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| Life as a Syrian refugee: A look inside the world’s second largest refugee camp Monday, Jul 01, 2013 04:09 AM PDT On The Radar Well over a million people have fled Syria to escape the war, and as more people continue to seek safety in refugee camps in bordering countries, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees says it is a challenge to meet the Syrian refugees' "basic needs" and "ensure their dignity." In an exclusive interview [...] Full Story | Top |
| House takes up own immigration fix, no citizenship Sunday, Jun 30, 2013 05:10 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said Sunday that any attempt at comprehensive immigration legislation cannot offer a "special pathway to citizenship" for those in the United States illegally. That approach could block the GOP's hopes of ever winning the White House, the top Democrat in the House predicted. Full Story | Top |
| Court wins draw big crowds to gay pride parades Monday, Jul 01, 2013 02:24 AM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Gay rights supporters crowded parade routes in San Francisco, New York and other major U.S. cities to celebrate what once was unimaginable — two Supreme Court victories on same-sex marriage. Full Story | Top |
| Katherine Jackson: 'There's Not A Day I Don't Think About Michael' - His Fans Keep Me Going Sunday, Jun 30, 2013 04:16 PM PDT  Katherine Jackson attended the premiere of Cirque Du Soleil's new show, a tribute to son Michael Jackson, at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas on Saturday. In an exclusive sit-down interview with Access Hollywood , the Jackson family matriarch opened up about her thoughts on the show and how she's coping with the four-year anniversary of her superstar son's death. Full Story | Top |
| Snowden applies for Russian asylum, Putin says stop harming U.S. Monday, Jul 01, 2013 12:53 PM PDT By Alexei Anishchuk and Lidia Kelly MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden has applied for political asylum in Russia, a Russian official said on Monday, but President Vladimir Putin said he was not welcome unless he stopped harming U.S. interests "as strange as that sounds coming from my lips". Wikileaks activist Sarah Harrison, who is travelling with Snowden, handed his application to a Russian consular official in the transit area at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport late on Sunday, Kim Shevchenko, a consul at the airport, told Reuters. ... Full Story | Top |
| Texas lawmakers are back, and so is abortion fight Monday, Jul 01, 2013 12:37 PM PDT AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators descended on the Texas Capitol Monday, the majority expressing their opposition to new abortion restrictions that a Democratic filibuster and raucous protests derailed last week. Full Story | Top |
| Sony suffers second box office letdown as it eyes partial spinoff Sunday, Jun 30, 2013 02:38 PM PDT  By Ronald Grover and Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sony, which is studying a partial spinoff of its studio at the urging of major shareholder Daniel Loeb, suffered its second box office misfire of the summer season when its action movie "White House Down" opened with ticket sales below industry forecasts. "White House Down," which stars Jamie Foxx as the U.S. president and Channing Tatum as a federal agent who saves the White House from terrorists, opened with $25.7 million in domestic ticket sales, according to the studio, below industry experts' estimates of over $30 million. ... Full Story | Top |
| July 4th fireworks scrapped at a number of bases Monday, Jul 01, 2013 01:49 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Fourth of July won't have a patriotic boom in the sky over some military bases because budget cuts and furloughed workers also mean furloughed fireworks. Full Story | Top |
| NYC's gay pride march celebrates Supreme Court win Sunday, Jun 30, 2013 05:13 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Only days after the Supreme Court used her lawsuit to grant same-sex couples federal marriage benefits, Edith Windsor helped lead New York City's Gay Pride march on Sunday. Full Story | Top |
| The Banality of Butter: What Hannah Arendt Can Tell Us About Paula Deen Monday, Jul 01, 2013 06:47 AM PDT  It's been my good fortune to read Hannah Arendt right as all the Paula Deen mishigas has gone down. Not that The Banality of Evil forecasts Ms. Deen's allure — her standing has always bent toward the nostalgic, the airbrushed, the blandly retrograde. Nor in any real way can we fit Deen's comparably mild offenses with those of a world-historic villain. Of course not. But the response of her many champions is germane. In fact, this response has gone out on a frequency Ms. Arendt's readers have the perfect antennae to pick up on. Full Story | Top |
| Russia's Bad Weekend for Gay Rights Sunday, Jun 30, 2013 06:38 PM PDT  As the U.S. celebrated the intersection of Pride parades and two landmark Supreme Court decisions, Russia spent the weekend moving even closer to the Worst Timeline for gay rights there. On Saturday, police arrested dozens of protesters after anti-gay rights activists attacked about 100 pro-gay rights demonstrators. And today, President Putin signed a new law that criminalizes homosexual "propaganda" aimed at minors. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. seeks to calm European outrage over alleged spying Monday, Jul 01, 2013 10:27 AM PDT By Jeff Mason and Mark Felsenthal DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - President Barack Obama tried on Monday to reassure European allies affronted by reports of U.S. spying by suggesting all the world's intelligence services were involved in finding out the thinking of opponents and allies alike. The European Union has demanded the United States explain a report in a German magazine that Washington was spying on the bloc, saying that, if true, such surveillance was shocking. French President Francois Hollande called the alleged action intolerable, saying it could hinder U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| FBI audio expert testifies in Zimmerman trial Monday, Jul 01, 2013 08:08 AM PDT SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — An FBI audio expert whose pretrial testimony helped keep prosecution witnesses from testifying at George Zimmerman's murder trial took the stand Monday and said a person who is familiar with a voice on a recording has a better chance of identifying it. Full Story | Top |
