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Kate, William start whirlwind U.S. tour

Posted: 07 Dec 2014 03:23 PM PST

Kate, left, Duchess of Cambridge and Britain's Prince William arrive at The Carlyle Hotel, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2014, in New York. They have a full schedule of events in New York, including a visit to the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum and an NBA basketball game between the Brooklyn Nets and the Cleveland Cavaliers. (AP Photo/Neilson Barnard, Pool)The British royals arrive in NYC amid a series of protests against police violence.

George W. Bush weighs in on his 'sister-in-law': Hillary Clinton

Posted: 07 Dec 2014 11:06 AM PST

Sneak peek: George W. Bush on ISIS resurgenceThe former president says he's saddened that race continues to play a divisive role in the United States, and is dismayed that African Americans don't trust the police.

Survivors gather to remember Pearl Harbor attack

Posted: 07 Dec 2014 03:11 PM PST

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, center, is surrounded by unidentified officials as she attends the 73rd anniversary ceremony of the attack on Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii on Sunday, Dec. 7, 2014. Gov. Brewer toured the memorial of the sunken battleship USS Arizona and then make a visit to a modern warship named for an Arizona city, the attack submarine USS Tucson. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher)Veterans who survived the Japanese attack attend the 73rd anniversary ceremony.

NYC braced for more protests over police violence after West Coast clashes

Posted: 07 Dec 2014 11:16 AM PST

Protesters participate in a "Die-In" at Grand Central Station during a march for chokehold death victim Eric Garner in New YorkBy Sebastien Malo and Emmett Berg NEW YORK/BERKELEY, Calif. (Reuters) - A fifth day of nationwide protests against police violence was set to begin on Sunday after overnight clashes in two West Coast cities as New York's police commissioner said an internal investigation into a chokehold death could last four months. ...

Survivors commemorate 73rd anniversary of Pearl Harbor attack

Posted: 07 Dec 2014 01:02 PM PST

Pearl Harbor Survivor Conter presents a wreath during ceremonies honoring the 73rd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor at the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument in HonoluluBy Treena Shapiro HONOLULU (Reuters) - For the fifth year in a row, Lou Conter made the trip to Honolulu from his Alta Sierra, California, home to remember his USS Arizona shipmates who died in the surprise air attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Before the 73rd commemoration ceremony started on the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center's main lawn on Sunday morning, Conter said that he and other survivors started gathering in Honolulu in 1991, and he now plans to come every year that he's able. It's not about him, he noted. ...

U.S. couple released by Qatar in child death celebrate their return

Posted: 07 Dec 2014 01:25 PM PST

By Daina Beth Solomon PASADENA, Calif. (Reuters) - An American couple convicted and later cleared in Qatar of wrongdoing in the death of their adopted African-born daughter celebrated their return to Los Angeles with a jubilant church service on Sunday morning. When the pastor announced the arrival of Matthew and Grace Huang along with their children Josiah and Emmanuel, the congregation of 3,000 people applauded and cheered. ...

Yemen says U.S.-led raid killed 10 al-Qaida fighters

Posted: 07 Dec 2014 11:04 AM PST

A man, who identified himself as Luke Somers, speaks in this still image taken from video purportedly published by Al Qaeda's Yemen branchA high-risk, U.S.-led raid attempting to rescue hostages in Yemen a day earlier killed 10 al-Qaida militants, Yemeni security officials said Sunday.

Survey: U.S. gas prices fall 12 cents per gallon

Posted: 07 Dec 2014 12:19 PM PST

Lower Gas Prices a Boon and Bane for AutomakersA national survey reveals the average price of regular gasoline has plunged another 12 cents a gallon over the past two weeks, to $2.72. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg said Sunday that the decline continues ...

Obama on America's racial divide: 'We have made progress'

Posted: 07 Dec 2014 07:41 AM PST

President Obama on BETIn an interview with BET, the president says the race issues spotlighted by recent grand jury decisions are not going to be solved overnight, but that it's also important to recognize the progress the United States has made on civil rights.

Bachmann ready to leave Congress, but not politics

Posted: 07 Dec 2014 11:06 AM PST

FILE - In this March 16, 2013 file photo, Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R- Minn., speaks at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md. An audacious conservative with a telling Minnesota twang, Rep. Michele Bachmann stood out from the moment she entered in Congress in 2006. The Republican is now ending a turbulent career marked by fights with the left and her own party, as well as a fast-rising and then fast-fading presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)An audacious conservative, Rep. Michele Bachmann stood out from the moment she was first elected to Congress in 2006. Democrats were ascendant and Bachmann was a stridently Republican new arrival with a homespun Minnesota twang.

Protests over Garner's death turn violent in Berkeley

Posted: 07 Dec 2014 05:17 AM PST

82974418Peaceful protests over the chokehold death of Eric Garner took a violent turn in Berkeley, Calif., on Saturday, when several masked protesters smashed store windows and hurled objects at police officers who used smoke and teargas to disperse the crowd.

