| Woman's family files new suit against GM Posted: 12 May 2014 02:41 PM PDT  Parents who settled claims last year say GM hid critical evidence on faulty ignitions.
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| White House: No, #BringBackOurGirls won’t sway kidnappers Posted: 12 May 2014 01:39 PM PDT  The White House on Monday defended the #BringBackOurGirls social media campaign as a valuable part of the global response to the abduction of more than 200 Nigerian girls. But spokesman Jay Carney dismissed suggestions that hashtag activism would lead Boko Haram kidnappers to free their hostages.
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| Orphan is first Haitian to be fitted with 3-D prosthesis Posted: 12 May 2014 03:32 PM PDT  By Amelie Baron PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - A 12-year-old orphan boy handicapped from birth became the first recipient of a 3-D printer prosthesis in Haiti last month, thanks to a British-born software engineer in California. Born without fingers on either hand, Stevenson Joseph had little hope of treatment in a country where programs for the disabled are rare apart from a handful of charities. In 2010, Stevenson was brought to Bernard Mevs hospital in the capital, Port-au-Prince, where an orthopedic team was working to fit prosthetic limbs after a devastating earthquake caused injuries that required amputations. \"We couldn't do anything for him here,\" recalled Thomas Iwalla, a Kenyan orthopedic technician at hospital.
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| N.C. entrepreneur in primary battle with singer Clay Aiken dies Posted: 12 May 2014 02:03 PM PDT  ASHEBORO, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina textile entrepreneur locked in a too-close-to-call Democratic Party primary with former "American Idol" singer Clay Aiken has died.
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| Iranian press: Drone replica proves 'nightmare has become reality' Posted: 12 May 2014 01:02 PM PDT  Iran has unveiled its own copy of an American stealth drone it captured in late 2011, claiming to have cracked the "secrets" of the bat-wing craft and added weapons capabilities. Today, Fars News Agency reported that while Iran's duplicate of the US RQ-170 Sentinel drone was smaller, it also had a "bombing capability to attack the US warships in any possible battle." The story in Persian was headlined: "America's nightmare has become reality." State television showed footage on Sunday it said was of a US aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf filmed by an Iranian drone. The drone replica was unveiled at an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) exhibition on Sunday, where Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was briefed on how the drone, its systems, and structure had been reverse-engineered. Aerospace chief Amir Ali Hajijadeh said today that they are working on two more models of the replica drone.
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| Texas lawmakers tour embattled California hot sauce plant Posted: 12 May 2014 03:47 PM PDT  The maker of the popular hot sauce Sriracha said Monday that he has no plans to move his contested plant out of California but would consider expanding into Texas if the Lone Star State can produce peppers ...
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| Studies: Antarctic ice sheet at point of no return Posted: 12 May 2014 11:55 AM PDT  Melt seen as outpacing predictions, crossing threshold that sets up domino-like process.
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| Independence declared in eastern Ukraine Posted: 12 May 2014 03:43 PM PDT  News in Donetsk, Luhansk follows vote that Ukraine and the West have deemed a sham.
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| Mannequins banned from shops in Syrian jihadist stronghold Posted: 12 May 2014 11:48 AM PDT  Syria's most extreme jihadist faction issued a ban Monday on mannequins in shop displays and the sale of women's underwear to male customers, a monitoring group said. The decision by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in their northern stronghold of Raqa also bans men and women shopping together unless he is her husband, father or brother, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Observatory also said ISIL has decided that traditional garments on sale must be neither \"tight, transparent or ornate\". Raqa is the only provincial capital in Syria to have fallen from the hands of President Bashar al-Assad's regime, and it is now completely under ISIL control.
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| NYPD to stop seizing suspected sex workers' condoms Posted: 12 May 2014 02:21 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department will no longer confiscate unused condoms from suspected sex workers to be used as evidence of prostitution, ending a longstanding practice that had been criticized by civil rights groups for undermining efforts to combat AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections.
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| Photos: Spring storms in the Midwest and Rockies Posted: 12 May 2014 10:42 AM PDT  Snow covers spring flowers in Denver on Monday, May 12, 2014. A spring storm that has brought over a foot of snow to parts of Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska and thunderstorms and tornadoes to the Midwest was slowing down travelers and left some without power Monday morning. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski) |
| 15 facts you may not know about the Washington Monument Posted: 12 May 2014 08:51 AM PDT  In honor of the 130-year-old monument's post-earthquake restoration, here are some things you may or may not know about the symbolic structure.
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| Same-sex couples head to Arkansas capital to marry Posted: 12 May 2014 11:33 AM PDT  Dozens of gay couples in Arkansas received licenses to marry from county clerks Monday.
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| U.S. reports second case of MERS virus Posted: 12 May 2014 09:44 AM PDT  A second case of the dangerous Middle East respiratory virus, called MERS, has been found in the United States, health authorities said Monday.
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| Boko Haram video shows abducted schoolgirls praying Posted: 12 May 2014 10:22 AM PDT  A new video from Nigeria's rebel terrorist network purports to show dozens of kidnapped schoolgirls, covered in hijab and praying in Arabic.
