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130 more U.S. troops enter Iraq

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 04:43 PM PDT

As Refugees Flee, US Sends Arms to Iraqi KurdsPentagon: Troops part of temporary mission to assess scope of humanitarian crisis facing Iraqis.


2 killed, 8 injured in Ecuador quake

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 03:52 PM PDT

Tucked in the Andean mountains, the city of Quito, Ecuador was named South America's leading destination of 2014.Three others became trapped after magnitude 5.1 earthquake shook Quito, Ecuador: officials.


U.S. to send at least 100 more military advisers to Iraq

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 02:51 PM PDT

Report: U.S. to Send 100 More Military Advisers to Help Iraq's YezidisThe United States will send more than 100 military advisers to help the Yezidis in Iraq, according to CNN. The military advisers would look at humanitarian relief options for the group, according to the report. More than 100 additional U.S. military advisers are being sent to Iraq to look at relief options for displaced Yezidis, officials say. — CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) August 12, 2014. The United Nations estimates that as many as 30,000 Yezidis may still be trapped in northern Iraq, fleeing the advance of the aggressive and violent Islamic State.


Gaza crisis: Egypt presents new cease-fire proposal to Israel, Hamas

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 03:24 PM PDT

A Palestinian boy holds an umbrella as he rests in front of the damaged Nada Towers residential neighborhood in the town of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. An Egyptian-brokered cease-fire halting the Gaza war held into Monday morning, allowing Palestinians to leave homes and shelters as negotiators agreed to resume talks in Cairo. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)Egypt presented a proposed cease-fire to Israel and Hamas aimed at ending the monthlong war, Palestinian officials said early Wednesday after negotiators huddled for a second day of Egyptian-mediated talks meant to resolve the crisis and bring relief to the embattled Gaza Strip.


UN: 35,000 refugees escape Mount Sinjar

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The refugees, mostly Yezidis, managed to reach the Kurdistan region over the past 3 days.


Clinton to Obama: Let’s hug it out

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 02:11 PM PDT

FILE - This July 29, 2014, file photo shows former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as she greets a customer during a book signing of her new book "Hard Choices" at Northshire Bookstore in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Clinton has made her most aggressive effort yet to distinguish herself from her former boss, rebuking President Barack Obama for his cautious approach to global crises and saying foreign policy has to go beyond "don't do stupid stuff." Clinton did so in a weekend magazine interview that lays out a foreign policy vision ahead of a possible run for president. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)After distancing herself from some of President Barack Obama's foreign policy, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called her ex-boss Tuesday to try to smooth things over and planned on "hugging it out" in person at an upcoming get-together.


Trial begins in N.C. police racial-profiling case

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 03:22 PM PDT

Eric Holder demands Congress address inequalityWINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — In the opening day of a case accusing a North Carolina sheriff of racial profiling, two retired supervising deputies testified Tuesday that their former boss told officers to take Hispanic motorists to jail over traffic violations, rather than issuing citations.


Obama: Remember Mo. teen through 'reflection and understanding’

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 01:47 PM PDT

Raw: More Protests Over Unarmed Teen's DeathPresident Barack Obama says that while the shooting death of a Missouri teenager has prompted "strong passions," people should remember Michael Brown through "reflection and understanding."


Robin Williams's hidden pain revealed by longtime friend

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 12:39 PM PDT

ROBIN WILLIAMS' AUTOPSYWilliams' friend of 35 years talks about his career, demons and why therapy is important for comedians.


Dems: McConnell’s wife must cut anti-coal ties

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 11:31 AM PDT

From left, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, 24th U.S. Secretary of Labor and McConnell's wife Elaine Chao, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, Rep. Ed Whitfield and Kentucky Department of Agriculture James Comer listen to Gov. Steve Beshear speak during the 134th Fancy Farm Picnic in Fancy Farm, Ky., on Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014. (AP Photo/The Paducah Sun, John Paul Henry)Lawmakers urge Elaine Chao's resignation from group funding 'war on coal' following Yahoo News report.


