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Preparing Egyptians for austerity, Sisi cuts own pay

Preparing Egyptians for austerity, Sisi cuts own pay

Preparing Egyptians for austerity, Sisi cuts own pay

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 01:21 PM PDT

By Lin Noueihed CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's new president pledged on Tuesday to give up half his salary and property and called on the Egyptian people to make similar sacrifices, trying to prepare the public for a period of painful economic austerity. In an impromptu speech at a military graduation ceremony, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said he had refused to sign off on a 2014/15 budget proposal following lengthy discussions this week because it was too dependent on ballooning borrowing. If the debt keeps accumulating like this, we won't leave them anything good." The comments appeared designed to prepare public opinion for further austerity measures, such as subsidy reductions, to allow for deeper reforms of the ailing economy. Egypt's budget deficit reached 14 percent of economic output in the last fiscal year, which ended in June 2013 and the economy is forecast to grow just 3.2 percent in the fiscal year that begins on July 1.

NBC hopes its talent show can sink 'Rising Star'

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 01:17 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — NBC is fighting amateur with amateur.

KFC: No proof worker asked scarred child to leave

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 01:17 PM PDT

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Fried chicken chain KFC says two different investigations have not found any evidence that an employee asked a 3-year-old girl and her family to leave because injuries she suffered in a pit bull mauling disturbed customers.

Montana to notify 1.3 million of computer hacking

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 01:16 PM PDT

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana officials said Tuesday they are notifying 1.3 million people that their personal information could have been accessed by hackers who broke into a state health department computer server.

2 killed, 7 wounded in Miami shooting

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 01:14 PM PDT

Authorities work the scene where at least two people were killed and multiple others wounded following a shooting early Tuesday, June 24, 2014, in Miami's Liberty City neighborhood. Miami City Manager Daniel Alfonso said the dead include a 20-year-old man and a teenage girl. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Walter Michot)MIAMI (AP) — Two people were killed and seven others were wounded in a shooting early Tuesday in the Miami neighborhood of Liberty City that has been plagued by violence, police said.

Late slide erases an early gain in US stocks

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 01:13 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, March 8, 2010, file photo, a sign for Wall Street is shown near the New York Stock Exchange. World stock markets struggled for direction Tuesday, June 24, 2014, after Wall Street fell for the first time in seven days, in a possible sign that investors were pausing to re-evaluate the market's recent highs. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are closing lower after an afternoon slide erased early gains in major U.S. indexes.

AP NewsBreak: Survey probes Hanford worker dynamic

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 01:13 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 14, 2010 file photo, workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation stand near a tank farm where highly radioactive waste is stored underground near Richland, Wash. Few of the U.S. Department of Energy workers who are helping build the plant feel they can openly challenge decisions made by management, according to a report obtained Tuesday, June 24, 2014, by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Shannon Dininny, File)SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Few of the U.S. Department of Energy workers who are helping build a plant to treat the most dangerous radioactive wastes at a nuclear site in Washington state feel they can openly challenge management decisions, according to a report obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.

1 dead after shots fired at Pakistani plane

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 01:12 PM PDT

Authorities in Pakistan were looking for a gunman who opened fire at a plane Tuesday evening just as it was landing in the country's volatile northwest, killing one person and wounding two others, officials said.

Biting off trouble: Suarez in World Cup spotlight

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 01:10 PM PDT

Italy's Giorgio Chiellini displays his shoulder showing apparent teeth marks after colliding with the mouth of Uruguay's Luis Suarez during the group D World Cup soccer match between Italy and Uruguay at the Arena das Dunas in Natal, Brazil, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)NATAL, Brazil (AP) — Uruguay striker Luis Suarez could once again be in trouble and facing a long ban after appearing to bite an Italian opponent Tuesday in a key World Cup group game.

Judge: Aaron Hernandez's murder trial set for May

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 01:07 PM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 28, 2014, file photo, former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez listens to the prosecution's summary of facts as he is arraigned on homicide charges at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston. Hernandez is due in court for a hearing in a Boston case accusing him of the 2012 drive-by slayings of two men Tuesday, June 24, 2014. Hernandez has pleaded not guilty to killing Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado after a casual nightclub encounter. (AP Photo/Dominick Reuter, Pool, File)BOSTON (AP) — A judge on Tuesday scheduled a tentative May trial date for former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez in the 2012 drive-by shootings of two men, and his lawyers asked a judge to issue a gag order because of intense media coverage of the murder case.

FDA outlines policy for overseeing nanotechnology

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 01:06 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators want to hear from companies using tiny, engineered micro-particles in their products, part of an effort to stay abreast of the growing field of nanotechnology.

