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DEBT SHOWDOWN
WASHINGTON — With compromise talks at a standstill, Senate Republicans unexpectedly offer to hand President Barack Obama new powers to avert a first-ever, potentially catastrophic government default threatened for Aug. 2. By Special Correspondent David Espo. AP Photos.
LIBYA
WASHINGTON — Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is facing dramatic shortages of fuel for his soldiers and citizens in Tripoli, and he is running out of cash to pay his forces and what is left of his government, according to the latest U.S. intelligence reports. In France, the foreign minister reported that Gadhafi is prepared to leave power. By Intelligence Writer Kimberly Dozier. AP Photos.
INTERROGATION PROBE
WASHINGTON — A CIA officer who oversaw the agency's interrogation program at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and pushed for approval to use increasingly harsh tactics has come under scrutiny in a federal war crimes investigation involving the death of a prisoner, witnesses tell The Associated Press. By Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman.
UN-SYRIA-EMBASSY PROTESTS
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council strongly condemns the attacks against the U.S. and French embassies in Syria's capital and calls on Bashar Assad's government to meet its international responsibility to protect diplomatic missions. By Edith M. Lederer.
WHITE HOUSE-SYRIA
WASHINGTON — The United States says that Syrian President Bashar Assad has failed to prove himself a worthy leader nearly two months after being challenged by President Barack Obama to guide his country toward a democratic transition or leave power. By Bradley Klapper.
JAPAN-NUCLEAR SAFETY REPORT
WASHINGTON — An expert task force convened by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission calls Japan's nuclear disaster "unacceptable" and concludes that nuclear power plants in the U.S. need better protections for rare, catastrophic events. By Dina Cappiello.
CONGRESS-LIGHT BULBS
WASHINGTON — Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives fail to stop the enactment of new energy-saving standards for light bulbs they portrayed as yet another example of big government interfering in people's lives. AP Photo.
US-MIDEAST-CONGRESS
WASHINGTON — American aid to the Palestinians is in jeopardy over their ties to the terrorist group Hamas, unwillingness to restart negotiations with Israel and push for statehood at the United Nations over U.S. resistance, congressional Republicans and Democrats warn. By Donna Cassata.
GUATEMALA-MASSACRE
GUATEMALA CITY — A former member of an elite Guatemalan military force suspected of carrying out a 1982 massacre is extradited from the United States, ending a two-decade exile in which he spent years working in a southern California sweater factory. By Amy Taxin and Sonia Perez D. AP Photo.
PAKISTAN NUCLEAR PLANT
WASHINGTON — A wealthy San Francisco-area suburbanite on Tuesday rebutted charges that she was the ringleader of a scheme to illegally export special paint used in the construction of a Pakistani nuclear plant, a project some Western experts fear will produce plutonium for the country's expanding nuclear arsenal. By Douglas Birch.
VENEZUELA-CHAVEZ
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez attends Mass, joining supporters and aides in praying for his recovery after undergoing cancer surgery. By Ian James. AP Photo.
SPACE SHUTTLE
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — Astronauts making the last spacewalk of NASA's space shuttle era on Tuesday retrieve a broken pump from the International Space Station and install a fill-er-up experiment for a robot. By Aerospace Writer Marcia Dunn. AP Photos.
PERU-BRAZIL'S SHADOW
LIMA, Peru — The towering statue of Jesus on a cliff overlooking the Pacific looks, at first glance, eerily like Rio de Janeiro's majestic Christ the Redeemer, a famed icon of Brazil on the Atlantic side of the continent. The resemblance is not accidental. To many Peruvians, the new statue that rises 118 feet (36 meters) has become a potent symbol of Brazil's growing commercial and political influence in this Andean nation and across South America. By Franklin Briceno. AP Photos.
GATES FOUNDATION-CHALLENGE GRANTS
SEATTLE — Using microwaves to kill malaria parasites and developing a way to give fetuses immunity to HIV are among the dozen ideas the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation thinks are worth more research dollars, after giving more than 500 scientists seed money to take an initial look at some far-out concepts. By Donna Gordon Blankinship.
GUATEMALA-FACUNDO CABRAL
GUATEMALA CITY — Two suspects detained in the slaying of Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral were gunning for a Nicaraguan businessman who was accompanying him, and they may not have known who Cabral was, authorities says. By Sonia Perez.
PRODUCER'S WIFE KILLED
LOS ANGELES — A former producer of the reality TV show "Survivor" was ordered Tuesday to be returned to Mexico to stand trial in the killing of his wife while the couple was on a luxury vacation with their young children to repair their troubled marriage. By Entertainment Writer Anthony McCartney. AP Photo.
US-MIDEAST
WASHINGTON — U.S. and other Mideast peace envoys scrambled Tuesday to salvage fading hopes of a breakthrough in Israeli-Palestinian talks, a day after their bosses could not even agree among themselves how to arm-twist the two sides back into negotiation. By Matthew Lee And Bradley Klapper. AP Photos.
