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Sisi leads Egypt vote, but turnout raises questions

Posted: 28 May 2014 03:31 PM PDT

An election worker waits for voters in front of a ballot box at a polling station in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Egyptian authorities scrambled to rescue the country's presidential election from the embarrassment of a low voter turnout, but few people trickled to the polls on Wednesday even after the balloting was extended for a third day. A low turnout will likely rob the all-but-certain winner, former army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, of the overwhelming show of public support he sought in the vote. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)Ex-army chief sought strong mandate after ousting first freely elected president last year.


Top scientists: E-cigarettes 'part of the solution' to end smoking

Posted: 28 May 2014 04:08 PM PDT

A customer tests e-liquids for e-cigarettes during the first international fair of electronic cigarette and vapology "Vapexpo" in BordeauxBy Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - A group of 53 leading scientists has warned the World Health Organisation not to classify e-cigarettes as tobacco products, arguing that doing so would jeopardize a major opportunity to slash disease and deaths caused by smoking. In an open letter to WHO Director General Margaret Chan, the scientists from Europe, North America, Asia and Australia argued that low-risk products like e-cigarettes were "part of the solution" in the fight against smoking, not part of the problem. The urge to control and suppress them as tobacco products should be resisted," the experts wrote. Leaked documents from a meeting last November suggest the WHO views e-cigarettes as a "threat" and wants them classified the same way as regular tobacco products under the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).


Activists hail arrest of 73-year-old in Reno 'stand your ground' case

Posted: 28 May 2014 02:36 PM PDT

Family and friends of Cody Devine, from left Devine's longtime friend, Amanda Gavin; his mother, Debbie Peckham; uncle, Rick Winters; and the Rev. Howard Dotson, a Sparks pastor. stand in front of the Washoe County court complex Wednesday, May 28, 2014, in Reno, Nev. Wayne Burgarello, 73, was charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Devine and wounding of a female companion. Burgarello claimed he was acting in self-defense on Feb. 13 when he found the two in a vacant duplex he owned in Sparks. (AP Photo/By Scott Sonner).RENO, Nev. (AP) — A 73-year-old man has been charged with murder in a recent shooting that killed a man and wounded a woman who had done meth and entered his vacant duplex without permission in suburban Reno.


Sounds like a deal: Apple confirms $3 billion Beats purchase

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Study links watching pornography to brain changes

Posted: 28 May 2014 01:24 PM PDT

Can You Really Be Addicted To Porn? One Scientist Says NoThe study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, can't say watching porn caused the decrease in brain matter and activity, however. It's not clear, for example, whether watching porn leads to brain changes or whether people born with certain brain types watch more porn, said Simone Kühn, the study's lead author from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, in an email. But, she noted, the results provide the first evidence for a link between pornography consumption and reductions in brain size and brain activity in response to sexual stimuli.


Witnesses say at least 30 killed at Central African Republic church

Posted: 28 May 2014 02:14 PM PDT

Map of Central African RepublicBANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Muslim rebels stormed a Catholic church compound in the capital of Central African Republic on Wednesday, killing as many as 30 people in a hail of gunfire and grenades, witnesses said.


Report confirms VA wait list allegations

Posted: 28 May 2014 11:30 AM PDT

Phoenix VA Health Care CenterInternal review has "substantiated serious conditions" in Phoenix, averaging 115-day waits.


Remembering Maya Angelou: Quotes that inspired

Posted: 28 May 2014 07:56 AM PDT

Remembering Maya Angelou: Quotes that inspired 

Prosecutor: Ex-NFL star Hernandez killed pair over spilled drink

Posted: 28 May 2014 12:08 PM PDT

In this Oct. 9, 2013 file photo, former New England Patriots NFL football player Aaron Hernandez attends a pretrial court hearing in Fall River, Mass. Hernandez is due in court Wednesday, May 28, 2014 to be arraigned on murder charges for allegedly ambushing and gunning down two men in 2012 after a chance encounter inside a Boston nightclub. (AP Photo/Brian Snyder, Pool, File)BOSTON (AP) — Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez gunned down two men he did not know in their car because one of them bumped into him while dancing at a Boston nightclub, spilling his drink, prosecutors said in court Wednesday.


