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Graham ‘dead wrong’ about Olympics boycott, Boehner says

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 09:19 AM PDT

FILE - House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this July 11, 2013 file photo. Boehner stood on the House floor Tuesday July 16, 2013 and ridiculed Democratic comments that the law has been "wonderful" for the country saying "The law isn't wonderful, it's a train wreck. You know it. I know it. And the American people know it. Even the president knows it. That's why he proposed delaying his mandate on employers." The House has scheduled votes Wednesday to delay the health care law's individual and employer mandates, the 38th time the GOP majority has tried to eliminate, defund or scale back the program since Republicans took control of the House in January 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Athletes have trained for too long to skip the Winter Games over a "traitor."

Mandela makes 'dramatic' progress, says daughter

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 09:14 AM PDT

A man only known as Kobus, holds a ruling party poster with former South African President Nelson Mandela's face outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where he is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa Wednesday, July 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela has made "dramatic progress," and may be going home "anytime soon," said his daughter Zindzi on the eve of his 95th birthday.

What lottery winners need to know—before they play

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 08:12 AM PDT

Brianwa Flores, left, and Katie Cosentino from Illinois State Lottery greet hockey fans before Game 2 of an NHL hockey playoff Western Conference semifinal between the Detroit Red Wings and the Chicago Blackhawks in Chicago, Saturday, May 18, 2013. A little more than a year after three tickets split a world-record lottery prize, the jackpot for Saturday's Powerball drawing was nearing historic territory. Should nobody pick the correct six numbers, the prize money will roll over to next week's drawing and almost certainly eclipse the $656 million doled out to winners in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland in the Mega Millions game in March 2012. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)Katie's Take Most people dream about winning the lottery. Buying a European villa. A fleet of luxury cars. Quitting their job and spending their days traveling the globe. But most people don't think about the financial planning that lottery winners face; and the financial tips that all people who play the lottery should know. Financial [...]

Memory decline may be earliest sign of dementia

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 10:57 AM PDT

BOSTON (AP) — Memory problems that are often dismissed as a normal part of aging may not be so harmless after all.

Ohio kidnapping, rape suspect pleads not guilty

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 09:52 AM PDT

Ariel Castro stands before a judge during his arraignment on an expanded 977-count indictment Wednesday, July 17, 2013, in Cleveland. Castro is charged with kidnapping and raping three women over a decade in his Cleveland home. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleveland man accused of holding three women captive in his home for more than a decade pleaded not guilty Wednesday on an expanded indictment charging him with 512 counts of kidnapping and 446 counts of rape, among other crimes.

22 children die after eating school lunch in India

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 09:54 AM PDT

An Indian man mourns as he holds his dead daughter inside an ambulance, outside a hospital in Patna, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, Wednesday, July 17, 2013. Officials on Wednesday blamed the presence of insecticide in a free midday meal after at least 20 children died and many more were sick after eating lunch at a primary school in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. The children are age 8 to 11. (AP Photo/Aftab Alam Siddiqui)PATNA, India (AP) — The children started falling violently ill soon after they ate the free school lunch of rice, lentils, soybeans and potatoes.

Driving somewhere? There's a gov't record of that

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 07:23 AM PDT

An Alexandria Police Dept. squad car is seen outfitted with a license plate scanner mounted to the trunk, Tuesday, July 16, 2013 in Alexandria, Va. Local police departments across the country have amassed millions of digital records on the location and movements of vehicles with a license plate using automated scanners. Affixed to police cars, bridges or buildings, the scanners capture images of passing or parked vehicles and note their location, dumping that information into police databases. Departments keep the records for weeks or even years. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — Chances are, your local or state police departments have photographs of your car in their files, noting where you were driving on a particular day, even if you never did anything wrong.

Marathon bombing suspect on Rolling Stone cover

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 10:03 AM PDT

In this magazine cover image released by Wenner Media, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appears on the cover of the Aug. 1, 2013 issue of "Rolling Stone." (AP Photo/Wenner Media)BOSTON (AP) — A Rolling Stone cover story on Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) is generating controversy.

R&A will look at gender issue after British Open

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 09:02 AM PDT

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club's Chief Executive Peter Dawson listens during a press conference ahead of the British Open Golf Championship at Muirfield, Scotland, Wednesday July 17, 2013. (AP Photo)GULLANE, Scotland (AP) — Part defiant and part pragmatist, the head of the Royal & Ancient conceded Wednesday that all-male clubs are a bedeviling issue but insisted the British Open venues won't be pressured into opening their doors to women.

How to tell signs of dementia from normal aging

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 10:43 AM PDT

BOSTON (AP) — New studies suggest that noticing you are having memory or thinking problems could be the earliest sign of Alzheimer's disease. The Alzheimer's Association lists these 10 warning signs, plus advice on how to tell them from normal age-related changes:

Southern California mountain wildfire grows

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 10:36 AM PDT

IDYLLWILD, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters braced Wednesday for an intense day battling a wildfire in the mountains southwest of Palm Springs that already has burned seven homes and led to the evacuation of dozens more as well as a camp serving children with cancer.

Britain legalizes gay marriage

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 07:47 AM PDT

LONDON (AP) — Britain on Wednesday legalized gay marriage after Queen Elizabeth II gave her royal stamp of approval, clearing the way for the first same-sex weddings next summer.

Prominent Assad supporter assassinated in Lebanon

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 07:12 AM PDT

Fatima, right, daughter of Mohammed Darrar Jammo a Syrian political analyst and one of Syrian President Bashar Assad's strongest defenders, who was gunned down inside his home, is comforted by a relative as she mourns her father, in the southern coastal town of Sarafand, Lebanon, Wednesday, July 17, 2013. Clashes between pro and anti-Syrian groups in Lebanon have left scores of people dead in the past months in a spillover of Syria's civil war into its smaller neighbor. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)BEIRUT (AP) — Gunmen assassinated a prominent Syrian pro-government figure at his home in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, shooting him nearly 30 times in the latest sign of Syria's civil war spilling over into its smaller neighbor.

Cartel's border city home tense following arrest

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 04:55 AM PDT

Police vehicles sit parked outside a hotel in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Tuesday, July 16, 2013. Local hotels are housing many of the federal police, state police and members of the armed forces who patrol the northern border city, which is home to the Zetas organized crime group. The capture of Mexico's most feared drug cartel boss wasn't being spoken of publicly by residents and not a word appeared in local newspapers a day after the arrest of Zetas' Miguel Angel Trevino Morales. (AP Photo/Christopher Sherman)NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AP) — The capture of the homegrown boss of Mexico's most feared drug cartel wasn't discussed publicly by residents of this northern border city and not a word appeared in the local newspapers a day after the arrest of the Zetas' Miguel Angel Trevino Morales.

Coroner: 'Glee' actor Monteith died of overdose

Posted: 17 Jul 2013 04:24 AM PDT

A pedestrian walks past photographs and flowers placed at a memorial for Canadian actor Cory Monteith outside the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia on Monday, July 15, 2013. Monteith, 31, was found dead in his room at the hotel on Saturday, according to police, who have ruled out foul play. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Darryl Dyck)VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — "Glee" actor Cory Monteith, who had struggled for years with substance abuse and once said he was lucky to be alive, died of an overdose of heroin and alcohol, the British Columbia coroner's office said Tuesday.
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