| Obama, aides to discuss cutting aid to Egypt Posted: 20 Aug 2013 11:51 AM PDT  But the White House denies secretly freezing assistance.
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| School gunman took hostages and car may have bombs Posted: 20 Aug 2013 02:43 PM PDT  No Students Were Injured in Shooting at Decatur, Ga., Elementary School
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| Lack of hurricanes doesn't signal tame season Posted: 20 Aug 2013 10:59 AM PDT  Since the season began on June 1, the Atlantic has produced five named tropical storms but no hurricanes. On average, the first hurricane forms by Aug. 10 and the second by Aug. 28. As of Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center was reporting no activity on the radar and "tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next five days."
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| Officials: Ga. school suspect fired assault rifle Posted: 20 Aug 2013 04:32 PM PDT  DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A teen opened fire with an assault rifle Tuesday at officers who shot back at an Atlanta-area elementary school, the police chief said, with dramatic overhead television footage capturing the young students racing out of the building, being escorted by teachers and police to safety. No one was injured.
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| Pakistan court indicts Musharraf in Bhutto killing Posted: 20 Aug 2013 02:06 PM PDT  RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — In an unprecedented ruling that tests the military's aura of inviolability, a court indicted former president and army chief Pervez Musharraf Tuesday on murder charges stemming from the 2007 assassination of ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
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| Afghan massacre victim takes stand, curses gunman Posted: 20 Aug 2013 04:29 PM PDT  JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Washington (AP) — An Afghan farmer shot during a massacre in Kandahar Province last year took the witness stand Tuesday against the U.S. soldier who attacked his village, cursing him before breaking down and pleading with the prosecutor not to ask him any more questions.
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| 3 teens charged after Australian player slain Posted: 20 Aug 2013 03:14 PM PDT  DUNCAN, Okla. (AP) — With the simplest of motives — breaking up the boredom of an Oklahoma summer — three teenagers followed an Australian collegiate baseball player who was attending school in the U.S. and killed him with a shot to the back for "the fun of it," prosecutors said Tuesday as they charged two of the teens with murder.
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| Judge to announce Manning's sentence Wednesday Posted: 20 Aug 2013 02:52 PM PDT FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — A military judge said she'll announce on Wednesday the sentence for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who gave reams of classified information to WikiLeaks. |
| 9/11 defendant: US withholds food at Guantanamo Posted: 20 Aug 2013 01:30 PM PDT  GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — A defendant in the Sept. 11 terror attack case alleged Tuesday that guards at Guantanamo Bay have been withholding food when he is in court or meeting with his lawyers. Military officials denied that has happened.
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| British paper details confrontation with UK spies Posted: 20 Aug 2013 03:42 PM PDT  LONDON (AP) — A British newspaper released new details of its confrontation with the country's intelligence service on Tuesday, saying it destroyed hard drives containing material leaked by Edward Snowden in order to insulate the former American intelligence worker from potential prosecution and to keep reporting on his leaks.
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| Best-selling author Elmore Leonard dies at 87 Posted: 20 Aug 2013 02:00 PM PDT  DETROIT (AP) — He was the master of his genre, the Dickens of Detroit, the Chaucer of Crime.
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| Dempster suspended 5 games for hitting A-Rod Posted: 20 Aug 2013 04:35 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Boston's Ryan Dempster was suspended for five games and fined by Major League Baseball for intentionally hitting Yankees star Alex Rodriguez with a pitch last weekend.
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| Egypt questions Brotherhood's top leader in prison Posted: 20 Aug 2013 01:03 PM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's military-backed authorities arrested the Muslim Brotherhood's supreme leader on Tuesday, dealing a serious blow to the embattled movement at a time when it is struggling to keep up street protests against the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi in the face of a harsh government crackdown.
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| Leonard's cool inspired generation of writers Posted: 20 Aug 2013 01:26 PM PDT  Peter Leonard first figured out his father was cooler than most anyone else at an early age, when he was crawling around under the church pew and noticed Elmore Leonard's ultra-mod ankle boots — you know, the kind with the zipper on the side — back in the 1960s.
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| Officials: Ga. school suspect had assault rifle Posted: 20 Aug 2013 02:10 PM PDT  DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A police chief says the suspect in a Georgia elementary school shooting fired from inside the school and officers returned fire.