Gitmo detainee seeks Senate interrogation report

Posted: 28 May 2014 03:16 PM PDT

FILE -- In this Sunday Oct. 15, 2000 file photo, investigators in a speed boat examine the hull of the USS Cole at the Yemeni port of Aden, after a powerful explosion ripped a hole in the U.S Navy destroyer, killing at least 17 sailors and injuring some 30 others. Prosecutors are asking a military judge in Guantanamo Bay to reconsider his order that they share with defense attorneys details about a detainee's experience in secret CIA prisons after he was arrested in connection with the deadly attack on the USS Cole in Yemen. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis, File)Lawyers want details on treatment of USS Cole bombing suspect while in secret CIA prisons.


Obama fights foreign policy critics, pledges aid to Syria groups

Posted: 28 May 2014 03:58 PM PDT

Obama arrives for the commencement ceremony at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New YorkThe president insisted U.S. reliance on diplomacy over military intervention was working to resolve crises like Ukraine and Iran.


Female soldiers join Somalia's army ranks

Posted: 28 May 2014 09:40 AM PDT

In this photo taken Sunday, March 30, 2014, a female Somali soldier talks on her walkie-talkie outside a police station in Mogadishu, Somalia. It's unusual to see a female in the military in traditionally conservative Somali society where women's duties are generally at home and limited to family chores, but determined women are breaking down those barriers with about 1,500 females now in the military of 20,000, according to estimates. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)With an AK47 automatic rifle slung over her shoulder, Naeemo Abdi frisks people coming into a Mogadishu police station.


UC Santa Barbara students return to class after shooting rampage

Posted: 28 May 2014 01:09 PM PDT

UC Santa Barbara students attend a candlelight vigil following Friday's series of drive-by shootings in Isla VistaStudents are heading back to classes at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the aftermath of a violent rampage that left six students and their assailant dead in the neighboring community of Isla Vista.


Storm chaser struck by lightning, survives

Posted: 28 May 2014 08:05 AM PDT

STORM-CHARRED NATIONWhen a man stops to shoot video after S.D.'s storm, he gets more than he bargained for.


Poet, author Maya Angelou dies at 86

Posted: 28 May 2014 12:59 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 4, 2008 file photo, American poet and noevlist Maya Angelou smiles during an interview with The Associated Press in New York. Angelou has died, Wake Forest University said Wednesday, May 28, 2014. She was 86. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)Maya Angelou, a modern Renaissance woman who survived the harshest of childhoods to become a force on stage, screen, the printed page and the inaugural dais, has died.


Letters and laughs at the National Spelling Bee

Posted: 28 May 2014 09:19 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 30, 2013 file photo, Vanya Shivashankar, 11 of Olathe, Kan., smiles after spelling the word "shillibeer" correctly during the final round of the National Spelling Bee in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)Words such as "protege" and "gesundheit" and jokes about the George Foreman grill and the game Minesweeper were among the early highlights as the onstage preliminary rounds began Wednesday morning at the 87th Scripps National Spelling Bee.


Fla. court throws out ex-FBI agent's murder conviction

Posted: 28 May 2014 03:39 PM PDT

Former FBI agent John ConnollyA Florida appeals court has overturned the murder conviction for a former FBI agent linked to mobster Whitey Bulger.


Obama: U.S. must lead globally but show restraint

Posted: 28 May 2014 08:24 AM PDT

President Barack ObamaIn a broad defense of his foreign policy, Pres. Barack Obama declared Wednesday that the U.S. remains the world's most indispensable nation, even after a "long season of war," but argued for restraint before embarking on more military adventures.


