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Tunisian Femen activist fined, remains jailed

Tunisian Femen activist fined, remains jailed

Tunisian Femen activist fined, remains jailed

Posted: 30 May 2013 01:05 PM PDT

Tunisian protesters, gathered in front of the courthouse in Kairouan, Tunisia, chant slogans against Amina Tyler accusing her of attacking the city and Islam, Thursday, May 30, 2013. The trial for Tyler, a Tunisian member of the Ukrainian feminist group Femen, opened Thursday in the religious center of Kairouan. Tyler scandalized Tunisia in March by posting online photos of herself topless with the slogan "my body is my own" written on her torso. (AP Photo/Nawfel)KAIROUAN, Tunisia (AP) — A court convicted the Tunisian member of the Ukrainian feminist group Femen Tuesday for carrying an "incendiary object" and fined her $182. She remains in custody pending more serious charges.

Russians find mammoth carcass with liquid blood

Posted: 30 May 2013 01:05 PM PDT

In this image made available on Thursday, May 30, 2013 from Rossiya television a mammoth carcass lies in snow on the Arctic Lyakhovsky Island, Russia. Russian researchers say they have discovered a perfectly preserved woolly mammoth carcass with liquid blood on a remote Arctic island, fueling hopes of cloning the Ice Age animal. The frozen remains of a female mammoth were so well preserved that blood came running out after it was recovered from ice. (AP Photo/Rossiya Television, AP Video) TV OUTMOSCOW (AP) — A perfectly preserved woolly mammoth carcass with liquid blood has been found on a remote Arctic island, fueling hopes of cloning the Ice Age animal, Russian scientists said Thursday.

Storms moving through Oklahoma, Arkansas

Posted: 30 May 2013 01:05 PM PDT

This image provided by KFOR-TV shows storm clouds moving over Guthrie, Okla., on Thursday, May 30, 2013. The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., warns there's a moderate risk of severe weather over much of eastern and central Oklahoma on Thursday, the same area where a tornado last week killed 24 people. (AP Photo/KFOR-TV) MANDATORY CREDITNORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Storms are moving through Oklahoma, Arkansas and other parts of the central U.S., and forecasters say tornadoes are possible.

Union protests Chicago Sun-Times photo layoffs

Posted: 30 May 2013 01:01 PM PDT

CHICAGO (AP) — The union representing laid-off photographers at the Chicago Sun-Times plans to file a bad-faith bargaining charge with the National Labor Relations Board.

Best-selling author, outspoken Rev. Greeley dies

Posted: 30 May 2013 01:01 PM PDT

FILE - This 1992 file photo shows Rev. Andrew Greeley, an outspoken Roman Catholic priest, prolific best-selling novelist and Chicago newspaper columnist whose career spanned five decades. His longtime publicist said that Greeley died Wednesday, May 29, 2013, at his home in Chicago. He was 85. (AP Photo/File)CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Andrew Greeley was, it seems, always writing. At home on a typewriter, later on a computer, then on a plane with a laptop and even in his car dictating into a tape recorder as he drove.

Rounded pebbles on Mars reveal past flowing water

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:57 PM PDT

This image taken by the NASA rover Curiosity shows sediment at the bottom of an ancient streambed on Mars. Fresh analysis by Curiosity reveals hundreds of rounded pebbles in its Gale Crater landing site - a sign that a liquid once flowed there. (AP Photo/NASA)LOS ANGELES (AP) — A fresh analysis by NASA's Curiosity rover confirms a stream once ran through Gale Crater on Mars.

Oil rises on signs US economy still needs stimulus

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:57 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The price of oil rose Thursday on indications that the U.S. economy still needs the Federal Reserve to maintain its current stimulus measures.

Induced labor OK for pregnant woman in El Salvador

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:56 PM PDT

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador's health minister says the government has given permission to induce labor for a woman denied the right to terminate a pregnancy that her lawyers argue is putting her life at risk.

