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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 |
| Review: 'The Lone Ranger' is a runaway train Monday, Jul 01, 2013 03:31 PM PDT  There's a limit, it turns out, to how much Johnny Depp and a bucket of makeup can accomplish. Full Story | Top |
| Portable shelters couldn't save 19 firefighters Monday, Jul 01, 2013 09:08 PM PDT  PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — In a heartbreaking sight, a long line of vans from a coroner's office carried the bodies of 19 elite firefighters out of the tiny mountain town of Yarnell on Monday, as the wind-driven wildfire that claimed the men's lives burned out of control. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. seeks to calm European outrage over alleged spying Monday, Jul 01, 2013 03:26 PM 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, calling such surveillance shocking if true. French President Francois Hollande said the alleged action was intolerable and could hinder U.S. relations with Paris and the EU. ... Full Story | Top |
| Texas lawmakers are back, and so is abortion fight Monday, Jul 01, 2013 01:24 PM PDT AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Legislature has recessed for the week, less than an hour after convening its second special session. That was just long enough to refer abortion legislation to committees for public hearings. Full Story | Top |
| House Dems seek path to final immigration deal Monday, Jul 01, 2013 01:08 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hispanics, blacks, Asians and women who together stand as the majority in the House Democratic caucus publicly disparage Republicans' piecemeal approach to immigration and their pointed omission of any legalization path for the 11 million immigrants living here unlawfully. Full Story | Top |
| Edward Snowden threatens new U.S. leaks, applies for Russian asylum Monday, Jul 01, 2013 03:32 PM PDT By Andrew Osborn and Alexei Anishchuk LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden broke his silence on Monday for the first time since fleeing to Moscow to say he remains free to make new disclosures about U.S. spying activity. In a letter to Ecuador seen by Reuters, Snowden said the United States was illegally persecuting him for revealing its electronic surveillance program, PRISM, but made it clear he did not intend to be muzzled. ... 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 |
| Three-Year-Old Girl With Autism Paints Astonishing Works of Art Monday, Jul 01, 2013 10:49 AM PDT You probably recognize the names of artists like Picasso, Renoir, and Van Gogh. How about Halmshaw? You might not know that last painter's name yet, but you do now. Iris Halmshaw is a 3-year-old painter from England taking the art world by storm. You can view some of her astonishing artwork here on her website. [...] Full Story | Top |
| A big Medicaid gap looms in Obama health care law Monday, Jul 01, 2013 11:43 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 2 in 3 uninsured low-income people who would qualify for subsidized coverage under President Barack Obama's health care law may be out of luck next year because their states have not expanded Medicaid. Full Story | Top |
| Deadly fire engulfed 19 Arizona firefighters in seconds Monday, Jul 01, 2013 02:47 PM PDT By Tim Gaynor PRESCOTT, Arizona (Reuters) - An elite squad of 19 Arizona firemen killed in the worst U.S. wildland firefighting tragedy in 80 years apparently was outflanked by wind-whipped flames in seconds, before some could scramble into cocoon-like personal shelters. Details of Sunday's deaths of all but one member of a specially trained, 20-man "Hotshots" team remained vague a day after they perished in a blaze that destroyed scores of homes and forced the evacuation of two towns in central Arizona. ... 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 |
| 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 |
| Law requires Chinese to visit their aging parents Monday, Jul 01, 2013 09:42 PM 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 |
| So. Calif. painter awarded $58M in bar beating Monday, Jul 01, 2013 06:41 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 43-year-old house painter so badly brain damaged that he can't speak has been awarded $58 million by a jury after a beating at a bar left him with half his skull permanently bashed in. 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 |
| 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 |
| Steinway accepts $438M buyout from Kohlberg & Co. Monday, Jul 01, 2013 03:05 PM 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 |
| Gay couple may be 1st to win immigration petition Monday, Jul 01, 2013 04:28 PM PDT  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Bulgarian graduate student and his American husband are the first gay couple in the nation to have their application for immigration benefits approved after the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriages, their lawyer said. Full Story | Top |
| Snowden threatens new U.S. leaks, asks numerous countries for asylum Monday, Jul 01, 2013 08:22 PM PDT  By Andrew Osborn and Alexei Anishchuk LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden broke his silence on Monday for the first time since fleeing to Moscow over a week ago, blasting the Obama administration and saying he remained free to make new disclosures about U.S. spying activity. ... Full Story | Top |