Official: Williams hanged himself with belt

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 11:25 AM PDT

Robin Williams 1951 - 2014The famed actor hanged himself at his Calif. home in an apparent suicide: police.


WHO approves new Ebola drugs as death toll tops 1,000

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 02:48 PM PDT

A man, wearing a protective mask, poses in front of an isolation center for people suffering from the Ebola virus, on August 12, 2014 at the airport in Abidjan, Ivory CoastThe World Health Organization authorised Tuesday the use of experimental drugs to fight Ebola as the death toll topped 1,000 and a Spanish priest became the first European to succumb to the latest outbreak. The declaration by the UN's health agency came after a US company that makes an experimental serum called ZMapp said it had sent all its available supplies to hard-hit west Africa. "In the special circumstances of this Ebola outbreak it is ethical to offer unregistered interventions as potential treatments or prevention," WHO assistant director general Marie-Paule Kieny told reporters in Geneva, following a meeting of medical experts on the issue. UN chief Ban Ki-moon announced plans to step up the global response to the outbreak, while urging governments to "avoid panic and fear" over an easily-preventable disease.


3 bodies spotted on Mt. Rainier where climbers went missing

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 11:23 AM PDT

In this undated photo provided by Alpine Ascents International, climbing guide Matthew Hegeman is shown. Hegeman was the lead guide and one of six climbers who likely plummeted to their deaths high on snow-capped Mount Rainier in Washington state. (AP Photo/Courtesy Alpine Ascents International)OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — What appear to be three bodies have been spotted on Mount Rainier in an area where six climbers went missing earlier this summer, National Park officials said Tuesday.


Yellen resolved to avoid raising rates too soon, fearing downturn

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 12:17 PM PDT

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet YellenBy Howard Schneider and Jonathan Spicer WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Approaching a historic turn in U.S. monetary policy, Janet Yellen has staked her tenure as chair of the Federal Reserve on a simple principle: she'd rather fight inflation than another economic downturn. Interviews with current and former Fed officials indicate that Yellen and core decision-makers at the U.S. central bank are determined not to raise interest rates too early and risk hurting the fragile U.S. economy. It's a commitment that will be vigorously tested in coming months as pressure builds inside the Fed, among Republicans on Capitol Hill, and perhaps even in financial markets, for the Fed to acknowledge a strengthening U.S. economy with its first interest-rate increase in more than eight years. After taking over from Ben Bernanke in February, she has developed a distinct style: off-the-cuff and personable in public appearances, unusually direct in calling attention to the plight of the unemployed, meticulous in her preparation for Fed meetings and highly attuned to the opinions of her colleagues, the Fed sources say.


Clippers sale to ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer finalized

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Steve Ballmer is officially the new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers.


Iraqi helicopter on aid mission crashes

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 09:33 AM PDT

An Afghan soldier walks next to a refurbished Mi-17 helicopter at the military airport in KabulPilot killed as too many tried to board Mi-17 providing aid to those stranded on mountain.


Missouri police cite threats, won't name cop who shot teen

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 02:54 PM PDT

Phaedra Parks, left, comforts Desuirea Harris, the grandmother of Michael Brown, during a news conference Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Jennings, Mo. Michael Brown, 18, was shot and killed in a confrontation with police in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo, on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014.(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)The police chief in a St. Louis suburb where a police officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager said he's holding off on publicly identifying the officer because of death threats.


Colorado 'lab rat' campaign warns kids about pot use

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 09:31 AM PDT

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper lays out his plans for the next state legislative session at a news conference in his office at the Capitol in DenverColorado Gov. John Hickenlooper's $2 million public service campaign to warn those under 21 about the unknown risks associated with marijuana use launched on Monday in Denver, with city workers installing human-size rat cages at bus stops.