Maine mother of slain teen wants to warn others

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:53 PM PDT

FILE - Nichole Cable is seen in an undated photo provided by the Penobscot County Sheriff's Department. The man suspected of killing Cable has been indicted on charges of murder and kidnapping on Wednesday, May 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Penobscot County Sheriff's Department, File)PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The mother of a 15-year-old Maine girl allegedly killed by a man who used Facebook to lure her into a trap says she wants to try to make sure it never happens to anyone else.

Study: Helmet law weakened, motorcycle injuries up

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:53 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 12, 2008 file photo, Randy Knauff takes off from work without a helmet on his motorcycle in Harmony, Pa. Across the nation, motorcyclists opposed to mandatory helmet use have been chipping away at state helmet laws for years while crash deaths have been on the rise. Currently, 19 states and the District of Columbia require all motorcyclists to wear a helmet, 28 states, including Pennsylvania, require only some motorcyclists _ usually younger or novice riders _ to wear a helmet, and three states have no helmet use law. States have been gradually repealing or weakening mandatory helmet laws for nearly two decades. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The average medical claim from a motorcycle crash rose by more than one-fifth last year in Michigan after the state stopped requiring all riders to wear helmets, according to an insurance industry study. Across the nation, motorcyclists opposed to mandatory helmet use have been chipping away at state helmet laws for years while crash deaths have been on the rise.

Cuban blogger Sanchez due back after world tour

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:52 PM PDT

In this March 19, 2013 file photo, Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. Sanchez will return to Cuba from a prolonged global tour on Thursday, May 30, 2013. Communist authorities allowed Sanchez and several lesser-known opposition figures to travel as part of landmark migration reforms that took effect in January, eliminating exit visa requirements for all Cubans. Sanchez has said she wants to start an independent online newspaper upon her return. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)HAVANA (AP) — Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez was heading home Thursday after a more than three-month globetrotting tour that has turned her into the most internationally recognizable face in the island's small dissident community.

Storms moving through central US, including Okla.

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:47 PM PDT

This image provided by KFOR-TV shows storm clouds moving over Guthrie, Okla., on Thursday, May 30, 2013. The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., warns there's a moderate risk of severe weather over much of eastern and central Oklahoma on Thursday, the same area where a tornado last week killed 24 people. (AP Photo/KFOR-TV) MANDATORY CREDITNORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Storms are moving through Oklahoma and other parts of the central U.S., and forecasters say tornadoes are possible.

DC marks Superman's 75th anniversary with logo

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:47 PM PDT

This illustration released by DC Entertainment shows a logo commemorating the 75th anniversary of Superman. Its first appearance will be on the cover of What to get Superman for his 75th birthday? DC Entertainment's starting with a new logo.

Redskins' RG3 throws at OTAs, continues rehab

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:42 PM PDT

Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III (10) practices during a NFL football organized team activity at Redskins Park in Ashburn, Va., Thursday, May 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Robert Griffin III had switched from a long-sleeved, black shirt to a white one, but his role in Washington's organized team activities at Redskins Park remained the same from a week ago.

Spelling Bee: 42 semifinalists compete for trophy

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:41 PM PDT

Katharine Wang, 11, of Beijing, China, second from left, hugs Amber Born, 14 of Marblehead, Massachusetts at the start of the semifinal round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Oxon Hill, Md., Thursday, May 30, 2013. Matthew Donohue of Kingston, Mass. is at right. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — A spelling bee week that began with curiosity and angst over a new vocabulary test was set to end the familiar way — with bright kids spelling difficult words under the bright lights of prime-time television.

Poll: 2 in 5 women would consider solo parenthood

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:40 PM PDT

Joyce Chen hugs her daughter Kathryn, 10, as they pose for photographs in San Francisco, Wednesday, May 29, 2013. A new poll finds that one in five unmarried women would consider having a child on their own, and more than a third would consider adopting solo, just one indication of America's changing family structures. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)As Christy Everson was nearing age 40, she made a decision: She wanted to have a child, even though she was single and it meant doing it all alone. Her daughter, conceived via a sperm donor, is now 2 1/2 years old, and Everson hopes to have a second child.

