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Perry indicted on 2 felonies for veto threat

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:57 PM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 8, 2014, file photo shows Governor Rick Perry as he speaks at the 2014 Red State Gathering, in Fort Worth, Texas. Perry has been indicted for abuse of power after carrying out a threat to veto funding for state public corruption prosecutors. The Republican governor is accused of abusing his official powers by publicly promising to veto $7.5 million for the state public integrity unit at the Travis County District Attorney's office. He was indicted by an Austin grand jury Friday, Aug. 15. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)Jury: Gov. Rick Perry carried out threat for corruption prosecutors in major abuse of power.


Tens of thousands march into Pakistani capital

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 01:23 PM PDT

Supporters of Pakistan's cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan march towards Islamabad, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014 in Gujranwala, Pakistan. Dozens of members of Pakistan's ruling party threw stones and shoes at a truck carrying a popular opposition leader Imran Khan Friday as he was on road for the second day to travel to the capital, Islamabad, for a rally meant to pressure the country's prime minister to resign over allegations of rigging last year's parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)Anti-PM rallies follow arrival of convoys led by cricket star-turned-politician, fiery anti-Taliban cleric.


Ex-cop who burned body again gets 17 years

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 03:00 PM PDT

Edna Glover, second left, mother of Henry Glover, leaves Federal Court holding his photo, after the sentencing of two former New Orleans police oficers in his shooting death and burning of his body in New Orleans, Thursday, March 31, 2011. Former officer David Warren was sentenced to more than 25 years for shooting Glover without justification after Hurricane Katrina, and his ex-colleague Gregory McRae was given just over 17 years for burning the body. Right is Corey Glover, cousin of Henry, and background right is Patrice Glover, sister of Henry. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)NEW ORLEANS (AP) — For a second time, a former New Orleans police officer has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for burning the body of a man shot to death by another New Orleans police officer in the chaotic days following Hurricane Katrina.


None brazen enough to bid on possibly booby-trapped land

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 01:00 PM PDT

FILE - This June 18, 2007, file photo shows the home of Ed and Elaine Brown in Plainfield, N.H. The tax-evading couple are serving lengthy sentences after being convicted of amassing an arsenal of weapons and holding law enforcement at bay for nine months in 2007. Federal officials are set to auction on Friday, Aug. 15, 2014, the Brown's former fortress-like home sitting on more than 100 acres in Plainfield. Prospective bidders have not been allowed to tour the property. The U.S. Marshals Service cited the possibility of land mines and other explosives buried on the property as a complication. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)No one bid for the compound of a tax-evading couple convicted of amassing an arsenal of weapons and holding federal law enforcement officials at bay for months.


Boko Haram kidnaps 100

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 12:38 PM PDT

Nigeria Boko Haram Insurgency: Militants Kidnap 100 Boys and Men in Northeastern TownMost captives were freed by forces from Chad, officials said.


11 dead in Quetta airbase attacks

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 11:26 AM PDT

QUETTA, Aug. 15, 2014 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani security officials display ammunition that was recovered from militants following an attack on military airbases in southwest Pakistan's Quetta on Aug. 15, 2014. At least six terrorists were killed and 11 security personnel injured on Thursday night in a terrorist attack at an airbase of Pakistan Air Force near the country's southwestern provincial capital of Quetta, officials said. (Photo: Xinhua/Asad/IANS)Eleven Taliban-linked militants were killed and 13 members of the Pakistani security forces wounded in attacks on two air force bases in the west Pakistan city of Quetta on Thursday, officials said. Pakistan's military has been fighting an offensive against the Taliban insurgency in the remote, largely lawless region of North Waziristan on the Afghanistan border since June. A wing of the Pakistani Taliban said they had carried out Thursday night's raids in response to that offensive. "It is a revenge for the army's killing of innocent people in North and South Waziristan," said Ghalib Mehsud, who said he was a commander and spokesman for the Fidayeen Islam, a Taliban wing responsible for training suicide bombers.