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| Libya rescues 450 migrants on Europe-bound boats Posted: 12 May 2014 09:10 AM PDT  A Libyan naval forces rescued 450 migrants off its coastline who were aboard a vessel making an illegal journey to Europe on Monday, a naval official said.
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| Three S. Korean ferry crew members named martyrs Posted: 12 May 2014 06:11 AM PDT  Three crew members on the doomed South Korean ferry were designated as martyrs on Monday for giving their lives to save others as the ship was sinking nearly a month ago.
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| Taliban kill 21 at start of Afghan spring fighting Posted: 12 May 2014 10:48 AM PDT  Marking the start of their spring offensive, the Taliban began a wave of attacks Monday.
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| Company offers flight-tracking solution after Malaysian loss Posted: 12 May 2014 02:02 PM PDT  Inmarsat Plc, a provider of global mobile satellite communications services, said it will offer free basic tracking services for planes flying over oceans in the hope of preventing another incident such as the loss of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
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| Boko Haram offers to swap girls for prisoners Posted: 12 May 2014 04:46 PM PDT  The rebels who abducted more than 200 girls made the proposal in a new video.
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| At least 15 dead in Congo soccer stadium stampede Posted: 12 May 2014 05:52 AM PDT  At least 15 people were killed in a stampede at a soccer stadium in Congo, government officials said.
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| Pistorius has anxiety disorder, psychiatrist tells court Posted: 12 May 2014 05:04 AM PDT  Oscar Pistorius has an anxiety disorder brought on by an unstable childhood and the "traumatic assault" of having his lower legs amputated as a baby, a psychologist told the court hearing the South African track star's murder trial on Monday.
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| Spring snows hit Rockies as plains face high winds Posted: 12 May 2014 04:54 AM PDT  Dozens of snowplows were taking to the slush-covered streets of Denver early Monday, after a powerful spring storm dropped heavy snow across parts of Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska, even as stormy weather moved into the plains states and drew warnings about conditions ripe for severe thunderstorm and tornadoes.
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| Kremlin pushes for dialogue after Ukraine vote Posted: 12 May 2014 04:05 AM PDT  The Kremlin made it clear Monday that it has no intention to try to annex Ukraine's eastern provinces after the controversial referendums where the majority of voters allegedly said they backed sovereignty for their regions.
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| Estranged wife of Donald Sterling to fight NBA Posted: 11 May 2014 09:26 PM PDT  Shelly Sterling says the Clippers owner may have "onset of dementia."
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| Boko Haram demands release of fighters for girls Posted: 12 May 2014 04:08 PM PDT  LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Under the guns of their captors, dozens of barefoot girls sat huddled together wearing gray Muslim veils as they chanted Quranic verses in Arabic. Some Christians among them said they had converted to Islam.
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| Gay couples marry in Arkansas, most clerks sit out Posted: 12 May 2014 03:19 PM PDT  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Dozens of gay couples obtained Arkansas marriage licenses Monday after a judge tossed out the state's 10-year-old same-sex marriage ban, but only at a handful of courthouses as an overwhelming majority of county clerks in this part of the Bible Belt said they first wanted the state Supreme Court to weigh in.
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| The doctor will see you now via webcam, smartphone Posted: 12 May 2014 01:03 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Mark Matulaitis holds out his arms so the Parkinson's specialist can check his tremors. But this is no doctor's office: Matulaitis sits in his rural Maryland home as a neurologist a few hundred miles away examines him via the camera in his laptop.
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| Apple CEO dares to be different from Steve Jobs Posted: 12 May 2014 10:56 AM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — "Think different" became Apple's creed during the late Steve Jobs' reign as CEO. Now, chief executive Tim Cook is embracing the idea while making decisions that would have seemed crazy to his fabled predecessor.
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| Energy savings bill fails amid election politics Posted: 12 May 2014 04:43 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A widely popular, bipartisan energy savings bill fell victim in the Senate on Monday to election-year politics and the Obama administration's continued indecision on the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
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| Snow in Rockies but Western drought continues Posted: 12 May 2014 02:12 PM PDT  DENVER (AP) — A powerful spring storm that dumped more than 3 feet of snow in some parts of the Rockies closed a major national trucking route for more than 24 hours, snapped power lines and drew skiers to the slopes of Colorado's only remaining open ski area. Just to the south, some Arizona communities are rationing water because of drought, and to the west, drought-parched California is bracing for another week of hot weather that could fuel more wildfires. Welcome to springtime in the West, where May snowstorms are coinciding with the start to the region's wildfire season — and doing little to alleviate the overall regional drought.
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| Congo soccer stadium stampede kills at least 15 Posted: 12 May 2014 12:05 PM PDT KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A stampede at a soccer stadium in Congo's capital killed at least 15 people after angry fans threw rocks from the stands, prompting security officers to fire tear gas that caused crowds to flee in panic, government officials and witnesses said Monday. |
| Clay Aiken's primary opponent dies at his home Posted: 12 May 2014 04:20 PM PDT ASHEBORO, N.C. (AP) — The entrepreneur who was locked in a too-close-to-call Democratic primary with former "American Idol" singer Clay Aiken died Monday, his family said. |
| Clippers' Sterling apologizes, says 'not a racist' Posted: 11 May 2014 08:21 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling apologized Sunday for racist comments captured on tape, saying they were a "terrible mistake."
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