| Afghan poll feud threatens U.S. exit hopes Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:45 PM PDT  The U.S. swung into action as claims of electoral irregularities threatened Afghanistan's first democratic transfer of power.
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| Israel, Hamas face off in new conflict on Gaza Strip Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:25 PM PDT  A new Gaza conflict begins after 27 Palestinians are killed on the first day of an Israeli effort to stop rocket fire.
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| Holder: Syria threat endangers U.S., Europe Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:03 PM PDT  Thousands of Westerners have traveled to Syria to join the fighting there.
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| Germany thrashes Brazil 7-1 to reach World Cup final Posted: 08 Jul 2014 02:50 PM PDT  Germany inflicted a historic 7-1 rout on Brazil to reach the World Cup final.
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| Mother charged over abandoned baby in NYC subway Posted: 08 Jul 2014 02:18 PM PDT  A young homeless woman accused of abandoning her baby on a crowded subway platform in the heart of Manhattan was charged in a New York court Tuesday. The little girl, aged 11 months, was left in a stroller at the Columbus Circle station, one of Manhattan's busiest, on Monday. Frankea Dabbs, 20, pushed the stroller out of a train's sliding doors onto the platform but did not get off herself. She appeared before a Manhattan court charged with abandoning a child and acting in a manner injurious to a child.
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| Chimp attack victim seeks primate sale rules Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:28 PM PDT  A Connecticut woman blinded and disfigured by a chimpanzee attack will visit Washington this week to urge the passage of stricter rules to keep primates from being transported into states that prohibit keeping them as pets.
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| Germany sets World Cup record in semi-final with Brazil Posted:  Never before has a World Cup team been able to score 5 goals in such a short period.
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| Ill. woman seeks clemency in buried-alive case Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:23 PM PDT  Tearful relatives appealed for clemency Tuesday for an Illinois woman they say was wrongly convicted nearly three decades ago of taking part in in a macabre kidnap-for-ransom plot in which a businessman was lured from his home and buried alive.
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| At least 52 injured in S. African train crash Posted: 08 Jul 2014 01:29 PM PDT  S. Africa: Over 50 people were injured when 2 trains collided in the eastern city of Durban.
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| Klose breaks all-time record with 16th World Cup goal Posted: 08 Jul 2014 01:31 PM PDT  Germany's Miroslav Klose has become the World Cup's all-time leading scorer.
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| Iraq: Terrorists seized former chemical weapons depot Posted: 08 Jul 2014 02:38 PM PDT  Iraq says it has lost control of a former chemical weapons facility to "armed terrorist groups."
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| Plea signals more possible scrutiny of Madoff son Posted: 08 Jul 2014 12:33 PM PDT  U.S. prosecutors may still be building a case against imprisoned swindler Bernard Madoff's only surviving son, who according to sources was one of the "co-conspirators" mentioned in a plea deal by a Madoff associate last month.
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| 2 killed in medical complex shooting in Spokane, Wash. Posted: 08 Jul 2014 02:42 PM PDT Police: A gunman in Spokane fatally shot his wife before turning the weapon on himself. |
| Somali troops retake stormed presidential palace Posted: 08 Jul 2014 02:28 PM PDT  Troops have retaken the facility in the capital of Mogadishu, after it was stormed by Islamic militants.
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| Wash. pot customers cheer first legal sale Posted: 08 Jul 2014 02:14 PM PDT  Washington has become the second state in the U.S. to allow people to buy recreational marijuana legally.
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| Shebab militants attack Somalia's presidential palace Posted: 08 Jul 2014 10:57 AM PDT  Somalia's Islamist Shebab rebels carried out a major bomb and armed assault against the country's presidential palace late Tuesday, penetrating the heavily-fortified complex before blowing themselves up. Officials said Somalia's internationally-backed President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed were not inside the complex at the time and were "both safe". Security sources said they were with guards from the African Union's 22,000-strong AMISOM force. A Shebab spokesman confirmed that the Al-Qaeda-linked group was behind the attack, and claimed their commandos had managed to seize the president's office inside the presidential compound known as the Villa Somalia.
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| Tree fell on coaster track, Calif. officials say Posted: 08 Jul 2014 11:32 AM PDT  The state agency that investigates workplace accidents says it was an entire tree — not just a branch — that fell onto a roller coaster's tracks in California, dislodging the front car and keeping nearly two dozen riders hanging for hours.
