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Ebola-infected doctor heading to Nebraska

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 04:52 PM PDT

Colleagues Overwhelmed After Mass. Doctor Is Infected With EbolaThird U.S. aid worker infected with virus during current outbreak to be treated in Omaha.


Teen charged in slaying of Detroit street artist

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 03:36 PM PDT

This sketch released by the Michigan State Police shows French artist Bilal Berreni. Police in Detroit are hoping members of the urban artistic community can help solve the slaying of Berreni, a French street artist whose body was found last summer amid the ruins of the city's most notorious housing project. (AP Photo/Michigan State Police via Detroit Free Press, Sarah Krebs)A 14-year-old boy was charged Thursday with first-degree murder and armed robbery in the fatal shooting of a French street artist whose body was discovered a year ago near an abandoned Detroit public housing project.


Tape of Okla. running back punching woman shown to media

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Norman, Okla., police arranged a viewing of surveillance tape of an incident involving suspended Oklahoma RB Joe Mixon.


Joan Rivers wanted paparazzi, Meryl Streep at her ‘showbiz affair’ funeral

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Even when speaking about death, Joan Rivers was hilarious, wise, and inimitable. The celebrated comedian, who has died at age 81, had talked about aging and death repeatedly over her years in the spotlight.


Turkey arrests 19 jihadists in border province

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 01:17 PM PDT

An image made available by Jihadist media outlet Welayat Raqa on June 30, 2014, allegedly shows members of the IS (Islamic state) militant group parading in a street in the northern rebel-held Syrian city of RaqaTurkey has arrested 19 militants affiliated with the Islamic State in its southern province of Gaziantep bordering Syria, its governor said on Thursday. Gaziantep province governor Erdal Ata vehemently denied claims that the region was being used as a rear base for IS militants, saying Turkey was doing all it can to arrest or deport suspected IS members. The governor also said police had caught suspected IS-linked jihadists coming from Europe or Caucasus, carrying backpacks, at the Gaziantep airport or at the border. He however strongly denied the claims that Gaziantep province hosted a camp of IS militants after some pictures purporting to show such a facility circulated in media outlets last week.


Giant live millipedes seized at San Francisco airport

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 09:44 AM PDT

Giant millipedesCustoms agents say they have seized 20 live giant millipedes hidden inside a box marked "toy car model" that arrived at the mail facility at San Francisco International Airport.


Lava warning for residents on Hawaii's Big Island

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 04:46 PM PDT

This Aug. 12, 2014 photo released by the U.S. Geological Survey shows a fluid lava stream within the main tube of the June 27 lava flow from the Kilauea volcano Pahoa, Hawaii. The June 27 lava flow, named for the date it began erupting from a new vent, isn't an immediate threat to homes or structures downhill of the flow, but could become one in weeks or months if it continues to advance, the U.S. Geographical Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey)The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory issued a warning Thursday to a rural community in the path of a lava flow on Hawaii's Big Island, as the molten rock moved to within a mile of homes.


Cops seek charges in revolting 'Ice Bucket Challenge' prank

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 11:41 AM PDT

How Much Has The Ice Bucket Challenge Achieved?Outraged police in a northeast Ohio suburb are pledging to bring charges against those responsible for dumping a bucket allegedly containing feces and body fluids on a special needs student who was told it was part of the "Ice Bucket Challenge" fundraiser.


Hacker breached HealthCare.gov: officials

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 01:51 PM PDT

FILE - This March 1, 2014 file photo shows part of the website for HealthCare.gov, seen in Washington. President Barack Obama's health care law has become a tale of two Americas. States that fully embraced the law's coverage expansion are experiencing a significant drop in the share of their residents who remain uninsured, according to an extensive new poll released Tuesday. States whose leaders still object to A hacker broke into part of the HealthCare.gov insurance enrollment website in July and uploaded malicious software, according to federal officials.


Comedian Joan Rivers dies at 81

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Legendary entertainer Joan Rivers has died following complications from recent surgery.


