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Iranian court sentences Facebook activists to jail 07/13/2014 02:24pm • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- TEHRAN, Iran (AP) --An Iranian court handed jail sentences of eight to 21 years to eight Facebook page administrators, the official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday.The report said the defendants were convicted of plotting against national security, spreading propaganda again Tobacco firms Reynolds, Lorillard in merger talks 07/12/2014 01:20pm • MICHAEL FELBERBAUM AP Tobacco Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Big Tobacco may soon get smaller.The makers of Camel and Newport cigarettes said Friday they are in talks to combine two of the nation's oldest and biggest tobacco companies. A deal between Reynolds American Inc. and Lorillard Inc. would cre Economists lower forecasts for US growth 07/12/2014 11:34am • CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. business economists have sharply cut their growth forecasts for the April-June quarter and 2014, though they remain optimistic that the economy will rebound from a dismal first quarter.The average forecast for growth in the second qu US records $71 billion budget surplus in June 07/12/2014 11:10am • JOSH BOAK AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. government ran a monthly budget surplus in June, putting it on course to record the lowest annual deficit since 2008.The Treasury Department said Friday that its June surplus totaled $71 billion, following a $130 billion deficit in May. The g Senate candidate records GOP address, then deploys 07/12/2014 10:38am • THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A new item on Lt. Col. Joni Ernst's checklist as she packed up for two weeks of annual training with the Iowa National Guard: denounce the health care law in the weekly Republican radio address.An Iowa state senator who is running for the U.S Iraqi Kurds take over 2 northern oil fields 07/12/2014 07:30am • SINAN SALAHEDDIN Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) -- Kurdish security forces took over two major oil fields outside the disputed northern city of Kirkuk before dawn Friday and said they would use some of the production for domestic purposes, further widening a split with the central government of Prime White House: 2014 deficit to drop $100B 07/11/2014 06:50pm • ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government's budget deficit will drop to $583 billion this year, the lowest level of President Barack Obama's tenure, the White House said Friday.Last year's deficit was $680 billion. The latest update from the White House budget office is also $ John Seigenthaler, Tennessee journalist, dies 07/11/2014 05:42pm • LUCAS L. JOHNSON II Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- John Seigenthaler, the journalist who edited The Tennessean newspaper, helped shape USA Today and worked for civil rights during the John F. Kennedy administration, died Friday at his Nashville home at age 86, his son said.In his wide-ran Pediatric doctor in child porn case gets prison 07/11/2014 03:50pm • ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS AP Legal Affairs Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A former top pediatric cancer doctor was sentenced to a year and one day in federal prison Friday following his guilty plea to a charge of accessing child pornography.Before sentencing, Christopher Pelloski told federal Judge James Brazil's new stadiums seek post-World Cup events 07/11/2014 01:24pm • STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Once the World Cup and its traveling circus leaves town, four gleaming stadiums that cost $1.6 billion and hosted massive crowds will echo noisily as their owners struggle to find a use for them or even partially fill them.In the western Brazilian Polish opposition calls for no-confidence vote 07/09/2014 07:40am • WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Poland's main opposition leader called on Wednesday for a no-confidence vote in the liberal government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk following leaks of secretly taped conversations of some ministers and officials.Jaroslaw Kaczynski asked the Parliament to oust Tusk's team and FACT CHECK: Grimes releases first negative TV ad 07/09/2014 01:30am • CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Shaky claims about Medicare were common in the 2012 campaign, from President Barack Obama on down. Now they've surfaced in this year's midterm elections, in one of the hottest Senate races in the country.Alison Lundergan Grimes, Republican Sen Girl raped, killed on overnight train in Thailand 07/08/2014 07:20pm • THANYARAT DOKSONE Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) -- The rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl, who was shoved off a moving train on an overnight trip from southern Thailand, has sparked public outrage and calls for capital punishment for rapists.The body of the girl was discovered early Tuesday morni UN pushes for migrants to be called refugees 07/08/2014 06:35pm • ALBERTO ARCE Associated Press SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) -- United Nations officials are pushing for many of the Central Americans fleeing to the U.S. to be treated as refugees displaced by armed conflict, a designation meant to increase pressure on the United States and Mexico to accept tens of thou 'Half of a Yellow Sun' to premiere in Nigeria 07/08/2014 06:00pm • MICHELLE FAUL Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- The Nigerian civil war movie "Half of a Yellow Sun" will finally premier in its home country in August, the film's producer announced Tuesday. The move came after Nigerian censors had earlier refused to approve it, saying the movie could undermin