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Rand Paul on Hillary Clinton: 'We will make her answer for Benghazi'

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 09:02 AM PDT

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul speaks during the second day of the fifth annual Faith & Freedom Coalition's "Road to Majority" Policy Conference in Washington on Friday.The Kentucky senator weighed in on one of the hot-button issues for Republicans.

3 Quebec helicopter escapees captured in Montreal

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 01:08 PM PDT

These images provided by Interpol show Yves Denis, 35, left, Serge Pomerleau, 49, center and Denis Lefebvre, 53, in undated police handout photos. The three inmates, who escaped a jail near Quebec City by helicopter on June 7, were arrested Sunday June 22, 2014, at a home in Montreal, Quebec provincial police said. (AP Photo/Interpol)MONTREAL (AP) — A heavily-armed SWAT team raided an upscale Montreal condominium early Sunday to capture the three men police say made a bold escape by helicopter from a Quebec jail two weeks ago.

Iraqi militants seize 2 more border crossings

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 12:48 PM PDT

Volunteers of the newly formed "Peace Brigades" participate in a parade in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 21, 2014. The armed group was formed after radical Shiite cleric Muqtatda al-Sadr called to form brigades to protect Shiite holy shrines against possible attacks by Sunni militants. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)Iraqi military officials say Sunni militants have captured two border crossings, one with Jordan and another with Syria, as they press on with their offensive in one of Iraq's most restive regions.

AP IMPACT: VA falls short on female medical issues

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 10:55 AM PDT

In this June 18, 2014 photo, Army Sgt. LaQuisha Gallmon holds her 2-month-old Abbagayl, as her children Dallin, 8, and Angelicah, 5, sit in their home in Greenville, S.C. Gallmon said that her local VA office had authorized her to see a private physician during her pregnancy, so she went to an emergency room after experiencing complications in her sixth month of pregnancy. She said the VA has thus far refused to pay the resulting $700 bill. (AP Photo/ Richard Shiro)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Already pilloried for long wait times for medical appointments, the beleaguered Department of Veterans Affairs has fallen short of another commitment: to attend to the needs of the rising ranks of female veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, many of them of child-bearing age.

5 Things to Know about women's medical care at VA

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 09:03 AM PDT

In this June 18, 2014 photo, Army Sgt. LaQuisha Gallmon, right, reads a letter from the Veterans Affairs Depart, as she holds her 2-month-old Abbagayle in Greenville, S.C. Gallmon said that her local VA office had authorized her to see a private physician during her pregnancy, so she went to an emergency room after experiencing complications in her sixth month of pregnancy. She said the VA has thus far refused to pay the resulting $700 bill. Gallmon's boyfriend Othneil Sands works on his laptop at left. (AP Photo/ Richard Shiro)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Already pilloried for long wait times for medical appointments, the beleaguered Department of Veterans Affairs has fallen short of another commitment: to attend to the needs of the rising ranks of female veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, many of them of child-bearing age.

Militants blitz through Iraq's western desert

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 03:21 PM PDT

A fighter with the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) distributes a copy of the Quran, Islam's holy book, to a driver in central northern city of Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 22, 2014. Sunni militants on Sunday captured two border crossings, one along the frontier with Jordan and the other with Syria, security and military officials said, as they pressed on with their offensive in one of Iraq's most restive regions. (AP Photo)BAGHDAD (AP) — Sunni militants have blitzed through the vast desert of western Iraq, capturing four towns and three border crossings and deepening the predicament of the Shiite-led government in Baghdad led by Nouri al-Maliki.

Iraq's capital lives in fear, expects the worst

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 11:45 AM PDT

In this photo taken on June 17, 2014, people shop at a market in Baghdad, Iraq. While the Iraqi capital is not under any immediate threat of falling to the Sunni militants who have captured a wide swath of the country's north and west, battlefield setbacks and the conflict's growing sectarian slant is turning this city of 7 million into an anxiety-filled place waiting for disaster to happen. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)BAGHDAD (AP) — "Allah, please make our army victorious," rang out the despairing voice of a worshipper making his way through a crowd to reach the ornate enclosure of the Baghdad tomb of a revered Shiite imam. Others in the crystal and marble mosque somberly read from the Quran or tearfully recited supplications.

Russia's Putin calls for compromise in Ukraine

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 09:41 AM PDT

Russian Vladimir Putin, second right, takes part in a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside Moscow's Kremlin Wall, in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, June 22, 2014, to mark the 73rd anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly expressed support Sunday for Ukraine's declaration of a cease-fire in its battle against pro-Russian separatists and called on both sides to negotiate a compromise.

ABA: Lawyers can scour jurors' social media sites

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 11:18 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 29, 2013 file photo, Michael Steinberg, second from right, exits Manhattan federal court with his defense attorney Barry Berke in New York. Lawyers have been given the green light to scan the social media sites of jurors. The American Bar Association says it's ethical for lawyers to scour online for publicly available musings of citizens called for jury service and even jurors in deliberations. Last year, New York defense attorney Berke hired a jury consultant firm and instructed it to search social media sites of potential jurors in the insider-trading case of Steinberg. The consultant was looking for anti-Wall Street comments or any other signs of possible bias. Prospective jurors thought to be biased were removed from the pool. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, File)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Lawyers have been given the green light to scan the social media sites of jurors.

