| Marathon bombing suspect's lawyers seek dismissal Posted: 22 Aug 2014 04:33 PM PDT  Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) are asking a judge to dismiss indictments and put proceedings in the case on hold over concerns about the jury selection process in federal court.
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| Oregon gunman planned to kill 'bunch' of people Posted: 22 Aug 2014 02:27 PM PDT  Suspect who fatally shot father, camper in Oregon left behind notes detailing his plans.
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| Hamas leader: Don't compare us to ISIL Posted: 22 Aug 2014 02:09 PM PDT Khaled Meshaal has taken pains to disassociate his organization from James Foley's killers. |
| Firefighters still in hospital after Ky. 'ice bucket challenge' mishap Posted: 22 Aug 2014 02:53 PM PDT  Two central Kentucky firefighters are still hospitalized a day after they were shocked by a power line while helping out with an "ice bucket challenge."
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| Gaza gunmen execute 18 alleged spies; mortar kills Israeli boy Posted: 22 Aug 2014 12:45 PM PDT  Hamas-led gunmen in Gaza executed 18 Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel on Friday, accelerating a crackdown on suspected informers after Israeli forces tracked down and killed three senior Hamas commanders. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to escalate the fight against Hamas, vowing the group would "pay a heavy price" after a four-year-old Israeli boy was killed by a mortar attack from Gaza, the first Israeli child to die in the six-week conflict. Shortly after his remarks, Palestinian officials said Israel had flattened a house in a Gaza City air strike, wounding at least 40 people. Israel's military spokesman said another ground war was possible if necessary to stop the rocket fire.
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| 173 MH17 crash victims identified Posted: 22 Aug 2014 12:28 PM PDT  Forensic experts have identified 46 additional victims of the downed MH17 flight, bringing to 173 the total number of passengers killed whose identity has been verified, the Dutch justice ministry said Friday. "Among the 46 victims, 26 were of Dutch nationality," the ministry said in a statement. "The relatives of victims have been informed," it said, adding that the nationalities of non-Dutch fatalities would remain private "at the request of these countries' embassies". The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 exploded over insurgent-held east Ukraine on July 17, killing all 298 on board, with the West accusing Russia-backed separatists of shooting it down and Moscow blaming Kiev.
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| Manziel fined $12K for obscene gesture on Monday Night Football Posted:  The Browns rookie quarterback received a $12,000 fine from the NFL for an obscene hand gesture during Monday's 24-23 preseason loss to the Redskins, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter. Manziel extended his middle finger at the Washington bench following a third-quarter incompletion.
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| Pakistan's anti-government protests stay peaceful, for now Posted: 22 Aug 2014 10:06 AM PDT  Anti-government protesters have called for the resignations of two brother leaders.
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| Ebola: Liberia's president talks containment efforts Posted: 22 Aug 2014 11:12 AM PDT  Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf expressed joy today about the recovery of American missionaries Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol in an exclusive interview with Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric. "We want to thank them for the service that they have rendered our country. And I'm glad Dr. Brantly said he's going to come back to Liberia. We just love him," President Sirleaf said. Ebola outbreak: Liberia's president talks containment efforts
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| Cyberattack at U.S. government contractor affects 25,000 workers Posted: 22 Aug 2014 02:45 PM PDT  A cyberattack at a company that performs background checks for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security compromised data of at least 25,000 government workers, and that number could rise, an agency official said on Friday.
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| Russia’s ‘direct invasion’: What we know and don't know Posted: 22 Aug 2014 10:04 AM PDT  On Friday, as a Russian "aid convoy" of 280 trucks crossed the Ukrainian border, NATO said that the Russian military was sending Russian-manned artillery units into rebel-held eastern Ukraine, which certainly sounds like a formal military invasion, though NATO and the US have declined to call it that. This comes one week after a separate "incursion" of Russian military forces had crossed into eastern Ukraine, raising surprisingly difficult to answer questions about whether this now constituted a formal war between Russia and Ukraine. Did Russia really invade Ukraine outright?
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| Reid apologizes for Asian jokes in Vegas Posted: 22 Aug 2014 02:48 PM PDT  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is apologizing for jokes he made about Asians during a luncheon in Las Vegas this week.
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| 'Direct invasion': Russian convoy enters Ukraine Posted: 22 Aug 2014 02:29 PM PDT  NATO chief: Air, ground forces building; heavy weapons going to separatists.
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| U.S. cites 'dangerous' Chinese jet intercept, lodges protest Posted: 22 Aug 2014 01:05 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Friday accused a Chinese fighter jet of conducting a "dangerous intercept" of a U.S. Navy surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft off the coast of China in international airspace — the fourth such incident since March.
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| Is Perry's indictment a 2016 deal breaker? Posted: 22 Aug 2014 03:08 AM PDT  For a politician facing two felony counts, Texas Governor Rick Perry certainly looked cheerful in his mug shot. On Tuesday, August 19, he appeared at an Austin courthouse to answer charges of abuse of power and coercion. After being booked and fingerprinted, he headed to a local burger joint for an ice cream cone and tweeted a photo.
