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Dempster suspended 5 games for hitting A-Rod

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 12:39 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2013 file photo, New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez, center, is tended to by a trainer at first base after being hit by a pitch in the second inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox in Boston. Rodriguez got hit by a fastball from Boston starter Ryan Dempster. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)NEW YORK (AP) — Ryan Dempster of the Boston Red Sox has been suspended for five games and fined by Major League Baseball for intentionally hitting Yankees star Alex Rodriguez with a pitch.

Egypt aid to be reviewed at White House meeting

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 12:23 PM PDT

White House principal deputy press secretary Josh Earnest answers questions during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug., 19, 2013. For the Obama administration, there's a new wrinkle that could further complicate ties with post-coup Egypt: the possible release of the country's jailed former leader, Hosni Mubarak. For nearly three decades, the U.S. propped up Mubarak and the Egyptian military with financial and military support. In exchange, Egypt helped protect U.S. interests in the region, including a peace treaty with Israel. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration moved closer to a decision Tuesday on continuing or curtailing $1.5 billion in annual U.S. aid to Egypt amid the crackdown by military authorities there on supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.

White House sets meeting to review Egypt aid

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 12:08 PM PDT

White House principal deputy press secretary Josh Earnest answers questions during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug., 19, 2013. For the Obama administration, there's a new wrinkle that could further complicate ties with post-coup Egypt: the possible release of the country's jailed former leader, Hosni Mubarak. For nearly three decades, the U.S. propped up Mubarak and the Egyptian military with financial and military support. In exchange, Egypt helped protect U.S. interests in the region, including a peace treaty with Israel. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration moved closer to a decision Tuesday on continuing or curtailing $1.5 billion in annual U.S. aid to Egypt amid the crackdown by military authorities there on supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.

Suspect in custody at Ga. school; reports of shots

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 11:53 AM PDT

Dekalb County Police SWAT officers run toward Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy after reports of a gunman entered the school, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013, in Decatur, Ga. Superintendent Michael Thurmond says all students at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur east of Atlanta are accounted for and safe Tuesday and that he is not aware of any injuries. (AP Photo/David Goldman)DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A suspect was in custody after reports of gunfire at an Atlanta-area elementary school Tuesday, the school chief said, with television footage showing young students running out the school being escorted by teachers and police. Michael Thurmond told The Associated Press he had no reports of injuries and that all students and teachers are accounted for and safe.

Slain Australian player mourned on 2 continents

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 11:53 AM PDT

In this undated photo provided by the Essendon Baseball Club, player Chris Lane wears his baseball equipment, in Australia. The Australian baseball player out for a jog in an Oklahoma neighborhood was shot and killed by three DUNCAN, Okla. (AP) — It is a chillingly simple motive: Police say three bored teens killed an Australian collegiate baseball player attending school in the U.S. for "the fun of it."

Prosecutors rest in Fort Hood shooting trial

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 11:21 AM PDT

Bell County Sheriff's Office photograph of Nidal HasanFORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Military prosecutors rested their case Tuesday against the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people during the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood.

Official: Suspect in custody at Ga. school

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 11:07 AM PDT

Shots fired at Georgia schoolDECATUR, Ga. (AP) — The superintendent of DeKalb County schools says police have a suspect in custody after reports of gunfire at an Atlanta-area elementary school.

Prosecutors to attack Pistorius' story, character

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 10:37 AM PDT

Oscar Pistorius, centre, arrives outside the magistrates court in Pretoria, South Africa, Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. Pistorius was indicted on charges of murder and illegal possession of ammunition for the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. (AP Photo)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Neighbors, an ex-girlfriend, a member of a firearms club and a former soccer player who claims Oscar Pistorius threatened him are all named among the 107 potential state witnesses for the double-amputee Olympian's murder trial.

'Free at last,' Mandela said, quoting King

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 10:06 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 2, 1994 file photo Nelson Mandela, and Coretta Scott King, left, widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., sing and dance at a victory celebration for Mandela in Johannesburg, after Mandela and the ANC appeared to take the majority of the votes in the country's first integrated elections. Mandela never met with King but the two fought for the same issues at the same time on two different continents. Mandela said in a 1964 speech that he was prepared to die to see his dream of a society where blacks and whites were equal become reality. King was killed by an assassin's bullet while working for that same dream. ( (AP Photo/David Brauchli,file)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The speaker, one of the world's most recognizable black leaders, was addressing a joint session of the U.S. Congress when he quoted America's top civil rights leader: "Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty we are free at last," Nelson Mandela said to a standing ovation, quoting words delivered in a speech whose 50th anniversary comes next week

Judge to announce Manning's sentence Wednesday

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 09:20 AM PDT

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted into a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013, before a hearing in his court martial. A prosecutor recommended in closing arguments Monday that Manning should spend 60 years in prison for giving classified material to WikiLeaks. A U.S. military judge was set to deliberate the sentence of Manning on Tuesday for the largest leak of classified information in the country's history. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — A military judge says she'll announce on Wednesday the sentence for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who gave reams of classified information to WikiLeaks.