Boy, 10, finds $10,000 in Kansas City hotel room

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:38 PM PDT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 10-year-old boy who found $10,000 in a drawer at a Kansas City hotel where he was staying with his dad turned the money over to police.

US accused of withholding evidence in drug case

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:36 PM PDT

MIAMI (AP) — Two Colombians who were facing the prospect of spending the rest of their lives in a U.S. prison for drug trafficking will go home much sooner after prosecutors were accused of withholding evidence about payments by the Drug Enforcement Administration to police in the South American country.

More charges may come in case involving Haslams

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:34 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 27, 2013 file photo, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam answers a question during a news conference after speaking to a joint session of the Legislature in Nashville, Tenn. The federal investigation into the truck stop chain owned by the family of Haslam and his brother, Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam, led to its first convictions this week and threatens to widen against employees at Pilot Flying J. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sudden guilty pleas by a pair of mid-level executives show the investigation into the truck stop chain controlled by the family of Tennessee's governor and the Cleveland Browns' owner is picking up steam, with prosecutors likely setting their sights on higher-ups at the company, experts say.

Israel to build 300 units in Jewish settlement

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:33 PM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 15, 2010 file photo, a Palestinian man works on a construction site in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot. Israel's Housing Ministry said it has given the final go-ahead for the construction of 300 new homes in a Jewish settlement in east Jerusalem, an official said Thursday, May 30, 2013, complicating the mission of the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to renew Mideast peace talks. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill, File)JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Housing Ministry said Thursday it has given the final go-ahead for the construction of 300 new homes in a Jewish settlement in east Jerusalem, complicating the mission of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to renew Mideast peace talks.

Prosecutor discusses next steps for Arias case

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:30 PM PDT

PHOENIX (AP) — The top prosecutor in Phoenix said Thursday that he is confident an impartial jury can be seated to determine the punishment for Jodi Arias, and he is open to input from defense lawyers and the family of the victim about possibly scraping a new trial in favor of a life sentence for the convicted murderer.

Billy Joel surprises New York high school

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:29 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Billy Joel is back in high school.

Alarm grows as Iraqi forces fail to stem violence

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:27 PM PDT

Civilians inspect the site of a parked car bomb attack near a popular restaurant in the Ur neighborhood in northern Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 30, 2013. A series of morning bomb explosions in Baghdad and the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday, killed and wounded dozens of people, police said, in the latest eruption of violence rattling the country. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials in Iraq are growing increasingly concerned over an unabated spike in violence that claimed at least another 33 lives on Thursday and is reviving fears of a return to widespread sectarian fighting.

US VP Biden wraps up first leg of Brazil visit

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:27 PM PDT

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, center, speaks with Pacification Unit Major Priscilla Azevedo, gesturing second from right, during his visit to the Santa Marta slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, May 30, 2013. Biden is wrapping up his visit to Rio de Janeiro with a visit to a slum before traveling to Brasilia for a Friday meeting with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden wrapped up his visit to Rio de Janeiro with a visit to a slum on Thursday before traveling to Brasilia for a Friday meeting with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.

Storms moving through central US

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:25 PM PDT

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Storms are moving through Oklahoma and other parts of the central U.S., and forecasters say tornadoes are possible.

Pakistani Taliban withdraw peace talks offer

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:24 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 28, 2011 file photo, Taliban No 2 commander Waliur Rehman talks to the Associated Press during an interview in Shawal area of South Waziristan along the Afghanistan border in Pakistan. Pakistani intelligence officials say a U.S. drone strike has killed the commander of the Pakistani Taliban. The militant group denies he is dead. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud, File)PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — The Pakistani Taliban withdrew their offer of peace talks Thursday, following the death of the group's deputy leader in an American drone attack, a spokesman for the group said, a blow to the incoming government of Nawaz Sharif that was elected partly on promises to restore security after years of deadly attacks.

