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Transit officer still critical after shootout

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 12:52 PM PDT

In this 2010 photo provided by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Richard Donohue Jr., left, and Sean Collier pose together for a photo at their graduation from the Municipal Police Officers' Academy. On Thursday, April 18, 2013, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Officer Collier was fatally shot on the MIT campus, and transit police officer Donohue was shot and critically wounded. Authorities allege that Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were responsible. (AP Photo/Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority)CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Doctors say the Boston transit police officer wounded in a shootout with the marathon bombing suspects had lost nearly all his blood and his heart had stopped from a single gunshot wound that severed three major blood vessels in his right thigh.

Palestinians hold first Bethlehem marathon

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 12:22 PM PDT

People run past the separation wall during the West Bank's first marathon in Bethlehem, Sunday, April 21, 2013. About 1,000 people participated in the race, which included shorter 10-kilometer and 20-kilometer options. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Hundreds of people on Sunday took part in the West Bank's first marathon, looping around the biblical city of Bethlehem four times on a course that was limited by the confines of Israel's sprawling separation barrier.

Border Patrol now counts getaways

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 11:35 AM PDT

U.S. Border Patrol agent David Faatoalia wears a radio on his chest as he patrols along the international border between Mexico and the United States near San DiegoAs federal lawmakers demand border security measures an old enforcement technique is getting fresh attention.

Fla. compounding pharmacy recalls sterile drugs

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 11:15 AM PDT

LAKE MARY, Fla. (AP) — A Florida-based compounding pharmacy is voluntarily recalling all lots of its sterile non-expired drug products sold nationwide over concerns the products are not sterile and may contain bacteria, Food and Drug Administration officials said Sunday.

Texas fertilizer company didn't heed disclosure rules

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 10:49 AM PDT

A sign is seen on a car window as residents wait to enter a damaged neighborhood Saturday, April 20, 2013, three days after an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. The massive explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. Wednesday night killed 14 people and injured more than 160. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)The fertilizer plant had last year been storing 1,350 times the amount of ammonium nitrate that would normally trigger safety oversight

Gun control forces seek new path after big loss

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 10:18 AM PDT

Caren Teves, right, whose son was killed in the Aurora, Colo., mass shooting, speaks as she holds up a handwritten letter to her from Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., as Jennifer Longdon, left, a shooting victim who was left paralyzed, holds up a protest sign as they join more than 50 anti-gun activists rallying outside Flake's office, Friday, April 19, 2013, in Phoenix. Flake said Friday he wants Congress to expand background checks for firearm buyers, despite his recent vote against the Senate's bipartisan plan. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a powerful moment on the White House lawn when thousands of guests, the loved ones of slain crime victims among them, crowded in as President Bill Clinton signed a sweeping crime bill that was six years in the making and included a hotly disputed ban on assault weapons.

Fans sink into Cruise's 'Oblivion' in $38.2M debut

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 10:02 AM PDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Movie fans have slipped into "Oblivion" as the Tom Cruise sci-fi thriller leads Hollywood with a $38.2 million debut.

Hagel stresses Israel's right to strike Iran

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 09:32 AM PDT

US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, front, places a wreath at the Hall of Remembrance as he tours Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, on April 21, 2013. (AP PhotoJim Watson, Pool)U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel held out hope Sunday for a nonmilitary way to ending the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, but he also emphasized Washington's willingness to let Israel decide whether and when it might strike Tehran in self-defense.

Taliban attacks kill 9 people in Afghanistan

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 09:22 AM PDT

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Insurgents killed six police officers at a checkpoint and a suicide bomber killed three civilians at a shopping bazaar in separate attacks Sunday in eastern Afghanistan, while an independent security group warned 2013 is on track to be one of the most violent years of the war.

Gay marriage opponents stage last-ditch protest in Paris

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 09:06 AM PDT

People gather at the Place de la Bastille from groups including Act-Up to protest against homophobic attacks stemming from protests against France's planned legalisation of same-sex marriage in ParisBy Pauline Mevel PARIS (Reuters) - Thousands of gay marriage opponents waving pink and blue flags marched through Paris on Sunday in a last-ditch protest before a law allowing same-sex union and adoption is passed next week. Chanting "We don't want your law, Hollande!", some 50,000 protesters massed behind a banner reading: "All born of a Mum and a Dad" and said it was undemocratic to bring about such a fundamental social change without holding a referendum. ...

Boston bombing suspect kept low profile in Dagestan

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 08:20 AM PDT

Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are pictured in this combination photoBy Alissa de Carbonnel MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - If Tamerlan Tsarnaev was already plotting the Boston Marathon bombings when he stayed in this bustling Russian city at the heart of an Islamist insurgency last year, neighbors say he hid it well. The ethnic Chechen killed in a shootout with U.S. police last week spent at least a month last summer helping his father renovate his first-floor apartment next door to a dentistry in Makhachkala, a city in the Dagestan region on the Caspian Sea. ...

Residents return to homes near Texas explosion site

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 07:44 AM PDT

Displaced resident Debby Keel holds her granddaughter Kennedy Keel as she waits by a checkpoint for residents waiting to go back to their homes Saturday, April 20, 2013, three days after an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. The massive explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. Wednesday night killed 14 people and injured more than 160. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)For the second day in a row, more than 100 displaced residents here lined up to gain access to their homes near the site of Wednesday's deadly fertilizer explosion that killed 14 and injured at least 200.

How Red Squirrels Are Like Tiger Moms

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 07:13 AM PDT

How Red Squirrels Are Like Tiger MomsRed squirrel moms know how to give their offspring an early edge in a crowded forest.

