| FedEx charged with assisting illegal pharmacies Posted: 17 Jul 2014 04:37 PM PDT  Authorities: FedEx delivered painkillers, other dangerous drugs to customers without prescriptions.
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| Israeli ground offensive under way in Gaza Posted: 17 Jul 2014 05:03 PM PDT  Thousands of soldiers have invaded Gaza as Israel resumes attacks against Hamas.
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| Buk missile suspected in Malaysia plane disaster Posted: 17 Jul 2014 01:48 PM PDT  The Malaysia Airlines jet was flying far above the range of conventional portable anti-aircraft launchers when it was destroyed Thursday — but it was well within the altitude range of the powerful Buk missile-launcher.
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| Bank robbers intended to take hostages, prosecutor says Posted: 17 Jul 2014 04:32 PM PDT  Prosecutors say the three men who robbed a California bank and took three hostages before engaging in a gun battle with police intended to take hostages.
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| Obama discusses MH17 tragedy with Putin Posted: 17 Jul 2014 12:18 PM PDT  Obama has promised Ukraine "any assistance" the U.S. can offer in the disaster's wake.
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| One in three Iowa Republicans dislikes Chris Christie: poll Posted: 17 Jul 2014 12:27 PM PDT  Possible presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie face challenges in Iowa, a new NBC News/Marist poll finds.
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| Israel sending ground troops to Gaza Posted: 17 Jul 2014 01:23 PM PDT  Israeli forces have launched a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, the military said.
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| Judge overturns gay marriage ban in Florida Keys Posted: 17 Jul 2014 11:52 AM PDT  MIAMI (AP) — A judge in the Florida Keys overturned the state's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage on Thursday after a legal challenge by gay couples said it effectively made them second-class citizens.
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| Malaysian jet reported shot down Posted: 17 Jul 2014 03:15 PM PDT Ukrainian official: More than 300 people, including 23 Americans, were killed in crash. |
| Elaine Stritch, Broadway icon and TV star, dies at 89 Posted: 17 Jul 2014 11:17 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Elaine Stritch, the brash theater performer whose gravelly, gin-laced voice and impeccable comic timing made her a theatrical icon, has died, according to Brigade Marketing. She was 89.
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| Yahoo News Malaysia: Live blog on airliner down Posted:  Yahoo News Malaysia: Live blog on airliner down
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| Russia slams sanctions 'blackmail' Posted: 17 Jul 2014 07:45 AM PDT  The US and EU bolstered sanctions against Russia over its alleged support of separatists in Ukraine, drawing an angry rebuke on Thursday from Moscow which said the measures amounted to "blackmail". President Barack Obama in sanctions imposed Wednesday took his first direct swipes at the Russian economy's finance, military and energy sectors, further escalating the worst standoff between the Kremlin and the West since the Cold War. Washington had warned last week that Moscow had to demonstrate a clean break from separatists or face the tougher sanctions. The Russian foreign ministry reacted to sanctions in a furious statement: "We do not intend to tolerate blackmail and reserve the right to take retaliatory measures" against the US.
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| Violent bank robbery in Calif. leaves hostage, 2 suspects dead Posted: 17 Jul 2014 01:40 AM PDT  STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — Robbers fleeing a California bank took three women hostage and threw two of them from their getaway vehicle, as they fired repeatedly at police during a high-speed chase. Police shot out their tires but the shooting continued, fatally wounding two suspects and the last hostage.
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| Ukraine: Jet may have been shot down Posted: 17 Jul 2014 10:15 AM PDT  The country's president and members of the government say pro-Russian separatists may be to blame.
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| Massive whale sharks relocating to Europe's cooler water Posted: 17 Jul 2014 05:20 AM PDT  The largest living fish, whale sharks, may increasingly be using volcanic islands off the western coast of Europe as a new home as sea surface temperatures rise, researchers say. The whale shark is a titan, known to reach up to 41.5 feet (12.65 meters) in length and 47,000 lbs. (21,500 kilograms) in weight, and some anecdotes suggest they can get even larger. Unlike predators such as great white sharks, whale sharks are gentle giants, using rows of their tiny teeth as a filter to strain out tiny creatures in the water for meals, just like the largest whales do. "Whale sharks are the largest living fish, yet they are also very elusive," said lead study author Pedro Afonso, a marine and fisheries ecologist at the University of the Azores.
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| 'NO ILLEAGLES HERE.' Posted: 17 Jul 2014 01:48 AM PDT  Rumors, some cruel, spread along with hostility toward migrant children from Central America.
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| Ukraine: Pro-Russia rebels downed Malaysian plane Posted: 17 Jul 2014 04:44 PM PDT  HRABOVE, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine accused pro-Russian separatists of shooting down a Malaysian jetliner with 295 people aboard Thursday, sharply escalating the crisis and threatening to draw both East and West deeper into the conflict. The rebels denied downing the aircraft.
