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• Lead prosecutor in Fort Hood case keeps close eye
• Facebook to test mobile payments service
• Gunman arrested after armed standoff in Islamabad
• Judge questions giving OK to AMR bankruptcy plan
• Column: News never made money, and is unlikely to
• Utah fire destroys 14 homes near resort town
• Jackson's ex-wife says med visits concerned her
• Venezuela politics soiled by sordid claims, gay slurs
• Reactions to Egyptian crackdown on pro-Morsi camps
• Pakistani police shoot gunman after long standoff
• Paraguay's new president woes foreign investment
• Calif. panel launches probe into offshore fracking
• Warnings of slower sales drive US stocks lower
• Broncos get taste of life without Miller
• Brazil sends more inspectors to Amazon rainforest
• Warrants fuel questions in teen's disappearance
• Death toll from Egypt violence rises to 638
• A decade of Pentagon struggles bared at trial
• Column: The world leaders who are actually leading
• Obama's daughters join family's Vineyard vacation
• Protesters storm Cairo building after bloodbath, U.S. to review Egypt aid
• Protesters storm Cairo building after bloodbath, US to review Egypt aid
• Wal-Mart cuts profit outlook on shopper worries
• Rockefeller impostor sentenced for Calif. murder
• PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS
• Car bomb kills 14 in south Beirut suburb
• AP Source: Ford to restate hybrid gas mileage
• Chiefs' Smith gets to square off against ex team
• Key figures in Iran's new government
• New school year awaits kids who survived twister
• Jasper Johns' former assistant charged with fraud
• Column: Bezos needs to reinvent a business model, not journalism
• Flight recorders found in deadly UPS plane crash
• Adorable new mammal species found 'in plain sight'
• Viewers flock to 'Duck Dynasty' in record numbers
• Car bomb kills 20 in Hezbollah's Beirut stronghold
• Iran's parliament rejects 3 Cabinet nominees
• Death toll from Egypt violence rises to 578
• US Open stadium to have roof by 2017 tourney
• Navigator groups get $67M to sign up uninsured

Lead prosecutor in Fort Hood case keeps close eye Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:57 PM PDT FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Col. Michael Mulligan stood up and whispered to a fellow prosecutor who had just finished questioning a witness in the Fort Hood shooting trial, prompting the military lawyer to stand back up and ask how many bullet holes the gunman left behind.

Facebook to test mobile payments service Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:56 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook says it plans to test a mobile payments service that lets users make purchases inside mobile applications using payment information they have added to their account on the social network.

Gunman arrested after armed standoff in Islamabad Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:54 PM PDT ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - An armed man demanding the establishment of Islamic rule in Pakistan opened fire in the heart of Islamabad on Thursday and was arrested hours later after a standoff with police that was broadcast live on television. Arriving as night fell, the man drove a car, which also contained two children and a woman believed to be his wife, into the tightly guarded city center, stopping near the president's official residence and firing into the air. ...

Judge questions giving OK to AMR bankruptcy plan Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:53 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — A judge asked American Airlines' lawyers to explain why he should approve the company's plan to merge with US Airways and exit bankruptcy protection while the merger is being challenged by the federal government.

Column: News never made money, and is unlikely to Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:51 PM PDT By Jack Shafer (Reuters) - Sometime in the mid-1990s, the Web began to peel from the daily American newspaper bundle its most commercial elements, essentially the editorial sections against which advertisements could be reliably sold. Coverage of sports, business and market news, entertainment and culture, gossip, shopping, and travel still ran in daily newspapers, but the audience steadily shifted to Web sources for this sort of news. ...

Utah fire destroys 14 homes near resort town Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:50 PM PDT WANSHIP, Utah (AP) — Officials were bracing for another possible flare-up Thursday afternoon in a lightning-sparked wildfire that has destroyed 14 homes near a Utah mountain resort town.

Jackson's ex-wife says med visits concerned her Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:49 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson's ex-wife has acknowledged her concerns that some of the entertainer's frequent medical visits were motivated more by a desire for drugs than by the treatment he received.

Venezuela politics soiled by sordid claims, gay slurs Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:47 PM PDT By Daniel Wallis CARACAS (Reuters) - From allegations of gay and transvestite prostitution rings to homophobic slurs flying in the National Assembly, Venezuela's polarized politics has taken a distasteful turn. With tempers fraying as President Nicolas Maduro vows to crack down on corruption, pro-government lawmakers demanded this week that their opposition rivals be investigated for, among other things, money laundering and cocaine trafficking. ...