Rubio is talking less about immigration these days

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 09:05 AM PDT

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Sen. Marco Rubio is spending part of his summer break from Washington campaigning across Florida in opposition to funding for President Barack Obama's health care law. He doesn't talk much these days about the sweeping immigration overhaul he long has championed — unless he's asked about the issue.

Meet the top 10 richest members of Congress

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 08:21 AM PDT

House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., right, joined by Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., left, the ranking member, to hear from Inspector General Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department's internal watchdog, the day after he issued a report faulting the department for disregard of public safety in California Rep. Darrell Issa, a Republican, tops the new list, but Democrats hold most of the top spots.

US military judge deliberating Manning's sentence

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 07:03 AM PDT

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted into a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013, before a hearing in his court martial. A prosecutor recommended in closing arguments Monday that Manning should spend 60 years in prison for giving classified material to WikiLeaks. A U.S. military judge was set to deliberate the sentence of Manning on Tuesday for the largest leak of classified information in the country's history. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — A judge is deliberating Army Pfc. Bradley Manning's sentence for disclosing reams of classified information through WikiLeaks.

White House denies report it secretly froze Egypt aid

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 06:48 AM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi, pictured, hold up four fingers, a sign that protesters say symbolizes the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque in Cairo that was cleared last week by Egyptian security forces, as they march in Maadi, Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. Arabic on posters reads, The government said "no policy decisions" had been made, which leaves a lot of room.

Suspect in Fort Hood shootings waits turn in court

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 05:15 AM PDT

FILE- In this Aug. 6, 2013, file courtroom sketch, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan sits in court for his court-martial in Fort Hood, Texas. The prosecutors pursuing the death penalty against the Army psychiatrist accused in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage will soon begin trying to answer a difficult but key question_ determining why Hasan attacked his fellow soldiers in the worst mass shooting ever on a U.S. military base. (AP Photo/Brigitte Woosley, File)FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Maj. Nidal Hasan, accused in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood that killed 13 and wounded dozens, is about to get his best chance yet to explain his actions — though whether he will seize the opportunity remains to be seen.

Guardian says Britain made it destroy Snowden material

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 03:58 AM PDT

U.S. journalist Greenwald looks on as his partner Miranda talks with the media after arriving at Rio de Janeiro's International AirportBy Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - The British authorities forced the Guardian newspaper to destroy material leaked by Edward Snowden, its editor has revealed, calling it a "pointless" move that would not prevent further reporting on U.S. and British surveillance programmes. In a column in the paper on Tuesday, Alan Rusbridger said the "bizarre" episode a month ago and the detention at London's Heathrow airport on Sunday of the partner of a Guardian journalist showed press freedom was under threat in Britain. ...

Wrecked Fukushima plant springs highly radioactive water leak

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 03:43 AM PDT

A radiation monitor indicates 131.00 microsieverts per hour at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in FukushimaThe leak is the most serious setback to the clean up of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.

Floods recede in Manila as thousands evacuated

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 03:43 AM PDT

A Filipino man crosses a flooded highway at the financial district of Makati, south of Manila, Philippines on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013. Flooding caused by some of the Philippines' heaviest rains on record submerged more than half the capital Tuesday, turning roads into rivers and trapping tens of thousands of people in homes and shelters. The government suspended all work except rescues and disaster response for a second day. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Flooding caused by some of the Philippines' heaviest rains that submerged more than half the capital began receding Tuesday even as authorities evacuated thousands of residents along Manila's overflowing rivers and braced for more chaos in outlying provinces.

Egypt arrests Brotherhood's spiritual leader

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 02:40 AM PDT

In this image taken from Egypt State TV, Mohammed Badie, the supreme leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, is seen after being detained by Egyptian security in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013. Egypt's military-backed rulers are pressing on in their crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood with the arrest early Tuesday of the group's spiritual leader who had been in hiding near the huge sit-in in support of the country's ousted Islamist president, which security forces violently dispersed a week ago, leaving hundreds dead. (AP Photo/Egypt State TV)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt on Tuesday announced the arrest of the supreme leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, dealing a serious blow to the Islamist group at a time when it is struggling to keep up its street protests against the ouster President Mohammed Morsi in the face of a harsh crackdown by authorities.

