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| Simpson wins small parole victory on some charges Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 09:52 AM PDT  CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — O.J. Simpson won a small victory Wednesday in his bid for freedom as Nevada granted him parole on some of his convictions in a 2008 kidnapping and armed robbery involving the holdup of two sports memorabilia dealers at a Las Vegas hotel room. Full Story | Top |
| Fla insurance officials: rates will rise under ACA Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 05:52 AM PDT Florida's insurance officials said Tuesday that health insurance rates will rise an average of 5 to 20 percent for small businesses and 30 to 40 percent in the individual market through the state's new ... Full Story | Top |
| Patrick Kennedy: Members of Congress battle mental illness in their families but vote against help Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 03:56 AM PDT Top Line When Patrick Kennedy returned to Congress following a DWI for driving drunk in 2006, he made a point of going to thank fellow members of Congress who had sent him "get well" cards in rehab. The former Rhode Island congressman tells "Top Line" that he came across story after story from members of [...] Full Story | Top |
| Fed downgrades US economic growth to modest Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 11:20 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that the U.S. economy is growing only modestly, a downgrade from its June assessment. The Fed expects growth will pick up in the second half of the year, but the more cautious message may be a signal that it's not ready to slow its bond purchases soon. Full Story | Top |
| Is Bradley Manning a hero, traitor or something more complex? Military veterans react to verdict Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 02:48 PM PDT  After a military court on Tuesday acquitted former U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning of aiding the enemy when he released classified documents to the website Wikileaks, Yahoo News asked military service members and veterans for their reactions. Full Story | Top |
| Student left in DEA cell to get $4 million from US Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 05:41 PM PDT SAN DIEGO (AP) — A 25-year old college student has reached a $4.1 million settlement with the federal government after he was abandoned in a windowless Drug Enforcement Administration cell for more than four days without food or water, his attorneys said Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| WikiLeaks' Assange condemns Manning verdict, Obama Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 05:17 PM PDT  By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accused President Barack Obama of "national security extremism" on Tuesday after an American military judge convicted Bradley Manning over the biggest leak of classified documents in U.S. history. Praising Manning as "the most important journalistic source that the world has ever seen", Assange said the U.S. soldier, who prosecutors said had supplied WikiLeaks with hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. documents, did not receive a fair trial and called for the verdict to be overturned. ... Full Story | Top |
| Businesses call for action on immigration Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 01:19 PM PDT Hundreds of leading business groups and GOP donors called for action on immigration legislation Tuesday, seeking to increase pressure on the House GOP as lawmakers prepare to leave Washington for a five-week ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama challenges GOP to accept corporate tax deal Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 02:16 PM PDT  CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday offered congressional Republicans a new corporate tax cut and jobs spending package he said might "help break through some of the political logjam in Washington," only to have GOP lawmakers immediately throw cold water on the idea. Full Story | Top |
| Prosecutors: Woman had soda can with green paint Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 02:34 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A woman charged with defacing the Washington National Cathedral was carrying a soda can containing green paint when she was arrested, and she has been linked to at least four other incidents of vandalism, including at the Lincoln Memorial, according to prosecutors and court documents. Full Story | Top |
| Changing Florida's Stand Your Ground law a tough hill to climb Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 05:06 AM PDT  By Bill Cotterell TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Every night for the last three weeks about 50 young protesters have slept on the stone floor of Florida's state Capitol building in a bid to change the state's Stand Your Ground self-defense law. Calling themselves "Dream Defenders", and inspired by the 1960s African-American civil rights movement, the protesters want to change a law they blame for the acquittal this month of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. ... Full Story | Top |
| Responses, many angry, flood Ohio St after remarks Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 10:52 AM PDT  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Joseph Nally was disappointed on three fronts by disparaging remarks made by Ohio State University's former president — as a Roman Catholic, a graduate of Ohio State and a Notre Dame grad. Full Story | Top |
| Spain investigators: Train driver was on phone Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 01:55 PM PDT  MADRID (AP) — The driver was on the phone with a colleague and apparently looking at a document as his train barreled ahead at 95 mph (153 kph) — almost twice the speed limit. Suddenly, a notorious curve was upon him. Full Story | Top |
| Not a car or bicycle, but a blend _ an ELF vehicle Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 12:07 PM PDT  RESTON, Va. (AP) — Mark Stewart turns quite a few heads as he zips through the streets on his neon green ELF bike. With each pedal, his feet take turns sticking out from the bottom while a gentle motor hums in the background. Full Story | Top |
