Woman missing for 10 years calls cops on alleged captor
Calif. woman who was 15 when she disappeared tells police she was told family gave up search.Read More ...
31 killed, 90-plus injured in China market attack
BEIJING
(AP) — Thirty-one people were killed and more than 90 injured in an
attack Thursday on a busy street market in the capital of China's
volatile northwestern region of Xinjiang, the local government said, the
bloodiest in a series of violent incidents blamed on radical separatist
Muslims.Read More ...
Secret foreign policy talk with White House 'bizarre,' senator says
White
House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and National Security Adviser
Susan Rice met with a bipartisan delegation of senators late Tuesday for
secret talks focused on foreign policy, several sources with knowledge
of the discussion told Yahoo News.Read More ...
No charges against NYC cab driver in boy's traffic death
No
charges will be filed against the cab driver who hit and killed
9-year-old Cooper Stock, whose death has become a rallying point for
traffic reform in New York City.Read More ...
Three tornadoes touch down in Denver suburb of Aurora
Three
tornadoes touched down on Wednesday in the Denver suburb of Aurora, but
no damage was immediately reported, a National Weather Service
meteorologist said. Another tornado touched down east of Denver in
Watkins, Colorado, also without causing damage, said meteorologist Jim
Kalina of the Weather Service's Boulder office. The three tornadoes in
different parts of Aurora, which is nearly 10 miles east of downtown
Denver, occurred within less than 30 minutes of each other on Wednesday
afternoon, he said. A tornado watch for Denver was scheduled to remain
in effect until 8 p.m. local time, the Weather Service said.Read More ...
Critics: New monument risks border security
President signs proclamation on half-million acres of rugged desert terrain near Mexico.Read More ...
Fiat CEO: Please don't buy our electric car
By
Eric Beech WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Chief
Executive Sergio Marchionne has a request for potential buyers of the
automaker's Fiat 500e electric car: Don't buy it. Speaking at a
conference in Washington on Wednesday, Marchionne said Tesla Motors Inc
was the only company making money on electric cars and that was because
of the higher price point for its Model S sedan. Decrying the federal
and state mandates that push manufacturers to build electric cars,
Marchionne said he hoped to sell the minimum number of 500e cars
possible.Read More ...
House Dems to participate in Benghazi probe
Party has been divided over whether to boycott investigation, the eighth probe of attack.Read More ...
Iranian human rights group: 'Happy in Tehran' dancers freed
The
Iranian dancers who starred in the viral "Happy in Tehran" video that
led to their arrest have been freed, a human rights group said
Wednesday. But according to the International Campaign for Human Rights
in Iran, the director of the video, a remake of Pharrell Williams' hit
song "Happy," remains in custody.Read More ...
Billionaire brawls: A new way for money to influence politics
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Airstrikes kill 60 militants in Pakistan
Pakistani warplanes and helicopters pounded militant hideouts near the Afghan border, killing 60 fighters, the army said.Read More ...
70 charged in NYC area in child porn investigation
A
five-week investigation has resulted in charges against at least 70 men
and one woman in the New York City area in what officials called one of
the largest-ever roundups locally of people who anonymously trade child
porn over the Internet.Read More ...
48 killed in new attacks by Nigerian militants
Boko
Haram militants have attacked three villages in Nigeria, killing 48
people. One village is near the town of Chibok, where more than 300
schoolgirls were kidnapped last month.Read More ...
How Reid can help McConnell in November face-off
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111-year-old is named world's oldest man
At
111 years old, Dr. Alexander Imich of New York City has been crowned
the new world's oldest living man, according to Guinness World Records.
The world's oldest living person and oldest woman, Misao Okawa of Osaka,
Japan is 116 years old; The longest a person has been known to live, at
least an age that could be authenticated by Guinness World Records, is
122 years and 164 days; Imich, who says he owes his longevity to good
genes and a moderate and healthy lifestyle, was born in in present-day
Cz?stochowa, Poland, on Feb. 4, 1903.Read More ...
Did Cooper Stock really have to die?
Different traffic laws could have saved 9-year-old's life, lives of thousands of others.Read More ...
California bus crash kills 4, injures many
Authorities
say at least four people were killed and several more suffered serious
injuries when a passenger bus overturned on Interstate 10 in Southern
California near the Arizona border.Read More ...
eBay hacked, urges password changes
Database containing encrypted passwords has been breached, company says.Read More ...
2 killed in gunfire, explosions in Libyan capital
By
Ahmed Elumami and Feras Bosalum TRIPOLI (Reuters) - At least two people
were killed when heavy fighting erupted near the Libyan capital of
Tripoli on Wednesday, two days after gunmen stormed parliament in some
of the city's worst violence since the 2011 war. Residents reported
several loud explosions near the al-Yarmouk barracks in the Salaheddin
district. "We're hearing really loud explosions and gunshots near the
camp, but we don't know who is shooting," a Tajoura resident said. In
addition, Libya's top naval commander, General Hasssan Abu Shanaq,
survived an assassination attempt by unknown gunmen as he was travelling
to work, a spokesman for the chief of staff said.Read More ...