Italy flies 31 adopted Congolese children to waiting parents

Posted: 28 May 2014 07:17 AM PDT

Congolese children are welcomed by their Italian adoptive relatives as they disembark after landing from Kinshasa, at Ciampino's military airport, on the outskirts of Rome, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. The children ran excitedly into their parents' arms after an overnight flight from Congo. Italy had worked since late last year to allow them to reach Italy. Congo had suspended all international adoptions citing fears some adopted children might later have been trafficked. None of the allegations involved adoptions by Italians. The parents were forced to leave Congo without their children after their visas expired. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)Thirty-one children who had been blocked for months from leaving Congo with their adoptive parents arrived in Rome aboard an Italian government plane for a joyful, long delayed reunion with their new families.


Venus, Serena Williams ousted at French Open

Posted: 28 May 2014 08:02 AM PDT

Williams sisters at 2014 French OpenSerena's loss marks her earliest exit at a major tourney since Roland Garros 2012.


Watch live: Obama outlines plan to recast postwar foreign policy

Posted: 28 May 2014 05:07 AM PDT

OBAMA TO EXPLAIN FOREIGN POLICY AT WEST POINTThe president details his approach during a commencement address at West Point.


Kerry to Snowden: 'Man up' and come home

Posted: 28 May 2014 02:34 PM PDT

FILE - This Thursday, June 6, 2013, file photo, shows a sign outside the National Security Administration campus in Fort Meade, Md. The U.S. government is close to ending the NSA's nationwide bulk collection of American phone records with an overwhelming House vote that is the most significant demonstration to date of leaker Edward Snowden's impact on the debate over privacy versus security. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday called National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden a fugitive and challenged him to "man up and come back to the United States."


Chechnya denies sending troops to Ukraine

Posted: 28 May 2014 09:05 AM PDT

In this photo taken on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, Chechnya's regional leader Ramzan Kadyrov, center, speaks to other lawmakers while waiting for Russian President Vladimir Putin address' the Federal Assembly in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday signed a treaty to incorporate Crimea into Russia, describing the move as the restoration of historic injustice and a necessary response to what he called the Western encroachment on Russia'­s vital interests.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)Along with Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has denied sending any troops to help pro-Russia insurgents.


OPCW-United Nations fact-finding mission was ambushed

Posted: 28 May 2014 04:52 AM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 file citizen journalism image provided by the Local Committee of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, members of the UN investigation team take samples from the ground in the Damascus countryside of Zamalka, Syria. The chemical weapons watchdog that is overseeing the dismantling of Syria's chemical weapons program said Tuesday, May 27, 2014 that a convoy of its inspectors has come under attack, but all are safe. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said the inspectors had been traveling to the site of an alleged chlorine gas attack site when they were attacked. (AP Photo/Local Committee of Arbeen, File)Members of an international fact-finding mission into alleged chlorine attacks in Syria were ambushed and briefly held by gunmen in rebel-held territory, the global chemical weapons watchdog said Wednesday.


Fire in S. Korea hospice for elderly kills 21

Posted: 27 May 2014 04:08 PM PDT

File photo of South Korean firefighters, pictured in Icheon, south of Seoul, on January 7, 2008A fire tore through a hospice for the elderly early Wednesday, killing 21 people.


Snowden says he was 'trained as a spy'

Posted: 27 May 2014 07:03 PM PDT

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, an analyst with a U.S. defence contractor, is interviewed by The Guardian in his hotel room in Hong KongUS fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden "trained as a spy" and worked "undercover overseas" for intelligence agencies, he told NBC News in aired excerpts from an interview. In his first interview in US media, Snowden hit back at claims that he was merely a low-level contractor, saying he worked "at all levels from -- from the bottom on the ground, all the way to the top." Snowden, who has been charged in the United States with espionage, was granted asylum by Russia in August 2013 after shaking the American intelligence establishment to its core with a series of leaks on mass surveillance in the United States and around the world. He said he had worked covertly as "a technical expert" for the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, as well as as a trainer for the Defense Intelligence Agency.