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| Malaysia says jetliner did not make distress call Posted: 17 Jul 2014 03:37 PM PDT  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The Malaysia Airlines jetliner that went down in war-torn Ukraine did not make any distress call, Malaysia's prime minister said Friday, adding that its flight route also had been declared safe by the global civil aviation body.
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| Afghan ballot audit starts; Kabul airport attacked Posted: 17 Jul 2014 03:25 PM PDT  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's election commission began auditing ballots Thursday following a U.S.-brokered deal between the two presidential contenders while a brazen attack on the Kabul airport underscored the dangers the country still faces in its troubled democracy.
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| Microsoft CEO pivots sharply with 18,000 job cut Posted: 17 Jul 2014 02:58 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Microsoft announced the biggest layoffs in its 39-year history Thursday, outlining plans to cut 18,000 jobs in a move that marked the CEO's sharpest pivot yet away from his predecessor's drive for the company to make its own devices.
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| Some defend founder of Mexican shelter Posted: 17 Jul 2014 04:09 PM PDT  ZAMORA, Mexico (AP) — About 500 people marched through this western Mexico city Thursday in support of the embattled but highly regarded founder of a shelter raided amid allegations of sexual and physical abuse and filthy living conditions.
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| Holocaust Museum opens UN archive on WWII crimes Posted: 17 Jul 2014 02:47 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — From Adolf Hitler down to the petty bureaucrats who staffed the Nazi death camps, thousands of perpetrators of World War II war crimes were eventually written up in vast reams of investigative files — files that now, for the first time, can be viewed in their entirety by the public.
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| Discoveries convince family pregnant woman is dead Posted: 17 Jul 2014 05:02 PM PDT  MAKAWAO, Hawaii (AP) — Four days into searching for her pregnant half-sister, Phaedra Wais trudged through a rugged, wet jungle on Maui to chase a new lead in the disappearance.
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| For Malaysia Airlines, disaster strikes twice Posted: 17 Jul 2014 02:47 PM PDT  HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Two Boeing 777s. Two incredibly rare aviation disasters. And one airline.
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| In CIA museum, treasures of spycraft Posted: 17 Jul 2014 01:50 AM PDT  Yahoo News' Olivier Knox in inner sanctum, where tools of Hitler, bin Laden, special rat corpse hide.
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| Matt Bai: The Trouble With Boehner Posted: 17 Jul 2014 01:47 AM PDT  About five months ago, just after the State of the Union address, I theorized that Barack Obama and John Boehner might still have a chance to do something big together. Both men badly wanted the legislative legacy that had eluded them on issues where there was already some consensus, like debt reduction and immigration. And Boehner appeared ready to put some distance between himself and the most rigid ideologues in his caucus.
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| Elephants in zoos struggling with obesity from captivity Posted: 17 Jul 2014 05:21 AM PDT  African elephants in captivity are packing on the pounds, and experts warn that the rise in obesity is contributing to infertility, which could be detrimental to the survival of the species in zoos. To get a handle on the problem, one group of researchers in Alabama is looking for a better way to measure body fat on the already huge animals. Just like humans, elephants with excess fat are more likely to develop heart disease, arthritis and infertility, Daniella Chusyd, a graduate student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said in a statement. Previous studies have shown an alarming number of African elephants in zoos have irregular or no ovarian cycles. [Elephants Images: The Biggest Land Animal]
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| Militants killed after audacious attack on Kabul airport Posted: 16 Jul 2014 11:28 PM PDT  By Mirwais Harooni and Abdul Saboor KABUL (Reuters) - Militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked Kabul International Airport in the Afghan capital on Thursday in one of the most audacious assaults on the facility, used by both civilians and the military, in a year. The attack on the airport comes at a time of great uncertainty for Afghanistan as votes from the second round of a disputed presidential election are to be recounted. The poll is meant to mark Afghanistan's first democratic transfer of power. The attack lasted about four hours after four unidentified militants armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades opened fire on the airport from the roof of a building just to its north.
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| Israeli official says permanent Gaza ceasefire agreed Posted: 17 Jul 2014 04:20 AM PDT  There is no immediate confirmation from Hamas however.
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| Israel, Hamas begin humanitarian truce Posted: 17 Jul 2014 01:46 AM PDT  Fighting raged until just moments before the start of the five-hour cease-fire.
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| California man charged with stealing beeswax for drug habit Posted: 16 Jul 2014 04:34 PM PDT  A California man has been charged with stealing nearly 200 pounds (91 kg) of beeswax from the beekeeper who employed him and selling it to support his drug habit, in what local police say is their first arrest for pilfering the gooey substance. Karl Robert Glick, 26, a resident of Madera County in California's agricultural Central Valley, was arrested on Saturday after his employer found in Glick's car a $1,700 receipt for sale of beeswax to a Fresno company, Madera County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Erica Stuart said. Deputies also seized nearly 200 pounds (91 kg) of beeswax from Glick's home, Stuart said. Authorities believe Glick was melting the wax into sellable portions at his home, where deputies also found drug paraphernalia, she said.
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