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| Gen. Martin Dempsey: Assad’s ‘momentum’ in Syria civil war is ‘unsustainable’ Monday, Aug 26, 2013 03:58 AM PDT On the Radar The Syrian government seems to have made gains in the country's civil conflict in recent weeks, taking over more urban areas—and now, new reports point to the use of chemical weapons by the government. But the United States' top general says Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's recent "momentum" is unsustainable. "[Assad] appears to [...] Full Story | Top |
| Civil rights and immigration history connected Monday, Aug 26, 2013 10:07 AM PDT  When 250,000 marchers converged on Washington in August 1963, the issues were jobs and freedom. Now, as the crowds come together to mark the 50th anniversary of that seminal event in the civil rights movement, ... Full Story | Top |
| For Obama, world looks far different than expected Monday, Aug 26, 2013 05:52 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly five years into his presidency, Barack Obama confronts a world far different from what he envisioned when he first took office. U.S. influence is declining in the Middle East as violence and instability rock Arab countries. An ambitious attempt to reset U.S. relations with Russia faltered and failed. Even in Obama-friendly Europe, there's deep skepticism about Washington's government surveillance programs. Full Story | Top |
| Farmers' Almanac: Super Bowl may be 'Storm Bowl' Monday, Aug 26, 2013 03:47 AM PDT  The Farmers' Almanac is using words like "piercing cold," ''bitterly cold" and "biting cold" to describe the upcoming winter. And if its predictions are right, the first outdoor ... Full Story | Top |
| Trump calls NY attorney general a 'political hack' Monday, Aug 26, 2013 09:49 AM PDT  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Donald Trump on Monday defended his Trump University as a booming success for student entrepreneurs and blasted New York's attorney general, who called it a scam. Full Story | Top |
| Desert tortoise faces threat from its own refuge Monday, Aug 26, 2013 03:51 AM PDT  For decades, the vulnerable desert tortoise has led a sheltered existence. Developers have taken pains to keep the animal safe. It's been protected from meddlesome hikers by the threat of prison time. ... Full Story | Top |
| Neighbors fear huge hissing cat roaming Detroit streets Monday, Aug 26, 2013 02:00 PM PDT Residents of a northeast Detroit neighborhood have been cautious when venturing out on their local streets because a huge hissing cat has been spotted roaming the area for a month. Full Story | Top |
| Miley Cyrus, Justin Timberlake own the MTV VMAs Monday, Aug 26, 2013 03:43 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Miley Cyrus' memorable moment at the MTV Video Music Awards may not have been good for her, but it was great for MTV and social media. Full Story | Top |
| Convicted Fort Hood gunman begins sentencing phase Monday, Aug 26, 2013 10:13 AM PDT  FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Military jurors on Monday began weighing whether the Army psychiatrist who opened fire on his unarmed comrades at Fort Hood deserves the death penalty for an attack that killed 13 people and wounded more than 30 others. Full Story | Top |
| Goldman losses from options glitch in tens of millions: source Monday, Aug 26, 2013 12:39 PM PDT  By Doris Frankel and Lauren Tara LaCapra (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc lost tens of millions of dollars after a computer glitch led to a flood of erroneous options trades last week, a source close to the matter said on Monday. Last Tuesday, an upgrade of Goldman's internal system affected options on stocks and some exchange-traded funds with symbols beginning with the letters H through L, leading to trades vastly out of line with market prices. ... Full Story | Top |
| Washington warns Assad over 'undeniable' chemical weapons attack Monday, Aug 26, 2013 02:57 PM PDT  By Lesley Wroughton and Erika Solomon WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United States put Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on notice on Monday that it believes he was responsible for using chemical weapons against civilians last week in what Secretary of State John Kerry called a "moral obscenity." "President (Barack) Obama believes there must be accountability for those who would use the world's most heinous weapons against the world's most vulnerable people," Kerry said in the most forceful U.S. reaction yet to the August 21 attack. Speaking after U.N. ... Full Story | Top |
| Treasury says US will hit debt limit in mid-Oct Monday, Aug 26, 2013 02:36 PM PDT  Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has told Congress that the government will run out of money to pay its bills in mid-October unless lawmakers raise the country's borrowing limit, which is capped at $16.7 trillion. ... Full Story | Top |
| Newtown shooter is described as isolated in youth Monday, Aug 26, 2013 11:44 AM PDT  NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A portrait of a highly isolated young man with disruptions in his education is emerging as a state office investigating the Newtown shooter seeks the release of his school records. Full Story | Top |
| Arizona judge postpones setting date for Arias retrial jury selection Monday, Aug 26, 2013 09:39 AM PDT  By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona judge presiding over the high-profile murder trial of Jodi Arias on Monday postponed setting a date to begin selecting a new jury to decide whether the former waitress from California should be executed for slaying her ex-boyfriend. Judge Sherry Stephens had been expected to decide on a date for the new penalty phase for Arias over the 2008 murder of Travis Alexander, who was found dead in his shower in a Phoenix suburb, shot in the face and stabbed multiple times with his throat slashed. ... Full Story | Top |
| NAACP keeping up pressure in Trayvon Martin case Monday, Aug 26, 2013 03:30 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — NAACP President Ben Jealous said Monday his organization collected petitions with more than 1.7 million signatures calling for charges to be filed against George Zimmerman for violating Trayvon Martin's civil rights. Full Story | Top |
| Obama awards Medal of Honor to Afghan war veteran Monday, Aug 26, 2013 04:50 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama bestowed the nation's highest military honor, the Medal of Honor, on Army Staff Sgt. Ty Carter on Monday, saluting the veteran of the war in Afghanistan as "the essence of true heroism," one still engaged in a battle against the lingering emotional fallout of war. Full Story | Top |
