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Hamas agrees to 5-hour cease-fire

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 04:03 PM PDT

A Palestinian boy shows a flyer dropped over Gaza City by the Israeli army urging residents to evacuate their homes, on July 16, 2014Islamist group accepted a temporary, U.N.-requested Gaza truce on humanitarian grounds.


Obama may extend high-stakes nuclear talks with Iran

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 03:23 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama walks out after he talks about Ukraine while in the press briefing room at the White House in WashingtonHunting for a badly needed second-term foreign policy victory, President Barack Obama strongly suggested on Wednesday that he will seek to extend negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program past their initial July 20 target date for a comprehensive deal.


What Christie's 'judge problem' could mean for conservatives

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 02:17 PM PDT

Social conservatives are skeptical about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie after he reappointed a liberal judge to the New Jersey Supreme Court.

FBI warns that driverless cars could be used for evil

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The recent debut of new autonomous models from Google, Cadillac, and Audi may have you dreaming of someday putting a self-driving car in your garage. Alas, the FBI has a warning for you: An idling driverless car is a devil's playground.


EU toughens sanctions against Russia

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 02:59 PM PDT

Russia's President Vladimir Putin leaves the Itamaraty Palace after attending the final day of the BRICS Summit in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, July 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)EU leaders also requested no new financing deals between European Investment Bank, Moscow.


CDC director admits shortcomings at germ labs

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 01:09 PM PDT

CDC Director Frieden he testifies before a hearing on Capitol Hill in WashingtonThe director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acknowledged Wednesday that systemic safety problems have for years plagued federal public health laboratories that handle dangerous germs such as anthrax and bird flu.


U.S. Justice Dept. says investigating lost IRS emails

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 03:19 PM PDT

A woman walks out of the Internal Revenue Service building in New YorkThe U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday confirmed it is investigating the loss of Internal Revenue Service emails being sought by congressional Republicans in an inquiry over tax scrutiny of conservative political groups. In written testimony to be delivered to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Deputy Attorney General James Cole said the probe "includes investigating the circumstances of the lost emails" from the computer of Lois Lerner, a retired IRS official. Last month, the IRS acknowledged losing some of Lerner's emails to a computer hard-drive failure, an incident that has rekindled Republican outrage in the long-running controversy over IRS targeting of conservative political groups. A Justice Department official said there had been no determination of whether the probe was criminal in nature.


US, Europe escalate economic sanctions on Russia

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 04:47 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks about the Israel Palestinian conflict and escalating sanctions against Russia in response to the crisis in Ukraine in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — Struggling to defuse the persistent crisis in Ukraine, both the U.S. and European Union imposed new economic sanctions on Russia Wednesday, with President Barack Obama declaring that Russian leaders must see that their actions supporting rebels "have consequences."


Nowhere to go for Gaza civilians urged to evacuate

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 01:24 PM PDT

A woman cries as Palestinians flee their homes in the Shajaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City, after Israel had airdropped leaflets warning people to leave the area, Wednesday, July 16, 2014. A Hamas website says Israel has fired missiles at the homes of four of its senior leaders as it resumed bombardment of Gaza, following a failed Egyptian cease-fire effort. Health officials say the Palestinian death toll in nine days of fighting has reached 204. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The text message was as urgent as it was unwelcome: The Israeli army advised Mouin Ghaffir to leave his home quickly or risk being killed in airstrikes against Hamas rocket squads.


Dems seek gains with women in birth control loss

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 02:07 PM PDT

Women activists representing the National Women's Law Center, left, and Planned Parenthood, right, stand outside the Senate chamber after Senate Democrats' effort to proceed on the WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats suffered what looked like a difficult setback on birth control Wednesday, but they hope it pays big political dividends in November.


Studies see new risks for cholesterol drug niacin

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 04:53 PM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 15, 2013, file photo, a pharmacist works at his desk located next to the prescription pick up counter in New York. New details from two studies reveal more side effects from niacin, a drug that hundreds of thousands of Americans take for cholesterol problems and general heart health. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)New details from two studies reveal more side effects from niacin, a drug that hundreds of thousands of Americans take for cholesterol problems and general heart health. Some prominent doctors say the drug now seems too risky for routine use.


Fox bid for Time Warner sparks content merger race

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 02:57 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2012 file photo, News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch speaks during a forum on The Economics and Politics of Immigration in Boston. Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox on Wednesday, July 16, 2014 said Time Warner has rejected an offer it made last month to combine the two media and entertainment giants. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Even though Rupert Murdoch's $76 billion bid for rival media giant Time Warner Inc. has been rejected, that doesn't mean how you watch TV shows and movies will stop changing any time soon.


What happens to your online accounts when you die?

