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Secrets of America's fastest-growing cities

Posted: 22 May 2014 12:48 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2013, file photo, a sign announces the future of the Dallas Cowboys football team headquarters and training facility in Frisco, Texas. New data from the Census Bureau shows that three of the nation's five fastest-growing cities are located in the Lone Star State. San Marcos, Frisco and Cedar Park, Texas were No. 1, 2 and 4 in percentage population growth between 2012 and 2013. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)Census charts urban boom, though factors driving growth of small cities vary by region.

O.J. Simpson's lawyers file oversized request for new trial

Posted: 22 May 2014 03:54 PM PDT

O.J. Simpson stands at the end of an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court on May 17, 2013 in Las VegasThe attorneys for Simpson, who is not eligible for parole until 2017, filed the opening brief in his December 2013 appeal before a midnight-Wednesday deadline, said Nevada Supreme Court spokesman Michael Sommermeyer. He later lost a wrongful death case that was brought by the victims' families.

Villagers in violent clash with Mexico City police over water

Posted: 22 May 2014 03:01 PM PDT

Villagers listen as a community activist speaks at a rally where residents were deciding how to respond, one day after violent clashes with police in the village of San Bartolo Ameyalco on the outskirts of Mexico City, Thursday, May 22, 2014. A confrontation between 1,500 police and residents left more than 100 police injured in a battle over a water spring. Three police remained in intensive care Thursday, the city government said, and five people were under arrest. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)MEXICO CITY (AP) — A confrontation between 1,500 police and residents of a village on Mexico City's western outskirts left more than 100 police injured in a battle over a water spring. Three police remained in intensive care Thursday, the city government said, and five people were under arrest.

Staying alive: 'Citizen scientists' work to reboot 1978 satellite

Posted: 22 May 2014 01:45 PM PDT

Artist's image obtained from NASA on May 22, 2014, shows the International Sun-Earth Explorer, or ISEE-3, built in 1978 to study the physics of solar windsIt's plunging back through space, but also back through time, and a band of veteran scientists are determined to save it: a lonely satellite from the age of disco, floating homewards without a mission. In 1981, the spacecraft was sent off on a new mission on a wide orbit in search of comets, and now it is flying blind and NASA has written it off as dead. But, as it nears Earth once more, some scientists want to return it to its original job, including Robert Farquhar, now in his 80s, who was responsible for hijacking it in the first place. Farquhar's dream inspired a rescue team, many of them elderly engineers like himself still familiar with the mid-20th century technology on the satellite.

N.J. gun control bill heads to Christie's desk

Posted: 22 May 2014 01:09 PM PDT

New Jersey Governor Christie looks on during an onstage interview at the 2014 Peterson Foundation Fiscal Summit in WashingtonThe New Jersey state Assembly on Thursday sent Governor Chris Christie a gun control bill that would limit the capacity of gun ammunition magazines, but it was unclear whether the Republican governor would sign the measure into law. Christie, widely perceived as a possible White House contender in 2016, has a mixed record on gun control and has given no indication of his plans for the measure. The bill, approved in the Assembly by a 44-34 vote, would cut the maximum capacity of gun magazines to 10 from 15. Gun control groups say it could save lives.

Russia left unsatisfied after Prince Charles' Hitler comment

Posted: 22 May 2014 10:04 AM PDT

Prince Charles waves to the crowd while crossing a street Wednesday, May 21, 2014 in Winnipeg. The Royal couple are on a four-day tour of Canada. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson)LONDON (AP) — Russia criticized Prince Charles' reported comparison of President Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler and protested the matter Thursday in a face-to-face meeting with British officials.

Prison takeover a triumph for Assad

Posted: 22 May 2014 12:32 PM PDT

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian army soldier walks in front of Aleppo prison in Aleppo, Syria, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Syrian troops backed by airstrikes broke a yearlong rebel siege of a prison in the northern city of Aleppo Thursday, allowing President Bashar Assad's forces to close in on a nearby command center of a coalition of Islamist rebel groups, opposition activists said. (AP Photo/SANA)Syrian army breaks yearlong rebel siege, boosting president's claims that he's winning war.

Matt Bai: Don't blame college kids for intolerance. Blame us.

Posted: 22 May 2014 01:59 AM PDT

College graduationAmerica's college kids are back and resting at home this week, which is a good thing, because during the long months away they seem to have gone completely out of their minds.

Forecasters predict just one or two major hurricanes in 2014

Posted: 22 May 2014 12:12 PM PDT

Acting Director Tom Evans of the Central Pacific Hurricane Center speaks during a briefing in Honolulu on Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Weather forecasters are predicting four to seven tropical cyclones in the central Pacific Ocean during this year's hurricane season. (AP Photo/Oskar Garcia)NEW YORK (AP) — A slower-than-usual hurricane season is expected this year because of an expected El Nino, federal forecasters said Thursday, but they warned that it takes only one storm to wreak havoc and urged Americans to be prepared.

