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• Home Depot investigating 'unusual activity' after breach
• Islamic State issues video of beheading of U.S. hostage: SITE
• Family: Joan Rivers on life support
• Securing release of Americans held in North Korea a top priority: White House
• Video purports to show beheading of U.S. journalist
• Photos of alleged 9/11 '20th hijacker' can stay classified: court
• Girl from Uzi shooting said gun was too much for her
• Celebrity lawyer: Avoid using iCloud, smartphones
• Last call at Atlantic City's Revel: a few bettors, $5 bottles, state cops
• Bieber in trouble again: Ontario police charge him with assault
• Scientists use E.coli bacteria to create fossil fuel alternative
• Controversial Texas voter ID law heads to trial
• Convicted bomber faces immigration fraud charges in Detroit
• Halliburton pays $1.1 bn for Gulf of Mexico BP spill
• Saudi Arabia arrests 88 al-Qaeda suspects
• Republicans tone down Benghazi talk as elections near
• How does a police department lose a Humvee?
• U.S. military targets Islamic extremists in Somalia
• U.S. military targets extremists in Somalia
• 'No military solution' to Ukraine crisis, UN chief warns
• Doubts over whether Detroit bankruptcy plan gets job done
• Fast-food workers to launch intensified protests across U.S
• US forces conduct operation in Somalia: Pentagon
• California high school drops mascot criticized by Arab-American group
• Actress Jennifer Lawrence contacts authorities after nude photos hacked

Home Depot investigating 'unusual activity' after breach Posted: 02 Sep 2014 12:40 PM PDT Home Depot Inc said on Tuesday it was working with law enforcement to investigate "some unusual activity" related to customer data but that it could not confirm if it had become the latest retailer to be hit by a large-scale security breach. "At this point, I can confirm that we're looking into some unusual activity and we are working with our banking partners and law enforcement to investigate," Home Depot representative Paula Drake wrote in an emailed statement to Reuters. "If we confirm that a breach has occurred, we will make sure customers are notified immediately." The statement came after security website KrebsonSecurity first reported that multiple banks had seen evidence that Home Depot may be the source of stolen credit and debit cards put up for sale on underground markets. Retail customers faced a massive data breach during last year's holiday season when hackers stole at least 40 million payment card numbers and 70 million other pieces of customer data from Target Corp .

Islamic State issues video of beheading of U.S. hostage: SITE Posted: 02 Sep 2014 11:45 AM PDT The Islamic State released a video purporting to show the beheading of American hostage Steven Sotloff, a monitoring service said on Tuesday, as the militant group raised the stakes in its confrontation with Washington over U.S. A masked figure in the video also issued a threat against a British hostage, a man the group named as David Haines, and warned governments to back off "this evil alliance of America against the Islamic State", the SITE monitoring service said.

Family: Joan Rivers on life support Posted: 02 Sep 2014 11:24 AM PDT Joan Rivers' family is confirming that the comedian is on life support after going into cardiac arrest last week during a procedure at a doctor's office.

Securing release of Americans held in North Korea a top priority: White House Posted: 02 Sep 2014 11:05 AM PDT Securing the release of the three Americans detained in North Korea is a top priority, the White House said on Tuesday. "We continue to do all we can to secure their earliest possible release." On Monday, three American citizens detained in North Korea appealed to the U.S government for help returning home, speaking in rare interviews with U.S.

Video purports to show beheading of U.S. journalist Posted: 02 Sep 2014 10:45 AM PDT An online video purports to show the beheading of U.S. writer Steven Sotloff by ISIL.

Photos of alleged 9/11 '20th hijacker' can stay classified: court Posted: 02 Sep 2014 10:27 AM PDT By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday said photos of a Saudi national imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay who U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said the government plausibly showed that releasing images of Mohammed al-Qahtani, who was subject to interrogation techniques that a government official likened to torture, could endanger military personnel, diplomats and workers in Afghanistan and elsewhere. The Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents al-Qahtani in a federal lawsuit in Washington, D.C. over his treatment, had sought the disclosure of photographs, videos and other audiovisual evidence of his confinement conditions under the federal Freedom of Information Act. Writing for a three-judge panel, however, Circuit Judge José Cabranes said the release "could logically and plausibly harm national security because these images are uniquely susceptible to use by anti-American extremists as propaganda to incite violence against United States interests domestically and abroad." Al-Qahtani has been held since February 2002 at the U.S.

Girl from Uzi shooting said gun was too much for her Posted: 02 Sep 2014 10:09 AM PDT PHOENIX (AP) — A 9-year-old girl who accidentally killed a shooting range instructor with an Uzi in northern Arizona had said immediately after the shooting that she felt the gun was too much for her and had hurt her shoulder, according to police reports released Tuesday.