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 04:06 PM PDT

FILE - This Feb. 16, 2013 file photo shows a printout of the Facebook page for Loren Williams, now deceased, at the Beaverton, Ore. home of his mother, Karen Williams. Williams sued Facebook for access to Loren's account after he died in a 2005 motorcycle accident at the age of 22. The Uniform Law Commission on Wednesday, July 16, 2014 was expected to endorse a plan to automatically give loved ones access to — but not control of — all digital accounts, unless otherwise specified. (AP Photo/Lauren Gambino, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — You've probably decided who gets the house or that family heirloom up in the attic when you die. But what about your email account and all those photos stored online?


Urban warfare feared in Ukraine fighting

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 03:04 PM PDT

A girl says goodbye to her friend, a volunteer, before they were sent to the eastern part of Ukraine to join the ranks of special battalion "Azov", during a ceremony to take the oath of allegiance to Ukraine, in Kiev, Ukraine Wednesday, July 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Insurgents bade tearful farewells Wednesday as they loaded their families onto Russia-bound buses and began hunkering down for what could be the next phase in Ukraine's conflict: bloody urban warfare.


Texas woman who sent ricin gets 18 years in prison

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 02:01 PM PDT

Mother of five charged with sending poisoned letters to Obama, BloombergTEXARKANA, Texas (AP) — A Texas actress who tried to blame her husband after sending ricin-laced letters to officials including President Barack Obama was sentenced Wednesday to 18 years in prison.


Buzz Aldrin: Where were you when I walked on moon?

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 01:37 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 20, 1969 file photo provided by NASA shows astronaut Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. posing for a photograph beside the U.S. flag deployed on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission. Aldrin and fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong were the first men to walk on the lunar surface. The trio was launched to the moon by a Saturn V launch vehicle at 9:32 a.m. EDT, July 16, 1969. They departed the moon July 21, 1969. (AP Photo/NASA, Neil Armstrong, File)CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — On July 20, 1969, Buzz Aldrin was "out of town" when the world united and rejoiced in a way never seen before or since.


Iran nuke talks likely to be extended past July 20

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 03:36 PM PDT

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks to the media after closed-door nuclear talks on Iran take place in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, July 15, 2014. Secretary of State John Kerry says he's headed back to Washington today for consultations about extending the nuclear talks between Iran and world powers. Kerry says there's some progress in the talks but also "very real gaps" that will require a lot of work to overcome. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)VIENNA (AP) — Facing stubborn disputes on the terms of a deal, Iran and six world powers have tentatively decided to adjourn their nuclear talks two days early but plan to extend them past their planned July 20 end date, diplomats said Wednesday.


After 12 hours, passengers exit from stalled casino boat

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 03:45 PM PDT

The casino boat Escapade, with 123 people aboard, is grounded 1.8 miles off the north end of Tybee Island, Ga., Wednesday, July 16, 2014. No injuries or medical issues had been reported among the 96 passengers and 27 crew members aboard the boat, according to Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Anthony L. Soto. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — After 16 hours stuck at sea, passengers stranded on a casino boat that ran aground off Georgia's coast were ferried to shore Wednesday aboard two Coast Guard cutters.


U.S. toughens sanctions against Russia

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 03:16 PM PDT

Russia's President Vladimir Putin arrives for an official group photo comprised of the leaders of the BRICS' nations and South American nations, during the BRICS Summit at the Itamaraty Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, July 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)Meanwhile, the West continues to grapple for a way to quell an insurgency in Ukraine.


Bomb hoax shuts down University of Louisiana campus

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 01:44 PM PDT

University of Louisiana at LafayetteLouisiana State Police say the bomb threat that shut down the University of Louisiana at Lafayette for a day was a hoax.


Israel agrees to temporary cease-fire

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 12:05 PM PDT

A girl cries as Palestinians flee their homes in the Shajaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City, after Israel had airdropped leaflets warning people to leave the area, Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Palestinians flee their home in Gaza City, Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Alongside the air strikes, Israel also ordered tens of thousands of residents of the northern town of Beit Lahiya and the Zeitoun and Shijaiyah neighborhoods of Gaza City, all near the border with Israel, to evacuate their homes by 8 A.M. Wednesday. The warnings were delivered in automated phone calls, text messages and leaflets. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)Israel has accepted a proposed 6-hour humanitarian cessation of hostilities in Gaza.


U.S. escalating sanctions against Russia

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 02:17 PM PDT

Russia's President Vladimir Putin arrives for an official group photo comprised of the leaders of the BRICS' nations and South American nations, during the BRICS Summit at the Itamaraty Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, July 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)Meanwhile, the West continues to grapple for a way to quell an insurgency in Ukraine.