Fox News anchor charged following airport arrest

Posted: 22 May 2014 02:47 PM PDT

In this photo provided by the Hennepin County, Minn., Sheriff's Office is Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett. Authorities say Jarrett has been charged with a misdemeanor following his arrest Wednesday, May 21, 2014 at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. An airport spokesman said officers reported Jarrett seemed intoxicated, acted belligerently and refused to follow orders. (AP Photo/Hennepin County Sheriff's Office)Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett has been charged with a misdemeanor following his arrest at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport for allegedly refusing to cooperate with police.

Teen becomes India's prime minister for a half hour — on Twitter

Posted: 22 May 2014 07:32 AM PDT

Outgoing Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh leaves after paying homage to former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on his death anniversary at his memorial, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Rajiv Gandhi was killed by an ethnic Tamil suicide bomber in May 1991 as he campaigned for a return to the post of prime minister. He was 47 years old. (AP Photo /Manish Swarup)The Twitter user unwittingly found himself amid a contentious political battle.

House passes $601B defense bill

Posted: 22 May 2014 10:18 AM PDT

Hagel Presses Congress To Support Pentagon Plans To Cut SpendingLegislation would spare planes, ships from Pentagon cuts.

Man charged in California kidnap case

Posted: 22 May 2014 09:58 AM PDT

In this Tuesday, May 20, 2014, photo released by the Santa Ana Police Department, shows suspect Isidro Garcia, age 41 of Bell Gardens, Calif. who was arrested in Santa Ana, Calif. Garcia allegedly kidnapped a 15-year-old girl in Santa Ana in 2004 then repeatedly physically and sexually assaulted her over the course of 10 years. He was booked for kidnap for rape, and lewd acts with a minor and false Imprisonment. (AP Photo/Santa Ana Police Department)Isidro Medrano Garcia has been charged with five felony counts, including rape and kidnapping to commit a sexual offense.

U.S. Air Force begins search for kidnapped girls

Posted: 22 May 2014 11:32 AM PDT

U.S. DEPLOYS TROOPS TO SEARCH FOR NIGERIAN GIRLSEighty U.S. Air Force personnel have arrived in Chad and have begun their mission to help locate nearly 300 schoolgirls kidnapped in neighboring Nigeria, a U.S. military spokesman said.

Joplin's new, tornado-proof hospital

Posted: 22 May 2014 07:00 AM PDT

Tornado-proofing a hospitalThree years after deadly twister, the city isn't taking chances on its new Mercy Hospital.

House passes bill to curb NSA record-gathering

Posted: 22 May 2014 11:09 AM PDT

the National Security AgencyThe House on Thursday passed legislation to end the National Security Agency's bulk collection of American phone records, the first legislative response to the disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

Crews continue to battle Arizona Slide Fire

Posted: 22 May 2014 04:07 AM PDT

Many residents flee Arizona towns as fire growsMany residents flee Arizona towns as wildfire grows.

13 Ukrainians dead, 30 wounded in rebel attack

Posted: 22 May 2014 10:55 AM PDT

Local civilian Firyuza, a family member of Meskhetian Turks, cries while attending a rally in protest against a shelling from Ukrainian government forces in Semyonovka village near the major highway which links Kharkiv, outside Slovyansk, Ukraine, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Several trains carrying weapons and planeloads of troops have left regions near Ukraine as part of a massive military pullout, the Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday, even as fighting raged between pro-Russian insurgents and government forces in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)Three days before Ukraine holds a key presidential vote, pro-Russia insurgents attacked a military checkpoint Thursday in eastern Ukraine, killing 13 troops in the deadliest raid yet in weeks of fighting, Ukraine's leader said.

11 Ukrainians dead, 33 wounded by rebels

Posted: 22 May 2014 05:45 AM PDT

An Ukrainian soldier guards at a gunfight site near the village of Blahodatne, eastern Ukraine, on Thursday, May 22, 2014. At least 11 Ukrainian troops were killed and about 30 others were wounded when Pro-Russians attacked a military checkpoint, the deadliest raid in the weeks of fighting in eastern Ukraine. Three charred Ukrainian armored infantry vehicles, their turrets blown away by powerful explosions, and several burned vehicles stood at the site of the combat. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)Three days before Ukraine's election, attacks are deadliest raid yet in weeks of fighting.

31 killed in market attack in China's Xinjiang

Posted: 21 May 2014 10:50 PM PDT

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, police officers stand guard near a blast site which has been cordoned off, in downtown Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Attackers crashed a pair of vehicles and tossed explosives in an attack Thursday near an open air market in the capital of China's volatile northwestern region of Xinjiang, leaving an unknown number of people dead and injured, state media reported. (AP Photo/Cao Zhiheng)China's state news agency says the assailants hurled explosives from cars in a busy market.

Chicago man awaits sentencing in exchange student beating

Posted: 22 May 2014 04:57 AM PDT

Handout photo of Heriberto ViramontesHeriberto Viramontes was convicted in the savage beating of an Irish exchange student, which left her unable to walk or speak, faces up to 120 years in prison.

Fix to veterans' health care takes on new urgency

Posted: 21 May 2014 11:47 PM PDT

President Obama in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White HouseWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is showing a sudden urgency to resolve a growing crisis over veterans' health care.

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