Celebrity lawyer: Avoid using iCloud, smartphones Posted: 02 Sep 2014 09:52 AM PDT A leading celebrity lawyer has advised his clients not to use smartphones and the iCloud after intimate photos of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence and female entertainers and models were posted online following an apparent mass hacking. Martin Garbus, a New York trial lawyer who over the years has represented actors Al Pacino, Sean Connery, Robert Redford and others, said on Tuesday worried clients have approached him about security issues. "Everything on your iPhone, whether it be phone calls, message texts, pictures, is all available." Garbus said clients started to contact him after intimate photos of Lawrence, a star of "The Hunger Games" movie franchise and a best actress Academy Award winner for "Silver Linings Playbook," and other high-profile women began appearing on Sunday. Personal photos of Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Kate Upton and American actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead were also posted on the image-sharing forum 4chan.

Last call at Atlantic City's Revel: a few bettors, $5 bottles, state cops Posted: 02 Sep 2014 09:35 AM PDT By Daniel Kelley ATLANTIC CITY N.J. (Reuters) - Shortly before sunrise on Tuesday, Morgan Capezzera reclined on the roulette table at the Revel Casino in her bikini and snapped a selfie before the Atlantic City gambling hall shut its doors for good. "I love Revel," said Capezzera, 30, of Toms River, New Jersey, who spent most of the day at the casino. "I lost, but I don't care." She was one of few fans who came out for the closing night of a two-year-old casino once heralded by Governor Chris Christie as a new model for the down-on-its-luck New Jersey shore gambling hub. The $2.4 billion project this year went into bankruptcy for the second time in its short history and is one of four Atlantic City casinos to announce that it would shut its doors this year, taking a heavy toll on the budget in a city where the property tax base is expected to fall to $10 billion by 2015, less than half its 2010 level.

Bieber in trouble again: Ontario police charge him with assault Posted: 02 Sep 2014 09:18 AM PDT TORONTO (AP) — Canadian pop star Justin Bieber faces new charges after police said Tuesday he was arrested for dangerous driving and assault following a collision between a minivan and an ATV that led to a physical altercation in southwestern Ontario.

Scientists use E.coli bacteria to create fossil fuel alternative Posted: 02 Sep 2014 08:23 AM PDT British and Finnish scientists have found a way of generating renewable propane using a bacterium widely found in the human intestine and say the finding is a step to commercial production of a fuel that could one day be an alternative to fossil fuel reserves. "Although we have only produced tiny amounts so far, the fuel we have produced is ready to be used in an engine straight away," said Patrik Jones of the department of life sciences at Imperial College London, who worked on the research. He said while work is at a very early stage, possibly 5-10 years from the point where commercial production would be possible, his team's findings were proof of concept for a way of producing renewable fuel now only accessible from fossil reserves. It is already produced as a by-product during natural gas processing and petrol refining, but both of these are fossil fuels that will one day run out.

Controversial Texas voter ID law heads to trial Posted: 02 Sep 2014 08:07 AM PDT Republicans claim the law is not discriminatory.

Convicted bomber faces immigration fraud charges in Detroit Posted: 02 Sep 2014 07:45 AM PDT By Aaron Foley DETROIT (Reuters) - A Chicago woman convicted of a 1969 supermarket bombing in Israel and indicted on U.S. Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, 66, was accused of immigration fraud and arrested at her home in October by federal agents. A federal indictment alleges she failed to reveal her criminal history when she immigrated from Jordan in 1995 and again when she was naturalized as a U.S. According to the federal indictment, Odeh and members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine were convicted by an Israeli military court for the supermarket bombing, which killed two people, and for placing a bomb at the British consulate in Jerusalem.

Halliburton pays $1.1 bn for Gulf of Mexico BP spill Posted: 02 Sep 2014 06:55 AM PDT New York (AFP) - Oil services company Halliburton said Monday it would pay a $1.1 billion settlement over its role in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil rig blowout that led to the United States' worst-ever oil spill.

Saudi Arabia arrests 88 al-Qaeda suspects Posted: 02 Sep 2014 06:21 AM PDT RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia says it has arrested 88 men who are suspected of being part of an al-Qaida cell that was plotting attacks inside and outside of the kingdom.

Republicans tone down Benghazi talk as elections near Posted: 02 Sep 2014 05:25 AM PDT When the House voted in May to authorize the select committee, which could cost taxpayers up to $3.3 million to operate, the media attention such a panel was sure to draw was a huge part of the attraction for the Republicans who pushed for it. They wanted a channel to attack President Obama and the Democrats in the lead-up to the midterm election — so much so that House Democrats weren't even sure they wanted to appoint representatives to the panel out of fear it would legitimize the GOP's charged rhetoric on the issue. But the politics of Benghazi have shifted. Domestically, the GOP appears poised to win back the Senate for the first time in nearly a decade, and internationally, the foreign policy picture has become much more complicated, with unrest in the Middle East growing dramatically since the last election.

