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AP PHOTOS: Curiosity rover's first year on Mars

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 12:41 PM PDT

FILE - This image provided by NASA shows a color self-portrait of the Mars rover Curiosity. The rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to capture dozens of high-resolution images to be combined into self-portrait images of the rover. (AP Photo/NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — A year ago, NASA's Curiosity rover survived "seven minutes of terror" and landed safely in an ancient Martian crater.

Westerners evacuated amid terror fears in Yemen

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 12:11 PM PDT

Police in an armored vehicle secure a road leading to the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013. The State Department on Tuesday ordered non-essential personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen to leave the country. The department said in a travel warning that it had ordered the departure of non-emergency U.S. government personnel from Yemen SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A suspected U.S. drone killed four alleged al-Qaida members Tuesday in Yemen, as the U.S. and British embassies evacuated staff amid reports of a threatened attack by the terrorist group.

Accused Fort Hood shooter says 'War is an ugly thing'

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 11:41 AM PDT

Nidal Hasan, charged with killing 13 people and wounding 31 in a November 2009 shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, is pictured in an undated Bell County Sheriff's Office photograph. REUTERS/Bell County Sheriff's Office/HandoutIn a statement in his trial, Nidal Hasan said it brings death and devastation on both sides.

Rising tax revenue eases pressure for budget cuts

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 11:25 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2013 file photo, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. As the economy improves, tax receipts are rising and that will shrink the federal deficit. That development will shape the debate when Congress returns to decide whether to continue, end or modify tens of billions of dollars in automatic cuts in government spending. Some economists worry the improving numbers will reduce pressure to address the nation's long-term debt problem. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Rising tax receipts are helping shrink the federal deficit to less than half what it was a couple of years ago. And that will shape the debate when Congress decides next month whether to continue, end or modify tens of billions of dollars in automatic government spending cuts.

Wildlife crime fighter sets out to save the elephants

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 10:55 AM PDT

A newborn Asian elephant calf plays with its mother...It takes a global investigation -- from the gleaming ivory markets of China to a $12 million pile of tusks and trinkets in Denver to the smugglers' shops of West Africa -– to understand the grim laws of supply and demand in the world's illegal ivory trade. The billion-dollar food chain begins deep in the [...]

After heart surgery, Bush's advice: ‘Regular check-ups’

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 09:55 AM PDT

FILE - This May 31, 2013 file photo shows former President George W. Bush during the unveiling their of his in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Bush has successfully undergone a heart procedure after doctors discovered a blockage in an artery. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)Sound advice from the recovering former president.

US senators urge release of Egypt's Islamists

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 09:23 AM PDT

This image released by the Egyptian Presidency shows interim Vice President Mohamed Elbaradei, left, meets with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, center, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013. Top U.S., European and Arab envoys visited a jailed Muslim Brotherhood leader Monday on a mission to ease tensions between Egypt's military-backed government and supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi. The talks between Burns and Khairat el-Shater took place in the prison where the Muslim Brotherhood figure is being held.(AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)CAIRO (AP) — Two senior U.S. senators have urged Egypt's military-backed government to release detained members of the Muslim Brotherhood and before starting negotiations.

Rep: Jazz keyboardist George Duke dies at 67

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 09:09 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 13, 2009 file photo, US jazz artist George Duke performs on the Stravinski Hall stage at the 43rd Montreux Jazz Festival, in Montreux, Switzerland. Duke, 67, the Grammy-winning jazz keyboardist and producer whose sound infused acoustic jazz, electronic jazz, funk, R&B and soul in a 40-year-plus career, died Monday, Aug. 5, 2013, in Los Angeles. He was being treated for chronic lymphocytic leukemia. (AP Photo/Keystone, Jean-Christophe Bott, File)NEW YORK (AP) — A representative says Grammy-winning jazz keyboardist and producer George Duke, whose sound infused acoustic jazz, electronic jazz, funk, R&B and soul, has died. He was 67.

