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CDC issues emergency 'all-hands' call for Ebola response

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 03:26 PM PDT

A colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) from the Centers for Disease Control reveals some of the ultrastructural morphology displayed by an Ebola virus virion, March 24, 2014 in Atlanta, GeorgiaThe CDC has issued its highest alert over the Ebola crisis in West Africa.


81-year-old farmer rescued from Ind. grain bin

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 02:45 PM PDT

This Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014 photo provided by Cindy White shows Bill White, right, an 81-year-old farmer at his family's farm near Switz City, Ind., two days after he became buried beneath corn in a grain bin at the southwestern Indiana farm. White, who returned to work Wednesday, was rescued Monday afternoon by fast-thinking relatives and farmhands who drove plywood boards into the corn around him and then wrapped a sheet beneath his arms and chest and pulled him free. To White's right are his 46-year-old son, Steve White; 24-year-old grandson, Jordan; 19-year-old grandson Jakeb, and farmhands Dave Dinn and Levi Fletcher. (AP Photo/Cindy White)INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An 81-year-old Indiana farmer survived the crushing grip of an avalanche of corn inside a grain bin in part because he's "10 times tougher than the average guy," one of his relieved sons said Wednesday.


Obama to sign $16.3B veterans spending bill

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 04:14 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama holds a news conference at the conclusion of the the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit at the State Department in WashingtonPresident Barack Obama will travel to a military facility outside Washington on Thursday to sign a $16.3 billion plan to ease health care delays at Veterans Affairs facilities as he seeks to restore confidence in an agency tarnished by the problem. The legislation, passed just before Congress left for summer recess, is intended to clear months-long wait lists for healthcare appointments at VA hospitals and clinics. News that the agency was covering up the delays led to the ouster of VA Secretary Eric Shinseki in May. The measure contains $10 billion in new emergency spending and allows veterans to use private doctors at the department's expense if they cannot get an appointment in less than 30 days. A senior administration official said new leadership at the VA has accelerated veterans' access to care but acknowledged that more work needs to be done.


Israel, Hamas at odds over truce extension

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 02:20 PM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference at his Jerusalem offices, on August 6, 2014Israel and Hamas appeared at odds Thursday over prolonging a 72-hour Gaza ceasefire, with the Jewish state indicating it would back an unconditional extension but Hamas denying any agreement. Egyptian mediators have accelerated efforts to extend the truce after it expires at 0500 GMT on Friday, shuttling between Israeli and Palestinian delegations in Cairo. "Israel has no problem extending the ceasefire unconditionally," an Israeli official told AFP on condition of anonymity late Wednesday. There was no immediate reaction from Hamas.


Hamas leader: No deal on truce extension

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 01:38 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014 file photo, Palestinians inspect what they think was made by an Israeli drill designed to uncover tunnels used by Palestinian militants, in Rafah's district of Shawkah in the southern Gaza Strip. Hamas is entering Egyptian-brokered talks with Israel over a new border regime for blockaded Gaza having lost hundreds of fighters, two-thirds of its arsenal of rockets, and its attack tunnels. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)Leader said via Twitter "no agreement" to prolong cease-fire, contrary to earlier reports.


Checking in on the 90-year-old vet who is running across America

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 06:55 AM PDT

90-year-old runs (and hitchhikes when he's tired) across the country.

Judge considers moving evidence in N.H. kidnapping case

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 02:10 PM PDT

Nathaniel Kibby listens during a court hearing Wednesday Aug. 6, 2014, is Ossipee, N.H. Kibby is charged with kidnapping 14-year-old Abigail Hernandez as she walked home from high school. Abigail, now 15, returned home last month. (AP Photo/Conway Daily Sun, Jamie Gemmiti, Pool)A judge on Wednesday said she would rule as soon as possible on whether to move evidence including the trailer home of a man charged with kidnapping a 14-year-old girl who returned home after nine months.


