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Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 11:17 PM PDT
Kerry pushing Israel, Palestinians to resume talks 
Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 11:17 PM PDT
 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, with Frank Lowenstein, senior advisor to the secretary on Middle East issues, return their hotel just after 4 a.m. on Sunday, June 30, 2013 after finishing a meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu that took over six hours. After the marathon meeting, Kerry decided to get some air by walking to a park near the hotel where he is staying and the meeting was held. Kerry is shuttling between Palestinian and Israeli leaders in hopes of restarting peace talks. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, engaged in breakneck shuttle diplomacy to coax Israel and the Palestinians back into peace talks, is flying to the West Bank on Sunday to have a third meeting in as many days with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Atheists' monument near Ten Commandments 
Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 12:52 PM PDT
 People gather around to sit and take photos during the unveiling of an Atheist monument outside the Bradford County Courthouse on Saturday, June 29, 2013 in Stark, Fla. The New Jersey-based group American Atheists unveiled the 1,500-bound granite bench Saturday as a counter to the religious monument in what's called a free speech zone. Group leaders say they believe it's the first such atheist monument on government property. About 200 people attended the event.(AP Photo/The Gainesville Sun, Matt Stamey)The monument to their nonbelief in God stands in front of a Florida courthouse.
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Biden gives Republicans a tea party label 
Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 07:42 PM PDT
 U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaks after a meeting with Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff at the Planalto Palace in BrasiliaThe vice president ridiculed this fall's Virginia Republican ticket.
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Tension rises ahead of Egypt protest 
Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 02:12 PM PDT
 An Egyptian protester holds anti-President Mohammed Morsi poster and a red card with Arabic word "Leave" during a protest in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, June 29, 2013. Thousands of supporters and opponents of the embattled Islamist president held rival sit-ins in separate parts of Cairo Saturday on the eve of opposition-led mass protests aimed at forcing Mohammed Morsi from power. (AP Photo/ Amr Nabil)CAIRO (AP) — Organizers of a mass protest against Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi claimed Saturday that more than 22 million people have signed their petition demanding the Islamist leader step down, asserting that the tally was a reflection of how much the public has turned against his rule.
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In South Africa, Obama pays tribute to ill Mandela 
Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 11:54 AM PDT
 U.S. President Barack Obama pauses during a town hall meeting with young African leaders at the University of Johannesburg Soweto on Saturday, June 29, 2013, in Johannesburg, South Africa. The president is in South Africa, embarking on the second leg of his three-country African journey. The visit comes at a poignant time, with former South African president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela ailing in a Johannesburg hospital. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Paying tribute to his personal hero, President Barack Obama met privately Saturday with Nelson Mandela's family as the world anxiously awaited news on the condition of the ailing 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader.
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Kerry pushes effort to restart peace talks 
Sunday, Jun 30, 2013 12:37 AM PDT
 Escorted by security, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, walks with Frank Lowenstein, senior advisor to the secretary on Middle East issues, through the streets of Jerusalem just after 4 a.m. on Sunday, June 30, 2013 after finishing a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu that took over six hours. After the marathon meeting, Kerry decided to get some air by walking to a park near the hotel where he is staying and the meeting was held. Kerry is shuttling between Palestinian and Israeli leaders in hopes of restarting peace talks. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in the West Bank to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for the third time in three days, trying to press the restart button on talks between Israel and the Palestinians to end their long-running conflict.
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7 shot at Brooklyn party; 1 in critical condition 
Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 11:28 PM PDT
 NEW YORK (AP) — Police say seven people have been shot at a party in Brooklyn, including a woman taken to a hospital in critical condition.
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Gay marriage opponents ask court to intervene 
Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 05:28 PM PDT
 Cynthia Wides, right, and Elizabeth Carey file for a marriage certificate at City Hall in San Francisco, Saturday, June 29, 2013. Dozens of gay couples have lined up outside City Hall in San Francisco as clerks have resumed issuing same-sex marriage licenses one day after a federal appeals court cleared the way for the state of California to immediately lift a 4-year freeze. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Less than 24 hours after California started issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples, lawyers for the sponsors of the state's gay marriage ban filed an emergency motion Saturday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the weddings being performed in San Francisco.
