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• Confidential document lays out Assange police tactics
• Suri Cruise reportedly to get $400K a year from dad
• Prosecutors: Aurora suspect James Holmes made threat in March
• Photos: Greenpeace activists storm Russian oil rig
• 2 US gov't employees said hurt in Mexico shooting
• Lance Armstrong banned for life, career vacated
• S. African hippo stuck in swimming pool dies
• What's the best way to avoid mosquito bites?
• Paul Ryan favors asparagus over cake, and Obama
• Court strikes down graphic warnings for cigarettes
• Tropical Storm Isaac projections downgraded
• Deadly shooting near the Empire State building
• People shot outside Empire State Building
• Air crews make dent in massive Calif. wildfire
• Drone attacks kill 16 in Pakistan: officials
• Syrian forces strike Aleppo as West pressures Assad
• Lance Armstrong to be stripped of his Tour de France titles
• Court finds Norwegian mass killer sane
• Norway declares Breivik sane in mass murder trial
• Ill. police: Teenager held 2 years escapes captors
• Tropical Storm Isaac takes aim at Haiti, Dominican Republic
• Romney touts Bain experience in Wall Street Journal editorial
• Romney: Big businesses are 'doing fine'
• British tabloid defies request, publishes naked Prince Harry photos
• Seoul court: Samsung didn't violate Apple design

Confidential document lays out Assange police tactics Posted: 24 Aug 2012 01:09 PM PDT A confidential document photographed by Britain's Press Association news agency lays out Scotland Yard's simple strategy for dealing with Julian Assange should he ever try to leave Ecuador's Embassy in London.

Suri Cruise reportedly to get $400K a year from dad Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:36 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Katie Holmes walked away without a payment or alimony in her divorce with Tom Cruise, but the couple's six-year-old daughter, Suri, stands to receive $400,000 annually in child support until she turns 18, celebrity website TMZ.com reported on Friday. Citing sources familiar with court documents filed by the former couple, whose divorce was finalized earlier this week, TMZ said the "TomKat" pre-nuptial agreement blocked Holmes from receiving any portion of the 50-year-old actor's $250 million fortune. ...

Prosecutors: Aurora suspect James Holmes made threat in March Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:03 PM PDT Newly filed court records allege that the man accused of opening fire on an Aurora movie theater told a classmate he wanted to kill people four months before the shooting.

Photos: Greenpeace activists storm Russian oil rig Posted: 24 Aug 2012 11:48 AM PDT Greenpeace activists are in a boat in front of energy giant Gazprom's Arctic oil platform Prirazlomnaya in the Pechora Sea on Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. Greenpeace activists have stormed a floating oil rig in Russia's Pechora Sea, hundreds of miles (kilometers) from the nearest port, to protest oil drilling in the Arctic, the environmental organization said Friday. (AP Photo/Denis Sinyakov, Greenpeace)

2 US gov't employees said hurt in Mexico shooting Posted: 24 Aug 2012 10:43 AM PDT Two U.S. government employees were shot and wounded in an attack on their vehicle south of Mexico City on Friday, a law enforcement official said.

Lance Armstrong banned for life, career vacated Posted: 24 Aug 2012 10:26 AM PDT The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency erased 14 years of Lance Armstrong's career Friday — including his record seven Tour de France titles — and banned him for life from the sport that made him a hero to millions of cancer survivors after concluding he used banned substances.

S. African hippo stuck in swimming pool dies Posted: 24 Aug 2012 09:37 AM PDT A hippo who wandered into a swimming pool at a South African game lodge three days ago died Friday before a rescue team could pull him out with a crane, a cruel blow to many across this country who hoped the animal would be saved.

What's the best way to avoid mosquito bites? Posted: 24 Aug 2012 09:21 AM PDT As the West Nile outbreak grows, many may be looking for the best ways to avoid mosquito bites.

Paul Ryan favors asparagus over cake, and Obama Posted: 24 Aug 2012 08:48 AM PDT You only have a few minutes with the man who wants to be vice president of the United States. One way to get some answers? Play word association.

Court strikes down graphic warnings for cigarettes Posted: 24 Aug 2012 08:21 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that cigarette companies do not need to comply with new federal rules requiring their products to show graphic warning images, such as of a man exhaling smoke through a hole in his throat. The 2-1 decision by a court in Washington, D.C., contradicts a ruling in a similar case by another court in March, setting up the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in on the dispute. The court's majority found the label requirement from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration violated corporate speech requirements. ...