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| 2 Michigan boys critically injured in Ferris wheel fall Posted: 22 Aug 2014 01:34 PM PDT  CHELSEA, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say two children are recovering from injuries after falling at least 15 feet from a Ferris wheel at a community fair in southeastern Michigan.
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| Russia massing forces near Ukraine: NATO Posted: 22 Aug 2014 08:19 AM PDT  NATO chief said air, ground forces building and heavy weapons going to separatists.
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| James Foley's brother: US could have done more to save Jim Posted: 22 Aug 2014 12:08 AM PDT  For the first time since the Islamic militant group ISIL released the shocking video of the beheading of American journalist James Foley earlier this week, his brother and sister are speaking about their grief.
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| The strange way tuberculosis came to American shores Posted: 22 Aug 2014 08:13 AM PDT  When European explorers landed in the Americas, they brought tuberculosis (TB) and a wave of other deadly diseases with them. In fact, these strains may have been brought to the Americas by seals and sea lions, researchers say. A new analysis of three ancient Peruvian human skeletons that date to between A.D. 1028 and 1280 — well before Europeans landed on American shores — shows evidence of tuberculosis, including skeletal lesions and curved spines. "It looked as though tuberculosis was present in the New World before [European] contact, based on these skeletons," said Kirsten Bos, the study's lead researcher and a postdoctoral fellow in paleogenetics at the University of Tübingen in Germany.
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| Who's paying Islamic State's bills? US wants to know Posted: 22 Aug 2014 12:50 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Officially, the FBI agents who swarmed Donald Ray Morgan at Kennedy Airport this month were there to arrest him on a mundane gun charge. But they whisked him away to their Manhattan office and grilled him for two hours on an entirely different topic: Islamic State extremists.
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| Oklahoma cop accused of traffic-stop sex assaults Posted: 22 Aug 2014 03:41 PM PDT  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma City police officer arrested on charges of serial sexual assault preyed on women in the rundown neighborhoods he was assigned to patrol — picking some up off the street, pulling others over at traffic stops and in one case taking a woman to a nearby school, according to an affidavit released Friday.
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| $1 million back-to-school teacher boost Posted:  Exclusive: Katie Couric talks to Melinda Gates about donor challenge for books, tech, tools for classroom.
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| Fed chief: Data not telling true story about disrupted job market Posted: 22 Aug 2014 02:08 PM PDT  By Howard Schneider JACKSON HOLE Wyo. (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve should move cautiously in deciding when to raise interest rates given the U.S. In a speech at the Fed's annual central bank conference, Yellen laid out in detail why she feels the unemployment rate alone is inadequate to evaluate the strength of the jobs market and why the central bank needs to step gingerly. Her remarks were followed by a speech by the head of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, who said the ECB was ready to use all the tools at its disposal to lift euro zone inflation if it continued to drop. Together, the comments from Yellen and Draghi underscored how both central banks were wrestling with the complexities of labor markets still-wracked by the 2007-2009 financial crisis.
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| Ukraine: Russian aid trucks crossing border a 'direct invasion' Posted: 22 Aug 2014 03:32 PM PDT  The West rebuked Russia for sending scores of trucks Friday from a controversial aid convoy to east Ukraine's rebel-held Lugansk in a move Kiev decried as an "invasion." The European Union and the United States demanded that Russia immediately withdraw the convoy, amid fears the cargo could shore up pro-Moscow rebels fighting Kiev's forces.
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| Exclusive: Katie Couric talks to James Foley's brother, sister Posted:  Katie Couric talks to brother, sister in aftermath of journalist's death. Watch here.
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| Gaza rocket strikes Israeli synagogue, several wounded Posted: 22 Aug 2014 06:04 AM PDT  A rocket fired from Gaza hit a synagogue in the Israeli city of Ashdod on Friday, wounding three people, police said. "There is damage at the scene and a number of people were injured by shrapnel," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. Ashdod is around 30 km (20 miles) from Gaza. Hamas and other militant groups fired more than two dozen rockets into Israel on Friday, injuring two other people, with no signs of a let up in the six-week war.
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| India's heaviest drinking state to go full teetotal Posted: 22 Aug 2014 05:21 AM PDT  By Shivam Srivastava BANGALORE (Reuters) - India's wettest state is planning to dry out, drop by drop. The tropical southern state of Kerala, which has the country's highest alcohol consumption per capita, is moving to become alcohol-free within 10 years. Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, quoted in local media, said the state government was in favour of "total prohibition". An resident of Kerala typically drinks about 8.3 liters of alcohol per year, more than double the national average.
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| Among Syrian jihadists: Americans Posted: 21 Aug 2014 03:50 PM PDT  As many as 100 may have traveled, or tried to travel to Syria to join the conflict.
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| UN: death toll from Syrian civil war tops 191,000 Posted: 22 Aug 2014 10:37 AM PDT  GENEVA (AP) — The death toll from three years of Syria's civil war has risen to more than 191,000 people, the United Nations reported Friday.
