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CDC cedes control to USDA in anthrax probe

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 03:57 PM PDT

Anthrax Scare Is Latest CDC Lab Security LapseThe anthrax scare putting 84 workers at risk marks the latest in string of CDC lapses.


Big Sioux River crests; I-29 reopens

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:41 PM PDT

A mudslide on West River Road threatens the University of Minnesota Medical Center Fairview Hospital complex on the West Bank in Minneapolis, Minn., Thursday, June 19, 2014. The Pioneer Press reports 20 administrative employees of the hospital were evacuated as a precaution. Patients were not affected. The mudslide comes after torrential rain and flash flooding in the area Thursday. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Richard Tsong-Taatarii) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES LOCAL TELEVISION OUTA swollen river that threatened homes where Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota meet crested earlier and at a lower level than expected early Friday. Minnesota officials toured waterlogged areas of that state, saying the severity and breadth of flooding make a federal disaster request a near certainty.


HealthCare.gov revamped by new health chief

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 01:53 PM PDT

FILE This May 14, 2014 file photo shows Sylvia Mathews Burwell, then-President Barack Obama's nominee to become secretary of Health and Human Services testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Barack Obama's new health chief is revamping the administration's management of the health care overhaul, aiming to improve accountability and prevent another round of insurance chaos this fall. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced Friday that she has s appointed a new high-level operations manager, responsible for delivering results across critical programs. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Aiming to prevent future insurance chaos, Burwell has overseen big changes for the site.


Ukraine declares cease-fire in restive east

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 01:08 PM PDT

Pro-russian troops ride on a tank on a road in the direction of Donetsk not far from Debaltseve, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, June 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)Pres. Poroshenko has ordered a 1-week cease-fire, halting operations against pro-Russian insurgents.


Murder charge pending for 102-year-old woman

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 01:16 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2009 file photo provided by Scott Barrow, his mother Elizabeth Barrow celebrates her 100th birthday at his home in Dartmouth, Mass. Elizabeth Barrow was found on Sept. 24, 2009, strangled in her Dartmouth nursing home bed with a plastic bag over her head. Laura Lundquist, a 102-year-old woman prosecutors say killed Elizabeth Barrow, still faces a second-degree murder charge. Lundquist is the oldest murder defendant in state history. (AP Photo/Scott Barrow, File)Nearly five years after a woman was charged with killing her 100-year-old roommate in a Massachusetts nursing home, a second-degree murder charge is still pending against her at the age of 102.


3 Americans killed in Afghan bombing

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 09:31 AM PDT

PTSD soldiersIn wake of tragedy, Afghan president supports calls for U.N. mediation.


Diplomats report progress in Iranian nuclear talks

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 12:16 PM PDT

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, center, arrives for a press briefing for Iranian journalists after the closed-door nuclear talks at the International Center, in Vienna, Austria, Friday, June 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)Iran and six world powers reported minor progress Friday on drafting the wording of a nuclear deal, but key sections of the document remained blank, reflecting significant differences on how much Iran needs to limit its nuclear program in exchange for full relief from sanctions.


Pope's view on legalizing drugs: Just say no

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 01:45 PM PDT

Pope Francis exchange gifts with the Grand Master of the Sovereign Order of Malta, Fra' Matthew Festing, during a private audience in the pontiff's private library at the Vatican, Friday, June 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Claudio Peri, Pool)Pope Francis condemned the legalization of recreational drugs as a flawed and failed experiment as he lent his voice Friday to a debate that is raging from the United States to Uruguay.


Iranian operatives now in Iraq

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 12:21 PM PDT

Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby speaks to reporters on April 29, 2014Iran has sent "small numbers" of agents to Iraq to help Baghdad's Shiite-led government, the U.S. said.


House backs limits on Obama's authority, $570B in defense spending

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 09:57 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of Defense Hagel listens to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dempsey during the defense subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill in WashingtonThe Republican-led House on Friday overwhelmingly approved a $570 billion defense bill that halts any Guantanamo transfers for a year in the furor over the American-for-Taliban swap and pulls back government spying.


Report: Half of vets with PTSD got treatment

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 09:47 AM PDT

US World War II veterans are accompanied by US soldiers in Sainte-Mere-Eglise on the Normandy coastOnly about half of the veterans diagnosed with PTSD last year after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan received the recommended therapy despite efforts by the Department of Veterans Affairs to beef up its mental health staffing, the Institute of Medicine said in a report released Friday.