91-year-old Rep. Hall ousted in Texas GOP primary

Posted: 27 May 2014 08:53 PM PDT

John Ratcliffe and Rep. Ralph HallROCKWALL, Texas (AP) — Congressman Ralph Hall, at 91 the oldest-ever member of the U.S. House, was ousted Tuesday in the Texas Republican runoff by a candidate barely half his age.


Santa Barbara attacks prompt action from lawmakers

Posted: 27 May 2014 04:43 PM PDT

State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell SteinbergSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers on Tuesday proposed expanded restraining orders and new law enforcement procedures to deter the type of violent rampages that left six young people dead over the weekend near the University of California, Santa Barbara.


30 percent of world is now fat, no country immune

Posted: 28 May 2014 04:27 PM PDT

FILE- In this file photo dated Tuesday, June 26, 2012, two overweight women hold a conversation in New York, USA. Almost a third of the world population is now fat, and no country has been able to curb obesity rates in the last three decades, according to a new global analysis released Thursday May 29, 2014, led by Christopher Murray of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, USA, and paid for by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Researchers reviewed more than 1,700 studies covering 188 countries covering over three decades and found more than 2 billion people worldwide classified as overweight or obese. The highest rates of obesity were found in the Middle East and North Africa, with the U.S. having about 13 percent of the world's fat population. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, FILE)LONDON (AP) — Almost a third of the world is now fat, and no country has been able to curb obesity rates in the last three decades, according to a new global analysis.


Obama seeks ground between intervention, isolation

Posted: 28 May 2014 01:53 PM PDT

President Barack Obama arrives to a graduation and commissioning ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, in West Point, N.Y. In a broad defense of his foreign policy, the president declared that the U.S. remains the world's most indispensable nation, even after a "long season of war," but argued for restraint before embarking on more military adventures. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Seeking to redefine America's foreign policy for a post-war era, President Barack Obama on Wednesday declared that the United States remains the only nation with the capacity to lead on the world stage but argued it would be a mistake to channel that power into unrestrained military adventures.


Maya Angelou, celebrated poet and author, dies

Posted: 28 May 2014 03:47 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 4, 2008 file photo, American poet and noevlist Maya Angelou smiles during an interview with The Associated Press in New York. Angelou has died, Wake Forest University said Wednesday, May 28, 2014. She was 86. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Maya Angelou's story awed millions. A childhood victim of rape, she broke through silence and shame to tell her tale in one of the most widely read memoirs of the 20th century. A black woman born into poverty and segregation, she recited the most popular presidential inaugural poem in history.


Google to build prototype of truly driverless car

Posted: 28 May 2014 04:54 PM PDT

This image provided by Google shows a very early version of Google's prototype self-driving car. The two-seater won't be sold publicly, but Google on Tuesday, May 27, 2014 said it hopes by this time next year, 100 prototypes will be on public roads. (AP Photo/Google)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Google plans to build and launch onto city streets a small fleet of subcompact cars that could operate without a person at the wheel.


Prosecutor: Hernandez killed 2 over spilled drink

Posted: 28 May 2014 04:45 PM PDT

Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is led into the courtroom to be arraigned on homicide charges at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Hernandez pleaded not guilty in the shooting deaths of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado. He already faces charges in the 2013 killing of semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd. (AP Photo/Dominick Reuter, Pool)BOSTON (AP) — A spilled drink in a Boston nightclub led former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez to kill two people in a drive-by shooting two years ago, prosecutors said Wednesday.