Blackstone founder creates $300M China scholarship

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 06:57 AM PDT

Stephen A. Schwarzman, founder of the U.S. private equity firm Blackstone, makes an announcement during a press conference at the Great Hall of People in Beijing, China Sunday, April 21, 2013. Schwarzman announced Sunday the establishment of a $300 million endowed scholarship program in China for students from around the world, and billed it as a rival to the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. Schwarzman said he would give $100 million as a personal gift and raise another $200 million to endow the Schwarzman Scholars program at Beijing's Tsinghua University. It will be the largest philanthropic gift with foreign money in China's history, according to the tycoon and the university. (AP Photo/Didi Tang)A U.S. tycoon announced Sunday the establishment of a $300 million endowed scholarship program in China billed as a rival to the Rhodes Scholarship.

Condition of Indian girl who was raped improves

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 06:41 AM PDT

Indian women activists of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party jostle with Indian police women outside ruling United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi's residence during a protest against the rape of a 5-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, Sunday, April 21, 2013. The girl was raped and tortured by a man who held her in a locked room in India's capital for two days. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)The condition of a 5-year-old girl who was allegedly kidnapped, raped and tortured by a man and then left alone in a locked room in India's capital for two days has improved ....

Big scramble seen in open Senate seat in Georgia

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 05:26 AM PDT

A rare open U.S. Senate seat in Georgia promises a scrambled 2014 campaign that already has some Republicans quietly nervous about retaining it.

Interrogators wait to query wounded bomb suspect

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 05:10 AM PDT

Police officers stand near statues of former Boston Red Sox greats, from left, Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Johnny Pesky and Dom DiMaggio during a baseball game between the Kansas City Royals and the Boston Red Sox, the first game held in the city following the Boston Marathon explosions, Saturday, April 20, 2013, in Boston. Police captured Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, late Friday, after a wild car chase and gun battle earlier in the day left his older brother dead. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)The lone surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing remains hospitalized under heavy guard.

Kerry pushes Turkey-Israel rapprochement

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 03:58 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday, April 21, 2013, in Istanbul, Turkey. Kerry is wrapping up a 24-hour visit to Istanbul with talks aimed at improving ties between Turkey and Israel and pushing ahead with Mideast peace efforts. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)Wrapping up a 24-hour visit to Istanbul, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday sought to cement and speed up an improvement in relations between Turkey and Israel ...

Feisty German minister stands up to Merkel

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 03:28 AM PDT

German Labour Minister von der Leyen attends a session of the lower house of parliament Bundestag in BerlinBy Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - The political wilderness in Germany is filled with once-powerful conservative party barons, overly confident men who dared to challenge Angela Merkel and lost. But never before has the German chancellor had to contend with another woman, a popular member of her own cabinet, standing up to her in public in the way Labour Minister Ursula von der Leyen did last week. The 54-year-old von der Leyen forced Merkel to retreat on, of all things, women's rights in a riveting public showdown just five months before an election. ...

London race: Tributes to Boston, extra security

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 03:07 AM PDT

Volunteers in bright yellow get ready prior to the London Marathon in the Mall in London, Sunday, April 21, 2013. Security has been stepped up in London following the recent bombs at the Boston Marathon. The London Marathon started as planned on a glorious sunny morning Sunday despite concerns raised by the bomb attacks on the Boston Marathon six days ago. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)The London Marathon started in defiant mood on a glorious sunny morning Sunday despite concerns raised by the bomb attacks on the Boston Marathon six days ago.

Hagel: Israel, US see 'exactly same' Iran threat

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 02:22 AM PDT

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, escorts United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon into the Pentagon as Ban Ki-moon arrives for an honor cordon, Thursday, April 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Sunday the United States and Israel see "exactly the same" threat from Iran, but differ on when it may reach the point of requiring U.S. or Israeli military action.

China says aims to banish superstition, promote knowledge

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 01:36 AM PDT

Falun Gong practitioners participate in a protest against China's crackdown on Falun Gong followers in front of the Chinese embassy in BucharestChina is struggling to get its estimated 100 million religious believers to banish superstitious beliefs about things like sickness and death, the country's top religious affairs official told a state-run newspaper ...

S. Calif. fire forces evacuation of 200 homes

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 01:21 AM PDT

A wildfire burns on the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains above Monrovia, Calif., on Saturday, April 20, 2013. The view of the blaze slowed traffic to a crawl on Interstate 210 northeast of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Antczak)Authorities lifted evacuation orders for some residents Saturday night as firefighters made advances on a brush fire in foothills east of Los Angeles ...

Bombing suspect still hospitalized, guarded

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 01:05 AM PDT

Police officers stand near statues of former Boston Red Sox greats, from left, Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Johnny Pesky and Dom DiMaggio during a baseball game between the Kansas City Royals and the Boston Red Sox, the first game held in the city following the Boston Marathon explosions, Saturday, April 20, 2013, in Boston. Police captured Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, late Friday, after a wild car chase and gun battle earlier in the day left his older brother dead. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)As the lone surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing lay hospitalized under heavy guard Saturday, the American Civil Liberties Union and a federal public defender ...

Suburb becomes war zone in days after bombings

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 10:18 PM PDT

Al Ghoughasian, 50, center, raises a U.S. flag during a vigil for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, Saturday, April 20, 2013, in Watertown, Mass. Suspected bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is hospitalized in serious condition with unspecified injuries after he was captured in an all day manhunt the day before. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)Hundreds of rounds were exchanged in a deadly gun battle, a suspected terrorist's body was dragged under a stolen SUV and a bomb blast rattled residents.
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