| Egypt's military issues 48-hour ultimatum Monday, Jul 01, 2013 06:28 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's military issued a "last-chance" ultimatum Monday to President Mohammed Morsi, giving him 48 hours to meet the demands of millions of protesters in the streets seeking the ouster of the Islamist leader or the generals will intervene and impose their own plan for the country. Full Story | Top |
| Vatican bank director, deputy resign amid scandal Monday, Jul 01, 2013 02:58 PM PDT  ROME (AP) — The director of the embattled Vatican bank and his deputy resigned Monday, the latest heads to roll in a broadening finance scandal that has already landed one Vatican monsignor in prison and added urgency to Pope Francis' reform efforts. Full Story | Top |
| 'True Blood's' Anna Paquin on Sookie's Romances: she has 'to Close Some Doors' Monday, Jul 01, 2013 11:56 AM PDT  By Jethro Nededog LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Of the critiques on HBO's "True Blood," there is one that the vampire series seems to be addressing this season. Since Season 1, Sookie (Anna Paquin) has bounced between romances with Bill (Stephen Moyer) and Eric (Alexander Skarsgard). Some have wondered when she would become more active in the decisions she made about those relationships. But, Sookie is asserting herself more this season than she has ever had before. ... Full Story | Top |
| Opponents of Texas abortion restrictions rally at Capitol Monday, Jul 01, 2013 04:46 PM PDT  By Corrie MacLaggan AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Thousands of opponents of a Texas proposal to tighten abortion restrictions rallied outside the statehouse on Monday, giving a hero's welcome to Democratic state Senator Wendy Davis, whose 11-hour speech stalled the measure last week. As the Republican-dominated state legislature convened for a second special session on Monday, supporters said they expected the bill would pass this time. With few exceptions, it would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. ... 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 |
| Boy Scout jamboree to host hundreds of girls Monday, Jul 01, 2013 10:53 AM PDT  GLEN JEAN, W.Va. (AP) — Make room, guys. The girls are coming to the Boy Scouts of America's national jamboree. Full Story | Top |
| Humerus reunion: Doc returns Vietnamese vet's arm Monday, Jul 01, 2013 01:40 AM PDT  HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — An American doctor arrived in Vietnam carrying an unlikely piece of luggage: the bones of an arm he amputated in 1966. Full Story | Top |
| Obama declares a new era of US-Africa relations Monday, Jul 01, 2013 10:20 AM PDT DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) — Basking in an exuberant welcome from streets teeming with well-wishers, President Barack Obama on Monday declared a new era in U.S. relations with Africa based on partnership as opposed to charitable aid. Full Story | Top |
| Archdiocese documents show priests paid to leave Monday, Jul 01, 2013 06:53 PM PDT  MILWAUKEE (AP) — As more victims of clergy sex abuse came forward, then-Milwaukee Archbishop Timothy Dolan oversaw a plan to pay some abusers to leave the priesthood after writing to Vatican officials with increasing frustration and concern, warning them about the potential for scandal if they did not defrock problem priests, according to documents released Monday. Full Story | Top |
| Sentencing delayed for Jesse Jackson Jr., wife Monday, Jul 01, 2013 01:57 PM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge on Monday postponed the sentencing hearing for former Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife, noting it was being done to "accommodate the court" and not at the request of the couple's attorneys or the prosecution. 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 |
| Police officers testify in George Zimmerman trial Monday, Jul 01, 2013 01:09 PM PDT  SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Jurors in the George Zimmerman murder trial on Monday heard testimony and recordings of the neighborhood watch volunteer describing his fight with 17-year-old Trayvon Martin to police and how he feared for his life before he shot the teen. Full Story | Top |
| Report: Snowden has asked for asylum in Russia Monday, Jul 01, 2013 09:57 AM PDT MOSCOW (AP) — The Interfax news agency says a Russian consular official has confirmed that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden asked for political asylum in Russia. Full Story | Top |
| Police questioning of Zimmerman grew more pointed Monday, Jul 01, 2013 02:53 PM PDT  SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Jurors in the George Zimmerman trial on Monday listened to a series of police interviews with detectives growing more pointed in their questioning of the neighborhood watch volunteer's account of how he came to fatally shoot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Full Story | Top |
| Documents: Dolan asked to transfer $57M to trust Monday, Jul 01, 2013 11:45 AM PDT MILWAUKEE (AP) — Former Milwaukee Archbishop Timothy Dolan sought and received permission from the Vatican to move $57 million from a cemetery fund into a trust to provide "improved protection" as the archdiocese prepared to file for bankruptcy amid dozens of claims by victims of clergy sex abuse, according to documents made public Monday. Full Story | Top |
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