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S&P upgrades US outlook, but investors yawn

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 3:50pm

NEW YORK (AP) — The Standard & Poor's ratings agency said Monday it's getting more optimistic about the U.S. economy. But investors just yawned.


Neighbor: Calif. gunman's mother in mourning

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 3:48pm

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — An acquaintance says the mother of the gunman who killed five people in Santa Monica, Calif., is in mourning and is trying to make sense of what happened.


House Dem pushes for repeal of military force law

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 3:44pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Congress need to rethink the broad authority for the use of military force in the war on terror, a law written when many U.S. troops now on the battlefield were on playgrounds, a House Democrat who wants the law repealed said Monday.

Conn. lawmakers join fight over who was 1st to fly

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 3:41pm
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut's leading role in aviation has never been disputed, but legislators have passed a bill insisting that a Connecticut aviator flew two years before the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, N.C.

Obama nominates Furman as top economic adviser

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 3:39pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — For someone with a reputation for seeking varying points of view before staking out a position or offering advice, Jason Furman was once, well, quite the risk taker.


South Boston not same place Bulger once reigned

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 3:37pm

BOSTON (AP) — As reputed gangster James "Whitey" Bulger goes on trial, his former stomping grounds in South Boston are sure to be the backdrop for much of the testimony.


Senate set to pass half-trillion dollar farm bill

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 3:32pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is poised to pass a five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm bill Monday that would expand government subsidies for crop insurance, rice and peanuts while making small cuts in the food stamp program.

Sigourney Weaver to leave 'Vanya and Sonia'

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 3:31pm

NEW YORK (AP) — Newly crowned Tony Award winner "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" has gotten a new lease on life but one of its original actresses will be leaving.


Memento dispute settled, Kobe's parents say sorry

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 3:21pm

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Kobe Bryant reached a settlement with a New Jersey auction house that allows his mother sell a small amount of his memorabilia, while also getting an apology from his parents, who thanked him for his financial support.


Ex-NBA star in jail, charged in fatal Ga. crash

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 3:20pm
JONESBORO, Ga. (AP) — Former NBA All-Star Daron "Mookie" Blaylock is out of the hospital and in jail, charged with vehicular homicide in a car crash south of Atlanta.

Correction: JC Penney-Home Department story

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 3:13pm
In a story June 7 about J.C. Penney's new home department, The Associated Press reported erroneously Ordning & Reda is a U.K. firm. In fact, it is based in Sweden.

Iraq hit by wave of bomb attacks, killing dozens

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 3:13pm

BAGHDAD (AP) — A wave of car bombings rocked central and northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and extending the deadliest eruption of violence to hit the country in years.


Investors unimpressed by S&P's brighter US outlook

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 3:06pm

NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market is closing mostly lower after investors were unimpressed by a rating agency's brighter outlook on the U.S. government's credit rating.


U.S. whistleblower drops out of sight, faces legal battle

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 3:05pm

By John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A contractor at the National Security Agency who leaked details of top-secret U.S. surveillance programs dropped out of sight in Hong Kong on Monday, ahead of a likely push by the U.S. government to have him sent back to the United States to face charges. Edward Snowden, 29, who provided the information for published reports last week that revealed the NSA's broad monitoring of phone call and Internet data from large companies such as Google and Facebook, checked out of his Hong Kong hotel hours after going public in a video released on Sunday. ...


Energy officials land summer jobs for their kids

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 3:03pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — At least a dozen children or other relatives of Energy Department officials have received summer jobs at the department in apparent violation of federal nepotism rules, an agency watchdog said Monday.

APPLE EVENT: New software, MacBooks, music

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 2:53pm

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple announced a digital radio service, new MacBook Air laptops and updates to its operating systems for Mac and mobile devices Monday.


S&P revises U.S. credit outlook to 'stable' from negative

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 2:53pm

By David Gaffen and Daniel Bases NEW YORK (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's on Monday removed the near-term threat of another credit rating downgrade for the United States by revising its outlook to stable from negative, citing an improved economic and fiscal outlook. The change effectively means there is less than a one-third chance of a downgrade in the next two years. S&P said a key factor to its revision in the U.S. rating outlook was the agreement reached by the U.S. Congress to avoid the 'fiscal cliff', which had threatened some $600 billion in automatic tax increases and spending cuts. ...


Turkish leader Erdogan to meet Istanbul protesters

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 2:53pm

By Gulsen Solaker ANKARA (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to meet on Wednesday with leaders of the movement whose peaceful protests in Istanbul spiraled into a wave of anti-government demonstrations across Turkey. Erdogan has repeatedly dismissed the protesters as "capulcular", or riff-raff. But Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said on Monday leaders of the Gezi Park Platform group had asked to meet him in an effort to end unrest in which police have blasted demonstrators with tear gas and water cannon. ...


Austrian UN troops to begin Golan pullout soon

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 2:08pm
VIENNA (AP) — An official says Austria will begin withdrawing its 377 U.N. peacekeepers from the Golan Heights on Wednesday.

Philadelphia DA: Grand jury to look into collapse

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 2:04pm

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The city's top prosecutor announced Monday he would convene an investigating grand jury to look into a building collapse that killed six people and injured 13 others last week.