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| Obama lobbies personally for Syria vote Monday, Sep 02, 2013 04:41 PM PDT  The president is doing what his critics have long accused him of failing to do. Full Story | Top |
| Photos: Nyad completes swim from Cuba Monday, Sep 02, 2013 04:54 PM PDT  Diana Nyad is flanked by kayakers about two miles off Key West, Fla. Spectators wade into waist-high water, taking pictures and cheering her on. The 64-year-old endurance swimmer, looking dazed and sunburned, greets the crowd after walking ashore on Monday. Full Story | Top |
| Japan to fund ice wall to stop reactor leaks Monday, Sep 02, 2013 11:46 PM PDT  TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese government announced Tuesday that it is funding a costly, untested subterranean ice wall in a desperate step to stop leaks of radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant after repeated failures by the plant's operator. Full Story | Top |
| AP PHOTOS: Peru slow in exhuming war's victims Tuesday, Sep 03, 2013 12:43 AM PDT  CHACA, Peru (AP) — It was Alejandrina Torres' first time back in her native village since Shining Path rebels cut her parents' throats while she hid, a terrified 4-year-old, beneath the skirts of a neighbor. Full Story | Top |
| First cars cross SF-Oakland Bay Bridge's new span Tuesday, Sep 03, 2013 12:12 AM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — There was little fanfare, but the gleaming white and newly built $6.4-billion eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge reopened to the public as vehicles began crossing it after more than a decade of construction delays. Full Story | Top |
| Rodman heads to NKorea to visit his 'friend' Kim Tuesday, Sep 03, 2013 12:24 AM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — Former NBA star Dennis Rodman said Tuesday he was going to North Korea to hang out with authoritarian leader Kim Jong Un, have a good time and bridge some cultural gaps — but not to be a diplomat. Full Story | Top |
| Lacking confidence, Federer bows out of US Open Tuesday, Sep 03, 2013 12:51 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Surrounded by a half-dozen tournament security guards, Roger Federer made the long, slow trek across the U.S. Open grounds from the court in Louis Armstrong Stadium to the locker room in Arthur Ashe Stadium. Full Story | Top |
| Nyad 1st to swim to Florida from Cuba without cage Monday, Sep 02, 2013 08:50 PM PDT  KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Looking dazed and sunburned, U.S. endurance swimmer Diana Nyad waded ashore Monday and became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without the help of a shark cage. Full Story | Top |
| In first major test, Obama overrules new team Tuesday, Sep 03, 2013 12:18 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — For President Barack Obama's new foreign policy advisers, the first test of their willingness to undertake military action wound up being a stark lesson in the president's ability to overrule them all. Full Story | Top |
| NY case puts N-word use among blacks on trial Tuesday, Sep 03, 2013 12:20 AM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — A federal jury has rejected the argument that use of the N-word among blacks can be a culturally acceptable term of love and endearment, deciding its use in the workplace is hostile and discriminatory no matter what. Full Story | Top |
| Assad: Risk of regional war if West strikes Syria Monday, Sep 02, 2013 03:22 PM PDT  PARIS (AP) — France released an intelligence report on Monday alleging chemical weapons use by Syria's regime that dovetailed with similar U.S. claims, as President Bashar Assad warned that any military strike against his country would spark an uncontrollable regional war and spread "chaos and extremism." Full Story | Top |
| A look at Syria developments around the world Monday, Sep 02, 2013 03:34 PM PDT  The United States is considering launching a punitive strike against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, blamed by the U.S. and the Syrian opposition for an Aug. 21 alleged chemical weapons attack in a rebel-held suburb of the Syrian capital of Damascus. The U.S. said the attack killed 1,429 people, including at least 426 children. Those numbers are significantly higher than the death toll of 355 provided by the aid group Doctors Without Borders. Full Story | Top |
| New $6.4B SF-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic Monday, Sep 02, 2013 10:30 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The new, $6.4 billion eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has been opened to traffic after years of delays and cost overruns, carrying its first drivers across the bay late Monday night just hours before the beginning of the work week. Full Story | Top |
| Movie in Spanish grosses big in US weekend debut Monday, Sep 02, 2013 07:50 PM PDT  MEXICO CITY (AP) — English speakers need subtitles to understand the movie and probably Google to know where they've seen the star, if at all. Full Story | Top |
| Russia's small businesses squeezed, eye exit Monday, Sep 02, 2013 11:55 PM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Dentist Sergei Emelyanov is being smothered in Russia's red tape. Full Story | Top |
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