WHITE HOUSE-SYRIA
WASHINGTON — The United States said Tuesday that Syrian President Bashar Assad has failed to prove himself a worthy leader nearly two months after being challenged by President Barack Obama to guide his country toward a democratic transition or leave power. By Bradley Klapper.
GUATEMALAN MASSACRE
LOS ANGELES — U.S. authorities on Tuesday deported a former member of an elite Guatemalan military force suspected of helping carry out a massacre in 1982 that left more than 150 people dead in the Central American nation. By Amy Taxin. AP Photo.
BETTY FORD FUNERAL
PALM DESERT, California — First ladies, past and present, and others who called the White House home remembered Betty Ford, not just for her decades-long work against substance abuse but for contributing to a political era when friendship among lawmakers helped them govern. By Jeff Wilson and John Rogers. AP Photos.
SPACE SHUTTLE
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — Astronauts making the last spacewalk of NASA's space shuttle era on Tuesday retrieved a broken pump from the International Space Station and installed a fill-er-up experiment for a robot. By Aerospace Writer Marcia Dunn. AP Photos.
SISTER WIVES-LAWSUIT
SALT LAKE CITY — A polygamous family made famous by the reality TV show "Sister Wives" plans to challenge the Utah bigamy law that makes their lifestyle illegal, a Washington-based attorney says. By Jennifer Dobner. AP Photo.
OBIT-SHERWOOD SCHWARTZ
LOS ANGELES — Sherwood Schwartz, writer-creator of two of the best-remembered TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, "Gilligan's Island" and "The Brady Bunch," has died at age 94. By Denise Petski. AP Photos.
BUSINESS:
ECONOMY-FED MINUTES
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve officials at their last meeting expressed concerns that the weakening job market might hold back the recovery. But members were divided over whether the Fed should consider taking additional steps to help the U.S. economy. By Economics Writer Martin Crutsinger.
DEBT LIMIT-MARKETS
NEW YORK — Financial markets have largely ignored the debt limit talks so far. They are reacting instead to concerns about debt in Europe and dismal employment numbers in the U.S. But that's bound to change as Washington gets closer to maxing out its self-imposed borrowing limit of $14.3 trillion on Aug. 2.
TRADE DEFICIT
WASHINGTON — The U.S. trade deficit surged in May to the highest level in more than two and a half years, driven wider by a big increase in oil imports and a decline in exports. The Commerce Department said that the deficit increased 15.1 percent to $50.2 billion in May. That's the largest imbalance since October 2008. By Economics Writer Martin Crutsinger. AP Photo.
WITH: US-JOB OPENINGS.
CANADA-RESEARCH IN MOTION
TORONTO — BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd.'s co-CEO tells shareholders that the company is facing challenges as it moves toward what it calls its biggest product launch yet. By Charmaine Noronha.
CROP SIZE
ST. LOUIS — A larger corn crop is easing concerns of a grain shortage and could slow food inflation later this year. The U.S. Agriculture Department estimates that 880 million bushels of corn will be left over when the harvest begins in the fall. That's an increase from the previous estimate of 730 million bushels. By Agribusiness Writer Christopher Leonard.
BANKS-EARNINGS PREVIEW
NEW YORK — The largest U.S. banks — from JPMorgan Chase to Bank of America — have been busy settling lawsuits with investors in the second quarter, casting a pall over their upcoming financial results. Banks start reporting earnings on Thursday, with the healthiest of the large banks, JP Morgan Chase & Co. By AP Business Writer Pallavi Gogoi.
US-GOVERNMENT LOANS-RUSSIAN STEELMAKER
DETROIT — Two people briefed on the matter say the North American arm of Russia's largest steel company is getting a $730 million loan from the U.S. government. They say Severstal plans to modernize a plant in Dearborn, Michigan, that makes steel for the auto industry. The project will employ around 2,500 construction workers and create 260 factory jobs. By Tom Krisher and Dee-Ann Durbin.
IRELAND-DEBT DOWNGRADE
NEW YORK — Moody's Investors Service downgraded Ireland's government debt ratings to junk status, saying it believes Ireland will need further rounds of financing when the current European Union and the International Monetary Fund support ends in 2013.
FEATURES:
PETS SAVING LIVES
LOS ANGELES — Before 1970, as many as 20 million unwanted dogs and cats were being put to death across the country each year. This year, fewer than 4 million will be euthanized. There are several factors, but animal experts believe spaying and neutering has played the biggest role in saving so many lives. By Sue Manning. AP Photos
FOOD-ITALIAN COOKING
If you're lucky, you've never known a world without olive oil or a time when Parmesan cheese only came in green cans. But there was such a world. Once stigmatized as the cuisine of "garlic eaters," Italian food and its ingredients were almost impossible to find in America 40 years ago. "Certain foods were so associated with lower class people that it was a way of keeping those people and their food in their place," says John Mariani, author of "How Italian Food Conquered the World." By Michele Kayal. AP Photos
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