| Robin Williams dead in apparent suicide Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:47 PM PDT  Police: Actor Robin Williams was found dead at his Calif. home from an apparent suicide.
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| Airstrikes not enough to roll back ISIL, Pentagon warns Posted: 11 Aug 2014 02:57 PM PDT  President Obama on Monday sent a clear message to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to step aside quietly after Iraq's president moves to replace him, as the Pentagon warned that targeted American airstrikes won't be enough to roll back the bloody advance of the Islamic State of Iraqi and the Levant (ISIL).
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| Witnesses: Teen's hands were raised Posted: 11 Aug 2014 05:00 PM PDT  Mo. teen Michael Brown had hands up during fatal shooting by police officer: witnesses.
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| Chief: Police killed Calif. robbery hostage Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:06 PM PDT  The hostage who died during a bank robbery and chase in Northern California was killed by police, not the suspects, authorities said Monday.
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| Obama calls for new Iraqi government, congratulates new PM Posted: 11 Aug 2014 02:27 PM PDT  Obama says Iraq has taken "promising step forward" with new PM, congratulates al-Abadi.
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| Barneys to pay $525K in shopper-profiling investigation Posted: 11 Aug 2014 02:13 PM PDT  Barneys has agreed to pay $525,000 to resolve allegations that minorities were singled out as suspected shoplifters at its flagship store, part of a spate of racial profiling complaints against major retailers last year.
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| Could ‘torture report’ help 9/11 suspects? Posted: 11 Aug 2014 11:47 AM PDT  Report on the CIA's post-9/11 interrogation could spare accused terrorists, attorneys say.
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| Liberian doctors to get experimental Ebola drug Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:59 PM PDT  MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — The Liberian government says it will receive doses of an experimental Ebola drug to treat doctors in the West African country.
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| Obama applauds nomination of new Iraqi PM as "step forward" Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:58 PM PDT  By Jeff Mason CHILMARK Mass. (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday Iraq had taken "a promising step forward" in designating a new prime minister, vowing to step up support for a new Iraqi government in a widening conflict that his administration had hoped to avoid. Speaking to reporters in the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard, where he is vacationing with his family, Obama said Iraq had made important strides toward rebuffing fighters from the Islamic State, an al-Qaeda offshoot, since the United States authorized air strikes last week. "Today Iraq took a promising step forward in this critical effort," Obama said in brief remarks. Obama's comments and a congratulatory telephone call he made to Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi signal the administration's expectation, or hope, that Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki's 8-year-rule is all but over, even as Maliki shows no sign of relinquishing power.
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| U.S. can keep court orders, phone cos secret in NSA spy case Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:57 PM PDT  The U.S. government need not turn over a secret surveillance court's orders or the names of phone companies helping it collect call records, because it might reveal methods needed to protect national security, a federal judge decided on Monday. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, rejected the Electronic Frontier Foundation's argument that the U.S. Department of Justice should turn over the materials, in the wake of unauthorized disclosures last year by a former National Security Agency contractor, Edward Snowden. The EFF noted that the government had already declassified hundreds of pages of other documents discussing data collection under the U.S. Patriot Act, including some that the data privacy advocacy group had requested. Rogers, though, said disclosing orders of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which handles federal requests for surveillance warrants, could "provide a roadmap" for targets of national security investigations to evade surveillance.
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| Obama welcomes new Iraqi leaders as 'step forward' Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:55 PM PDT  CHILMARK, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama welcomed new leadership in Iraq as "a promising step forward" Monday amid a political and security crisis in Baghdad, saying the only lasting solution is the formation of an inclusive government.
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| Foreign policy crises intrude on Obama vacations Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:55 PM PDT  CHILMARK, Mass. (AP) — Foreign policy crises have a way of intruding on President Barack Obama's Martha's Vineyard vacations.
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| Judge orders mental exam for murder suspect, 12 Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:52 PM PDT  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A judge has ordered a mental competency exam for a 12-year-old boy charged with murder in the stabbing of a 9-year-old boy at a western Michigan playground.
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| Royals get Willingham from Twins for minor leaguer Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:51 PM PDT  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Royals bolstered their offense Monday by acquiring outfielder Josh Willingham from the Minnesota Twins, a move the long-suffering franchise hopes will help them end a playoff drought that stretches back nearly three decades.
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| Comedian Robin Williams dead at 63 Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:48 PM PDT  Oscar-winner Robin Williams, whose free-form comedy and adept impressions dazzled audiences for decades, has died in an apparent suicide. He was 63.