80 percent of senior execs got bonuses, VA says

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 11:58 AM PDT

Acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Sloan Gibson speaks during a news conference at the VA Medical Center in Washington, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. The Veterans Affairs Department (VA) release the results from its Nationwide Access Audit, along with facility level patient access data for all Veterans health facilities. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)The VA says nearly 80 percent of its senior executives got performance bonuses last year, despite widespread treatment delays and preventable deaths at VA hospitals and clinics.


Ukraine: 1-week cease-fire starts now

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 10:14 AM PDT

Photos of the day - June 20, 2014Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko orders his forces to cease fire and halt military operations for seven days against pro-Russia separatists in the country's east — the first step in what he hopes is a concrete plan to end the conflict that has cost more than 350 lives.


Send military to southern border: Boehner

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 10:43 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2011, file photo Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, left, tours the U.S.-Mexico border with Border Patrol agent Steve Venditouli in the Coronado National Forest near Nogales, Ariz. Most illegal border crossers are apprehended along the 2,000-mile long Mexican border in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Since the 2006 budget year, the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has spent more than $1.4 billion on what is described as House Speaker calls for President Obama to send National Guard to deal with unaccompanied minors.


7 Ukrainian troops killed; rebels drive tanks

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 09:15 AM PDT

Seven Ukrainian troops were killed in overnight fighting in the restive east, an official said Friday, as clashes between government forces and pro-Russia rebels flared ahead of the publication of a presidential peace plan that includes a unilateral cease-fire.

IRS chief says inspector general to review 'hard drive crashes'

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 07:59 AM PDT

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, June 20, 2014, prior to testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on whether tea party groups were improperly targeted for increased scrutiny by the IRS. The IRS asserts it can't produce emails from seven officials connected to the tea party investigation because of computer crashes, including the emails from Lois Lerner, the former IRS official at the center of the investigation who has invoked her Fifth Amendment right at least nine times to avoid answering lawmakers' questions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Under fire from Congress, IRS chief Koskinen will look at computer data loss.


NYC to pay $40M to 5 convicted in 'Central Park jogger' case

Posted: 19 Jun 2014 08:34 PM PDT

People lay out in the sun on Memorial Day on Cedar Hill in Central Park in New YorkBy Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City has agreed to pay $40 million to five men who were convicted, and later exonerated, of brutally raping a female jogger in Central Park in 1989, settling a long-fought civil rights lawsuit, according to a person familiar with the matter. The violent attack, which became known as the Central Park jogger case, made national headlines as a sign that the city's crime rate had spiraled out of control, while the outcome of the prosecution raised questions about race and the justice system. The five men – Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise and Yusef Salaam – were between 14 and 16 years of age at the time of the rape and confessed after lengthy police interrogations. The victim, Trisha Meili, a 28-year-old investment banker, nearly died from the attack and was left with no memory of it.


3 shot after Denver-area rap concert, suspect sought

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 06:43 AM PDT

Rapper Nas performs during Hot 97's Summer Jam at MetLife Stadium on Sunday, June 1, 2014 in East Rutherford, N.J. (Photo by Donald Traill/Invision/AP)MORRISON, Colo. (AP) — Law enforcement officers were searching for a gunman Friday after three people were shot and wounded at the end of a rap concert at the popular Red Rocks outdoor amphitheater in the foothills west of Denver.


Islamists in Iraq start destroying symbols of its history

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 07:46 AM PDT

Members of the Iraqi security forces prepare to fire mortar bombs during clashes with Sunni militant group ISIL in Muqdadiyah in Diyala provinceMilitant Sunni Islamists who seized swathes of northern Iraq last week have destroyed symbols of Iraq's heritage in the city of Mosul, including statues of cultural icons and the tomb of a medieval philosopher. Witnesses said militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) had destroyed a statue of Othman al-Mousuli, a 19th Century Iraqi musician and composer, and the statue of Abu Tammam, an Abbasid-era Arab poet. The tomb of Ibn al-Athir, an Arab philosopher who traveled with the army of warrior sultan Salahuddin in the 12th century was desecrated after ISIL took the city.


US blacklists Thailand, Malaysia for failure to fight human trafficking

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 11:08 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 25, 2014 file picture California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who as a prosecutor once specialized in child sexual assault cases addresses the Domestic Human Trafficking symposium in Los Angeles, Trafficking, forced labor and modern slavery are big business generating profits estimated at $150 billion a year, the U.N. labor agency said Tuesday May 20, 2014. The report by the International Labor Organization finds global profits from involuntary workers _ an estimated 21 million of them _ have more than tripled over the past decade from its estimate of at least $44 billion in 2005. ILO Director Guy Ryder said his agency's report Tuesday calls attention to the need WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has blacklisted Thailand and Malaysia for failing to meet its minimum standards in fighting human trafficking, a move that could strain relations with two important U.S. partners in Asia.


