| Reports clash: U.S. airstrikes in Iraq? Posted: 07 Aug 2014 03:09 PM PDT ![President Barack Obama]](http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/FLCqLcpUmYhCNOyPsA0IQw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/f3e348ffda3f201e5c0f6a7067009df3.jpg "President Barack Obama]") Kurdish officials say U.S. has begun strikes on Iraqi jihadists – claims the Pentagon denied.
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| Stowaway arrested again at LAX Posted: 07 Aug 2014 04:23 PM PDT  A woman who has made repeated attempts to sneak aboard flights has been arrested again.
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| NCAA board grants autonomy for ‘Big 5’ conferences Posted:  The biggest schools in college sports are about to get a chance to make their own rules.
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| Gaza crisis: Hamas rejects disarmament proposal Posted: 07 Aug 2014 12:58 PM PDT  With a deadline looming hours away, Hamas on Thursday rejected Israeli demands it disarm and threatened to resume its rocket attacks if its demands for lifting a crippling blockade on Gaza were not met.
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| Senator exits race after plagiarism scandal Posted: 07 Aug 2014 03:18 PM PDT  Sen. John Walsh (D-Mont.) drops campaign amid plagiarism allegations over graduate project.
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| CDC activates high-level emergency operation center for Ebola outbreak Posted: 07 Aug 2014 02:45 PM PDT  The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told lawmakers on Thursday he has activated the agency's emergency operation center at the highest response level to fight the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Dr Thomas Frieden testified at an emergency hearing that the CDC has more than 200 staff members in Atlanta working on the outbreak, and will soon have more than 50 disease experts in West Africa. Frieden said he was "confident there will not be a large Ebola outbreak in the United States." However, he said it was possible that people who have traveled to West Africa might bring the virus back home with them, and even spread it to some healthcare workers and family members. The two are now being cared for at Emory University in Georgia.
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| Search for Wash. girl leads to child's body Posted: 07 Aug 2014 12:49 PM PDT  Police say 6-year-old Jenise Paulette Wright's body was found not far from where she vanished.
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| Obama signs $16.3B VA spending bill Posted: 07 Aug 2014 12:35 PM PDT  U.S. President Barack Obama signed a $16.3 billion bill on Thursday designed to provide veterans with more timely medical care and fix problems in the scandal-plagued Veterans Affairs department. The plan passed Congress last week and aims to address what Obama on Thursday called "outrageous" misconduct at VA hospitals and clinics that included modifying records of delayed care. The VA was thrust into the spotlight this spring after allegations surfaced that it had covered up the months-long wait times some veterans had to endure before receiving medical care. Former head of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki resigned in late May as the scandal mounted, and last week the Senate unanimously confirmed former Procter & Gamble Co Chief Executive Officer Robert McDonald.
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| Mich. porch shooter convicted of murder Posted: 07 Aug 2014 01:51 PM PDT  Detroit man convicted of second-degree murder for killing unarmed 19-year-old woman on his porch.
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| Researchers ID 1st set of remains from Fla. school Posted: 07 Aug 2014 10:37 AM PDT  University of South Florida forensic experts announced Thursday that for the first time they have identified the remains of a boy buried at a now-closed Florida reform school where some guards were accused of brutality.
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| Obama mulls Iraq airstrikes, civilian aid Posted: 07 Aug 2014 10:32 AM PDT Obama considering U.S. strikes against Iraqi rebels, food drops for beleaguered civilians. |
| Major Middle East airline Etihad suspends flights to north Iraq Posted: 07 Aug 2014 11:58 AM PDT  One of the Middle East's largest airlines, Etihad Airways, says security concerns have prompted it to suspend all of flights to the northern Iraqi city of Irbil.
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| Remains found from Jonestown massacre Posted: 07 Aug 2014 10:03 AM PDT  Ashes from 9 victims of 1978 suicide-murder in Guyana turn up in Dover, Delaware.
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| Magnitude 4.5 quake rattles Hawaii ahead of 2 hurricanes Posted: 07 Aug 2014 01:08 PM PDT  Iselle was supposed to weaken as it slowly trudged west across the Pacific. It didn't — and now Hawaii is poised to take its first direct hurricane hit in 22 years. Tracking close behind it was Hurricane Julio, which strengthened early Thursday into a Category 2 storm.
