Tuesday, July 16, 2013

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Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 11:51 AM PDT
U.S. to Russia: Send Snowden home 
Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 11:51 AM PDT
 FILE - In this Friday, July 12, 2013 file photo originally made available by Human Rights Watch, SA leaker Edward Snowden attends a meeting with Russian activists and officials at Sheremetyevo airport, Moscow. Russia's state RIA Novosti news agency is quoting a Russian lawyer as saying that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has asked for a temporary asylum in Russia. The agency quotes Anatoly Kucherena as saying that Snowden submitted the asylum request Tuesday, July 16, 2013 to Russia's Federal Migration Service. (AP Photo/Tatyana Lokshina, Human Rights Watch, file)The tense situation could be resolved simply by turning over the former NSA contractor.
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Health law's rule delay could hamper enforcement 
Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 12:40 PM PDT
 FILE - In an Oct. 11, 2012, photograph, a basket of medical supplies await storage by King's Daughters Medical Center emergency room staff in Brookhaven, Miss. Enforcement of the health care overhaul's central mandate _ that individual Americans must have coverage _ could be weakened by the Obama administration's delay of a requirement that larger employers provide medical insurance. That's because the delayed rule also requires companies to report health insurance details for employees. Without employers validating who's covered, a scofflaw could lie, and the government would have no easy way to check.(AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)WASHINGTON (AP) — There's a bit of a domino effect undercutting President Barack Obama's health care law.
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On Martin case, Obama shifts from passion to calm 
Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 09:02 AM PDT
 President Barack Obama speaks during a ceremony to present the 5,000th Daily Point of Light Award to Floyd Hammer and Kathy Hamilton, from Union, Iowa, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2013. White House spokesman Jay Carney says it would be inappropriate for President Obama to express an opinion on how the Justice Department deals with Zimmerman after the neighborhood watch volunteer's acquittal in the shooting of the unarmed 17-year-old last year. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Barack Obama first addressed the death of Trayvon Martin last year, he did so passionately, declaring that if he had a son, he would look like the slain 17-year-old. His powerful and personal commentary marked a rare public reflection on race from the nation's first black president.
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LA to deploy more police to prevent disturbances 
Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 11:51 AM PDT
 A woman holds up a sign during a demonstration in reaction to the acquittal of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman on Monday, July 15, 2013, in Los Angeles. Anger over the acquittal of a U.S. neighborhood watch volunteer who shot dead an unarmed black teenager continued Monday, with civil rights leaders saying mostly peaceful protests will continue this weekend with vigils in dozens of cities. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Disturbances spiraling out of Los Angeles street protests against the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin will not be allowed to continue, city leaders vowed Tuesday after a spate of vandalism and assaults that led to 14 arrests.
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Judge ponders September trial date for Arias 
Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 11:59 AM PDT
 FILE - In this May 21, 2013 file photo, Jodi Arias points to her family as a reason for the jury to give her a life in prison sentence instead of the death penalty, during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. As she awaits a decision by prosecutors on the future of her murder case, Arias and her attorneys are returning to court Tuesday, July 16, 2013 to ask the judge to throw out the jury's finding that made her eligible for the death penalty. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, Pool, File)PHOENIX (AP) — A new jury could be impaneled to decide whether Jodi Arias should be sentenced to death or life in prison sometime in late September, a judge said Tuesday, as attorneys continue to file motions and keep mum on any talk of a deal to resolve the case without another trial.
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Indiana doctor arrested in 4 Nebraska killings 
Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 11:33 AM PDT
 Dr. Anthony Garcia, 40, is pictured in this photo released by the Omaha Police. Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer said that Garcia was arrested Monday, July 15, 2013, in Illinois. Garcia has been linked to both the May 2013 Omaha slayings of 65-year-old Roger Brumback and 65-year-old Mary Brumback and the 2008 stabbing deaths of an 11-year-old Thomas Hunter and his family housekeeper, 57-year-old Shirlee Sherman. The slain Brumback and Hunter fired Garcia in 2001 when he was a pathology resident at Creighton Medical School. (AP Photo/Omaha Police)OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Indiana doctor who was fired from a Nebraska medical school more than a decade ago has been arrested on suspicion of killing four people with ties to the school in two separate attacks five years apart.
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Panama finds suspected weapons on N. Korean ship 
Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 12:42 PM PDT
 Police patrol by boat next to the North Korean-flagged cargo ship Chong Chon Gang docked at the Manzanillo International container terminal on the coast of Colon City, Panama, Tuesday, July 16, 2013. Panama's president said the country has seized the ship, carrying what appeared to be ballistic missiles and other arms that had set sail from Cuba. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)PANAMA CITY (AP) — A North Korean ship carrying weapons system parts buried under sacks of sugar was seized as it tried to cross the Panama Canal on its way from Cuba to its home country, which is under a United Nations arms embargo, Panamanian officials said Tuesday.
