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8 states join forces to promote clean cars

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 01:05 PM PDT

File-This Aug. 18, 2011 file photo shows a Nissan Leaf charges at an electric vehicle charging station in Portland, Ore. he governors of eight states including California and New York pledged Thursday to get 3.3 million zero-emission vehicles on roadways by 2025 in an effort to curb greenhouse gas pollution. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer,File)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Eight states, including California and New York, pledged Thursday to work together to dramatically multiply the number of zero-emission cars on the nation's roads by speeding the construction of charging stations and other infrastructure.

2 shot at Nat'l Guard armory; gunman in custody

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 12:49 PM PDT

MILLINGTON, Tenn. (AP) — A member of the National Guard opened fire at an armory outside a U.S. Navy base in Tennessee, wounding two soldiers before being subdued and disarmed by others soldiers, officials said Thursday.

Dallas officer who shot mentally ill man is fired

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 12:33 PM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 14, 2013 file image from video courtesy of Maurice Bunch shows Bobby Gerald Bennett, left, standing as two Dallas Police officers approach him. Seconds later, Officer Cardan Spencer fires at Bennet who is mentally ill. Spencer has been fired and charged with felony aggravated assault, police said Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Maurice Bunch, File)DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas police officer who shot a mentally ill man in a disputed incident caught on tape has been fired and charged with felony aggravated assault, police said Thursday.

Behind the wheel, Saudi women hope for new gains

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 12:17 PM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, June 17, 2011 file image made from video released by Change.org, a Saudi Arabian woman drives a car as part of a campaign to defy Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It's been a little more than two years since the last time women in Saudi Arabia campaigned for the right to drive. Since then, the monarchy has made incremental but key reforms, and activists hope that has readied the nation for greater change as they call for women to get behind the wheel in a new campaign Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013. Ultraconservatives are pushing back with protests, threats and even a cleric's warning that driving a car damages a woman's ovaries.(AP Photo/Change.org, File)DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — It's been a little more than two years since the last time women in Saudi Arabia campaigned for the right to drive. Now activists are calling for women to get behind the wheel again Saturday, and they hope reforms made by the monarchy since then have readied the deeply conservative nation for change.

Shooting on Navy property in Tenn.; 1 in custody

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 12:01 PM PDT

Generic ShootingMILLINGTON, Tenn. (AP) — A gunman opened fire at a U.S. Navy facility in Tennessee before being taken into custody Thursday, wounding two service members and prompting a lockdown, the military said.

Key developments as Sandy anniversary approaches

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 11:45 AM PDT

FILE - This March 26, 2007 file photo shows the ferry building on Ellis Island, N.J. The National Parks Service says the Ellis Island Immigration Museum will reopen to the public on Monday, Oct. 28, 2013. It's been about a year since Superstorm Sandy brought water levels as high as 8 feet to the iconic former U.S. immigration entry point. (AP Photo/Mike Derer, File)The anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, which swamped New Jersey, New York and other parts of the East Coast on Oct. 29, 2012, is fast approaching. Some developments as that date approaches:

'More testing was necessary'

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 11:12 AM PDT

Cheryl Campbell, senior vice president of CGI listens at left as Andy Slavitt, representing QSSI's parent company, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing with contractors that built the federal government's health care websites. The contractors responsible for building the troubled Healthcare.gov website say it was the government's responsibility _ not theirs _ to test it and make sure it worked. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)HealthCare.gov was pushed too soon, say contractors who built it.

Pirates kidnap two American sailors in Nigeria

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 10:07 AM PDT

Pirates Seize 2 Americans Off Ship Near Nigerian CoastUS-Flagged Ship Attacked, Americans Taken to Land, Official Says

Hillary Clinton silences a heckler — and presses for civility in D.C.

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 09:50 AM PDT

Former U.S. Secretary of State and former first lady Hillary Clinton speaks during a Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) conference in New York September 25, 2013.Hillary Clinton solves the deadlock in Washington while silencing a heckler.

Calif. sheriff's deputy shoots, kills 13-year-old

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 09:33 AM PDT

This combination of photos provided by the family via The Press Democrat and the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department shows an undated photo of 13-year-old Andy Lopez and the replica assault rifle he was holding when he was shot and killed by two Sonoma County deputies in Santa Rosa, Calif. on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Family via The Press Democrat, Sonoma County Sheriff's Department)SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California community is anguished over the fatal shooting by a deputy of a popular, 13-year-old boy who had been carrying a pellet gun that looked like an assault rifle.

Syrian court orders release of prominent blogger

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 09:17 AM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 file citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows rebels from al-Qaida affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, as they sit on a truck full of ammunition, at Taftanaz air base, that was captured by the rebels, in Idlib province, northern Syria. An Islamist extremist group affiliated with al-Qaida, Jabhat al-Nusra has emerged as one of the most powerful rebel factions on the battlefield.(AP Photo/Edlib News Network, ENN, File)BEIRUT (AP) — A lawyer for a prominent Syrian blogger convicted of spying for a foreign country says a court has ordered her release.

Teen stabbed Mass. teacher then went to movie, police say

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 08:44 AM PDT

A girl lights a candle at a makeshift memorial for teacher Colleen Ritzer outside the high school where she taught in DanversBOSTON (Reuters) - The Massachusetts teenager who has been charged with murdering a 24-year-old math teacher at his high school used a box cutter to stab the woman, then disposed of her body and went to the movies, local media reported on Thursday. The 14-year-old, Philip Chism, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to the charge of murdering Colleen Ritzer, whose body was discovered in the woods behind his high school in Danvers, Massachusetts, some 20 miles north of Boston. ...