Obama urges renewed push for Wall Street overhaul

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 02:40 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 11, 2007 file photo, a Wall Street sign is seen at an entrance to the New York Stock Exchange. Three years after President Barack Obama signed a sweeping overhaul of lending and high-finance rules, implementation of the law is behind schedule with scores of regulations yet to be written, let alone enforced. Obama was meeting with top banking regulators Monday, Aug. 19, 2013, for a status report with the five-year anniversary of the financial meltdown approaching this fall. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Passage of a sweeping overhaul of Wall Street regulations in 2010 was a hallmark of President Barack Obama's first term. Three years later, amid delays and compromises that critics say have diluted its ambitious goals, the president is trying to rekindle the law's promise.

1st portraits of Prince George are a family affair

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 02:40 AM PDT

This image taken by Michael Middleton, the Duchess's father, in early August 2013 and supplied by Kensington Palace, shows the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with their son, Prince George, in the garden of the Middleton family home in Bucklebury, England, with Tilly the retriever, seen left, a Middleton family pet, and Lupo, the couple's cocker spaniel. (AP Photo/Michael Middleton/TRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge ) EDITORIAL USE ONLYLONDON (AP) — Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge have bypassed professional photographers and chosen family snapshots for the first official images of their new son, Prince George.

Ousted China leader's trial caps dramatic downfall

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 01:07 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 5, 2012 file photo, then Chongqing Communist Party Secretary Bo Xilai scratches his chin during the opening session of the National People's Congress in Beijing. Now the final chapter in the saga is about to unfold: a closely orchestrated trial, opening Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013 in which the 64-year-old Bo is virtually assured of being convicted of corruption and abuse of power. Bo's trial will seal the political demise of a charismatic figure who cultivated a following by mobilizing the masses and sending his critics to labor camps. His naked ambition might have led to his fall. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)BEIJING (AP) — Only a few people heard it, but when one of China's most prominent politicians slapped his police chief across the face, it would end up reverberating far and wide. The smack unleashed tales of murder and conspiracy at the highest levels of the Communist Party — and eventually, the politician's own undoing.

Pakistan's Musharraf charged in Bhutto killing

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 12:53 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 20, 2013, file photo, Pakistan's former President and military ruler Pervez Musharraf arrives at an anti-terrorism court in Islamabad, Pakistan. A Pakistani court Tuesday indicted Musharraf on murder charges in connection with the 2007 assassination of iconic Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, deepening the fall of a once-powerful figure who returned to the country this year in an effort to take part in elections. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani court on Tuesday indicted former president and army chief Pervez Musharraf on murder charges in connection with the 2007 assassination of iconic Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, deepening the fall of a once-powerful figure who returned to the country this year to make a political comeback.

Vintage Chevy auction to deal in low-mileage gems

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 12:37 AM PDT

In this photo from Aug. 12, 2013, auctioneer Yvette VanDerBrink stands in front of a brand new old 1963 Chevrolet Impala and a brand new 1958 Cameo pickup truck, right, at the former Lambrecht Chevrolet car dealership in Pierce, Neb. Next month, bidders from at least a dozen countries and all 50 U.S. states will converge on Pierce, a town of about 1,800 in northeast Nebraska, for a two-day auction that will feature about 500 old cars and trucks, mostly Chevrolets that went unsold during the dealership's five decades in business. About 50 have fewer than 20 miles on the odometer, and some are so rare that no one has established a price. The most valuable could fetch six-figure bids. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)PIERCE, Neb. (AP) — Seventeen years have passed since Ray Lambrecht closed his Chevrolet dealership, a small-town operation in northeast Nebraska with a big and valuable secret.

Egypt: Court raises possibility of a free Mubarak

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 12:06 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 5, 2013 file photo, Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie speaks onstage as military helicopters fly overhead before tens of thousands of supporters in Cairo. Security officials and Egyptian state television report that police detained Mohammed Badie in Cairo early Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013. He is set to be tried later this month for his alleged role in the killing of eight protesters outside the group's headquarters in June. (AP Photo, File)CAIRO (AP) — A court ruling Monday raised the possibility of jailed ex-president Hosni Mubarak walking free soon, a move that would fuel the unrest roiling the country after the autocratic leader's successor was removed in a military coup.
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