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| Calif.'s Coachella Valley hit by haboob Posted: 21 Aug 2014 10:38 PM PDT  A haboob swept through California's Coachella Valley on Thursday, August 21, blanketing Palm Springs in dust. The dust storm made for dangerous driving conditions while the 40mph winds that fuelled the haboob downed trees in Palm Springs. This video shows the storm rolling across Indio. Credit: Facebook/Jessika Atkins
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| Disputed Russian convoy finally crosses into Ukraine Posted: 22 Aug 2014 05:19 AM PDT  Trucks from a Russian aid convoy are moving into Ukraine, after the Russian Foreign Ministry accused Kiev of obstruction and announced its convoy would no longer wait at the border for permission to enter. "Our convoy with humanitarian aid is starting to move in the direction of Luhansk," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted on its website Friday, according to Russian outlet RT. There was no immediate official response from the government in Kiev, which had previously warned that any unauthorized entry into Ukraine would be seen as an act of aggression. Valentyn Nalyvaychenko, the head of Ukraine's SBU security service, told the BBC that Russia's decision amounted to a "direct invasion."
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| West condemns Russia over convoy to Ukraine Posted: 22 Aug 2014 04:45 PM PDT  Russia sends an aid mission into eastern Ukraine without Kiev's approval.
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| Mo 'ne Davis's dream season comes to an end Posted:  Two of the best stories in an uplifting Little League World Series collided in Williamsport, and one had to lose.
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| LIVE: Katie Couric interviews Foley siblings Posted:  Exclusive: Journalist's family members speak in aftermath of brother's death. Watch live here now.
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| National Guard starts to pull out of embattled Missouri town Posted: 22 Aug 2014 02:50 PM PDT  By Nick Carey and Edward McAllister FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - National Guard troops began leaving Ferguson, Missouri, on Friday in a sign authorities are increasingly confident they have quelled the worst of the violence that erupted after a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager. "Monday night will be a critical night," said Bishop Edwin Bass, president of the St. Louis church Urban Initiatives of the Church of God In Christ. "The funeral could have a big impact on the mood of the community." The White House said it was encouraged by the situation over the past few days, and that President Barack Obama is monitoring and getting regular briefings.
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| Exclusive: Amid Ferguson rage, council's lone black member keeps low profile Posted: 22 Aug 2014 04:50 PM PDT  By Tim McLaughlin FERGUSON Missouri (Reuters) - In many ways Dwayne James is a beacon of hope in Ferguson, which has been torn apart by racially charged riots. The only black councilman in a predominantly black town, James is widely respected even by political opponents and talked of as a candidate for mayor. "Our city charter provides that our mayor is the spokesperson for the city," James told Reuters, in his first public statement since Ferguson patrol cop Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown, who was unarmed, six times on Aug. 9. Ferguson's black residents complain that they do not have a voice in the town's power structures, and that lack of representation has contributed to the anger that has sparked rioting, they say.
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| Administration condemns Russian move into Ukraine Posted: 22 Aug 2014 04:50 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Friday denounced the movement of a Russian convoy into Ukraine, citing it as the latest provocation by Moscow along the highly volatile eastern border of the former Soviet republic.
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| Newey fears for wasted youth of boy racers Posted: 22 Aug 2014 04:42 PM PDT  By Alan Baldwin SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS Belgium (Reuters) - Red Bull technical head Adrian Newey raised concern for motorsport's budding young racers on Friday, accusing some parents of risking a bleak future for their children by neglecting their studies. With a youth debate raging in Formula One after Red Bull-owned Toro Rosso announced the signing of 16-year-old Dutch driver Max Verstappen for 2015, Newey was more concerned about educational issues. In a sport that holds that if you are good enough, you are old enough, Formula One's leading designer said he was less worried about age per se and more about what happened to those who failed to make the grade. The parents then hide behind that by saying that they have private tutors but I think in many cases – not all, I'm sure, but in many cases - that's actually a complete sham." Newey, the design genius who was asked to leave private school at 16 for misbehaving but went on to study aeronautics at university, said the exam results of many racing teenagers would probably tell a "fairly depressing story'.
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| Rain turns Washington fire scars into muddy rivers Posted: 22 Aug 2014 04:42 PM PDT  TWISP, Wash. (AP) — A highway in central Washington remained closed on Friday after heavy rains unleashed mudslides that washed down hillsides left barren by wildfires.
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| Mackay used racial slur to describe Cardiff's Tan Posted: 22 Aug 2014 04:40 PM PDT  Former Cardiff City boss Malky Mackay allegedly called the club's Malaysian owner Vincent Tan a "chink" in a text message, the Daily Mail newspaper reported Saturday. Mackay has been embroiled in controversy over claims that he and right-hand man Iain Moody swapped racist, sexist and homophobic SMS messages when they worked at the club. The Mail published Saturday what it said was a fresh batch of offensive messages including one from June last year when Mackay, then Cardiff's manager, contacted Moody as head of recruitment about a player they wanted to sign. The newspaper added that Tan controlled Cardiff's finances at the time and that the club's investigators believe that the text message referred to the owner.
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