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• At least 30 homes torched in S. Calif. wildfires
• Why did firm with big Ukraine holdings hire Joe Biden’s son?
• Smithsonian gets clearance to fly drones at D.C. festival
• Burst pipe in Jerusalem reveals murals of medieval crusades
• Christie: Bridge scandal 'will be a footnote' by 2016
• White House dusts off old playbook to handle new Benghazi panel
• California wildfires torch at least 30 homes
• 11,000 flee new Southern California wildfire
• Group: Gov't fails kids on U.S. tobacco farms
• Frugal Americans challenge food companies' bottom line
• Violent protests in Turkey following coal mine catastrophe
• For artist, homeless signs are works of art
• Vigilantes kill rebels near Boko Haram base
• Heart-wrenching artifacts fill new Sept. 11 museum
• Factories burned, looted as China-Vietnam tensions grow
• Suspect in Md. TV station attack faces attempted murder
• U.S. experts urge focus on ethics in brain research
• FBI: Pals of marathon suspect had to be questioned
• Pakistan police arrest teacher for gang rape
• 238 dead in Turkish mine disaster
• MERS isn't an emergency, WHO says
• Samsung apologizes to sickened chip workers
• San Diego wildfires have grow calm, authorities say
• Pentagon seeks transfer, gender treatment for Chelsea Manning
• Vietnam mobs set fire to foreign factories in anti-China riots
• Pistorius to undergo psychiatric tests
• Obama to ask Congress for cash for roads, bridges
• Biden touts St. Louis Arch renovation project
• Pentagon OKs Manning transfer for gender treatment
• Obama: GOP captured by rigid ideology of 'no'
• 274 dead in Turkey's worst-ever mine disaster
• Wildfire burns homes in San Diego County
• 9/11 museum offers sights and sounds of tragedy
• Extremists attack town of abducted schoolgirls
• After husband's tragic death, widow takes on PTSD
• Boy survives 11-story fall from Minnesota building
• Lung cancer screening could cost Medicare billions
• CANNES WATCH: Lively soars, Kidman talks lows
• Abramson replaced as NYT executive editor
• All 20,000 evacuation orders off in San Diego fire

At least 30 homes torched in S. Calif. wildfires Posted: 14 May 2014 02:55 PM PDT Firefighters scramble to control multiple blazes on Day 2 of sweltering heat wave.

Why did firm with big Ukraine holdings hire Joe Biden’s son? Posted: 14 May 2014 12:54 PM PDT In the span of a few weeks, an energy firm little-known inside the United States added two members to its board of directors — scoring connections to Secretary of State John Kerry and Vice President Joe Biden in the bargain.

Smithsonian gets clearance to fly drones at D.C. festival Posted: 14 May 2014 11:13 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is getting some competition from the Smithsonian Institution in testing personal delivery drones for the future.

Burst pipe in Jerusalem reveals murals of medieval crusades Posted: 14 May 2014 11:47 AM PDT Wall murals portraying Crusader knights and symbols of medieval military orders have been rediscovered in a Jerusalem hospital thanks to a burst water pipe and a storeroom reorganization. These paintings were the works of a French count, Comte Marie Paul Amédée de Piellat, who believed himself to be a descendant of Crusaders. The count was a frequent visitor to Jerusalem and had the Saint-Louis Hospice built between 1879 and 1896, naming it after St. Louis IX, a king of France and leader of the Seventh Crusade between A.D. 1248 and 1254. The count returned to Jerusalem to restore his murals, but died in the hospital in 1925, his work undone.

Christie: Bridge scandal 'will be a footnote' by 2016 Posted: 14 May 2014 12:05 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Wednesday that he is thinking about running for president and that by the time 2016 arrives the controversy over last year's George Washington Bridge lane closures "will be a footnote."

White House dusts off old playbook to handle new Benghazi panel Posted: 14 May 2014 09:30 AM PDT The House of Representative's select committee on Benghazi has had a rough rollout. When it's finally up and running, here's how the White House plans to respond.

California wildfires torch at least 30 homes Posted: 14 May 2014 02:23 PM PDT San Diego County firefighters battling several fires amid hot, dry and windy conditions.

11,000 flee new Southern California wildfire Posted: 14 May 2014 02:57 PM PDT Local TV images show what appear to be a number of homes burning in San Diego area.

Group: Gov't fails kids on U.S. tobacco farms Posted: 14 May 2014 11:51 AM PDT Report claims children as young as 7 toil long hours harvesting chemical-laced crops.

