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Judge sends ricin-letters case to grand jury

Posted: 02 May 2013 12:26 PM PDT

Everett Dutschke works on his mini-van in his driveway in TupeloMeantime, James Everett Dutschke, 41, from Tupelo, Miss., remains in custody.


Benedict XVI returns to Vatican

Posted: 02 May 2013 11:54 AM PDT

RETRANSMISSION OF OSS101 TO PROVIDE DIFFERENT CROP -- In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope emeritus Benedict XVI, left, is welcomed by Pope Francis as he returns at the Vatican from the pontifical summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, 35 km South-Est from Rome, Thursday, May 2, 2013. Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI came home on Thursday to a new house and a new pope, as an unprecedented era begins of a retired pontiff living side-by-side with a reigning one inside the Vatican gardens. In background is archbishop George Gaenswein, prefect of the papal household. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, HO)Pope Francis welcomed the former pontiff outside his new retirement home.


Woman who killed cop in '73 named most wanted terrorist

Posted: 02 May 2013 11:38 AM PDT

NJ Trooper Killer Named a Most Wanted TerroristJoanne Chesimard been on the run since 1979 when she escaped from prison.


Warren Buffett gets social—on Twitter

Posted: 02 May 2013 10:50 AM PDT

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett attends the Allen & Co Media Conference in Sun Valley, IdahoIf followers were dollars, the "Oracle of Omaha" has one of his biggest days ever.


Group launches six-figure effort to elect a woman president

Posted: 02 May 2013 10:34 AM PDT

Amid 2016 speculation, Hillary Clinton recalls former secretaries of stateBut the question remains: Will Hillary Clinton run in 2016?


Wild fires threaten Los Angeles-area homes

Posted: 02 May 2013 10:18 AM PDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities have ordered evacuations of a neighborhood and a university about 50 miles west of Los Angeles where a wildfire is raging close to subdivisions.

The most dangerous place to be a child

Posted: 02 May 2013 09:59 AM PDT

FILE - In this Saturday Aug. 6, 2011 file photo, the shrouded body of 12-month-old Liin Muhumed Surow, who died of malnutrition 25 days after reaching the camp according to her father Mumumed, lies before burial at UNHCR's Ifo Extension camp, near Dadaab in Kenya close to the Somali border. Officials in East Africa say a report to be released this week by two U.S. government-funded famine and food agencies gives the highest death toll yet from Somalia's 2011 famine, estimating that 260,000 people died - more than double previous estimates. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)Some communities in the nation have child death rates approaching 20 percent.


History is made in NYC

Posted: 02 May 2013 09:24 AM PDT

Cranes work adjacent to the spire on top of One World Trade Center, Wednesday, May 1, 2013 in New York. The last piece of spire will be hoisted to the roof on Thursday, weather permitting, according to a spokesperson for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)A U.S. flag-covered spire is raised to the top of the new World Trade Center.


Woman who killed cop in '73 named most wanted terrorist

Posted: 02 May 2013 08:16 AM PDT

FILE - This is an undated file photo provided by the New Jersey State Police showing Assata Shakur - the former Joanne Chesimard - who was put on a U.S. government terrorist watch list on May 2, 2005. Shakur, 57, was convicted in 1973 of killing New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster as he lay on the ground. She escaped from prison in 1979 and fled to Cuba. The FBI is scheduled to make an announcement Thursday, May 2, 2013 regarding Joanne Chesimard, who killed a New Jersey state trooper on this date 40 years ago. (AP Photo/New Jersey State Police, File)Joanne Chesimard been on the run since 1979 when she escaped from prison.


From Toronto to Dagestan; Canadian jihadi draws parallels with Tsarnaev

Posted: 02 May 2013 07:26 AM PDT

Rebel fighter William Plotnikov is seen in this undated handout photoBy Maria Golovnina UTAMYSH, Dagestan, Russia (Reuters) - A mess of rubble, ash and charred vehicles is all that's left at the desolate farmhouse where a Canadian Muslim convert died fighting his last battle alongside Islamist insurgents in the Russian region of Dagestan. At the time, few people beyond local villagers noticed William Plotnikov's death in a region where skirmishes occur daily. But almost a year on, Plotnikov has emerged into the limelight following the Boston Marathon bombings. ...


FBI releases photos of three men wanted in Benghazi investigation

Posted: 02 May 2013 07:10 AM PDT

FBI posts pictures of Benghazi suspectsThe Federal Bureau of Investigation is asking the Libyan people for help in identifying three individuals who were on the grounds of the U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi when it was attacked on Sept. 11, 2012. The attack resulted in the death of Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and three other Americans. The [...]