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Parenting columnist targeted by Ky. board sues 
Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 12:52 PM PDT
 This photo provided by the Institute for Justice shows syndicated parenting columnist John Rosemond. A Virginia-based legal institute is filing a federal lawsuit on behalf of Rosemond who says the state of Kentucky is trying to censor him. Kentucky's attorney general told Rosemond that his advice column runs afoul of the rules that govern the practice of psychology. The Arlington-based Institute for Justice says if the ruling is allowed to stand that columnists like Dear Abby and TV personalities like Dr. Phil could find themselves facing similar charges. (AP Photo/Institute for JusticeJohn Rosemond has been dispensing parenting advice in his newspaper column since 1976, making him one of the longest-running syndicated columnists in the country.
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Snowden submits request for asylum in Russia 
Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 12:01 PM PDT
 In this image provided by Human Rights Watch, NSA leaker Edward Snowden, center, attends a news conference at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport with Sarah Harrison of WikiLeaks, left, Friday, July 12, 2013. Snowden wants to seek asylum in Russia, according to a Parliament member who was among about a dozen activists and officials to meet with him Friday in the Moscow airport where he's been marooned for weeks. Duma member Vyacheslav Nikonov told reporters of Snowden's intentions after the meeting behind closed doors in the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. (AP Photo/Human Rights Watch, Tanya Lokshina)MOSCOW (AP) — National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Tuesday submitted a request for temporary asylum in Russia, his lawyer said, claiming he faces persecution from the U.S. government and could face torture or death.
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Brooklyn Nets coach Kidd gets probation for DWI 
Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 10:27 AM PDT
 Brooklyn Nets coach Jason Kidd arrives at Southampton Town Court Tuesday, July 16, 2013, in Hampton Bays, N.Y. Kidd pleaded guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor drunken driving charge and was placed on interim probation nearly a year after he smashed his Cadillac SUV into a utility pole on eastern Long Island. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)HAMPTON BAYS, N.Y. (AP) — Brooklyn Nets coach Jason Kidd pleaded guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor drunken driving charge and was placed on interim probation nearly a year after he smashed his Cadillac SUV into a utility pole on eastern Long Island.
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Ind. doctor arrested, a suspect in 4 Neb. killings 
Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 07:38 AM PDT
 Dr. Anthony Garcia, 40, is pictured in this photo released by the Omaha Police. Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer said that Garcia was arrested Monday, July 15, 2013, in Illinois. Garcia has been linked to both the May 2013 Omaha slayings of 65-year-old Roger Brumback and 65-year-old Mary Brumback and the 2008 stabbing deaths of an 11-year-old Thomas Hunter and his family housekeeper, 57-year-old Shirlee Sherman. The slain Brumback and Hunter fired Garcia in 2001 when he was a pathology resident at Creighton Medical School. (AP Photo/Omaha Police)OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Indiana doctor has been arrested in Illinois on suspicion of involvement in the killings of three adults and an 11-year-old boy in Nebraska all with ties to an Omaha university medical school that fired him in 2001.
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Filibuster showdown may be averted, Sen. Reid says 
Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 10:32 AM PDT
 Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., left, and Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., walk to a closed door caucus as lawmakers moved toward resolving their feud over filibusters of White House appointees, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 16, 2013. The Senate just voted 71-29 to end a two-year Republican blockade that was preventing Richard Cordray from winning confirmation as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators moved toward resolving their feud over Republican filibusters of White House appointees on Tuesday, hoping to avoid a Senate rules change by Democrats that would worsen the partisanship already troubling the chamber.
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Israeli leader condemns EU move on settlements 
Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 10:03 AM PDT
 FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2010 aerial file photo, taken through the window of an airplane, the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel is seen. From 2014, Israeli authorities must guarantee that all EU funding and cooperation projects are conducted within Israel's pre-1967 border and not in east Jerusalem, the West Bank or Golan Heights. A senior Israeli official is condemned the European Union's new directive banning EU dealings with settlements as "worrying" and counterproductive to peace talks. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister on Tuesday harshly criticized a European Union decision to ban funding for Israeli institutions that operate in the Palestinian territories.
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Egypt's interim president swears in new Cabinet 
Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 09:48 AM PDT
 This image released by the Egyptian Presidency on Tuesday, July 16, 2013 shows interim President Adly Mansour, center, with his new cabinet ministers at the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's interim president has sworn in a new Cabinet, the first since the ouster of the Islamist president by the military nearly two weeks ago. The new government, sworn in Tuesday, is led by Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi, an economist, and features the promotion of Defence Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who ousted Mohammed Morsi on July 3, to deputy prime minister. He also retains the defence portfolio. (AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's interim president on Tuesday swore in the first Cabinet since the military ousted the Islamist president, giving members of the country's liberal movements key positions. The Cabinet includes three women.
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