Kentucky floating restaurant sinks into Ohio River

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Jeff Ruby opened his floating restaurant, The Waterfront, in Kentucky in 1996, but lately it's seen a run of misfortune.


U.S. allows use of Ebola test overseas as crisis deepens

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 04:36 PM PDT

A man and woman taking part in a Ebola prevention campaign holds a placard with an Ebola prevention information message in the city of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. The World Health Organization has begun an emergency meeting on the Ebola crisis, and said at least 932 deaths in four African countries are blamed on the virus, with many hundreds more being treated in quarantine conditions. (AP Photo/ Michael Duff)U.S. health regulators on Wednesday authorized the use of an Ebola diagnostic test developed by the Pentagon to help contain the world's worst outbreak of the deadly virus. The move was one of a number of steps taken by the U.S. government this week to address the highly contagious disease that has killed more than 930 people in Africa and sickened hundreds more, including two Americans being treated in Atlanta. The diagnostic test was authorized for use abroad on military personnel, aid workers and emergency responders in laboratories designated by the Department of Defense to respond to the Ebola outbreak, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said. The test, called DoD EZ1 Real-time RT-PCR Assay, is designed for use on individuals who have symptoms of Ebola infection, who are at risk for exposure or who may have been exposed.


Russia to ban all U.S. agricultural imports in apparent pushback

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 04:37 PM PDT

Report: Russia to block US agricultural importsCountry to also block all EU fruit, vegetable products, Russian official said.


New Nigeria Ebola cases amid fears epidemic 'out of control'

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 04:09 PM PDT

A member of Doctors Without Borders puts on protective gear at the isolation ward of the Donka Hospital in Conakry, where people infected with the Ebola virus are being treated, June 28, 2014The death toll of the Ebola epidemic neared 1,000 on Wednesday as fears rose that the disease is taking hold in Africa's most populous nation of Nigeria, after a second death among seven confirmed cases in Lagos. The spread of the disease comes as the World Health Organization (WHO) met in an emergency session in Geneva to decide whether to declare an international crisis. The latest official toll across west Africa hit 932 deaths since the start of the year, it said on Wednesday, with 1,711 confirmed cases, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The death of a nurse in Lagos, a megacity of more than 20 million, came as 45 deaths were confirmed across west Africa between Saturday and Monday, with aid agencies, including Doctors Without Borders, saying the terrifying tropical disease is out of control.


Boston bombing suspect friend pleads not guilty in gun case

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 11:45 AM PDT

MIT Police Officer Sean Collier, 26, of Somerville, Mass.A high school friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges including having owned a gun that prosecutors believe may have been used by suspects in the 2013 attack. Stephen Silva, 21, appeared in Boston federal court to enter his plea on charges that include drug violations as well as having possessed a Ruger P95 9mm pistol with its serial number filed off. Prosecutors say Silva possessed the firearm in February 2013, two months before the bombing suspects, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, used a similar weapon to kill a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police officer three days after the bombing at the Boston Marathon that killed three people and injured more than 260. Jonathan Shapiro, Silva's lawyer, outside court on Wednesday emphasized that the indictment does not draw a connection between Silva and the alleged Boston Marathon bombers.


Dutch PM halts search for MH17 victims

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 11:22 AM PDT

Australian, Malaysian and Dutch investigators examine the area of the downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, near the village of Rossipne, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. The West has accused Russia of most likely providing the insurgents with surface-to-air missiles that may have been used to shoot down the Malaysia Airlines passenger jet over rebel-held territory on July 17, killing all 298 people on board. (AP Photo)Premier says search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 victims in Ukraine too dangerous.


Court hears arguments in 6 gay marriage fights from 4 states

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 12:12 PM PDT

Gay marriage supporters cheer during a rally in downtown Cincinnati on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. On Wednesday, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments on challenges to state bans on gay marriage in Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan and Tennessee. (AP Photo/Tom Uhlman)A federal appeals court began to hear arguments Wednesday in six gay marriage fights from four states — Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee — in the biggest such session on the issue so far, and hundreds of supporters rallied near the courthouse.