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| Bullish Federer aiming for more hardcourt success Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:43 PM PDT  A weekend title defeat in Canada did not dent the growing hopes of resurgent Roger Federer as the world number three keeps to a steady pace in his buildup for the US Open starting in a fortnight. The Swiss, who turned 33 last week, said that his 7-5, 7-6 (7/2) weekend finals loss in Toronto to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was a disappointment but also a huge chance to gather more information on the current state of his improving game, which is bolstered by a fearsome new racquet. While the Swiss missed out on his third title of the season after playing in seven finals, he did start putting the pieces in place as he begins as second seed at this week's final pre-grand slam tune-up, the Cincinnati Masters. "I'm overall pretty happy that I made the finals in my first tournament back on hard courts," Federer said after going down to Tsonga.
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| Power struggle on Baghdad streets as Maliki replaced but refuses to go Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:42 PM PDT By Michael Georgy and Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's president named a new prime minister to end Nuri al-Maliki's eight-year rule on Monday, but the veteran leader refused to go after deploying militias and special forces on the streets, creating a dangerous political showdown in Baghdad. Washington, which helped install Maliki following its 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, congratulated Haidar al-Abadi, a former Maliki lieutenant who was named by President Fouad Masoum to replace him. Maliki said in a televised speech the president's decision to name a replacement for him was a "dangerous violation" of the constitution and, flanked by political allies, he vowed "we will fix the mistake." Maliki's son-in-law, Hussein al-Maliki, called the move "illegal" and said it would be overturned in court. |
| FBI probes killing of black Missouri teen; mom urges non-violence Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:40 PM PDT By Jason McLure FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) - The mother of a black teenager from suburban St. Louis who was shot to death by police over the weekend begged for non-violence on Monday in the wake of riots, as the FBI opened a probe into the racially charged case. Michael Brown, 18, was shot to death in the mostly black suburb of Ferguson, Missouri on Saturday afternoon after what police said was a struggle with a gun in a police car. Brown's family has hired Benjamin Crump, the attorney who represented the family of Trayvon Martin, a black teenager who was shot to death by a community watch volunteer in 2012. The FBI opened a concurrent federal inquiry into the case intended to supplement the main investigation by St. Louis County police, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. |
| Teen's bail $1 million in Washington girl's death Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:40 PM PDT  PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (AP) — A judge in Kitsap County on Monday found probable cause to detain a 17-year-old boy under investigation in the death and sexual assault of a 6-year-old Washington girl.
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| PHOTOS: Life & Career of Robin Williams Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:38 PM PDT  The cherished actor and comedian passed away Monday morning.
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| Actor Robin Williams found dead in apparent suicide Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:37 PM PDT  Actor-comedian Robin Williams was found dead on Monday at his home in Northern California from an apparent suicide, Marin County Sheriff's Office said. He was 63. The sheriff's coroner's division said it suspects the death was a suicide due to asphyxia, but the cause of death is still under investigation. (Reporting by Eric Kelsey; Editing by Mary Milliken)
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| PHOTOS: Career of Robin Williams Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:36 PM PDT The cherished actor and comedian passed away Monday morning. |
| PHOTOS: Career Robin Williams Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:34 PM PDT The cherished actor and comedian passed away Monday morning. |
| Ship rescues 3 stranded in rough seas off Hawaii Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:33 PM PDT  A container ship crew on Monday rescued three men who were stranded in a sailboat off the Hawaiian islands for about 24 hours as Hurricane Julio battered their vessel with giant waves and high winds that ...
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| Military appeals court to hear Kansas HIV appeal Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:33 PM PDT  WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The nation's highest military court has agreed to review the evidence used to convict a Kansas airman of aggravated assault for exposing multiple sex partners to HIV at swinger parties in Wichita, an appeal the defense contends could potentially remap HIV testing and prosecution in the U.S. military.
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| Actor Robin Williams dead from apparent suicide: police Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:32 PM PDT  Oscar-winning actor and comedian Robin Williams was found dead at his home in California from suspected suicide, police said Monday. A statement from the Marin County Sheriff's Department said the 63-year-old funnyman was found shortly before midday at his home in Tiburon, northern California. "At this time, the Sheriff's Office Coroner Division suspects the death to be a suicide due to asphyxia," the statement said.
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| All doses of experimental Ebola drug sent to WAfrica Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:30 PM PDT  A US company that makes an experimental drug for treating the often deadly Ebola virus said Monday it has sent all its available supplies to West Africa. Some 961 people have died from the hemorrhagic fever in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria since March during the largest Ebola outbreak in history.
