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US weighs airstrikes and humanitarian aid in Iraq

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 12:59 PM PDT

Protesters ask for help for Yazidi people who are stranded by violence in northern Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014, across from the White House in Washington. The Obama administration is weighing an urgent response to help trapped religious minorities in Iraq, with one option being delivery of humanitarian aid. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is weighing direct military strikes to stem an Islamic militant group's gains in Iraq, as well as humanitarian relief for thousands of displaced religious minorities in the country's north, according to U.S. defense officials and others familiar with the administration's thinking.

Remains of Jonestown bodies found at funeral home

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 12:44 PM PDT

DOVER, Del. (AP) — The cremated remains of nine victims of a 1978 mass cult suicide-murder in Jonestown, Guyana, have turned up in a former funeral home in Delaware, officials said Thursday.

Mich. porch shooter convicted of murder

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 12:28 PM PDT

Theodore Wafer testifies in his own defense during the seventh day of testimony for the Nov. 2, 2013, killing of Renisha McBride, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014, in Detroit. He said he feared for his life when he fired at McBride on his porch in Dearborn Heights, Mich. Wafer is charged with second-degree murder and could be sentenced to up to life in prison with the chance for parole, if he's convicted. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Clarence Tabb Jr.)Detroit man convicted of second-degree murder for killing unarmed 19-year-old woman on his porch.

Russia retaliates on West's sanctions over Ukraine

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 12:11 PM PDT

Women choose Dutch tomatoes at a supermarket in downtown Moscow on Thursday.MOSCOW (AP) — Russia retaliated Thursday for sanctions over the crisis in Ukraine by banning most food imports from the West, dealing a blow to Europe that also takes aim at hurting farmers in the U.S., Canada and Australia.

Major Middle East airline Etihad suspends flights to north Iraq

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 11:56 AM PDT

Etihad Airways chairman and CEO James Hogan looks on during a press conference to launch the new flight connecting Rome and Abu Dhabi, in Rome, Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Hogan also confirmed Ethiad is negotiating the purchase 49 percent stake of Italian carrier Alitalia, but the agreement was not yet finalized. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)One of the Middle East's largest airlines, Etihad Airways, says security concerns have prompted it to suspend all of flights to the northern Iraqi city of Irbil.

Kerry urges Afghan candidates to end dispute

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 11:40 AM PDT

FILE - This July 12, 2014 file photo shows. from left, Secretary of State John Kerry, Afghanistan's presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, and Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah during a joint news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Obama administration on Thursday stepped up efforts to press Afghanistan's two feuding presidential candidates to end their dispute over June elections, accept the results of an ongoing audit of all ballots and form a national unity government by early September. On an unannounced visit to Kabul, Kerry made personal appeals to both candidates _ former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah and former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai _ to understand the urgency of finding a resolution before the upcoming NATO summit in Wales on September 4, according to officials traveling with Kerry. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Obama administration on Thursday stepped up efforts to press Afghanistan's two feuding presidential candidates to end their dispute over June elections, accept the results of an ongoing audit of all ballots and form a national unity government by early September.

US weighs airstrikes, humanitarian aid in Iraq

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 11:08 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is weighing direct military strikes to stem an Islamic militant group's gains in Iraq, as well as humanitarian relief for thousands of displaced religious minorities in the country's north, according to U.S. defense officials and others familiar with the administration's thinking.

Hawaii rattled by quake as hurricanes near

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 10:22 AM PDT

HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey reports a magnitude-4.5 earthquake has rattled Hawaii's Big Island, as two hurricanes rumbled toward the islands.

Obama signs veterans' health care overhaul

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 09:50 AM PDT

President Barack Obama answers a question during a news conference at the U.S. Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)FORT BELVOIR, Va. (AP) — President Barack Obama says the government must ensure that the Veterans Affairs Department has the resources to keep up with the demands of troops returning from war.

Mass. town's enthusiastic welcome to migrant children

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 09:19 AM PDT

Jihadist offensive forces Christian exodus

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 09:04 AM PDT

Displaced demonstrators from the minority Yazidi sect gather during a protest against militants of the Islamic State in ArbiLMasses flee Iraq's Qaraqosh city in 'humanitarian disaster' as ISIL pushes toward Kurdistan.

Islamic State militants seize Iraq's largest dam

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 08:32 AM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 31, 2007 file photo, shows a general view of the dam in Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. Residents living near Iraq's largest dam say Sunni militants from the Islamic State group have overrun the complex. The residents say the militants stormed the Mosul Dam complex in one hour on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed, File)BAGHDAD (AP) — Residents living near Iraq's largest dam say Sunni militants from the Islamic State group have overrun the complex.

Hawaii airline cancels inter-island flights

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 08:01 AM PDT

This image provided by NOAA taken Thursday Aug. 7, 2014 at 2 a.m. EDT shows Hurricane Iselle, left and Hurricane Julio. Iselle was supposed to weaken as it slowly trudged west across the Pacific. It didn't _ and now Hawaii is poised to take its first direct hurricane hit in 22 years. The center of Hurricane Iselle is expected to pass very near or over the Big Island Thursday night and just south of the smaller islands Friday. Some weakening is forecast during the next 48 hours however Iselle is still expected to be near hurricane strength as it impacts the Big Island. (AP Photo/NOAA)HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii inter-island commuter airline has canceled flights ahead of hurricanes bearing down on the state.