Russia promises 'quite substantial' ban on U.S., EU food imports

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 03:57 PM PDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a local administration meeting as he visits Voronezh on August 5, 2014By Polina Devitt and Dmitry Zhdannikov MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will ban all imports of U.S. food products as well as fruit and vegetables from the European Union after President Vladimir Putin ordered retaliation for Western sanctions against Moscow, a state news agency reported on Wednesday. With Russia a major buyer of food from the United States and Europe, the ban marks a deep escalation of an economic tit-for-tat set off by the crisis in Ukraine, which has brought East-West relations to their lowest since the Cold War.


Israel agrees to extend Gaza cease-fire

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 11:14 AM PDT

ISRAEL AND HAMAS: CEASE-FIRE IN FULL SWINGIsrael has conditionally agreed to extend a ceasefire that ended a month of fighting in Gaza beyond a Friday deadline, an Israeli official said on Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity. The official did not say for how much longer Israel had agreed to extend the truce, only that: "Israel has expressed its readiness to extend the truce under its current terms," referring to the deal brokered by Egypt that took effect on Tuesday. Hamas had no immediate comment. (Additional reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi; Writing by Allyn Fisher-Ilan; editing by Sonya Hepinstall)


U.S. to spend up to $550M on African rapid response forces

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 03:11 PM PDT

President Obama delivers opening remarks to more than 50 fifty leaders gathered for the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Session One on 'Investing in Africa's Future,' at the U.S. State Department in WashingtonThe United States will announce on Wednesday plans to spend $110 million a year over the next three to five years to help African nations develop peacekeeping forces that can be rapidly deployed to head off militant threats and other crises, an Obama administration official told Reuters. President Barack Obama is expected to unveil the program during the third day of a summit of African heads of state in Washington, along with another U.S. plan to spend an initial $65 million to bolster security institutions in Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Tunisia, the official said. The United States would partner with Senegal, Ghana, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda to develop rapid response forces. Those forces would be ready to deploy as part of United Nations' or African Union missions, the official said.


60 suspected Islamic militants killed in Iraqi airstrike

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 08:49 AM PDT

Smoke rises during clashes between Kurdish "peshmerga" troops and militants of the Islamic State, formerly known as ISIL, on the outskirts of Sinjar, west of MosulAn Iraqi army airstrike targeting the Islamic State group that's seized wide swaths of territory across the country's north killed some 60 suspected militants Wednesday, state television reported.


Hawaii residents stock up as Julio and Iselle threaten

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 01:44 PM PDT

Shoppers prepare for a hurricane and tropical storm heading toward HawaiiHONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii residents furiously stocked up on essentials as two hurricanes churned toward the islands, prompting flash flood warnings, closing schools and disrupting travel plans across the islands.


Sense of 'normal' returns to Gaza

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 01:25 PM PDT

What Does 'Normal' Life Look Like in Gaza During the Ceasefire?Kids are playing. Stores are open. There's mourning, too.


50 killed in Iraq-Islamic State clashes

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 10:26 AM PDT

Smoke rises during clashes between Kurdish "peshmerga" troops and militants of the Islamic State, formerly known as ISIL, on the outskirts of Sinjar, west of MosulFifty people were killed in fighting between Iraqi government forces and Islamic State insurgents in the northern city of Mosul on Wednesday, hospital officials said. Witnesses said the dead had been held in a makeshift prison created by the Sunni Islamist militants that was bombed by government aircraft. Government officials were not immediately available for comment. Mosul has been under insurgent control since June, but there have been hit and run attacks by government forces and allied Kurdish peshmerga fighters.