IG: Phoenix VA hospital missed care for 1,700 vets

Posted: 28 May 2014 05:04 PM PDT

FILE - This May 14, 2014 file photo shows Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. speaking to reporters on Capitol in Washington. Veterans at the Phoenix veterans hospital waited on average 115 days for their first medical appointment _ 91 days longer than the hospital reported, the Veterans Affairs Department's inspector general said Wednesday. Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, and McCain, immediately called for VA Secretary Eric Shinseki to resign. Miller also said Attorney General Eric Holder should launch a criminal investigation into the VA. (AP Photo, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — About 1,700 veterans in need of care were "at risk of being lost or forgotten" after being kept off the official waiting list at the troubled Phoenix veterans hospital, the Veterans Affairs watchdog said Wednesday in a scathing report that increases pressure on Secretary Eric Shinseki to resign.


Ukraine sees Russia as source of insurgent threat

Posted: 28 May 2014 01:26 PM PDT

Local people look at a burnt-out car following a shelling from Ukrainian government forces, in Slovyansk, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. In Slovyansk, a city 90 kilometers (55 miles) north of Donetsk which has seen many clashes over the past few weeks, residential areas came under mortar shelling Wednesday from government forces. The school was badly damaged along with other buildings, and residents told The Associated Press that several people were wounded. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — As separatists conceded that militants from Russia's province of Chechnya had joined the rebellion, a Ukrainian government official cautioned Wednesday that its borders had become a "front line" in the crisis.


Egypt: El-Sissi way ahead in presidential poll

Posted: 28 May 2014 04:23 PM PDT

A man uses beads for prayer as he sits outside a polling center in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Egyptian authorities scrambled to rescue the country's presidential election from the embarrassment of a low voter turnout, but few people trickled to the polls on Wednesday even after the balloting was extended for a third day. A low turnout will likely rob the all-but-certain winner, former army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, of the overwhelming show of public support he sought in the vote. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's former military chief appeared well on his way to a landslide victory over his sole opponent, according to partial election results announced late Wednesday, after voting was extended for a third day in an attempt to prevent an embarrassment over low turnout.


AP Source: Shelly Sterling reviewing Clippers bids

Posted: 28 May 2014 04:54 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2010 file photo, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald T. Sterling, right, sits with his wife Shelly during the Clippers NBA basketball game against the Detroit Pistons in Los Angeles. Donald Sterling has agreed to surrender his stake of the Clippers to his wife, and she is moving forward with selling the team. A person with knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press Friday. May 23, 2014, that the couple made the agreement after weeks of discussion. The individual wasn't authorized to speak publicly about the agreement. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shelly Sterling was reviewing bids from five groups interested in buying the Los Angeles Clippers, a person with knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press on Wednesday.


Apple hopes to lift street cred with $3B Beats buy

Posted: 28 May 2014 03:19 PM PDT

In this image provided by Apple, from left to right, music entrepreneur and Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Beats co-founder Dr. Dre, and Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue pose together at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Apple is striking a new chord with a $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics, a headphone and music streaming specialist that also brings the swagger of rapper Dr. Dre and recording impresario Jimmy Iovine. The announcement on Wednesday comes nearly three weeks after deal negotiations were leaked to the media. (AP Photo/Apple, Paul Sakuma)CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple is striking a new chord with a $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics, a headphone and music streaming specialist that also brings the swagger of rapper Dr. Dre and recording impresario Jimmy Iovine.


Thai military rulers appoint anti-Thaksin advisers

Posted: 28 May 2014 06:01 AM PDT

Demonstrators hold up signs during a protest against military rule at Victory Monument in BangkokBy Pracha Hariraksapitak BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's junta has appointed two retired generals with palace connections as advisers, putting powerful establishment figures hostile towards former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra firmly in the ascendant in the country's long-running power struggle. Hoping to show things are getting back to normal, the military also relaxed a night-time curfew brought in after it seized power in a May 22 coup, and is expected to speed up efforts to get the economy moving again after months of debilitating political protests. Data on Wednesday showed trade shrank in April and factory output fell for a 13th straight month, underscoring the damage political unrest has caused and the tough job the military government faces reviving an economy on the brink of recession. The Information Technology Ministry said it had blocked Facebook at the request of the military to stem protests.


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