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Forecasters predict just one or two major hurricanes in 2014

Posted: 22 May 2014 11:36 AM PDT

Acting Director Tom Evans of the Central Pacific Hurricane Center speaks during a briefing in Honolulu on Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Weather forecasters are predicting four to seven tropical cyclones in the central Pacific Ocean during this year's hurricane season. (AP Photo/Oskar Garcia)NEW YORK (AP) — A slower-than-usual Atlantic hurricane season is expected this year because of an expected El Nino, U.S. federal forecasters said Thursday.

Fox News anchor charged following airport arrest

Posted: 22 May 2014 10:48 AM PDT

In this photo provided by the Hennepin County, Minn., Sheriff's Office is Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett. Authorities say Jarrett has been charged with a misdemeanor following his arrest Wednesday, May 21, 2014 at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. An airport spokesman said officers reported Jarrett seemed intoxicated, acted belligerently and refused to follow orders. (AP Photo/Hennepin County Sheriff's Office)Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett has been charged with a misdemeanor following his arrest at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport for allegedly refusing to cooperate with police.

House passes $601B defense bill

Posted: 22 May 2014 10:17 AM PDT

Hagel Presses Congress To Support Pentagon Plans To Cut SpendingLegislation would spare planes, ships from Pentagon cuts.

Dozens killed in market attack in northwest China

Posted: 22 May 2014 10:16 AM PDT

Armed policemen stand guard near the site of an explosion in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang region, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Assailants in two SUVs plowed through shoppers while setting off explosives on a busy street market in China's volatile northwestern region of Xinjiang on Thursday, the local officials said, killing over two dozen people and injuring more than 90. The attack in the city of Urumqi was the bloodiest in a series of violent incidents that Chinese authorities have blamed on radical separatists from the country's Muslim Uighur minority. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)URUMQI, China (AP) — Attackers hurled bombs from two SUVs that plowed through shoppers at a busy street market in China's volatile northwestern region of Xinjiang on Thursday, killing 31 people and wounding more than 90, local officials said.

U.S. military personnel begin search for kidnapped Nigerian girls

Posted: 22 May 2014 09:43 AM PDT

U.S. DEPLOYS TROOPS TO SEARCH FOR NIGERIAN GIRLSEighty U.S. Air Force personnel have arrived in Chad and have begun their mission to help locate nearly 300 schoolgirls kidnapped in neighboring Nigeria, a U.S. military spokesman said.

House passes bill to curb NSA record-gathering

Posted: 22 May 2014 08:40 AM PDT

FILE - This June 6, 2013 file photo shows the sign outside the National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Md. The House is poised to take the first significant step to change the National Security Agency's bulk collection of American phone records, a compromise bill that is displeasing many civil liberties activists. The bill, scheduled for a House vote on May 22, 2014, instructs the phone companies to hold the records for 18 months and let the NSA search them in terrorism investigations in response to a judicial order. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)The House has passed a bill to end the National Security Agency's bulk collection of American phone records. It's the first legislative response to the disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and the Senate is expected to take it up. But civil liberties activists and technology companies say the bill doesn't go nearly far enough.

Crews continue to battle Arizona Slide Fire

Posted: 22 May 2014 08:19 AM PDT

Many residents flee Arizona towns as fire growsMany residents flee Arizona towns as wildfire grows.

Russia, China veto UN move to refer Syria to ICC

Posted: 22 May 2014 08:19 AM PDT

FILE - Members of the United Nations Security Council, including Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, foreground second from left, raise their hands in this April 14, 2012 file photo taken at U.N. headquarters. The U.N. Security Council faces a dramatic vote Thursday May 22, 2014 on referring the Syrian crisis to the International Criminal Court for investigation of possible war crimes, with dozens of countries signing on to embarrass Russia which vowed to kill the measure that demands a path to justice. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia and China have vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution referring the Syrian crisis to the International Criminal Court for investigation of possible war crimes.