18 suspected al-Qaida gunmen, 10 Yemeni soldiers killed in clashes

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 10:05 AM PDT

This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. Across the broad swath of territory it controls from northern Syria through northern and western Iraq, the extremist group known as the Islamic State has proven to be highly organized governors. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)Ten Yemeni soldiers and 18 suspected al-Qaida militants were killed Wednesday in confrontations in three provinces, security officials and the defense ministry said. Five soldiers were killed in an ambush in the southern province of Shabwa in the third attack of its kind this month blamed by security officials on the jihadists. "Gunmen probably belonging to Al-Qaeda opened fire on an army vehicle in Habban in Shabwa province, killing five soldiers and wounding another," a security official said. Meanwhile, two soldiers were killed and two wounded in a clash with gunmen in Sayun, in the southeastern Hadramawt province, another security official said.


D.C. voters will decide pot legalization issue on Nov. 4

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 09:39 AM PDT

Buds are removed from a container at the "Oregon's Finest" medical marijuana dispensary in PortlandBy Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An initiative to legalize marijuana possession in the District of Columbia was cleared on Wednesday for a Nov. 4 vote in the U.S. capital, an election board spokeswoman said. Dr. Malik Burnett, District policy manager for the Drug Policy Alliance, which backs the initiative, said in a statement, "It is clear from the number of signatures the campaign was able to submit that citizens want a major change in D.C.'s marijuana laws." Initiative 71 allows adults over the age of 21 to possess up to 2 ounces (56 grams) of marijuana. It allows for the cultivation of up to six marijuana plants at home. The ballot measure does not touch on the sale of marijuana.


Sources: Fears Russia will Invade Ukraine

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 09:34 AM PDT

A Ukrainian serviceman guards a checkpoint near the eastern Ukrainian town of DebaltseveUS Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and NATO pointing to increased border troop buildup.


Despite expanded search, Wash. state 6-year-old still missing

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 07:57 AM PDT

Jenise Paulette WrightBREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — Officers in Washington state worked through the night, asking residents of an east Bremerton mobile home park about a missing 6-year-old girl, but Jenise Wright remains missing.


Spain catches its navy running cocaine from Colombia

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 06:50 AM PDT

A Spanish Navy officer is carried away after he fainted during a graduation ceremony presided by Spain's King Felipe VI, for new sergeants at the NCO School of the Spanish Navy in San FernandoMADRID (AP) — Spanish police say they have seized 127 kilograms of cocaine from Spanish navy training ship, which allegedly carried the drug from Colombia and dropped off some in New York.


Change your password! Russian gang's record setting cyberhack

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Houston airport worker dies after 45-foot fall

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 08:58 AM PDT

HOUSTON (AP) — A contract worker at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston has died after falling about 45 feet from the rail system's elevated tracks.

Trainside crowd comes together, frees man's leg

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Wildfires force temporary evacuation of alien hunters' search facility

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 06:07 AM PDT

Alien Center ShutdownThe wildfire that has consumed more than 31,000 acres in northern California forced the temporary evacuation of a telescope facility used to monitor the skies for extraterrestrial life.


Target endorses gay marriage

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 08:18 AM PDT

The new Target store is seen in Guelph, OntarioRetailer joins Starbucks, Apple, Intel in taking public stand on same-sex unions.


United Boeing 777 cites fire aboard, lands in Canada

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 06:04 AM PDT

A Boeing 777-F aircraft of German Lufthansa Cargo air carrier stands on the tarmac during loading at Fraport airport in FrankfurtHALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — A spokesman for the airport in Halifax, Nova Scotia, says a United Airlines Boeing 777 airliner on its way to Brussels from the U.S. has made an emergency landing after a fire on the aircraft.


US drone said to kill 7 militants in Pakistan

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 04:05 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2011 file photo, a Predator B unmanned aircraft taxis at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas. A U.S. military drone strike in Yemen in December 2013 may have killed up to a dozen civilians on their way to a wedding and injured others, including the bride, a human rights group says. U.S. officials say only members of al-Qaida were killed, but they have refused make public the details of two U.S. investigations into the incident.(AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)ISLAMABAD (AP) — A U.S. drone fired two missiles at a sprawling compound in a northwestern tribal region of Pakistan on Wednesday, killing seven militants, two Pakistani intelligence officials said.