Son's Facebook video leads to mother's arrest

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 06:42 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 11, 2014 photo, a man walks past a Facebook sign in an office on the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook's recent effort to force people to adopt its standalone mobile messaging app has privacy-concerned users up in arms. In truth, Facebook Messenger isn't any more invasive than Facebook's main app _or other similar applications. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)WINSTON-SALEM N.C. (Reuters) - A North Carolina woman is accused of helping record her teenage son set himself on fire after he doused his body with fingernail polish as part of a social media stunt, police said. Janie Lachelle Talley, 41, watched as her 16-year-old son attempted to complete a "fire challenge" video for Facebook on July 29, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said on Monday. The video showed others put out the fire. The "fire challenge" has been spreading on social media with people pouring flammable liquid on themselves, lighting it, trying to quickly extinguish the fire and then posting a video online.


Anesthesiologist says executed prisoner in Ohio suffered

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 01:24 PM PDT

Ohio execution uses new drug method, appears to go wrongCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A condemned Ohio inmate put to death during a prolonged execution experienced pain and suffering before he lost consciousness, an anesthesiologist working for the family of the inmate determined in a report released Tuesday.


California man pleads not guilty to 2013 wildfire

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 04:53 PM PDT

In thisMonday, Sept. 2, 2013 file photo provided by the U.S. Forest Service, firefighters stand watch near a controlled burn as they fight the Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park, Calif. The Northern California man charged with starting the largest wildfire in recorded history to sweep through the Sierra Nevada mountains has turned himself in to authorities. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Sacramento said Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014, that Keith Matthew Emerald surrendered to U.S Marshals Service in Fresno. The 32-year-old is scheduled to appear in the afternoon in federal court for arraignment on a four-count indictment. (AP Photo/U.S. Forest Service, Mike McMillan)FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California man accused of starting one of the state's largest wildfires when he lost control of his campfire last year can leave jail while the criminal case plays out in court, a federal judge said Tuesday.


Real 'Patch Adams' pays tribute to Robin Williams

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 04:51 PM PDT

A wreath is seen at actor/comedian Robin Williams' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, August 12, 2014, in Hollywood, CaliforniaThe doctor and clown whose life story formed the basis of the movie "Patch Adams" paid tribute Tuesday to its star Robin Williams after he was found dead of an apparent suicide. "The terrible news of the passing of Robin Williams reached me here in the Peruvian Amazon late last night with tremendous sadness," Hunter Doherty Adams, the founder of the Gesundheit Institute, wrote on Facebook.


Celebrity artists may be more prone to depression

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 04:49 PM PDT

US actor Robin Williams attends a photocall for "The Big White" in Rome, November 15, 2005Despite fame and fortune, celebrity artists may be more vulnerable to depression than the rest of us, brought low by the same creative qualities that gave them success in the first place, analysts say. As tributes flowed in for comedian Robin Williams on Tuesday after his apparent suicide, there were many questions about the state of mind of the Oscar-winner once called the funniest man alive. "Artists are often people who are more sensitive, who feel emotions more strongly," said Michel Reynaud, of the Paul Brousse Hospital's psychiatry department in Paris. "This can yield great writers, poets and musicians, but also anxiety, depression, anguish and mood disorders," he told AFP.


Group has betting pool on Sturgis rally deaths

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 04:48 PM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 1, 2014 file photo shows the streets of Sturgis, S.D., lined with motorcycles days before the official kickoff of the 74th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. Members of a Black Hills family and their friends say they mean no harm with a betting pool they run on how many bikers will die during the annual rally. This year, 12 people put in $5 each, with the winner pocketing $60. The state Highway Patrol said four fatalities were recorded at this year's rally, which ended last weekend, down from six last year. (AP Photo/Toby Brusseau, File)RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Members of a Black Hills family and their friends acknowledge that a betting pool they run on how many bikers will die during the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota is a bit macabre, but they say they mean no harm.


Mixed martial arts fighter accused of attacking ex

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 04:45 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows Johathan Koppenhaver who appeared in UFC's Ultimate Fighter TV show in 2007. Las Vegas police say the former UFC fighter is the primary suspect in a domestic dispute that resulted in serious injuries. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)LAS VEGAS (AP) — A judge has issued an arrest warrant for a mixed martial arts fighter and porn actor accused of assaulting his ex-girlfriend after showing up in the middle of the night at her Las Vegas home.


