| Arias to represent self at death penalty trial Posted: 04 Aug 2014 04:14 PM PDT  Judge: Jodi Arias can represent herself in upcoming penalty phase of murder trial.
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| Colorado: Bar discriminated against man in drag Posted: 04 Aug 2014 03:21 PM PDT  A popular Denver gay bar discriminated against a man when a bouncer denied him entry last year because he was dressed in drag, Colorado regulators said in a decision that could become more common as anti-discrimination laws increasingly include gender identity.
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| Iraq air force to help Kurds fighting Islamists Posted: 04 Aug 2014 03:47 PM PDT  Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has called upon his country's armed forces to help the Kurdish military battle a Sunni militant offensive in northern Iraq that has caused tens of thousands of people from the minority Yazidi community to flee their homes.
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| Israel, Hamas accept new 72-hour truce Posted: 04 Aug 2014 04:06 PM PDT  Cease-fire deal follows vocal world demands for an end to the bloody Gaza conflict.
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| Man admitted to NYC hospital for Ebola monitoring Posted: 04 Aug 2014 04:02 PM PDT  A man was admitted to a New York City hospital Monday with symptoms similar to those of Ebola and was being tested though odds are he is not infected, officials said. In the early morning hours of Monday, a male patient with high fever and gastrointestinal symptoms presented at The Mount Sinai Hospital's Emergency Department in New York City, said its president David Reich. The patient recently traveled to a West African country where Ebola has been reported, he added without naming the country. It's much more likely it's a much more common condition," Reich said, noting that testing and confirmation with the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta would take 48-72 hours.
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| Rand Paul denies proposing Israeli aid phase-out Posted: 04 Aug 2014 12:31 PM PDT  Rand Paul says he never proposed ending aid to Israel — even though he did.
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| World Bank approves $200M in Ebola assistance Posted: 04 Aug 2014 01:47 PM PDT  The World Bank on Monday announced up to $200 million in emergency assistance to help Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea contain the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. The funding will also help the countries improve their public health systems and cope with the economic impact of the crisis, the Washington-based lender said in a statement. Guinea's economic growth could fall a full percentage point to 3.5 percent due to the epidemic, according to the World Bank and IMF's initial assessment.
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| McDaniel challenges Senate primary loss Posted: 04 Aug 2014 03:28 PM PDT  The tea party-backed lawmaker was defeated by Sen. Thad Cochran in the Miss. GOP primary.
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| For first time, Army Corps to monitor dam pollution Posted: 04 Aug 2014 02:24 PM PDT  For first time, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must detail pollution sent by dams.
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| Grand Canyon officials investigate squirrel-kicking video Posted: 04 Aug 2014 11:41 AM PDT  Authorities are looking into a viral Internet video that shows a man kicking a squirrel off what appears to be the edge of the Grand Canyon.
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| For third time, Florida's gay marriage ban ruled unconstitutional Posted: 04 Aug 2014 12:15 PM PDT  A Florida judge on Monday struck down the state's same-sex marriage ban in a ruling centered around whether a woman who entered into a civil union in another state could get divorced. Circuit Court Judge Dale Cohen stayed his decision, which applied only to Broward County in south Florida. Gay rights activists expect an appeal from Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has appealed two other recent state court rulings against the same-sex marriage prohibition approved by Florida voters in 2008. ...
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| Porch shooting trial: Defendant testifies in Detroit Posted: 04 Aug 2014 04:29 PM PDT  A suburban Detroit man has testified that he was afraid when a woman showed up on his porch before dawn one morning last year, but that he refused to be a victim in his own home.
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| James Brady, former White House press secretary, dies Posted: 04 Aug 2014 12:29 PM PDT  James Brady, Ronald Reagan's press secretary, has died at age 73.
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| Egypt pushes for Gaza truce, presents Hamas demands to Israel Posted: 04 Aug 2014 02:55 PM PDT  Egypt presented Palestinian demands to Israel on Monday as part of efforts to mediate a ceasefire in Gaza which could pave the way for negotiations to end more than three weeks of fighting, an Egyptian source said. Palestinian groups including envoys of Hamas and Islamic Jihad held their first formal meeting with the head of Egyptian intelligence in Cairo on Monday, focusing on a joint list of demands presented by Palestinian factions. Those demands included a ceasefire, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, the lifting of a blockade, the release of prisoners and the start of a reconstruction process, delegation members have said.
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| Coral damage miles from BP oil spill site shows long-term impact Posted: 04 Aug 2014 05:58 AM PDT  Four years after a BP oil rig exploded and flooded the Gulf of Mexico with an estimated 170 million gallons of oil, scientists have discovered further evidence of coral communities affected by this environmental disaster. Scientists at Pennsylvania State University, in State College, Pa., found coral communities that show signs of damage from 2010's Deepwater Horizon oil spill more than 12 miles (20 kilometers) from the disaster site. The new findings suggest that the oil spill's footprint is both deeper and wider than was previously thought. "This study very clearly shows that multiple coral communities, up to 22 kilometers [13.7 miles] from the spill site and at depths over 1,800 meters [5,905 feet], were impacted by the spill," Charles Fischer, a professor of biology at Penn State and co-author of the study, said in a statement.
