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A leader admits guilt in big disability-fraud case 08/27/2014 07:49pm • JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- An accused ringleader of a sprawling disabilities fraud scheme admitted Wednesday he helped coach retired police officers and others to fake mental-health problems to get Social Security benefits.Joseph Esposito pleaded guilty to grand larceny in a sc Journalist killing highlights role of freelancers 08/27/2014 04:24pm • JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Journalists James Foley, Steven Sotloff and Peter Theo Curtis all had one thing in common when they were captured by Islamic militants in Syria, the title "freelance journalist."The role of freelancers, who make a living by selling individual storie Death of opposition leader roils Botswana 08/27/2014 03:12am • CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- He was a former stalwart in Botswana's ruling party who defected to become a rising star in the political opposition ahead of elections in October. He was also a musical composer who performed with his choir in the 1990s in the United States 11 Tips for the Newly Unemployed 08/27/2014 12:00am • No one who has been unemployed expects it to last very long. The reality is that you will be looking for work longer than you want. You can't control the fact that it is taking an average of 24.9 working days to fill a position, according to Dice Holdings August hiring report. However, you can cont 11 Tips for the Newly Unemployed 08/27/2014 12:00am • No one who has been unemployed expects it to last very long. The reality is that you will be looking for work longer than you want. You can't control the fact that it is taking an average of 24.9 working days to fill a position, according to Dice Holdings August hiring report. However, you can cont The cost of caring for aging parents 08/27/2014 12:00am • As the best-selling author Gail Sheehy famously documented in her 2010 book, "Passages in Caregiving," caring for an ailing loved one can be an overwhelming, chaotic and stressful task. Sheehy learned that lesson firsthand while taking care of her husband as he fought cancer for over 10 years. Israel leader tries to link Hamas, Iraq extremists 08/25/2014 03:00pm • DANIEL ESTRIN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's prime minister is trying to capitalize on the gruesome video of an American journalist's beheading by the Islamic State extremist group, saying Hamas is an equally vicious foe as he tries to rally international support in Israel's war in the What's in store at the renovated POV lounge 08/25/2014 02:47pm • POV rooftop lounge at the W Hotel Washington D.C. has been closed for just more than a month, and we're now getting a better look at what the renovated lounge will offer when it reopens in September. The design was kept a little more basic when the hotel first opened in 2009, said Olivier Servat, th Man dies after being shot backstage at concert 08/25/2014 01:40am • MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) -- A 38-year-old man died Saturday after he was shot multiple times backstage during a concert at a popular Silicon Valley venue, authorities said.The shooting occurred at Shoreline Amphitheatre, where Pittsburgh rapper Wiz Khalifa, Atlanta hip hop artist Jeezy and others Key events following the death of Michael Brown 08/25/2014 01:17am • The Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) -- A timeline of key events following the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.AUG. 9 -- Brown and a companion are confronted by an officer as they walk back to Brown's home from a convenience store. Brown and Iggy Azalea falls off stage during pre-VMA show 08/24/2014 06:06pm • NICOLE EVATT Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Iggy Azalea tumbled off the stage during an MTV Video Music Awards benefit concert, but she appeared unharmed and posted a video of the fall on social media.The Australian rapper fell Friday night while performing her hit "Fancy" at The Avalon in Los China targets ordinary Uighurs with beards, burkas 08/24/2014 11:56am • GILLIAN WONG Associated Press AKSU, China (AP) -- Outside a mosque in China's restive west, a government-appointed Muslim cleric was dodging a foreign reporter's question about why young men of the Uighur ethnic minority don't have beards when one such youth interrupted."Why don't you just tell them Costa Rica to investigate US anti-Cuba program 08/23/2014 03:06pm • JAVIER CORDOBA Associated Press SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) -- The Costa Rican government will investigate undercover U.S. programs operated from the Central American country and using its citizens in a ploy to destabilize the government in Cuba, the director of intelligence and security said Friday.M Islamic State backers under scrutiny in US 08/23/2014 04:50am • TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Officially, the FBI agents who swarmed Donald Ray Morgan at Kennedy Airport this month were there to arrest him on a mundane gun charge. But they whisked him away to their Manhattan office and grilled him for two hours on an entirely different topic: Islami Mexico creates special force for economic crime 08/22/2014 07:59pm • MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico launched a special 5,000-strong police force Friday to combat industrial, farm and business crime that has extended throughout the country's economy, strangling commerce in some regions.Drug gangs have long penetrated some Mexican mining and