Tropical Storm Isaac projections downgraded Posted: 24 Aug 2012 07:43 AM PDT Tropical Storm Isaac strengthened slightly as it spun toward the Dominican Republic and vulnerable Haiti on Friday, threatening to bring punishing rains but unlikely to gain enough steam to strike as a hurricane.

Deadly shooting near the Empire State building Posted: 24 Aug 2012 07:27 AM PDT A gunman has shot multiple people near the Empire State Building in the Midtown area of Manhattan, according to several news reports.

People shot outside Empire State Building Posted: 24 Aug 2012 06:54 AM PDT New York City officials say several people have been shot outside the Empire State Building and that the gunman is dead.

Air crews make dent in massive Calif. wildfire Posted: 24 Aug 2012 05:17 AM PDT Air tankers and helicopters flew repeatedly into a deep rim rock canyon to douse the spearhead of a massive wildfire in Northern California and stop it from driving into a nearby mountain community and Lassen Volcanic National Park.

Drone attacks kill 16 in Pakistan: officials Posted: 24 Aug 2012 05:01 AM PDT Missile-firing U.S. drone aircraft killed at least 16 people on Friday in an attack in northwest Pakistan, two Pakistani intelligence officials.

Syrian forces strike Aleppo as West pressures Assad Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:44 AM PDT Syrian forces blitzed areas in and around the northern city of Aleppo on Friday, activists said, as Western powers sought to tighten the screws on embattled President Bashar al-Assad.

Lance Armstrong to be stripped of his Tour de France titles Posted: 24 Aug 2012 03:07 AM PDT In the end, Lance Armstrong quit. And no matter how fiercely he writes his statements or fires rockets on Twitter or demands we continue to buy into the fantasy that in a world of doping cyclists he alone was clean and rode faster and stronger, he still quit on Thursday night.

Court finds Norwegian mass killer sane Posted: 24 Aug 2012 02:34 AM PDT A Norwegian court found Anders Behring Breivik sane on Friday and gave him a maximum jail term for murdering 77 people in a shooting and bombing last year.

Norway declares Breivik sane in mass murder trial Posted: 24 Aug 2012 01:29 AM PDT OSLO (Reuters) - A Norwegian court found Anders Behring Breivik sane on Friday in the murder of 77 people in a gun and bomb massacre last year, sending him to jail for at least 21 years and dismissing the prosecution's request for an insane verdict. Breivik, who has admitted detonating a fertilizer bomb outside government headquarters, killing eight, before gunning down 69 at the ruling party's summer youth camp, faces the possibility of indefinite extensions to his sentence. ...

Ill. police: Teenager held 2 years escapes captors Posted: 24 Aug 2012 01:12 AM PDT A teen girl reported missing more than two years ago told police she escaped a home in southwestern Illinois where she had been held captive.

Tropical Storm Isaac takes aim at Haiti, Dominican Republic Posted: 23 Aug 2012 11:51 PM PDT MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac headed toward the Dominican Republic and Haiti on Friday, continuing its march across the Caribbean after unleashing heavy rain on parts of Puerto Rico. Isaac also posed a threat to Florida, where it could pass near the state's Gulf Coast on Monday as the Republican National Convention starts in Tampa. Authorities have not ruled out the possibility of postponing or relocating the Republican convention if the storm takes direct aim at Tampa. ...

Romney touts Bain experience in Wall Street Journal editorial Posted: 23 Aug 2012 11:19 PM PDT After months of negative attacks from Democrats, Mitt Romney is trying to turn his experience at Bain Capital into a positive, arguing in a new editorial the experience he gained there would help him in the White House.

Romney: Big businesses are 'doing fine' Posted: 23 Aug 2012 10:14 PM PDT Mitt Romney tonight said that big businesses are "doing fine," using similar language that the presumptive nominee has hammered President Obama for using to describe the private sector earlier this year. "I'm going to champion small business. We've got to make it...

British tabloid defies request, publishes naked Prince Harry photos Posted: 23 Aug 2012 09:58 PM PDT The Sun tabloid on Friday published photographs of Prince Harry naked in Las Vegas, becoming the first British publication to defy a request from the royal family's lawyers. On Thursday, newspapers in Britain did not publish the images of Queen Elizabeth's grandson naked with an unnamed woman while on holiday in Las Vegas, following a request from St James's Palace, the official residence of the prince, through the Press Complaints Commission to respect his privacy. ...

Seoul court: Samsung didn't violate Apple design Posted: 23 Aug 2012 09:41 PM PDT Samsung Electronics Co's flagship Galaxy smartphone looks very similar to Apple's iPhone, but the South Korean firm has not violated the iPhone design, a Seoul court ruled on Friday.

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