| Bust to boom: Can strippers save Atlantic City? Monday, Aug 26, 2013 02:21 PM PDT  ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — What if, after seven years of plunging casino revenues and fleeing customers, Atlantic City's real problem was this: People are wearing too much clothing? Full Story | Top |
| Indonesian clerics call for ban of Miss World Monday, Aug 26, 2013 08:05 AM PDT JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — One of Indonesia's most influential Islamic groups is urging the government to cancel the Miss World pageant scheduled for next month, saying the exposure of skin by women in a competition violates Muslim teachings, an official said Monday. Full Story | Top |
| What are the Common Core State Standards? Monday, Aug 26, 2013 11:31 AM PDT  The Common Core State Standards have been adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia with the goal of better preparing the nation's students for college or a job. Despite their widespread adoption, many parents don't know what the standards are or whether their state has adopted them, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll. Full Story | Top |
| Holder pressed on U.S. drug agency use of hidden data evidence Monday, Aug 26, 2013 04:51 PM PDT  By John Shiffman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Eight Democratic senators and congressmen have asked Attorney General Eric Holder to answer questions about a Reuters report that the National Security Agency supplies the Drug Enforcement Administration with intelligence information used to make non-terrorism cases against American citizens. The August report revealed that a secretive DEA unit passes the NSA information to agents in the field, including those from the Internal Revenue Service, the FBI and Homeland Security, with instructions to never disclose the original source, even in court. ... Full Story | Top |
| Youth see march anniversary as chance to lead Monday, Aug 26, 2013 12:39 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Mary-Pat Hector of Atlanta was operating much like a 1960s civil rights activist as she laid plans for the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. She was constantly on the phone as she confirmed event details, tweaked the draft of the speech she gave at Saturday's rally at the Lincoln Memorial and prepared for a presentation. Full Story | Top |
| Orders for long-lasting US factory goods plunge Monday, Aug 26, 2013 03:03 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Orders for long-lasting U.S. factory goods fell sharply last month as demand for commercial aircraft plummeted and businesses spent less on computers and electrical equipment. Full Story | Top |
| Snowden got stuck in Russia after Cuba blocked entry: newspaper Monday, Aug 26, 2013 12:20 AM PDT  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden got stuck in the transit zone of a Moscow airport because Havana said it would not let him fly from Russia to Cuba, a Russian newspaper reported on Monday. Snowden, who is wanted in the United States for leaking details of U.S. government surveillance programs, had planned to fly to Havana from Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport a day after arriving from Hong Kong on June 23. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ariz. tries for foliage crown, to Vt.'s chagrin Monday, Aug 26, 2013 02:12 PM PDT  MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Desert sands and spectacular gorges, sure. But fall foliage? In Arizona? Full Story | Top |
| Is Coke's 127-year-old recipe the same? Not quite Monday, Aug 26, 2013 03:02 PM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — Coca-Cola keeps the recipe for its 127-year-old soda inside an imposing steel vault that's bathed in red security lights. Several cameras monitor the area to make sure the fizzy formula stays a secret. Full Story | Top |
| Crews battle huge wildfire raging in Yosemite area Monday, Aug 26, 2013 12:49 PM PDT  TUOLUMNE CITY, Calif. (AP) — Crews working to contain one of California's largest-ever wildfires gained some ground Monday against the flames threatening San Francisco's water supply, several towns near Yosemite National Park and historic giant sequoias. Full Story | Top |
| Police: Missing Ariz. teen spoke of running away Monday, Aug 26, 2013 03:06 PM PDT  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Arizona teenager assumed to be missing in the woods of Southern Oregon talked with his parents about the book "Into the Wild" and told a friend he wanted to run away. Full Story | Top |
| Russia warns against military intervention in Syria Monday, Aug 26, 2013 07:20 AM PDT  By Alexei Anishchuk MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia warned Western powers on Monday against any military intervention in Syria, saying the use of force without a U.N. mandate would violate international law. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow had no plans to be drawn into a military conflict over the civil war in Syria and that Washington and its allies would be repeating "past mistakes" if they intervened in Syria. ... Full Story | Top |
| Spurs 'have more than one offer for Bale' Monday, Aug 26, 2013 08:03 AM PDT  Tottenham have received offers from more than one club for Real Madrid target Gareth Bale, according to reports on Monday. Full Story | Top |
| Chicago stands watch as kids return to school Monday, Aug 26, 2013 08:44 AM PDT  Busy, unfamiliar streets were made a bit friendlier Monday, the first day of school in Chicago, thanks to hundreds of newly hired safety guards. But some parents expressed doubt the effort would protect ... Full Story | Top |
| Stocks held back by plunge in factory orders Monday, Aug 26, 2013 06:50 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market is inching higher in early trading as a plunge in factory orders last month made investors cautious. Full Story | Top |
| Workers keep watch over new Chicago school year Monday, Aug 26, 2013 05:54 AM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — Busy unfamiliar streets are being made a bit friendlier on the first day of school in Chicago thanks to hundreds of Safe Passage workers in bright neon vests. Full Story | Top |
| Kerry to make statement on Syria Monday, Aug 26, 2013 11:12 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration was expected Monday to toughen its criticism of Syria's alleged chemical weapons use, with Secretary of State John Kerry cutting his vacation short to address the crisis as the U.S. considers possible military actions. Full Story | Top |
| NY attorney general: Trump making wild accusations Monday, Aug 26, 2013 09:12 AM PDT ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York's attorney general says Donald Trump is making wild accusations, just like others who commit fraud and get caught. Full Story | Top |
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