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| 3 shot dead at Pa. town meeting Monday, Aug 05, 2013 09:21 PM PDT  The gunman was tackled by a local official and shot with his own gun, a witness said. Full Story | Top |
| Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to buy Washington Post Monday, Aug 05, 2013 01:58 PM PDT  The Graham family is selling the storied newspaper for $250 million. Full Story | Top |
| Amazon founder Bezos to buy Washington Post Monday, Aug 05, 2013 07:18 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeff Bezos, the Amazon.com founder who helped bring books into the digital age, is going after another pillar of "old media": The Washington Post. Full Story | Top |
| Obama to urge Congress to shutter Fannie, Freddie Monday, Aug 05, 2013 05:51 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, seeking to buffer taxpayers from future housing market downturns, will urge Congress this week to back bipartisan efforts to shutter Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage-giants bailed out by the government in 2008. Full Story | Top |
| Bulger lawyer says underworld witnesses told lies Monday, Aug 05, 2013 03:22 PM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — James "Whitey" Bulger's lawyers tried to put the government itself on trial during closing arguments Monday, accusing federal prosecutors of making sweetheart deals with ruthless killers to put the reputed Boston crime boss behind bars. Full Story | Top |
| Taste test: Lab-grown hamburger short on flavor Monday, Aug 05, 2013 12:18 PM PDT  LONDON (AP) — The food of the future could do with a pinch of seasoning — and maybe some cheese. Full Story | Top |
| Republicans want NBC, CNN to pull Clinton programs Monday, Aug 05, 2013 01:07 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican National Committee charged Monday that NBC and CNN are promoting a potential presidential candidacy by Hillary Rodham Clinton, threatening to blackball them from future GOP primary debates if they air upcoming programs on the former secretary of state. Full Story | Top |
| University of Iowa claims top party school title Monday, Aug 05, 2013 07:12 PM PDT  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — College students consider the University of Iowa the nation's best party school, even though Iowa City has tried to make its famous bar scene less hospitable to underage drinkers. Full Story | Top |
| 4 shot dead at Pa. town meeting; shooter tackled Monday, Aug 05, 2013 08:27 PM PDT A gunman blasted shots through the wall of a Pennsylvania municipal building during a meeting on Monday and then barged into the meeting room and continued firing, killing four people, before he was tackled by a local official and shot with his own gun, a witness said. Full Story | Top |
| 2 shot dead at Pa. town meeting; shooter tackled Monday, Aug 05, 2013 07:25 PM PDT A gunman blasted shots through the wall of a Pennsylvania municipal building during a meeting on Monday and then barged into the meeting room and continued firing, killing two people, before he was tackled by a local official and shot with his own gun, a witness said. Full Story | Top |
| 2 people shot dead at Pa. municipal building Monday, Aug 05, 2013 06:39 PM PDT  SAYLORSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania newspaper reporter who was at a municipal building meeting at which a gunman killed two people says he saw smoke and plaster flying as gunshots tore holes in the walls. Full Story | Top |
| AP PHOTOS: Muslims worldwide celebrate Ramadan Monday, Aug 05, 2013 11:33 AM PDT  Iranian women place copies of the Quran on their heads during a religious ceremony at a cemetery outside Tehran. A Pakistani boy arranges plates of food for the meal that breaks the day's fast in Islamabad. Prayers are offered at mosques from India to Indonesia. Full Story | Top |
| Transient with jail record held in beach rampage Monday, Aug 05, 2013 05:01 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The man suspected of being behind the wheel of a sedan that careened down the crowded Venice Beach boardwalk last weekend, killing an Italian newlywed on her honeymoon and injuring 16, is a transient who served brief stints in jail in Colorado, authorities said Monday. Full Story | Top |
| Fort Hood survivors to face gunman at trial Monday, Aug 05, 2013 11:37 AM PDT  LILLINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Alonzo Lunsford has trouble getting out of chairs and warns his family to wake him gently. Kathy Platoni can't shake the image of the man who died in a pool of blood at her knees. Shawn Manning still has two bullets in his body and gets easily unnerved by crowds. Full Story | Top |
| Al-Qaida chief's secret message spurred embassy shutdowns Monday, Aug 05, 2013 02:28 PM PDT  Two officials say a secret message that was intercepted between al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri and his deputy in Yemen led to the shutdown of U.S. embassies. Full Story | Top |
| Weiner dodges scandal talk, shifts focus to ideas, rivals Monday, Aug 05, 2013 12:20 PM PDT  In a bid to revive his campaign, the candidate announced the release of an 'ideas' book. Full Story | Top |
| Will fast-food protests spur higher minimum wage? Monday, Aug 05, 2013 12:29 PM PDT  Terrance Wise has two jobs in Kansas City — one at a burger joint, a second at a pizza restaurant — but he says his paychecks aren't enough to buy shoes for his three daughters and insure his 15-year-old car. So he decided to draw attention to his plight: He walked off work in protest. Full Story | Top |
| Boston bomber followed conspiracy theories on 9/11, Oklahoma City Monday, Aug 05, 2013 07:37 AM PDT  Tamerlan Tsarnaev had an article about "the rape of our gun rights," the BBC says. Full Story | Top |
| RNC threatens to cut CNN, NBC from debates over Clinton 'ads' Monday, Aug 05, 2013 09:05 AM PDT  NBC is airing a Hillary Clinton miniseries, while CNN Films is producing a documentary. Full Story | Top |
| Closing arguments in trial of 'vicious' Boston mobster Monday, Aug 05, 2013 12:48 PM PDT  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Prosecutors on Monday told jurors that James "Whitey" Bulger was the "vicious, violent and calculating" Boston mob boss his former gang mates had described at his murder and racketeering trial, while defense attorneys urged jurors not to trust career criminals who had cut plea deals. Each side's closing statement focused on testimony of three former members of Bulger's "Winter Hill" gang who described 19 murders the defendant was charged with committing or ordering in the 1970s and '80s. ... Full Story | Top |
| New JFK book claims details on affairs, drug use Monday, Aug 05, 2013 07:43 AM PDT  A new book about President John F. Kennedy's last year alive alleges details of his affair with Marilyn Monroe and his drug use. Excerpts from "These Few Precious Days," which was written by Christopher Andersen, a Kennedy biographer and journalist, asserts that first lady Jacqueline Kennedy knew about her husband's infidelities, but was bothered by his alleged romance with Marilyn Monroe the most. Full Story | Top |
| Cleanup underway at derailment site in Louisiana Monday, Aug 05, 2013 07:23 AM PDT  About 100 homes remained evacuated. Full Story | Top |
| Obama to take your housing questions in Zillow roundtable Monday, Aug 05, 2013 07:01 AM PDT  Plus: How much would the White House cost? Full Story | Top |
| Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an 'emergency' Monday, Aug 05, 2013 10:38 AM PDT  Contaminated groundwater has breached an underground barrier. Full Story | Top |
| Terror threat to keep U.S. embassies closed in 19 countries Monday, Aug 05, 2013 05:48 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid online "chatter" about terror threats, U.S. diplomatic posts in 19 cities in the Muslim world will be closed at least through the end of this week, the State Department said. Full Story | Top |
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