Reactions to Egyptian crackdown on pro-Morsi camps Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:47 PM PDT Official reaction Thursday from governments around the world to clashes between Egyptian security forces and supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, in which hundreds of people were killed and thousands injured:

Pakistani police shoot gunman after long standoff Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:45 PM PDT ISLAMABAD (AP) — Police shot an armed motorist in Pakistan's capital Thursday after an hours-long standoff broadcast live on TV, during which he demanded the implementation of Islamic law in the country.

Paraguay's new president woes foreign investment Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:45 PM PDT ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — Multimillionaire Horacio Cartes made a play for more foreign investment on Thursday as he assumed the presidency of impoverished Paraguay and tried to move past accusations about business dealings that have made him a target of U.S. criminal investigations.

Calif. panel launches probe into offshore fracking Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:43 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — California regulators have launched an investigation into offshore hydraulic fracturing after revelations that the practice had quietly occurred off the coast for the past two decades.

Warnings of slower sales drive US stocks lower Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:43 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Warnings of weaker sales from two major companies and concern that the Federal Reserve could ease off its support for the economy sent the stock market spiraling lower Thursday.

Broncos get taste of life without Miller Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:40 PM PDT ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — The Denver Broncos got a glimpse Thursday of what things would be like if All-Pro linebacker Von Miller has to sit out all of September.

Brazil sends more inspectors to Amazon rainforest Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:39 PM PDT BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's environment minister says the government has increased the number of its inspectors in the Amazon rainforest to help halt a rise in illegal deforestation.

Warrants fuel questions in teen's disappearance Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:39 PM PDT SAN DIEGO (AP) — The California man who abducted a teenage family friend and tortured her mother and 8-year-old brother before killing them exchanged more than a dozen calls with the 16-year-old girl in the hours before the slaying.

Death toll from Egypt violence rises to 638 Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:35 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — The Egyptian Health Ministry has raised the death toll from the day's violence that followed a crackdown on two camps housing supporters of the ousted president to 638.

A decade of Pentagon struggles bared at trial Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:35 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of the Pentagon's most painful themes of the past decade have played out at the court-martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning.

Column: The world leaders who are actually leading Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:35 PM PDT By Ian Bremmer (Reuters) - Earlier this summer, as I watched the pope attract millions as he toured Brazil, I noticed how rare the scene was. Here was a man in control of an embattled institution, and he had somehow rallied his troops. By going back to the basics of Catholic belief and embracing humility, supporting the downtrodden, and asking for sacrifice, as well as pushing the envelope with his more progressive stance on homosexuality for example, Pope Francis has begun to rehabilitate the church. It was viable leadership of the kind that motivates, inspires, and unites. ...

Obama's daughters join family's Vineyard vacation Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:35 PM PDT CHILMARK, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama's family vacation on Martha's Vineyard is now complete: Daughters Malia and Sasha arrived Thursday.

Protesters storm Cairo building after bloodbath, U.S. to review Egypt aid Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:34 PM PDT By Tom Perry and Alexander Dziadosz CAIRO (Reuters) - Supporters of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood stormed and torched a government building in Cairo on Thursday, while families tried to identify hundreds of mutilated bodies piled in a Cairo mosque a day after they were shot dead by the security forces. Egypt's health ministry says 578 people were killed and thousands wounded in the worst day of civil violence in the modern history of the most populous Arab state. ...

Protesters storm Cairo building after bloodbath, US to review Egypt aid Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:34 PM PDT By Tom Perry and Alexander Dziadosz CAIRO (Reuters) - Supporters of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood stormed and torched a government building in Cairo on Thursday, while families tried to identify hundreds of mutilated bodies piled in a Cairo mosque a day after they were shot dead by the security forces. Egypt's health ministry says 578 people were killed and thousands wounded in the worst day of civil violence in the modern history of the most populous Arab state. ...

Wal-Mart cuts profit outlook on shopper worries Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:33 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's biggest retailer, said the weak global economy continues to batter its low-income shoppers.