Assad declares victory, push to topple him elusive

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 12:25 PM PDT

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syria's President Bashar Assad laughs as he addresses a speech shortly after he was sworn in for his third seven-year term in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Proclaiming the Syrian people winners in a "dirty war" waged by outsiders, Assad was sworn in on Wednesday for a third seven-year term despite the bloody civil war ignited by a mass uprising against his rule. (AP Photo/SANA)In a lavish ceremony, a smiling and confident President Bashar Assad was sworn in for a third seven-year term on Wednesday, praising his supporters for "defeating the dirty war" and denouncing insurgents who have "failed in trying to brainwash you or break your will."


California death penalty ruled unconstitutional

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 04:03 PM PDT

Gavel and old glory. American Justice.By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) - California's system for imposing and carrying out the death penalty is so long and drawn-out that it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment and thus is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday. Ruling in the case of Ernest Dewayne Jones, who was condemned to death in 1995 and has yet to be executed, Judge Cormac J. Carney of the U.S. Central District of California said that to take "nearly a generation" to decide on Jones' appeals was unconstitutional. As part of the ruling, Carney vacated the death penalty sentence in Jones' case. "The dysfunctional administration of California's death penalty system has resulted, and will continue to result, in an inordinate and unpredictable period of delay," Carney wrote in his opinion, filed on Wednesday.


Funerals being held for slain family near Houston

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 12:25 PM PDT

One of six caskets is moved into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for a funeral service for members of the Stay family Wednesday, July 16, 2014, in Houston. Slaying victims Stephen Stay, 39, his 34-year-old wife, Katie, and their four youngest children were shot to death last week in their suburban Houston home. The oldest child Cassidy, 15, survived the attack by playing dead, called police and identified her uncle, 33-year-old Ronald Lee Haskell, as the gunman. Funeral services will be held later today. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)Six white caskets containing the bodies of a suburban Houston couple and four of their five children were wheeled into a church for funeral services Wednesday, not far from where the family was gunned down at their home a week ago.


FBI: 3 cartel members accused of abducting S.C. man

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 12:33 PM PDT

Cartel KidnappersThree men affiliated with a Mexican drug cartel kidnapped a South Carolina man and held him for ransom for nearly a week in a dispute over $200,000 in marijuana, authorities said Wednesday.


Senate GOP blocks birth control bill

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 11:56 AM PDT

This June 30, 2014 file photo shows a demonstrator holding up a sign outside the Supreme Court in Washington on the day the court decided in the Hobby Lobby case to relieve businesses with religious objections of their obligation to pay for women's contraceptives among a range of preventive services the new health law calls for in their health plans. How much distance from an immoral act is enough is the difficult question behind the next legal dispute over religion, birth control and the new health law that is likely to be resolved by the Supreme Court. The issue in more than four dozen lawsuits from faith-affiliated charities, colleges and hospitals who oppose some or all contraception as immoral is how far the Obama administration must go to accommodate them. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)The bill aims to restore free contraception when employers object on religious grounds.


DA claims Hernandez fiancee lied to grand jury

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 11:27 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 24, 2013, file photo, Shayanna Jenkins, fiancee of former New England Patriots NFL football player Aaron Hernandez, arrives at hearing for Hernandez at Attleboro District Courtroom in Attleboro, Mass. Prosecutors said in a filing Wednesday, July 16, 2014, that they have "direct evidence" that Jenkins lied to the grand jury that indicted Hernandez on a murder charge in the slaying of Odin Lloyd, including about a box she discarded at Hernandez's direction. (AP Photo/Bizuayehu Tesfaye, File)Prosecutors have spelled out what they say is evidence that the fiancee of former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez lied to the grand jury that indicted him on a murder charge, including comments she made about a box she discarded at Hernandez's direction.


U.S. nurse refuses to force-feed Guantanamo inmates

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 11:12 AM PDT

First Nurse Refuses to Force Feed Guantanamo Bay PrisonersA U.S. Navy nurse has refused to take part in force-feeding Guantanamo inmates on hunger strike, the first time a medical officer has openly objected to the practice, the Pentagon said Wednesday. The male nurse, whose name has not been disclosed, was part of a medical team at the US-run prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba that feeds detainees by inserting a tube up their nose, down the throat and into the stomach. "This nurse did not want to take part in the enteral feeding and has since been assigned to other duties," spokesman Colonel Steven Warren told reporters. Pentagon officials said another medical officer previously had declined to participate in an unspecified procedure but that case did not involve tube feedings.