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| Comedian Robin Williams dead in apparent suicide Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:25 PM PDT Oscar-winner Robin Williams, whose free-form comedy and adept impressions dazzled audiences for decades, has died in an apparent suicide. He was 63. |
| Egypt bars HRW head ahead of Rabaa killings report Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:22 PM PDT  Egypt has barred the head of Human Rights Watch from entering the country ahead of the release of a report on a mass killing of protesters, HRW officials said Monday. Kenneth Roth, executive director of the New York-based NGO, and HRW Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson were held overnight in Cairo airport before being denied entry, Whitson wrote on Twitter. "It's official - shortest visit to Cairo ever - 12 hours before deportation for 'security reasons'- the new Egypt certainly 'transitioning'," Whitson wrote.
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| ValueAct takes $1 billion stake in 21st Century Fox Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:22 PM PDT  Hedge fund ValueAct Capital LLC said it had taken a $1 billion stake in Rupert Murdoch-controlled film and TV company Twenty-First Century Fox Inc FOXA.O. Fox withdrew its $80 billion bid to buy Time Warner Inc TWX.N last week after being rebuffed by the owner of CNN, HBO and Warner Bros studios. "We support (Fox's) stand-alone plan and (believe) that it would drive the stock higher," ValueAct Chief Executive Jeffrey Ubben said in an interview on Monday, adding that he sees Fox as a $50 stock in three years. The new stake will be ValueAct's fifth largest holding, Ubben said.
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| L.A. woman punched by patrolman speaks Posted: 11 Aug 2014 02:15 PM PDT  The woman whose videotaped beating by a California Highway Patrol officer sparked outrage says she believes the officer was trying to kill her.
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| U.S. sending arms to Iraq's Kurds Posted: 11 Aug 2014 12:58 PM PDT  The aid has so far been limited to automatic rifles and ammunition, U.S. officials said.
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| Cargo ship tries to rescue 3 on sailboat stranded off Hawaii Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:24 PM PDT  A container ship's crew was working on Monday to rescue three people aboard a disabled sailboat that took on water when it got caught in Hurricane Julio and encountered 30-foot waves hundreds of miles from Hawaii, a U.S. Coast Guard official said. The crew of the cargo vessel Manukai was trying to help the three people on the 42-foot sailboat get onto a life raft, said a U.S. Coast Guard spokeswoman, Petty Officer Melissa McKenzie. This follows previous rescue attempts that failed because of rough weather in the area about 415 miles northeast of the Hawaiian island of Oahu, McKenzie said. The crew of the sailboat, which is named the Walkabout, sent out a distress signal on Sunday morning as Hurricane Julio moved across the Pacific Ocean near the Hawaiian archipelago, according to the Coast Guard.
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| Russia sends aid to Ukraine despite Western warnings Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:15 PM PDT  Russia said Monday it would dispatch a humanitarian convoy to conflict-torn east Ukraine despite fierce warnings from the West that Moscow not act alone as a cover for sending in troops. Russia insisted its military would not be involved in the convoy, but Kiev said Moscow could only play a role as part of a broader Red Cross mission. Russian President Vladimir Putin told European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso that Moscow "is sending a humanitarian convoy to Ukraine in cooperation with representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross."
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| Denver woman in terrorism case plans guilty plea Posted: 11 Aug 2014 11:14 AM PDT A 19-year-old Denver woman is accused of trying to go to Syria to help ISIS plans. |
| FBI 'reviewing' cop shooting of Mo. teen Posted:  FBI begins investigation into shooting death of unarmed teenager by police officer.
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| Bombed three times, 85-year-old Palestinian is refugee again Posted: 11 Aug 2014 07:46 AM PDT  Palestinian Ibrahim Mohammad al-Toum, 85, sleeps on the floor on a thin mattress in a Gaza schoolroom, displaced for the third time in six years. A farmer of oranges and lemons, his house in northern Gaza City has been bombed in each of the three Israeli-Palestinian conflicts since 2008. At any rate, he will not blame the Palestinian authorities in the Gaza Strip, a coastal enclave of 1.8 million people dominated since 2007 by the Islamist Hamas faction. Israel says Hamas is responsible because it uses residential areas as arms depots and launchpads for rockets, drawing Israeli strikes.
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| New 'Game of Thrones' actor, 86, dies days after start Posted: 11 Aug 2014 09:42 AM PDT  BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Authorities say Belfast actor J.J. Murphy has died days after starting his new role on the HBO series "Game of Thrones."
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| VIDEO: Grieving grandpa brought to tears by new puppy Posted: |
