| Sisi leads Egypt vote, but turnout raises questions Posted: 28 May 2014 03:31 PM PDT  Ex-army chief sought strong mandate after ousting first freely elected president last year.
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| Top scientists: E-cigarettes 'part of the solution' to end smoking Posted: 28 May 2014 04:08 PM PDT  By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - A group of 53 leading scientists has warned the World Health Organisation not to classify e-cigarettes as tobacco products, arguing that doing so would jeopardize a major opportunity to slash disease and deaths caused by smoking. In an open letter to WHO Director General Margaret Chan, the scientists from Europe, North America, Asia and Australia argued that low-risk products like e-cigarettes were "part of the solution" in the fight against smoking, not part of the problem. The urge to control and suppress them as tobacco products should be resisted," the experts wrote. Leaked documents from a meeting last November suggest the WHO views e-cigarettes as a "threat" and wants them classified the same way as regular tobacco products under the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).
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| Activists hail arrest of 73-year-old in Reno 'stand your ground' case Posted: 28 May 2014 02:36 PM PDT  RENO, Nev. (AP) — A 73-year-old man has been charged with murder in a recent shooting that killed a man and wounded a woman who had done meth and entered his vacant duplex without permission in suburban Reno.
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| Sounds like a deal: Apple confirms $3 billion Beats purchase Posted: |
| Study links watching pornography to brain changes Posted: 28 May 2014 01:24 PM PDT  The study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, can't say watching porn caused the decrease in brain matter and activity, however. It's not clear, for example, whether watching porn leads to brain changes or whether people born with certain brain types watch more porn, said Simone Kühn, the study's lead author from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, in an email. But, she noted, the results provide the first evidence for a link between pornography consumption and reductions in brain size and brain activity in response to sexual stimuli.
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| Witnesses say at least 30 killed at Central African Republic church Posted: 28 May 2014 02:14 PM PDT  BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Muslim rebels stormed a Catholic church compound in the capital of Central African Republic on Wednesday, killing as many as 30 people in a hail of gunfire and grenades, witnesses said.
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| Report confirms VA wait list allegations Posted: 28 May 2014 11:30 AM PDT  Internal review has "substantiated serious conditions" in Phoenix, averaging 115-day waits.
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| Remembering Maya Angelou: Quotes that inspired Posted: 28 May 2014 07:56 AM PDT |
| Prosecutor: Ex-NFL star Hernandez killed pair over spilled drink Posted: 28 May 2014 12:08 PM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez gunned down two men he did not know in their car because one of them bumped into him while dancing at a Boston nightclub, spilling his drink, prosecutors said in court Wednesday.
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| Gitmo detainee seeks Senate interrogation report Posted: 28 May 2014 03:16 PM PDT  Lawyers want details on treatment of USS Cole bombing suspect while in secret CIA prisons.
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| Obama fights foreign policy critics, pledges aid to Syria groups Posted: 28 May 2014 03:58 PM PDT  The president insisted U.S. reliance on diplomacy over military intervention was working to resolve crises like Ukraine and Iran.
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| Female soldiers join Somalia's army ranks Posted: 28 May 2014 09:40 AM PDT  With an AK47 automatic rifle slung over her shoulder, Naeemo Abdi frisks people coming into a Mogadishu police station.
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| UC Santa Barbara students return to class after shooting rampage Posted: 28 May 2014 01:09 PM PDT  Students are heading back to classes at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the aftermath of a violent rampage that left six students and their assailant dead in the neighboring community of Isla Vista.
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| Storm chaser struck by lightning, survives Posted: 28 May 2014 08:05 AM PDT  When a man stops to shoot video after S.D.'s storm, he gets more than he bargained for.
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| Poet, author Maya Angelou dies at 86 Posted: 28 May 2014 12:59 PM PDT  Maya Angelou, a modern Renaissance woman who survived the harshest of childhoods to become a force on stage, screen, the printed page and the inaugural dais, has died.
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| Letters and laughs at the National Spelling Bee Posted: 28 May 2014 09:19 AM PDT  Words such as "protege" and "gesundheit" and jokes about the George Foreman grill and the game Minesweeper were among the early highlights as the onstage preliminary rounds began Wednesday morning at the 87th Scripps National Spelling Bee.
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| Fla. court throws out ex-FBI agent's murder conviction Posted: 28 May 2014 03:39 PM PDT  A Florida appeals court has overturned the murder conviction for a former FBI agent linked to mobster Whitey Bulger.
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| Obama: U.S. must lead globally but show restraint Posted: 28 May 2014 08:24 AM PDT  In a broad defense of his foreign policy, Pres. Barack Obama declared Wednesday that the U.S. remains the world's most indispensable nation, even after a "long season of war," but argued for restraint before embarking on more military adventures.
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| Italy flies 31 adopted Congolese children to waiting parents Posted: 28 May 2014 07:17 AM PDT  Thirty-one children who had been blocked for months from leaving Congo with their adoptive parents arrived in Rome aboard an Italian government plane for a joyful, long delayed reunion with their new families.
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| Venus, Serena Williams ousted at French Open Posted: 28 May 2014 08:02 AM PDT  Serena's loss marks her earliest exit at a major tourney since Roland Garros 2012.
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| Watch live: Obama outlines plan to recast postwar foreign policy Posted: 28 May 2014 05:07 AM PDT  The president details his approach during a commencement address at West Point.
