| Hospital attack: Doctor fired back Posted: 24 Jul 2014 03:53 PM PDT  Police: A doctor grazed by a patient's gunfire in Philadelphia returned fire with his own gun.
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| House GOP clears way for anti-Obama lawsuit Posted: 24 Jul 2014 12:42 PM PDT  Over Democratic objections, Republicans cleared the way Thursday for a House vote on legislation authorizing an election-year lawsuit accusing President Barack Obama of failing to implement the 4-year-old health care law as it was written.
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| U.S.: Russia planning more powerful attacks against separatists Posted: 24 Jul 2014 02:40 PM PDT  The Obama administration on Thursday accused Russia of firing artillery from its territory into Ukraine to hit Ukrainian military sites and asserted that Moscow is boosting its supply of weaponry to pro-Russian separatists.
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| Dutch sending unarmed police to MH17 crash site Posted: 24 Jul 2014 01:57 PM PDT  The Dutch prime minister says he is sending 40 unarmed military police to eastern Ukraine as part of a ramped-up effort to find the last victims of the downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 still at the wreckage site.
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| Expert: ‘I’ve never seen a week like this' Posted: 24 Jul 2014 11:22 AM PDT  Aviation expert William J. McGee puts recent crashes in context.
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| 1 killed, 2 injured in shooting at Pennsylvania hospital Posted: 24 Jul 2014 01:34 PM PDT A shooting at a suburban Philadelphia hospital campus has killed one worker and injured two other people. |
| Mother, daughter die of burns from food truck explosion Posted: 24 Jul 2014 12:18 PM PDT  A mother and daughter have died from burns they suffered when a propane tank exploded in the family's food truck in Philadelphia earlier this month, authorities said on Thursday. Jaylin Landaverry Galdamez, 17, and her mother, Olga Galdamez, 42, each were burned on more than 50 percent of their bodies from the explosion on July 2, authorities said. They died just days apart, the mother on July 20 and the daughter on July 22, said Jeff Moran, spokesman for the Philadelphia Medical Examiners Office. The pair was working in the truck at the time of the blast, which sent a propane tank flying 150 feet and injured nine other people.
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| AH5017: Missing plane seen 'falling' in Mali Posted: 24 Jul 2014 03:51 PM PDT  Official: Air Algerie flight that disappeared with 116 people on board seen "falling" in northern Mali.
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| Police: 3 shot at Pennsylvania hospital, suspect in custody Posted: 24 Jul 2014 02:29 PM PDT  Three people were shot at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, Pennsylvania, on Thursday and one person was in custody, according to NBC10 television station in Philadelphia. Darby Borough Police were at the scene of the hospital, about 7 miles (11 km) west of Philadelphia, according to NBC10. Authorities said a 911 call identified one of the victims as a doctor but police had not confirmed the identity, NBC10 reported.
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| Israeli shells kill 15 at U.N. school Posted: 24 Jul 2014 04:22 PM PDT  Gaza death toll hits 788.
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| U.S. court throws out Chiquita terror payment claims Posted: 24 Jul 2014 02:16 PM PDT  A divided U.S. federal appeals court has thrown out claims against produce giant Chiquita Brands International made by thousands of Colombians killed during years of civil war.
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| As Iraq gets new president, blast kills 21 Posted: 24 Jul 2014 10:31 AM PDT  Iraqi officials say a double car bombing in central Baghdad has killed 21 people and wounded 33, hours after lawmakers elected the country's new president.
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| Ukrainian prime minister resigns amid MH17 chaos Posted: 24 Jul 2014 10:22 AM PDT  Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced his resignation Thursday, opening the way for new elections that would reflect the country's starkly changed political scene after the ouster of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in February.
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| Israeli military offensive in Gaza: Day 17 Posted: 03 Jul 2014 04:35 AM PDT  A Palestinian child, wounded in an Israeli strike on a compound housing a U.N. school in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, cries at the emergency room of the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, Thursday, July 24, 2014. Israeli tank shells hit the compound, killing more than a dozen people and wounding dozens more who were seeking shelter from fierce clashes on the streets outside. Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra says the dead and injured in the school compound were among hundreds of people seeking shelter from heavy fighting in the area. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) |
| Pope meets Sudanese woman sentenced to death Posted: 24 Jul 2014 08:38 AM PDT  ROME (AP) — Pope Francis met privately Thursday with a Sudanese woman who refused to recant her Christian faith in the face of a death sentence, blessing the woman as she cradled her infant daughter born just weeks ago in prison.
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| 'Horrifically botched' Phoenix execution prompts death penalty outrage Posted: 24 Jul 2014 02:10 PM PDT  By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - Lawyers for a double-murderer whose lethal injection in Arizona dragged on for two hours called for an outside review of the "horrifically botched execution" and prompted new calls on Thursday for the United States to abandon the death penalty. The ordeal in putting Joseph Wood to death on Wednesday at a prison facility southeast of Phoenix followed lethal injections that went awry this year in Ohio and Oklahoma, renewing the U.S. debate over capital punishment. Corrections officials said Wood was never in pain but Rob Freer, a U.S. researcher with human-rights group Amnesty International, asked, "How many more times do officials need to be reminded of the myth of the 'humane execution' before they give up on their experiment with judicial killing?" States that impose the death penalty have been scrambling to find new suppliers of chemical combinations to use in lethal injections after their former suppliers, primarily European drug makers, objected to having their products used to put people to death.