Rockefeller impostor sentenced for Calif. murder Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:28 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — A small, bespectacled German immigrant who invented a glamorous life for himself in the United States by posing as an heir to the fabled Rockefeller fortune was sentenced Thursday to 27 years to life in prison for a California cold-case murder.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:25 PM PDT Week ending August 11th, 2013, powered by Nielsen BookScan. Copyright 2013 The Nielsen Company.

Car bomb kills 14 in south Beirut suburb Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:21 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — A powerful car bomb ripped through a crowded southern Beirut neighborhood that is a stronghold of the militant group Hezbollah on Thursday, killing at least 14 people and trapping dozens of others in burning cars and buildings in the latest apparent violence linked to the civil war in neighboring Syria, officials said.

AP Source: Ford to restate hybrid gas mileage Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:20 PM PDT DETROIT (AP) — Ford will reduce gas mileage estimates for its C-Max hybrid, following a government investigation into consumer complaints that the car's actual mileage was lower, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday.

Chiefs' Smith gets to square off against ex team Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:20 PM PDT KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Alex Smith treads carefully when subject of the San Francisco 49ers is broached. He politely talks about the positive days he spent with them, and then seems to usher along the conversation whenever their divorce is brought up.

Key figures in Iran's new government Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:17 PM PDT TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's conservative-dominated parliament rejected three of the new president's 18 nominees for his Cabinet on Thursday but approved 15 others, including those heading ministries key to implementing his agenda to reduce the Islamic Republic's international isolation and improve its economy.

New school year awaits kids who survived twister Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:15 PM PDT MOORE, Okla. (AP) — One young girl is so afraid of the wind that she carries headphones to block out the sound. Other kids are traumatized by the memory of their narrow escape from the storm and the friends who died just a few feet away from them.

Jasper Johns' former assistant charged with fraud Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:13 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — A former assistant to Jasper Johns has been charged with selling 22 works he allegedly stole from the pop artist's Connecticut studio.

Column: Bezos needs to reinvent a business model, not journalism Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:09 PM PDT By Anatole Kaletsky (Reuters) - It is now a week since Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, announced that he was buying the Washington Post, in what could be the most exciting case of convergence between the new media and the old since the merger of AOL with Time Warner. But how might Bezos re-launch this venerable flagship of U.S. ...

Flight recorders found in deadly UPS plane crash Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:08 PM PDT BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Investigators found flight recorders on Thursday that could hold important clues about why a UPS jet crashed at Birmingham's airport, killing two pilots.

Adorable new mammal species found 'in plain sight' Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:08 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Imagine a mini-raccoon with a teddy bear face that is so cute it's hard to resist, let alone overlook. But somehow science did — until now.

Viewers flock to 'Duck Dynasty' in record numbers Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:06 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — A&E says nearly 12 million birds of a feather caught Wednesday's season premiere of its hit unscripted series "Duck Dynasty."

Car bomb kills 20 in Hezbollah's Beirut stronghold Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:06 PM PDT By Laila Bassam BEIRUT (Reuters) - A powerful car bomb struck the southern Beirut stronghold of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group on Thursday, killing 20 people, wounding 120 and trapping many others inside damaged buildings, witnesses and emergency officials said. The blast, a month after another car bomb wounded more than 50 people in the same district of the Lebanese capital, came amid sectarian tensions over the intervention of Shi'ite Muslim Hezbollah against Sunni rebels in Syria's civil war. ...

Iran's parliament rejects 3 Cabinet nominees Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:03 PM PDT TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's conservative-dominated parliament rejected three of the new president's 18 nominees for his Cabinet on Thursday but approved 15 others, including those heading portfolios key to implementing his agenda to reduce the Islamic Republic's international isolation and improve its economy.

Death toll from Egypt violence rises to 578 Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:02 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — As the death toll soared to 578 on Thursday, weeping relatives in search of loved ones uncovered the faces of the bloodied, unclaimed dead in a Cairo mosque near the flattened epicenter of Islamist support for ousted President Mohammed Morsi.

US Open stadium to have roof by 2017 tourney Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:02 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Open rain delays at Arthur Ashe Stadium will be no more by 2017.

Navigator groups get $67M to sign up uninsured Posted: 15 Aug 2013 11:57 AM PDT CHICAGO (AP) — With the new health law's enrollment period set to open in just a little more than six weeks, President Barack Obama's administration announced $67 million in awards Thursday to organizations that will help people understand their new insurance opportunities and get signed up.

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