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Poll: Americans are down on America

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That's the bottom line in a new Gallup poll measuring the extent of freedom in 135 nations.


Calif. deputy who shot teen won't face criminal charges

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 04:29 PM PDT

In this photo provided by the Lopez family is a picture of Andy Lopez, who was killed by sheriff's deputies in Santa Rosa, Calif. Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013. Northern California sheriff's deputies have shot and killed the 13-year-old boy after repeatedly telling him to drop what turned out to be a replica assault rifle, sheriff's officials and family members said. Two Sonoma County deputies on patrol saw the boy walking with what appeared to be a high-powered weapon. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Lopez family via The Press Democrat)Prosecutors said Monday they will not file criminal charges against a Northern California sheriff's deputy who shot and killed a 13-year-old boy carrying a pellet gun he mistook for an assault rifle.


Japan issues highest alert over super typhoon Neoguri

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 03:08 PM PDT

An image from NASA's Terra satellite shows Typhoon Neoguri in the Pacific Ocean approaching JapanJapan was bracing Tuesday for one of its worst storms in over a decade as typhoon Neoguri barreled towards the southern Okinawa island chain, with 55,000 people urged to evacuate as the weather agency issued its highest alert. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued the alert for Okinawa's main island, home to around 1.2 million people, as well as the outlying Miyako islands. The Kadena Air Force Base, the biggest US Air Force base in the Pacific, located on Okinawa's main island, evacuated some of its aircraft as officers stressed that Neoguri may be deadly. Waves could reach as high as 14 metres (45 feet), a weather agency official said in a warning that was likely to revive memories of Japan's quake-tsunami disaster in 2011.


Border policy changes: Obama holding off for now

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 04:23 PM PDT

Demonstrators march in front of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 7, 2014, following a news conference of immigrant families and children's advocates responding to the President Barack Obama's response to the crisis of unaccompanied children and families illegally entering the US, A top Obama administration official says no one, not even children trying to escape violent countries, can illegally enter the United States without eventually facing deportation proceedings. But Homeland Security Sec Jeh Johnson basically acknowledged Sunday that such proceedings might be long delayed, and he said that coping with floods of unaccompanied minors crossing the border is a legal and humanitarian dilemma for the US. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)President Barack Obama is holding off for now on seeking new legal authority to send unaccompanied migrant kids back home faster.


Gaza militants unleash heavy rocket fire on Israel

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 01:48 PM PDT

Israeli soldiers search a house looking for three missing Israeli teenagers, including an American, who they fear have been abducted by Palestinian militants, in the village of Taffouh near the West Bank city of Hebron, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. Israeli troops rearrested 51 former Palestinian prisoners released in 2011 from Israeli prisons in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit who had been captured by Gaza militants, the military said Wednesday, bringing the total number of Palestinians arrested since the teens' disappearance to 240. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)Militants in the Gaza Strip unleashed dozens of rockets on southern Israel late Monday, setting off air raid sirens and forcing hundreds of thousands of Israelis to stay indoors as the military rushed more forces to the border and warned that even heavier fighting looked likely.


U.N. recognizes gay marriages for all staff members

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 04:43 PM PDT

Kimmy Denny and her partner, Barb Lawrence, drove three hours for the to be at the court hearing on gay marriage in Miami, Wednesday, July 2, 2014.The couple is engaged and plans to wait until it legal in their Palm Harbor, Fla. home, to marry. Attorneys for gay couples and the state of Florida are squaring off at a hearing on a lawsuit challenging Florida's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Like others filed across the country, the lawsuit contends the gay marriage ban added by voters to the state constitution is discriminatory and violates equal protection guarantees. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)The United Nations is recognizing the gay marriages of all its staffers, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Monday.


Honduras ends search for 8 trapped miners

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 01:23 PM PDT

Rescue Workers arrival at a gold mine where a landslide trapped miners working inside, in San Juan Arriba, Choluteca in southern Honduras, Sunday, July 6, 2014. Authorities are making a last ditch effort to rescue eight men still trapped in the small gold mine that collapsed on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)The government of Honduras says it is suspending the search for eight miners trapped for six days in a collapsed gold mine in the south of the country.


Judge approves landmark NFL concussion deal

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 01:56 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 15, 1985, file photo, Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon messages his head and neck after an NFL football game against the New England Patriots in Chicago, Ill. McMahon spoke Tuesday, June 17, 2014, about his ongoing battle with dementia that he believe is related to his years of hits he took while playing in the league. McMahon is part of a federal lawsuit filed in San Francisco accusing teams of illegally dispensing powerful narcotics and other drugs to keep players on the field without regard for their long-term health. He led the Chicago Bears to victory in the 1985 Super Bowl. (AP Photo/John Swart, File)A federal judge on Monday granted preliminary approval to a landmark deal that would compensate thousands of former NFL players for concussion-related claims.