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| Kerry to Snowden: 'Man up' and come home Posted: 28 May 2014 02:34 PM PDT  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday called National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden a fugitive and challenged him to "man up and come back to the United States."
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| Chechnya denies sending troops to Ukraine Posted: 28 May 2014 09:05 AM PDT  Along with Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has denied sending any troops to help pro-Russia insurgents.
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| OPCW-United Nations fact-finding mission was ambushed Posted: 28 May 2014 04:52 AM PDT  Members of an international fact-finding mission into alleged chlorine attacks in Syria were ambushed and briefly held by gunmen in rebel-held territory, the global chemical weapons watchdog said Wednesday.
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| Fire in S. Korea hospice for elderly kills 21 Posted: 27 May 2014 04:08 PM PDT  A fire tore through a hospice for the elderly early Wednesday, killing 21 people.
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| Snowden says he was 'trained as a spy' Posted: 27 May 2014 07:03 PM PDT  US fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden "trained as a spy" and worked "undercover overseas" for intelligence agencies, he told NBC News in aired excerpts from an interview. In his first interview in US media, Snowden hit back at claims that he was merely a low-level contractor, saying he worked "at all levels from -- from the bottom on the ground, all the way to the top." Snowden, who has been charged in the United States with espionage, was granted asylum by Russia in August 2013 after shaking the American intelligence establishment to its core with a series of leaks on mass surveillance in the United States and around the world. He said he had worked covertly as "a technical expert" for the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, as well as as a trainer for the Defense Intelligence Agency.
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| 91-year-old Rep. Hall ousted in Texas GOP primary Posted: 27 May 2014 08:53 PM PDT  ROCKWALL, Texas (AP) — Congressman Ralph Hall, at 91 the oldest-ever member of the U.S. House, was ousted Tuesday in the Texas Republican runoff by a candidate barely half his age.
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| Santa Barbara attacks prompt action from lawmakers Posted: 27 May 2014 04:43 PM PDT  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers on Tuesday proposed expanded restraining orders and new law enforcement procedures to deter the type of violent rampages that left six young people dead over the weekend near the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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| 30 percent of world is now fat, no country immune Posted: 28 May 2014 04:27 PM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Almost a third of the world is now fat, and no country has been able to curb obesity rates in the last three decades, according to a new global analysis.
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| Obama seeks ground between intervention, isolation Posted: 28 May 2014 01:53 PM PDT  WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Seeking to redefine America's foreign policy for a post-war era, President Barack Obama on Wednesday declared that the United States remains the only nation with the capacity to lead on the world stage but argued it would be a mistake to channel that power into unrestrained military adventures.
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| Maya Angelou, celebrated poet and author, dies Posted: 28 May 2014 03:47 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Maya Angelou's story awed millions. A childhood victim of rape, she broke through silence and shame to tell her tale in one of the most widely read memoirs of the 20th century. A black woman born into poverty and segregation, she recited the most popular presidential inaugural poem in history. |
| Google to build prototype of truly driverless car Posted: 28 May 2014 04:54 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Google plans to build and launch onto city streets a small fleet of subcompact cars that could operate without a person at the wheel.
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| Prosecutor: Hernandez killed 2 over spilled drink Posted: 28 May 2014 04:45 PM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — A spilled drink in a Boston nightclub led former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez to kill two people in a drive-by shooting two years ago, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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| IG: Phoenix VA hospital missed care for 1,700 vets Posted: 28 May 2014 04:07 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — About 1,700 veterans in need of care were "at risk of being lost or forgotten" after being kept off the official waiting list at the troubled Phoenix veterans hospital, the Veterans Affairs watchdog said Wednesday in a scathing report that increases pressure on Secretary Eric Shinseki to resign.
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| Ukraine sees Russia as source of insurgent threat Posted: 28 May 2014 01:26 PM PDT  DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — As separatists conceded that militants from Russia's province of Chechnya had joined the rebellion, a Ukrainian government official cautioned Wednesday that its borders had become a "front line" in the crisis.
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| Egypt: El-Sissi way ahead in presidential poll Posted: 28 May 2014 04:23 PM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's former military chief appeared well on his way to a landslide victory over his sole opponent, according to partial election results announced late Wednesday, after voting was extended for a third day in an attempt to prevent an embarrassment over low turnout.
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| AP Source: Shelly Sterling reviewing Clippers bids Posted: 28 May 2014 04:54 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shelly Sterling was reviewing bids from five groups interested in buying the Los Angeles Clippers, a person with knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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| Apple hopes to lift street cred with $3B Beats buy Posted: 28 May 2014 03:19 PM PDT  CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple is striking a new chord with a $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics, a headphone and music streaming specialist that also brings the swagger of rapper Dr. Dre and recording impresario Jimmy Iovine.
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| Thai military rulers appoint anti-Thaksin advisers Posted: 28 May 2014 06:01 AM PDT  By Pracha Hariraksapitak BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's junta has appointed two retired generals with palace connections as advisers, putting powerful establishment figures hostile towards former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra firmly in the ascendant in the country's long-running power struggle. Hoping to show things are getting back to normal, the military also relaxed a night-time curfew brought in after it seized power in a May 22 coup, and is expected to speed up efforts to get the economy moving again after months of debilitating political protests. Data on Wednesday showed trade shrank in April and factory output fell for a 13th straight month, underscoring the damage political unrest has caused and the tough job the military government faces reviving an economy on the brink of recession. The Information Technology Ministry said it had blocked Facebook at the request of the military to stem protests.
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