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• Poll: Americans are down on America
• Calif. deputy who shot teen won't face criminal charges
• Japan issues highest alert over super typhoon Neoguri
• Border policy changes: Obama holding off for now
• Gaza militants unleash heavy rocket fire on Israel
• U.N. recognizes gay marriages for all staff members
• Honduras ends search for 8 trapped miners
• Judge approves landmark NFL concussion deal
• What the legal pot industry needs to thrive
• N.Y. becomes 23rd state to approve medical marijuana
• Real Madrid legend Di Stefano dies at 88
• CIA had role in Germany spy affair, U.S. officials say
• 911 call reveals mom slept as S.C. toddler got stuck in hot car
• Pope begs forgiveness for Church sex abuse
• Several dead in Chicago's July 4th weekend shootings
• Friend of Boston bomb suspect denies interfering with probe
• NEA calls for education secretary's resignation
• 'College essay rapist' gets 18 years in prison
• Lebanon charges 28 with planning suicide attacks
• Newspaper runs headline referring to Obama as N-word
• Iraq parliament delayed for five weeks, general killed near Baghdad
• Afghan officials: Ahmadzai leads in disputed vote
• Child sex abuse conspiracy claims rattle Britain's elite
• Inside President Obama’s secret schedule
• Powerful 7.1-magnitude quake rattles Mexicao
• 63 abducted females escape extremists in Nigeria
• Senate Democrats: Obamacare? What's that?
• Suspects confess to killing Palestinian teen
• Hillary Clinton says Russia's Putin'can be dangerous'
• Pope Francis to hold first meeting with sexual abuse victims
• Israel's Netanyahu phones father of murdered Palestinian teen
• APNewsBreak: Wash. issues first pot shop licenses
• 3 bridges blown up in Ukraine near rebel-held city
• Washington state issues 24 marijuana shop licenses
• How GM's ignition switch redesign went wrong
• Prosecutor: Tsarnaev said martyrs go to heaven
• Iraqi parliament squabbles over when to next meet

Poll: Americans are down on America Posted: 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 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 Japan 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 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 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 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 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 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 Posted: 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 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 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 The 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 Newly 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 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 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 The 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 A 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 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 The 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 By 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 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 By 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 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 The 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 Incumbent Senate Democrats are running as if they're newcomers.

Suspects confess to killing Palestinian teen Posted: 07 Jul 2014 09:57 AM PDT 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 "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 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 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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