Monday, August 19, 2013

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Monday, Aug 19, 2013 05:44 PM PDT
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Egypt arrests Muslim Brotherhood leader 
Monday, Aug 19, 2013 05:44 PM PDT
Mohamed Badie, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, queues outside a polling centre to vote in the final stage of a referendum on Egypt's new constitution in Bani SweifState media reports Mohamed Badie was hiding in an apartment in Nasr City.
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Kidnap suspect leaves money to Hannah Anderson family member 
Monday, Aug 19, 2013 05:45 PM PDT
FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013 file photo, Hannah Anderson arrives at the Boll Weevil restaurant for a fundraiser in her honor to raise money for her family, in Lakeside, Calif. Five days earlier, FBI agents killed longtime family friend James DiMaggio who's suspected of torturing and killing Anderson's mother and brother and escaping with her to the Idaho wilderness. Investigators who searched DiMaggio's home found letters from Hannah, an incendiary device, a handcuff box and "arson wire," according to one warrant, which does not elaborate on the content of letters or nature of the devices. (AP Photo/U-T San Diego, Howard Lipin, File)A man who died in a shootout with FBI agents after kidnapping a 16-year-old girl and killing her mother and brother named a member of the victims' family as his life insurance beneficiary, a spokesman for the man's family said Monday.
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Dick Van Dyke survives car fire on L.A.-area freeway 
Monday, Aug 19, 2013 04:25 PM PDT
Actor Dick Van Dyke accepts the life achievement award at the 19th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, California January 27, 2013. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/FilesVeteran actor Dick Van Dyke, best known for his self-titled hit 1960s television comedy, survived a car fire, apparently unscathed, on a Los Angeles-area freeway on Monday.
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10 Things to Know for Tuesday 
Monday, Aug 19, 2013 06:17 PM PDT
Egyptian military and policemen carry coffins covered with national flags of bodies of off-duty policemen who were killed near the border town of Rafah, North Sinai, upon their arrival at Almaza military airport, Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. Islamic militants on Monday ambushed two mini-buses carrying off-duty policemen in the northern region of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, killing more than two dozen of them execution-style in a brazen daylight attack that deepens the turmoil roiling the country and underscores the volatility of the strategic region. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Tuesday:
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Snowden reporter: Won't be silenced by detention 
Monday, Aug 19, 2013 06:17 PM PDT
U.S. journalist Greenwald walks with his partner Miranda in Rio de Janeiro's International AirportRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — An American journalist who has written stories based on documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said Monday he'll publish with more fervor after British authorities detained his partner.
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Beau Biden, Del. AG and son of VP, undergoes tests 
Monday, Aug 19, 2013 08:47 PM PDT
This photo posted by Beau Biden via his Twitter account @BeauBiden on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013, and released to the AP on Monday, Aug. 19, shows Beau Biden and his father, Vice President Joe Biden, sitting on a porch and smiling while sending a message of encouragement to a Delaware team that was in the Little League World Series. Beau Biden, the Delaware attorney general, is undergoing medical testing in Texas after being hospitalized last week for weakness and disorientation, his office said Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Courtesy Beau Biden)WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Beau Biden, the Delaware attorney general and the son of Vice President Joe Biden, is undergoing medical testing in Texas after being hospitalized last week for weakness and disorientation, his office said Monday night.
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Prosecutor asks judge to give Manning 60 years 
Monday, Aug 19, 2013 03:22 PM PDT
FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2013, file photo, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted to a security vehicle outside a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., after a hearing in his court martial. A prosecutor said Monday, Aug. 19, Manning should spend 60 years in prison because he betrayed the U.S. by giving classified material to WikiLeaks. The soldier's defense attorney didn't recommend a specific punishment, but suggested any prison term shouldn't exceed 25 years because the classification of some of the documents Manning leaked expires in 25 years. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Army Pfc. Bradley Manning should spend 60 years in prison because he betrayed the U.S. by giving classified material to WikiLeaks, a prosecutor said Monday.
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Isolated Mashco-Piro Indians appear in Peru 
Monday, Aug 19, 2013 08:44 PM PDT
FILE - This Nov. 2011 file photo, shows members of the Mashco-Piro tribe, photographed at an undisclosed location near the Manu National Park in southeastern Peru. More than 100 Mashco-Piro appeared across a river from the remote community of Monte Salvado in Madre de Dios state, says Klaus Quicque the president of the regional FENAMAD indigenous federation on Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. The Maschco-Piro first appeared in May 2011 after more than two decades in voluntary isolation. (AP Photo/Diego Cortijo, Survival International, File)LIMA, Peru (AP) — Members of an Indian tribe that has long lived in voluntary isolation in Peru's southeastern Amazon attempted to make contact with outsiders for a second time since 2011, leading to a tense standoff at a river hamlet.
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Lawyer: San Diego mayor in settlement talks 
Monday, Aug 19, 2013 07:23 PM PDT
Ruth Johnson, right, a supporter of San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, speaks with anti-Filner protestor Rob Shick, left, during a rally at the San Diego Concourse on Monday, Aug. 19, 2013, in San Diego. San Diego's City Hall opened as usual Monday but Filner was nowhere to be found, still out of public view as he tries to survive a recall effort prompted by a cascade of sexual harassment allegations that led the entire City Council and many leading fellow Democrats to call for him to resign. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)SAN DIEGO (AP) — An attorney for a woman suing San Diego's embattled mayor for sexual harassment said Monday the two sides are in settlement talks but declined to say whether a possible resignation was being discussed.
