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  • FILE - In this April 25, 2012 file photo, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Judiciary Committee  hearing on the Secret Service prostitution scandal. Seeking to shake the disgrace of a prostitution scandal, the Secret Service late Friday, April 27, 2012 tightened conduct rules for its agents to prohibit them from drinking excessively, visiting disreputable establishments while traveling or bringing foreigners to their hotel rooms. . (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
    Chaperones among new Secret Service conduct rules AP - 13 mins ago

    Embarrassed by a prostitution scandal, the Secret Service will assign chaperones on some trips to enforce new rules of conduct that make clear that excessive drinking, entertaining foreigners in their hotel rooms and cavorting … More »Chaperones among new Secret Service conduct rules

    FILE - In this April 25, 2012 file photo, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Judiciary Committee  hearing on the Secret Service prostitution scandal. Seeking to shake the disgrace of a prostitution scandal, the Secret Service late Friday, April 27, 2012 tightened conduct rules for its agents to prohibit them from drinking excessively, visiting disreputable establishments while traveling or bringing foreigners to their hotel rooms. . (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

    Embarrassed by a prostitution scandal, the Secret Service will assign chaperones on some trips to enforce new rules of conduct that make clear that excessive drinking, entertaining foreigners in their hotel rooms and cavorting in disreputable establishments are no longer tolerated.

  • John McCain urges air strikes on Syria.
    McCain slams Obama for using bin Laden in 'cheap political attack' The Ticket - 13 hrs ago

    Republican Sen. John McCain on Friday blasted President Barack Obama for casting doubt on whether Mitt Romney would have ordered the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, calling it "a cheap political attack." The Obama campaign … More »McCain slams Obama for using bin Laden in 'cheap political attack'

    John McCain urges air strikes on Syria.

    Republican Sen. John McCain on Friday blasted President Barack Obama for casting doubt on whether Mitt Romney would have ordered the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, calling it "a cheap political attack." The Obama campaign leveled its attack in a new campaign ad. "No one disputes that the President deserves credit for …

  • FILE - In this April 25, 2012, file photo, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta speaks at Brazil's Superior War College in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Traveling to Colombia, Brazil and Chile this week, Panetta underscored the importance of those nations as military partners in a region where the U.S. influence in a number of countries is being challenged by China. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
    US looks to South America for security partners AP - 48 mins ago

    In these days of shrinking defense budgets, the U.S. is looking to its southern neighbors to help monitor and protect the Asia Pacific region in the years ahead. More »US looks to South America for security partners

    FILE - In this April 25, 2012, file photo, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta speaks at Brazil's Superior War College in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Traveling to Colombia, Brazil and Chile this week, Panetta underscored the importance of those nations as military partners in a region where the U.S. influence in a number of countries is being challenged by China. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

    In these days of shrinking defense budgets, the U.S. is looking to its southern neighbors to help monitor and protect the Asia Pacific region in the years ahead.

  • Yulia Tymoshenko declared a hunger strike earlier this month
    Ukraine delays trial of fasting ex-PM Tymoshenko AFP - 1 hr 0 mins ago

    A Ukrainian court adjourned until May 21 on Saturday the new tax evasion trial of the jailed ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko, who is on hunger strike, on account of her failing health. More »Ukraine delays trial of fasting ex-PM Tymoshenko

    Yulia Tymoshenko declared a hunger strike earlier this month

    A Ukrainian court adjourned until May 21 on Saturday the new tax evasion trial of the jailed ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko, who is on hunger strike, on account of her failing health.

  • A protester throws a tear gas canister back at police in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, April 28, 2012. Malaysian police fired tear gas and chemical-laced water Saturday at thousands of demonstrators demanding an overhaul in electoral policies that they call biased ahead of national polls expected soon.At least 25,000 demonstrators had swamped Malaysia's largest city in one of the Southeast Asian nation's biggest street rallies in the past decade. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
    Tear gas used as 25,000 rally for Malaysia reforms AP - 4 mins 50 secs ago

    Police unleashed tear gas and chemical-laced water Saturday at thousands of demonstrators who staged one of Malaysia's largest street rallies in years, demanding fair rules for national elections expected soon. More »Tear gas used as 25,000 rally for Malaysia reforms

    A protester throws a tear gas canister back at police in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, April 28, 2012. Malaysian police fired tear gas and chemical-laced water Saturday at thousands of demonstrators demanding an overhaul in electoral policies that they call biased ahead of national polls expected soon.At least 25,000 demonstrators had swamped Malaysia's largest city in one of the Southeast Asian nation's biggest street rallies in the past decade. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

    Police unleashed tear gas and chemical-laced water Saturday at thousands of demonstrators who staged one of Malaysia's largest street rallies in years, demanding fair rules for national elections expected soon.

  • FILE - In this May 1, 2011, file photo, musician and gun rights advocate Ted Nugent addresses a seminar at the National Rifle Association's 140th convention in Pittsburgh. Nugent said he was insulted by the cancellation of his planned concert at an Army post over his comments about President Barack Obama. Commanders at the Fort Knox, Ky., post nixed Nugent's segment of a June concert after the rocker and conservative activist said at a recent National Rifle Association meeting that he would be "dead or in jail by this time next year" if Obama is re-elected. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
    Nugent says he's insulted by concert cancellation AP - 7 hrs ago

    Ted Nugent said he was insulted by the cancellation of his planned concert at an Army post over his comments about President Barack Obama. More »Nugent says he's insulted by concert cancellation

    FILE - In this May 1, 2011, file photo, musician and gun rights advocate Ted Nugent addresses a seminar at the National Rifle Association's 140th convention in Pittsburgh. Nugent said he was insulted by the cancellation of his planned concert at an Army post over his comments about President Barack Obama. Commanders at the Fort Knox, Ky., post nixed Nugent's segment of a June concert after the rocker and conservative activist said at a recent National Rifle Association meeting that he would be "dead or in jail by this time next year" if Obama is re-elected. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

    Ted Nugent said he was insulted by the cancellation of his planned concert at an Army post over his comments about President Barack Obama.

