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Autopsy: Condemned Ohio man apparently hanged self

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 12:38 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows Billy Slagle, who was found hanged in his death row cell just three days before his execution on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. An autopsy is expected Monday, Aug. 5. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Rehabilitation, File)COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An autopsy shows that a death row inmate in Ohio apparently hanged himself three days before his execution.

Taliban talking secretly to Kabul government

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 11:37 AM PDT

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — The Taliban have held secret talks with representatives of Afghan President Hamid Karzai to try to jumpstart a peace process that stumbled and stalled at the starting gate, according to Afghan officials and a senior Taliban representative.

Immigration bill critics focus on health law delay

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 11:21 AM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 1, 2013 file photo shows immigration reform supporters blocking a street on Capitol Hill in Washington. For many House conservatives, President Barack Obama's decision to delay a central provision of his health care law has emerged as a major stumbling block _ not to health coverage, but to an immigration bill. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — You can add distrust to the list of stumbling blocks standing in the way of an immigration overhaul in the House.

US embassies in 4 African countries also closed

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 10:35 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo of Monday, March 3, 2003, the new U.S. Embassy on the outskirts of Nairobi. The largest U.S. diplomatic mission in sub-Saharan Africa replaces the earlier mission that was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on Aug 7, 1998, killing 219 people. Wednesday will mark 15 years since that explosion. During a week of heightened security concerns at U.S. embassies the East African countries of Rwanda, Burundi, Mauritius and Madagascar were added to the U.S. embassy closures list on Sunday. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi, File)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The U.S. State Department closed its embassies in four sub-Saharan African nations as part of a heightened security alert, days before the 15th anniversary of al-Qaida's bombings of American diplomatic missions in Kenya and Tanzania.

RNC threatens to cut CNN, NBC from debates over Clinton programs

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 09:35 AM PDT

Republican National Committee Chairman Priebus leaves the stage after addressing the Faith and Freedom Coalition The Republican National Committee warns they won't work with networks on primary debates unless they cancel upcoming programs about Hillary Clinton.

New JFK book claims details on affairs, drug use

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 09:07 AM PDT

Marilyn Monroe thought JFK would marry her, book claimsA new book about President John F. Kennedy's last year alive alleges details of his affair with Marilyn Monroe and his drug use. Excerpts from "These Few Precious Days," which was written by Christopher Andersen, a Kennedy biographer and journalist, asserts that first lady Jacqueline Kennedy knew about her husband's infidelities, but was bothered by his alleged romance with Marilyn Monroe the most.

Cleanup underway at derailment site in Louisiana

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 08:03 AM PDT

Potentially deadly chemicals on-board derailed train forces La. evacuationsAbout 100 homes remained evacuated.

AP source: A-Rod can play during suspension appeal

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 07:51 AM PDT

New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez answers questions from the media during a press conference after a minor league baseball rehab start with the Trenton Thunder in a game against the Reading Fightin Phils, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013 at Arm & Hammer Park in Trenton, N.J.. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Rodriguez figures to have a one-of-a-kind day on Monday. He'll receive a lengthy suspension from baseball and then head to the ballpark to play for the New York Yankees for the first time this season.

Q&A on the science of growing hamburger in the lab

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 07:51 AM PDT

LONDON (AP) — At a public tasting in London Monday, Dutch scientists served hamburgers made from cow stem cells. Some questions and answers about the science behind the revolutionary patty.

First reaction: lab-made burger short on flavor

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 07:51 AM PDT

Mark Post, developer of the stem cell burger, poses before the first public tasting, in London, Monday, Aug. 5, 2013. For hamburgers that cost more than $300,000 to produce, you might expect fries and a shake too. But this is no ordinary burger being served to two volunteer taste-testers in London on Monday. This meat was grown in a laboratory from stem cells of cattle. Mark Post, whose team at Maastricht University in the Netherlands developed the burger after five years of research, hopes that making meat in labs could eventually help solve the food crisis and fight climate change. (AP Photo/Bogdan Maran)LONDON (AP) — They bit, they chewed, but had hoped for more flavor.