Average US household far from regaining its wealth

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:22 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The average U.S. household has a long way to go to recover the wealth it lost to the recession, a report by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis concludes.

AP Interview: Nigeria sees outside extremist help

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:18 PM PDT

Brig. Gen. Chris Olukolade speaks to journalists from The Associated Press in an interview in Abuja, Nigeria, on Thursday, May 30, 2013. Olukolade, Nigeria's top military spokesman, says officials believe that Islamic extremists now fighting in the country's northeast are receiving outside help. Olukolade says one sign of that help is the increasingly sophisticated weaponry being used by the insurgents, including anti-aircraft guns. Soldiers are now fighting extremists there after an order by President Goodluck Jonathan declaring emergency rule in three northeastern states. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic extremists who control portions of northeast Nigeria received anti-aircraft guns and other military-grade weaponry from outside sources, the nation's top defense spokesman said Thursday, as soldiers continue to battle militants across the arid, restive region.

Syria: Assad vague on delivery of Russian missiles

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:18 PM PDT

FILE - This Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009 file photo shows Syrian President Bashar Assad during a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, unseen, at the presidency in Tehran, Iran. Assad is quoted by a Lebanese TV as saying the first shipment of Russian air defense missiles has arrived in his country. Al-Manar TV, owned by the militant Hezbollah group, is to air an exclusive interview with Assad later Thursday, May 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a TV interview broadcast Thursday that Russia has fulfilled some of its weapons contracts recently, but was vague on whether this included advanced S-300 air defense systems.

Microsoft aims to simplify with Windows 8.1

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:16 PM PDT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft is trying to fix what it got wrong with its radical makeover of Windows. It's making the operating system easier to navigate and enabling users to set up the software so it starts in a more familiar format designed for personal computers.

Mattek-Sands beats 2011 champ Li at French Open

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:16 PM PDT

Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the U.S. celebrates defeating China's Li Na in their second round match at the French Open tennis tournament, at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Thursday, May 30, 2013. Mattek-Sands won in three sets 6-1, 5-7, 6-4. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)PARIS (AP) — Bethanie Mattek-Sands skipped backward across the clay, her wagging tongue framed by a smile as she savored yet another surprising victory for American tennis at the French Open.

Tesla promises to add charging stations

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:14 PM PDT

DETROIT (AP) — Electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc. promises to boost the number of fast-charging stations in the U.S. and Canada to make cross-country travel by electric car possible in the next year.

Column: Matriarchy, patriarchy and the Masters of the Universe

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:12 PM PDT

By Chrystia Freeland NEW YORK (Reuters) - The past week has underscored one more way in which the lives of the super-rich are diverging from the lives of everyone else: The middle class is becoming a matriarchy, while the plutocracy remains firmly patriarchal. The sexist mores of the super-rich were exposed by one of that tribe's most prominent philanthropists, the hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones. At an April symposium at the University of Virginia, Jones said that women didn't trade as successfully as men because becoming a mother is a "killer" to professional focus. ...

Deadly attack stokes Chile Mapuche conflict

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:09 PM PDT

In this Feb. 17, 2013 photo, Gerardo Purran Heiquillan, 20, poses for a portrait as he rests from dancing at a "Guillatun," a spiritual ceremony to ask for the well-being of the clan and strengthen ties in the Collico community in Ercilla, Chile. In the past five years, reported acts of violence from the Mapuche land struggle have escalated 10 times over, prompting a police response that the indigenous group say has been heavy handed and abusive. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)VILCUN, Chile (AP) — The arson deaths of an elderly couple in their ranch home on land claimed by Mapuche Indians have cast a cold light on the indigenous group's struggle in southern Chile's Araucania region.