What the legal pot industry needs to thrive

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Washington State hits snags rolling out newly approved recreational marijuana industry.


N.Y. becomes 23rd state to approve medical marijuana

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 01:42 PM PDT

Governor of New York Cuomo participates in the National Puerto Rican Day Parade on Fifth Avenue in ManhattanGovernor Andrew Cuomo said on Monday he had signed legislation making New York the 23rd state to allow medical marijuana, calling his approach, which forbids smoking of the drug and includes strict limits, the "smartest" any state had taken so far. "This new law takes an important step toward bringing relief to patients living with extraordinary pain and illness," Cuomo told a news conference at the New York Academy of Medicine, flanked by lawmakers and 9-year-old Amanda Houser, who suffers from seizures. The legislation "gets us the best that medical marijuana has to offer in the most protected, controlled way possible," the Democratic governor said. Medical marijuana is also legal in the District of Columbia.


Real Madrid legend Di Stefano dies at 88

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 04:03 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 26, 1963 file photo, Alfredo di Stefano smokes a cigarette as he talks to newsmen at the Spanish Embassy immediately after his release by communist kidnappers, in Caracas, Venezuela. Stefano, in Caracas with his team of Real Madrid, was held prisoner for 56 hours in a Caracas apartment by members of the outlawed pro-communist Armed Forces for National Liberation. FALN, which seeks to overthrow President Romulo Betancourt, utilized the kidnapping as a publicity stunt and to embarrass the Venezuelan government. Di Stefano, whose goals placed him alongside the all-time great players and propelled Real Madrid to five straight European Champions Cups, has died on Monday, July 7, 2014. He was 88. (AP Photo/File)Alfredo Di Stefano, a key player in the team's ascent as a global powerhouse, has died.


CIA had role in Germany spy affair, U.S. officials say

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 11:37 AM PDT

U.S. Embassy At Focus Of NSA Germany Spy ScandalThe Central Intelligence Agency was involved in a spying operation against Germany that led to the alleged recruitment of a German intelligence official and has prompted renewed outrage in Berlin, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter said on Monday. CIA Director John Brennan has asked to brief key members of the U.S. Congress on the matter, which threatens a new rupture between Washington and a close European ally, one of the officials said. The office of Germany's Federal Prosecutor, based in the western city of Karlsruhe, late last week issued a statement saying that a 31-year old man had been arrested on suspicion of being a foreign spy, and that investigations were continuing. German politicians have said that the suspect, an employee of the country's foreign intelligence service, admitted passing to an American contact details concerning a German parliamentary committee's investigation of alleged U.S. eavesdropping disclosed by Edward Snowden, a former contractor for the U.S. National Security Agency.


911 call reveals mom slept as S.C. toddler got stuck in hot car

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 11:51 AM PDT

A tear rolls down the cheek of Justin Ross HarrisNewly released court records show police want to learn about the health of a toddler in the months before he died of heat exposure in his father's car near Atlanta.


Pope begs forgiveness for Church sex abuse

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 01:43 PM PDT

Pope Francis celebrates the Angelus noon prayer from his studio window overlooking St. Peter's square, at the Vatican, Sunday, July 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)Pope Francis begged forgiveness Monday in his first meeting with Catholics sexually abused by members of the clergy and went further than any of his predecessors by vowing to hold bishops accountable for their handling of pedophile priests.


Several dead in Chicago's July 4th weekend shootings

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 02:10 PM PDT

The July Fourth holiday weekend brought an explosion of gunfire to Chicago, where at least 60 people were shot and roughly a dozen killed, authorities said on Monday. The violence was so widespread during the three-day weekend that police were still tallying the dead and wounded, Chicago Police Department spokesman Hector Alfaro said. In a news conference Monday morning, Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy called the violence "unacceptable," and he blamed it in part on a "proliferation of firearms." The Chicago Tribune reported 82 people were shot and 14 killed. To try to quell the violence, SWAT teams patrolled the streets along with police officers and law enforcement brought in SUVs packed with rifles, the paper said.

