Palestinians: 2 killed in Israeli strike in Gaza

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• Palestinians: 2 killed in Israeli strike in Gaza
• Extremists showing up on front lines in Syria
• In Virginia, rivals for Senate talk up cooperation
• Posh post-Emmy bash to be in the red
• 29 dead, 46 injured in Mexico pipeline fire
• Calif threat case shows heightened fears by police
• Obama boosted by upbeat housing reports, new polls
• World Bank: Palestinian fiscal crisis is deepening
• Myanmar's Suu Kyi gets Congress' highest honor
• Encouraging reports about housing lift US stocks
• Arizona immigration law spurs education campaign
• T-Mobile USA names Legere as its new CEO
• Work by graffiti artist Basquiat set for NYC sale
• Italy court upholds American convictions
• 2 Nora Ephron collections coming back in print
• Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi receives Congressional Gold Medal
• Swedish, Danish magazines publish Kate topless photos
• Exhibit reunites art JFK saw before assassination
• Myanmar investment commission reinvents itself
• Oil's slide continues, hits 6-week low below $92
• Heller seeks distance from Romney comments
• Justice Dept faulted in gun-trafficking operation
• Cartoons in French weekly fuel Mohammad furor
• South Africa: Lonmin miners ready to resume work
• Ex-NFL star Chad Johnson, Evelyn Lozada divorced
• Texas town's rental ban gets second hearing
• Eclipse season on Mars, so Curiosity took photos
• Ovechkin joins Russian team during NHL lockout
• LSU police make arrest in bomb threat
• Tax penalty to hit nearly 6M uninsured people
• Syrian rebels seize border crossing with Turkey
• Milan offers women color, patterns for next summer
• Arctic ice shrinks to all-time low; half 1980 size
• Author Elmore Leonard wins prestigious book award
• Judge: Texas firm must pay disabled workers $1.4M
• Officiating numbers accurate or off-base?
• AP source: NHL employees to switch to 4-day week
• Italy high court upholds American convictions
• Mayweather ordered to pay $114K in Pacquiao case
• MLB unlikely to bar Cabrera from batting title

Palestinians: 2 killed in Israeli strike in Gaza Posted: 19 Sep 2012 01:36 PM PDT A Palestinian health official says an Israeli airstrike has killed two people in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israeli military said it was looking into the report.

Extremists showing up on front lines in Syria Posted: 19 Sep 2012 01:34 PM PDT The bearded gunmen who surrounded the car full of foreign journalists in a northern Syrian village were clearly not Syrians. A heavyset man in a brown gown stepped forward, announced he was Iraqi and fingered through the American passport he had confiscated.

In Virginia, rivals for Senate talk up cooperation Posted: 19 Sep 2012 01:33 PM PDT Democrat Tim Kaine talks a lot about Republicans — the ones in his family, the ones he's worked with and the ones he hopes will help him bridge the caustic political divide if he's elected to the U.S. Senate.

Posh post-Emmy bash to be in the red Posted: 19 Sep 2012 01:30 PM PDT Emmy losers — and even the winners — will be seeing red at this year's Governors Ball.

29 dead, 46 injured in Mexico pipeline fire Posted: 19 Sep 2012 01:29 PM PDT The death toll in a pipeline fire at a distribution plant near the U.S. border has risen to 29, Mexico's state-owned oil company said Wednesday. At least 46 others were injured, and more might be missing.

Calif threat case shows heightened fears by police Posted: 19 Sep 2012 01:25 PM PDT Rants, racist remarks and menacing words permeate the Internet these days, so why did police decide to arrest a Yale dropout for investigation of making online death threats against children and hold him on a bail amount usually reserved for suspected killers?

Obama boosted by upbeat housing reports, new polls Posted: 19 Sep 2012 01:21 PM PDT Fresh signs of a national housing rebound and growing support in public opinion polls boosted President Barack Obama's bid for a new term in the White House on Wednesday as Republican rival Mitt Romney struggled to quell his video controversy.

World Bank: Palestinian fiscal crisis is deepening Posted: 19 Sep 2012 01:21 PM PDT The World Bank warned Wednesday of a deepening fiscal crisis in the Palestinian territories and appealed to donors to act urgently to prop up the Western-backed Palestinian Authority.