How does a police department lose a Humvee? Posted: 02 Sep 2014 04:12 AM PDT Among the issues that Obama is likely to find is that the program lacks oversight and accountability. Once Pentagon weapons reach the 8,000 police departments that participate in the program, many of them in tiny towns, the federal government has little control over them. The departments are not allowed to sell or dispose of any of the 1033 program's "controlled" items, which include small arms and tactical vehicles. An agency in each state takes over responsibility for checking the inventory once a year and reporting anything missing to the Defense Department's Defense Logistics Agency.

U.S. military targets Islamic extremists in Somalia Posted: 02 Sep 2014 01:42 AM PDT A Somali official says the strike targeted the al-Shabab network's fugitive leader.

U.S. military targets extremists in Somalia Posted: 01 Sep 2014 10:43 PM PDT The operation focused on the Islamic extremist al-Shabab network, the Pentagon said.

'No military solution' to Ukraine crisis, UN chief warns Posted: 01 Sep 2014 10:26 PM PDT UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned Western powers Tuesday "there is no military solution" to the Ukraine crisis, after the government in Kiev accused Russia of launching a "great war". As NATO prepares to upgrade its combat readiness in eastern Europe, Ban said he was greatly concerned at developments in Ukraine and wanted to avoid further deterioration to "a very chaotic and dangerous situation". "I know the European Union, the Americans and most of the Western countries are discussing very seriously among themselves how to handle this matter," he told reporters during a visit to New Zealand. His comments came after European-mediated talks on the fast-escalating crisis opened Monday behind closed doors in the Belarussian capital Minsk, attended by Ukraine government, separatist and Russian envoys.

Doubts over whether Detroit bankruptcy plan gets job done Posted: 01 Sep 2014 10:11 PM PDT By David Greising, Karen Pierog and Tim Reid DETROIT Reuters) - Detroit's plan to recover from bankruptcy includes several blueprints for a new future. Detroit is far short of the $1.7 billion it needs over the next 10 years to remove abandoned buildings, replace outdated technology and increase public safety to stem the exodus from the city. "What Detroit needed to start with was a reinvestment program," said James Spiotto, managing director of Chapman Strategic Advisors, a municipal finance consultancy. "If you don't solve the systemic problem and fix it for real, all you're going to do is repeat it going forward." Detroit's 1,034-page plan for fixing the city's finances will be the subject of a weeks-long bankruptcy court proceeding, beginning on Tuesday.

Fast-food workers to launch intensified protests across U.S Posted: 01 Sep 2014 08:22 PM PDT The protests, announced on Twitter by organizer Fight For 15, come as cities across the nation propose minimum wage increases while Democrats seek to raise the federal minimum wage ahead of this year's mid-term congressional elections. Fast food workers have launched a series of protests over the last nearly two years to bring awareness to their demands, which include the right to unionize without retaliation. In one of the last major actions, restaurant workers launched rallies in 150 cities, including Boston, Chicago, New York and Miami in May. This time, organizers are staging walkouts in more than 100 cities and plan to use nonviolent civil disobedience tactics such as sit-ins, The New York Times reported.

US forces conduct operation in Somalia: Pentagon Posted: 01 Sep 2014 07:03 PM PDT Washington (AFP) - US military forces carried out an operation against Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab militants in Somalia, Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby said.

California high school drops mascot criticized by Arab-American group Posted: 01 Sep 2014 06:16 PM PDT (Reuters) - A California high school has retired its Middle Eastern-themed mascot and accompanying belly dancers and redrawn its logo after criticism from Arab-Americans that they played on harmful stereotypes, a group advocating for the change said on Monday. Coachella Valley High School agreed to use a new image of a stoic-looking Arab man to represent its sports teams, dubbed "the Arabs," said Abed Ayoub, a spokesman for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, which worked with the school to choose the new logo.

Actress Jennifer Lawrence contacts authorities after nude photos hacked Posted: 01 Sep 2014 05:12 PM PDT Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence has contacted authorities to investigate who stole and posted nude images of her online, a spokeswoman said on Monday, part of a reported mass hacking of celebrities' intimate photos. Online pictures of the actress, 24, who won an Academy Award for "Silver Linings Playbook" and stars in "The Hunger Games" movie franchise, began appearing on Sunday. The authorities have been contacted and will prosecute anyone who posts the stolen photos of Jennifer Lawrence," spokeswoman Liz Mahoney said in an emailed statement. Model Kate Upton was among celebrities whose photos were posted online.

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