Obama kicks off birthday weekend golfing with pals

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• Obama kicks off birthday weekend golfing with pals
• Goldschmidt has fractured left hand, goes on DL
• Doctors say George faces long rehab process
• NY mayor spends night in jail over locked doors
• Gunmen seize police station, kill two soldiers in Lebanon border town
• Syrian Islamist gunmen seize Lebanese border town police station
• US doctor with Ebola in Atlanta for treatment
• Pacers' George has surgery on broken leg
• Manziel back on campus for Browns scrimmage
• Kenyans at double, Games hit by new doping shock
• Israel warns Hamas against continued rocket fire
• Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
• Hate crime case resurrects racial wounds in NYC
• Ukrainian forces advance in east as Russia, West squabble
• AP source: 49ers' Dorsey tears left biceps muscle
• Royal Jordanian airline suspends flights to Iraq on security concerns
• Sunni insurgents, Kurds battle over north Iraq town
• Netanyahu warns Hamas against more rocket fire
• Don't drink the water, says 4th-largest Ohio city
• In Georgia, leaked campaign memo ensures attacks
• Seventy years on, Europe remembers Roma genocide
• More human remains recovered at Ukraine site
• Kennedy clan gathers for RFK Jr, actress's wedding
• Israel: Hamas will pay 'intolerable' price for more attacks
• Israel says ready to keep up Gaza war after tunnels razed
• FDA says 'stands ready' to work with companies developing Ebola drugs
• Shelling in Ukraine hinders work at plane crash site
• Water being sent to Ohio city from across state
• Newly elected Libyan lawmakers meet amid chaos
• Slain soldier's son to get lost medal, answers
• Israel signals scaling back Gaza war on its terms
• Israel pulls out from part of Gaza, but snubs Cairo talks
• Syria rebels raid Lebanese town, capture troops
• American aid worker stricken with Ebola arrives in U.S. for treatment
• Jihadists seize oilfields in clashes with Iraq Kurds
• Mom thanked Jesus after chokehold homicide ruling
• State Dept.'s Kerry heading to Myanmar, Australia
• Muslim movement accepts once-taboo causes
• Israel withdraws some troops from Gaza, media reports
• Experts find more MH17 remains despite shelling in east Ukraine

Obama kicks off birthday weekend golfing with pals Posted: 02 Aug 2014 01:23 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama opened his birthday weekend on Saturday with a round of golf with friends before escaping to the Maryland mountains.

Goldschmidt has fractured left hand, goes on DL Posted: 02 Aug 2014 01:17 PM PDT PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Diamondbacks All-Star first baseman Paul Goldschmidt has a fractured left hand and is headed to the disabled list.

Doctors say George faces long rehab process Posted: 02 Aug 2014 01:16 PM PDT INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Paul George's recovery from a gruesome right leg injury could take a year or more, doctors say.

NY mayor spends night in jail over locked doors Posted: 02 Aug 2014 01:13 PM PDT SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. (AP) — The mayor of a suburban New York village has spent a night in jail because some doors to a building hosting a children's day camp were locked.

Gunmen seize police station, kill two soldiers in Lebanon border town Posted: 02 Aug 2014 01:13 PM PDT By Alexander Dziadosz BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamist gunmen seized a police station in a Lebanese border town and killed two soldiers on Saturday, drawing a warning of a "decisive" response from Lebanon's army to the most serious spillover from the Syrian civil war in months. Two Lebanese civilians were also killed when they tried to prevent fighters from the Nusra Front, al Qaeda's branch in Syria, from storming the security building in the town of Arsal, security sources and state media said. In other violence on Saturday, just across the border in Syria's Qalamoun region, the forces of President Bashar al-Assad killed at least 50 rebels, including from the Nusra Front.

Syrian Islamist gunmen seize Lebanese border town police station Posted: 02 Aug 2014 01:13 PM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian Islamist rebels took control of a police station in the Lebanese border town of Arsal on Saturday after Lebanese security forces arrested one of their leaders, security sources and a rebel fighter said. Lebanon's National News Agency reported that two civilians were killed trying to prevent the fighters from storming the building. (Reporting by Alexander Dziadosz; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)

US doctor with Ebola in Atlanta for treatment Posted: 02 Aug 2014 01:23 PM PDT ATLANTA (AP) — An American doctor infected with the Ebola virus in Africa arrived for treatment in Atlanta Saturday in a specially equipped plane and was whisked away in an ambulance and able to walk under his own power into a hospital with one of the most sophisticated isolation units in the country, officials say.

Pacers' George has surgery on broken leg Posted: 02 Aug 2014 12:46 PM PDT LAS VEGAS (AP) — Indiana Pacers All-Star Paul George has undergone successful surgery on his broken right leg and is expected to remain in the hospital for about three days.