Myanmar's Suu Kyi gets Congress' highest honor Posted: 19 Sep 2012 01:20 PM PDT Lawmakers united by their respect of Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (ahng sahn soo chee) have presented her with Congress' highest civilian honor in a ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda.

Encouraging reports about housing lift US stocks Posted: 19 Sep 2012 01:20 PM PDT A pair of encouraging reports about the housing market gave U.S. stocks a little boost Wednesday.

Arizona immigration law spurs education campaign Posted: 19 Sep 2012 01:20 PM PDT A day after the most contentious provision of Arizona's immigration law took effect, rallies were planned around Phoenix to protest the law that civil rights activists contend will lead to systematic racial profiling.

T-Mobile USA names Legere as its new CEO Posted: 19 Sep 2012 01:13 PM PDT T-Mobile on Wednesday named the former CEO of Global Crossing, John Legere, as its new chief executive.

Work by graffiti artist Basquiat set for NYC sale Posted: 19 Sep 2012 01:12 PM PDT An auction house says an important early work by graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is going up for sale in New York.

Italy court upholds American convictions Posted: 19 Sep 2012 01:11 PM PDT Italy's highest criminal court on Wednesday upheld the convictions of 23 Americans in the abduction of an Egyptian terror suspect from a Milan street as part of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, paving the way to possible extradition requests by Italian authorities.

2 Nora Ephron collections coming back in print Posted: 19 Sep 2012 01:09 PM PDT Two of Nora Ephron's early essay collections are coming back into print.

Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi receives Congressional Gold Medal Posted: 19 Sep 2012 01:08 PM PDT Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi receives Congressional Gold Medal.

Swedish, Danish magazines publish Kate topless photos Posted: 19 Sep 2012 01:07 PM PDT STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish celebrity gossip magazine published topless photographs of the wife of Prince William, the former Kate Middleton, on Wednesday and a Danish sister journal is to follow suit on Thursday. The pictures were published despite a decision by a French court on Tuesday to ban gossip magazine Closer from further publishing the photographs and ordering it to hand the pictures over to the royal couple. The injunction granted to the Duke and the Duchess of Cambridge, as the couple are formally known, also prevents Closer from selling the pictures to other media. ...

Exhibit reunites art JFK saw before assassination Posted: 19 Sep 2012 01:06 PM PDT On the morning of Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy realized that their Fort Worth hotel suite featured an extraordinary array of artwork — from a painting by Vincent van Gogh to a bronze by Pablo Picasso.

Myanmar investment commission reinvents itself Posted: 19 Sep 2012 01:04 PM PDT Once feared for its obstructionism, the Myanmar Investment Commission has put on a fresh, investor-friendly face, and its bureaucrats are scrambling to deal with a deluge of interest even as a proposed investment law creates considerable uncertainty about how foreign companies will be treated in this long-closed Southeast Asian nation.

Oil's slide continues, hits 6-week low below $92 Posted: 19 Sep 2012 01:04 PM PDT Oil prices fell on Wednesday for the third day in a row as traders realized that a recent run-up to $100 may have been overdone.

Heller seeks distance from Romney comments Posted: 19 Sep 2012 01:03 PM PDT Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada is trying to distance himself from fellow Republican Mitt Romney's comments that 47 percent of Americans are dependent on the government and will vote for President Barack Obama no matter what.

Justice Dept faulted in gun-trafficking operation Posted: 19 Sep 2012 01:01 PM PDT The Justice Department's internal watchdog is faulting the agency for misguided strategies, errors in judgment and management failures during a bungled gun-trafficking probe in Arizona that resulted in hundreds of weapons turning up at crime scenes in the U.S. and Mexico.

Cartoons in French weekly fuel Mohammad furor Posted: 19 Sep 2012 12:58 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - A French magazine ridiculed the Prophet Mohammad on Wednesday by portraying him naked in cartoons, threatening to fuel the anger of Muslims around the world who are already incensed by a video depicting him as a lecherous fool. The drawings in the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo risked exacerbating a crisis that has seen the storming of U.S. and other Western embassies, the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and a deadly suicide bombing in Afghanistan. Riot police were deployed to protect the paper's Paris offices after it hit news stands. ...

