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| William and Kate show off royal baby Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 12:48 PM PDT  The royal couple leaves St. Mary's Hospital and greets the world with their son. Full Story | Top |
| Anthony Weiner confirms more lewd messages Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 12:06 PM PDT  NEW YORK—Anthony Weiner confirmed Tuesday that he was behind a series of newly released explicit messages sent to a woman who was not his wife that were allegedly sent after a sexting scandal forced him out of Congress in 2011. Full Story | Top |
| AP Exclusive: NKorea halts rocket launch-pad work Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 07:53 AM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has stopped construction work at a site meant to launch bigger and better long-range rockets, a possible sign that Pyongyang is slowing or even halting development of larger rockets, according to a new analysis of recent satellite imagery. Full Story | Top |
| Report: Economic concerns drive college choices Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 12:18 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — College costs are driving decisions about which schools to attend, what to study and even where to live, according to a report from loan giant Sallie Mae. Full Story | Top |
| Cop who leaked bombing suspect photos disciplined Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 12:34 PM PDT  FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) — A state police photographer who released photos of the bloodied Boston Marathon bombing suspect during his capture was placed on restricted duty Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| APNewsBreak: Homeland Security official probed Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 12:15 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's choice to be the No. 2 official at the Homeland Security Department is under investigation for his role in helping a company run by a brother of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, The Associated Press has learned. Full Story | Top |
| Deputies: Bynes hospitalized after starting fire Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 12:47 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Amanda Bynes has been hospitalized for a mental health evaluation after a witness said he spotted flames on her pant legs from a small gasoline fire in the driveway of a California home. Full Story | Top |
| FDA cracks down on illegal diabetes remedies Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 11:37 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on more than a dozen companies that market illegal treatments for diabetes, ranging from bogus dietary supplements to prescription drugs sold online without a prescription. Full Story | Top |
| Baby fever caps image turnaround for UK royals Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 12:45 PM PDT  LONDON (AP) — A crowd cheered, hundreds of cameras clicked and an image of familial perfection was beamed around the world. Full Story | Top |
| Bynes hospitalized after allegedly starting fire Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 12:06 PM PDT THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Actress Amanda Bynes was hospitalized for a mental health evaluation after deputies said she started a small fire in the driveway of a home in Southern California. Full Story | Top |
| US surveillance, Syria at issue on defense bill Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 08:28 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The authority of the National Security Agency to collect phone records of millions of Americans sharply divided members of Congress on Tuesday as the House pressed ahead on legislation to fund the nation's military. Full Story | Top |
| Pope visiting Brazil's shrine to 'black Mary' Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 12:20 PM PDT  APARECIDA, Brazil (AP) — The image of Brazil's patron saint, the dark-skinned Virgin of Aparecida, emblazons bumper stickers, presides over shops and dangles from gold chains around women's necks all over this continent-sized country. Replicas of the thin clay statue hang in places of pride on the walls of both the most sumptuous of mansions and the humblest of shacks. Full Story | Top |
| US artist, Syrian children beautify refugee camp Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 09:25 AM PDT  ZAATARI, Jordan (AP) — Young Syrian children, refugees of their country's grinding civil war, playfully grab paint brushes and rollers nearly as big as they are in this windswept desert camp, adding splashes of bright color to their bleak surroundings. Full Story | Top |
| Toll from China quake hits 94, with 1,000 injured Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 02:01 AM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — Rescuers with shovels and sniffer dogs chipped away at collapsed hillsides Tuesday as the death toll rose to 94 from a strong earthquake in a farming region of northwest China. Full Story | Top |
| Al-Qaida says it freed 500 inmates in Iraq jail-break Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 08:20 AM PDT  By Suadad al-Salhy BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Al Qaeda claimed responsibility on Tuesday for simultaneous raids on two Iraqi prisons and said more than 500 inmates had been set free in the operation, one of its most brazen in Iraq. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, formed earlier this year through a merger of al Qaeda's affiliates in Syria and Iraq, said it had stormed Baghdad's Abu Ghraib jail and another, some 20 km (12 miles) north of capital, after months of preparation. ... Full Story | Top |
