| Egypt police to besiege sit-ins within 24 hours Posted: 11 Aug 2013 12:31 PM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian security forces will besiege two sit-ins by supporters of the country's ousted president within 24 hours, police officials said Sunday, setting up a possible confrontation between the military-backed government and the thousands gathered there.
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| Religious family survives being lost at sea Posted: 11 Aug 2013 11:15 AM PDT  PHOENIX (AP) — A northern Arizona family has survived being lost at sea for weeks after an ill-fated attempt to leave the U.S. over what they consider government interference in religion.
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| Firefighters make progress battling Calif wildfire Posted: 11 Aug 2013 10:59 AM PDT  BANNING, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters continued to make progress overnight battling Southern California's latest destructive wildfire, which burned 26 homes and threatened more than 500 others in the San Jacinto Mountains.
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| Israel approves nearly 1,200 new settlement homes Posted: 11 Aug 2013 09:58 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's housing minister on Sunday gave final approval for building nearly 1,200 new settlement apartments on lands the Palestinians want for their state, just three days before U.S.-sponsored talks on the borders of such a state are to begin in Jerusalem.
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| Trump: Cruz 'perhaps not' eligible for White House 'if' born in Canada Posted: 11 Aug 2013 09:28 AM PDT  During an interview for "This Week," real estate mogul Donald Trump questioned whether Texas Sen. Ted Cruz would be eligible for the White House given his Canadian birth. "If he was born in Canada, perhaps not." Trump told ABC's Jonathan Karl. "I don't know the circumstances. I...
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| Cruz again raps Obama's health care law Posted: 11 Aug 2013 07:11 AM PDT  AMES, Iowa (AP) — Sen. Ted Cruz on Saturday continued his call for cutting off funding for President Barack Obama's health care law and told conservative Christians that congressional lawmakers can't be counted on to do it.
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| 7 more killed in Iraq violence Posted: 11 Aug 2013 06:27 AM PDT  Sectarian tensions rose across the country after civilians were attacked during celebrations marking the end of Ramadan.
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| Virginia, NYC races pose distractions for Clinton Posted: 11 Aug 2013 02:51 AM PDT  Hillary Rodham Clinton's effort to carefully craft her post-Cabinet image has hit a few bumps.
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| Malians return to polls for 2nd round of voting Posted: 11 Aug 2013 02:19 AM PDT  BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Voters are choosing Sunday who should lead Mali out of turmoil after a coup, separatist rebellion and an Islamic insurgency unraveled one of West Africa's most stable democracies, prompting a French military intervention earlier this year.
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| Firefighters make progress battling CA wildfire Posted: 11 Aug 2013 02:19 AM PDT BANNING, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters made steady progress Saturday in battling Southern California's latest destructive wildfire, which burned 26 homes and threatened more than 500 others in the San Jacinto Mountains. |
| In Jamaica, transgender teen murdered by mob Posted: 11 Aug 2013 12:31 AM PDT  MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (AP) — Dwayne Jones was relentlessly teased in high school for being effeminate until he dropped out. His father not only kicked him out of the house at the age of 14 but also helped jeering neighbors push the youngster from the rough Jamaican slum where he grew up.
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| Hundreds mourn Tasered Miami graffiti artist Posted: 10 Aug 2013 09:43 PM PDT  Hundreds of friends and supporters of an 18-year-old graffiti artist who died after being shocked by a stun gun during a police chase in Miami Beach gathered on Saturday in a tearful rally at the site where he had been spray-painting. Colombian-born Israel Hernandez-Llach died on Tuesday after police shocked him with a Taser as he ran away from officers who caught him spray-painting the wall of a shuttered McDonald's. "He was a genius," said Lucy Rynka, 18, who graduated from Miami Beach Senior High School with Hernandez-Llach last spring. ...
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| Popular singer Eydie Gorme dies at 84 Posted: 10 Aug 2013 07:24 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eydie Gorme, a popular nightclub and television singer as a solo act and as a team with her husband, Steve Lawrence, has died. She was 84.
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| Religious family abandons US, gets lost at sea Posted: 10 Aug 2013 06:40 PM PDT PHOENIX (AP) — A northern Arizona family that was lost at sea for weeks in an ill-fated attempt to leave the U.S. over what they consider government interference in religion will fly back home Sunday. |
| Teen found safe in Idaho; alleged abductor killed Posted: 10 Aug 2013 05:54 PM PDT  The man suspected of abducting a 16-year-old has been killed and the teen is safe, police say.
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| FBI fans through wilderness in search for teen Posted: 10 Aug 2013 05:09 PM PDT CASCADE, Idaho (AP) — Federal and local law enforcement agents say they're focused on getting feet on the ground in the search for 16-year-old Hannah Anderson and her suspected abductor, 40-year-old James Lee DiMaggio in central Idaho's Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. |
| Police release IDs of 4 killed in CT. plane crash Posted: 10 Aug 2013 04:38 PM PDT  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Police have confirmed the deaths of a former Microsoft executive and his teenage son when a plane crashed into two Connecticut homes. The names of two East Haven children killed in the accident also were released.
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| Funeral held for Pa. boy who was parents' best man Posted: 10 Aug 2013 04:24 PM PDT  JEANETTE, Pa. (AP) — In his short life, the 2-year-old Pennsylvania boy who died days after he served as best man at his parents' wedding touched the hearts of many people.
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| Body recovered from mudslide in Colorado Posted: 10 Aug 2013 02:38 PM PDT  MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Authorities have recovered a man's body from debris left by a fast-moving mudslide that swept through a historic town near Colorado Springs, Colo., and crews continued their search Saturday for three people reported missing after the flood.
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| Obama begins Martha's Vineyard vacation Posted: 10 Aug 2013 02:07 PM PDT  EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama opened the first summer vacation of his second term Saturday on Martha's Vineyard, trading Washington debates over the budget, government surveillance and his health care overhaul for a hoped-for carefree week filled with golf, beach outings and hanging-out time with family and friends.
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| Wave of bombings in Iraq during holiday kills 69 Posted: 10 Aug 2013 01:37 PM PDT  A wave of car bombings targeting those celebrating the end of Ramadan across Iraq killed 69 people Saturday, a bloody reminder of the inability of Iraqi authorities to stop violence threatening to spiral out of control.
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| Lawyer: Other suspect in DEA killing may go free Posted: 10 Aug 2013 01:21 PM PDT  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Defense lawyers are optimistic that a second member of the trio of drug kingpins convicted in the 1985 slaying of a U.S. drug agent will go free in coming weeks, one of the capos' attorneys said Saturday.
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| Reality and the real world, 'Mountain Man' style Posted: 10 Aug 2013 01:21 PM PDT  TRIPLETT, N.C. (AP) — The way Eustace Conway sees it, there's the natural world, as exemplified by his Turtle Island Preserve in the Blue Ridge Mountains. And then there's the "plastic, imitation" one that most other humans inhabit.
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