Deadliest month in Iraq since June 2008

Posted: 02 May 2013 06:52 AM PDT

Iraq Just Had Its Deadliest Month in 5 YearsThe U.N. says the number of killed in violent attacks jumped.


U.S. jobless claims fall to 5-year low of 324K

Posted: 02 May 2013 06:16 AM PDT

The drop points to fewer layoffs and possibly more hiring.

NYC man who dressed as Cookie Monster rejects deal

Posted: 02 May 2013 05:22 AM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A man who dresses up as Cookie Monster in Times Square turned down a plea deal in a New York City case accusing him of shoving a 2-year-old after his mother refused to tip him.

FBI seeks data on 3 in Benghazi attack

Posted: 02 May 2013 04:50 AM PDT

FBI posts pictures of Benghazi suspectsThe attacks killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.


Gadhafi's son appears in court; case postponed

Posted: 02 May 2013 04:34 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011 file photo, Moammar Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam makes a victory sign as he appears at the Rixos hotel in Tripoli, Libya. The imprisoned son of Libya's slain dictator Moammar Gadhafi appeared in court on Thursday, May 2, 2013 on charges of harming state security, but the judge adjourned his hearing until Sept. 19 to allow defense lawyers time to study the case. Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, the ousted leader's longtime heir apparent, wore a sky blue safari suit and a pair of sandals. He remained standing throughout the 15-minute hearing in the western Libyan town of Zintan. He smiled at times.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)ZINTAN, Libya (AP) — The imprisoned son of Libya's slain dictator Moammar Gadhafi appeared in court on Thursday on charges of harming state security, but the judge adjourned his hearing until Sept. 19 to allow defense lawyers time to study the case.


Leopold Engleitner, oldest concentration camp survivor, dies

Posted: 02 May 2013 04:18 AM PDT

Historic pictures of inmates of several concentration camps are displayed at the historic exhibition at former concentration camp Buchenwald near WeimarVIENNA (Reuters) - Leopold Engleitner, the oldest known survivor of the Nazi concentration camps, has died at the age of 107, his biographer said. Engleitner, a conscientious objector whose life was documented in the book and film "Unbroken Will", was imprisoned in the Buchenwald, Niederhagen and Ravensbrueck camps between 1939 and 1943. He refused to renounce his Jehovah's Witness faith to win his freedom but was eventually released, weighing just 28 kilograms (62 pounds), on condition that he agree to spend the rest of his life working as a slave agricultural laborer. ...


Local mayor suspended as Bangladesh disaster toll climbs to 430

Posted: 02 May 2013 04:02 AM PDT

Workers dig mass graves during a mass burial of unidentified garment workers, who died in the collapse of a building in Savar, in DhakaOn Wednesday Pope Francis called the conditions of workers who died to "slave labor."


Bangladesh building collapse toll rises to 430

Posted: 02 May 2013 02:29 AM PDT

Relatives of victims from the garment factory building collapse grieve at a morgue on Wednesday May 1, 2013 in Dhaka, Bangladesh where a building housing garment factories that collapsed last week in the country's worst industrial disaster, left at least 402 people dead and injured 2,500. (AP Photo/Ismail Ferdous)Authorities say it may take another five days to clear the rubble of the collapsed building.


Women's groups decry appeal on morning-after pill

Posted: 02 May 2013 01:58 AM PDT

This undated image made available by Teva Women's Health shows the packaging for their Plan B One-Step (levonorgestrel) tablet, one of the brands known as the WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration's decision to appeal a court order lifting age limits on purchasers of the morning-after pill set off a storm of criticism from reproductive rights groups, who denounced it as politically motivated and a step backward for women's health.


Amid new threats, some in Congress look to update 9/11 law

Posted: 02 May 2013 01:28 AM PDT

Senator Corker questions members of panel testifying before Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee in WashingtonSome Democrats and Republicans want to revise the nearly 12-year-old resolution.


430 dead so far in Bangladesh building collapse

Posted: 02 May 2013 01:28 AM PDT

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Rescuers found more bodies in the concrete debris of a collapsed garment factory building Thursday and authorities say it may take another five days to clear the rubble.

North Korea sentences American to 15 years' labor

Posted: 02 May 2013 01:28 AM PDT

In this March 20, 2013 photo, a North Korean flag hangs inside the interior of Pyongyang's Supreme Court. North Korea says it will soon deliver a verdict in the case of detained American Kenneth Bae it accuses of trying to overthrow the government, further complicating already fraught relations between Pyongyang and Washington. The announcement about Bae comes in the middle of a lull after weeks of war threats and other provocative acts by North Korea against the U.S. and South Korea. Bae, identified in North Korean state media by his Korean name, Pae Jun Ho, is a tour operator of Korean descent who was arrested after arriving with a tour on Nov. 3 in Rason, a special economic zone bordering China and Russia. (AP Photo)A U.S. citizen is sentenced for unspecified crimes against the state.