| Officials identify second East Cleveland murder victim Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 11:45 AM PDT  By Kim Palmer EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (Reuters) - Authorities have identified the second of three murder victims found dumped in plastic garbage bags in an East Cleveland neighborhood as 28-year-old Shetisha Sheeley, the city's mayor said on Tuesday. East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton said the body of Sheeley, a resident of Cleveland, was discovered Saturday in a weeded lot near two other bodies. East Cleveland is a low-income city of about 27,000 people outside Cleveland. Authorities on Monday confirmed the identity of the first victim as Angela Deskins, 38, also of Cleveland. ... Full Story | Top |
| Cop who released Tsarnaev photos on restricted duty Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 09:42 AM PDT  Sgt. Sean Murphy, the Massachusetts state trooper who gave graphic photos documenting the surrender of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to Boston magazine, was placed on placed on restricted desk duty Tuesday pending the outcome of an internal investigation. Full Story | Top |
| Federal appeals court rules that execution drug can't be imported Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 12:31 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration was wrong to allow a misbranded and unapproved new drug to be imported for use in executions by lethal injection. Full Story | Top |
| NYC airport fully reopens after jet's hard landing Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 06:22 AM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's LaGuardia Airport fully reopened Tuesday, a day after the collapse of a plane's front landing gear sent it skidding along the tarmac and temporarily closed the airport. Full Story | Top |
| Homeland Security nominee under investigation Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 10:04 AM PDT  Alejandro Mayorkas is a target of a probe of the nation's foreign investment visa program. Full Story | Top |
| Paying for college by grants, scholarships Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 07:31 AM PDT Other sources surpass parents as primary payers for higher education. Full Story | Top |
| Photos: Pope Francis a big hit in Brazil, but protests continue Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 08:50 AM PDT  People reach out to Pope Francis as he rides in a popemobile through Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, July 22, 2013. Pope Francis returned to his home continent for the first time as pontiff, embarking on a seven-day visit meant to fan the fervor of the faithful around the globe. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis) Full Story | Top |
| The day in pictures: Birth of the royal baby Monday, Jul 22, 2013 03:38 PM PDT  A town crier announces the royal birth outside the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital after Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to a baby boy in central London July 22, 2013. Prince William's wife Kate gave birth on Monday to a baby boy, in the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital, who becomes third in line to the British throne, his office said. The royal baby, the couple's first child, was born at 4:24 p.m. (1524 GMT), weighing 8 lbs and 6 oz. REUTERS/Andrew Winning Full Story | Top |
| Menthol cigarettes worse than regular: FDA Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 06:26 AM PDT  No, adding menthol doesn't make them healthier. More addictive, maybe. Full Story | Top |
| Republicans propose cuts to environment, arts programs Monday, Jul 22, 2013 01:23 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans Monday proposed slashing cuts to environmental programs and funding for the Smithsonian Institution and the arts as they unveiled the latest legislation to implement the second year of budget cuts required under so-called sequestration. Full Story | Top |
| LaGuardia runway open after rough Southwest landing Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 05:26 AM PDT  By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - A runway at New York City's LaGuardia Airport, shut after a landing gear on a Southwest Airlines jet collapsed on touchdown Monday evening, was reopened Tuesday morning, an airport spokesman said. Eight people, including three crew members, suffered minor injuries after the incident, Southwest said. Flight delays of up to an hour were expected for the rest of the morning, said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the area's airports. ... Full Story | Top |
| Al Jazeera TV accuses Egypt of intimidating its staff Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 06:29 AM PDT  DOHA (Reuters) - The pan-Arab Al Jazeera television network accused Egyptian authorities on Tuesday of a sustained campaign of intimidation against its staff, rejecting charges of pro-Islamist bias in its reporting on the crisis in Egypt. Hours after the Egyptian military ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi on July 3, security forces raided the Cairo offices of Al Jazeera's Egyptian news channel, which military sources accused at the time of broadcasting "incitement". ... Full Story | Top |
| Mob scene after Pope makes wrong turn Monday, Jul 22, 2013 07:45 PM PDT  A humble Fiat carrying Pope Francis went into the thick of a frenzied Rio crowd. Full Story | Top |
| What the heck is Ted Cruz doing in Iowa? Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 04:25 AM PDT  Politics Confidential Sen. Ted Cruz had never won an election before Texans elected him to the Senate last year, but already the Republican's travel schedule looks more like that of a presidential candidate than one for a freshman lawmaker, with stops in key battleground states like Iowa, New Hampshire, and Florida. Politics Confidential joined Cruz [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obamas to William and Kate: 'Happiness and blessings' Monday, Jul 22, 2013 02:44 PM PDT  President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama welcomed the #RoyalBaby's arrival and wished Prince William and Duchess Kate "all the happiness and blessings parenthood brings." Full Story | Top |
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