BP ruled 'grossly negligent' in Gulf oil spill

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:58 PM PDT

A US Coast Guard image of fire boat response crews as they battle the blazing remnants of the BP operated offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico on April 21, 2010BP potentially faces billions of dollars in new fines after a New Orleans judge concluded it acted with "gross negligence" ahead of the massive 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Federal court judge Carl Barbier said that the April 20, 2010 Deepwater Horizon drilling rig blowout, which killed 11 and spilled millions of barrels of oil into Gulf waters, happened because BP's US subsidiaries, along with oil-services company Halliburton and rig owner Transocean, did not take adequate care in drilling a risky well. Barbier said that the British oil giant knew that the Macondo well it was drilling, called by some working on it the "well from hell", was particularly dangerous because of the high danger of a blowout. BP's decisions throughout the drilling process qualified as "gross negligence" because they were "an extreme departure from the care required under the circumstances or a failure to exercise even a slight care."


Obama names former Google, Twitter officials to White House tech jobs

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 09:49 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama talks during a press conference at the Bank of Estonia in Tallinn, EstoniaPresident Barack Obama tapped Silicon Valley for two key positions on his technology policy team on Thursday, naming Megan Smith from Google as his chief technology officer and Alexander Macgillivray, formerly of Twitter, as a deputy. Smith was vice president of the "Google X" lab that worked on projects like driverless cars and Google Glass eyewear, and led acquisitions for the company like Picasa and Google Maps.


DOJ to investigate Ferguson police, review county force

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 01:09 PM PDT

United States Attorney General Holder holds a news conference announcing updates on investigation of Brown shooting in Ferguson Missouri, in WashingtonThe Justice Department announced on Thursday it will launch a civil investigation into the police department in Ferguson, Missouri, where unarmed black teenager Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white policeman last month. The probe is the second federal investigation spurred by Brown's death at the hands of police officer Darren Wilson, which sparked days of sometimes violent protests in Ferguson. The Justice Department is simultaneously investigating possible criminal charges against the police officer who shot Brown.


Ex-Virginia Gov. McDonnell, wife guilty of public corruption

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 04:32 PM PDT

Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, left, is swarmed by the media as he leaves Federal Court for the third day of jury deliberations in his corruption trial in Richmond, Va., Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. McDonnell and his wife Maureen are charged in a 14-count indictment with doing special favors for Jonnie Williams, the CEO of dietary supplements maker Star Scientific Inc., in exchange for $165,000 in gifts and loans. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, have been convicted in a public corruption case that accused them of conspiring to use his office to promote a businessman's product in exchange for gifts.


Court strikes down gay marriage bans in Wisconsin, Indiana

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 04:14 PM PDT

File of Jon Stark and husband David Moore joining supporters of same-sex marriage rally at Utah's State Capitol building in Salt Lake CityA U.S. appeals court in Chicago ruled Thursday that gay marriage bans in Wisconsin and Indiana violate the U.S. Constitution — thereby bumping the number of states where gay marriage will be legal from 19 to 21.


Man arrested in death of missing Ariz. girl

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 04:02 PM PDT

Isabella The 8-year-old's body has been found, police confirmed.


Israel charges chief suspect in W. Bank teens' kidnap

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 10:05 AM PDT

A combination of undated family handout pictures made on June 18, 2014, shows the three Israeli teenagers kidnapped and murdered.A prime suspect in the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank has been charged with organising and financing the crime, Israeli security officials said Thursday. The deaths, which Israel immediately blamed on Hamas, triggered a series of events that led to a devastating 50-day war in Gaza that killed more than 2,100 Palestinians and 71 Israelis. Israel's internal security service Shin Bet accused Hossam Qawasmeh, who was arrested on July 11, of organising the June 12 kidnapping and spending some 220,000 shekels ($61,300, 47,200 euros) on weapons and cars used in the crime. According to the charge sheet seen by AFP, Qawasmeh was charged in a military court for "transferring enemy funds", carrying out services for an illegal organisation (Hamas) and "deliberately causing the death" of the three Israelis.


Dozens of Iraqis kidnapped by ISIL-linked militants

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:08 PM 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)Residents say militants affiliated with the extremist Islamic State group have kidnapped dozens of men from a Sunni village north of Baghdad.


FCC chief: Americans want ISP choices

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 09:40 AM PDT

Wheeler testifies before a House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on oversight of the FCC on Capitol Hill in WashingtonAlthough consumers have Internet options, there are few high-speed providers.