Nigeria schools close to protest gov't inaction

Posted: 22 May 2014 07:04 AM PDT

JOS, Nigeria (AP) — Many schools around Nigeria closed Thursday to protest the abductions of schoolgirls by Boko Haram, the government's failure to rescue them and the killings of scores of teachers by the Islamic extremists, as family and friends searched mortuaries and hospitals for people missing since two huge bombs blew up two days ago in the central city of Jos.

11 Ukrainians dead, 33 wounded by rebels

Posted: 22 May 2014 07:04 AM PDT

An Ukrainian soldier guards at a gunfight site near the village of Blahodatne, eastern Ukraine, on Thursday, May 22, 2014. At least 11 Ukrainian troops were killed and about 30 others were wounded when Pro-Russians attacked a military checkpoint, the deadliest raid in the weeks of fighting in eastern Ukraine. Three charred Ukrainian armored infantry vehicles, their turrets blown away by powerful explosions, and several burned vehicles stood at the site of the combat. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)Three days before Ukraine's election, attacks are deadliest raid yet in weeks of fighting.

Thai military seizes power in coup, imposes curfew

Posted: 22 May 2014 06:16 AM PDT

Thai soldiers guard outside an area occupied by anti-government protesters Thursday, May 22, 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand's army chief announced a military takeover of the government Thursday, saying the coup was necessary to restore stability and order after six months of political deadlock and turmoil. (AP Photo/sakchai Lalit)BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's military seized power Thursday in a bloodless coup, dissolving the government, suspending the constitution and dispersing groups of protesters from both sides of the country's political divide who had gathered in Bangkok and raised fears of a violent showdown.

Thai military junta suspends constitution

Posted: 22 May 2014 05:42 AM PDT

Thai soldiers stand in line blocking the entrance to the Army Club in Bangkok, Thailand Thursday, May 22, 2014. Thailand's army chief announced a military takeover of the government Thursday, saying the coup was necessary to restore stability and order after six months of political deadlock and turmoil. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's new military junta has announced that it has suspended the country's constitution.

Thai protesters disperse after military coup

Posted: 22 May 2014 05:42 AM PDT

Thai soldiers stand in line blocking the entrance to the Army Club in Bangkok, Thailand Thursday, May 22, 2014. Thailand's army chief announced a military takeover of the government Thursday, saying the coup was necessary to restore stability and order after six months of political deadlock and turmoil. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)BANGKOK (AP) — Anti-government protesters in Thailand have dispersed for the first time since the country's latest political crisis began six months ago.

Report: N. Korea fires near S. Korean warship

Posted: 22 May 2014 04:22 AM PDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired into disputed waters near a South Korean warship Thursday, a Joint Chiefs of Staff officer said, in the latest sign of tension rising between the bitter rivals in recent weeks.

China treads carefully as it pursues influence

Posted: 22 May 2014 03:00 AM PDT

Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during a press briefing at the end of the fourth Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit in Shanghai, China Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Xi called for the creation of a new Asian structure for security cooperation based on a regional group that includes Russia and Iran and excludes the United States. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)SHANGHAI (AP) — China is carrying on a high-stakes balancing act aimed at building influence and access to resources abroad without damaging ties with its most important economic partner — the United States.

AP journalists see 11 dead at Ukraine checkpoint

Posted: 22 May 2014 02:44 AM PDT

Zinaida Patskan, 80, stands in front of her destroyed house following a shelling from Ukrainian government forces in Semyonovka village near the major highway which links Kharkiv, outside Slovyansk, Ukraine, Thursday, May 22, 2014. The election is a critical step for Ukraine. Russia, which the West alleges is fomenting the unrest that grips Ukraine's eastern regions, claims the acting government is a junta; a credible election would bring a level of legitimacy to the government and undermine Moscow's argument. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)BLAHODATNE, Ukraine (AP) — AP journalists have seen 11 dead bodies at a Ukrainian military checkpoint. Witnesses said that pro-Russian insurgents attacked the checkpoint in the village of Blahodatne in the eastern Donetsk region on Thursday.