Dutch liable for 300 Srebrenica deaths, court says

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 09:48 AM PDT

Women from the Bosnian town of Srebrenica wait for judges to enter a civil court in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, July 16, 2014. A Dutch court has declared the country liable in the deaths of more than 300 Bosnian Muslim men murdered by Bosnian Serb forces in the United Nations-declared Srebrenica "safe haven" 19 years ago and ordered the government to pay compensation to their widows and families. The decision was only a partial victory for families of some 8,000 men slain in the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre. In an emotionally charged hearing judges said that Dutch UN peacekeepers should have known that more than 300 men deported from the Dutch compound by Bosnian Serb forces on July 13, 1995, would be murdered. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A court on Wednesday ordered the Netherlands to compensate the families of more than 300 Bosnian Muslims killed after Dutch troops handed them over to Bosnian Serb forces in 1995, in a ruling that could make countries more leery to contribute troops to peacekeeping missions.


Typhoon Rammasun kills 20 in Philippines

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 09:24 AM PDT

A Filipino boy tries to sweep out floating debris from their flooded home as Typhoon Rammasun batters suburban Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines on Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Typhoon Rammasun knocked out power in many areas but it spared the Philippine capital, Manila, and densely-populated northern provinces from being directly battered Wednesday when its fierce wind shifted slightly away, officials said. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)A typhoon blew out of the northern Philippines, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.


Lines break in attempts to tow stalled casino boat carrying 123

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 11:14 AM PDT

In this photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, the casino boat Escapade, with 123 people aboard, is grounded off the coast of Tybee Island, Ga., Wednesday, July 16, 2014. No injuries or medical issues had been reported among the 96 passengers and 27 crew members aboard the boat according to Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Anthony L. Soto. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)Authorities say they've tried several times to tow a casino boat that ran aground off Georgia's coast, but the attempts failed when the tow lines broke.


Court lifts stay of execution for Missouri death row inmate

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 03:36 PM PDT

Missouri Department of Corrections handout shows death row inmate John MiddletonA federal appeals court has vacated a stay of execution for a Missouri death row inmate, and the case is now heading to the U.S. Supreme Court.


U.N. says AIDS could be beaten by 2030

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 09:34 AM PDT

A nurse takes care of a terminally ill AIDS patient at a clinic in Kiev. The United Nations says global AIDS-related deaths and new HIV infections have fallen by more than a third in a decadeNew HIV infections fell by over a third in a decade, raising hope of vanquishing disease in about 15 years.


Israeli shell said to kill 4 children

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 08:27 AM PDT

Mohammed Al Awaj, 4, cries while doctors treat him for his injuries following an Israeli air strike on a vehicle, as he lies on the bed at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Hundreds of Palestinian families, their children crying, fled Wednesday, as Israel intensified airstrikes on Hamas targets, including homes of the movement's leaders, following failed Egyptian cease-fire efforts. Before the renewed bombardment, Israel had told tens of thousands of residents of border areas to evacuate their neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)Another was critically wounded on a Gaza beach by Israeli naval gunboat shell, Palestinian health official said.


Hooker pleads not guilty in Google exec's drug death

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 08:46 AM PDT

Alix Tichelman during her arraignment in Santa Cruz Superior CourtSANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — A high-priced prostitute accused of leaving a Google executive to die on his yacht in California after shooting him up with a fatal hit of heroin has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and heroin charges.


Photo of Michelle Obama evokes civil rights struggle

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 06:44 AM PDT

Michelle Obama tours Brown v. Board of Education National Historic SiteWhile touring the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic site, first lady Michelle Obama was photographed under a sign bearing a stark reminder of school segregation.


123 people on gambling boat stuck on Georgia rocks

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 09:51 AM PDT

The casino boat Escapade, with 123 people aboard, is grounded off the coast of Tybee Island, Ga.SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A casino boat ran aground on rocks off the coast of Georgia overnight and remained stranded hours after daybreak Wednesday, with Coast Guard crews awaiting high tide to attempt to remove the 123 people aboard.


Ex-Taliban POW Bergdahl lawyers up

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 02:01 PM PDT

Lawyer: Ex-Taliban Captive Bowe Bergdahl Says Obama 'Saved His Life'Bergdahl Likely to Leave the Military When Able, Lawyer Says


Numerous lapses at CDC prior to live anthrax release

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 10:14 AM PDT

CDC Mishaps Could Have Been Deadly, Experts SayBy David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday faulted a "dangerous pattern" of safety lapses at government laboratories handling deadly pathogens such as anthrax and avian flu, calling for an overhaul of controls at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Members of a House Energy and Commerce Committee subcommittee cited new information on breaches previously unreported by CDC, which is under scrutiny for the potential exposure of more than 80 lab workers to live anthrax bacteria in June. The criticism, equally shared by Democratic and Republican lawmakers, was directed at CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden at a hearing. The incidents at the CDC's Atlanta campus have sparked fresh concerns over the lack of independent oversight of potentially dangerous research nationwide, even as the number of labs doing such work has surged in recent years.


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