Congress probes how IRS emails could go missing

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 09:19 AM PDT

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, June 20, 2014, prior to testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on whether tea party groups were improperly targeted for increased scrutiny by the IRS. The IRS asserts it can't produce emails from seven officials connected to the tea party investigation because of computer crashes, including the emails from Lois Lerner, the former IRS official at the center of the investigation who has invoked her Fifth Amendment right at least nine times to avoid answering lawmakers' questions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service commissioner said Friday the agency will not share with Congress additional details about its lost emails related to the ongoing tea party investigation until its own review is finished because he said Republicans are releasing inaccurate, interim information.


UN development chief echoes Obama's 'inclusive governance' message for Iraq

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:46 PM PDT

Helen Clark, head of the United Nations Development Programme, speaks during a news conference in ManamaBy Dasha Afanasieva ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Iraq needs more inclusive governance across sectarian and religious divides if it is to end its turmoil, something only its own politicians can deliver, one of the United Nations' top officials said on Friday. Helen Clark, head of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the world body's third most senior figure, said only a political solution in Iraq, and in neighboring Syria, could end the crises. "The political leaders need to come together to plan how you can run Iraq within its current borders," the former New Zealand prime minister told Reuters in an interview in Istanbul. "Iraq must solve its own problems ... People have to want one country," she said, when asked if that was possible without foreign military intervention.


UN: More than 50 million displaced worldwide

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 01:09 AM PDT

A Syrian girl stands in a refugee camp in the east Lebanese town of Anjar near the Syrian borderThe number of people uprooted by war and crisis soars to the highest level since WWII.


Ebola outbreak 'totally out of control'

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 05:53 AM PDT

Staff of "Doctors without Borders" carry the body of a person killed by Ebola, at a centre for victims of the virus in Guekedou, Guinea on April 1, 2014Doctors Without Borders senior official says West Africa can't cope with spread of virus.


Iraq's top cleric increases pressure on al-Maliki

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:54 PM PDT

An Iraqi woman living in Iran holds a poster of the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's top Shiite cleric, in a demonstration against Sunni militants of the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, and to support Ayatollah al-Sistani, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)BAGHDAD (AP) — The most respected voice for Iraq's Shiite majority on Friday joined calls for the country's prime minister to form an inclusive government or step aside, a day after President Barack Obama challenged Nouri al-Maliki to create a leadership representative of all Iraqis.


Fleeing Iraqis join large tide of displaced people

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 03:08 PM PDT

Eritrean female asylum seekers sit along with their children on the sidewalk in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, June 20, 2014. Since April 29, over 200 Eritrean asylum seekers including women and children living on the streets of Sanaa wait to be resettled to a third country. For the first time since the World War II era, the number of people forced from their homes worldwide has surged past 50 million, the United Nations refugee agency said Friday. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)TAZA KHORMATO, Iraq (AP) — In a battered car loaded with blankets and clothes, Hassan Abbas and his mother left a dusty town in northern Iraq, fleeing this week's violence and joining what the United Nations says is the largest worldwide population of displaced people since World War II.


AP PHOTOS: Glimpse at refugees, as UN count surges

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 11:25 AM PDT

Eritrean female asylum seekers sit along with their children on the sidewalk in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, June 20, 2014. Since April 29, over 200 Eritrean asylum seekers including women and children living on the streets of Sanaa wait to be resettled to a third country. For the first time since the World War II era, the number of people forced from their homes worldwide has surged past 50 million, the United Nations refugee agency said Friday. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)Women and children seeking asylum from Eritrea sit along a sidewalk in Sanaa, Yemen. Syrian refugee children play soccer at a camp in Lebanon. Iraqis fleeing violence in the city of Mosul carry their belongings as they arrive at a refugee camp north of Baghdad.


Obama expands government benefits for gay couples

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 03:18 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 13, 2014 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. The Obama administration will work to ensure that gay and lesbian Americans are eligible to take leave from their jobs to care for a same-sex spouse, regardless of whether they live in a state that recognizes gay marriage, the White House said Friday, June 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — A year after the Supreme Court struck down a law barring federal recognition of gay marriages, the Obama administration granted an array of new benefits Friday to same-sex couples, including those who live in states where gay marriage is against the law.