China market attack the latest in wave of violence

Posted: 22 May 2014 01:55 AM PDT

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a police officer walks near a blast scene, which has been cordoned off, in downtown Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Attackers crashed a pair of vehicles and tossed explosives in an attack Thursday near an open air market in the capital of China's volatile northwestern region of Xinjiang, leaving an unknown number of people dead and injured, state media reported. The official Xinhua News Agency said several people were rushed to hospital and flames and heavy smoke were seen at the scene, which was cordoned off. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Cao Zhiheng) NO SALESBEIJING (AP) — A timeline of recent violent incidents linked to tensions in China's far northwestern region of Xinjiang between its native Turkic Muslim Uighur ethnic group and China's majority Han. China tightly controls information about such incidents, and it's not always clear what transpired or the exact number of victims and attackers killed.

Thailand's political rivals meet for more talks

Posted: 22 May 2014 01:55 AM PDT

A Thai soldier stands guard on a street in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Thailand's army chief Gen. Prayuth Chan-Ocha assumed the role of mediator Wednesday by summoning the country's key political rivals for face-to-face talks one day after imposing martial law. The meeting ended without any resolution, however, underscoring the profound challenge the army faces in trying to end the country's crisis. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)BANGKOK (AP) — The opponents in Thailand's polarizing political crisis met Thursday for a second round of talks mediated by the country's army chief, who says he invoked martial law and then summoned the bitter rivals to try to end six months of turmoil.

Fix to veterans' health care takes on new urgency

Posted: 22 May 2014 01:37 AM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 21, 2014, after he met with Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki and Deputy Chief of Staff Rob Nabors. The president said Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki has put his WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is showing a sudden urgency to resolve a growing crisis over veterans' health care.

House poised to pass curbs on NSA surveillance

Posted: 22 May 2014 12:34 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is poised to pass legislation that would end the National Security Agency's bulk collection of American phone records. The compromise bill is displeasing many civil liberties activists but would significantly change the most controversial program revealed by former agency contractor Edward Snowden.

Fox News anchor arrested at Minnesota airport

Posted: 21 May 2014 11:48 PM PDT

FILE - This May 31, 2005 file photo supplied by Fox News shows Fox News shows anchor Gregg Jarrett rehearsing, in New York, for the debut of Fox News Radio's five-minute newscast. Jarrett was jailed Wednesday May 21, 2014 after being arrested in a bar at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport.(AP Photo/Fox News, File)ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett was arrested at a Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport bar on Wednesday for refusing to cooperate with airport police who were called to the scene, an airport official said.

Russian trains, planes move army away from Ukraine

Posted: 21 May 2014 11:33 PM PDT

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's Defense Ministry says it already has sent several trains carrying weapons and planeloads of troops out of the regions near Ukraine.

Painful and rapid spread of new virus in Caribbean

Posted: 21 May 2014 11:01 PM PDT

In this May 15, 2014 photo, five-year-old Karla Sepulveda, who suffers chikungunya fever symptoms, waits with her grandmother for treatment in the pediatric area of a public hospital in the coastal town of Boca Chica, Dominican Republic. The mosquito-born virus, common in Africa and Asia, arrived to the Caribbean in late 2013 and has affected more than 10,000 people in the Dominican Republic. (AP Photo/Ezequiel Abiu Lopez)SAN CRISTOBAL, Dominican Republic (AP) — They suffer searing headaches, a burning fever and so much pain in their joints they can barely walk or use their hands. It's like having a terrible flu combined with an abrupt case of arthritis.

31 killed, 90-plus injured in Xinjiang attack

Posted: 21 May 2014 10:30 PM PDT

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, police officers stand guard near a blast site which has been cordoned off, in downtown Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Attackers crashed a pair of vehicles and tossed explosives in an attack Thursday near an open air market in the capital of China's volatile northwestern region of Xinjiang, leaving an unknown number of people dead and injured, state media reported. (AP Photo/Cao Zhiheng)BEIJING (AP) — China's state-run news agency says 31 people have been killed and more than 90 injured in an early morning attack on a busy street market in the capital of the country's volatile northwestern region of Xinjiang.

Census: Texas tops list of fast-growing cities

Posted: 21 May 2014 09:28 PM PDT

Graphic lists 10 fastest-growing cities in U.S. ; 2c x 4 inches; 96.3 mm x 101 mm;WASHINGTON (AP) — They grow everything bigger in Texas, even the cities.
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