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Foreign ministers agree on steps for resuming Ukraine cease-fire

Posted: 02 Jul 2014 12:48 PM PDT

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, right, greets Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt during their meeting in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists fought with heavy weapons in the country's east Tuesday, and the rebels captured the Interior Ministry headquarters in a major city after an hours-long gun battle, a day after the president said rebels weren't serious about peace talks and ended a cease-fire. (AP Photo/Presidential Press Service, Mykhailo Markiv, Pool)Foreign ministers from Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France established the series of steps during a Berlin meeting.

Car bomb kills at least 5 in Iraqi capital

Posted: 02 Jul 2014 12:31 PM PDT

A black flag used by the al-Qaida inspired lslamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) waves from a damaged police station in the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. The militant extremist group's unilateral declaration of an Islamic state is threatening to undermine its already-tenuous alliance with other Sunnis who helped it overrun much of northern and western Iraq.(AP Photo)BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials say a car bomb on a busy commercial street in the Iraqi capital has killed at least five people.

Harley-Davidson rolls out the Tesla of motorcycles

Posted: 02 Jul 2014 12:29 PM PDT

Rick Newman takes Harley's new electric motorcycle, Project LiveWire, out for a test drive in Lower Manhattan

Lawyer for Libyan militant says evidence lacking

Posted: 02 Jul 2014 11:54 AM PDT

A US Marshal takes his position outside the federal court in Washington before the vehicles reportedly transporting the Libyan militant Ahmed Abu Khattala leave following Khattala's detention hearing, Wednesday, July 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for a Libyan militant charged in the 2012 Benghazi attacks said Wednesday that she had seen no evidence tying her client to the violence, but a judge nonetheless directed Ahmed Abu Khattala to remain in custody as the Justice Department builds its case against him.

FIFA official 'amazed' by Brazil WCup drunkenness

Posted: 02 Jul 2014 11:37 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 12, 2014 file photo taken with a fisheye lens, a Brazil supporter attends the World Cup opening match between Brazil and Croatia at Itaquerao Stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil. FIFA's number two official has said he's RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — FIFA's number two official has said he's "amazed" by the levels of drunkenness in Brazil's World Cup stadiums, reviving a debate over whether alcohol sales should have been allowed at matches in the first place.

4 foreign ministers agree on Ukraine cease-fire

Posted: 02 Jul 2014 11:01 AM PDT

A pro-Russian fighters' APC travels near the captured Interior Ministry headquarters in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Tuesday, July 1, 2014. The rebels captured the Interior Ministry headquarters in the city after an hours-long gun battle, a day after the president said rebels weren't serious about peace talks and ended a cease-fire. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)BERLIN (AP) — Foreign ministers from Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France meeting in Berlin have agreed on a series of steps for a resumption of the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine.

Ahead of July 4th, East Coast eyes tropical storm

Posted: 02 Jul 2014 10:45 AM PDT

This Tuesday, July 1, 2014, satellite image released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shows the center of Tropical Storm Arthur off the east coast of Florida. With the July Fourth weekend on the horizon, the Atlantic hurricane season's first named storm plodded off Florida's coast early Wednesday, though Tropical Storm Arthur wasn't yet spooking too many in the storm's potential path. (AP Photo/NOAA)CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Along much of the East Coast, hotel owners, tourism officials and would-be vacationers kept a watchful eye on forecasts Wednesday as Tropical Storm Arthur churned off Florida, threatening Fourth of July plans for thousands of people.

Panel endorses some NSA Internet monitoring

Posted: 02 Jul 2014 08:30 AM PDT

FILE - This Thursday, June 6, 2013, file photo, shows a sign outside the National Security Administration (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. The latest study of the the bipartisan Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board takes the opposite view of a different set of National Security Agency surveillance programs revealed last year by former NSA systems administrator Edward Snowden. The board which was to vote on the report on Wednesday, July 2, 2014, found that the NSA's collection of Internet data within the United States passes constitutional muster and employs WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has unanimously adopted a report that endorses some of the National Security Agency's Internet surveillance programs.

Scientists withdraw claim about making stem cells

Posted: 02 Jul 2014 08:30 AM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. and Japanese scientists who reported that they'd found a startlingly simple way to make stem cells withdrew that claim Wednesday, admitting to "extensive" errors in the research.

