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    Dotcom 'in tears' after Megaupload files deleted

    20 Jun 2013, 1:33 am

    FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2013 file photo, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom practices a speech before the launch of a new file-sharing website called "Mega" at his Coatesville mansion in Auckland, New Zealand. Dotcom said Thursday, June 20, 2013 he was "in tears" after a European company deleted all the data it was hosting from his shuttered file-sharing site. Netherlands-based LeaseWeb announced it had deleted all Megaupload files from 630 servers. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Richard Robinson, File) NEW ZEALAND OUT, AUSTRALIA OUTWELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom said Thursday he was "in tears" after a European company deleted all the data it was hosting from his shuttered file-sharing site.


    10 Things to Know for Thursday

    20 Jun 2013, 1:31 am

    Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is on a television screen as trader James Dresch works in a booth on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, June 19, 2013. The Federal Reserve offered a hint Wednesday that it's moving closer to slowing its bond-buying program, which is intended to keep long-term interest rates at record lows. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Thursday:


    Social network gaffes plague Japanese politicians

    20 Jun 2013, 1:28 am

    FILE - In this May 27, 2013 photo, Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto listens to a reporter's question during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo. Hashimoto earlier said and tweeted that sex slavery by Japan’s Imperial Army before and during World War II was a “necessary” wartime evil. He also used Twitter to post his suggestion that the U.S. military patronize adult entertainment to help reduce sex crimes committed by American troops. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)TOKYO (AP) — On the Internet, no one can save you from yourself. That is a lesson many Japanese politicians have learned recently in painful, awkward and at times costly fashion.


    Body found near Patriot's home was homicide victim

    20 Jun 2013, 1:25 am

    Two members of the Massachusetts State Police walk toward the front door of the home of New England Patriot's NFL football player Aaron Hernandez in North Attleborough, Mass., Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Their knock on the door went unanswered. State and local police spent hours at the home Tuesday as another group of officers searched an industrial park about a mile away where a body was discovered the day before. (AP Photo/Erika Niedowski)BOSTON (AP) — A man found dead in an industrial park about a mile from New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez's home had been killed, a prosecutor said Wednesday.


    Cops: Disabled Pa. man dies after gruesome neglect

    20 Jun 2013, 1:16 am

    CORRECTS TO CLARIFY CHARGES Susan Gensiak, 59, of Taylor, Pa., is lead by a police officer to arraignment, Wednesday, June 19, 2013 in Scranton, Pa. Gensiak and her two daughters have been charged with third-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and neglect of care for a dependent person. (AP Photo/Scranton Times & Tribune, Michael J. Mullen) WILKES BARRE TIMES-LEADER OUT; MANDATORY CREDITSCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman and her two daughters were charged Wednesday with murder in the death of their 32-year-old son and brother, who had Down syndrome, after officials said he was severely neglected and underfed, weighing just 69 pounds when he died.


    Floods strand pilgrims in India, deaths could rise

    20 Jun 2013, 1:09 am

    Indian people use a boat to cross a Tibetan market along the banks of the Yamuna River, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. India’s prime minister said Wednesday that the death toll from flooding this week in the northern state of Uttrakhand had surpassed 100 and could rise substantially. The flooding has affected several states and the capital, New Delhi, where nearly 2,000 people have been evacuated to government-run camps on higher ground. Authorities there said the situation would ease as the level of the Yamuna River was expected to start receding Thursday afternoon. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Monsoon flooding that has stranded thousands of people and caused landslides in northern India has killed almost 120 people, and the prime minister said the toll could rise substantially.


    Obama challenges Russia to agree to deeper nuclear weapon cuts

    20 Jun 2013, 1:05 am

    U.S. President Obama makes dinner speech at Chralottenburg Castle in BerlinBy Roberta Rampton and Stephen Brown BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama used a speech in Berlin on Wednesday to call on Russia to revive the push for a world without nuclear weapons, offering to cut deployed nuclear arsenals by a third, but Moscow immediately poured scorn on his proposal. Speaking in Berlin where U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan gave rousing Cold-War speeches, Obama urged Russia to help build on the "New START" treaty that requires Moscow and Washington to cut stockpiles of deployed nuclear weapons to 1,550 each by 2018. ...


    Compromise among senators eyed on border security

    20 Jun 2013, 12:51 am

    People shout out against the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act in the hall outside the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)WASHINGTON (AP) — After secretive talks, key senators expressed optimism Wednesday night that they were closing in on a bipartisan agreement to toughen the border security requirements in immigration legislation that also offers a path to citizenship to millions living in the country illegally.


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