| Cops: Men hold 6 hostages in Ill. suburb Posted: 19 Aug 2014 04:46 PM PDT  Authorities are negotiating with two men barricaded in a home and holding a woman and five children hostage in the south suburbs of Chicago.
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| ISIL claims beheading of U.S. journalist, holding another Posted: 19 Aug 2014 04:20 PM PDT  BAGHDAD/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State insurgents released a video on Tuesday purportedly showing the beheading of U.S. The video, titled "A Message To America," was posted on social media sites.
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| Perry booked for abusing power, vows he will fight this injustice’ Posted: 19 Aug 2014 04:55 PM PDT  Texas Gov. Rick Perry was defiant as he was booked on abuse of power charges Tuesday, saying he would "fight this injustice with every fiber of my being."
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| New fatal police shooting near Ferguson Posted: 19 Aug 2014 03:57 PM PDT  St. Louis officer-involved shooting came as Michael Brown's funeral plans were announced.
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| Floods force dramatic rescues in Phoenix area Posted: 19 Aug 2014 04:58 PM PDT  PHOENIX (AP) — Heavy monsoon season rains that swept across Arizona on Tuesday led to dramatic rescues, road closures and flight delays as a series of fast-moving storms pummeled the state.
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| Week of uproar, confrontation in Ferguson Posted: 19 Aug 2014 01:41 PM PDT  Just outside Ferguson, in St. Louis, a suspect is dead after an officer-involved shooting.
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| Ukrainian forces press attacks on rebel-held areas Posted: 19 Aug 2014 11:43 AM PDT  DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Government troops pressed attacks Tuesday in the two largest cities held by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, while Kiev also pursued diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict that has killed more than 2,000 and displaced another 300,000.
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| NYC grand jury to hear police chokehold case Posted: 19 Aug 2014 12:09 PM PDT  A New York City prosecutor said on Tuesday he will present evidence to a grand jury next month to determine whether anyone should be criminally charged in the death of an unarmed man who police put in a choke hold while arresting him.
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| Yosemite wildfire prompts 13,000 evacuation orders Posted: 19 Aug 2014 12:04 PM PDT  Firefighters from across California were sent to battle an out-of-control wildfire on Tuesday near Yosemite National Park and authorities ordered the evacuation of 13,000 homes and businesses, officials said. Gusty winds fanned the Junction Fire, which erupted on Monday, and it spread rapidly through parched forest in the foothills of Yosemite, one of the most visited U.S. The blaze has destroyed eight structures and is threatening 500 others, including hotels, restaurants and homes near the central California town of Oakhurst, said Dennis Mathisen, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
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| Texas' Perry to turn himself in Posted: 19 Aug 2014 03:58 PM PDT  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry, a possible Republican presidential candidate in the 2016 race, was fingerprinted and had his mug shot taken by judicial authorities on Tuesday after being indicted last week on two felony charges of abusing power. This indictment is fundamentally a political act that seeks to achieve at the courthouse what could not be achieved at the ballot box," Perry said after finishing the 15-minute processing at the Travis County criminal justice center, a short walk away from the governor's mansion. The indictment has cast a shadow over a presidential run for Perry, who has ranked near the bottom of possible Republican candidates. Perry was indicted on Friday by a grand jury in Travis County, a Democratic stronghold in the heavily Republican state, over his veto of funding for a state ethics watchdog that has investigated prominent Texas Republicans.
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| Islamic State vows to 'drown all of you in blood' Posted: 19 Aug 2014 08:52 AM PDT  The Islamic State is vowing retribution should U.S. According to Reuters, a newly released video by the Islamic State shows a picture of an American man who had been beheaded in Iraq during the initial U.S. The Islamic State has focused on its goal of establishing a caliphate by seizing land in Iraq in Syria before launching any potential attacks on the West. Osama Bin Laden famously warned of the risks of establishing a caliphate too early, writing in a document seized in the raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan that an Islamic State could have the adverse affect of dividing the Sunni population.
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| 700 troops sent to Pakistan's 'Red Zone' Posted: 19 Aug 2014 01:48 PM PDT  Soldiers deployed to halt thousands of anti-government protesters approaching Islamabad's high-security zone.
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| 2 Italian air force jets collide over Italy Posted: 19 Aug 2014 09:44 AM PDT  ROME (AP) — Two Italian air force fighter jets carrying a total of four crew members collided during a training mission over Italy on Tuesday and crashed into a hilly, wooded area that erupted in flames, the force said.
