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Bloomberg: Take the stairs

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 12:39 PM PDT

Bloomberg anti-obesity effortThe NYC mayor first targeted super-sized sodas; now he's focused on elevators.

Pakistan Taliban fighter asks Malala to come home

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 12:39 PM PDT

Yousafzai gives her first speech since the Taliban in Pakistan tried to kill her for advocating education for girls, at U.N. Headquarters in New YorkPESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Taliban commander has written to Pakistani girl activist Malala Yousafzai, saying he regretted her shooting last year by militants and urging her to come home. Yousafzai, now 16, was shot at close range by Taliban gunmen in October as she left school in Swat Valley in northwestern Pakistan. She was flown to Britain for treatment and has not returned since due to persistent Taliban threats against her. On July 12, she addressed the world in an electrifying speech at the United Nations in which she said the pen was mightier than the sword. ...

NSA spying under fire

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 12:11 PM PDT

Robert S. Litt, general counsel in the Office of Director of National Intelligence testifies during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Wednesday, July 17, 2013. Six weeks after a leaked document exposed the scope of the government's monitoring of Americans' phone records, the House Judiciary Committee calls on key administration figures from the intelligence world to answer questions about the sweeping government surveillance of Americans in war on terrorism. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Congress threatens to curtail the government's surveillance authority.

Study: Dead stars colliding forged gold on Earth

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 12:11 PM PDT

FILE - In an Oct. 17, 2011, file photo a staff member displays gold bullion bars during a news conference at the Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange Society in Hong Kong. A new study based on observations from space suggests the gold on Earth came from colliding dead stars in a cataclysmic event that occurred long ago. The research by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics will appear in a future issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters. (AP Photo, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — A strange glow in space has provided fresh evidence that all the gold on Earth was forged from ancient collisions of dead stars, researchers reported Wednesday.

Railway lays off staff after Quebec train disaster

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 12:11 PM PDT

Wagons are pictured on the site of the train wreck in Lac MeganticLAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (Reuters) - The railway at the center of North America's deadliest train accident in more than 20 years has laid off a number of people in Maine and Quebec, the company confirmed on Wednesday. The staffing cutbacks at the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) come 11 days after a runaway train hauling 72 tanker cars of crude oil derailed and exploded in the center of Lac-Megantic, killing some 50 people and leveling the heart of the small town. ...

How to tell signs of dementia from normal aging

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 11:08 AM PDT

BOSTON (AP) — New studies suggest that noticing you are having memory or thinking problems could be the earliest sign of Alzheimer's disease. The Alzheimer's Association lists these 10 warning signs, plus advice on how to tell them from normal age-related changes:

Southern California mountain wildfire grows

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 10:52 AM PDT

IDYLLWILD, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters braced Wednesday for an intense day battling a wildfire in the mountains southwest of Palm Springs that already has burned seven homes and led to the evacuation of dozens more as well as a camp serving children with cancer.

Graham ‘dead wrong’ about Olympics boycott, Boehner says

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 10:23 AM PDT

FILE - House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this July 11, 2013 file photo. Boehner stood on the House floor Tuesday July 16, 2013 and ridiculed Democratic comments that the law has been Athletes have trained for too long to skip the Winter Games over a "traitor."

Mandela makes 'dramatic' progress, says daughter

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 09:37 AM PDT

A man only known as Kobus, holds a ruling party poster with former South African President Nelson Mandela's face outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where he is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa Wednesday, July 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela has made "dramatic progress," and may be going home "anytime soon," said his daughter Zindzi on the eve of his 95th birthday.

Marathon bombing suspect on Rolling Stone cover

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 08:51 AM PDT

In this magazine cover image released by Wenner Media, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appears on the cover of the Aug. 1, 2013 issue of BOSTON (AP) — A Rolling Stone cover story on Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) is generating controversy online.