Chief: Cop didn't know Brown was suspect

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 03:10 PM PDT

Ferguson police identify officer in fatal shooting of teenFERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Police on Friday identified the officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager and released documents alleging the young man had been suspected of stealing a $48.99 box of cigars from a convenience store in a "strong-arm" robbery shortly before he was killed.


SeaWorld to build bigger enclosures for killer whales in U.S.

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 11:18 AM PDT

An artist rendering of a proposed new Orca environment for SeaWorld theme parksTheme park operator SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. said on Friday it would nearly double the size of its San Diego killer whale tank and expand similar enclosures in Florida and Texas amid criticism over its treatment of the animals. "The new projects will build on SeaWorld's legacy of providing state-of-the-art, innovative homes for its animals," the company said in a statement. Expansions will follow for the company's tanks in Orlando and San Antonio, Texas, SeaWorld said. The group said SeaWorld should instead put the captive orcas in seaside sanctuaries with the goal of releasing them into the ocean.


ISIL may be planning attacks on U.S. soil

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 09:33 AM PDT

Exclusive: Well-armed group may have America in its cross-hairs.

Jet Airways flight plunges 5,000 ft. as pilot dozes off, co-pilot busy on iPad

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A potential incident was averted when a Jet Airways flight from Mumbai to Brussels dropped 5,000 feet in airspace while the pilot was "on rest."


Chief: Cop didn't know Brown was suspect

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 12:36 PM PDT

Ferguson cops identify officer, allege Michael Brown robbed storeFerguson Chief: Cop didn't know Michael Brown was suspect


Cops: Amish girls kidnapped by more than 1 person

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 12:58 PM PDT

MISSING AMISH GIRLS FOUND SAFEA New York sheriff says two young Amish sisters now safe at home were kidnapped from their family farm stand and police are seeking more than one person responsible.


Notre Dame players investigated for possible academic fraud

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Notre Dame administrative officials are investigating instances of potential academic fraud on campus that could include several members of the Fighting Irish football team, sources have told Yahoo Sports.


Report: CDC scientist kept quiet about flu virus blunder

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:31 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2013, file photo, a sign marks the entrance to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Officials on Friday, Aug. 15, 2014, released the results of an internal probe into a deadly strain of bird flu that was accidentally mixed with a tamer strain. Unsuspecting scientists worked with the viral mix for months before it was discovered. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)NEW YORK (AP) — A government scientist kept silent about a potentially dangerous lab blunder and revealed it only after workers in another lab noticed something fishy, according to an internal investigation.


Gore sues Al Jazeera for unpaid millions

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:50 AM PDT

Al Gore Accuses GOP of 'Political Terrorism' With Shutdown ThreatFormer VP says network still owes millions for Current TV network deal.


Israel prepares for 'next big battle'

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 09:33 AM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 1, 2014 file photo, Palestinians, with the help of a donkey cart, carry their belongings through the heavily bombed Gaza City neighborhood of Shijaiyah. With the Gaza war seeming to have calmed, Israel is now preparing for its next big battle: a diplomatic and legal challenge over Palestinian civilian deaths in its campaign against Hamas militants. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa, File)JERUSALEM (AP) — With the Gaza war seeming to have calmed, Israel is now preparing for its next big battle: a diplomatic and legal challenge over Palestinian civilian deaths in its campaign against Hamas militants.


More Cubans risking life and limb to get to US

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 09:57 AM PDT

In this Wednesday, Aug. 31, 1994 file photo, Cuban refugee Odalis Rumayor clutches her 7-month-old baby Milady Garcia after being rescued at sea by the crew of the USCG Monhegan in the Florida Straits. In the 20 years since Fidel Castro set off a high-seas humanitarian crisis by encouraging an exodus of 35,000 islanders, more than 26,000 other Cubans have risked their lives crossing the Florida Straits. Already this year, nearly 3,000 have been picked up by U.S. authorities, on a pace to double last year's total. Experts say it shows the limits of the MIAMI (AP) — One early morning this April, Dairon Morera climbed onto a raft of aluminum tanks with 22 other people, revved up a Volvo car motor and pushed off the Cuban shore, joining a never-ending stream of islanders desperate to reach the United States.