Sarkozy faces charges in French corruption probe

Posted: 02 Jul 2014 03:58 AM PDT

FILE - This March 10, 2014, file photo shows Former french President Nicolas Sarkozy during the inauguration of the Foundation Claude Pompidou in Nice, southeastern France. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been detained and is reportedly being questioned by financial investigators in a corruption probe that is rattling France's conservative political establishment. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)PARIS (AP) — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, his lawyer and a magistrate are facing preliminary charges in a corruption investigation linked to allegations that he took 50 million euros ($67 million) in illegal campaign funds from Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, after a night of questioning by judicial officials.

Clashes in Jerusalem after body found

Posted: 02 Jul 2014 03:58 AM PDT

Israeli forensic police officers carry evidence bags in a forest in Jerusalem, Wednesday, July 2, 2014. Israeli police say Palestinians and Israeli forces have clashed following reports that an Arab teen was kidnapped and a body was found in a Jerusalem forest. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said police received reports Wednesday that an Arab teen was forced into a car. A body was later found, but police have not yet established whether the two incidents are related. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)JERUSALEM (AP) — Hundreds of Palestinians hurled stones at Israeli police who responded with tear gas in clashes that erupted Wednesday following reports that an Arab teen was kidnapped and a body found in a Jerusalem forest.

Tropical storm threatens East Coast July 4th plans

Posted: 02 Jul 2014 02:53 AM PDT

This Tuesday, July 1, 2014, satellite image released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shows the center of Tropical Storm Arthur off the east coast of Florida. With the July Fourth weekend on the horizon, the Atlantic hurricane season's first named storm plodded off Florida's coast early Wednesday, though Tropical Storm Arthur wasn't yet spooking too many in the storm's potential path. (AP Photo/NOAA)A hurricane watch was issued for part of N.C.'s coast as Tropical Storm Arthur moved northward.

Often-split court agrees your privacy matters

Posted: 02 Jul 2014 02:30 AM PDT

FILE - This June 30, 2014 file photo shows the Supreme Court in Washington. Supreme Court justices found more common ground than usual this year, and nowhere was their unanimity more surprising than in ruling that police must get a judge's approval before searching cellphones of people they've arrested. But the conservative-liberal divide was still evident in other cases, including this week's ruling on religion, birth control and the health care law. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court justices found more common ground than usual this year, and nowhere was their unanimity more surprising than in a ruling that police must get a judge's approval before searching the cellphones of people they've arrested.

Howard's best not enough to save US World Cup run

Posted: 02 Jul 2014 01:51 AM PDT

United States' goalkeeper Tim Howard reacts after Belgium's Romelu Lukaku scored his side's second goal during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Belgium and the USA at the Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador, Brazil, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) — Tim Howard kept the ball out of the net with slides, with dives and with leaps.

New VA secretary nominee not a health care expert

Posted: 02 Jul 2014 12:25 AM PDT

In this June 30, 2014, file photo, former Procter and Gamble executive Robert McDonald, President Barack Obama's nominee as the next Veterans Affairs secretary, listens as Obama makes a statement at the Department of Veterans Affairs. A onetime Army Ranger and former CEO of a Fortune 500 consumer products company, McDonald may face his toughest challenge yet in fixing the huge, scandal-plagued Veterans Affairs Department. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — A onetime Army Ranger and former CEO of a Fortune 500 consumer products company, Robert McDonald may face his toughest challenge yet in fixing the huge, scandal-plagued Veterans Affairs Department.

Guatemalan boy left for better life, died alone

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 11:53 PM PDT

Cipriana Juarez Diaz, mother of Gilberto Francisco Ramos Juarez, a Guatemalan boy whose decomposed body was found in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, listens to her husband talk, during an interview at their home in San Jose Las Flores, in the northern Cuchumatanes mountains of Guatemala, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Juarez Diaz said that she begged her son not set out on the dangerous journey from their modest cinder block- and sheet-metal home high in the northern Guatemalan mountains. (AP Photo/Luis Soto)SAN JOSE LAS FLORES, Guatemala (AP) — Gilberto Ramos wanted to leave his chilly mountain village for the United States to earn money to treat his mother's epilepsy.

HK police arrest 511 after big democracy rally

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 10:50 PM PDT

Protesters are taken away by police officers after hundreds of protesters staged a peaceful sit-ins overnight on a street in the financial district in Hong Kong Wednesday, July 2, 2014, following a huge rally to show their support for democratic reform and oppose Beijing's desire to have the final say on candidates for the chief executive's job. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police arrested more than 500 people who refused to leave a street in the city's financial district Wednesday, a day after tens of thousands of people joined a massive march to push for democracy, free from China's interference.

