Homes burn as thousands flee S. Calif. fires
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South Korea indicts four ferry crew for homicide
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Ju-min Park MOKPO, South Korea (Reuters) - The captain and three senior
crew members of a South Korean ferry that capsized in April, killing
more than 280 passengers, many of them school children, were indicted
for homicide on Thursday, a senior prosecutor said. Prosecutors also
indicted the 11 other surviving crew members of the ferry Sewol on
negligence charges. The crew has been under criminal investigation after
they were believed to have escaped the sinking vessel before many
passengers.Read More ...
Why did firm with big Ukraine holdings hire Joe Biden’s son?
In
the span of a few weeks, an energy firm little-known inside the United
States added two members to its board of directors — scoring connections
to Secretary of State John Kerry and Vice President Joe Biden in the
bargain.Read More ...
Smithsonian gets clearance to fly drones at D.C. festival
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is getting some competition from
the Smithsonian Institution in testing personal delivery drones for the
future.Read More ...
Burst pipe in Jerusalem reveals murals of medieval crusades
Wall
murals portraying Crusader knights and symbols of medieval military
orders have been rediscovered in a Jerusalem hospital thanks to a burst
water pipe and a storeroom reorganization. These paintings were the
works of a French count, Comte Marie Paul Amédée de Piellat, who
believed himself to be a descendant of Crusaders. The count was a
frequent visitor to Jerusalem and had the Saint-Louis Hospice built
between 1879 and 1896, naming it after St. Louis IX, a king of France
and leader of the Seventh Crusade between A.D. 1248 and 1254. The count
returned to Jerusalem to restore his murals, but died in the hospital in
1925, his work undone.Read More ...
At least 30 homes torched in S. Calif. wildfires
Firefighters scramble to control multiple blazes on Day 2 of sweltering heat wave.Read More ...
Christie: Bridge scandal 'will be a footnote' by 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Wednesday that he is thinking about running for president and that by the time 2016 arrives the controversy over last year's George Washington Bridge lane closures "will be a footnote."
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White House dusts off old playbook to handle new Benghazi panel
The
House of Representative’s select committee on Benghazi has had a rough
rollout. When it's finally up and running, here's how the White House
plans to respond.Read More ...
California wildfires torch at least 30 homes
San Diego County firefighters battling several fires amid hot, dry and windy conditions.Read More ...
11,000 flee new Southern California wildfire
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Group: Gov't fails kids on U.S. tobacco farms
Report claims children as young as 7 toil long hours harvesting chemical-laced crops.Read More ...
Frugal Americans challenge food companies' bottom line
By
Lewis Krauskopf and Lisa Baertlein NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -
Rebecca Sumrow is one of the customers food and restaurant company
executives have in mind when they consider raising prices to offset
higher costs as meat and milk soar to record highs. The 30-year-old from
San Clemente, California, was out of work for a short time last year
and saved money by moving in with her boyfriend and cutting back on
clothes shopping and dining out. Consumers \"have gotten really good
over these last four years at stretching a penny,\" said Pat Conroy,
leader of the U.S. consumer products practice at Deloitte LLP. So far,
we've been right.\" According to Deloitte's annual survey of food
shoppers released last week, 94 percent agreed they would remain
cautious and keep spending at the same level even if the economy
improves.Read More ...
Violent protests in Turkey following coal mine catastrophe
At least 245 coal miners died in a mine explosion in Soma, Turkey, officials said. Nearly 450 other miners were rescued.Read More ...
For artist, homeless signs are works of art
Collector aims to buy more signs and raise awareness on cross-country journey.Read More ...
Vigilantes kill rebels near Boko Haram base
Nigerian official: Villagers killed, detained militants suspected of forging a new attack.Read More ...
Heart-wrenching artifacts fill new Sept. 11 museum
The structure, a monument to how that day shaped history, is set to be dedicated Thursday.Read More ...
Factories burned, looted as China-Vietnam tensions grow
Mobs
burned and looted scores of foreign-owned factories in Vietnam
following a large protest by workers against China's recent placement of
an oil rig in disputed Southeast Asian waters, officials said
Wednesday.Read More ...
Suspect in Md. TV station attack faces attempted murder
Baltimore police say Vladimir Baptiste slammed a stolen truck into a TV station on Tuesday.Read More ...
U.S. experts urge focus on ethics in brain research
Ethics
must be considered early and often as the field of modern neuroscience
forges ahead, to avoid repeating a dark period in history when
lobotomies were common, experts said Wednesday. President Barack Obama
sought the recommendations of the Presidential Commission for the Study
of Bioethical Issues, as part of his $100 million Brain Research through
Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative announced
last year. It is "absolutely critical... to integrate ethics from the
get-go into neuroscience research," and not "for the first time after
something has gone wrong," said Amy Gutmann, Bioethics Commission Chair.
Instead, it called for institutions and individuals engaged in
neuroscience research, as well as government agencies and other funders,
to integrate ethics early in research.Read More ...
FBI: Pals of marathon suspect had to be questioned
BOSTON
(AP) — An FBI agent says that two friends of Boston Marathon bombing
suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) would have been
arrested if they did not come to a police station voluntarily.Read More ...