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| Official: Ga. school suspect had assault rifle Posted: 20 Aug 2013 01:44 PM PDT DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A sheriff's official says a gunman carrying an assault rifle fired shots into the air outside an Atlanta-area elementary school and was taken into custody a short time later. |
| Suspect in custody after reports of gunfire at Ga. school Posted: 20 Aug 2013 11:29 AM PDT  DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A suspect was in custody after reports of gunfire at an Atlanta-area elementary school Tuesday, the school chief said, with television footage showing young students running out the school being escorted by teachers and police. Michael Thurmond told The Associated Press he had no reports of injuries and that all students and teachers are accounted for and safe.
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| Detroit, 4 other Michigan cities get $100M in federal aid Posted: 20 Aug 2013 01:17 PM PDT  Michigan is getting $100 million in federal aid to demolish abandoned buildings and fight blight in Detroit and four other cities, Gov. Rick Snyder said Tuesday. Snyder said the U.S. Treasury Department ...
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| 'Gerrymandering' may shorten wait for transplant patients Posted: 20 Aug 2013 08:56 AM PDT  Where you live can affect your chances of getting a liver transplant, and your risk of dying while waiting. The nation's transplant network says it's time to make the system fairer — and it may take a ...
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| Is Egypt bringing back the police state? Posted: 20 Aug 2013 07:59 AM PDT  'It was not like this even under Mubarak,' says a scholar.
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| Best-selling author Elmore Leonard dies at 87 Posted: 20 Aug 2013 10:06 AM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - American author Elmore Leonard, whose ear for gritty, realistic dialogue helped bring dozens of hard-bitten crooks, cops and cowboys to life in nearly 50 novels, died on Tuesday several weeks after a stroke. He was 87. "Elmore passed away this morning at 7:15 a.m. at home surrounded by his loving family," according to an announcement on his website, elmoreleonard.com. It did not provide other details. Leonard, who first wrote Westerns when he gave up his advertising agency job in the 1950s before moving on to crime and suspense books, suffered a stroke on July 29. ... |
| Prosecutors rest in Fort Hood shooting trial Posted: 20 Aug 2013 01:47 PM PDT  FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Military prosecutors rested their case Tuesday against the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people during the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, but whether the soldier plans to do anything to defend himself remains to be seen.
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| Meet the top 10 richest members of Congress Posted: 20 Aug 2013 08:08 AM PDT  California Rep. Darrell Issa, a Republican, tops the new list, but Democrats hold most of the top spots.
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| White House denies report it secretly froze Egypt aid Posted: 20 Aug 2013 08:17 AM PDT  The government said "no policy decisions" had been made, which leaves a lot of room.
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| Judge approves force-feeding California inmates Posted: 20 Aug 2013 06:29 AM PDT  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge approved a request from California and federal officials to force-feed inmates if necessary as a statewide prison hunger strike entered its seventh week.
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| The real-life “Butler” who served Eisenhower and Obama Posted: 20 Aug 2013 04:37 AM PDT  Top Line The president and administration changes every four to eight years, but behind the scenes at the White House, there is a staff of employees who serve the presidents and their families through the years, regardless of who wins the election. Lee Daniels' new movie, "The Butler," shines a spotlight on the less-told story [...]
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| Egypt arrests Brotherhood's spiritual leader Posted: 20 Aug 2013 06:17 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's military-backed authorities on Tuesday arrested the supreme leader of the country's Muslim Brotherhood, dealing a serious blow to the Islamist group at a time when it is struggling to keep up its street protests against the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi in the face of a harsh government crackdown.
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| Wrecked Fukushima storage tank leaking highly radioactive water Posted: 20 Aug 2013 07:26 AM PDT  It's the most serious setback in the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
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| Sen. Cruz says he'll renounce Canadian citizenship Posted: 20 Aug 2013 12:53 PM PDT  HOUSTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has released his birth certificate showing he was born in Canada but says he will renounce citizenship from that country.
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| Pakistan's Musharraf charged in Bhutto murder Posted: 19 Aug 2013 09:56 PM PDT  The former army chief is indicted in the 2007 death of ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
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