12 killed, 30 injured in Baghdad car bombing

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 10:11 AM PDT

An Iraqi soldier gestures as he stands guard near a destroyed armored vehicle used by Islamic State militants during an operation outside Amirli, some 105 miles (170 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq. The Islamic State group has carved out a self-styled caliphate in the large area straddling the Iraqi-Syrian border that it now controls. In early August, the United States launched air strikes on the militant group in Iraq, in an effort to help Iraqi forces fight back against the growing militant threat. (AP Photo)BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb killed 12 people and wounded 30 in Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite Muslim Kadhamiya neighbourhood on Thursday evening, police said. The explosion was the fourth attack in Shi'ite districts of the capital in two weeks. "Cars are set ablaze...this place has been targeted several times as it's very crowded," a policeman near the blast scene said. He said the bomb detonated near shops and restaurants. (Reporting by Raheem Salman; Writing by Oliver Holmes, Editing by Angus MacSwan)


SU2C's success: $261M raised, cancer research dream teams

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 07:53 AM PDT

SU2C Dream Team: Revolutionary Treatment For Prostate CancerEvery minute, cancer takes a life in the United States — that's more than 1,500 Americans every single day. In fact, cancer is the second leading cause of death in our country, and we need to fight it now before it becomes the leading cause. For me, the battle is personal. I lost my husband Jay and my sister Emily to cancer.


Problems with inmate's IV line led to botched Okla. execution

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 02:56 PM PDT

FILE - This June 29, 2011 photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Clayton Lockett. An autopsy report on Lockett's problematic execution in Oklahoma shows lethal drugs caused him to die, not a heart attack, after the state's prisons chief halted efforts to kill him. (AP Photo/Oklahoma Department of Corrections, File)OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma turned to a 15-year physician and a medical technician with 40 years' experience to put Clayton Lockett to death, yet his execution still went awry.


Tom Hanks, Sting, Lily Tomlin to get Kennedy Center honors

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 09:12 AM PDT

Actor Hanks speks at the 64th Annual ACE Eddie Awards in Beverly Hills(Reuters) - Actor Tom Hanks, British rock star Sting and comedian Lily Tomlin are to receive this year's Kennedy Center Honors, one of the top cultural prizes in the United States. "Let's Stay Together" singer Al Green and ballet dancer Patricia McBride will round out the five 2014 honorees in recognition of their lifetime contributions to U.S. "Al Green's iconic voice stirs our souls in a style that is all his own; Tom Hanks has a versatility that ranks him among the greatest actors of any generation," the Kennedy Center said in a statement.


Man charged with 4 beating deaths in small Ohio town

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 08:38 AM PDT

This photo provided by Crawford County, Ohio, sheriff's office shows Donald Hoffman. Authorities have identified Hoffman as a person of interest in the slayings of four men found dead separately in Bucyrus, Ohio, earlier this week, and he being held for a probation violation with a hearing scheduled Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Crawford County, Ohio, sheriff's office)An Ohio man has been charged with aggravated murder in the beating deaths of four men found in separate houses in a small central Ohio town this week, authorities said on Thursday. Donald Hoffman, 41, had been taken into custody on Tuesday as a person of interest in the deaths of the men in Bucyrus, Ohio, and was being held on a probation violation, the Crawford County Sheriff's Office said. They have been identified as Billy Jack Chatman, 55, Freelin Hensley, 67, Darrell Lewis, 65, and Gerald Lee Smith, 65.


Father whose son died in hot car charged with murder

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 04:17 PM PDT

Justin Ross Harris, right, the father of a toddler who died after police say he was left in a hot car for about seven hours, arrives for his bond hearing at Cobb County Magistrate Court Thursday, July 3, 2014, in Marietta, Ga. Harris is currently being held without bond on a child cruelty charge and a murder charge. (AP Photo/David Goldman)MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man who prosecutors say sat in his office exchanging nude photos with women while his son languished for hours in a hot car was charged with murder on Thursday, more than two months after the child's death.


BP seriously negligent in Gulf spill: Judge

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 02:06 PM PDT

Signage for a BP petrol station is pictured in LondonRuling of reckless conduct leaves company open to billions in penalties in worst offshore oil spill.