Pakistan police arrest teacher for gang rape
MANSEHRA,
Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police arrested a teacher at a Quranic school
and his two friends on charges of gang raping a college student in the
country's northwest, alleging he filmed the attack and may have
blackmailed other victims, authorities said Wednesday.Read More ...
238 dead in Turkish mine disaster
Rescuers raced to reach more than 100 others who remained trapped on Wednesday.Read More ...
MERS isn't an emergency, WHO says
The
spread of a puzzling respiratory virus in the Middle East and beyond is
not a global health emergency despite a recent spike in cases, the
World Health Organization said Wednesday.Read More ...
Samsung apologizes to sickened chip workers
Samsung
Electronics Co. apologized and promised compensation to chip factory
workers who suffered cancers linked to chemical exposure, a rare win for
families and activists seven years after the death ...Read More ...
San Diego wildfires have grow calm, authorities say
A
pair of wildfires flared and thousands of residents fled amid drought
conditions and spiking heat in California, but both blazes had calmed as
night fell and the winds that had whipped them diminished.Read More ...
Pentagon seeks transfer, gender treatment for Chelsea Manning
In
an unprecedented move, the Pentagon is trying to transfer convicted
national security leaker Pvt. Chelsea Manning to a civilian prison so
she can get treatment for her gender disorder, defense officials said.Read More ...
Vietnam mobs set fire to foreign factories in anti-China riots
By Ho Binh Minh and Manuel Mogato HANOI/MANILA (Reuters) - Thousands of Vietnamese set fire to foreign factories and rampaged in industrial zones in the south of the country in an angry reaction to Chinese oil drilling in a part of the South China Sea claimed by Vietnam, officials said on Wednesday. The brunt of Tuesday's violence, one of the worst breakdowns in Sino-Vietnamese relations since the neighbors fought a brief border war in 1979, appears to have been borne by Taiwanese firms in the zones in Binh Duong and Dong Nai provinces that were mistaken for Chinese-owned companies. A police official in Binh Duong province, speaking by telephone, said about 200 people had been arrested. Some Taiwanese firms had spray-painted messages on the road and across their gates saying \"We Support Vietnam\" in an effort to distinguish themselves from Chinese enterprises.
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Pistorius to undergo psychiatric tests
Oscar
Pistorius was ordered by a judge on Wednesday to undergo psychiatric
tests, meaning that the double-amputee athlete's murder trial will be
interrupted, possibly for two months.Read More ...
Obama to ask Congress for cash for roads, bridges
WASHINGTON
(AP) — America's roads, bridges and ports are falling apart, and the
federal government is running out of money to fix them. So President
Barack Obama is heading to a crumbling bridge outside New York City to
try to pressure Congress into giving the nation's infrastructure an
infusion of cash.Read More ...
Biden touts St. Louis Arch renovation project
Vice
President Joe Biden made a rain-shortened appearance beneath the
Gateway Arch to tout the economic benefits of a massive renovation
project at the iconic tourist attraction. The Democratic vice president
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Pentagon OKs Manning transfer for gender treatment
WASHINGTON
(AP) — In an unprecedented move, the Pentagon is trying to transfer
convicted national security leaker Pvt. Chelsea Manning to a civilian
prison so she can get treatment for her gender disorder, defense
officials said.Read More ...
274 dead in Turkey's worst-ever mine disaster
SOMA,
Turkey (AP) — Amid wails of grief and anger, rescue workers coated in
grime trudged repeatedly out of a coal mine Wednesday with stretchers of
bodies that swelled the death toll to 274 — the worst such disaster in
Turkish history.Read More ...
AP PHOTOS: Wildfire burns homes in Southern Calif
CARLSBAD,
Calif. (AP) — During a second day of a sweltering heat wave, flames
engulfed suburban homes and shot up along canyon ridges in one of the
worst of several blazes that broke out Wednesday in Southern California.Read More ...
9/11 museum offers sights and sounds of tragedy
NEW
YORK (AP) — The museum devoted to the story of Sept. 11 tells it in
victims' last voicemails, in photos of people falling from the twin
towers, in the scream of sirens, in the dust-covered shoes of those who
fled the skyscrapers' collapse, in the wristwatch of one of the airline
passengers who confronted the hijackers.Read More ...
Lung cancer screening could cost Medicare billions
Every
person covered by Medicare would shell out an additional $3 a month if
the government agreed to pay to screen certain current and former
smokers for lung cancer, a new study estimates.Read More ...
Hotel fires person who recorded Jay Z attack video
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Abramson replaced as NYT executive editor
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times on Wednesday announced that executive editor Jill Abramson is being replaced by managing editor Dean Baquet after two and a half years on the job.
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Sasse a nominal tea party win; fewer chances ahead
FREMONT,
Neb. (AP) — With Republican Ben Sasse, tea party groups figured out the
riddle of winning elections in 2014: Claim a Republican as a member of
the tribe, even if his approach to politics doesn't line up exactly with
their own.Read More ...
All 20,000 evacuation orders off in San Diego fire
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A wildfire that surged amid high heat and dry winds in drought conditions brought evacuation orders for more than 20,000 homes in and around San Diego, but all residents were told they could return home Tuesday night just a few hours later as cooler, calmer darkness fell.
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