Friend of Boston bomb suspect denies interfering with probe

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 11:13 AM PDT

This undated photo added on April 18, 2013 to the VK page of Dias Kadyrbayev shows, from left, Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, from Kazakhstan, with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Times Square in New York. Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov, two college buddies of Tsarnaev, were jailed by immigration authorities the day after Tsarnaev's capture. They are not suspects, but are being held for violating their student visas by not regularly attending classes, Kadyrbayev's lawyer, Robert Stahl said. They are being detained at a county jail in Boston. (AP Photo/VK)The lawyer for a man charged with obstructing the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombing denied on Monday that his client removed a laptop and backpack containing fireworks from the bombing suspect's dorm room three days after the deadly attack. Defense attorney Nicholas Wooldridge said in his opening statement that Azamat Tazhayakov took nothing except a pair of headphones that belonged to him from the room of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is accused of carrying out the April 15, 2013, blasts with his brother. Tazhayakov is the first of three of Tsarnaev's friends to face trial for hampering the investigation of the bombing and Wooldridge said it was his friend and fellow Kazakh exchange student, Dias Kadyrbayev, who took the laptop from the room and dropped it in a dumpster. "Dias is the one that took that bag back to the apartment, not Azamat," Wooldridge said.


NEA calls for education secretary's resignation

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 10:26 AM PDT

NEA wants Duncan's resignationThe nation's largest teachers' union wants U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan to quit.


'College essay rapist' gets 18 years in prison

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 10:37 AM PDT

generic_fp_scotus_v2A New York City man convicted of raping his former stepdaughter in an attack she disclosed years later in a college application essay has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.


Lebanon charges 28 with planning suicide attacks

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 08:52 AM PDT

Syrian refugees women, who fled their home from Syria, pray inside their tent at a Syrian refugee camp in the eastern town of Marj in Bekaa valley, Lebanon, Sunday, June 29, 2014. Across a wide belt that stretches halfway around the globe, the world's estimated 1.6 billion Muslims mark the beginning of Ramadan this weekend. The holy season is marred by unprecedented turmoil, violence and sectarian hatreds that threaten to rip apart the Middle East, the epicenter of Islam. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)Alleged plotters reportedly belong to the militant group Islamic State.


Newspaper runs headline referring to Obama as N-word

Posted: 06 Jul 2014 05:32 PM PDT

Cruel summer: Poll numbers sink as Obama faces setbacksThe op-ed is actually a pro-Obama piece.


Iraq parliament delayed for five weeks, general killed near Baghdad

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 01:29 PM PDT

Members of the new Iraqi parliament attend a session at the parliament headquarters in BaghdadBy Isra'a al-Rubei'i and Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's new parliament put off its next session for five weeks on Monday, extending the country's political paralysis amid a Sunni Islamist insurgency which claimed the life of an army general near Baghdad. Citing the politicians' failure to reach "understanding and agreement" on nominations for the top three posts in government, the office of acting speaker Mehdi al-Hafidh said parliament would not meet again until Aug. 12. Putting off the work of reaching consensus is a slap in the face to efforts by Iraq's Shi'ite clergy, the United States, the United Nations and Iran, who have all urged the swift formation of an inclusive government to hold the country together. With no signs that Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will abandon his bid for a third term, his Sunni, Shi'ite and Kurdish opponents warn there is a risk that Iraq will fragment along ethnic and sectarian lines.


Afghan officials: Ahmadzai leads in disputed vote

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 12:56 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken Thursday, June 26, 2014, Afghanistan's presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai speaks during a press conference at his resident in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Afghan presidential election commission says Monday, July 7, 2014 that Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai leads in early results. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials released preliminary election results Monday showing former finance minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai well in the lead for the presidency but said no winner can be declared because millions of ballots were being audited for fraud.


Child sex abuse conspiracy claims rattle Britain's elite

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 09:46 AM PDT

Entertainer Rolf Harris arrives for sentencing at Southwark Crown Court in LondonBy Kylie MacLellan and Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - Britain pledged on Monday to investigate claims that politicians may have sexually abused children in the 1980s in a conspiracy by members of the establishment who used their power to cover up the crimes. The allegations have jarred the current political elite just as Britain is grappling with revelations that some national celebrities had sexually abused children for decades. "We are going to leave no stone unturned to find out the truth about what happened," Prime Minister David Cameron told reporters. Interior minister Theresa May told parliament an independent review would be held of a 2013 investigation carried out by the interior ministry into the handling of allegations of abuse by politicians.


Inside President Obama’s secret schedule

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 01:58 AM PDT

Obama to Cabinet: 'Be Creative, Fix Problems'What does a president really do all day? Take an insider's tour of his secret schedule.


Powerful 7.1-magnitude quake rattles Mexicao

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 10:55 AM PDT

Mexico is located at a meeting point of five tectonic plates, which cause strong seismic activityThe Mexican state of Chiapas was hit by a powerful earthquake this morning.


63 abducted females escape extremists in Nigeria

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 11:06 AM PDT

More than girls & women abducted by Islamic extremists 2 weeks ago have broken free.