Frugal Americans challenge food companies' bottom line Posted: 14 May 2014 06:00 AM PDT By Lewis Krauskopf and Lisa Baertlein NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rebecca Sumrow is one of the customers food and restaurant company executives have in mind when they consider raising prices to offset higher costs as meat and milk soar to record highs. The 30-year-old from San Clemente, California, was out of work for a short time last year and saved money by moving in with her boyfriend and cutting back on clothes shopping and dining out. Consumers \"have gotten really good over these last four years at stretching a penny,\" said Pat Conroy, leader of the U.S. consumer products practice at Deloitte LLP. So far, we've been right.\" According to Deloitte's annual survey of food shoppers released last week, 94 percent agreed they would remain cautious and keep spending at the same level even if the economy improves.

Violent protests in Turkey following coal mine catastrophe Posted: 14 May 2014 10:42 AM PDT At least 245 coal miners died in a mine explosion in Soma, Turkey, officials said. Nearly 450 other miners were rescued.

For artist, homeless signs are works of art Posted: 14 May 2014 08:53 AM PDT Collector aims to buy more signs and raise awareness on cross-country journey.

Vigilantes kill rebels near Boko Haram base Posted: 14 May 2014 12:06 PM PDT Nigerian official: Villagers killed, detained militants suspected of forging a new attack.

Heart-wrenching artifacts fill new Sept. 11 museum Posted: 14 May 2014 05:26 AM PDT The structure, a monument to how that day shaped history, is set to be dedicated Thursday.

Factories burned, looted as China-Vietnam tensions grow Posted: 14 May 2014 07:59 AM PDT Mobs burned and looted scores of foreign-owned factories in Vietnam following a large protest by workers against China's recent placement of an oil rig in disputed Southeast Asian waters, officials said Wednesday.

Suspect in Md. TV station attack faces attempted murder Posted: 14 May 2014 07:59 AM PDT Baltimore police say Vladimir Baptiste slammed a stolen truck into a TV station on Tuesday.

U.S. experts urge focus on ethics in brain research Posted: 14 May 2014 08:12 AM PDT Ethics must be considered early and often as the field of modern neuroscience forges ahead, to avoid repeating a dark period in history when lobotomies were common, experts said Wednesday. President Barack Obama sought the recommendations of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, as part of his $100 million Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative announced last year. It is "absolutely critical... to integrate ethics from the get-go into neuroscience research," and not "for the first time after something has gone wrong," said Amy Gutmann, Bioethics Commission Chair. Instead, it called for institutions and individuals engaged in neuroscience research, as well as government agencies and other funders, to integrate ethics early in research.

FBI: Pals of marathon suspect had to be questioned Posted: 14 May 2014 08:04 AM PDT BOSTON (AP) — An FBI agent says that two friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) would have been arrested if they did not come to a police station voluntarily.

Pakistan police arrest teacher for gang rape Posted: 14 May 2014 06:48 AM PDT MANSEHRA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police arrested a teacher at a Quranic school and his two friends on charges of gang raping a college student in the country's northwest, alleging he filmed the attack and may have blackmailed other victims, authorities said Wednesday.

238 dead in Turkish mine disaster Posted: 14 May 2014 07:02 AM PDT Rescuers raced to reach more than 100 others who remained trapped on Wednesday.

MERS isn't an emergency, WHO says Posted: 14 May 2014 06:14 AM PDT The spread of a puzzling respiratory virus in the Middle East and beyond is not a global health emergency despite a recent spike in cases, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

Samsung apologizes to sickened chip workers Posted: 14 May 2014 05:26 AM PDT Samsung Electronics Co. apologized and promised compensation to chip factory workers who suffered cancers linked to chemical exposure, a rare win for families and activists seven years after the death ...

San Diego wildfires have grow calm, authorities say Posted: 14 May 2014 05:26 AM PDT A pair of wildfires flared and thousands of residents fled amid drought conditions and spiking heat in California, but both blazes had calmed as night fell and the winds that had whipped them diminished.

Pentagon seeks transfer, gender treatment for Chelsea Manning Posted: 14 May 2014 07:25 AM PDT In an unprecedented move, the Pentagon is trying to transfer convicted national security leaker Pvt. Chelsea Manning to a civilian prison so she can get treatment for her gender disorder, defense officials said.