1st ID from remains in case of Mexico's missing 43

Posted: 07 Dec 2014 02:00 PM PST

A photo of Alexander Mora Venancio is seen at an altar in the house of his father in El Pericon, in the southern Mexican state of GuerreroMore than two months after they disappeared, concrete evidence is beginning to emerge on the fate of 43 college students whose case has caused a political crisis in Mexico. At least one of them has been identified among charred remains found several weeks ago near a garbage dump, family and government officials say.

U.S. sends Uruguay 6 men from Guantanamo prison

Posted: 07 Dec 2014 04:13 AM PST

US sends Uruguay 6 men from Guantanamo prisonThe deal had been delayed for months by security concerns in the Pentagon and political considerations in the South American country.

N. Korea denies Sony hack but calls it 'righteous deed'

Posted: 07 Dec 2014 12:37 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 2, 2014 file photo, cars enter Sony Pictures Entertainment headquarters in Culver City, Calif. North Korea released a statement Sunday, Dec. 7, 2014 that clearly relished a cyberattack on Sony Pictures, which is producing an upcoming film that depicts an assassination plot against Pyongyang's supreme leader. While denying responsibility for an attack last week that disrupted Sony's computer system and spewed confidential information onto the Internet, an unidentified spokesman for the North's powerful National Defense Commission acknowledged that it "might be a righteous deed of the supporters and sympathizers" of the North's call for the world to turn out in a "just struggle" against U.S. imperialism. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea released a statement Sunday that clearly relished a cyberattack on Sony Pictures, which is producing an upcoming film that depicts an assassination plot against Pyongyang's supreme leader.

Prince William, Kate to break new ground with U.S. trip

Posted: 07 Dec 2014 10:25 AM PST

Photo taken on July 2, 2014 to mark the first birthday of Britain's Prince George shows Prince William (R) and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge with George during a visit to the Natural History Museum in LondonLondon (AFP) - Prince William and his pregnant wife Kate head to New York on Sunday for a glitzy visit that marks a step-up in their role representing Britain abroad, royal commentators said.

No major damage in Philippine typhoon; 3 dead

Posted: 07 Dec 2014 07:34 AM PST

Map tracks the path and speed of Typhoon Hagupit; 2c x 4 inches; 96.3 mm x 101 mm;LEGAZPI, Philippines (AP) — Typhoon Hagupit knocked out power, left at least three people dead and sent nearly 900,000 into shelters before it weakened Sunday, sparing the central Philippines the type of massive devastation that a monster storm brought to the region last year.

US protests turn violent after NY man killed by police buried

Posted: 07 Dec 2014 05:22 AM PST

New York Police Department officers watch demonstrators as they lie down on the floor of Grand Central Station in New York on December 6, 2014, as part of a "die-in"Several officers were injured, and buildings and cars were vandalized or looted, said police spokeswoman Jennifer Coats. The angry demonstration took place hours after mourners gathered at the New York funeral of an unarmed black man shot dead by police in New York on November 20. Akai Gurley, 28, father of a two-year-old daughter, was killed when a police officer opened fire in a dimly lit staircase at a Brooklyn apartment building where he was walking with his girlfriend. Friends and relatives filed past Gurley's open gray casket to pay their respects at the Brown Memorial Baptist Church, before the lid was closed and a huge spray of red and white flowers was placed on top of it.

Democratic Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu defeated

Posted: 06 Dec 2014 09:59 PM PST

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy defeated Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu on Saturday, denying her a fourth term and extending the GOP's domination of the 2014 midterm elections that put Republicans in charge of Capitol Hill for the final two years of President Barack Obama's tenure.

Berkeley protesters smash windows; 2 officers hurt

Posted: 07 Dec 2014 12:50 AM PST

Police watch demonstrators march for chokehold death victim Eric Garner in New YorkProtests in California over police killings of unarmed black men in Missouri and New York turned violent.

Chokehold death protest gets violent in California

Posted: 07 Dec 2014 05:21 AM PST

Protestors march along 42nd Street following a "die-in" at Grand Central Station against a grand jury's decision not to indict the police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)Masked demonstrators smashed windows and threw objects at police in Berkeley.

At home and cured of Ebola, Cuban doctor vows return to Africa

Posted: 06 Dec 2014 06:44 PM PST

Baez, a member of the International Contingent Brigade "Henry Reeve", who was infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone, poses for a photo with his wife and son during a news conference in HavanaHAVANA/GENEVA (Reuters) - A Cuban doctor who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone and was cured after experimental treatment in a Swiss hospital vowed on Saturday to return to West Africa and continue treating patients. "I will finish what I started. I am returning to Sierra Leone," Felix Baez, 43, told reporters at Havana's Jose Marti airport shortly after landing, the official website Cubadebate reported. It was not immediately clear if Cuban health officials would allow Baez to go back to Africa. ...

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