More than 500 arrested after Hong Kong democracy rally

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 09:13 PM PDT

Tens of thousands of people fill in a street during a march at an annual protest in downtown Hong Kong Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Hong Kong residents marched through the streets of the former British colony to push for greater democracy in a rally fueled by anger over Beijing's recent warning that it holds the ultimate authority over the southern Chinese financial center. The protest comes days after nearly 800,000 residents voted in a mock referendum aimed at bolstering support for full democracy. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)Tens of thousands in the former British colony joined a massive pro-democracy march.

Govt: Khattala supervised action at Benghazi

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 07:52 PM PDT

This June 28, 2014, artist's rendering shows United States Magistrate, Judge John Facciola, swearing in the defendant, Libyan militant Ahmed Abu Khatallah, wearing a headphone, as his attorney Michelle Peterson watches during a hearing at the federal U.S. District Court in Washington. The Libyan militant now in U.S. custody in the Benghazi attacks was motivated to do so by his extremist ideology, the government said Tuesday, July 1. In the days before the attacks, Ahmed Abu Khattala voiced concern and opposition to the presence of an American facility in Benghazi, according to a federal court filing. (AP Photo/Dana Verkouteren)WASHINGTON (AP) — In the days before the Benghazi attacks, the Libyan militant now in U.S. custody voiced concern and opposition to the presence of an American compound in Benghazi, the government said Tuesday in a court filing.

Nearly 200 arrested after big HK democracy rally

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 07:52 PM PDT

Tens of thousands of people fill in a street during a march at an annual protest in downtown Hong Kong Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Hong Kong residents marched through the streets of the former British colony to push for greater democracy in a rally fueled by anger over Beijing's recent warning that it holds the ultimate authority over the southern Chinese financial center. The protest comes days after nearly 800,000 residents voted in a mock referendum aimed at bolstering support for full democracy. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police arrested nearly 200 people Wednesday after tens of thousands in the former British colony joined a massive march to push for democracy.

BRAZIL BEAT: Celebs welcome at Brazil training

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 06:16 PM PDT

Brazil's Hernanes, center, practices during a training session at the Granja Comary training center in Teresopolis, Brazil, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Brazil will face Colombia on July 4 in a quarter-final of the 2014 soccer World Cup. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)TERESOPOLIS, Brazil (AP) — Brazil has been closing its training sessions to fans, but some of the country's top celebrities have had no problem getting close to the players.

Dead migrant boy's mom begged him not to make trek

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 05:44 PM PDT

This undated image provided by the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office shows a piece of clothing that was worn by Gilberto Francisco Ramos Juarez, whose decomposed body was found in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas earlier this month. When authorities found the body of the 11-year-old boy in South Texas, a phone number for his brother in Chicago was scribbled on the inside of his belt buckle. The boy, wearing SAN JOSE LAS FLORES, Guatemala (AP) — The mother of a Guatemalan boy whose body was found in the desert about a mile from Texas' southern border said Tuesday she begged him not set out on the dangerous journey from their modest wood- and sheet-metal home high in the northern Cuchumatanes mountains.

12 injured in Philadelphia food truck blast

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 05:44 PM PDT

10 injured in Feltonville food truck explosionThree of the 12 people injured suffered serious burns, police said.

U.S. troops in Baghdad to fly Apache helicopters, drones

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 04:56 PM PDT

An Apache helicopter hovers on August 1, 2009 in Sparta, KentuckyThe nearly 500 American troops sent to Baghdad to bolster security for the US embassy are equipped with Apache attack helicopters and small unarmed surveillance drones, Pentagon officials said Tuesday. President Barack Obama on Monday ordered 200 additional troops to the Iraqi capital to ensure the safety of American diplomats and other personnel working in the city, as Baghdad government forces face a challenge from advancing Sunni extremists. The reinforcements will include troops to fly and maintain Apache attack helicopters and unarmed surveillance drones, Pentagon press secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby told a news conference.

Boy's death highlights danger of border crossings

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 04:54 PM PDT

This undated image provided by the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office shows a piece of clothing that was worn by Gilberto Francisco Ramos Juarez, whose decomposed body was found in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas earlier this month. When authorities found the body of the 11-year-old boy in South Texas, a phone number for his brother in Chicago was scribbled on the inside of his belt buckle. The boy, wearing SAN JOSE LAS FLORES, Guatemala (AP) — The mother of a Guatemalan boy whose body was found in the desert about a mile from Texas' southern border said Tuesday she begged him not set out on the dangerous journey from their modest wood and sheet-metal home high in the northern Cuchumatanes mountains.
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