Former military chief gets life sentence in Turkey

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 05:31 AM PDT

People hold national flags as they shout slogans outside the Silivri jail complex in Silivri, Turkey, early Monday, Aug. 5, 2013. Some 275 people - including military officers, politicians and journalists - are facing verdicts in a landmark and divisive trial in Turkey over an alleged conspiracy to overthrow Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government. Security forces set up barricades around the courthouse in Silivri to tighten security after the supporters of defendants announced to hold a demonstration against the five-year trial. (AP Photo)ISTANBUL (AP) — A Turkish court has convicted the country's former military chief of trying to overthrow the government and sentenced him to life in prison.

Revealed: The DEA's spy program

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 04:15 AM PDT

Logotipo de la DEA, la agencia antidrogas estadoundiense, el 26 de junio de 2013 en Arlington, Virginia (EEUU).Agents "recreate" investigative trails to cover up where they get information.

Scientists to serve lab-made burger from cow cells

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 04:15 AM PDT

LONDON (AP) — For a hamburger that cost more than $300,000, you might expect fries and a shake too.

Scientists serve up lab-made burger from cow cells

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 03:29 AM PDT

LONDON (AP) — For a hamburger that cost more than $300,000, you might expect it to come with fries and a shake.

US official visits senior Egypt Islamist in jail

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 02:57 AM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi pray outside Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where protesters have installed a camp and hold daily rallies at Nasr City in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)CAIRO (AP) — A top U.S. diplomat met early on Monday a jailed senior leader in the Muslim Brotherhood, part of mediation efforts to end the standoff between Egypt's military-backed government and protesters supporting the ousted president, government officials said.

Vendors recall hit-and-run driver at LA boardwalk

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 02:11 AM PDT

Mustafa, left, and his wife, Yesim Balci pose at their stand along the Venice, Calif., beach boardwalk Sunday Aug. 4, 2013 near where a Saturday incident involving a driver who accelerated through a crowd of beachgoers, hitting one person after another as bystanders tried desperately to get out of the way. The hit-and-run killed an Italian woman on her honeymoon and hurt 11 others. Yesim shows her injured right leg where she was struck by the driver. Theirs was the first stand hit. (AP Photo/Tami Abdollah)LOS ANGELES (AP) — One minute, Mustafa Balci was sitting in a lawn chair next to his wife at their booth on the Venice Beach boardwalk, enjoying the leisurely summer scene.

Calif. gov. orders inquiry, averts SF rail strike

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 01:57 AM PDT

In this file photo from Monday, July 1, 2013, striking Bay Area Rapid Transit workers picket as they close the intersection of 14th & Broadway on Monday, July 1, 2013, in downtown Oakland, Calif. San Francisco Bay Area commuters braced for the possibility of another train strike as the Bay Area Rapid Transit agency and its workers approached a deadline to reach a new contract deal. The two sides were set to resume negotiations at noon on Thursday, Aug. 1, but did not appear close to an agreement. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of San Francisco Bay area commuters got at least a temporary reprieve from a massive transit strike when Gov. Jerry Brown ordered an inquiry into a labor contract dispute.

Will fast-food protests spur higher minimum wage?

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 01:25 AM PDT

Fast-food worker Michelle Osborn, 23, of Flint, Mich. shouts out chants as she and a few dozen others strike outside of a McDonald's restaurant on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 in Flint. A few thousand fast-food workers in seven cities took to the streets demanding better pay, the right to unionize and a more than doubling of the federal minimum hourly wage from $7.25 to $15. (AP Photo/The Flint Journal, Jake May)Terrance Wise has two jobs in Kansas City — one at a burger joint, a second at a pizza restaurant — but he says his paychecks aren't enough to buy shoes for his three daughters and insure his 15-year-old car. So he decided to draw attention to his plight: He walked off work in protest.