South Africa: Lonmin miners ready to resume work Posted: 19 Sep 2012 12:53 PM PDT Lonmin miners celebrated a wage deal Wednesday that ended a deadly and prolonged strike but labor unrest continued with police firing rubber bullets and tear gas at strikers at a different platinum mine.

Ex-NFL star Chad Johnson, Evelyn Lozada divorced Posted: 19 Sep 2012 12:52 PM PDT Six-time Pro Bowl wide receiver Chad Johnson's divorce is final from reality TV star Evelyn Lozada. It comes a month after his arrest on a domestic battery charge.

Texas town's rental ban gets second hearing Posted: 19 Sep 2012 12:51 PM PDT A Dallas suburb asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to uphold an ordinance that would ban illegal immigrants from renting homes in the town.

Eclipse season on Mars, so Curiosity took photos Posted: 19 Sep 2012 12:50 PM PDT NASA's Mars Curiosity rover took hundreds of photos of what on Earth is a rare event: a partial eclipse of the sun.

Ovechkin joins Russian team during NHL lockout Posted: 19 Sep 2012 12:49 PM PDT Alexander Ovechkin is returning to his former Russian team Dynamo Moscow during the NHL lockout.

LSU police make arrest in bomb threat Posted: 19 Sep 2012 12:47 PM PDT Police have arrested a suspect in the bomb threat that led to the evacuation of the LSU campus earlier this week but don't believe he is connected to threats made against three other universities recently.

Tax penalty to hit nearly 6M uninsured people Posted: 19 Sep 2012 12:44 PM PDT Congressional budget analysts are now estimating that nearly 6 million Americans — most of them in the middle class — will have to pay a tax penalty for not getting health insurance once President Barack Obama's health care law is fully in place.

Syrian rebels seize border crossing with Turkey Posted: 19 Sep 2012 12:41 PM PDT Syrian rebels seized control of a border crossing on the frontier with Turkey on Wednesday, ripping down the Syrian flag as the rebels fighting to oust President Bashar Assad expand their control of the country's north.

Milan offers women color, patterns for next summer Posted: 19 Sep 2012 12:40 PM PDT After New York and London, it's Milan's turn to have a say as to how women will dress for the spring-summer 2013.

Arctic ice shrinks to all-time low; half 1980 size Posted: 19 Sep 2012 12:36 PM PDT In a critical climate indicator showing an ever warming world, the amount of ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank to an all-time low this year, obliterating old records.

Author Elmore Leonard wins prestigious book award Posted: 19 Sep 2012 12:34 PM PDT For a man who built his career on word economy, the title is pretty darned long — The National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

Judge: Texas firm must pay disabled workers $1.4M Posted: 19 Sep 2012 12:31 PM PDT A Texas company that profited for decades by supplying mentally disabled workers to an Iowa turkey plant at wages of 41 cents per hour must pay the men $1.37 million in back wages, a federal judge ruled late Tuesday.

Officiating numbers accurate or off-base? Posted: 19 Sep 2012 12:31 PM PDT The numbers say there isn't much difference with replacement officials. Comments from players and coaches say otherwise.

AP source: NHL employees to switch to 4-day week Posted: 19 Sep 2012 12:29 PM PDT A person familiar with the plan says NHL employees at the league offices will switch to a four-day work week Oct. 1 because of the lockout.

Italy high court upholds American convictions Posted: 19 Sep 2012 12:26 PM PDT Italy's highest criminal court on Wednesday upheld the convictions of 23 Americans in the abduction of an Egyptian terror suspect from a Milan street as part of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, paving the way to possible extradition requests by Italian authorities.

Mayweather ordered to pay $114K in Pacquiao case Posted: 19 Sep 2012 12:20 PM PDT A federal court judge in Nevada ordered boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. to pay about $114,000 in lawyer fees and costs for avoiding questioning from rival fighter Manny Pacquiao's lawyers.

MLB unlikely to bar Cabrera from batting title Posted: 19 Sep 2012 12:15 PM PDT Major League Baseball appears unlikely to interfere if Melky Cabrera wins the NL batting title while serving his 50-game suspension for a positive drug test.

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