| Obama reassures Dems on health care, immigration Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 10:53 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama sought Wednesday to reassure Democrats nervous about the impact of his health care law and the prospects for immigration legislation, telling them "You're on the right side of history." Full Story | Top |
| Weiner speaks out in new ad: 'Quit isn't the way we roll in New York City' Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 04:44 PM PDT NEW YORK—Anthony Weiner is out with a new ad addressing the sexting scandal that threatens to sink his mayoral campaign in which he reaffirms he has no plans to "quit" the race. Full Story | Top |
| McCain: Hillary Clinton vs. Rand Paul in 2016 would be ‘tough choice’ Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 06:46 AM PDT  Hillary's a "rock star" and Palin was a good VP choice, the Arizona senator and 2008 GOP presidential nominee says in a new interview. Full Story | Top |
| 'Housewives' stars free on bond, travel restricted Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 02:14 PM PDT  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A star of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" and her husband were each released on $500,000 bond after making initial court appearances Tuesday on federal fraud charges. Full Story | Top |
| NJ woman accused of 'trashing' dog pleads guilty Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 03:33 PM PDT  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to an animal cruelty charge after authorities say her emaciated dog was found starved and near-death, wrapped in a plastic bag and thrown down a building's garbage chute. Full Story | Top |
| Senate roundly rejects proposal to halt Egypt aid Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 09:42 AM PDT The Senate roundly rejected a proposal Wednesday to redirect aid for Egypt into bridge-building projects in the U.S. after a potential Republican presidential candidate and tea party favorite challenged ... Full Story | Top |
| Bradley Manning-WikiLeaks case turns to sentencing Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 06:30 AM PDT  FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Acquitted of the most serious charge against him, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning still faces up to 136 years in prison for leaking government secrets to the website WikiLeaks, and his fate rests with a judge who will begin hearing arguments Wednesday in the sentencing phase of the soldier's court-martial. Full Story | Top |
| Christie fires back at Paul for spending comment Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 06:46 AM PDT  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie doesn't appear to want his war of words with Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul to end anytime soon. Christie fired back at Paul on Tuesday for Paul's remark that New Jersey has a "Gimme, ... Full Story | Top |
| Denver hotel offers pop-up inflatable room Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 06:06 AM PDT  DENVER (AP) — For a limited time, a Denver hotel is offering a package with a one-night stay in a pop-up, inflatable room that rises 22 feet in the air, thanks to a scissor lift on top of the van on which it sits. Full Story | Top |
| 'Obamacare' mandate delay will cost $12 billion, affect 1 million workers Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 03:38 PM PDT  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's decision to delay implementation of part of his healthcare reform law will cost $12 billion and leave a million fewer Americans with employer-sponsored health insurance in 2014, congressional researchers said Tuesday. The report by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office is the first authoritative estimate of the human and fiscal cost from the administration's unexpected one-year delay announced July 2 of the employer mandate - a requirement for larger businesses to provide health coverage for their workers or pay a penalty. ... Full Story | Top |
| Salad pegged in Iowa, Neb. cyclospora outbreak Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 05:02 PM PDT  LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Health officials in Iowa and Nebraska on Tuesday identified prepackaged salad mix as the source of a severe stomach bug that sickened hundreds of people in both states, but federal authorities said it's not clear whether cyclospora outbreaks elsewhere in the U.S. are also linked to that produce. Full Story | Top |
| Thousands take to streets to protest Trayvon Martin verdict Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 01:55 PM PDT  (Updates July 20 story to correct the spelling of "Fagenson") By Edward Upright and Zachary Fagenson NEW YORK/MIAMI, (Reuters) - Demonstrators took to the streets in dozens of U.S. cities on Saturday to vent their anger over the acquittal in Florida of the man who shot unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin to death and to call for federal charges in the racially tinged case. ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama to propose 'grand bargain' Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 02:39 PM PDT By Steve Holland CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (Reuters) - President Barack Obama proposed a "grand bargain for middle-class jobs" on Tuesday that would cut the U.S. corporate tax rate and use billions of dollars in revenues generated by a business tax overhaul to fund projects aimed at creating jobs. The goal, as outlined in his speech to an enthusiastic audience at an Amazon.com Inc facility in southeastern Tennessee, was to break through partisan gridlock in Congress with a formula that satisfies Republicans and Democrats alike. ... Full Story | Top |
| Weiner aide lashed out at former campaign intern Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 06:57 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The chief spokeswoman for embattled mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner went on an expletive-laced tirade about a former campaign intern in an interview with a political news website. Full Story | Top |
| Pentagon to bear brunt of upcoming budget cuts Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 08:38 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A second, deeper round of automatic federal budget cuts is on its way, and it's going to hit the Pentagon hard. Full Story | Top |
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