Egypt's leadership denounces 'foreign pressure'

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 08:39 AM PDT

This image released by the Egyptian Presidency shows interim Vice President Mohamed Elbaradei, left, meets with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, center, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013. Top U.S., European and Arab envoys visited a jailed Muslim Brotherhood leader Monday on a mission to ease tensions between Egypt's military-backed government and supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi. The talks between Burns and Khairat el-Shater took place in the prison where the Muslim Brotherhood figure is being held.(AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)CAIRO (AP) — Amid a flurry of visits by American and other foreign dignitaries, Egypt's interim presidency denounced "foreign pressure" on Tuesday in a sign of its growing impatience with international efforts to resolve a standoff with supporters of the ousted president that has left the country on the brink of another bout of violence and deadly street confrontations.

68th Anniversary of Hiroshima bombing

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 08:39 AM PDT

68th Anniversary of Hiroshima bombingA selection of newspaper headlines from around the country from Aug. 7 to 14, 1945, the days following the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The weapon was produced in part in Oak Ridge, Tenn. (AP Photo/U.S. Department of Energy)

Python's strangling of 2 boys in Canada probed

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 08:07 AM PDT

In this Monday Aug. 5, 2013 photo, Royal Canadian Mounted Police work at the scene of a fatal python attack at Reptile Ocean exotic pet store in Campbellton, New Brunswick. Two young boys were killed by a python snake as they slept in an apartment above the store. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press)CAMPBELLTON, New Brunswick (AP) — A 100-pound (45-kilogram) python blamed in the strangling deaths of two Canadian boys apparently escaped from its pet store enclosure, slithered through a ventilation system and fell through the ceiling into the room where the young brothers were sleeping, the shop owner said Tuesday.

Fort Hood shooting military trial gets underway

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 08:07 AM PDT

A U.S. solider stands guard outside where the court-martial of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is beginning, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, in Forth Hood, Texas. After years of delays, the trial of the man who carried out the Fort Hood shooting is starting, with Hasan representing himself against charges of murder and attempted murder for the 2009 attack that left 13 people dead on the Army post. (AP Photo/LM Otero)FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The military trial for the Army psychiatrist accused in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage began under heavy security on Tuesday at the Texas base, and it seems likely to unfold as a faceoff between the gunman and his victims.

W. Pa. boy dies after serving as parents' best man

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 07:07 AM PDT

Dying two-year-old is Pennsylvania couple's best manPITTSBURGH (AP) — A terminally ill 2-year-old western Pennsylvania boy who served as his parents' best man at their wedding last weekend has died, according to his mother's Facebook page and a family friend.

Sun's magnetic field 'is about to flip,' warns NASA

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 07:07 AM PDT

A CME pictured this year (NASA)The whole of the sun's magnetic field is about to "flip", according to NASA - with warning signs being spotted by observatories around the world this year.

Fort Hood under tight security ahead of trial

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 07:07 AM PDT

A U.S. solider stands guard outside where the court-martial of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is beginning, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, in Forth Hood, Texas. After years of delays, the trial of the man who carried out the Fort Hood shooting is starting, with Hasan representing himself against charges of murder and attempted murder for the 2009 attack that left 13 people dead on the Army post. (AP Photo/LM Otero)FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — After years of delays, the trial of the Army psychiatrist accused in the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, is preparing to get underway under heavy security.

Fort Hood trial brings together attacker, victims

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 05:51 AM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Bell County Sheriff's Department shows Nidal Hasan, who is charged in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 dead and more than 30 others wounded. Hasan doesn't deny that he carried out the rampage, but military law prohibits him from entering a guilty plea because authorities are seeking the death penalty. If he is convicted and sentenced to death in a trial that starts Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, there are likely years, if not decades, of appeals ahead. (AP Photo/Bell County Sheriff's Department, File)Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan will represent himself at a court-martial charging him with murder.