Manziel back on campus for Browns scrimmage Posted: 02 Aug 2014 12:44 PM PDT AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Johnny Manziel was back in his element: on campus, in a stadium on a Saturday.

Kenyans at double, Games hit by new doping shock Posted: 02 Aug 2014 12:43 PM PDT Kenya grabbed back-to-back golds on Saturday as the last night of track and field at the Commonwealth Games got under way while the showpiece reeled from a second doping shock. Mercy Cherono won the women's 5000m final at a soaking wet Hampden Park as Kenya clinched a fourth successive triumph in the event with compatriot James Kiplagat Magut taking the men's 1500m. Jamaica won the women's 4x400m relay while England won a thrilling men's relay. Later Saturday, star attractions Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce headline two Jamaican quartets bidding for victories in the men's and women's 4x100m relays.

Israel warns Hamas against continued rocket fire Posted: 02 Aug 2014 12:40 PM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Hamas on Saturday that it will "pay an intolerable price" if it continues to fire rockets at Israel, but also hinted that Israel would reassess its operations in the Gaza war once troops have demolished Hamas tunnels under the Gaza-Israel border.

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows Posted: 02 Aug 2014 12:31 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:

Hate crime case resurrects racial wounds in NYC Posted: 02 Aug 2014 12:30 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Yitzhak Shuchat, a white member of a civilian patrol group, and Andrew Charles, the black son of a police officer, came face to face in 2008 in a neighborhood with a history of racial strife — that much is certain.

Ukrainian forces advance in east as Russia, West squabble Posted: 02 Aug 2014 12:27 PM PDT By Timothy Heritage and Maria Tsvetkova KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Government forces tightened the noose around the main stronghold of pro-Russian rebels in east Ukraine on Saturday and, with diplomacy stalled, Moscow and the West stepped up their war of words. The other is Luhansk, near the border with Russia. Diplomatic efforts to end the wider conflict, the worst standoff between Moscow and the West since the Cold War ended in 1991, show no sign of progress. British Prime Minister David Cameron said NATO must rethink its ties with Moscow and called for it to overhaul itself to be better able to defend member states from a potential Russian military threat.

AP source: 49ers' Dorsey tears left biceps muscle Posted: 02 Aug 2014 12:19 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco 49ers nose tackle Glenn Dorsey has a torn left biceps muscle and will undergo surgery, a person with knowledge of the injury said Saturday.

Royal Jordanian airline suspends flights to Iraq on security concerns Posted: 02 Aug 2014 12:09 PM PDT Royal Jordanian, one of the main airlines serving Iraq, said on Saturday it had suspended all flights to Baghdad for at least 24 hours on security grounds. The Jordanian state carrier was "monitoring security developments" in Iraq and would review the resumption of flights over Iraqi airspace on Sunday, said Basel Al Kilani, an airline spokesman. Royal Jordanian until recently had an extensive network over Iraq, with a weekly total of 30 flights, serving Baghdad 11 times a week, as well as Basra in the south, and Irbil and Sulaymaniya in the Kurdish north. It stopped its twice-weekly flights to Mosul shortly after the northern city fell in June to the Islamic State (IS) militant group.

Sunni insurgents, Kurds battle over north Iraq town Posted: 02 Aug 2014 12:09 PM PDT Islamic State militants fought Kurdish forces on Saturday for the northern Iraqi town of Zumar located near an oil field and the Syrian border amid conflicting reports of who was in control. Jabbar Yawar, secretary general of the Kurdish peshmerga fighters, said his forces controlled Zumar and reinforcements were on the way. "Many Islamic State vehicles are wandering the town of Zumar and I can also see the flags on top of buildings," said one resident. The group formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant staged a lighting advance through northern Iraq in June, seizing large swathes of land in the biggest challenge to the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

Netanyahu warns Hamas against more rocket fire Posted: 02 Aug 2014 12:08 PM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister has warned Hamas that it will "pay an intolerable price" if it continues to fire rockets at Israel and that Israeli troops will operate as long as necessary to restore calm for Israeli citizens.

Don't drink the water, says 4th-largest Ohio city Posted: 02 Aug 2014 12:05 PM PDT TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Toxins possibly from algae on Lake Erie fouled the water supply of the state's fourth-largest city Saturday, forcing officials to issue warnings not to drink the water and the governor to declare a state of emergency as worried residents descended on stores, quickly clearing shelves of bottled water.

In Georgia, leaked campaign memo ensures attacks Posted: 02 Aug 2014 12:04 PM PDT ATLANTA (AP) — The first outside political group has already started to hammer Georgia Democrat Michelle Nunn using her leaked campaign plan that detailed her strategy and discussed her potential weaknesses as an Atlanta nonprofit executive seeking a seat in the U.S. Senate.