Dreadnoughtus--osaurus! Massive Argentine dino dwarfed T. Rex

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 07:20 AM PDT

Bones of Dreadnoughtus schrani in Lacovara's fossil lab at Drexel University in PhiladelphiaBy Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The word big does not do justice to a massive, long-necked dinosaur that shook the Earth in Argentina about 77 million years ago. Try colossal, enormous, gargantuan and stupendous - and you might come close to an accurate description of this behemoth, known to scientists as Dreadnoughtus schrani. Paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara of Drexel University in Philadelphia, who discovered the dinosaur and led the effort for its excavation and analysis, said the scientists calculated its weight on the basis of the bones in its upper arm and thigh. Dreadnoughtus weighed more than an adult sperm whale or a herd of African elephants.


Mass. kayakers go looking for seals, find great white shark instead

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 08:02 AM PDT

Great White SharkPLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — A pleasant trip by two Massachusetts kayakers to check out some cute seals turned terrifying as the pair encountered a great white shark.


Blood of Ebola survivors may be helpful to treat victims

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 07:54 AM PDT

FILE - This handout file photo taken Sept. 2, 2014, provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) shows A 39-year-old woman, the first participant enrolled in VRC 207, receiving a dose of the investigational NIAID/GSK Ebola vaccine at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md. As West Africa struggles to contain the biggest ever outbreak of Ebola, some experts say an unusual but simple treatment might help: the blood of survivors. The evidence is mixed for using infection-fighting antibodies from survivors' blood for Ebola, but without any licensed drugs or vaccines for the deadly disease, some say it's worth a shot. (AP Photo/NIAID, File)LONDON (AP) — As West Africa struggles to contain the biggest ever outbreak of Ebola, some experts say an unusual but simple treatment might help: the blood of survivors.


Obamacare could face major setback

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 11:07 AM PDT

A boy waits in line at a health insurance enrollment event in Cudahy, CaliforniaAn appeals court may limit the availability of federal health insurance subsidies for millions.


Science experiment goes awry, injures 13 at Nevada museum

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 03:57 PM PDT

Firefighters confer out side the Nevada Disvory Museum in Reno, Nev., Wednesday Sept. 3, 2014. A minor explosion during a science experiment at the museum burned several children and forced the evacuation of the museum.. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner).RENO, Nev. (AP) — A flash fire that injured 13 people, mainly children, at a Nevada science museum happened when an employee applied the chemicals in the wrong order during a tabletop demonstration about the mechanics of tornadoes, officials said Thursday.


Police cuff protesters demanding higher fast-food wages

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 02:51 PM PDT

Police handcuff protesters blocking traffic on Mack Avenue in Detroit as part of a national protest to push fast-food chains to pay their employees at least $15 an hour Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. Hundreds of workers from McDonald's, Taco Bell, Wendy's and other fast-food chains are expected to walk off their jobs Thursday, according to labor organizers of the latest national protest to push the companies to pay their employees at least $15 an hour. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)NEW YORK (AP) — Police handcuffed dozens of protesters who blocked traffic in dozens of cities across the country on Thursday in their latest attempt to escalate efforts to get McDonald's, Burger King and other fast-food companies to pay employees at least $15 an hour.


One person commits suicide every 40 seconds: WHO

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 07:48 AM PDT

South Korea has erected statues and installed monitoring devices to dissuade potential suicides at Mapo Bridge over the Han river in SeoulOne person commits suicide every 40 seconds -- more than all the yearly victims of wars and natural disaster -- with the highest toll among the elderly, the United Nations said Thursday. In its first report on suicide, the UN's World Health Organisation blamed intense media coverage when celebrities kill themselves for fuelling the problem.


Want to buy a lighthouse? Some even being given away

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 06:03 AM PDT

This undated photo released by the federal General Services Administration shows the Halfway Rock Light Station on a small island in Casco Bay off Harpswell, Maine. The administration is the nearing the end of an online auction for the 76-foot-high lighthouse, with a half dozen bidders and a high bid of more than $200,000. (AP Photo/General Services Administration, Jeremy D'Entremont)YORK, Maine (AP) — Lighthouses for sale! Actually, lots of lighthouses for free.


More trouble at Nashville detention center

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 03:00 PM PDT

Police work in front of the Woodland Hills Youth Development Center Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014, in Nashville, Tenn. Thirty-two teens escaped from a Nashville youth detention center by crawling through a weak spot in a fence late Monday, and more than half of them were still on the run Tuesday, a spokesman said. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)Disturbance involved 28 teens; 2 staff injured last night where breakout happened 2 nights ago.