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| Whale of a catch! Chinese fishermen snare massive whale shark Posted: 04 Aug 2014 07:50 AM PDT  Photos of the estimated 14-and-a-half-foot, 2-ton fish being transported to market through the streets of Xiaozhi have caused a bit of a stir in China, where the whale shark is endangered — and illegal to catch and sell.
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| McDonnell trial: No affair, star witness says Posted: 04 Aug 2014 01:46 PM PDT  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The key prosecution witness in former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's trial testified Monday that he never saw any signs the governor's marriage was crumbling, and that he never had any intimate physical contact with the first lady.
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| Ivory demand decimates elephants, but Botswana provides refuge Posted: 04 Aug 2014 08:38 AM PDT  Chinese ivory demand decimates elephants, but Botswana hosts tens of thousands.
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| Man who lost both hands plays piano again Posted: 04 Aug 2014 08:28 AM PDT A Massachusetts man who was the recipient of a double hand transplant is making incredible progress in his recovery from his 2011 surgery. How incredible? He's playing grand piano again. |
| Say Grace at this restaurant and get 15 percent discount Posted: 04 Aug 2014 09:38 AM PDT  Mary's Gourmet Diner has an official policy of giving diners a special savings if they "pray publicly" before chowing down. In the South, a number of steakhouses deduct from the bill if a customer finishes the entree, according to the restaurant trivia site, Restoran.
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| Saudi Arabia beheads Nepalese maid for toddler's murder Posted: 04 Aug 2014 09:07 AM PDT  Saudi authorities on Monday beheaded a Nepalese housemaid convicted of murdering a two-year-old boy by slitting his throat, the interior ministry said. The maid was found guilty of "slaughtering with a knife" the Saudi toddler Osama bin Maeed al-Enzi, the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency. The ministry said the maid was executed in the northern city of Arar without providing further details of the crime. In a second execution on Monday, Saudi national Hamad al-Ahmadi was decapitated in the holy western city of Medina for stabbing his wife to death while she was asleep, another ministry statement said.
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| Climbing airfares outpace U.S. inflation Posted: 04 Aug 2014 09:09 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Travelers, prepare to pay more for your flight.
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| UK fears one of its own dead in Gaza Posted: 04 Aug 2014 08:48 AM PDT  "We are aware of the reports of the death of a British national in Rafah," UK Foreign Office said.
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| 6-year-old's disappearance confounds Wa. state parents, police Posted: 04 Aug 2014 09:15 AM PDT  BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — Kitsap County sheriff's deputies are searching for a missing 6-year-old girl who was last seen Saturday night when she went to bed at the family home in east Bremerton.
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| Va. family of 5 victims of murder-suicide, detective says Posted: 04 Aug 2014 09:15 AM PDT  CULPEPER, Va. (AP) — A family of five, including three children, was found shot to death inside their home in a quiet area of north-central Virginia, and authorities said Monday that they're investigating the case as a murder-suicide.
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| Federal judge rules Ala. abortion law too restrictive, unconstitutional Posted: 04 Aug 2014 12:55 PM PDT  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A new Alabama law restricting doctors who perform abortions would force several women's clinics to shut down, placing unconstitutional restrictions on a woman's right to obtain one, a federal judge ruled Monday.
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| Girl facing murder charges as forced-marriage suitor, 3 others poisoned Posted: 04 Aug 2014 07:11 AM PDT  A Nigerian court on Monday postponed the murder trial of a 14-year-old girl accused of poisoning the 35-year-old man she was forced to marry, a case that has thrown the spotlight on the influence of Islamic law in region. Wasila Tasi'u has also been charged with the murder of three others who allegedly ate the food laced with rat poison that she prepared and served in April this year, a week after her marriage to Umaru Sani. "Wasila was to appear today," but the case has been postponed indefinitely because of a backlog caused by a judicial staff strike, said Salisu Yakubu, registrar at the High Court in town of Gezawa. Police say Tasi'u confessed to poisoning Sani and his guests at the wedding party in the village of Unguwar Yansoro village, about 60 kilometres (40 miles) outside Nigeria's second city of Kano.
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| Tunnels through 'Triangle of Death' Posted: 04 Aug 2014 07:41 AM PDT  Built by Saddam Hussein, Iraq insurgents get dangerously close to Baghdad.
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| Scores injured, 160 feared dead in Nepal landslide Posted: 04 Aug 2014 09:31 AM PDT  Rescuers on Monday discovered 25 more bodies buried under tonnes of mud and trees following a massive landslide in northeast Nepal feared to have killed at least 160 people. Thirty-four corpses, including seven children, have been pulled from the landslide that crushed hamlets along a river in Sindhupalchok district before dawn on Saturday following monsoon rains, an official said. The head of Nepal's disaster management division, Yadav Prasad Koirala, told AFP, "we think the final death toll could be around 165 or higher". Traumatised villagers kept an anxious vigil at the landslide site, some 120 kilometres (74 miles) northeast of Kathmandu, in the hope missing loved ones would be found by rescuers.
