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| American survivor recalls Spain train wreck Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 04:41 PM PDT  It was "like a roller coaster" before he blacked out and awoke to a "gruesome" scene. Full Story | Top |
| NTSB says Southwest jet's nose gear landed first Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 05:35 PM PDT  Sixteen passengers suffered minor injuries during Flight 345's landing Monday. Full Story | Top |
| Halliburton pleads guilty to destroying Gulf spill documents Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 05:23 PM PDT  By Jonathan Stempel and Braden Reddall (Reuters) - Halliburton Co has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday. The government said Halliburton's guilty plea is the third by a company over the spill and requires the world's second-largest oilfield services company to pay a maximum $200,000 statutory fine. Halliburton also agreed to three years of probation and to continue cooperating with the criminal probe into the April 20, 2010, explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. ... Full Story | Top |
| Probe of deadly derailment focuses on train speed Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 08:52 PM PDT  SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain (AP) — By all accounts, the train was going way too fast as it curled around a gentle bend. Then in an instant, one car tumbled off the track, followed by the rest of the locomotive, which seemed to come apart like a zipper being pulled. Full Story | Top |
| Weiner: I messaged up to 3 women after resigning Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 08:18 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Anthony Weiner said Thursday that he'd traded racy messages with as many as three women since similar sexting forced him out of Congress. But as he tried to tamp down questions about his behavior, a poll suggested the new disclosures were taking a toll on his mayoral prospects and the House's top Democrat excoriated him. Full Story | Top |
| Muted after 9/11, NSA critics find their voice Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 01:45 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — After 9/11, there were no shades of gray. There are plenty now. Full Story | Top |
| New Impala tops sedans in Consumer Reports' tests Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 06:50 PM PDT  DETROIT (AP) — The first American sedan in 20 years to earn Consumer Reports' top score is the Chevrolet Impala. Really. Full Story | Top |
| Feds: Halliburton agrees to plead guilty in spill Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 07:51 PM PDT NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Halliburton Energy Services has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence in connection with the 2010 Gulf oil spill, the Department of Justice said Thursday. Full Story | Top |
| HBO: Unimaginable that Gandolfini pilot will air Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 06:30 PM PDT  BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — An HBO executive says it's unimaginable that a drama pilot featuring one of James Gandolfini's final performances will air. Full Story | Top |
| A-Rod wants to be activated; Yankees refuse Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 08:51 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Rodriguez's already strained relationship with the New York Yankees hit another low when he pushed to be activated from the disabled list Friday, the team refused and he had a lawyer join the discussion of his injury rehabilitation. Full Story | Top |
| Rebel pope urges Catholics to shake up dioceses Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 09:14 PM PDT  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Pope Francis showed his rebel side Thursday, urging young Catholics to shake up the church and make a "mess" in their dioceses by going out into the streets to spread the faith. It's a message he put into practice by visiting one of Rio's most violent slums and opening the church's World Youth Day on a rain-soaked Copacabana Beach. Full Story | Top |
| Report: Teen HPV vaccination rate still lagging Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 04:47 PM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — Only about half of U.S. teenage girls have gotten a controversial cervical cancer vaccine — a rate that's changed little in three years. Full Story | Top |
| Lobsterman survives night in sea, thanks to boots Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 07:11 PM PDT  OAKDALE, N.Y. (AP) — A Long Island lobsterman who spent 12 hours floating in the Atlantic Ocean after falling off his boat joked Thursday that he may have the two rubber boots that kept him afloat bronzed. Full Story | Top |
| AP PHOTOS: Pope ventures into tough Rio shantytown Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 01:46 PM PDT  Pope Francis spent Thursday morning in one of Rio de Janeiro's most violent shantytowns, whose residents gave him a warm and happy greeting. Full Story | Top |
| Feds charge hedge fund SAC Capital in NY case Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 04:53 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — One of Wall Street's biggest and most successful hedge fund companies was a hotbed of insider trading and its embattled billionaire owner wanted to hear no evil, prosecutors said in an indictment unsealed Thursday that claimed the firm earned hundreds of millions of dollars illegally. Full Story | Top |
| UN: More 100,000 now dead in Syria's civil war Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 05:07 PM PDT  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The number of dead in Syria's civil war has passed 100,000, the U.N. chief said Thursday, calling for urgent talks on ending 2½ years of violence even as President Bashar Assad's government blasted the United States as an unsuitable peace broker. Full Story | Top |
| Reid: Hillary would be better president than Bill Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 09:22 AM PDT  Top Senate Democrat Harry Reid says not only will Hillary Clinton win in 2016, she'll also be a better president than Bill Clinton. Full Story | Top |
| Senate wants sanctions on nations that help Snowden Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 12:11 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. sanctions against any country offering asylum to Edward Snowden advanced in Congress Thursday as the 30-year-old National Security Agency leaker remained in a Moscow airport while Russia weighed a request for him to stay permanently. Full Story | Top |
| Report: Plea deal offered to accused Cleveland kidnapper Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 09:58 AM PDT  A plea deal has been offered to the man accused of kidnapping three Cleveland women and raping them repeatedly while he held them in captivity at his home during the past decade, according to a Cleveland TV station. Full Story | Top |
| Prince Harry will watch out for his new nephew — and be the fun uncle Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 12:51 PM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry has laid out his mission as an uncle: protect the newest member of his family, and make sure Britain's little prince has fun. Full Story | Top |
| Weiner admits sexting more women; polls shows declining popularity Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 10:11 AM PDT BROOKLYN, N.Y.—Anthony Weiner admitted that he exchanged sexual messages with at least three more women after a sexting scandal forced him out of Congress two years ago. Full Story | Top |
| Four Russians, one Ukrainian charged in massive hacking attack Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 01:54 PM PDT  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Four Russian nationals and a Ukrainian have been charged with running a sophisticated hacking organization that penetrated computer networks of more than a dozen major American and international corporations over seven years, stealing and selling at least 160 million credit and debit card numbers, resulting in losses of hundreds of millions of dollars. Full Story | Top |
| 'Slum pope' tells residents not to lose hope Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 03:28 PM PDT  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Pope Francis, dubbed the "slum pope" for his work with the poor, received a rapturous welcome Thursday from one of Rio's most violent shantytowns and demanded the world's wealthy end the injustices that have left the poor on the margins of society. He received an even more frenzied welcome as he opened a rain-soaked World Youth Day in a far different setting: Rio's upscale Copacabana Beach. Full Story | Top |
| Iodized salt made Americans smarter: Study Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 07:06 AM PDT  A new study suggests that the addition of iodine to salt in 1924 might have improved the average IQ in some areas by as many as 15 points. Full Story | Top |
| UN chief says over 100,000 people killed in Syria Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 08:02 AM PDT  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday raised the death toll in Syria's civil war to more than 100,000, up from nearly 93,000 just over a month ago. Full Story | Top |
| Admiration, puzzlement over Weiner's loyal spouse Wednesday, Jul 24, 2013 11:39 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — When Huma Abedin first started getting media attention years ago, some people couldn't help but wonder what this beautiful, ambitious woman with high-fashion sense and a world-class Rolodex saw in Anthony Weiner. Full Story | Top |
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