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Doctor with Ebola in Atlanta for treatment

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 03:53 PM PDT

An ambulance departs Dobbins Air Reserve Base near Interstate 75, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014, in Marietta, Ga. Officials at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta expect an American that was infected with the Ebola virus to be transported today.(AP Photo/John Bazemore)Dr. Kent Brantly is able to walk on his own when he arrived at Emory University Hospital.


Israel, Hamas vow no let up in Gaza fighting

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 01:55 PM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a press conference at the defense ministry in the coastal city of Tel Aviv on August 2, 2014Both Israel and Hamas vowed Saturday to continue their bloody 26-day confrontation in Gaza, shunning efforts to broker an end to violence which has claimed more than 1,700 lives. With no end to the bloodshed in sight, a senior Palestinian delegation landed in Cairo for talks on an Egyptian ceasefire initiative, although Israel said it was not sending a negotiating team. Earlier, Israel had pulled back troops from two areas in Gaza in what was initially interpreted as a sign it was winding down its biggest military operation in Gaza in decades.


Doctors say NBA star faces long rehab process

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 01:33 PM PDT

Indiana Pacers' Paul George is carted off the court after breaking his right leg during the USA Basketball Showcase intrasquad game in Las Vegas on Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jason Bean)Doctors say Paul George's biggest battle is yet to come, and it may take a year or more before he returns to the Pacers lineup. One day after the two-time All-Star suffered a gruesome open tibia-fibula fracture on his right leg during a USA Basketball intrasquad scrimmage in Las Vegas, the questions began in earnest about George's recovery -- and whether he'd ever regain the form a that made him one of NBA's most complete players. The 24-year-old George and said he was resting comfortably Saturday morning following surgery. Pacers president of basketball operations Larry Bird later issued a statement saying hopes George will return to Indianapolis next week before the long rehab process begins.


Israel: Soldier thought captured is dead

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 04:12 PM PDT

A Palestinians looks for his belongings after a house was destroyed in an Israeli strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014. Israel bombarded Rafah on Saturday as troops searched for an officer they believe was captured by Hamas in an ambush that shattered a humanitarian cease-fire and set the stage for a major escalation of the 26-day-old war. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's military has declared dead a soldier who was previously believed captured by Hamas gunmen in Gaza violence that shattered a temporary ceasefire.


5 things to know about Ebola outbreak in W. Africa

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 02:38 PM PDT

A banner reading 'Ebola is real, Protect yourself and your family', warns people of the Ebola virus in Monrovia, Liberia, Saturday Aug. 2, 2014. An Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 700 people in West Africa is moving faster than efforts to control the disease, the head of the World Health Organization warned, as presidents from the affected countries met Friday in Guinea's capital. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)Three West Africa nations are struggling to control an outbreak of Ebola. The virus was first discovered nearly four decades ago in Congo in a village near the Ebola River. Since then there have been sporadic outbreaks.


Syria rebels raid Lebanese town, capture troops

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 11:24 AM PDT

Gunmen drive away with about a dozen men, two in camouflage police uniforms, in Arsal, a Sunni Muslim town near the Syrian border in eastern Lebanon, Saturday, Aug 2, 2014. Rebels fighting in Syria's civil war crossed into Lebanon and raided a border town Saturday, killing and capturing security force members in the most serious incursion into the tiny country during its neighbor's 3-year-old conflict. (AP Photo)BEIRUT (AP) — Rebels fighting in Syria's civil war crossed into Lebanon and raided a border town Saturday, killing and capturing security force members in the most serious incursion into the tiny country during its neighbor's 3-year-old conflict.


Honduran man waits for asylum after 12-year fight

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 11:30 AM PDT

In this Saturday, July 26, 2014, photo, Celvyn Mejia Romero looks out an office window before an interview at the Greater Boston Legal Services in Boston. Romero is still fighting to stay in America. His tenacious and unusually long bid for asylum offers a singular glimpse into the complex world of immigration law and rules that many legal experts say are fiendishly difficult for anyone, especially kids, to negotiate. And yet at 22, Mejia Romero, who has lived longer in the U.S. than in his native Honduras, is hoping he'll prevail. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)When he arrived at the Texas border, Celvyn Mejia Romero was a scared 10-year-old, with a machete scar and memories of a murdered uncle as reminders of why he'd embarked on a long, perilous journey from Honduras.


Slain soldier's son to get lost medal, answers

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 11:30 AM PDT

CHICAGO (AP) — A Tennessee man will receive the long-lost Purple Heart that was awarded posthumously to his father and will meet a man who was standing next to his father when he was killed during World War II.

Hate crime case resurrects racial wounds in NYC

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 02:59 PM PDT

FILE - This photo released by the New York City Police Department in this May 16, 2008 file photo shows Yitzhak Shuchat. The extradition of a white Orthodox Jewish man to New York City to face hate crime charges over a black man's attack has renewed questions about the case. Supporters of Shuchat say there's no evidence of racial hatred in the 2008 street encounter he had with Andrew Charles. (AP Photo/NYPD, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Yitzhak Shuchat, a white member of a civilian patrol group, and Andrew Charles, the black son of a police officer, came face to face in 2008 in a neighborhood with a history of racial strife — that much is certain.


