panicked and dehydrated as she recovered in a Bangladeshi hospital Saturday, but she was generally in good shape, according to her doctors. (AP Photo/Ismail Ferdous)The 19-year-old seamstress was rescued after 17 days in the rubble of a factory.


Brother's arrest stuns Calif. town in girl's death

Posted: 13 May 2013 01:30 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 29, 2013 file photo, Calaveras County Sheriff's deputies and volunteers stand watch at Jenny Lind Elementary School, after the murder of one it's students over the weekend, in Valley Springs, Calif. Authorities on Saturday, May 11, 2013 arrested the 12-year-old brother of an 8-year-old girl who was mysteriously stabbed at her home in a quiet Northern California community last month. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)Residents are stunned by the suspect in a girl's stabbing death: her 12-year-old brother.


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