Nevada man sentenced in reality TV-show shooting

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 01:05 PM PDT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 43-year-old former high school special education teacher was sentenced Tuesday to 90 days in county jail and five years of probation for an April 2011 shooting involving a crew of the reality TV show "Repo Games" in his North Las Vegas neighborhood.

Fears of a beer-free Utah Oktoberfest dry up

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 01:02 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2008, file photo, Snowbird staffer Joe Waugh of Sandy, Utah, pours a beer during Oktoberfes in Snowbird, Utah. The beer will flow at a Utah Oktoberfest, after the state liquor board backed off its warning that the German celebration of all things ale could go dry this year. Utah's state liquor board on Tuesday, June 24, 2014 voted unanimously to grant a license for Snowbird Ski Resort's 12-week event now in its fourth decade. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Jim Urquhart, File) DESERET NEWS OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; MAGS OUTSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The beer will flow at a Utah Oktoberfest, after the state liquor board backed off its warning that the long-running German celebration of all things ale could go dry this year.

Archivist: IRS didn't follow law with lost emails

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:59 PM PDT

Archivist of the United States David Ferriero, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 24, 2014, before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the "IRS Obstruction: Lois Lerner's missing e-mails. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service did not follow the law when it failed to report the loss of records belonging to a senior IRS executive, the nation's top archivist told Congress on Tuesday, in the latest development in the congressional probe of the agency's targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.

BRAZIL BEAT: French federation sorry about hotels

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:59 PM PDT

Players of the French national soccer team run on the field during a training session at the Santa Cruz stadium in Ribeirao Preto, Brazil, Sunday, June 22, 2014. Having captured people's attention at the soccer World Cup with some scintillating attacking football, France's players are now in unknown territory after raising expectations back home, having routed Switzerland and Honduras. (AP Photo/David Vincent)RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The French Football Federation has apologized to the players' wives and families for a hotel mix-up when they arrived in Rio for Wednesday's Group E match against Ecuador.

Bret Michaels lends a hand at stricken town

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:58 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Monday, June 23, 2014, rock star Bret Michaels hands an item up to another volunteer from the basement of a Pilger, Neb., home destroyed in last week's tornado. Michaels and his band and crew stopped in Pilger on Monday to see the devastation and do some volunteer cleanup work. (AP Photo/The Norfolk Daily News, Darin Epperly)PILGER, Neb. (AP) — Rock star Bret Michaels and his band rolled up their sleeves to help clean up a tornado-damaged Nebraska town and sign autographs for residents and other volunteers.

NTSB faults pilot 'mismanagment' in Asiana flight

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:58 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 6, 2013 aerial file photo, the wreckage of Asiana Flight 214 lies on the ground after it crashed at the San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco. Nearly a year after Asiana Flight 214 crashed while landing in San Francisco, the National Transportation Safety Board is meeting to determine what went wrong, who's to blame and how to prevent future accidents. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Asiana Flight 214's pilots caused the crash last year of their airliner carrying more than 300 people by bungling a landing approach in San Francisco, including inadvertently deactivating the plane's key control for airspeed, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded Tuesday.

Judge: No-fly list violated constitutional rights

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:58 PM PDT

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. government deprived 13 people on its no-fly list of their constitutional right to travel and gave them no adequate way to challenge their placement on the list, a federal judge said Tuesday in the nation's first ruling finding the no-fly list redress procedures unconstitutional.

LeBron tells Heat he will become free agent

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:52 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 17, 2014 file photo, Miami Heat's LeBron James gestures as he answers a question during a news conference in Miami. A person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press that James has decided to opt out of the final two years of his contract with the Heat and become a free agent on July 1. Opting out does not mean James has decided to leave the Heat, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because neither the four-time NBA MVP nor the team had made any public announcement. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)MIAMI (AP) — LeBron James delivered his message loud and clear, without actually saying a word.

Tornado damages several homes near Indianapolis

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:49 PM PDT

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities are reporting damage to homes, downed power lines and uprooted trees as a tornado-producing storm moves across the Indianapolis area.

Company successfully tests space-tourism balloon

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:49 PM PDT

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An Arizona company says it has successfully completed the first small-scale test flight of a high-altitude balloon and capsule being developed to let tourists float 20 miles above the earth.