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| President signs VA bill that may improve vets' access to health care Posted: 07 Aug 2014 09:48 AM PDT  FORT BELVOIR, Va. (AP) — Veterans may soon have easier access to government-paid health care under a bill President Barack Obama signed into law Thursday, the government's most sweeping response to date to a public uproar over systemwide problems that have rocked the Veterans Affairs Department.
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| China questions U.S. head of Christian NGO near N. Korea border Posted: 07 Aug 2014 09:50 AM PDT |
| US sending Iraq humanitarian aid, weighing strikes Posted: 07 Aug 2014 04:54 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say President Barack Obama has approved sending humanitarian supplies by air to thousands of religious minorities in Iraq who are under siege from Islamic militants.
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| Iraqi militants seize country's largest dam Posted: 07 Aug 2014 04:31 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Residents living near Iraq's largest dam say Sunni militants from the Islamic State group have overrun the complex. |
| CDC director: Scale of Ebola crisis unprecedented Posted: 07 Aug 2014 02:45 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The current Ebola crisis in West Africa is on pace to sicken more people than all other previous outbreaks of the disease combined, the health official leading the U.S. response said Thursday.
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| Outer edge of hurricane brings rain to Hawaii Posted: 07 Aug 2014 02:45 PM PDT  HONOLULU (AP) — The first hurricane expected to hit Hawaii in 22 years weakened slightly Thursday as its outer edges began to bring rain and wind to the Big Island, while residents and tourists prepared for a possible one-two punch as another major storm lined up behind it in the Pacific.
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| 3 decades later, remains of Jonestown bodies found Posted: 07 Aug 2014 03:46 PM PDT  DOVER, Delaware (AP) — More than 35 years after the infamous suicide-murder of some 900 people — many forced to drink a cyanide-laced grape drink — in Jonestown, Guyana, the cremated remains of nine victims were found in a dilapidated former funeral home in the U.S., officials said Thursday.
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| Man guilty of murder in Michigan porch shooting Posted: 07 Aug 2014 03:53 PM PDT DETROIT (AP) — A suburban Detroit man who insisted he killed an unarmed woman on his porch in self-defense was convicted of second-degree murder Thursday after the jury rejected his tearful claim that he fired through a screen door in the wee hours because he feared his life was at risk. |
| Kerry urges Afghan candidates to end dispute Posted: 07 Aug 2014 11:30 AM PDT  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Obama administration on Thursday stepped up efforts to press Afghanistan's two feuding presidential candidates to end their dispute over June elections, accept the results of an ongoing audit of all ballots and form a national unity government by early September.
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| Russia retaliates on West's sanctions over Ukraine Posted: 07 Aug 2014 12:23 PM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia retaliated Thursday for sanctions over the crisis in Ukraine by banning most food imports from the West, dealing a blow to Europe that also takes aim at hurting the U.S., Canada and Australia.
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| Flow of child immigrants slows along Texas border Posted: 07 Aug 2014 03:37 PM PDT  McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Fewer unaccompanied immigrant children are crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, allowing the federal government to close the temporary shelters that it hurriedly opened to handle the surge, authorities say.
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| Khmer Rouge leaders jailed for life Posted: 07 Aug 2014 03:08 PM PDT  Two Khmer Rouge leaders were jailed for life Thursday after being found guilty of crimes against humanity, the first sentences against top figures of a regime responsible for the deaths of up to two million Cambodians. Neither "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea, 88, nor former head of state Khieu Samphan, 83, betrayed any hint of emotion as the sentences were handed down at Cambodia's UN-backed tribunal. Judge Nil Nonn said the defendants, who are the most senior surviving Khmer Rouge leaders, were "guilty of the crimes against humanity of extermination... political persecution, and other inhumane acts". Led by "Brother Number One" Pol Pot, who died in 1998 without ever facing justice, the Khmer Rouge dismantled modern society in their quest for an agrarian utopia.
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| Jihadist offensive forces Christian exodus Posted: 07 Aug 2014 01:31 PM PDT  Masses flee Iraq's Qaraqosh city in 'humanitarian disaster' as ISIL pushes toward Kurdistan.