Sotloff family mourns, challenges Islamic State leader to debate

Posted: 03 Sep 2014 09:22 PM PDT

Students hold candles during a vigil honoring U.S. journalist Steven Sotloff at the Reflection Pool on the campus of the University of Central Florida in OrlandoBy David Adams MIAMI (Reuters) - The family of Steven Sotloff, the second American journalist beheaded by Islamic State militants, said on Wednesday he was "a gentle soul", and challenged the group's leader to a debate on the peaceful teachings of the Muslim holy book, the Koran. President Barack Obama vowed to "degrade and destroy" the group. Barak Barfi, a friend of Sotloff who is serving as family spokesman, began a prepared statement from the family in English, remembering the slain journalist as a fan of American football who enjoyed junk food, the television series "South Park" and talking to his father about golf. The 31-year-old Sotloff was "torn between two worlds," the statement said, but "the Arab world pulled him." "He was no war junkie ... He merely wanted to give voice to those who had none," Barfi said outside the family's one-story home in a leafy Miami suburb.


Detroit CFO sees tough climb to reach revenue targets

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 04:34 PM PDT

The word "Bankruptcy" is painted on the side of a building in Detroit, MichiganBy Karen Pierog DETROIT (Reuters) - Revenue projections in Detroit's debt adjustment plan will be hard to achieve, but restructuring initiatives will bring in new money and help make Detroit's plan feasible, Detroit's chief financial officer said Thursday in the city's historic bankruptcy hearing. John Hill, who was appointed the city's CFO last November, testified that the plan would eventually gain money for Detroit as the restructuring initiatives bring about changes, including higher collections of unpaid taxes. Hill was the first witness called by the city of Detroit as it seeks a federal bankruptcy judge's endorsement of its financial restructuring plan. "Revenue targets in the plan are going to be difficult to meet," said Hill, in answer to a question from an attorney for hold-out city creditor Syncora Guarantee Inc. If revenue comes in below projections after Detroit emerges from bankruptcy, that would lead to changes in the plan, which would require the approval of an oversight commission created for the city under Michigan law, according to Hill.


Bitcoin promoter pleads guilty to unlicensed use of currency

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 03:24 PM PDT

Bitcoin promoter Shrem walks out of federal court in Lower Manhattan, New YorkBy Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man who helped to promote bitcoin wants to remain in the business despite pleading guilty Thursday to indirectly helping send more than $1 million in the digital currency to users of the illicit online marketplace Silk Road, his lawyer said. Charlie Shrem, 24, pleaded guilty at a hearing in New York federal court to one count of aiding and abetting an unlicensed money transmitting business. A co-conspirator, Robert Faiella, 54, separately pleaded guilty to operating such a business. "I knew that much of the business on Silk Road involved the buying and selling of narcotics," Shrem said in court.


Ailing Great Dane rushed to surgery for sock-ectomy

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 01:58 PM PDT

This Feb. 2014 photo provided by DoveLewis Emergency Animal Hospital, shows an X-ray of a dog that consumed a number of socks in Portland, Ore. A 3-year-old Great Dane was miserable, retching and vomiting, when his owners rushed him to DoveLewis Emergency Animal Hospital. X-rays showed a stomach full of what was described as "a large quantity of foreign material." Nearly two hours of surgery later, Dr. Ashley Magee said the dog had consumed 43 ½ socks. DoveLewis Emergency Animal Hospital spokeswoman Shawna Harch says it's perhaps the strangest case in the hospital's history. (AP Photo/DoveLewis Emergency Animal Hospital)PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The 3-year-old Great Dane was miserable and retching when its owners rushed him to a northwest Portland emergency animal hospital.


Matt Bai: The coming foreign policy election

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 01:53 AM PDT

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks at a Invest in New Jersey event as Mexico's U.S. Ambassador Wayne listens at a hotel in Mexico CityIt's past Labor Day in a midterm election year, which means we've reached the point when chaired foreign policy professors at our finest universities are urgently summoned by governors and junior senators eyeing the presidency so they can answer all kinds of questions like "What is ISIS?" and "Where is Gaza?" and "Is it true the Soviet Union no longer exists?"


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