Obama calls for immigration law by end of the year

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 08:26 AM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden applauds as President Barack Obama speaks about immigration reform, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The president said now that the partial government shutdown is over, Republicans and Democrats should be able to work together to fix what he called WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama called on Congress Thursday to finish work on an immigration overhaul by the end of the year, a lofty goal that will be difficult to meet given the staunch opposition of many House Republicans.

French, UN forces in 'large-scale' operation against Mali extremists

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 07:51 AM PDT

French soldiers man their positions while clashes erupt in the city of Gao on February 21, 2013Paris (AFP) - French, UN and Malian forces were engaged in a major operation aimed at preventing a resurgence of Islamist rebels in Mali, the French military said Thursday.

Burned, flooded Breezy Point tries to rebuild after Sandy

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 07:33 AM PDT

Hurricane Sandy - Then and nowA year after Sandy about half of the community is back, but there's a sense of uncertainty.

Woman in Bulgaria questioned in 'Maria' case

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 07:17 AM PDT

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A Roma woman in Bulgaria said Thursday that police have questioned her about whether she is the mother of a girl found living with an unrelated couple in Greece, and that she is willing to do a DNA test and take the child back if she is proved to be hers.

Madeleine McCann probe reopens in Portugal

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 07:01 AM PDT

Kate and Gerry McCann pose with an artist's impression of how their missing daughter Madeleine might look now, at a press conference in central London on May 2, 2012Lisbon (AFP) - Portuguese authorities said Thursday they are reopening their probe into the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann from a beach resort in 2007.

Self-driving cars would be great, study claims

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 06:43 AM PDT

,FILE -This Sept. 3, 2013, file photo shows a videographer photographing the Google self-driving car during a news conference at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute's Smart Road in Blacksburg Va. A new study that attempts to quantify the benefits of self-driving cars and trucks says they hold the potential to transform driving by eliminating the majority of traffic deaths, significantly reducing congestion and providing tens of billions of dollars in economic benefits. (AP Photo / The Roanoke Times, Matt Gentry, File)Computer would be safer, cheaper, and faster.

Healthcare.gov problems are target at Hill hearing

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 05:24 AM PDT

From left, Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini, Humana CEO Bruce Broussard, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida CEO Patrick Geraghty, and other health care chief executive officers arrive at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, to meet with White House officials regarding President Barack Obama's health care law. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — The principal contractors responsible for the federal government's trouble-plagued health insurance website say the Obama administration shares responsibility for the snags that have crippled the system.

Tests suggest baby born with HIV may be cured

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 04:37 AM PDT

First child 'functionally cured' of HIV remains in remission, scientists announceDoctors now have convincing evidence that they put HIV into remission, hopefully for good, in a Mississippi baby born with the AIDS virus — a medical first that is prompting a new look at how hard and ...

Norway's Somalis worry extremism is spreading

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 04:20 AM PDT

Relatives of those who died lay white roses at a stone memorial, during a memorial service marking the one-month anniversary of the the Sept. 21 Westgate Mall terrorist attack, in Karura Forest in Nairobi, Kenya Monday, Oct. 21, 2013. Families and friends of those killed in the attack planted trees in memory of lost loved ones in a ceremony that stressed that the attack occurred against people of all races and religions. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)OSLO, Norway (AP) — Somali immigrants in Norway fear that violent extremism is taking root in the community after a reports of young Somali-Norwegians traveling abroad to join jihadist groups.

California police 'kill boy carrying pellet gun'

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 04:05 AM PDT

A BB gun modeled on an assault rifle at a gun buyback at Sayre Woods Bible Church on September 27, 2013 in Old Bridge, New JerseyWashington (AFP) - Californian police have shot dead a 13-year-old boy who was carrying a pellet gun that looked like an assault rifle, police and media reports said.

More victims of online abuse reach out to parents

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 03:47 AM PDT

Sarah Ball, a victim of cyber bullying during her high school years, sits for a portrait at her home on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, in Spring Hill, Fla. Ball, now a student at a nearby community college, maintains a Facebook site called WASHINGTON (AP) — Sarah Ball was a 15-year-old high school sophomore at Hernando High School in Brooksville, Fla., when a friend posted on Facebook: "I hate Sarah Ball, and I don't care who knows."

Syria releases 61 women detainees, activists say

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 03:31 AM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 file citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows rebels from al-Qaida affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, as they sit on a truck full of ammunition, at Taftanaz air base, that was captured by the rebels, in Idlib province, northern Syria. An Islamist extremist group affiliated with al-Qaida, Jabhat al-Nusra has emerged as one of the most powerful rebel factions on the battlefield.(AP Photo/Edlib News Network, ENN, File)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian authorities have released a total of 61 women detainees, an activist group said Thursday, the latest in a three-way prisoner exchange that was one of the more ambitious negotiated deals in the country's civil war in which rival factions remain largely opposed to any bartered peace.

Germany summons US ambassador over spying

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 02:40 AM PDT

La canciller de Alemania, Angela Merkel, al centro, conversa con representantes de los socialdemócratas en Berlín, Alemania, el miércoles 23 de octubre de 2013, al comenzar las negociaciones para la coalición de gobierno. En el ámbito externo, Merkel se ha abstenido de censurar el espionaje de Estados Unidos a los aliados europeos de Washington. (AP Foto/Michael Sohn)The move follows allegations that the NSA may have tapped Chancellor Merkel's cellphone.
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