US general killed in Afghan attack was engineer on first war mission

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 09:23 AM PDT

Brig. Gen. Harold J. GreeneWASHINGTON (AP) — Harold J. Greene, the two-star Army general who became the highest-ranking U.S. military officer to be killed in either of America's post-9/11 wars, was an engineer who rose through the ranks as an expert in developing and fielding the Army's war materiel. He was on his first deployment to a war zone.


Pistorius murder trial nears verdict; runner due in court

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 04:47 AM PDT

South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, seen in court during his trial for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, on March 18, 2014 in PretoriaThe murder trial of fallen South African Olympian Oscar Pistorius resumes Thursday for closing arguments after months of gripping testimony that captured the world's attention. It will be a final showdown between two of the country's top legal minds: defence lawyer Barry Roux, and senior state prosecutor Gerrie Nel, nicknamed "Bulldog" because of his brutal style of questioning. The hearing is set down for two days before Judge Thokozile Masipa, who is then expected to adjourn the case for a couple of weeks before delivering her verdict. South Africa does not have trial by jury.


George Takei's Hiroshima visit: Recalls time in U.S. internment camp

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 02:27 AM PDT

George Takei speaks during an interview before a reception at U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy's official residence Thursday, June 5, 2014, in Tokyo. Takei said he needed courage and anger to come out as gay and to join the equal rights movement for sexual minorities in the U.S., and he hopes his Japanese counterparts will do the same to make their society more equal. Takei, 77, is in Japan to attend embassy-organized events marking Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month in the U.S. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, Pool)The "Star Trek" actor opens up about revisiting the site where an atomic bomb killed two of his relatives, and he recounts his time spent in a Japanese internment camp during World War II.


Rosetta probe makes space history in rendezvous with comet

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 08:22 AM PDT

This artist's impression released by the European Space Agency shows the Rosetta orbiter approaching Comet 67P/Churyumov–GerasimenkoThe space probe Rosetta made a historic rendezvous with a comet on Wednesday, climaxing a 10-year, six-billion-kilometre (3.7-billion-mile) chase through the Solar System, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. It marks the first time a spacecraft has been sent into orbit around a comet, a wanderer of the Solar System whose primeval dust and ice may hold insights into how the planets formed. Rosetta's rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was confirmed at 0929 GMT at distance of 400 million km from Earth, according to signals received at ground stations. On its Twitter page, the Rosetta mission said "Hello, comet!" in each of the languages of the agency's 20 nations.


Missouri inmate executed for killing neighbor

Posted: 05 Aug 2014 11:50 PM PDT

Carol Angelbeck and her daughter, Mindy Griffin, who was raped and strangled by Michael WorthingtonBONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri inmate was put to death Wednesday for raping and killing a college student in 1995, making him the first U.S. prisoner put to death since an Arizona lethal injection went awry last month.


Tensions grow in Ukraine over Russia troop buildup

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 04:28 PM PDT

A Pro-Russian rebel adjusts his weapon in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. Air strikes and artillery fire between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian troops in the eastern city of Donetsk have brought the violence closer than ever to the city center, as Kiev's forces move in on the rebel stronghold. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — The steadily advancing Ukrainian army is setting its sights on the largest rebel-held city in eastern Ukraine, while Western officials on Wednesday warned that a Russian military buildup on Ukraine's border could herald a major incursion to protect the separatists.


AP source: BofA nears $16-$17B settlement with US

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 04:47 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2014, file photo, a Bank of America sign is photographed in Philadelphia. A person familiar with the matter says Bank of America has agreed to pay between $16 billion and $17 billion to settle an investigation into its sale of mortgage-backed securities before the financial crisis. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Bank of America is nearing a $16 billion to $17 billion settlement to resolve an investigation into its role in the sale of mortgage-backed securities before the 2008 financial crisis, a person directly familiar with the matter said Wednesday.


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