Experts: Cuba arms shipment troubling

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 08:20 AM PDT

Military equipment lays in containers aboard a North Korean-flagged ship at the Manzanillo International container terminal on the coast of Colon City, Panama, Tuesday, July 16, 2013. A North Korean ship carrying weapons system parts buried under sacks of sugar was seized as it tried to cross the Panama Canal on its way from Cuba to its home country, which is under a United Nations arms embargo, Panamanian officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)U.N. officials are questioning why missiles were being sent to N. Korea for repairs.

Egypt: Morsi supporters protest outside Cabinet

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 07:51 AM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant supporting slogans as one puts on his poster over her Islamic veil during a rally in a park in front of Cairo University, where protesters have installed their camp in Giza, southwest of Cairo, Egypt, late Tuesday, July 16, 2013. Clashes between police and Islamist supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi left seven protesters dead, authorities said Tuesday, the worst outbreak of violence in a week as the Islamist leader's supporters maintain pressure on the military and the interim administration to offer major concessions. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)CAIRO (AP) — Several hundred supporters of Egypt's deposed president massed outside the Cabinet building Wednesday in Cairo, expanding their protests denouncing the country's new government and demanding the reinstatement of Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi.

Driving somewhere? There's a gov't record of that

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 07:20 AM PDT

An Alexandria Police Dept. squad car is seen outfitted with a license plate scanner mounted to the trunk, Tuesday, July 16, 2013 in Alexandria, Va. Local police departments across the country have amassed millions of digital records on the location and movements of vehicles with a license plate using automated scanners. Affixed to police cars, bridges or buildings, the scanners capture images of passing or parked vehicles and note their location, dumping that information into police databases. Departments keep the records for weeks or even years. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — Chances are, your local or state police departments have photographs of your car in their files, noting where you were driving on a particular day, even if you never did anything wrong.

5K Syrian deaths a month now parallels Rwandan genocide: UN

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 07:20 AM PDT

In this image taken from video obtained from Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows shelling of the Al-Qaboun neighborhood in rural Damascus, Syria, Monday, July 15, 2013. After seizing the momentum in recent months in Syria's civil war, President Bashar Assad's forces are on the offensive against the rebels on several fronts, including in Idlib province along the border with Turkey. Government forces are in firm control of the provincial capital of same name, while dozens of rebel brigades control the countryside.(AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)UNITED NATIONS (AP) — An estimated 5,000 Syrians are dying every month in the country's civil war and refugees are fleeing at a rate not seen since the 1994 Rwanda genocide, U.N. officials said Tuesday.

Britain legalizes gay marriage

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 06:50 AM PDT

LONDON (AP) — Britain has legalized gay marriage after Queen Elizabeth II gave her royal stamp of approval.

Bernanke: Timetable for bond purchases not preset

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 06:50 AM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 22, 2013, file photo, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke listens as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before a Senate Joint Economic Committee hearing on WASHINGTON (AP) — Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday that the Federal Reserve's timetable for reducing its bond purchases is not on a "preset course" and the Fed could increase or decrease the amount based on how the economy performs.

22 children die after eating school lunch in India

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 05:20 AM PDT

In this Tuesday, July 16, 2013 photo, schoolchildren receive treatment at a hospital after falling ill soon after eating a free meal at a primary school in Chhapra district, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. At least 20 children have died and more are sick after eating free meals in the school, an official said Wednesday. The children are age 8 to 11. (AP Photo)PATNA, India (AP) — At least 22 children died and more than two dozen others were sick after eating a free school lunch that was tainted with insecticide, Indian officials said Wednesday.

Al-Qaida branch confirms its No. 2 killed in Yemen

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 04:34 AM PDT

FILE - In this undated frame grab from video posted on a militant-leaning Web site, and provided by the SITE Intelligence Group, shows Saeed al-Shihri, deputy leader of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. The Yemen-based branch of al-Qaida says a U.S. drone strike has killed a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who rose to become the group's No. 2 figure. The announcement, posted on militant websites, gave no date for the death of Saudi-born Al-Shihri. (AP Photo/SITE Intelligence Group, File)Former Gitmo prisoner taken down by U.S. drone strike.