Citing terrorism concerns, China tightens grip on instant messaging

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 07:44 AM PDT

Alibaba Files For IPO - Watch Out Amazon and EbayBEIJING (AP) — China's government tightened control over popular instant messaging services Thursday after telling South Korea that access to some foreign services was blocked because they were used to exchange terrorism-related information.

New job for Prince William: air ambulance pilot

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 07:28 AM PDT

Duke of Cambridge To Train As Air Ambulance PilotLONDON (AP) — Prince William is taking a new job: Air ambulance pilot.

Shelling in rebel-held Ukrainian city kills 4

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 07:13 AM PDT

Local residents cry and hug each other as they sit in a hospital basement being used as a bomb-shelter after shelling, in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. Fighting in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk claimed more civilian casualties, bringing new calls from Russian nationalists for President Vladimir Putin to send in the army. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Sustained shelling in the main rebel stronghold in eastern Ukraine struck residential buildings and a hospital, killing at least four people and wounding 10 others, officials said, as government forces pressed forward in their campaign to rout the separatists.

2 Philly-area boys safe after mother, then father found dead

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 06:41 AM PDT

Investigators work the scene of a homicide Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014, in Drextel Hill, Pa. Two children taken from a Philadelphia-area home after a woman was slain were found safe in New York City on Thursday and a man in a vehicle that was sought by police was found dead, authorities said. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)DREXEL HILL, Pa. (AP) — Two children taken from a Philadelphia-area home after a woman was slain were found safe in New York City early Thursday, and a man in a vehicle that was sought by police was found dead, authorities said.

Hurricane Julio strengthens into Category 2 storm

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 06:25 AM PDT

Hurricane Iselle, center, and tropical storm Julio, rightHONOLULU (AP) — Hurricane Julio strengthened into a Category 2 storm as it spun toward Hawaii, with winds gusting at a sustained speed of 100 mph.

Lawyer: Snowden can stay 3 more years in Russia

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 05:52 AM PDT

MOSCOW (AP) — Former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden, who is wanted by the U.S. for leaking details about once-secret surveillance programs, has been granted permission to stay in Russia for three more years, his lawyer said Thursday.

Pope Francis makes appeal for Iraqi Christians forced to flee

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 05:37 AM PDT

Pope Francis attends a vigil service with youths from the dioceses of Germany, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. Pope Francis has brushed off his German to greet some 50,000 German-speaking young people on a pilgrimage to Rome. Francis followed the all-German program during the Tuesday evening vigil service in St. Peter's Square and read from prepared German texts. Unlike his predecessors, Francis rarely strays from Italian or his native Spanish while speaking in public. Vatican officials have said he isn't comfortable speaking in other languages and doesn't want to show favoritism. But Francis lived in Germany in the late 1980s while researching a never-finished dissertation and his willingness to cater to the young German-speaking crowd Tuesday made clear his familiarity with the language. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)Pope Francis appealed to world leaders on Thursday to help end the crisis in northern Iraq after a sweeping advance by radical Islamic state militants forced thousands of residents of Iraq's biggest Christian town to flee their homes. "His Holiness addresses an urgent appeal to the international community to take action to end the humanitarian tragedy now underway, to act to protect those affected or threatened by violence and to provide aid, especially for the most urgent needs of the many who have been forced to flee and who depend on the solidarity of others," the Vatican said in a statement.

Russia hits back on sanctions; bans food from West

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 05:19 AM PDT

People buy imported fruit at a supermarket in downtown Moscow on Aug. 7, 2014.MOSCOW (AP) — Russia banned most food imports from the West on Thursday in retaliation for sanctions over Ukraine, an unexpectedly sweeping move that will cost farmers in North America, Europe and Australia billions of dollars but will also likely lead to empty shelves in Russian cities.

Lawyer: Snowden gets 3 more years in Russia

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 03:59 AM PDT

MOSCOW (AP) — Edward Snowden's lawyer says the NSA whistleblower has been granted permission to stay in Russia for three more years.

Lawyer: Snowden get 3 more years in Russia

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 03:43 AM PDT

MOSCOW (AP) — Edward Snowden's lawyer says the NSA whistleblower has been granted permission to stay in Russia for three more years.

Russia bans most U.S., EU food imports

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 03:13 AM PDT

People buy imported fruit at a supermarket in downtown Moscow on Aug. 7, 2014.The move is aimed at countries that imposed sanctions on Russia for its actions in Ukraine.

In Kentucky, Grimes uses Bill Clinton to counteract Obama negatives

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 02:56 AM PDT

Former President Bill Clinton, left, is introduced to the audience by Kentucky Democratic Senatorial candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes before addressing a group of supporters during a political rally, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2014, at the Hal Rogers Center in Hazard, Ky. Seated behind Clinton, are members of the United Mine Workers Association, whose union has endorsed Grimes. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)Republican Senator Mitch McConnell is trying to tag his Democratic opponent Alison Lundergan Grimes as "Barack Obama's Kentucky Candidate," but Grimes clearly believes she's found the antidote to that — being "Bill Clinton's Kentucky Candidate." And she's pushing it with all her might. "I'm not an empty dress! I'm not a cheerleader! I'm not a rubber stamp! But one label I will proudly wear is that of a Clinton Democrat," Grimes declared to more than 450 donors at a fundraiser in Lexington, and then again to a rally here in Hazard at the Hal Rogers Center, where so many people tried to see her and the former president that even volunteers and holders of "VIP tickets" were turned away at the door.
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