Judge slaps down McDonnell request

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 11:08 AM PDT

Former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell arrives with his legal team for his trial in RichmondBy Gary Robertson RICHMOND Va. (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday rejected defense motions that former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell and his wife be acquitted in their corruption and bribery trial. U.S. District Judge James Spencer turned down the bids after a one-hour hearing. The motions came after prosecutors wrapped up their case against McDonnell, a Republican, and his wife after almost three weeks of testimony. Defense lawyers are expected to start calling witnesses on Monday.


Ukraine says it's destroyed Russian military vehicles

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:08 PM PDT

Pro-Russian rebels hold their positions on the frontline near the village of Krasnodon, eastern Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. Russia let Ukrainian officials inspect an aid convoy while it was still on Russian soil Friday and agreed that the Red Cross can distribute the goods in Ukraine's rebel-held city of Luhansk. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY, Russia (AP) — NATO on Friday said a Russian military column ventured overnight into Ukraine, and the Ukrainian president said his forces destroyed most of it. Russia denied all of this, but the reports spooked global markets and overshadowed optimism driven by agreement over a Russian aid convoy bound for eastern Ukraine.


Dire Ebola update from WHO

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 09:27 AM PDT

Volunteers lower a corpse, which is prepared with safe burial practices, into a grave in KailahunThe death toll from the worst ever outbreak of Ebola has risen to 1,145, the World Health Organization said on Friday, as 76 new deaths were reported in the two days to August 13 in the four West African nations affected by the epidemic. The U.N. health agency said that a total of 152 confirmed, probable and suspected new cases of the deadly hemorrhagic fever were reported in the two day period in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, bringing the total for the outbreak to 2,127.


EU's crucial move to save Iraq from "true catastrophe"

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:46 AM PDT

An Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighterEU ministers agreed at an emergency meeting on Friday to back the arming of overwhelmed Iraqi Kurd fighters in the face of an onslaught by Islamic State jihadists.


Massive Revolutionary War artifact find

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 01:29 PM PDT

an archaeological field school dig at Lake George Battlefield ParkLAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (AP) — An archaeological dig at a Colonial military site in the southern Adirondacks of New York has turned up thousands of artifacts, from butchered animal bones to uniform buttons, along with a lime kiln used to make mortar for a British fort that was never completed.


Va. deputy shot daughter, crashed car, say police

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 10:17 AM PDT

generic_fp_shooting_v6WINCHESTER, Va. (AP) — A Virginia deputy sheriff shot his 16-year-old daughter after mistaking her for an intruder, then crashed his car as he rushed her to the hospital, authorities said.


USDA: Puppy imports must be healthy, 6 months old

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:54 PM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 7, 2008 file photo shows a puppy rescued from a puppy mill, north of Montreal, Canada at the SPCA in Montreal. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved a regulation that will require all puppies imported to the United States to be at least 6 months old, healthy and up to date on vaccinations. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Foreign dog breeders have gone unregulated for years, shipping puppies so young and so sick that one in four died before reaching a U.S. airport, animal welfare workers say.


California pastor cleared in Las Vegas man's death

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:52 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 2, 2014 file photo, Robert Cox speaks with the media after a court appearance in Las Vegas. The California pastor won't face charges in a Las Vegas parking lot altercation that left a man dead. Prosecutors announced Friday, Aug. 15, 2014 they won't pursue charges against Cox in the death of 55-year-old Link Ellingson.The Clark County district attorney's office concluded it could not rule out that Cox had acted in self-defense when the two fought. Ellingson hit his head and died six months later. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)LAS VEGAS (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped their case against a California pastor who was suspected of punching a man in a Las Vegas parking lot tussle, leading to the man's death six months later.


Slain US teen was robbery suspect

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:49 PM PDT

Police stand watch as demonstrators protest the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown on August 13, 2014 in Ferguson, MissouriThe unarmed black teenager whose shooting death by a white police officer unleashed riots in a Missouri town was a suspect in a robbery just minutes before he was killed, police said Friday. The allegation reignited fresh anger and frustration in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, with the 18-year-old student's family accusing police of attempting to demean his character amid an ongoing investigation. Incident reports from the Ferguson police department linked Michael Brown to the theft of a $49 box of cigars from a convenience store, shortly before he was fatally shot by police in broad daylight on a nearby street on Saturday. Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson meanwhile identified the officer who shot Brown as Darren Wilson, 28, a white four-year veteran of the force with no record of ill discipline.