Hundreds cheer, jeer Kentucky's Senate candidates

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 03:54 PM PDT

FILE - This July 30, 2014, file photo shows U.S. Senate candidate and Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes (D-KY), as she speaks to supporters in Hawesville, Ky., as a poster of her rival Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., serves as a backdrop. The annual picnic at Fancy Farm always serves up a main dish of politics along with a side of delicious barbecue. And on Aug. 2, 2014, voters will get a rare glimpse of Kentucky's U.S. Senate candidates standing side by side as they face armies of hecklers trying to spook them off their talking points. McConnell and his Democratic challenger, Grimes, will share the same stage for only the second time.(AP Photo/David Stephenson, File)FANCY FARM, Ky. (AP) — For a church picnic, the congregation at Fancy Farm is anything but reverent.


Mom thanked Jesus after chokehold homicide ruling

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 03:06 PM PDT

Gwen Carr, left, mother of Eric Garner, speaks as Rev. Al Sharpton looks on during a rally, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014, in New York. The rally was held to address the medical examiner's report that came Friday saying Garner's death was caused by a chokehold, a banned police maneuver. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)NEW YORK (AP) — After her son was placed in a police chokehold and died saying, "I can't breathe," Gwen Carr would wake up screaming, "Let him go! Give him air!" she said Saturday. When she heard his death had been ruled a homicide, she said, her first words were, "Thank you, Jesus!"


RFK Jr., actress Hines wed at Kennedy compound

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 02:42 PM PDT

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., right, is seen with relatives at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014. Kennedy is to wed actress Cheryl Hines at the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port later in the day. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — Robert Kennedy Jr. and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" actress Cheryl Hines are now husband and wife.


Experts find more MH17 remains despite shelling in east Ukraine

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 10:45 AM PDT

International experts with sniffer dogs on Saturday recovered the remains of more victims from the downed Malaysia Airlines jet in east Ukraine despite shelling limiting access to some parts of the vast crash site. Seventy Dutch and Australian police investigators spent the second day of their operation scouring more of the wreckage strewn over some 20 square kilometres (eight square miles), after only managing to screen a tiny patch previously. "Today, because they had more time, the experts were able to comb through a bigger area," Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg, head of the Dutch police mission said. "We heard at a distance of approximately two kilometres incoming artillery from where we were and that was too close to continue," said Alexander Hug, deputy chief monitor with the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mission in Ukraine.

Ebola: Liberians dying of ignorance, say aid workers

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 04:36 AM PDT

A staff member of the Christian charity Samaritan's Purse disinfects the premises outside the ELWA hospital in the Liberian capital Monrovia on July 24, 2014 as cases of Ebola mountIt is a sweltering morning in the over-stretched Ebola clinic in the Liberian capital Monrovia, and Kendell Kauffeldt scowls in frustration as a jeep pulls up with a new patient. Kauffeldt, the director in Liberia of Christian aid group Samaritan's Purse, is at the forefront of the country's battle with the worst outbreak of Ebola that the world has ever seen. Ebola is a terrifying spectre for the people of Liberia's remote forests, who have seen relatives die in agonising pain.


House OKs bill to address border crisis

Posted: 01 Aug 2014 07:34 PM PDT

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio defends the work of the GOP during a brief news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 31, 2014, as Congress prepares to leave for a five-week summer recess. The institutional split of a Republican-led House and Democratic-controlled Senate has added up to inaction, especially in a midterm election year with control of the Senate at stake. Lawmakers have struggled to compromise on a handful of bills to deal with the nation's pressing problems amid overwhelming partisanship. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)House Republicans passed legislation late Friday to address the crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border by sending migrant youths back home without hearings, winning over conservatives with a companion bill that could lead to deporting more than half a million immigrants whom the Obama administration granted temporary work permits. President Barack Obama condemned the Republican action and said he'd act unilaterally, as best he could.


Push for charges in NYC police chokehold death

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 02:15 AM PDT

FILE- In this undated family file photo provided by the National Action Network, Saturday, July 19, 2014, Eric Garner is shown. Garner's death was ruled a homicide by the New York City medical examiner after it was determined that a choke hold police used while trying to arrest him in July 2014, caused his death. (AP Photo/Family photo via National Action Network, File)NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers enraged by a man's death in police custody see a medical examiner's ruling that blames a prohibited chokehold as a clear indication the officers involved should face criminal charges.


Obama has room to maneuver on immigration changes

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 02:00 AM PDT

FILE - This June 30, 2014 file photo shows President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, pausing while making a statement about immigration reform, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. What can Obama actually do without Congress to change U.S. immigration policies? A lot, it turns out. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — What can President Barack Obama actually do without Congress to change U.S. immigration policies? A lot, it turns out.


Hamas: Missing soldier likely killed in strike

Posted: 01 Aug 2014 08:44 PM PDT

This undated photo shows Israeli Army 2nd. Lt. Hadar Goldin, 23 from Kfar Saba, central Israel. Israeli army spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said Friday, Aug. 1, 2014 that Goldin was apparently captured by Hamas militants who came through a tunnel from the Gaza Strip and another two soldiers were killed. An hour after Friday's cease-fire started, gunmen emerged from one or more Gaza tunnels and opened fire at Israeli soldiers, with at least one of the militants detonating an explosives vest, said Lerner. Goldin was apparently captured during the ensuing mayhem and taken back into Gaza through a tunnel. (AP Photo/YNet News)GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Hamas military on Saturday distanced itself from the disappearance of a soldier Israel says is suspected to have been captured by Hamas fighters in Gaza.


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