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| Gaza-based Islamist group added to U.S. terrorist list Posted: 19 Aug 2014 09:42 AM PDT  An Islamist Palestinian group based in Gaza has been placed on the US terrorist black list, the State Department announced Tuesday. Since its founding in 2012, the "Mujahidin Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem" has claimed responsibility for a number of rocket attacks on Israel and a cross-border attack with explosives that killed a civilian at an Israeli construction site, according to the State Department. It said the group was composed of several jihadist sub-groups, and had declared its support for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a militant group that has declared a caliphate in areas of Iraq and Syria that it controls.
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| Police: LA school shooting plot thwarted Posted: 19 Aug 2014 03:57 PM PDT  Two boys arrested; said to have plotted to kill S. Pasadena school staff and students.
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| US airstrikes intensify in Iraq Posted: 19 Aug 2014 12:22 PM PDT  Saddam's hometown Tikrit targeted by Iraqi forces, as President Obama ratchets up anti-jihadist strikes.
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| Natanyahu orders home Israeli team from cease-fire talks Posted: 19 Aug 2014 04:56 PM PDT  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Egyptian attempts to broker an end to a monthlong war between Israel and Hamas collapsed in heavy fighting Tuesday, with Palestinian militants firing dozens of rockets and Israel responding with airstrikes across the Gaza Strip. At least three Palestinians were killed.
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| Famed Iranian poet Behbahani dies at 87 Posted: 19 Aug 2014 09:04 AM PDT  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Famed Iranian poet Simin Behbahani, who wrote of the joys of love, demanded equal rights for women and spoke out about the challenges facing those living in her homeland, died Tuesday at the age of 87.
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| 1-year-old left in Fla. car while mother shopped for booze Posted: 19 Aug 2014 08:39 AM PDT  LEESBURG, Fla. (AP) — Officials say a Florida mother faces child neglect charges after leaving her 1-year-old daughter in the car while she shopped in grocery and liquor stores.
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| Why were 100,000 elephants slaughtered over 3 years? Posted: 19 Aug 2014 07:37 AM PDT  The insatiable demand for ivory is causing a dramatic decline in the number of African elephants. Poachers are hunting the animal faster than it can reproduce, with deaths affecting more than half of elephant families in the Samburu National Reserve in Kenya, a new study finds. In 2011, the worst African elephant poaching year on record since 1998, poachers killed an estimated 40,000 elephants, or about 8 percent of the elephant population in Africa. In the absence of poaching, African elephant populations grow about 4.2 percent each year, the researchers found based on detailed records from Samburu.
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| After shooting, dozens seek Walmart security camera footage Posted: 19 Aug 2014 03:17 PM PDT  An attorney for the family of a man fatally shot by police at a Wal-Mart store said Tuesday that surveillance video of the shooting shows it was unjustified, and the state's top lawman said a special grand ...
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| 3 of Pope Francis' relatives killed in car crash Posted: 19 Aug 2014 07:31 AM PDT  3 dead after car slammed into back of truck on highway in central Argentina; 4th in serious condition.
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| Oscar Pistorius' brother discharged from hospital ICU Posted: 19 Aug 2014 07:01 AM PDT  STELLENBOSCH, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius' brother is recovering and has been discharged from a hospital intensive care unit after suffering internal injuries in a car crash and going into respiratory failure, a spokeswoman for the Pistorius family said Tuesday.
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| Veteran rock climber proposes to girlfriend, later falls to death in Yosemite Posted: 19 Aug 2014 12:47 PM PDT  SEBASTOPOL, Calif. (AP) — A veteran Northern California rock climber died in a fall in Yosemite National Park, just hours after proposing to his girlfriend during another climb, authorities said.
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| Man charged in fatal stabbing of 1-year-old niece Posted: 19 Aug 2014 10:50 AM PDT  BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man was charged with murder, accused of fatally slashing his 1-year-old niece in her abdomen while babysitting, police said.
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| Six Flags park apologizes to Marine for gun shirt error Posted: 19 Aug 2014 06:20 AM PDT  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A 33-year-old disabled Marine who wasn't allowed into a New Jersey amusement park because he was wearing a shirt with a red, white and blue assault rifle on it has been given an apology.
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| Another night of chaos in Ferguson Posted: 19 Aug 2014 03:27 PM PDT  National Guard kept its distance as protesters clashed with police; 31 arrested.