Correction: Immigration-National Guard story

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:47 PM PDT

A Texas National Guardsman exits an observation tower in Hidalgo, Texas, on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014. Several dozen soldiers deployed in the Rio Grande Valley are part of the up to 1,000 troops called up by Gov. Rick Perry last month, Texas National Guard Master Sgt. Ken Walker of the Joint Counterdrug Task Force said Thursday. (AP Photo/Christopher Sherman)HIDALGO, Texas (AP) — HIDALGO, Texas (AP) — In a story Aug. 14 about the National Guard arriving on the Texas border, The Associated Press, relying on information from the Texas National Guard, reported erroneously that the deployments were part of the 1,000 troops ordered by Gov. Rick Perry. Texas National Guard Master Sgt. Ken Walker said the troops, which are part of a counterdrug task force, do not count toward Perry's "Operation Strong Safety."


Black box failed on Brazil politician's doomed flight

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:46 PM PDT

The site of the crash of the Cessna 560XL aircraft carrying presidential candidate Eduardo Campos in Santos, Brazil, on August 14, 2014The black box recovered from the wreckage of the plane crash that killed Brazilian socialist presidential candidate Eduardo Campos failed to record his flight, the air force said Friday. The two hours of recordings it contained were not related to Wednesday's doomed flight, according to the military branch in charge of the investigation into the crash.


Couple’s relationship survives messaging each other exclusively through emoji for a month

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:45 PM PDT

Couple's relationship survives messaging each other exclusively through emoji for a monthEmoji have become an incredibly popular way to add more color to our written communications but is there any way you could survive using them exclusively on your favorite messaging app? WNYC this week posted an interview with its own NewTechCity senior producer Alex Goldmark, who took up a challenge this summer to communicate with his girlfriend on their smartphones using only the emoji available on the WeChat messaging app for a full month. Although the couple found it challenging to communicate complicated ideas and requests to one another, they found that using emoji worked perfectly well from expressing their feelings. The couple started off picking emoji that they felt accurately represented themselves so they could have a proper emoji


Texas Governor Perry indicted for abuse of power

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:45 PM PDT

Texas Governor Rick Perry gestures as he speaks at the Family Leadership Summit in AmesBy Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry was indicted on Friday by a grand jury in Texas on two counts of abuse of power and coercion over a funding veto he made last year that was seen as being intended to force a local prosecutor to resign. Perry, seen as a possible Republican candidate in the 2016 presidential race, was indicted by a grand jury in Travis County with abuse of official capacity, a felony, and coercion of a public official, a misdemeanor. A probe was launched last year when Perry vetoed $7.5 million in funding for an integrity unit that is part of the Travis County District Attorney's office. The move was seen as trying to force out county District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, a Democrat, after she pleaded guilty to drunken driving.


Struggling SeaWorld plans new tanks for killer whales

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:44 PM PDT

The sign at the entrance to SeaWorld on February 24, 2010 in Orlando, FloridaUS theme park operator SeaWorld said Friday it would build new, giant tanks for its killer whales, whose captivity has caused uproar and hit the company's earnings. SeaWorld also pledged $10 million in funds for killer-whale research and announced a multi-million-dollar ocean health partnership, but animal rights groups were quick to savage the initiatives. The Orlando, Florida company, whose shares have hit their lowest point since going public in April 2013, has faced rising criticism since last year's release of the documentary "Blackfish." The film probed the impact of captivity on SeaWorld's orcas and the fatal 2010 attack by one of them, Tilikum, on a trainer.