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| Remembering 'War to end all wars' Posted: 04 Aug 2014 04:55 PM PDT  Lights will go out in British homes Monday commemorating 100 years since outbreak of WW I.
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| Gaza war slows, but Israel reports terror attacks Posted: 04 Aug 2014 12:16 PM PDT  Construction vehicle killed pedestrian, overturned bus in Jerusalem. Police suspect Palestinian attack.
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| PHOTOS: How conjoined twins living separate lives, 10 years later Posted: 04 Aug 2014 03:39 AM PDT  Formerly conjoined twins Clarence, left, and Carl Aguirre, 12, embrace while relaxing with their mother Arlene at the family's home in Scarsdale, N.Y., Thursday, July 31, 2014. On Monday, Aug. 4, the family will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the surgery that separated the twins at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, where the surgery was performed. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) |
| Dimming the lights, 100 years after 'war to end all wars' Posted: 04 Aug 2014 04:15 PM PDT  By Tess Little LONDON (Reuters) - Lights across Britain switched off for an hour on Monday night in a tribute to the dead of World War One inspired by the prophetic observation of Britain's foreign minister on the eve of war 100 years ago. "The lamps are going out all over Europe," Edward Grey told an acquaintance, shortly before Britain declared war on Germany on Aug. 4, 1914. "We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." British landmarks, including the Houses of Parliament, Tower Bridge and St Paul's Cathedral, went dark from 10 p.m. local time (2100 GMT), and Prime Minister David Cameron had asked Britons to switch off all but a single light in their homes for an hour. The "war to end all wars" spread carnage across Europe, especially northern France and Belgium, killing 17 million soldiers and civilians in 1914-18.
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| Why did high-tech US spyplane dodge Russians? Posted: 03 Aug 2014 06:49 PM PDT  (Reuters) - A U.S. reconnaissance plane crossed into Swedish airspace last month as it sought to avoid being intercepted by Russian fighters, the New York Times reported on Sunday, citing U.S. military officials. The episode occurred on July 18 when Russian aircraft approached an Air Force RC-135 electronic surveillance plane as it was flying in what U.S. officials said was international airspace over the Baltic Sea, the Times said. "The aircraft commander, acting in a professional and safe manner, maneuvered the aircraft to avoid a possible encounter by Russian aircraft," the United States European Command said in a statement, according to the Times. Ties between the United States and Russia have plunged to their lowest level since the end of the Cold War over the crisis in Ukraine, which Washington accuses Moscow of fanning with weapons and support for rebels fighting the Kiev government.
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| Thousands on run as Lebanon latest to get drawn into sectarian war Posted: 04 Aug 2014 07:10 AM PDT  LABWEH, Lebanon (AP) — Thousands of Lebanese civilians and Syrian refugees crammed into cars and pickup trucks fled a town in eastern Lebanon Monday as troops battled al-Qaida-linked militants from neighboring Syria who overran the border region in the most serious spillover into Lebanon of the three-year conflict next door.
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| Another heroic doctor, this time in Nigeria, contracts Ebola virus Posted: 04 Aug 2014 02:01 PM PDT  Nigerian authorities said Monday that a doctor in Lagos has contracted Ebola, the second case in the sprawling megacity as the deadliest ever outbreak of the disease continues to spread fear and panic across west Africa. The confirmation that a fourth doctor had been infected comes as fear and anger about the dead being left unburied in Liberia's capital Monrovia brought protestors into the streets, while Sierra Leone's president said Monday that the epidemic threatened the "very essence" of the nation. "This new case is one of the doctors who attended to the Liberian Ebola patient who died," Nigeria's Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu told journalists. He said that 70 other people believed to have come into contact with the Liberian government official were being monitored.
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| A chill marijuana debate in Colorado Posted: 04 Aug 2014 02:00 AM PDT  One town might embrace pot stores; another posts keep-out sign. Stoner humor stays at home.
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| Israel, Hamas accept Egyptian cease-fire plan Posted: 04 Aug 2014 04:03 PM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and Hamas on Monday accepted an Egyptian cease-fire proposal meant to halt a bruising monthlong war that has claimed nearly 2,000 lives, raising hopes that the bloodiest round of fighting between the bitter enemies could finally be coming to an end.
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| Both sides prepare for new Gaza war crimes probe Posted: 04 Aug 2014 01:19 PM PDT  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — In a replay of the last major Gaza conflict, human rights defenders are again accusing Israel and Hamas of violating the rules of war, pointing to what they say appear to be indiscriminate or deliberate attacks on civilians.
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| Jim Brady dies: Reagan aide, gun control advocate Posted: 04 Aug 2014 03:50 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A major trait that endeared Jim Brady to the Washington press corps was his sense of humor, especially when he made fun of his own boss.
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