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| Forgotten vials of smallpox found in storage room Posted: 08 Jul 2014 01:26 PM PDT  A government scientist cleaning out an old storage room at a research center near Washington made a startling discovery last week — decades-old vials of smallpox packed away and forgotten in a cardboard box.
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| Obama seeks $3.7B to ease border crisis Posted: 08 Jul 2014 01:14 PM PDT  Obama: Funds would help the U.S. cope with an influx of illegal immigrants from Central America.
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| Cleveland picked for 2016 U.S. Republican National Convention Posted: 08 Jul 2014 09:22 AM PDT  By Gabriel Debenedetti WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Republican Party's national convention to nominate a presidential candidate in 2016 will likely be held in Cleveland, the Republican National Committee said on Tuesday. The site selection panel chose Cleveland over finalist Dallas, and the full committee is expected to approve the choice in August. Cleveland is in the influential swing state of Ohio. No candidate has won the presidency without winning Ohio since 1960, and Republicans will likely depend on the state once again as they seek to reclaim the White House in 2016.
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| Rick Perry declines offer to meet Obama at airport Posted: 08 Jul 2014 06:01 AM PDT  When President Barack Obama travels, he is often greeted by governors when he lands. He won't be on Wednesday in Texas.
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| Ted Cruz speaks out as Mississippi's Republican civil war spreads Posted: 08 Jul 2014 06:36 AM PDT  Sen. Ted Cruz has jumped into Mississippi's political drama, a sign that the deepening dispute over the state's Republican Senate primary runoff is seeping into the national GOP. In a radio interview Monday, the conservative Texas Republican positioned himself firmly on the side of Chris McDaniel, the Mississippi state senator who lost to Sen. Thad Cochran on June 24. The tea party-backed Mr. McDaniel claims Senator Cochran "stole" the election by reaching out to Democratic voters, many of them black, who then voted "illegally" in the June 24 runoff. "These allegations need to be vigorously investigated, and anyone involved in criminal conduct should be prosecuted," Senator Cruz said on the "Mark Levin Show." "The voters of Mississippi deserve to know the truth."
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| Kim Jong-un takes center stage with apparent weakness Posted: 08 Jul 2014 12:59 AM PDT  New footage of North Korea's leader may reveal a physical problem.
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| Iraqi parliament to meet early next week Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:03 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's parliament Tuesday officially rescheduled its next session for early next week after criticism over initial plans for a five-week break, amid pressure for political leaders to agree on a new government that can confront militants who have overrun much of the country's north and west. |
| Afghan candidate rejects election results Posted: 08 Jul 2014 12:50 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah defiantly told thousands of supporters Tuesday that he will declare victory in the country's election, claiming massive fraud was responsible for preliminary results that put his rival in the lead. The United States warned both camps against trying to seize power, saying international financial and security support was at stake. |
| Harry Potter is back in new J.K. Rowling story Posted: 08 Jul 2014 05:32 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Harry Potter is back — mysterious, married, and going gray.
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| Leukemia therapy that cured 89% of patients fast-tracked Posted: 07 Jul 2014 02:35 PM PDT  89% of leukemia patients who received the therapy saw their cancers disappear.
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| Israel army authorized to mobilize 40,000 troops Posted: 08 Jul 2014 06:03 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government has given the military permission to mobilize up to 40,000 additional reservists as it steps up an offensive in the Gaza Strip.
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| UN pushes for migrants to be called refugees Posted: 08 Jul 2014 10:47 AM PDT SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — United Nations officials are pushing for many of the Central Americans fleeing to the U.S. to be treated as refugees displaced by armed conflict, a designation meant to increase pressure on the United States and Mexico to accept tens of thousands of people currently ineligible for asylum. |
| Scientists closer to blood test for Alzheimer's Posted: 08 Jul 2014 07:26 AM PDT  British scientists on Monday announced a major step forward in developing a blood test that could predict the onset of Alzheimer's, potentially helping the search for a cure. Researchers identified blood proteins that appear in patients subsequently diagnosed with the brain-wasting disease, the most common form of dementia. "Many of our drug trials fail because by the time patients are given the drugs, the brain has already been too severely affected," said Oxford University neuroscience professor Simon Lovestone, who led the study at King's College London. "A simple blood test could help us identify patients at a much earlier stage to take part in new trials and hopefully develop treatments which could prevent the progression of the disease.