Chris Kelly, of rap duo Kris Kross, dies in Ga.

Posted: 01 May 2013 11:39 PM PDT

In this Feb. 23, 2013 photo, Chris Kelly of Kris Kross performs on stage at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta during the So So Def 20th Anniversary Concert. Kelly, half of the 1990s kid rap duo Kris Kross who made one of the decade's most memorable songs with the frenetic The 34-year-old died in Atlanta of an apparent drug overdose, authorities said.


What options does Obama have to close Guantanamo?

Posted: 01 May 2013 11:07 PM PDT

A U.S. Marine guard tower overlooks the Northeast gate leading into Cuba territory at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval BaseIt could take a combination of several options to clear the camp for foreign terrorism suspects.


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S. Dakota tribe can't afford to buy Wounded Knee massacre site

Posted: 01 May 2013 12:21 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo shows the historical marker commemorating the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 on the road near the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Wounded Knee, S.D. Wednesday is the final day a landowner has given the Oglala Sioux Tribe to make an offer to buy a portion of the Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark. James Czywczynski has said he would sell the land, which sits next to where about 150 of the 300 Lakota men, women and children killed by the 7th Cavalry in 1890 are buried, and another piece of land for no less than $4.9 million. Tribal members have said the asking price is much too high. (AP Photo/File)The landowner wants $4.9 million for two parcels, each valued at less than $7,000.


Woman says Philly abortion clinic kept her baby's foot

Posted: 01 May 2013 11:14 AM PDT

Missing since 2002 and declared dead, woman turns up in Florida

Posted: 01 May 2013 10:56 AM PDT

An April 26, 2013 photo taken by the Monroe County, Fla. Sheriff's Office and released by the Lititz Borough, Pa. Police, is of Brenda Heist. Lititz Borough Police in central Pennsylvania say Heist, who disappeared after dropping off her children for school 11 years ago has been located in Florida after traveling there with homeless hitchhikers and sleeping under bridges. (AP Photo/Lititz Borough Police)Brenda Heist, 53, now has "a long ways to make this right again," says a police detective.


Woman says Philly abortion clinic kept her baby's foot

Posted: 01 May 2013 10:23 AM PDT

U.S. electric bus makers shocked over city's transit purchases

Posted: 01 May 2013 10:07 AM PDT

California City to Buy Chinese-Made, Taxpayer-Financed Electric BusesLong Beach officials should have shopped domestically, the companies argue.


They’re off: Election ads live in Virginia, New Jersey

Posted: 01 May 2013 09:17 AM PDT

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie smiles as he listens to a question Tuesday, April 30, 2013, in Long Beach Township, N.J., during a town hall meeting. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)Three gubernatorial campaigns released television ads this week in preparation for the November 2013 elections, signs of a grueling state election season ahead. Virginia Democrat Terry McAuliffe, Virginia Republican Ken Cuccinelli and New Jersey Republican Chris Christie all unveiled TV spots Wednesday in an effort to define their candidacies in the early days of their [...]


Three more Boston suspects in custody

Posted: 01 May 2013 09:01 AM PDT

Boston police officers patrol down Boylston Street near the scene of multiple explosions near the end of the Boston Marathon finish line in BostonThe Boston Globe reports students are suspected of aiding Tsarnaev.


No remains found near suspected 9/11 airplane part

Posted: 01 May 2013 08:43 AM PDT

Officials remove a plane part that was discovered wedged between an apartment building and a mosque in New York, Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Authorities believe the plane part is from one of the two hijacked airliners that brought down the trade center on Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)NEW YORK (AP) — Police used a pulley system on Wednesday to remove a suspected 9/11 plane part from between two buildings near the World Trade Center site, and the medical examiner said no potential human remains had been found there.


A 'Bag Men' dad may sue the New York Post

Posted: 01 May 2013 08:12 AM PDT

NY PostThe paper reported two teenagers were being sought in the Boston bombing.


U.S. allows hunter to import rare black rhino carcass

Posted: 01 May 2013 07:54 AM PDT

US allows Wis. hunter to import rare rhino trophyThe animals was legally killed in Namibia.


Poll: Tsarnaev should be tried in nonmilitary court

Posted: 01 May 2013 07:35 AM PDT

FILE - This file photo provided Friday, April 19, 2013 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Tsarnaev's legal defense is in the hands of Miriam Conrad, the chief federal public defender for Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. Conrad has asked a judge to appoint two additional lawyers with experience in death penalty cases. (AP Photo/Federal Bureau of Investigation, File)Seventy percent said they believe Tsarnaev should be put to death if found guilty.