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| 'Isolated' Amazon tribe feared to have flu, which could be deadly Posted: 24 Jul 2014 04:49 AM PDT  Advocates for indigenous tribes and Brazilian officials are worried that a group of people in the Amazon who had been living in isolation from the outside world may have contracted the flu — a potentially deadly disease that these individuals had never been exposed to before. On three separate occasions, they voluntarily made contact with Ashaninka people in the village of Simpatia, just across the border in western Brazil's Acre state, said Fiona Watson, a researcher and field director with the advocacy group Survival International, who spoke with Brazilian officials who went to the region. But representatives from Brazil's Indian Affairs Department, or FUNAI, noticed that the group of seven showed signs of influenza during their visit on June 30, Watson said.
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| Matt Bai: On Bush-era torture report, confrontation ahead Posted: 24 Jul 2014 01:50 AM PDT  Sometime this summer, probably when as many Americans as possible are tanning on a beach and not paying attention, the White House is expected to release a version of a classified report on torture during the Bush years. Actually, what's likely to become public is only the executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report.
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| FAA lifts ban on US flights to Tel Aviv airport Posted: 24 Jul 2014 08:47 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration has lifted its ban on U.S. flights in and out of Israel. |
| Israeli fire hits UN facility in Gaza; 7 dead, 150 injured Posted: 24 Jul 2014 06:13 AM PDT  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza health officials say at least seven people were killed when Israeli tank shells hit a compound housing a U.N. school in the northern Gaza Strip during clashes with Palestinian militants.
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| How Arizona, Ohio, Oklahoma, executions went awry Posted: 24 Jul 2014 06:28 AM PDT  Lethal injections in the three states left inmates writhing and gasping for breath.
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| Busy Gaza morgue performs Muslim burial rituals Posted: 24 Jul 2014 01:29 PM PDT  BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip (AP) — In the morgue at a small Gaza hospital, the anguished cries of those who lost loved ones in Israeli airstrikes fell silent Thursday when Ahmed Jadallah began attending to the corpses, one by one, on his wooden work table.
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| Air Algerie jet with 116 on board crashes in Mali Posted: 24 Jul 2014 04:24 PM PDT  OUAGADOUGO, Burkina Faso (AP) — An Air Algerie jetliner carrying 116 people crashed Thursday in a rainstorm over restive Mali, and its wreckage was found near the border of neighboring Burkina Faso — the third major international aviation disaster in a week.
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| Very bad week: Airline disasters come in a cluster Posted: 24 Jul 2014 03:35 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 300 passengers perish when their plane is shot out of the sky. Airlines suspend flights to Israel's largest airport after rocket attacks. An airliner crashes during a storm, and yet another disappears. Aviation has suffered one of its worst weeks in memory, a cluster of disasters spanning three continents.
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| Execution offers evidence against lethal injection Posted: 24 Jul 2014 03:21 PM PDT  ST. LOUIS (AP) — The nation's third botched execution in six months offers more evidence for the courts that lethal injection carries too many risks and amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, death-row lawyers and other opponents said Thursday.
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| Challenges, drug shortages, mark US executions Posted: 24 Jul 2014 01:17 PM PDT  The prolonged execution in Arizona looked troubling, but was it unconstitutional? The U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld the use of lethal injection six years ago, has held that "an isolated mishap" during an execution does not violate the Eighth Amendment. A question and answer look at the current state of executions.
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| Planes with Ukraine bodies arrive in Netherlands Posted: 24 Jul 2014 04:43 PM PDT  KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Two more military aircraft carrying remains of victims from the Malaysian plane disaster arrived in the Netherlands on Thursday, while Australian and Dutch diplomats joined to promote a plan for a U.N. team to secure the crash site which has been controlled by pro-Russian rebels.
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| Tornado slams Virginia campground; 2 dead Posted: 24 Jul 2014 03:53 PM PDT  CAPE CHARLES, Va. (AP) — Albert Thorn awoke in his rental cottage Thursday to the sound of heavy rain and wind. Then, there was screaming. Within minutes, the sky turned dark, cellphones pinged with emergency messages and a tornado tore through a popular campground, ripping awnings from trailers and flipping RVs on their sides.
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| Across US job market, layoffs are becoming rare Posted: 24 Jul 2014 12:38 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The risk of losing your job is getting smaller and smaller.
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| Ukraine fighting rages as Australia ready for MH17 site deployment Posted: 24 Jul 2014 10:06 AM PDT  Fighting between Ukrainian troops and rebels raged Thursday near the crash site of Malaysian flight MH17, as countries which lost 298 citizens in the disaster moved to deploy their police to secure the impact zone. The Dutch team leading the crash probe was stuck in Kiev, unable to join a handful of international investigators at the rebel-controlled site. Meanwhile, Ukraine's army reported four soldiers killed over the last 24 hours in its offensive to retake the eastern industrial heartland from the pro-Russian insurgents. Two Ukrainian fighter jets were shot down Wednesday 45 kilometres (28 miles) from the crash site, just as the first bodies recovered from the fated flight were flown out to the Netherlands, which counts 193 citizens lost in the disaster.
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| 2 Americans charged with helping al-Qaida-linked group Posted: 23 Jul 2014 11:55 PM PDT  Five people, including two women in the U.S., were charged Wednesday with funneling money to the al-Qaida-linked extremist group al-Shabab in Somalia, prosecutors said.
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