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| Obama to meet Texas governor, a critic in U.S. border crisis Posted: 08 Jul 2014 10:56 AM PDT  The president is talking to Lone Star faith leaders & local officials.
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| Lloyd Webber to revive "Cats" in London, hints at movie Posted: 08 Jul 2014 05:00 AM PDT  By Rollo Ross LONDON (Reuters) - Andrew Lloyd Webber is about to find out if felines have more than one life - and possibly a cinematic one as well - as he prepares to bring his 1980s hit musical "Cats" back to London's West End for a limited run. The creator of hit musicals including "Evita" and "Jesus Christ Superstar", announced plans this week to revive "Cats", his 1981 show based on poet T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats", for a 12-week run beginning on Dec. 6. Lloyd Webber said he would also consider bringing back some of his other hits, such as "Phantom of the Opera" and "Starlight Express", and that movie versions were a possibility. "Yes I think it's very possible that I might have a look at one or two of my shows," Lloyd Webber said. His most recent foray into the West End was "Stephen Ward", about the 1961 British politics-and-sex scandal known as The Profumo Affair which arose from a sexual liaison between the then Secretary of War, John Profumo, and aspiring model Christine Keeler.
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| Israel launches military offensive against Gaza Posted: 08 Jul 2014 04:36 AM PDT  Israel strikes at least 50 sites in Gaza and mobilizes troops for a possible ground invasion.
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| One dead as powerful typhoon hits Japan's Okinawa Posted: 08 Jul 2014 02:50 AM PDT  By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - One man died, more than 500,000 people were urged to evacuate and hundreds of flights were canceled in Japan as a strong typhoon brought torrential rain and high winds to its southwestern islands and could bring heavy rain to Tokyo later this week. Typhoon Neoguri weakened from its original status as a super typhoon but remained intense, with gusts of more than 250 km per hour (155 mph). It was powering through the Okinawa island chain where emergency rain and high-seas warnings were in effect. The storm was at its most powerful when passing Okinawa, some 1,600 km (1,000 miles) southwest of Tokyo on Tuesday, but the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) warned of heavy rains and potential flooding in Kyushu, the westernmost of Japan's main islands, as well as heavy rain in the rest of the nation as the storm turns east later in the week.
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| Pistorius defense team closes case Posted: 08 Jul 2014 01:24 AM PDT  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The defense team for Oscar Pistorius closed its case in the athlete's murder trial on Tuesday, bringing a legal case that has transfixed South Africans and others around the world closer to a verdict.
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| Washington poised to start legal marijuana sales Posted: 08 Jul 2014 07:58 AM PDT  BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Marijuana growers loaded trucks with boxes of packaged pot on Tuesday as lines of customers grew outside a handful of stores poised to be the first to sell recreational cannabis legally in Washington state.
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| Israeli military masses troops along Gaza border Posted: 08 Jul 2014 02:18 PM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Tuesday launched its largest offensive in the Gaza Strip in nearly two years, carrying out a blistering aerial assault on scores of targets and killing 19 people in what officials called an open-ended operation aimed at ending weeks of heavy rocket fire. As Gaza militants unleashed salvos on cities including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel mobilized forces along the border for a possible ground invasion.
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| Obama urgently asks $3.7 billion for border crisis Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:45 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama appealed to Congress on Tuesday for $3.7 billion in emergency spending to deal with the immigration crisis on the nation's southern border, where unaccompanied children have been showing up by the thousands in a human drama that's causing a political storm in Washington and beyond.
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| Ukraine takes aggressive stance toward separatists Posted: 08 Jul 2014 12:35 PM PDT  DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's government took an increasingly aggressive stance Tuesday toward the pro-Russia separatists, vowing to expunge them from their reduced area of control and imposing new conditions before peace talks can restart.
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| Slovyansk struggles back after rebels are routed Posted: 08 Jul 2014 12:52 PM PDT  SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — For the first time in three months, Alla Grebenkova says she can go out on the streets of this city in eastern Ukraine without fear of being recognized as Ukrainian.
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