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Ecuador flower growers in Snowden shock 
Sunday, Jun 30, 2013 12:26 AM PDT
 A man harvests flowers on the Valleflor flower farm in Pifo, Ecuador, Saturday, June 29, 2013. A week after National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden began his flight across the globe, every passing day without him making progress toward Ecuadorean asylum makes the prospect look less likely. But the men who grow roses, asters and delphinia in the thin air of Ecuador's sun soaked highlands are deeply concerned that, whatever happens to Snowden, they may turn out to be the most unlikely collateral damage from the geopolitical wrangle over his fate. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)PIFO, Ecuador (AP) — Gino Descalzi used to fret about things like aphids, mildew and the high cost of shipping millions of roses a year from Ecuador to florists in the United States. These days he's worried about a 30-year-old former spy stuck in the transit area of the Moscow airport, and he can't believe it.
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Southwest bakes in 115 to 120-degree heat 
Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 09:46 PM PDT
 Mike Bouse of Henderson, Nev., shades himself with an umbrella as he floats in the waters along Boulder Beach at Lake Mead, Saturday, June 29, 2013 near Boulder City, Nev. Bouse and his wife planned to spend most of the day in and out of the water to escape the heat in the Las Vegas area where Saturday's daytime high was expected to reach 117 degrees, the city's all-time high. It was 108 at noon Saturday in Sin City. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man died and another was hospitalized in serious condition Saturday afternoon in heat-aggravated incidents as a heat wave blistered this sunbaked city and elsewhere in the Southwest.
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Move over Messi, here come the robots 
Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 11:19 PM PDT
 In this photo taken Thursday, June 27, 2013, a robot from the University of Bonn dribbles around a Japanese competitor at the RoboCup championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Around 300 teams from 40 countries are competing this week at the RoboCup. The competition has the long-term goal of building a team of androids good enough to beat the human world cup team by 2050. (AP Photo/Toby Sterling)EINDHOVEN, Netherlands (AP) — With the score tied 1-1, it's gone to a penalty shootout in a tense soccer match between teams from Israel and Australia.
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NYC Fourth of July: 'It Begins with a Spark' 
Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 08:53 PM PDT
 Mortars placed on a barge docked in the Staten Island borough of New York are in front of the hazy lower Manhattan skyline, Saturday, June 29, 2013. Forty thousand shells are being loaded onto four barges in preparation for the Macy's Fourth of July fireworks display. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)NEW YORK (AP) — What's new this Fourth of July?
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Mayhem marks start of 100th Tour de France 
Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 08:36 PM PDT
 Murilo Antoniobil Fischer of Brazil, center left, Tony Martin of Germany, center right, and Tony Gallopin of France, right, wait for medical assistance after crashing in the last kilometers of the first stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 213 kilometers (133 miles) with start in Porto Vecchio and finish in Bastia, Corsica island, France, Saturday June 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Joel Saget, POOL)BASTIA, Corsica (AP) — Riders at the Tour de France know to expect the unexpected. But nothing could have prepared them for the mayhem that turned Saturday's first stage of the 100th Tour into a demolition derby on two wheels.
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Stones play long-awaited Glastonbury gig 
Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 04:18 PM PDT
 Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones performs at Glastonbury, England on Saturday, June 29, 2013. Thousands are to enjoy the three day festival that started on Friday, June 28, 2013 with headliners Arctic Monkeys, the Rolling Stones and Mumford and Sons. (Photo by Jim Ross/Invision/AP)PILTON, England (AP) — There's a first time for everything, even if you're the Rolling Stones.
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Millions worldwide share difficult Mandela vigil 
Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 01:54 PM PDT
 FILE - In this Friday, June 28, 2013, file photo, a group of well wishers sing and pray for the health of former South African President Nelson Mandela outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where Mandela is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa. As Mandela's hospitalization continues, the anticipation has left many caught in an awkward limbo, dealing on a global scale with a sensitive scenario more typically confronted privately by families. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)As Nelson Mandela lingers in a hospital, yet another remarkable moment is helping to seal his legacy: Millions of people around the world, united by respect and gratitude, are preparing for this beloved man to die.
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