Gov. action averts San Francisco transit strike

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 12:10 AM PDT

In this file photo from Monday, July 1, 2013, striking Bay Area Rapid Transit workers picket as they close the intersection of 14th & Broadway on Monday, July 1, 2013, in downtown Oakland, Calif. San Francisco Bay Area commuters braced for the possibility of another train strike as the Bay Area Rapid Transit agency and its workers approached a deadline to reach a new contract deal. The two sides were set to resume negotiations at noon on Thursday, Aug. 1, but did not appear close to an agreement. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — With an eleventh hour order, Gov. Jerry Brown averted a strike of San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit system late Sunday night, easing the minds of hundreds of thousands of anxious commuters.

AP PHOTOS: Crisis-displaced matadors turn to Peru

Posted: 04 Aug 2013 11:11 PM PDT

In this July 16, 2013 photo, a poster advertises an upcoming bullfighting event in Lachaqui, Peru. Crisis-displaced Iberian matadors including Nuno Casquinha and Emilo Serna are seeking fame in the rugged Andean backwaters of Peru. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)LACHAQUI, Peru (AP) — His left knee to the ground, Nuno Casquinha theatrically tosses away his red cloth, muleta and sword and stares down the bleeding bull that is scratching the dirt with its hooves in a haze of rage.

U.S. extends embassy closings over 'serious threat'

Posted: 04 Aug 2013 09:54 PM PDT

A flag flutters outside the U.S. embassy in Tel AvivEmbassies in the Middle East and Africa will remain closed through the end of the week.

US posts in Muslim world will remain closed

Posted: 04 Aug 2013 06:19 PM PDT

Map shows U.S. embassies and consulates that will close; 3c x 3 inches; 146 mm x 76 mm;WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. diplomatic posts in 19 cities in the Muslim world will be closed at least through the end of this week, the State Department said Sunday, citing "an abundance of caution."

Japan launches talking humanoid robot into space

Posted: 04 Aug 2013 06:05 PM PDT

In this photo taken from video Japan's H-2B rocket lifts off from a launch pad at the Tanegashima Space Center in Tanegashima, southern Japan, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. Japan successfully launched the un-manned cargo transporter Sunday carrying close to five and a half tons of supplies and equipment, along with a small robot which will serve as a companion to Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata who is onboard the International Space Station. (AP Photo/JAXA via AP video) MANDATORY CREDITTOKYO (AP) — Japan has launched the world's first talking humanoid robot "astronaut" toward the International Space Station.

Hit-and-run driver accelerated onto LA boardwalk

Posted: 04 Aug 2013 04:49 PM PDT

In this still frame made from security camera footage from Snapchat, Inc. headquarters, pedestrians scatter as a car drives through a packed afternoon crowd along the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. A driver plowed into crowds at the Venice Beach boardwalk in a seemingly intentional hit-and-run that killed a woman and injured 11 others. (AP Photo/Snapchat Inc.)LOS ANGELES (AP) — The driver parked outside a hotel and surveyed the leisurely summer scene at the Venice Beach boardwalk: Hundreds of people were sitting at cafes, walking along the seashore or shopping at vendors selling jewelry or art.

Tighter security at some US missions over al-Qaida

Posted: 04 Aug 2013 02:01 PM PDT

A Yemeni soldier inspects a car at a checkpoint on a street leading to the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. Security forces close access roads, put up extra blast walls and beef up patrols near some of the 21 U.S. diplomatic missions in the Muslim world that Washington ordered closed for the weekend over a ``significant threat'' of an al-Qaida attack. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)Security forces closed roads, put up extra blast walls and increased patrols Sunday near some of the 22 U.S. diplomatic missions in the Muslim world that Washington had ordered closed for the weekend following warnings of a possible al-Qaida attack.
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