Man wants big bucks from tribe for massacre site

Posted: 01 May 2013 07:17 AM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo shows the historical marker commemorating the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 on the road near the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Wounded Knee, S.D. Wednesday is the final day a landowner has given the Oglala Sioux Tribe to make an offer to buy a portion of the Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark. James Czywczynski has said he would sell the land, which sits next to where about 150 of the 300 Lakota men, women and children killed by the 7th Cavalry in 1890 are buried, and another piece of land for no less than $4.9 million. Tribal members have said the asking price is much too high. (AP Photo/File)James Czywczynski is trying to sell the land appraised at $14,000 for $4.9 million.


The whiz kids of the White House Science Fair

Posted: 01 May 2013 06:43 AM PDT

Young Minds With Big Ideas: Meet the Whiz Kids of the White House Science FairPolitics Confidential 10-year-old Evan Jackson had just made a touchdown in his football game, but he had to be pulled off to the sideline because he had overheated. It got him thinking, along with his brother Alec and cousin Caleb: what if there were a way to keep football players cool and hydrated without having [...]


Paula Broadwell makes public appearance

Posted: 01 May 2013 06:39 AM PDT

Army Revokes Broadwell's PromotionThe author was at the center of a sex scandal that rocked the C.I.A.


The women who got for bin Laden

Posted: 01 May 2013 06:09 AM PDT

FILE - This undated publicity film image provided by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. shows Jessica Chastain inIn Kathryn Bigelow's movie "Zero Dark Thirty," Jessica Chastain played Maya, a young CIA operative whose stubborn pursuit of Osama bin Laden played a major role in the al-Qaida leader's death. The film garnered both awards (including a Golden Globe for Chastain) and controversy—largely because of graphic scenes depicting the CIA's use of torture on [...]


Report: Syria's Assad makes rare public appearance

Posted: 01 May 2013 05:15 AM PDT

Syria's president visited a power station a day after a powerful bombing.

Amanda Knox: I didn't do it

Posted: 01 May 2013 04:41 AM PDT

Amanda Knox breaks silence in exclusive interview with ABC News' Diane SawyerThe student says her ordeal after the murder of her roommate changed her.


Utah referee critically hurt by soccer game punch

Posted: 01 May 2013 04:25 AM PDT

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A referee for a recreational soccer league was in critical condition in a Salt Lake City hospital after being punched in the face by a teenage player who didn't like a call the man made in a weekend game.

Taliban kill senior peace envoy in south Afghanistan

Posted: 01 May 2013 04:08 AM PDT

The group says they will not talk with the government.

Apple offers record $17 billion worth of bonds

Posted: 01 May 2013 03:52 AM PDT

Apple (AAPL) Offers Record $17 Billion Worth of BondsThe company revealed details of the largest nonfinancial debt deal ever.


Thousands rally against European austerity in May Day protests

Posted: 01 May 2013 03:52 AM PDT

A May Day protester uses a slingshot to throw a stone at riot police as he and others try to break through barricades to reach the city's main square in central IstanbulMay Day triggers protests against harsh government spending cuts across Europe.


Bangladeshis demand worker safety as toll tops 400

Posted: 01 May 2013 02:50 AM PDT

Grieving onlookers comfort each other while workers toil in a collapsed garment factory building on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Emergency workers hauling large concrete slabs from the collapsed eight-story building said Tuesday they expect to find many dead bodies when they reach the ground floor. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)Police isay the death toll from a building collapse last week has passed 400.


Obama wants more certainty on Syrian chemical arms

Posted: 01 May 2013 01:16 AM PDT

President Barack Obama answers questions during his new conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 30, 2013 in Washington. The president said his administration's counter-terrorism bureaucracy He says he wants more information before he decides on escalating U.S. responses.


Family to claim Boston bomb suspect's body

Posted: 01 May 2013 01:01 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 29, 2013 file photo, Katherine Russell, wife of Boston Marathon bomber suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, right, leaves the law office of DeLuca and Weizenbaum with Amato DeLuca, in Providence, R.I. Relatives of Tsarnaev, the older of the brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombing, will claim his body now that his wife has agreed to release it, an uncle said as officials in the U.S. and Russia deepened their investigations into him. (AP Photo/Stew Milne, File)PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Relatives of the dead suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing will claim his body now that his wife has agreed to release it, an uncle said as officials in both Washington and Russia deepened their investigations into him and his ties.


Police check possible link to Calif. girl's death

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 11:38 PM PDT

Map locates Valley Springs, Ca.Police explore a link between a man accused of trying to kidnap a toddler, and the killing of an 8-year-old girl about 45 miles away.