Oil drilling threatens solitude of national park

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 07:21 AM PDT

In this Wednesday, June 11, 2014 photo, oil production can be seen within the scenic views of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, located in the Badlands of North Dakota. Some visitors have reported hearing the sounds of the oil industry deep inside the park. The Little Missouri River and the park's canyons can amplify noise from miles away, making the development seem even closer. Oil development is strictly forbidden within the park itself, but park officials worry that the flares and noise from drilling just beyond the protected area sullies the natural spaces that drew Roosevelt here as a bespectacled young man in his mid-20s. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)THEODORE ROOSEVELT NATIONAL PARK, N.D. (AP) — After the last hints of sunset dip behind the hills, the North Dakota horizon comes alive with flickering orange flames of a different kind — natural gas flares.

BRAZIL BEAT: Tripping to World Cup in orange van

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 03:49 PM PDT

Laurens Kraal, left and Udo Van Heteren stand next to their Kombi van after driving from Bolivia to Brazil at the Oranjecamping site during the 2014 soccer World Cup in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, June 22, 2014. The group of seven Dutch men arrived at Sao Paulo after a 13-day journey from Bolivia in the orange hippie van that dates back to at least 45 years. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)SAO PAULO (AP) — A group of seven Dutch men have arrived in Sao Paulo after a 13-day journey from Bolivia in an orange hippie van that dates back at least 45 years.

Michelle Wie holds on to win US Women's Open

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 03:33 PM PDT

Michelle Wie reacts as she makes a birdie putt on the 17th hole en route to winning the U.S. Women's Open golf tournament in Pinehurst, N.C., Sunday, June 22, 2014. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)PINEHURST, N.C. (AP) — Michelle Wie finally delivered a performance worthy of the hype that has been heaped on her since she was a teenager.

Obama: Threat from Iraq militants could grow

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 07:45 AM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks about the situation in Iraq, Thursday, June 19, 2014, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. Obama said the US will send up to 300 military advisers to Iraq, set up joint operation centers. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — Al-Qaida-inspired militants who have violently seized territory in Iraq could grow in power and destabilize other countries in the region, President Barack Obama said.

U.S. presses Egypt to adopt more moderate policies

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 10:30 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Hassan Shoukry speak to journalists before a meeting at a hotel in Cairo, Egypt Sunday, June 22, 2014. Kerry arrived Sunday in the Egyptian capital to meet with Egyptian officials including President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in the highest-level American outreach since he took office. The United States is moving forward with attempts to thaw relations with Egypt that have cooled over concerns that the government in Cairo has conducted sham trials, imprisoned journalists and issued a violent crackdown on its political enemies. (AP Photo/Brendan Smalowski, Pool)CAIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday made the highest-level American visit to Egypt since President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi took office as Washington presses the former army chief to adopt more moderate policies.

Report: Polish minister says U.S. ties worthless

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 05:26 AM PDT

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk speaks during a press conference in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, June 19, 2014. Tusk said early elections within weeks may be necessary if an expanding political crisis sparked by eavesdropping on political leaders is not contained. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish magazine said Sunday it has obtained recordings of a conversation in which Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski says the country's strong alliance with the U.S. "isn't worth anything" and is "even harmful because it creates a false sense of security."

Military surrounds S. Korean soldier who fled post

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 12:31 AM PDT

South Korean army soldiers stand guard on the road to search for a South Korean conscript soldier who is on the run after a shooting incident at a temporary checkpoint in Goseong, South Korea, Sunday, June 22, 2014. The military searched Sunday for an armed South Korean soldier who fled after killing five of his comrades and wounding seven at an outpost near the North Korean border.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean military authorities have surrounded a soldier who fled his border outpost after killing five comrades the day before and were trying to persuade him to surrender, a defense official said Sunday.

Iraq militants take Syria border post in drive for caliphate

Posted: 21 Jun 2014 12:00 PM PDT

Volunteers of the newly formed "Peace Brigades" participate in a parade in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 21, 2014. Thousands of Shiite militiamen have paraded in Baghdad and several other cities in southern Iraq with heavy weaponry, signaling their readiness to take on Sunni militants who control a large chunk of the country's north. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)Sunni fighters smash a line drawn by colonial powers a century ago in a campaign to create an Islamic Caliphate from the Mediterranean Sea to Iran.

Mt. Rainier search for writer ends when body found

Posted: 21 Jun 2014 10:23 PM PDT

This undated image provided by Lola Kemp shows missing hiker Karen Sykes, right, with her friend Lola Kemp. Crews searched Mount Rainier National Park on Friday June 20, 2014, for Sykes, a prominent hiker and outdoors writer who was reported missing late Wednesday. She was working on a story at the time, park spokeswoman Patti Wold said. (AP Photo/Lola Kemp)MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. (AP) — The search for a prominent outdoors writer on Mount Rainier was suspended Saturday when a female's body was recovered, but the remains weren't immediately identified, officials said.

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