Senate Democrats: Obamacare? What's that?

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 01:04 AM PDT

This April 16, 2014 file photo shows Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., at an event in Durham, N.C. This year's U.S. Senate campaign in North Carolina and a few other crucial states will determine which party controls the U.S. Senate in the final two years of President Barack Obama's second term. Running for a second term in Washington, Hagan is talking a lot about what's happening at North Carolina's Capitol where her Republican opponent North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis is enmeshed in trying to resolve a budget quarrel, a spot that helps Hagan emphasize Tillis' role leading a Republican-controlled state government Democrats argue has gone overboard with conservative zeal. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)Incumbent Senate Democrats are running as if they're newcomers.


Suspects confess to killing Palestinian teen

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 09:57 AM PDT

Palestinians carry the body of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir in Jerusalem on Friday, July 4, 2014. Israeli police clashed with Palestinian protesters in Jerusalem on Friday as thousands of people converged on a cemetery for the burial of an Arab teenager, who Palestinians say was killed by Israeli extremists in a suspected revenge attack. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)They allegedly re-enacted the killing of Mohammed Abu Khdeir for authorities.


Hillary Clinton says Russia's Putin'can be dangerous'

Posted: 06 Jul 2014 11:10 AM PDT

Clinton and Putin"A man like Putin always goes to the limits."


Pope Francis to hold first meeting with sexual abuse victims

Posted: 06 Jul 2014 05:13 PM PDT

The Pontiff says he'll show zero tolerance for anyone who abused children, including bishops.

Israel's Netanyahu phones father of murdered Palestinian teen

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 02:51 AM PDT

By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's prime minister phoned the father of a murdered Palestinian teenager on Monday to promise that the attackers would be prosecuted, the government said, as anger over the killing fuelled Arab street protests. The burnt body of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khudair was discovered in a Jerusalem forest last week. "I wish to express my shock and the shock of Israel's citizens over the despicable murder of your son," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the father, Hussein Abu Khudair, according to the statement. "The murderers will be brought to trial and prosecuted to the full extent of the law," the right-wing leader added, according to the statement, a day after Israel announced that six Jewish suspects, whom it did not identify, were in custody.

APNewsBreak: Wash. issues first pot shop licenses

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 04:42 AM PDT

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state issued its first retail marijuana licenses on Monday with a middle-of-the-night email alerting bleary-eyed pot-shop proprietors that they'll finally be able to open for business.

3 bridges blown up in Ukraine near rebel-held city

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 02:01 PM PDT

DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — After Ukrainian forces' seizure of a key rebel stronghold in the east, the major cities of Donetsk and Luhansk could be the next focus of major fighting. Three bridges on roads leading to Donetsk were blown up Monday — possibly to hinder military movements, though the rebels claim it was the work of pro-Kiev saboteurs.

Washington state issues 24 marijuana shop licenses

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 10:53 AM PDT

In this photo taken Tuesday, July 1, 2014, Stevie Askew, a worker at Sea of Green Farms, packs recreational marijuana into blunts that will be sold in stores when legal recreational pot sales begin Tuesday, July 8, in Washington state. The grower, the first business licensed to grow recreational marijuana in Washington state, worked all weekend to have supplies ready for stores that were expected to be granted sale licenses on Monday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state issued its first retail marijuana licenses Monday with a middle-of-the-night email alerting bleary-eyed pot-shop proprietors that they'll finally be able to open for business.


How GM's ignition switch redesign went wrong

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 12:40 PM PDT

FILE - This Tuesday, April 1, 2014 file photo shows a key in the ignition switch of a 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt in Alexandria, Va. Responding to complaints about "cheap-feeling" switches that required too much effort to turn, General Motors set about making new ones that would work more smoothly and give drivers the impression that they were better designed, a GM switch engineer testified in a lawsuit deposition in the spring of 2013. The switches, though, were too loose, touching off events that led to at least 13 deaths, more than 50 crashes and a raft of legal trouble for the Detroit automaker. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)DETROIT (AP) — General Motors' deadly ignition switch flaws emerged from an effort to improve its cars.


Prosecutor: Tsarnaev said martyrs go to heaven

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 01:55 PM PDT

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev texted a friend 90 minutes after the deadly explosions and said, "Don't go thinking it's me," a federal prosecutor told jurors Monday during opening statements at the friend's obstruction trial.

Iraqi parliament squabbles over when to next meet

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 12:21 PM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — With political leaders deadlocked, Iraq's parliament squabbled Monday over when to hold its next session, potentially delaying the formation of a new government for weeks despite the threat from extremists who have seized control of a large chunk of the country and declared the establishment of an Islamic state.

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