| Israel withdraws most troops from Gaza Posted: 03 Aug 2014 04:23 PM PDT  Israel's move was an apparent winding down of the nearly monthlong operation against Hamas that has left more than 1,800 Palestinians and 60 Israelis dead.
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| U.S. 'appalled' by 'disgraceful' U.N. school shelling Posted: 03 Aug 2014 01:21 PM PDT  The United States says it is "appalled" by the "disgraceful" shelling by Israel of a United Nations school sheltering some 3,000 displaced people in southern Gaza.
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| Strong quake kills 367 in southern China Posted: 03 Aug 2014 03:40 PM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — A strong earthquake in southern China's Yunnan province toppled thousands of homes on Sunday, killing at least 367 people and injuring more than 1,800.
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| American nurse with Ebola to leave Liberia Tuesday Posted: 03 Aug 2014 03:38 PM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — A second American medical missionary stricken with the often deadly Ebola virus is expected to be flown Tuesday to the U.S. for treatment, following a colleague who was admitted over the weekend to Emory University Hospital's infectious disease unit.
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| Lake Erie's algae woes began building a decade ago Posted: 03 Aug 2014 03:23 PM PDT  TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — The toxins that contaminated the drinking water supply of 400,000 people in northwest Ohio didn't just suddenly appear.
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| Replant after wildfire or let nature take over? Posted: 03 Aug 2014 07:34 AM PDT  GROVELAND, Calif. (AP) — Nearly a year since a historic wildfire charred a huge swath of California's High Sierra, debate rages over what to do with millions of dead trees left in its wake: truck them to lumber mills or let nature to take its course?
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| Syrian rebels kill 10, capture others in Lebanon Posted: 03 Aug 2014 11:52 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels killed 10 Lebanese troops and likely captured over a dozen more in a raid on a Lebanese border town, the country's military chief said, the most serious spillover of violence yet into the tiny country from its neighbor's civil war.
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| Bertha drifting away from Turks & Caicos, Bahamas Posted: 03 Aug 2014 03:15 PM PDT  PROVIDENCIALES, Turks & Caicos Islands (AP) — Tropical Storm Bertha drifted away from the Turks & Caicos Islands and the southeastern Bahamas on Sunday afternoon, prompting officials to discontinue all storm warnings and coastal watches.
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| Northeast California wildfire destroys 8 homes Posted: 03 Aug 2014 04:37 PM PDT  BURNEY, Calif. (AP) — A pair of wildfires burning without restraint about 8 miles apart in northeast California became the focus of state and federal firefighters Sunday as authorities reported that one of the blazes had destroyed eight homes and prompted the precautionary evacuation of a small long-term care hospital.
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| Turks & Caicos, south Bahamas buffeted by Bertha Posted: 03 Aug 2014 11:20 AM PDT  PROVIDENCIALES, Turks & Caicos Islands (AP) — Tropical Storm Bertha was moving over the Turks & Caicos Islands and the southeastern Bahamas on Sunday after emerging from the Dominican Republic, where overflowing rivers led to the temporary evacuation of dozens of families.
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| AP Photos: A Belgian landscape shaped by war Posted: 03 Aug 2014 12:12 AM PDT  One hundred years on, World War I resonates across Belgium in countless monuments and cemeteries along with relics of long-abandoned bunkers and trenches that dot the landscape.
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| CIA interrogation helped get bin Laden: senator Posted: 03 Aug 2014 12:00 PM PDT  By Sarah N. Lynch and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans on the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee will soon release a report asserting the CIA's use of harsh interrogation techniques helped bring down Osama bin Laden and disrupt terrorist plots, the panel's top Republican said on Sunday. "Information gleaned from these interrogations was in fact used to interrupt and disrupt terrorist plots, including some information that took down bin Laden," Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia said on CBS's "Face the Nation." Democrats who control the Senate Intelligence Committee are expected to issue their own report that alleges the CIA techniques, such as "waterboarding," did not help yield valuable intelligence and were not necessary. It is unclear when the Democrats' report will be released because Senator Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the committee, has said she may challenge some redactions made by the Obama administration. President Barack Obama, who banned the practices after taking office in 2009, said on Friday the CIA had "tortured some folks" during former President George W. Bush's administration.
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| Ebola-stricken American doctor 'seems to be improving,' CDC head says Posted: 03 Aug 2014 06:52 AM PDT  Kent Brantly, the Ebola-stricken American doctor who was flown back to the United States from Liberia on Saturday, "seems to be improving," Tom Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Sunday.
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| Obama to decide on immigration by end of summer Posted: 03 Aug 2014 09:19 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior White House adviser says President Barack Obama will make a decision by the end of the summer on how to use his authority to address immigrants living illegally in the U.S.
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| At least 10 dead in strike on Gaza school Posted: 03 Aug 2014 12:10 PM PDT  An Israeli air strike killed at least 10 people and wounded about 30 others on Sunday in a U.N.-run school in the southern Gaza Strip, witnesses and medics said.
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| Don't drink the water, says 4th-largest Ohio city Posted: 02 Aug 2014 09:48 PM PDT  TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's governor has ordered the state's National Guard to help deliver water and food to residents in Toledo, where some 400,000 are being told not to drink from the city's water system.
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| Israel strikes Gaza as troops start redeploying Posted: 03 Aug 2014 08:48 AM PDT  RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A United Nations school sheltering displaced people in the southern Gaza Strip was hit Sunday by what a U.N. official said appeared to be an Israeli airstrike that killed 10 people as Israel signaled a possible scaling back in the ongoing war.
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