UN: OK to use untested Ebola drugs in outbreak

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 04:43 PM PDT

MADRID (AP) — The World Health Organization declared it's ethical to use untested drugs and vaccines in the ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa, although the tiny supply of one experimental treatment has been depleted and it could be many months until more is available.

Fear of losing helps drive Federer's title pursuit

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 04:43 PM PDT

Roger Federer of Switzerland talks to the media at the Western & Southern Open at the Lender Family Tennis Center on August 12, 2014 in Cincinnati, OhioRoger Federer is set to battle the fear factor as last weekend's Toronto finalist prepares to make his start at the ATP Tour's Cincinnati Masters tournament. "The fear is always there from the first rounds regardless of how you approach a tournament," said Federer, the winner of 17 grand slam titles and 79 trophies overall from 120 finals. Five Cincinnati titles counts for little, with Federer admitting he was not pleased with his level at the weekend when he lost in the Toronto final to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.


Police won't release name of officer who shot teen

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 04:43 PM PDT

Civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton, center, stands with the parents of Michael Brown, Lesley McSpadden, right, and Michael Brown Sr., left, during a news conference outside the Old Courthouse Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014, in St. Louis. Brown Jr., 18, who was unarmed, was shot to death Saturday by a Ferguson police officer while walking with a friend down the center of the street. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The Rev. Al Sharpton pressed police Tuesday to release the name of the officer who fatally shot an unarmed teenager in suburban St. Louis, and he pleaded for calm after two nights of violent protests over the young man's death.


Amid drought, California Democrats seek Republican votes on water plan

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 04:41 PM PDT

A buoy meant for boaters rests on the dry bed of Lake Mendocino, a key Mendocino County reservoir, in UkiahBy Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) - California Democrats scrambled on Tuesday to win Republican support for a plan to improve water supplies that has been mired in regional and party politics for a year, even as the state suffers from a three-year drought that shows no sign of ending. A day after voting for a two-day extension to put a proposal on November's ballot to pay for reservoirs and other projects by selling bonds, Democratic lawmakers enlisted the support and negotiating clout of Democratic Governor Jerry Brown, a fiscal moderate who said previous plans were too expensive. "We're very close," said Brown after meeting with Republican leaders who want more reservoirs and Democratic holdouts who say damming rivers and flooding canyons to build them is damaging to the environment. "There's been a lot of compromise." California is in the throes of a devastating drought that is expected to cost its economy $2.2 billion in lost crops, jobs and other damage.


US urges speedy formation of new Iraq government

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 04:40 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, second from right, along with U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, right, addresses the start of the Australia-US Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) talks at Admiralty House in Sydney, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. Kerry and Hagel are meeting with their Australian counterparts at the annual AUSMIN, which will focus on regional security and enhanced military co-operation. (AP Photo/Dan Himbrechts, Pool)SYDNEY (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged Iraq's new leaders on Tuesday to work quickly to form an inclusive government and said the U.S. is prepared to offer significant additional aid in the fight against Islamic State militants.


U.S. can keep court orders, phone companies secret in NSA spy case

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 04:39 PM PDT

Former monitoring base of the NSA, which belongs to the German Federal Intelligence Agency (BND), is seen in Bad AiblingThe 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.


US sends 130 more military advisors to Iraq: Hagel

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 04:35 PM PDT

Iraqi Christians, who fled violence in the town of Qaraqosh, rest in the garden of Ainkawa's Saint Joseph church on August 12, 2014 on the outskirts of Arbil, the capital of the country's autonomous Kurdish regionThe United States has sent 130 more military advisors to northern Iraq to assess the scope of the humanitarian crisis there, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Tuesday. "I recommended to the president and the president has authorized me to go ahead and send about 130 new assessment team members up to northern Iraq in the Arbil area to take a closer look and give more in-depth assessment of where we can continue to help," said Hagel. Hagel added: "I would also say that this follows the criteria that President Obama has made very clearly that this is not any extension of any role other for the United States than to find ways to assist and help advise the Iraqi security forces. "As the president has made very clear, we're not going back to Iraq in any of the same combat mission dimensions that we once were in."


