ABC News reporter Elizabeth Vargas back in rehab
LOS ANGELES (AP) — ABC News reporter Elizabeth Vargas has returned to a recovery center to be treated for alcohol dependency, she and the network said Sunday.
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Obama back in Washington on rare vacation break
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama returned to Washington just after midnight Monday for a two-day break from a summer vacation, during which airstrikes in Iraq and violent clashes in a St. Louis suburb intruded on his golf and beach plans.
Cuban photographer: Do you recognize this girl?
MIAMI (AP) — In the photo, a girl crouches on a wooden raft, surrounded by solemn men. Her large brown eyes stare intently at the camera. A few wisps of her dark hair float in the breeze.
Emerging solar plants scorch birds in mid-air
IVANPAH DRY LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant's concentrated sun rays — "streamers," for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair
Brown Family 'Appalled' By Release of Surveillance Video, Says Attorney
ABC News' Martha Raddatz tours the streets of Ferguson with St. Louis Alderman Antonio French, and speaks with Dr. Cedric Alexander, President of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement and Brown family attorney Anthony Gray.
NONE In The Back: Brown Autopsy Shows He Was Shot In The Front Of The Body
An autopsy conducted on Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old fatally shot by Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson last Saturday, shows that Brown was shot at least six times, twice in the head and all in the front of the body. The New York Times reported the results of a private…
Israeli wedding of Jew, Muslim draws protesters amid war tensions
By Allyn Fisher-Ilan RISHON LEZION Israel (Reuters) - Israeli police on Sunday blocked more than 200 far-right Israeli protesters from rushing guests at a wedding of a Jewish woman and Muslim man as they shouted "death to the Arabs" in a sign of tensions stoked by the Gaza war. Several dozen…
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Federer, Serena Williams win at Cincinnati
MASON, Ohio (AP) — By now, everyone knows Roger Federer's itinerary for Cincinnati: Get his game in order, raise the winner's trophy, leave town with a lot of confidence for the U.S. Open.
Official: Amish girls sexually abused in abduction
CANTON, N.Y. (AP) — Two young Amish sisters were sexually abused after their abduction from a roadside farm stand in northern New York, a prosecutor said Saturday.
Trial of Texas father raises legal, moral issues
ANGLETON, Texas (AP) — David Barajas denies killing a drunk driver in a fit of rage after his two sons were fatally struck in 2012 on a rural road in Southeast Texas.
Nigerian woman suspected of Ebola dies in UAE
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Nigerian woman who arrived on a flight to the United Arab Emirates capital of Abu Dhabi and later died in the city may have been infected with the Ebola virus, said health officials.
Maryland man killed after shooting and stabbing daughter, police say
A Maryland man shot and stabbed his 3-year-old daughter to death before dying himself in a gunfight with police, authorities in Prince George's County near Washington, D.C., said on Sunday. Frederick Roy Miller, 38, allegedly shot and wounded the girl's maternal grandfather and great-grandmother on…
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In an electrical storm, the storm clouds are charged like giant capacitors in the sky. The upper portion of the cloud is positive and the lower portion is negative. How the cloud acquires this charge is still not agreed upon within the scientific community, but the following description provides…
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Iraq forces retake Mosul Dam; militants deny claim
BAGHDAD (AP) — Boosted by two days of U.S. airstrikes, Iraqi and Kurdish forces on Monday wrested back control of the country's largest dam from Islamic militants, a military spokesman in Baghdad said as fighting was reported to be underway for the rest of the strategic complex.
World's 'Most Pierced Man' Turned Away from Dubai
The world's most pierced man says he was not allowed to enter the United Arab Emirates because of his appearance and suspicion that he was involved in "black magic." Rolf Buchholz, who holds the Guinness Book of World Records for his 453 piercings on his body and has horns implanted into his head,…
Love Wins Over Hate: A Genius Plan to Combat Westboro’s Protest of Robin Williams’ Funeral
The recent death of beloved comedian Robin Williams has inspired many tributes, but it also provided another opportunity for the infamous Westboro Baptist Church to get some attention. One organization came up with a genius move to offset the hate: It started a fund-raiser for St. Jude’s Children’s…
The East is wed: China seeks brides for richer, for poorer
Their marriages were arranged for cash, but some of the Vietnamese women who have found unlikely Prince Charmings in remote Chinese villages say they are living happily ever after. "Economically, life is better here in China," said Nguyen Thi Hang, one of around two dozen women from Vietnam who…
US: Living dead man's family must repay benefits
FINDLAY, Ohio (AP) — The government wants to recoup benefits paid to the daughters of a man who was declared legally dead and then turned up alive years later.
NBC's Brian Williams taking on new competition
NEW YORK (AP) — Wearing shades as he walked back to work following a pizza lunch recently, Brian Williams ducked into Rockefeller Center and passed a tour guide who noted the celebrity sighting to his group: "Ladies and gentlemen, there's Tom Brokaw."
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Sharpton Strikes Defiant Tone In Speech To Huge Crowd About Michael Brown Shooting
An overflowing, unquestionable fire hazard of a crowd packed like sardines into Greater Grace Church in St. Louis, Mo. on a humid, overcast Sunday afternoon to hear local and national luminaries — including Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III –speak about the police shooting death of 18-year-old…