Vietnam mobs set fire to foreign factories in anti-China riots Posted: 14 May 2014 07:39 AM PDT By Ho Binh Minh and Manuel Mogato HANOI/MANILA (Reuters) - Thousands of Vietnamese set fire to foreign factories and rampaged in industrial zones in the south of the country in an angry reaction to Chinese oil drilling in a part of the South China Sea claimed by Vietnam, officials said on Wednesday. The brunt of Tuesday's violence, one of the worst breakdowns in Sino-Vietnamese relations since the neighbors fought a brief border war in 1979, appears to have been borne by Taiwanese firms in the zones in Binh Duong and Dong Nai provinces that were mistaken for Chinese-owned companies. A police official in Binh Duong province, speaking by telephone, said about 200 people had been arrested. Some Taiwanese firms had spray-painted messages on the road and across their gates saying \"We Support Vietnam\" in an effort to distinguish themselves from Chinese enterprises.

Pistorius to undergo psychiatric tests Posted: 14 May 2014 11:51 AM PDT Oscar Pistorius was ordered by a judge on Wednesday to undergo psychiatric tests, meaning that the double-amputee athlete's murder trial will be interrupted, possibly for two months.

Obama to ask Congress for cash for roads, bridges Posted: 14 May 2014 07:17 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — America's roads, bridges and ports are falling apart, and the federal government is running out of money to fix them. So President Barack Obama is heading to a crumbling bridge outside New York City to try to pressure Congress into giving the nation's infrastructure an infusion of cash.

Biden touts St. Louis Arch renovation project Posted: 14 May 2014 04:11 AM PDT Vice President Joe Biden made a rain-shortened appearance beneath the Gateway Arch to tout the economic benefits of a massive renovation project at the iconic tourist attraction. The Democratic vice president ...

Pentagon OKs Manning transfer for gender treatment Posted: 14 May 2014 02:19 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — In an unprecedented move, the Pentagon is trying to transfer convicted national security leaker Pvt. Chelsea Manning to a civilian prison so she can get treatment for her gender disorder, defense officials said.

Obama: GOP captured by rigid ideology of 'no' Posted: 14 May 2014 04:41 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama says Republicans have been captured by an ideology that tells them to say no to everything.

274 dead in Turkey's worst-ever mine disaster Posted: 14 May 2014 03:04 PM PDT SOMA, Turkey (AP) — Amid wails of grief and anger, rescue workers coated in grime trudged repeatedly out of a coal mine Wednesday with stretchers of bodies that swelled the death toll to 274 — the worst such disaster in Turkish history.

Wildfire burns homes in San Diego County Posted: 14 May 2014 04:21 PM PDT CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) — Flames engulfed suburban homes and shot up along canyon ridges in one of the worst of several blazes that broke out Wednesday in Southern California during a second day of a sweltering heat wave, taxing fire crews who fear the scattered fires mark only the beginning of a long wildfire season.

9/11 museum offers sights and sounds of tragedy Posted: 14 May 2014 02:37 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — The museum devoted to the story of Sept. 11 tells it in victims' last voicemails, in photos of people falling from the twin towers, in the scream of sirens, in the dust-covered shoes of those who fled the skyscrapers' collapse, in the wristwatch of one of the airline passengers who confronted the hijackers.

Extremists attack town of abducted schoolgirls Posted: 14 May 2014 03:53 PM PDT BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic militants again attacked the remote Nigerian town from which nearly 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped, Nigeria's military said Wednesday, resulting in a firefight that killed 12 soldiers and led angry troops to fire on a commanding officer.

After husband's tragic death, widow takes on PTSD Posted: 14 May 2014 11:53 AM PDT BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Amy Miner says her late husband's fight did not end when he left the war.

Boy survives 11-story fall from Minnesota building Posted: 14 May 2014 01:59 PM PDT MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A young boy who survived an 11-story fall from a Minneapolis high-rise has been dubbed "the miracle baby" and was recovering in a hospital Wednesday.

Lung cancer screening could cost Medicare billions Posted: 14 May 2014 02:24 PM PDT Every person covered by Medicare would shell out an additional $3 a month if the government agreed to pay to screen certain current and former smokers for lung cancer, a new study estimates.

CANNES WATCH: Lively soars, Kidman talks lows Posted: 14 May 2014 04:11 PM PDT CANNES, France (AP) — The Associated Press is all over the Cannes Film Festival — from its glitzy premieres to the celeb parties and quirky moments in between. Here's what reporters have seen and heard:

Abramson replaced as NYT executive editor Posted: 14 May 2014 04:11 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times on Wednesday announced that executive editor Jill Abramson is being replaced by managing editor Dean Baquet after two and a half years on the job.

All 20,000 evacuation orders off in San Diego fire Posted: 13 May 2014 10:54 PM PDT SAN DIEGO (AP) — A wildfire that surged amid high heat and dry winds in drought conditions brought evacuation orders for more than 20,000 homes in and around San Diego, but all residents were told they could return home Tuesday night just a few hours later as cooler, calmer darkness fell.

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