Rights group calls Egypt draft NGO law restrictive

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:06 PM PDT

An Egyptian worker perches on the roof of the Cairo Opera House during a protest to support Enas Abdel-Dayem, head of the Cairo Opera House, not pictured, demanding the resignation of Egyptian culture minister at the opera house garden in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, May 30, 2013. The Cairo Opera House has become a new battleground between supporters and opponents of Egypt's Islamist president, this time fighting over the direction of the Middle East's oldest music institution. The new culture minister fired the opera's head in what he calls a campaign to bring in new blood across the artistic scene. But her staff refuse any new boss and have closed the curtain on all performances, accusing the minister of bending to Islamist pressure. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)CAIRO (AP) — New York-based Human Rights Watch and 40 Egyptian rights groups on Thursday said Egypt's draft law regulating non-governmental organizations would restrict the funding and operation of independent groups.

Disneyland worker charged in dry-ice blasts

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:05 PM PDT

This booking photo provided by the Anaheim Police shows Christian Barnes, 22, of Long Beach, who was arrested Tuesday, May 28, 2013 for investigation of possessing a destructive device, just hours after an explosion at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., Anaheim police Sgt. Bob Dunn said in a statement. Barnes is suspected of putting a so-called dry ice bomb in trash can in the Mickey's Toontown section of the theme park, where it exploded. (AP Photo/Anaheim Police)ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — A Disneyland employee was charged Thursday with a felony after two dry-ice bombs exploded at the theme park earlier in the week.

Tale of 2 converts shows Egypt's sectarian divide

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:04 PM PDT

In this Monday, May 14, 2013 photo, Maria Sourial, center, mother of Romani Farhan Amir, mourns for her son at the family's home, some 180 miles (300 kilometers) south of Cairo in the province of Assiut, Egypt. Police say Amir, a 35-year-old laborer who did odd jobs for a day's wage, jumped to his death from a fourth-floor window in a court complex in Assiut, a city of 1 million people. His May 11 death came minutes before he was to be questioned by a judge on the stabbing and wounding nearly 12 hours earlier of his estranged wife, Azza William, who had vanished in January and reappeared the following month declaring she had converted to Islam. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)ASSIUT, Egypt (AP) — In one case, an Egyptian Christian man stabs his wife after she converts to Islam with the support of hard-line Islamists. Then after surrendering to police, he dies in mysterious circumstances, falling from a court building window.

Stocks rise as lackluster reports ease Fed concern

Posted: 30 May 2013 11:59 AM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 29, 2013, file photo, Specialist Peter Giacchi, left, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Banks and utility companies led stocks higher in midday trading on Wall Street as the market bounced back from a decline the day before. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market rose Thursday after a pair of lackluster economic reports convinced traders that the U.S. central bank will continue to boost the economy with its stimulus program.

Turkey arrests Syrian Nusra Front militants : media

Posted: 30 May 2013 11:57 AM PDT

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish authorities have arrested a group of Syria's al Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front militants who allegedly had been planning an attack inside Turkey and were in possession of the nerve agent sarin, local media reported on Thursday. While they could not be immediately confirmed, the reports highlight the growing concerns that Syria's civil war is dragging in neighboring states. In the worst example of the spillover into Turkey, 52 people were killed when twin car bombs ripped through the border town of Reyhanli on May 11. ...

Report shows spike in reservation criminal cases

Posted: 30 May 2013 11:56 AM PDT

FILE--North Dakota's U.S. Attorney Tim Purdon speaks during a press conference in Bismarck, N.D., in this May 28, 2013 file photo. Purdon, chairman of a subcommittee that reports to the attorney general on American Indian issues, has cited a drug trafficking case on the Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota as evidence that federal prosecutors have been taking on more criminal cases from American Indian reservations, pointing to collaboration with tribal leaders as a reason for the increase. (AP Photo/The Bismarck Tribune, Tom Stromme)FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — American Indian leaders who have criticized the federal government for years over the way authorities handled major crimes on reservations can mark progress with the release of newly tracked statistics from the U.S. Justice Department.
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