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| Branded as 'devil worshippers,' Yazidis face Jihadist genocide Posted: 07 Aug 2014 08:12 AM PDT  On Sunday, fighters from the self-declared Islamic State overran the city of Sinjar, part of a widening offensive that on Thursday saw IS take control of other Christian and Yzedi towns on the Nineveh plains. According to UN officials and Yazidi elders, the militants have killed hundreds of Yazidis, a secretive faith with pre-Islamic roots. Others have been taken as slaves. Tens of thousands have taken refuge on Sinjar Mountain, their traditional refuge over centuries of persecution, and are appealing for emergency aid. "We believe that what they have done may be classified as genocide and a crime against humanity," Gyorgy Busztin, the deputy special representative in Iraq of the UN secretary general, tells the Christian Science Monitor. The labeling the campaign against the Yazidi as genocide carries some weight and could spur international relief efforts. But it has no immediate practical implications, nor is it likely to sway the militants in their assault on other sects and faiths in Iraq and Syria.
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| New job for Prince William: air ambulance pilot Posted: 07 Aug 2014 07:15 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Prince William is taking a new job: Air ambulance pilot.
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| Remains of 2 US airmen found, missing since WW II Posted: 07 Aug 2014 09:12 AM PDT  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The remains of two missing airmen have been accounted for 70 years after they disappeared when their plane went down over Papua New Guinea during World War II, U.S. military officials said.
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| Ebola drug ethics controversy: Who should get it? Posted: 07 Aug 2014 07:16 AM PDT  Experimental treatment given to 2 infected Americans, while nearly 1,000 Africans have died from epidemic.
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| Stabbed Mich. boy's last words, to brother: 'I'll always love you' Posted: 07 Aug 2014 06:27 AM PDT  KENTWOOD, Mich. (AP) — A relative says some of the last words from a 9-year-old boy who died after being stabbed on a Michigan playground were about how much he loved his family.
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| NATO, Ukraine talk about invasion defense Posted: 07 Aug 2014 08:29 AM PDT  As Russia masses 20K troops at border, Kiev discusses possible Western alliance support for Ukraine.
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| 2 Philly-area boys safe after mother, then father found dead Posted: 07 Aug 2014 07:30 AM PDT  DREXEL HILL, Pa. (AP) — Two children taken from a Philadelphia-area home after a woman was slain were found safe in New York City early Thursday and a man in a vehicle that was sought by police was found dead, authorities said.
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| Kerry's surprise Afghanistan visit to meet feuding candidates Posted: 07 Aug 2014 08:35 AM PDT  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Afghanistan late Thursday on an unannounced visit to press the country's two feuding presidential candidates on the urgency of ending a bitter dispute over June elections and forming a new government by early September.
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| Matt Bai: The true enemy of rational political debate is us Posted: 07 Aug 2014 01:36 AM PDT  The most corrupting force in politics, we are repeatedly told, is big money — super PACs, corporate lobbyists, rapacious oligarchs. But, $25 contributions add up to a mountain influence.
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| Pope Francis makes appeal for Iraqi Christians forced to flee Posted: 07 Aug 2014 05:06 AM PDT  Pope Francis appealed to world leaders on Thursday to help end the crisis in northern Iraq after a sweeping advance by radical Islamic state militants forced thousands of residents of Iraq's biggest Christian town to flee their homes. "His Holiness addresses an urgent appeal to the international community to take action to end the humanitarian tragedy now underway, to act to protect those affected or threatened by violence and to provide aid, especially for the most urgent needs of the many who have been forced to flee and who depend on the solidarity of others," the Vatican said in a statement.
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| PHOTOS: Hawaii battens down for first hurricane in 22 years Posted: 07 Aug 2014 03:01 AM PDT  Shoppers stock up on cases of bottled water and other supplies in preparation for a hurricane and tropical storm heading toward Hawaii at the Iwilei Costco in Honolulu on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. Two big storms so close together is rare in the eastern Pacific, and Hurricane Iselle could make landfall by Friday and Tropical Storm Julio could hit two or three days later, weather officials said. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy) |
| Russia stamps Snowden's papers for 3 more years Posted: 07 Aug 2014 09:50 AM PDT  Fugitive intelligence operative's new residence permit allows movement, travel.
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