Bishop to restore defrocked pastor's credentials

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:47 PM PDT

In this June 20, 2014, file photo, Frank Schaefer, a United Methodist Church pastor who was defrocked for officiating his son Tim's wedding to another man, arrives for a Methodist judicial panel appeal hearing on his defrocking in Linthicum, Md. A nine-person church appeals panel on Tuesday, June 14, 2014, overturned the church's decision to defrock Schaefer, who was pastor of Zion United Methodist Church of Iona in Lebanon, Pa. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark, File)PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A United Methodist bishop says she will abide by the decision of a church appeals panel to restore the credentials of a pastor who had been defrocked for performing his son's same-sex wedding ceremony.

Uruguay edges Italy 1-0 to advance at World Cup

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:45 PM PDT

Uruguay's Luis Suarez holds his teeth after running into Italy's Giorgio Chiellini's shoulder during the group D World Cup soccer match between Italy and Uruguay at the Arena das Dunas in Natal, Brazil, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)NATAL, Brazil (AP) — Captain Diego Godin scored in the 81st minute as Uruguay edged 10-man Italy 1-0 Tuesday to reach the second round of the World Cup, although the victory was overshadowed by a biting incident involving the South American side's star forward Luis Suarez.

Official: 1 dead after Pakistani plane fired on

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:45 PM PDT

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A police official says that one person was killed and two were wounded after someone opened fire on a Pakistani plane as it was landing in the northwestern city of Peshawar.

Rose Byrne to make Broadway debut this fall

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:44 PM PDT

FILE - This June 18, 2014 file photo shows actress Rose Byrne attends the New York Women in Film & Television Honors gala at the McGraw-Hill Building in New York. Byrne will join the cast of "You Can't Take It With You." Previews will begin in August at the Longacre Theatre, with official opening set for Sept. 28. Scott Ellis will direct. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)NEW YORK (AP) — James Earl Jones is getting some help with his revival of "You Can't Take It With You" — Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Rose Byrne and Tony Award nominee Annaleigh Ashford have jumped aboard.

House, Senate begins compromise talks on vets bill

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:43 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — House and Senate negotiators opened compromise talks Tuesday on legislation to expand health care for veterans, hoping for a quick response to a scandal that has uncovered long wait times, false record-keeping and accusations of criminal activity at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

UN: Ivory, charcoal funds criminal, terror groups

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:42 PM PDT

In this photo of Friday, June 20, 2014. women walk out of the forest carrying wood to use for cooking, in Tsavo East, in Kenya. Environmental crime such as the poaching of elephants for ivory and the selling of illegal charcoal is helping to finance criminal, militia and terrorists groups, a report from the United Nations Environment Program released Tuesday, June 24, 2014 said. The Somali terror group al-Shabab makes between $38 million and $56 million per year in illegal charcoal, the report said. Other militia groups _ including the Lord's Resistance Army, which U.S. troops are trying to help hunt down in central Africa _ make between $4 million and $12 million a year by trafficking elephant ivory. The most lucrative environmental crime is illegal logging, which the report said is worth between $30 billion and $100 billion annually. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Environmental crime such as the poaching of elephants for ivory and the selling of illegal charcoal is helping to finance criminal, militia and terrorists groups, said a report from the United Nations Environment Program released Tuesday.

Woods says he's ahead of schedule and without pain

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:41 PM PDT

Tiger Woods smiles on the driving range during a practice round for the Quicken Loans National golf tournament, Tuesday, June 24, 2014, in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — About two dozen photographers lined up in a row on the range Tuesday at Congressional, a reminder that golf is different when Tiger Woods is around.

Russia's Putin renounces right to send troops to Ukraine

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:40 PM PDT

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier shakes hands with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, left , during a meeting in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday June 24, 2014. Steinmeier visited Ukraine on Tuesday to discuss the situation in the east of the country and an EU Association agreement that Ukraine is due to sign in Brussels on June 27. (AP Photo/Mykhailo Markiv, Pool)By Kevin Liffey and Alexei Anishchuk MOSCOW/VIENNA (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin asked Russia's upper house on Tuesday to revoke the right it had granted him to order a military intervention in Ukraine in defence of Russian-speakers there. Minutes before he spoke, Kiev said pro-Russian rebels in east Ukraine had shot down a military helicopter, most likely killing all nine on board. It was the most serious breach of a temporary ceasefire agreed in talks between government and rebels less than 24 hours earlier. Putin's move received a cautious welcome in the West as a sign Moscow was ready to help engineer a settlement in Ukraine's largely Russian-speaking east, where a pro-Russian uprising against Kiev began in April.