21 children die after eating school lunch in India

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 03:34 AM PDT

In this Tuesday, July 16, 2013 photo, schoolchildren receive treatment at a hospital after falling ill soon after eating a free meal at a primary school in Chhapra district, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. At least 20 children have died and more are sick after eating free meals in the school, an official said Wednesday. The children are age 8 to 11. (AP Photo)PATNA, India (AP) — At least 21 children died and more than two dozen others were sick after eating a free school lunch that was tainted with insecticide, Indian officials said Wednesday.

Food poisoning kills at least 20 children in India

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 02:48 AM PDT

A woman cries after her grandson, who consumed spurious meals at a school on Tuesday, died at a hospital in PatnaPATNA, India (Reuters) - At least 20 children died and dozens were taken to hospital with apparent food poisoning after eating a meal provided for free at their school in the Indian state of Bihar, the education minister said on Wednesday, sparking violent protests. Police said the children, aged eight to 11, fell ill after consuming a lunch of rice, soybean and pulses on Tuesday. The school, in the district of Chapra, provided free meals under the Mid-Day Meal Scheme, the world's largest school feeding program involving 120 million children. Education minister M.M. ...

Relatives of missing in India floods maintain hope

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 02:48 AM PDT

People move through a waterlogged street in Gauhati, India, Tuesday, July 16, 2013. Heavy showers flooded some areas in the city on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)LUCKNOW, India (AP) — A day after the government said it would treat more than 5,700 people missing in floods in northern India last month as presumed dead, relatives said Wednesday they still held out hope that their loved ones had survived.

California wildfire burns 7 homes, threatens more

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 01:48 AM PDT

IDYLLWILD, Calif. (AP) — A wildfire in mountains west of Palm Springs burned seven homes and led to the evacuation of dozens more, officials said.

Liz Cheney challenge to Enzi echoes GOP divisions

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 01:34 AM PDT

FILE - This Sept. 19, 2011 file photo shows Liz Cheney, in Chicago at the Union League Club of Chicago's Authors Group. Former Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter Liz Cheney says she will run against Wyoming's senior U.S. senator in next year's Republican primary. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green,File)CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Liz Cheney says her GOP primary challenge to Wyoming's senior U.S. senator is about sending a "new generation" to Washington. But it has all the hallmarks of the same divisions that have roiled the Republican Party nationally for years.

Ahead of draft, ultra-Orthodox soldiers under fire

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 01:02 AM PDT

In this Sunday, July 14, 2013 photo, ultra-Orthodox Jewish men walk past a poster in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem. A large cartoon poster depicts Haredi soldiers rolling through the streets atop tanks trying to lure young boys onto their vehicles. The ad denounces the soldiers as Zionist JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli soldier was walking home on a busy Jerusalem street when suddenly a car stopped next to him, and men inside spat upon him and hurled insults, trash and water bottles. When the assailants stepped out, he was fearful enough to call the police who swiftly arrived to rescue him.

US surveillance becomes election issue in Germany

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 12:17 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 10, 2013 file picture, German Chancellor Angela Merkel gestures prior to the weekly cabinet meeting in Berlin . Allegations of widespread U.S. data surveillance have created turbulence for Angela Merkel on what so far looked like a smooth cruise to a third term as German chancellor, even though it remains to be seen whether the flap will threaten her seriously. Merkel's center-left opponents have seized on disclosures of National Security Agency surveillance programs by leaker Edward Snowden to assert that she hasn't been doing enough to confront Washington and protect Germans' personal data - and to cast doubt on officials' assertions that they didn't know of the programs. The opposition apparently hopes that the issue will breathe life into a so-far stumbling and gaffe-prone campaign for Sept. 22 parliamentary elections. A healthy economy, low unemployment and perceptions that Merkel has managed Europe's debt crisis well have bolstered the chancellor. Merkel's center-left challenger, Peer Steinbrueck, is suggesting that the government turned a blind eye to violations of Germans' rights and that Merkel violated her oath of office, in which she swore to BERLIN (AP) — Allegations of widespread U.S. data surveillance have created turbulence for Angela Merkel on what looked like a smooth cruise to a third term as German chancellor, even though it remains to be seen whether the flap will threaten her seriously.
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