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At least 7 die in Paris train crash Friday, Jul 12, 2013 10:08 AM PDT The train was reportedly carrying 350 passengers during rush hour. Full Story | Top |
Police: Teen in Asiana crash hit by fire truck Friday, Jul 12, 2013 12:48 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — One of the two Chinese teenagers killed in the Asiana Airlines disaster was hit by a fire truck while covered with firefighting foam, authorities said Friday, revealing a startling detail that suggested she could have survived the crash only to die in its chaotic aftermath. Full Story | Top |
Obesity, booze and sitting: America's worrisome health habits Friday, Jul 12, 2013 08:30 AM PDT Tiffany Bailey is tired of the "fat mom" label. "I just want to be Tiffany," she says matter-of-factly. Full Story | Top |
Snowden wants Russia asylum, lawmaker says Friday, Jul 12, 2013 10:34 AM PDT MOSCOW (AP) — National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden wants asylum in Russia and is willing to stop sharing information as a trade-off for such a deal, according to a lawmaker who was among a dozen activists and officials to meet with him Friday at the Moscow airport where he has been marooned for weeks. Full Story | Top |
Al-Qaida-linked gunmen kill Syrian rebel commander Friday, Jul 12, 2013 12:02 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Al-Qaida-linked gunmen killed a rebel commander in Syria aligned with the Western-backed militias fighting against Bashar Assad's regime, the highest-profile casualty of growing tensions between moderate and jihadi fighters among rebel forces. Full Story | Top |
Hundreds of new charges filed in Ohio kidnap case Friday, Jul 12, 2013 12:14 PM PDT COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The man accused of holding three women captive in his Cleveland home for about a decade was charged Friday with hundreds of additional counts covering the entire time period of the alleged imprisonment. Full Story | Top |
Murder charge to be filed in death of Calif boy Friday, Jul 12, 2013 12:26 PM PDT The 16-year-old half-brother of an 11-year-old boy found dead earlier this week in Southern California will be charged with one count of murder, prosecutors said Friday. Full Story | Top |
Ousted president's backers protest in Egypt Friday, Jul 12, 2013 10:52 AM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Tens of thousands of supporters of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood massed in main squares in several cities on Friday, waving pictures of Mohammed Morsi and chanting that the head of the military is a "traitor," stepping up denunciations of the army over its removal of the country's first freely elected president. Full Story | Top |
Dreamliner issues reported at 2 UK airports Friday, Jul 12, 2013 11:15 AM PDT LONDON (AP) — Two Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes ran into trouble in England on Friday, with a fire on one temporarily shutting down Heathrow Airport and an unspecified technical issue forcing another to turn back to Manchester Airport. Full Story | Top |
Texas Senate convenes to debate abortion bill Friday, Jul 12, 2013 12:39 PM PDT AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Senate convened Friday afternoon to debate and ultimately vote on a bill to implement some of the nation's toughest abortion restrictions, its actions being watched by fervent demonstrators on either side of the issue. Full Story | Top |
Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano resigning Friday, Jul 12, 2013 12:52 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced her resignation Friday to take over the University of California system, leaving behind a huge department still working to adjust to the merger of nearly two dozen agencies after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Full Story | Top |
Jurors start deliberating George Zimmerman case Friday, Jul 12, 2013 11:44 AM PDT SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A jury began deliberating George Zimmerman's fate Friday after hearing dueling portraits of the neighborhood watch captain: a wannabe cop who took the law into his own hands or a well-meaning volunteer who shot Trayvon Martin because he feared for his life. Full Story | Top |
Texas Senate again to take up tough abortion rules Friday, Jul 12, 2013 11:49 AM PDT AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Hours before final debate began Friday on tough new abortion restrictions, vocal demonstrators on both sides of the issue filled the Texas Capitol, opponents in orange and some carrying gynecological devices and supporters wearing blue and holding images of fetuses and Bible verses. Full Story | Top |
Egypt's media embrace military after Morsi ouster Friday, Jul 12, 2013 12:00 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — When autocrat Hosni Mubarak fell after popular protests in 2011, journalist Sabah Hamamou hoped for change at her newspaper, Al-Ahram, the state-owned media flagship with an editorial line firmly controlled by the regime. Full Story | Top |
Immigration mired, early Term II wins elude Obama Friday, Jul 12, 2013 09:52 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A dramatic tax-raising deal last New Year's looked like it might be a breakthrough, signaling improved second-term relations between newly re-elected President Barack Obama and a divided Congress. At least that's what the White House hoped. Full Story | Top |
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