House, Senate begin compromise talks on vets bill

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:39 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — House and Senate negotiators are seeking a compromise on legislation to expand health care for veterans, hoping to move quickly in the wake of a scandal that has uncovered long wait times, falsified record-keeping and accusations of criminal activity at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Study: Recession and recovery widen US wealth gap

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:39 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Great Recession and the slow recovery have sharply widened the gap between the wealthiest Americans and everyone else, according to a study that underscores the unevenness of wealth gains since the recession ended.

Uruguay beats Italy to advance with Costa Rica

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:37 PM PDT

Uruguay's Diego Godin, left, celebrates after scoring his side's first goal during the group D World Cup soccer match between Italy and Uruguay at the Arena das Dunas in Natal, Brazil, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)Highlighting a power shift away from Europe, Uruguay fought — and apparently even bit — its way to a 1-0 victory over Italy Tuesday to move to the World Cup's next round with Costa Rica, which sent England home without a single victory after a goalless draw.

Officials says firing at plane landing at Pakistani airport leaves 1 dead, 2 wounded

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:36 PM PDT

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Officials says firing at plane landing at Pakistani airport leaves 1 dead, 2 wounded.

Uruguay's first marijuana club takes first steps

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:35 PM PDT

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — A marijuana growing club is taking steps to be the first officially recognized in Uruguay, where lawmakers have made their country the world's first national marketplace for legal pot.

Methodist panel overturns pastor's defrocking

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:35 PM PDT

In this June 20, 2014, file photo, Frank Schaefer, a United Methodist Church pastor who was defrocked for officiating his son Tim's wedding to another man, arrives for a Methodist judicial panel appeal hearing on his defrocking in Linthicum, Md. A nine-person church appeals panel on Tuesday, June 14, 2014, overturned the church's decision to defrock Schaefer, who was pastor of Zion United Methodist Church of Iona in Lebanon, Pa. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark, File)PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A pastor who presided over his son's same-sex wedding ceremony and vowed to perform other gay marriages if asked can return to the pulpit after a United Methodist Church appeals panel on Tuesday overturned a decision to defrock him.

Police: No description of gunman at concert venue

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:35 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 14, 2014 file photo, Schoolboy Q performs during the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas. The rapper was in a vehicle that was fired on after a concert at the popular Red Rocks outdoor amphitheatre in Colorado, but he was not injured, investigators said Friday, June 20, 2014. Three other people were hurt in the shooting late Thursday in the parking lot at Red Rocks, but their injuries were not life-threatening, and one was discharged from the hospital Friday. (Photo by Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP, file)DENVER (AP) — Investigators haven't been able to develop a description of a gunman who opened fire on an SUV carrying rapper ScHoolboy Q after a concert at the Red Rocks amphitheater near Denver.

Ukraine's president warns he could end cease-fire

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:34 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Sunday, June 22, 2014, Russian Vladimir Putin takes part in a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside Moscow's Kremlin Wall, in Moscow, Russia, to mark the 73rd anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Russian news agencies say President Vladimir Putin has asked parliament to cancel a resolution that sanctions the use of military force in Ukraine. Putin wrote to the head of parliament's upper house asking that a March 1 request authorizing the use of force in neighboring Ukraine be withdrawn. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine's president warned Tuesday that he may terminate weeklong cease-fire early after rebels downed a military helicopter, while Russia urged the Kiev leadership to extend the truce and launch talks with the rebels.

Federal judge in Oregon rules US violated rights of 13 people on secretive no-fly list

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:34 PM PDT

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal judge in Oregon rules US violated rights of 13 people on secretive no-fly list.

Cochran, Rangel struggle for political survival

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:33 PM PDT

Alec Jones straightens a Chris McDaniel signs outside the voting booths at the Oxford Conference Center in Oxford, Miss., Tuesday, June 24, 2014. Voters go to the polls Tuesday to vote in the Republican primary runoff election between incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran and McDaniel. The winner will face Democrat Travis Childers in November's general election. (AP Photo/Oxford Eagle, Bruce Newman) MAGS OUT, NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDITWASHINGTON (AP) — Veteran lawmakers in peril, Republican Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi and Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel of New York struggled against younger challengers on Tuesday, hoping their seniority and Washington clout could win over voters at home in elections churned by race.

Prandelli quits as coach after Italy's exit

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:31 PM PDT

Italy's head coach Cesare Prandelli gestures during the group D World Cup soccer match between Italy and Uruguay at the Arena das Dunas in Natal, Brazil, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. Uruguay edged 10-man Italy 1-0 to reach the second round of the World Cup. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)NATAL, Brazil (AP) — Italy coach Cesare Prandelli says he is resigning after his team was eliminated from the World Cup following a 1-0 defeat to Uruguay.
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