  • Diskin Israel's domestic security chief made a public speech at a homeland security conference in Tel Aviv
    Israel ex-spy warns against 'messianic' Iran war Reuters - 14 mins ago

    JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A former Israeli spymaster has branded the country's leaders unfit to tackle the Iranian nuclear program because of what he called the "messianic feelings" behind their threats to launch a pre-emptive … More »Israel ex-spy warns against 'messianic' Iran war

    Diskin Israel's domestic security chief made a public speech at a homeland security conference in Tel Aviv

    JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A former Israeli spymaster has branded the country's leaders unfit to tackle the Iranian nuclear program because of what he called the "messianic feelings" behind their threats to launch a pre-emptive war on Iran. Other veterans have come out against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister …

  • Still image from video shows Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri speaking from an unknown location

    A year after the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaida that carried out the Sept. 11 attacks is essentially gone but its affiliates remain a threat to America, U.S. counterterrorist officials say.

  • Maine Gov. Paul LePage speaks a state police ceremony, Thursday, June 9, 2011, in Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

    Maine's blunt-speaking governor is again creating a ruckus with his offhanded remarks — this time by calling state government middle managers "about as corrupt as can be."

  • This undated photo provided by the King County Sheriff's Department on Friday, April 27, 2012, shows a bunker that deputies say belongs to a man suspected of killing his wife and daughter and holing up for days in the Cascade foothills east of Seattle. King County Sheriff's Sgt. Cindi West says authorities pumped gas into the underground bunker and they believe someone is inside. (AP Photo/King County Sheriff's Department)

    Authorities on Friday surrounded an elaborate, underground bunker believed to be that of a gun-toting survivalist suspected of killing his wife and daughter nearly a week ago and then holing up in the woods of Washington state.

  • This April 18, 2012 satellite image provided by GeoEye appears to show a train of mining carts, at the lower center of the frame, and other preparations underway at North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site but no indication of when a detonation might take place, according to analysis by the  U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. (AP Photo/GeoEye)

    New satellite imagery appears to show a train of mining carts and other preparations under way at North Korea's nuclear test site but no indication of when a detonation might take place.

  • LONDON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has set up a ministerial committee to consider allowing women's sports clubs, al-Watan daily newspaper reported on Saturday, despite opposition to female exercise from religious conservatives. Abdullah al-Zamil, a senior official from the General Presidency of Youth Welfare, the top Saudi …

  • FILE - In a Friday, April 20, 2012, file photo, George Zimmerman appears before Circuit Judge Kenneth R. Lester Jr. during a bond hearing in Sanford, Fla. Zimmerman's attorney says his client's bail might have been higher if a judge had known about $200,000 raised by a website. Mark O'Mara said on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 that he only learned about the money Wednesday and will inform a judge at a hearing Friday, April 28, 2012. Friday's hearing was initially scheduled to deal with several media organizations, including The Associated Press, asking the judge to unseal documents from Zimmerman's court file.   (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Gary W. Green, Pool, File)

    Calling it an "oversight," George Zimmerman's attorney said Friday the neighborhood watch volunteer did not disclose that a website had raised more than $200,000 for his defense, even though his family told the judge they would have trouble coming up with his bond.

  • Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, accompanied by Ohio Gov. John Kasich, left, and student Kelsey Gorman, listens during a roundtable discussion at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, Friday, April 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

    Mitt Romney on Friday encouraged young Americans facing bleak job prospects to "take risks" — and even borrow money from their parents — to help improve their economic fortunes.

  • Obama cracks down on for-profit schools ABC OTUS News - 13 hrs ago

    In front of thousands of service members, President Obama today signed an executive order aimed at protecting veterans from for-profit educational institutions trying to “swindle” and “hoodwink” them instead of providing the education they deserve. Speaking to the Army’s Third Infantry Division at Fort Stewart,...

  • To match Feature CYCLING-YEARENDER/

    SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Bicyclist Floyd Landis, stripped of his 2006 Tour de France win after testing positive for testosterone, is the subject of a federal investigation into a $450,000 defense fund he created and later abandoned, a legal source said on Friday.

  • In this photo provided by the CU Independent, a bear falls from a tree after being tranquilized by Colorado wildlife officials at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo., Thursday, April 26, 2012. The bear, which university police spokesman Ryan Huff said was likely 1 to 3-years-old and weighed somewhere between 150-200 pounds, had wandered into the university's Williams Village dorm complex. (AP Photo/CU Independent, Andy Duann)

    A 200-pound black bear that wandered onto the University of Colorado campus and caused a stir before falling 15-feet from a tree has returned to the wild, officials said Friday.

  • Local TV stations will be required to post information including rates to a public database on the political ads they run, the Federal Communications Commission ruled Friday. How will this work? The FCC will host an online database making available information about political ads running...

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