| Why Republicans should shut up about Hillary Clinton's age Monday, Jul 01, 2013 02:35 AM PDT  Even though the GOP nominee's relative youth would be a huge advantage Full Story | Top |
| Weather radar shows giant ‘storm’ of dust, bugs in Texas Monday, Jul 01, 2013 06:08 AM PDT Forecasters in Texas thought something was wrong with their equipment late last week when radar showed a massive area of rain and strong storms stretching from Dallas to Austin on a dry summer day. "It looked like it was raining," Jennifer Dunn, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Dallas-Fort Worth, told the Austin [...] Full Story | Top |
| Law requires Chinese to visit their aging parents Monday, Jul 01, 2013 07:06 AM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — Mothers and fathers aren't the only ones urging adult children to visit their parents. China's lawbooks are now issuing the same imperative. Full Story | Top |
| Bush on Snowden: ‘He damaged the security of the country’ Monday, Jul 01, 2013 06:44 AM PDT  Former President George W. Bush has weighed in on the Edward Snowden saga, telling CNN the former National Security Agency contractor threatened the security of U.S. citizens by leaking information about the surveillance program his administration created after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. "I know he damaged the country," Bush said in an interview [...] Full Story | Top |
| New NSA spying allegations rile European allies Sunday, Jun 30, 2013 02:26 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration faced a breakdown in confidence Sunday from key foreign allies who threatened investigations and sanctions against the U.S. over secret surveillance programs that reportedly installed covert listening devices in European Union offices. Full Story | Top |
| Testimony to begin in week 2 of Zimmerman trial Monday, Jul 01, 2013 01:59 AM PDT SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Testimony in the second week of the George Zimmerman trial begins Monday with an expected shift by prosecutors toward witnesses that will testify on the scientific evidence they have against a former neighbor watch leader charged in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. is not waging 'war on coal': Energy Secretary Moniz Sunday, Jun 30, 2013 04:50 PM PDT  By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.S. government is not waging a "war on coal" but rather expects it to still play a significant role, U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said on Sunday, rejecting criticism of President Barack Obama's climate change plan. Obama tried last week to revive his stalled climate change agenda, promising new rules to cut carbon emissions from U.S. power plants and other domestic actions including support for renewable energy. ... Full Story | Top |
| Investigators launch probe into death of 19 Arizona firefighters Monday, Jul 01, 2013 11:28 AM PDT By Tim Gaynor PRESCOTT, Arizona (Reuters) - Fire investigators in central Arizona launched a probe on Monday into how wind-driven flames closed in on and killed 19 specially trained firemen in a tragedy that marked the greatest loss of life among firefighters in a U.S. wildland blaze in 80 years. The precise circumstances surrounding Sunday's deaths of all but one of a 20-member elite "hotshots" firefighting team remained unclear a day after they perished while battling a blaze that has destroyed scores of homes and forced the evacuation of two towns. ... Full Story | Top |
| Firefighters unaccounted for battling Ariz. blaze Sunday, Jun 30, 2013 08:19 PM PDT  YARNELL, Ariz. (AP) — A fire information officer says 19 firefighters are unaccounted for while battling the Yarnell Hill Fire in a central Arizona community. Full Story | Top |
| Gay pride parades draw huge crowds after marriage rulings Sunday, Jun 30, 2013 05:53 PM PDT  By Ronnie Cohen SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dancing, cheering and toting placards, gay rights supporters took to the streets in huge numbers at annual gay pride parades across the United States on Sunday, with attendance boosted by recent Supreme Court rulings in support of same-sex marriage. Gay pride celebrations were held in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Minneapolis and several other cities by marchers energized by the top court's rulings extending federal benefits to married homosexual couples and striking down a ban on same-sex marriages in California. ... Full Story | Top |
| Steinway accepts $438M buyout from Kohlberg & Co. Monday, Jul 01, 2013 11:27 AM PDT  WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) — The famed piano maker Steinway is hoping that the sale of the company to private equity firm Kohlberg & Co. will strike the right chord. Full Story | Top |
| Police officer testifies in George Zimmerman trial Monday, Jul 01, 2013 11:30 AM PDT  SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — The first police officer to interview George Zimmerman after he shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin says he didn't yet know that the teen had died. Full Story | Top |
| Egypt's military issues 48-hour ultimatum Monday, Jul 01, 2013 11:30 AM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's powerful military warned on Monday it will intervene if the Islamist president doesn't "meet the people's demands," giving him and his opponents two days to reach an agreement in what it called a last chance. Hundreds of thousands of protesters massed for a second day calling on Mohammed Morsi to step down. Full Story | Top |
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