Seventy years on, Europe remembers Roma genocide Posted: 02 Aug 2014 12:02 PM PDT Krystyna Gil was told by her Roma grandmother to "never forget." Though she was just a child during World War II, when the Nazis began systematically exterminating Roma in her native Poland, she has done just that. The ceremony was held on the 70th anniversary of one of the worst mass killings of Roma, when nearly 3,000, many of them children, were taken to the gas chambers at Auschwitz on the night of August 2, 1944. "We join together here in pain, in memory of the victims," said Roman Kwiatkowski, head of the Association of Roma in Poland.

More human remains recovered at Ukraine site Posted: 02 Aug 2014 12:01 PM PDT AMSTERDAM (AP) — Investigators using sniffer dogs recovered more human remains and personal belongings at the Malaysia Airlines wreckage site in eastern Ukraine on Saturday, the head of an international recovery mission said.

Kennedy clan gathers for RFK Jr, actress's wedding Posted: 02 Aug 2014 11:47 AM PDT HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — Relatives and friends are gathering for the wedding of Robert Kennedy Jr. and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" actress Cheryl Hines at the Kennedy compound on Cape Cod.

Israel: Hamas will pay 'intolerable' price for more attacks Posted: 02 Aug 2014 11:46 AM PDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened on Saturday to exact an "intolerable price" from the Gaza Strip's dominant Hamas Islamists should there be continued attacks from the Palestinian territory. "We do not accept a continuation of the shooting," Netanyahu told reporters. "It (Hamas) will have to understand, however long that takes, that it will pay an intolerable price, from its perspective, for continuation of the shooting." (Writing by Dan Williams)

Israel says ready to keep up Gaza war after tunnels razed Posted: 02 Aug 2014 11:45 AM PDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel is prepared to continue fighting Palestinian guerrillas in the Gaza Strip after the army completes its primary mission of destroying cross-border tunnels from the territory, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday. "After completing the anti-tunnel operation, the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) will act and continue to act, in accordance with our security needs and only according to our defense needs, until we achieve our objective of restoring security to you, Israel's citizens," he said in a televised speech. ...

FDA says 'stands ready' to work with companies developing Ebola drugs Posted: 02 Aug 2014 11:40 AM PDT By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - (This version of the August 1 story corrects spelling of doctor's name in 12th paragraph to Amesh) The worst Ebola outbreak in history is heaping new pressure on U.S. regulators to speed the development of treatments for the deadly virus, which has killed more than 700 people since February. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday said in an emailed statement the agency "stands ready" to work with companies and investigators working with patients "in dire need of treatment." A senior official within FDA told Reuters the agency would consider proposals for providing treatments under special emergency new drug applications, if the benefits of the treatment outweighed the potential safety risks. FDA's statement follow calls by doctors fed up by the lack of progress on Ebola treatments, a market deemed too small to gain much attention by large pharmaceutical companies. Earlier this month, the agency put a hold on a Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp clinical trial of TKM-Ebola, one of the few Ebola treatments advanced enough to be tested in people.

Shelling in Ukraine hinders work at plane crash site Posted: 02 Aug 2014 11:36 AM PDT Shelling near the wreckage of the Malaysian airliner downed in east Ukraine forced international experts to stop working on Saturday at one part of the crash site, the OSCE rights and security group said. Alexander Hug, deputy head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's monitoring mission in Ukraine, said the experts worked without problem at the main part of the site. "We had to abandon that visit due to shelling nearby the location." The United States says the separatists probably shot down the plane by mistake with a Russian-made missile. The rebels and Moscow deny the accusation and blame the downing on July 17 on Kiev's military campaign to quell the separatists' uprising.

Water being sent to Ohio city from across state Posted: 02 Aug 2014 11:36 AM PDT TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — The mayor of Ohio's fourth-largest city says water will be flowing into the Toledo area from all corners of the state to help the 400,000 people who are being warned not to drink the city's water.

Newly elected Libyan lawmakers meet amid chaos Posted: 02 Aug 2014 11:36 AM PDT BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — More than three-quarters of Libya's newly elected parliament met for the first time Saturday in a city chosen by a prominent anti-Islamist politician, likely signaling a swing against Islamists and extremist militias amid violence unseen since the 2011 civil war that toppled dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

Slain soldier's son to get lost medal, answers Posted: 02 Aug 2014 11:30 AM PDT CHICAGO (AP) — A Tennessee man will receive the long-lost Purple Heart that was awarded posthumously to his father and will meet a man who was standing next to his father when he was killed during World War II.

Israel signals scaling back Gaza war on its terms Posted: 02 Aug 2014 11:27 AM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel won't participate in indirect cease-fire talks with Hamas for now and instead plans to scale back its 26-day-old military operation in Gaza on its own terms, Israeli officials and media reports said Saturday.