Texas governor indicted over effort to remove official

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:43 PM PDT

Texas Governor Rick Perry waits to greet US President Barack Obama in Dallas, Texas, on July 9, 2014Texas Governor Rick Perry, a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate, was indicted Friday over an effort to force a local Democratic prosecutor to resign. A grand jury in Austin indicted Perry on two felony charges -- abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant for his threat to veto $7.5 million in state funding to the Public Integrity Unit run by the office of Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg. After Lehmberg was convicted of drunken driving, Perry said he would withhold the funding if she did not step down. When Lehmberg refused to leave her office, Perry carried out his veto.


Police: Chemicals in tea due to earlier mix-up

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:42 PM PDT

Attorney Paxton Guymon holds a photograph of Jim and Jan Harding during a news conference in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014. Jan Harding, 67, is in critical condition at a Salt Lake City hospital's burn unit, unable to talk and fighting for her life, Guymon said. She drank sweet tea containing a toxic cleaning chemical, severely burning her mouth and throat at a Utah restaurant after an employee mistook the substance for sugar and mixed it into a dispenser, Guymon said. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say an industrial cleaning solution that ended up in tea that a woman drank at a Utah restaurant was unintentionally mixed into a bag of sugar a month earlier.


Los Angeles looks into making ballot bankable

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:40 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 6, 2006 file photo, people casting their ballot in the California primary election in Los Angeles. With fewer than a fourth of voters showing up for recent local elections, the city's Ethics Commission voted Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014, to recommend that the City Council consider a cash-prize drawing as an incentive to vote. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles is considering turning voting ballots into lottery tickets.


Former Idaho GOP congressman dies

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:38 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 20, 1997, file photo, former Congressman George Hansen poses for a photo, in Pocatello, Idaho. Hansen died Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014, of natural causes at a medical center in Pocatello, Cornelison Funeral Home said. He was 83. (AP Photo/Salt Lake Tribune, Christopher Smith, File)BOISE, Idaho (AP) — George Hansen, a former Idaho Republican congressman, died Thursday of natural causes at a medical center in Pocatello, Cornelison Funeral Home said. He was 83.


Revel casino to close 8 days earlier than planned

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:34 PM PDT

Revel casino to close 8 days earlier than plannedRevel Casino Hotel, the $2.4 billion resort that opened just over two years ago as a hoped-for savior for Atlantic City's sinking revenues, is closing a week earlier than planned.


Kiev says forces shelled Russian armour inside Ukraine

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:32 PM PDT

By Natalia Zinets and Richard Balmforth KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine said its artillery partly destroyed a Russian armoured column that entered its territory overnight and said its forces came under shellfire from Russia on Friday in what appeared to be a major military escalation between the ex-Soviet states. Russia's government denied its forces had crossed into Ukraine and accused Kiev of trying to sabotage deliveries of aid. NATO said there had been a Russian incursion into Ukraine, while avoiding the term invasion, and European capitals accused the Kremlin of escalating the fighting. Kiev and its Western allies have repeatedly accused Russia of arming pro-Moscow separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine, and of sending undercover military units onto Ukrainian soil.

Officer's name begins to lift weeklong mystery

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:29 PM PDT

Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson is surrounded by his officers as he answers questions at a news conference in Forestwood Park on Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. Jackson took questions in the quiet park after earlier identifying Darren Wilson as the officer who shot Michael Brown. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Robert Cohen)ST. LOUIS (AP) — For nearly a week, the police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, has been a shadowy figure — nameless, faceless and seemingly shielded from the fury that has filled the streets of the town he was sworn to protect.


Officer in Missouri shooting unaware teen was a suspect: police

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:28 PM PDT

Protesters chant during a peaceful demonstration as communities continue to react to the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MissouriBy Nick Carey FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - Minutes before a police officer shot him dead, Michael Brown had become a suspect in the theft of cigars from a store, according to police reports released on Friday after days of protests in a St. Louis suburb over the unarmed black teenager's death. Hours after the reports' release, police said that Officer Darren Wilson, 28, had no idea 18-year-old Brown was a robbery suspect. After nearly a week of accusations that the Ferguson Police Department did not know how to communicate with the public, Jackson did little to dispel that image during two appearances on Friday. The decision by the police department, which is overwhelmingly white, to release a report on the robbery while keeping details of the shooting secret only served to fuel outrage that has roiled the St. Louis area.


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