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| Trayvon Martin case: How Rachel Jeantel went from star witness to 'train wreck' Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 07:33 AM PDT Nineteen-year-old Rachel Jeantel holds some of the most critical information about the Trayvon Martin murder case. Yet her delivery on the stand in Seminole County this week drew widespread criticism. Full Story | Top |
| Channing Tatum Had 'Crying Fits' Watching Jenna Give Birth To Daughter Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 07:35 AM PDT  Channing Tatum developed a newfound respect for wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum after watching the 32-year-old beauty give birth to their first child in May. Full Story | Top |
| Atheists unveil Fla monument near Ten Commandments Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 12:52 PM PDT  STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A group of atheists unveiled a monument to their nonbelief in God on Saturday to sit alongside a granite slab that lists the Ten Commandments in front of the Bradford County courthouse. Full Story | Top |
| AP photographer describes 128-degree heat Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 12:13 PM PDT  FURNACE CREEK, Calif. (AP) — Associated Press photographer Chris Carlson is no stranger to heat. He grew up just outside Palm Springs, Calif. On Friday, he returned to his desert roots, leaving his home near Los Angeles and driving to the hottest place on earth on one of the hottest days of the year. Below, he describes what it is like to be in triple digit heat in Death Valley: Full Story | Top |
| Gay marriage opponents ask court to intervene Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 05:28 PM PDT  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. Full Story | Top |
| Susan Rice: Snowden leaks haven't weakened Obama Friday, Jun 28, 2013 11:11 PM PDT  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice dismissed claims that Edward Snowden's highly classified leaks have weakened the Obama presidency and damaged U.S. foreign policy, insisting that the United States will remain "the most influential, powerful and important country in the world." Full Story | Top |
| Obama urges House to pass immigration reform by August Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 09:25 AM PDT  By Jeff Mason PRETORIA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Saturday urged the House of Representatives to follow the lead of the Senate and pass a bill by August to reform the U.S. immigration system. Speaking during a press conference in South Africa, Obama said there was more than enough time for lawmakers to finish work on the issue before their summer recess. Immigration reform is one of the president's top domestic issues. The Senate recently passed a bill that would strengthen U.S. border security and provide a way for undocumented immigrants in the United States to obtain citizenship. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. asked Ecuador not to give Snowden asylum: Correa Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 04:07 PM PDT  By Brian Ellsworth QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said on Saturday the United States had asked him not to grant asylum for former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden in a "cordial" telephone conversation he held with Vice President Joe Biden. Correa said he vowed to respect Washington's opinion in evaluating the request. The Andean nation says it cannot begin processing Snowden's request unless he reaches Ecuador or one of its embassies. Snowden, who is wanted by the United States for leaking details about U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Joe Biden Is on Edward Snowden's Case Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 01:32 PM PDT  Up until this point, the search for Edward Snoden has been carried out behind the scenes by low-level diplomats and CIA agents. But things have changed within the last 24 hours, apparently, because the Vice President is the one making the calls now. Full Story | Top |
| 5 key moments from first week of Zimmerman trial Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 01:23 PM PDT  SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — The first week of George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial closed Friday. At the start of the week, prosecutors and defense attorneys outlined their cases for the jury of six women. Then prosecutors began putting on their case. Full Story | Top |
| Obama tells leaders to follow Mandela's example Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 07:52 AM PDT  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — President Barack Obama paid personal respects Saturday to relatives of ailing anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela and encouraged leaders in Africa and around the world to follow the former South African president's example of country before self. Full Story | Top |
| Traffic cameras bring tiny Ohio village to a stop Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 09:51 AM PDT  ELMWOOD PLACE, Ohio (AP) — This little village had a big problem. Full Story | Top |
| Gay marriages resume in Calif. with a flurry Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 03:15 AM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Same-sex marriages that were outlawed in California 4 1/2 years ago resumed in a rush after a federal appeals court took the "unusual, but not unprecedented," step of freeing couples to obtain marriage licenses, before the U.S. Supreme Court had issued its final judgment in a challenge of the state's voter-approved gay marriage ban. Full Story | Top |
| Calif.'s Sierra a 'living lab' for climate change Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 01:06 PM PDT  SEQUOIA NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. (AP) — In parts of California's Sierra Nevada, marshy meadows are going dry, wildflowers are blooming earlier and glaciers are melting into ice fields. Full Story | Top |
| First week of testimony in Trayvon case wraps up Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 12:26 AM PDT  SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — The first week of George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial wrapped up with testimony from two neighbors and a police officer that seemed to bolster the defense's argument that he was pinned on his back by Trayvon Martin before shooting the teen. Full Story | Top |
| Gay marriage: In states, a hodgepodge lies ahead Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 05:19 AM PDT  The Supreme Court's landmark rulings on same-sex marriage have energized activists and politicians on both sides of the debate. Efforts to impose bans, and to repeal them, have taken on new intensity, as have lawsuits by gays demanding the right to marry. Full Story | Top |
| Pope warns church leaders against seeking power Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 06:49 AM PDT  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis told prelates Saturday to shun the "logic of human power," pressing his campaign to root out corruption and other wrongdoing from the Vatican's scandal-tainted power structures. Full Story | Top |
| Pa. girl doing well after 2nd lung transplant Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 01:44 AM PDT  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl whose parents sued to challenge national lung transplant rules received a second set of lungs after the first failed, and her family said she has taken some breaths on her own. Full Story | Top |
| Feds seek decade for NH woman over Rwanda genocide Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 09:18 AM PDT  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Beatrice Munyenyezi entered the United States in 1998 as a Rwandan refugee with three young daughters who told U.S. Customs officials she took no part in the 1994 Rwanda genocide and instead was a survivor whose relatives were among the 800,000 killed. Full Story | Top |
| Dozens hospitalized as West bakes in near-record heat Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 09:24 AM PDT  By Eric M. Johnson (Reuters) - More than 170 people were treated for heat-related ailments and some towns and cities took emergency steps to protect the homeless and elderly as the West sweltered on Saturday in dangerous near-record, triple-digit temperatures. Extreme heat enveloped most of California and Nevada and parts of southern Arizona as a large high pressure system trapped hot air across the area, said National Weather Service meteorologist Todd Lericos. ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama: Make climate change a must for your vote Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 03:58 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is urging Americans to make climate change a political litmus test, asking them to declare they won't vote for any politicians who don't protect future generations from environmental devastation. Full Story | Top |
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