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| SNL icon passes away Posted: 18 Aug 2014 11:08 PM PDT  Don Pardo, the durable television and radio announcer whose booming baritone became as much a part of the cultural landscape as the shows and products he touted, died Monday. He was 96.
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| Afghan Sikhs stuck in airless container for 18 hours Posted: 19 Aug 2014 12:07 AM PDT  34 people, all suffering severe dehydration and hypothermia, were found alive after they were heard banging and screaming.
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| Runaway Ebola patients found Posted: 19 Aug 2014 04:49 AM PDT  Liberia claims that those who fled a quarantine center have been located.
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| Top Saudi cleric declares "enemy No. 1" of Islam Posted: 18 Aug 2014 05:55 PM PDT  Saudi Grand Mufti has harsh rhetoric for terrorist groups.
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| Israel-Palestinian deadline before fighting resumes Posted: 18 Aug 2014 05:21 PM PDT  Negotiators in Cairo face a new ticking clock before the bloodshed resumes.
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| American missing in Syria a journalist at heart Posted: 19 Aug 2014 05:03 PM PDT  ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Journalist James Foley was captured once covering the uprising in Libya so he knew the risks when he went to Syria in 2012 to cover the escalating violence there. It didn't matter. He was a journalist at heart, once saying he'd cover local news if it meant doing the job he loved.
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| Riske upsets Pennetta at New Haven tennis Posted: 19 Aug 2014 05:02 PM PDT  Unseeded Alison Riske became the first player to reach the quarter-finals by upsetting sixth-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta 6-1, 7-6 (7/3) at the Connecticut Open on Tuesday. American Riske, who never trailed in the second set tie-breaker, blasted eight aces and was a perfect five for five on break points in the 94-minute match at the WTA Tour event, a final US Open tune-up. Riske jumped out to a 3-1 second set lead, but Pennetta was able to tie it at 3-3. Riske snapped a four-match losing streak with a straight set victory over Casey Dellacqua in her tournament opener.
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| Tom Hanks’ Typewriter app is a shockingly huge hit for iPad users Posted: 19 Aug 2014 05:00 PM PDT  Hanx Writer is a simple typewriter iOS app for the iPad, created by Hitcents at the request of Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks. Launched only last week and available as a free download, the app has already hit the No. 1 spot in the top free iPad apps on the App Store, TechCrunch reports, enjoying unexpected success for an app that's not at all essential to improving productivity on a tablet. The app offers users access to a keyboard that looks and sounds just like a typewriter – culled from one of Hanks' actual collection of real typewriters – but also complete with the modern functionality of a virtual tablet keyboard. "I wanted to have the sensation of an old manual typewriter
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| EaterWire: Yardbird Wants You at Its Grand Opening; More Posted: 19 Aug 2014 05:00 PM PDT  Yardbird Southern Table & Bar VENETIAN — Yardbird Southern Table & Bar hasn't even landed in Vegas and already they have a sweepstakes to get you to the opening. Just enter and you could win a two-night stay at the Venetian,...
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| Liberia president declares Ebola curfew Posted: 19 Aug 2014 04:58 PM PDT  MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia's president declared a curfew and ordered security forces to quarantine a slum home to at least 50,000 people late Tuesday as the West African country battled to stop the spread of Ebola in the capital.
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| Teens in LA school shooting plot 'wanted to die' Posted: 19 Aug 2014 04:58 PM PDT  Two US teenagers arrested on charges of plotting a high-school mass shooting had a "very methodical" plan and wanted to die in the gun battle, police said Tuesday. The 16- and 17-year-olds, who police did not identify, wanted to kill as many people as possible and "planned to die through a shootout with the police," said Arthur Miller, the police chief in the Los Angeles suburb of South Pasadena. The plot to kill three staff members and as many students as possible at South Pasadena High School, which has 4,500 students, was "very methodical and it seemed very viable," said Miller.
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| Israel hits Gaza, suspends Cairo talks after rocket fire Posted: 19 Aug 2014 04:56 PM PDT  Israel and Palestinian militants resumed fighting across the Gaza border on Tuesday, ending a ceasefire, sparking panic across the war-torn enclave and halting truce talks. Gaza emergency services said that three people, including a woman and a two-year-old child were killed and 45 people injured in one Israeli air strike in Gaza City. Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, said Israel had "opened the gates of hell on itself" by carrying out that attack and warned that the Jewish state would "pay the price for its crimes." The al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement that it fired 34 rockets into Israel on Tuesday, hitting Tel Aviv and the southern city of Beersheva.
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