How the GOP lost in 2012

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 05:21 AM PDT

FILE - This Nov. 7, 2012 file photo shows then-Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney waving to supporters at an election night rally in Boston. Republican officials have confirmed that Romney is scheduled to attend an August fundraiser for the New Hampshire GOP, the first time the 2012 Republican presidential nominee will headline a political fundraiser since his November loss. The Aug. 6 event will be held in New Hampshire's Lakes Region near Romney's summer home in Wolfeboro. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)The Fine Print It was too little, too late. Washington Post correspondent Dan Balz, whose new book Collision 2012 provides in-depth reporting and analysis of the last presidential election, says the Romney campaign's failure to humanize Mitt Romney was an important factor in sealing the candidate's loss. Balz tells "The Fine Print" that the more [...]

Key questions about Fort Hood shooting trial

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 04:35 AM PDT

FILE - In this Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009, file photo, a military bugler waits for the funeral procession of Pfc. Michael Pearson to arrive at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Ill. Pearson was one of 13 killed during the Fort Hood shootings. Maj. Nidal Hasan will stand trial, in a court-martial that starts Tuesday, for the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, that left 13 people dead and more than 30 people wounded on Nov. 5, 2009(AP Photo/John Smierciak, File)DALLAS (AP) — Maj. Nidal Hasan will stand trial in a court-martial that starts Tuesday for the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead and more than 30 people wounded at the Texas Army post on Nov. 5, 2009.

Al-Qaida in Yemen proves to be tenacious enemy

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 03:04 AM PDT

A Yemeni soldier stops a car at a checkpoint in 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)WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has pummeled terror leaders in Yemen with targeted drone strikes and relaunched efforts to send military aid to the struggling nation, but the Yemen-based al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has proven to be a tenacious enemy.

State Dept. orders evacuation of U.S. Embassy in Yemen

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 02:19 AM 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)Non-emergency personnel are told to depart due to the "potential for terrorist attacks."

A-Rod to appeal 211-game ban, 12 others penalized

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 01:32 AM PDT

Fans holds a sign made for New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez during the first inning of a baseball game between Yankees and the Chicago White Sox in Chicago, Monday, Aug. 5, 2013. Rodriguez was suspended through 2014 when Major League Baseball disciplined 13 players in a drug case, the most sweeping punishment since the Black Sox scandal nearly a century ago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Rodriguez vowed to fight.

Challenges face Bezos as he buys Washington Post

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 01:17 AM PDT

FILE - This Feb. 28, 2007 file photo shows pedestrians walking past the main entrance to the Washington Post in Washington. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to buy The Washington Post for $250 million. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, file)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeff Bezos turned selling books online into a multibillion-dollar business that has changed retailing forever. Many are now anxious to see if Bezos can do the same for the media industry, after the Amazon.com founder announced he is buying The Washington Post and other newspapers for $250 million.

Obama heads to Phoenix to pitch mortgage reform

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 12:47 AM PDT

President Barack Obama waves to the media as he walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington after returning on Marine One from Camp David, Md., where he spent his birthday Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is proposing to overhaul the nation's mortgage finance system, including shutting down government-backed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. And he has some bipartisan support on Capitol Hill.

As French idea of restaurant changes, so does law

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 12:17 AM PDT

In this May 16, 2013 photo, Estelle Levy shows cookies in her bakery in Paris. France, the country that gave us the words restaurant, bistro and cuisine, is changing how it eats. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)PARIS (AP) — The country that gave us the words restaurant, bistro and cuisine is changing how it eats.

Jury in Bulger trial about to begin deliberations

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 12:17 AM PDT

In this courtroom sketch, James BOSTON (AP) — After nearly two months of testimony from gangsters, FBI agents and relatives of murder victims, the jury in the James "Whitey" racketeering trial is set to begin deliberating on a litany of charges against him.
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