Clippers sale to Steve Ballmer goes through

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 04:32 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2014, photo, then-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, left, shakes hands with former NBA players Bill Russell, right, and "Downtown" Freddie Brown as Omar Lee looks on during an NCAA college basketball game between Washington and Oregon State in Seattle. Ballmer is officially the new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. The team says the sale closed Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014, after a California court confirmed the authority of Shelly Sterling, on behalf of the Sterling Family Trust, to sell the franchise. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Steve Ballmer officially became the new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers on Tuesday.


Airport tests new way to avoid deadly bird strikes

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 04:30 PM PDT

In this Thursday, July 17, 2014 photo, an airplane takes off from Dayton International Airport, passing over one of the airport's prairies in Vandalia, Ohio. In an effort to keep birds away from aircraft, the airport is experimenting by planting the tall prairie grass. Heavy birds like geese, which cause the most damage to planes, are believed to avoid long grasses because they fear predators might be hiding within. (AP Photo/Skip Peterson)NEW YORK (AP) — When birds and planes collide, the results can be deadly. That's why airports around the world work hard to keep birds away, even resorting to shooting or poisoning large flocks.


Delco firefighter charged with arson after 3 fires

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 04:29 PM PDT

Delco firefighter charged with arson after 3 firesA volunteer firefighter from Glenolden, Delaware County is accused of setting fire to homes he was supposed to help save.


Haiti recaptures kidnapper who escaped prison

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 04:26 PM PDT

Pedestrians walk past a watch tower of the main prison in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, Monday, August 11, 2014. An attack on the prison on the outskirts of the capital to free the son of a prominent businessman being held on kidnapping charges resulted in the escape of 329, officials said Monday. Police were searching throughout the country for the escaped prisoners and have also asked for help from Interpol as well as authorities in the neighboring Dominican Republic and nearby Jamaica because some of the men may have fled abroad, National Police Chief Godson Orleus said in a news conference in Port-au-Prince. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Police recaptured an alleged kidnapper who escaped custody during a mass breakout that authorities believe was staged for him at a prison outside the Haitian capital, officials said Tuesday.


Beef Products Inc reopens plant as 'pink slime' lawsuit proceeds

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 04:26 PM PDT

The Beef Products Inc (BPI) facility is pictured in South Sioux City, NebraskaBy P.J. Huffstutter CHICAGO (Reuters) - Beef Products Inc will reopen a Kansas processing plant on Monday to boost production of "lean finely textured beef," which critics call "pink slime," as wholesale beef prices soar with a shrinking U.S. cattle herd.The reopening of the Garden City, Kansas, plant comes more than two years after it was shuttered following a national media controversy about the BPI product. The plant will collect raw chunks of meat and fat beef trimmings from a neighboring Tyson Foods slaughterhouse, package them into large bins, and then ship the refrigerated containers to BPI's processing facility in Dakota City, Nebraska, BPI said on Tuesday.


Tsonga, Venus Williams lose in Cincinnati

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 04:23 PM PDT

Jo-Wilfred Tsonga, from France, serves to Mikhail Youzhny, from Russia, during a first round match at the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014, in Mason, Ohio. (AP Photo/David Kohl)MASON, Ohio (AP) — Jo-Wilfried Tsonga followed his week of big upsets with an early exit Tuesday, losing his opening match at the Western & Southern Open.


Iron Maiden singer raises voice for dwindling British pubs

Posted: 12 Aug 2014 04:23 PM PDT

Visitors order their drink at a bar during the opening day of the Great British Beer Festival, organised by the Campaign for Real Ale, in London on August 12, 2014Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson called for a fightback to save the traditional British pub as the Great British Beer Festival got under way on Tuesday. The frontman for the British heavy metal pioneers blasted the rise of soulless, US-style bars pumping out "really awful music" -- and blamed it on their giant chain owners seeing pubs as "cash cows" rather than community hubs. The Great British Beer Festival transforms London's Olympia exhibition hall into the biggest pub in the world, serving an expected 55,000-plus punters over five days until Saturday. The event is staged by CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, which says pubs are closing at a worsening rate -- currently 31 a week -- and being turned into supermarkets and estate agencies.


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