Israel pulls out from part of Gaza, but snubs Cairo talks Posted: 02 Aug 2014 11:25 AM PDT The Israeli army on Saturday gave a first indication it was ending operations in parts of Gaza, while continuing to bombard other areas ahead of fresh truce talks in Cairo. As a Palestinian delegation flew to Egypt in search of a ceasefire, the Israeli army messaged residents of part of northern Gaza that it was "safe" to return home. Witnesses in the north confirmed seeing troops leaving the area as others were seen leaving another flashpoint area in southern Gaza.

Syria rebels raid Lebanese town, capture troops Posted: 02 Aug 2014 11:24 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Rebels fighting in Syria's civil war crossed into Lebanon and raided a border town Saturday, killing and capturing security force members in the most serious incursion into the tiny country during its neighbor's 3-year-old conflict.

American aid worker stricken with Ebola arrives in U.S. for treatment Posted: 02 Aug 2014 11:23 AM PDT By Steve Norder ATLANTA (Reuters) - An American aid worker infected with the deadly Ebola virus while in Liberia arrived in the United States from West Africa on Saturday and was able to walk from an ambulance into an Atlanta hospital for treatment in a special isolation unit. A chartered medical aircraft carrying Dr. Kent Brantly touched down at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia, shortly before noon. Brantly was driven by ambulance, with police escort, to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta for treatment in a specially equipped room. Dr. Jay Varkey, an infectious disease specialist at Emory, said he could not comment on a treatment plan until Brantly had been evaluated.

Jihadists seize oilfields in clashes with Iraq Kurds Posted: 02 Aug 2014 11:22 AM PDT Islamic State jihadist fighters seized two small oilfields in northern Iraq on Saturday after a fierce battle with Kurdish peshmerga forces, Kurdish officials said. The jihadist attack launched late Friday on the Zumar area, northwest of Mosul, Iraq's second city, drew Kurdish forces deeper into a conflict which has raged for close to two months. The jihadists "attacked a peshmerga post in Zumar and a fierce battle erupted," said an official in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), one of Iraq's two main Kurdish parties. The PUK official said the peshmerga killed "around 100" IS fighters and captured 38.

Mom thanked Jesus after chokehold homicide ruling Posted: 02 Aug 2014 11:18 AM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — After her son was placed in a police chokehold and died saying, "I can't breathe," Gwen Carr would wake up screaming, "Let him go! Give him air!" she said Saturday. When she heard his death had been ruled a homicide, she said, her first words were, "Thank you, Jesus!"

State Dept.'s Kerry heading to Myanmar, Australia Posted: 02 Aug 2014 11:06 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry will be focusing on Southeast Asia and the Pacific next week. He'll be leaving Friday on a six-day trip to Myanmar, Australia, the Solomon Islands and Hawaii.

Muslim movement accepts once-taboo causes Posted: 02 Aug 2014 11:11 AM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — Omar Akersim prays regularly and observes the dawn-to-dusk Ramadan fast. He is also openly gay.

Israel withdraws some troops from Gaza, media reports Posted: 02 Aug 2014 10:57 AM PDT By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dan Williams GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Some Israeli ground forces withdrew from the Gaza Strip on Saturday, two Israeli television stations reported, after the military said it was close to achieving its main war goal of destroying Hamas cross-border tunnels. Israel has signaled it is winding down the 25-day-old Gaza war unilaterally, saying it will not attend Egyptian-hosted negotiations for a new truce and giving Palestinians who had fled fighting in one northern town the all-clear to return. Israel said Palestinians launched 74 rockets across the border, most of which fell harmlessly wide while seven were shot down by its Iron Dome interceptor, including over Tel Aviv. Several ceasefires between Israel and the Gaza Strip's dominant Islamist Hamas faction had failed to take hold or quickly collapsed, most recently on Friday after two Israeli soldiers were killed and a third went missing in an ambush.

Experts find more MH17 remains despite shelling in east Ukraine Posted: 02 Aug 2014 10:45 AM PDT International experts with sniffer dogs on Saturday recovered the remains of more victims from the downed Malaysia Airlines jet in east Ukraine despite shelling limiting access to some parts of the vast crash site. Seventy Dutch and Australian police investigators spent the second day of their operation scouring more of the wreckage strewn over some 20 square kilometres (eight square miles), after only managing to screen a tiny patch previously. "Today, because they had more time, the experts were able to comb through a bigger area," Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg, head of the Dutch police mission said. "We heard at a distance of approximately two kilometres incoming artillery from where we were and that was too close to continue," said Alexander Hug, deputy chief monitor with the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mission in Ukraine.

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