Defiant IRS head, skeptical GOP interrogators

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:05 PM PDT

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, June 20, 2014, prior to testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on whether tea party groups were improperly targeted for increased scrutiny by the IRS. The IRS asserts it can't produce emails from seven officials connected to the tea party investigation because of computer crashes, including the emails from Lois Lerner, the former IRS official at the center of the investigation who has invoked her Fifth Amendment right at least nine times to avoid answering lawmakers' questions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Defiant before skeptical Republicans, the head of the IRS refused to apologize Friday for lost emails that might shed light on the tax agency's targeting of tea party and other groups before the 2010 and 2012 elections.


Ukraine orders 1-week government cease-fire

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:06 PM PDT

A woman carries her belongings heading to the Ukrainian-Russian border checkpoint in Izvaryne as she leaves Ukraine, Friday, June 20, 2014. Some Ukrainians are leaving amid fighting in eastern Ukraine. Clashes between government forces and pro-Russia rebels flared ahead of the publication of a presidential peace plan that includes a unilateral cease-fire. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's president ordered his forces to cease fire Friday and halt military operations for a week against pro-Russian separatists in the country's east — the first step in a peace plan he hopes will end the fighting that has killed hundreds.


Stephanie Kwolek, Kevlar inventor, dies at 90

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:45 PM PDT

FILE - Stephanie Kwolek, 83, shown in this June 20, 2007 file photo taken in Brandywine Hundred, Del., she wears regular house gloves made with the Kevlar she invented. Her friend, Rita Vasta, told The Associated Press that Stephanie Kwolek died Wednesday in a Wilmington hospital. at age 90. (AP Photo/The News Journal, Jennifer Corbett)DOVER, Del. (AP) — Police Lt. David Spicer took four .45-caliber slugs to the chest and arms at point-blank range and lived to tell about it. Like thousands of other police officers and soldiers shot in the line of duty, he owes his life to a woman in Delaware by the name of Stephanie Kwolek.


Review confirms basis of Japan's sex slave apology

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 12:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009 file photo, former comfort women who served the Japanese Army as sexual slaves during World War II, shout a slogan in a rally before Korean Liberation Day of Aug. 15, which marks the end of Japanese colonial rule in 1945, in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea. Japanese lawmakers met behind closed doors Friday to hear results of a probe into a study that was the basis of Japan's 1993 apology over its use of wartime sex slaves - a review that South Korea and China have slammed as an attempt to discredit historical evidence of such abuses. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)TOKYO (AP) — The study that led Japan to apologize in 1993 for forcing Asian women into wartime prostitution was confirmed as valid by a parliament-appointed panel Friday after South Korea and China slammed the review as an attempt to discredit historical evidence of such abuses.


BRAZIL BEAT: Belgium's Lukaku has advice for Man U

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 04:17 PM PDT

Romelu Lukaku kicks the ball during a training session of Belgium in Mogi Das Cruzes, Brazil, Thursday, June 19, 2014. Belgium play in group H of the 2014 soccer World Cup. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)MOGI DAS CRUZES, Brazil (AP) — All of 21, Romelu Lukaku is already full of coaching advice for Manchester United on how Belgium teammate Marouane Fellaini should be played.


Obama extends family leave rights of gay couples

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 10:34 AM PDT

Obama extends family leave rights of gay couplesPresident Barack Obama on Friday will announce a rule that makes legally married same-sex couples eligible for benefits under the Family and Medical Leave Act in all 50 states, a White House official said. Currently, legally married couples are eligible for those benefits if they reside in a state in which same-sex marriage is legal. Obama is directing the Department of Labor to propose a rule extending the FMLA rights even to states where gay unions are not legal. The rule is being issued as Attorney General Eric Holder announces the results of a review of U.S. laws in the wake of the landmark 2013 Supreme Court Windsor decision that held that the survivor of a same-sex couple could claim the federal estate tax exemption for surviving spouses.


Congress to probe how IRS emails could go missing

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 06:34 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen (KOSS-kuh-nenn) is telling Congress that eight federal employees connected to the tea party investigation experienced hard drive crashes.

Tornado injures 2, razes dozens of properties in S.D. town

Posted: 19 Jun 2014 03:57 PM PDT

Damaged vehicles at Springs Auto after a tornado tore through the area on Wednesday, June 18, 2014, in Wessington Springs, S.D. (AP Photo/Argus Leader, Joe Ahlquist)A timely warning allowed an entire South Dakota city to shelter from a tornado that razed dozens of homes and businesses but injured only one or two people in the area, officials said Thursday.


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