Russian Bombers Buzz California
Two long-range Russian bombers flew within 50 miles of the northern California coast Monday, but stayed out of U.S. airspace, a defense official said today. The incident began much further north when four Russian Tu-95 Bear bomber planes and a refueling tanker enter the outer...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A substance-abuse counselor was sentenced Thursday to 55 years to life in prison for hitting a pedestrian with her car and driving through a Los Angeles suburb with the dying man on her windshield.
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Spurs stun Heat, on brink of 5th NBA title
The San Antonio Spurs blitzed Miami for their second straight blowout win of the NBA finals, their 107-86 triumph putting the Spurs on the brink of a fifth title. Kawhi Leonard scored 20 points Thursday for the top-seeded Spurs, who made the two-time defending champion Heat look helpless at home…
Former President George H.W. Bush 90th Birthday parachute jump (5 photos)
Former President George H.W. Bush celebrated his 90th birthday on Thursday by making a tandem parachute jump near his summer home in coastal Maine, delivering on a vow he made five years ago even though he can no longer use his legs. The nation's 41st president jumped from a helicopter at 6,000…
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J.Lo, 'Iron Man' suit star in World Cup extravaganza
Pop superstar Jennifer Lopez, hundreds of dancers, drummers and gymnasts, and a paraplegic who will kick a football in a robotic suit will deliver a pre-match extravaganza Thursday to open the World Cup. After the delays that have hampered Brazil's preparations, organizers had one overriding…
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Iran, of all places, has reportedly dispatched two units of its elite Revolutionary Guards to Iraq to help stem the tide of terrorist gains and defend Baghdad from assault. The two nations were bitter rivals for decades when Saddam Hussein's Sunni dominated regime was at war with Tehran's…
Ukraine inflicts 'high casualties' on rebels
Ukraine's interior minister said on Friday that federal forces had inflicted "high casualties" on separatist rebels led by a Chechen commander in the southeastern port of Mariupol. Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said the "active phase" of the offensive began at dawn and was still raging three hours…
Woman who cares for 100,000 cockroaches in home: ‘These are all my children’
A 37-year-old woman in China shares her countryside home with the estimated 100,000 cockroaches she breeds.
In GOP upheaval, a front-runner - and discontent
WASHINGTON (AP) — California Republican Kevin McCarthy secured a clear shot to becoming House majority leader on Thursday as his sole rival dropped his bid in a leadership fight that exposed deep fissures within the GOP.
China housing slump sparks fears for economy
BEIJING (AP) — Six months ago, China's housing market was so red-hot that Feng Xiaowei, a sales manager at a real estate agency in the eastern city of Hangzhou, rarely took a day off.
Some of Nigeria's kidnapped schoolgirls may never return: ex president
Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasanjo told media some of the schoolgirls kidnapped by militant group Boko Haram in April may never return, in the most pessimistic comments yet on their fate from a member of the political elite. Obasanjo said President Goodluck Jonathan's administration had…
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Sun unleashes 2 major solar flares back-to-back (5 photos)
The sun is hitting its stride. Earth's closest star shot off yet another powerful solar flare June 11 after producing a pair of major solar storms Tuesday. The X1-class flare reached its peak at 5:06 a.m. EDT (0906 GMT) and came from Region 2087 near the southeastern limb of the sun's disk, the…
California man freed by jury mistake is found dead
A California man, who released from a Fresno jail after a divided jury mistakenly returned a not-guilty verdict against him in a burglary case, was found dead on Thursday from an apparent stabbing, just a day after he was freed. After his release, Bobby Pearson was believed to have gone to a…
US condemns Sudan over Christian woman's death penalty
US Secretary of State John Kerry criticized Sudan for sentencing a Christian woman to hang for apostasy, urging Khartoum to repeal its laws banning Muslims from converting. Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, who was born to a Muslim father, was sentenced to death on May 15 under Islamic sharia law that…
Massive Gmail bug may have exposed every single user’s address
A huge flaw in Google’s wildly popular Gmail service was recently discovered that may have exposed the email addresses of every single user. According to a report from Wired, security researcher Oren Hafif found and helped Google fix a serious bug that left Gmail users’ email addresses exposed to…
Fifty years of garbage from families’ personal dumpsite trashes community
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By Paul Ingram TUCSON Ariz. (Reuters) - An Arizona woman was recovering at home on Wednesday after having a 47.5-pound (21.5 kg) tumor removed from her abdomen during life-saving surgery, doctors said. The University of Arizona Medical Center surgeons worked for 10 hours to remove the massive…