Watch live: Obama addresses Veterans Affairs troubles
The
White House moved Wednesday to address the growing furor over
allegations of misconduct at the Department of Veterans Affairs,
summoning VA Secretary Eric Shinseki to an Oval Office meeting, hours
before the House was scheduled to vote on a bill that would grant the
secretary more authority to fire or demote senior executives.Read More ...
Balkans flood recovery will take billions
As floodwaters recede in Bosnia and Serbia, local officials realize costly impact.Read More ...
Search continues for victims of Nigerian car bombs
JOS,
Nigeria (AP) — Police anti-bomb squad officers on Wednesday dug into a
crater left by one of two bombs that exploded in a bustling marketplace
and bus station in a central Nigerian city as people searched for
missing loved ones after the horrific attack that left at least 118
people dead.Read More ...
Mainstream Republicans face down tea party tests
Mainstream Republicans led by Senate leader Mitch McConnell survive primary challenges.Read More ...
Egypt's ousted leader Mubarak gets three years in jail
By
Maggie Fick CAIRO (Reuters) - Deposed former Egyptian president Hosni
Mubarak was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison for
embezzling millions in public funds for lavish renovations to family
properties. The verdict may please some Egyptians who lived through
three decades of autocracy under Mubarak before a 2011 uprising toppled
him. Mubarak's two sons were sentenced to four years in jail on the same
charges of stealing state funds that had been earmarked for the
renovation of presidential palaces but were instead diverted to sprucing
up family residences. The Cairo court also fined Mubarak and his sons
21.197 million Egyptian pounds ($2.98 million) and ordered them to repay
about 125 million Egyptian pounds of funds they were accused of
siphoning off.Read More ...
Gazprom: China, Russia sign 30-year gas deal
SHANGHAI
(AP) — China signed a landmark deal Wednesday to buy Russian natural
gas worth about $400 billion, giving a boost to diplomatically isolated
President Vladimir Putin and expanding Moscow's ties with Asia.Read More ...
Police: Woman found 10 years after kidnapping
SANTA
ANA, Calif. (AP) — A woman who disappeared as a teenager a decade ago
was reunited with her family after she went to police and told them her
mother's ex-boyfriend drugged and kidnapped her in 2004, forced her to
marry him and fathered her child.Read More ...
Obama vows fix to veterans' health care troubles
WASHINGTON
(AP) — With outrage mounting over veterans' health care, President
Barack Obama declared Wednesday that allegations of misconduct at VA
hospitals will not be tolerated, and he left open the possibility that
Secretary Eric Shinseki, a disabled war veteran, could be held to
account.Read More ...
With martial law, Thai government nearly powerless
BANGKOK
(AP) — The question to Thailand's army chief was a basic one: After he
declared martial law this week, would he be consulting the government?
His response encapsulated the increasingly surreal nature of this
Southeast Asian country's political crisis.Read More ...
Nigerian extremists strike villages, 48 dead
JOS,
Nigeria (AP) — Islamic militants killed 48 villagers in northeastern
Nigeria near the town where they kidnapped 300 schoolgirls, and the U.S.
said Wednesday it was sending in 80 military personnel to expand the
drone search for the captives.Read More ...
Census: Texas has 3 of 5 fast-growing cities
WASHINGTON (AP) — They grow everything bigger in Texas, even the cities.Read More ...
Supreme Court halts Missouri execution
BONNE
TERRE, Mo. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday halted the
execution of a Missouri inmate with a rare medical condition who
challenged the state's refusal to disclose the source of its lethal
injection drug.Read More ...
Painful and rapid spread of new virus in Caribbean
SAN
CRISTOBAL, Dominican Republic (AP) — They suffer searing headaches, a
burning fever and so much pain in their joints they can barely walk or
use their hands. It's like having a terrible flu combined with an abrupt
case of arthritis.Read More ...
Gov't says airlines should disclose bag, seat fees
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Passengers love the idea, but airlines hate it. The government
wants to require that travelers be told upfront about basic services
that aren't included in the price of a ticket and how much extra they'll
cost.Read More ...
Prosecutors: Marathon bombs used Christmas lights
BOSTON
(AP) — The Boston Marathon bombing suspects used "relatively
sophisticated" bombs with fuses made from Christmas lights and
remote-control detonators made from model car parts, federal prosecutors
said Wednesday in a court filing arguing statements one of them made to
FBI agents after being captured shouldn't be thrown out.Read More ...
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