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A-Rod & Yankees: Foes for 21 hours, allies for 3 
Monday, Aug 19, 2013 06:25 PM PDT
FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2013 file photo, New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez, center, is tended to by a trainer at first base after being hit by a pitch in the second inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox in Boston. Rodriguez got hit by a fastball from Boston starter Ryan Dempster. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)NEW YORK (AP) — Life with Alex Rodriguez breaks down in strange ways for the New York Yankees.
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Floods cover more than half of Philippine capital 
Monday, Aug 19, 2013 09:06 PM PDT
Filipino boys play along a flooded street in Las Pinas, south of Manila, Philippines on Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. Torrential rains brought the Philippine capital to a standstill Monday, submerging some areas in waist-deep floodwaters and making streets impassable to vehicles while thousands of people across coastal and mountainous northern regions fled to emergency shelters. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Flooding caused by some of the Philippines' heaviest rains on record submerged more than half the capital Tuesday, turning roads into rivers and trapping tens of thousands of people in homes and shelters. The government suspended all work except rescues and disaster response for a second day.
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Guardian chief: UK had newspaper disks destroyed 
Monday, Aug 19, 2013 06:28 PM PDT
A display fronts the offices of the Guardian and its sister paper, The Observer, on Monday night, Aug. 19, 2013. The Guardian's editor, Alan Rusbridger, said Monday that British agents oversaw the destruction of an unspecified number of his newspaper's hard drives in an apparent bid to keep the fruit of Edward Snowden's leaks safe from Chinese spies. (AP Photo/Raphael Satter)LONDON (AP) — British agents oversaw the destruction of an unspecified number of the Guardian newspaper's hard drives in an apparent bid to keep the fruit of Edward Snowden's leaks safe from Chinese spies, the paper's editor said Monday.
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Thousands of Syrians flee to Iraq; crisis feared 
Monday, Aug 19, 2013 12:09 PM PDT
In this photo provided by UNHCR officials and taken on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. Syrian refugees cross the border toward Iraq at Peshkhabour border point at Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has set up an emergency transit camp in Irbil, where around 2,000 refugees are camping out and UNHCR officials say some thousands of refugees have been streaming into northern Iraq, many coming across a newly-constructed pontoon bridge over the Tigris River at Peshkhabour. (AP Photo/HO)BAGHDAD (AP) — Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds swarmed across a bridge into neighboring Iraq's northern self-ruled Kurdish region over the past few days in one of the biggest waves of refugees since the rebellion against President Bashar Assad began, U.N. officials said Monday.
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Post-vacation, Obama to face Egypt, spending talks 
Monday, Aug 19, 2013 11:46 AM PDT
President Barack Obama, second from left, Sasha Obama, and first lady Michelle Obama, are greeted as they exit Air Force One on arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on Sunday Aug. 18, 2013, after a family vacation on the island of Martha's Vineyard. Also with them was Malia Obama, not pictured. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON (AP) — Fresh from a weeklong vacation, President Barack Obama has to confront such issues as the crisis in Egypt and federal spending before getting back out on the road to sell his economic proposals.
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A-Rod declines MLB challenge to release evidence 
Monday, Aug 19, 2013 04:20 PM PDT
FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2013 file photo, New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez, center, is tended to by a trainer at first base after being hit by a pitch in the second inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox in Boston. Rodriguez got hit by a fastball from Boston starter Ryan Dempster. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for Alex Rodriguez declined Major League Baseball's challenge to make public the drug evidence that led to the 211-game suspension of the New York Yankees star.
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Officials: Brotherhood's supreme leader detained 
Monday, Aug 19, 2013 05:08 PM PDT
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian security officials and state television say the supreme leader of the Muslim Brotherhood has been detained.
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Police: Mechanical problems caused deadly limo fire 
Monday, Aug 19, 2013 06:36 PM PDT
No criminal charges in May limo fire that killed 5 womenThe blaze on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge killed five nurses.
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Court rules Mubarak can no longer be detained 
Monday, Aug 19, 2013 04:13 PM PDT
File picture shows Egypt's ousted President Mubarak sitting inside a dock at the police academy on the outskirts of CairoThe former Egyptian president's release could stir more emotions in the troubled country.
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Union files court challenge to Detroit's bankruptcy petition 
Monday, Aug 19, 2013 01:31 PM PDT
FILE - In this July 24, 2013, file photo, protesters sit across the street from the federal courthouse in Detroit after a judge stopped any lawsuits challenging the city's bankruptcy. Monday, Aug. 19, 2013, is the deadline for a host of banks, bond insurers, two employee pension systems and others standing to lose big if a federal judge declares Detroit insolvent to legally file their objections to the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)By Joseph Lichterman and Bernie Woodall DETROIT (Reuters) - One of Detroit's biggest public labor unions on Monday became the first major party to file an objection to the city's bankruptcy filing ahead of a midnight deadline for challenges. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 25 said Detroit, which last month filed for what would be the largest-ever U.S. municipal bankruptcy, has not proven it is insolvent and has not negotiated in good faith with its creditors. In a filing with the U.S. ...
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Researcher hacks Facebook founder's Timeline to report bug 
Monday, Aug 19, 2013 10:50 AM PDT
Researcher Hacks Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Timeline to Report BugA Security Researcher Hacked Mark Zuckerberg's Timeline to Show a Breach
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Everyone knows politicians lie. Why don’t reporters say so? 
Monday, Aug 19, 2013 03:02 AM PDT
All That Mattered: President Richard Nixon resigns from office 39 years agoFrom Bush to Obama, the press doesn't call out presidents.
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