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Security matrix prevents another Tiananmen 05/31/2014 11:34pm • CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press BEIJING (AP) -- When visiting friends in China's capital, environmental activist Wu Lihong must slip away from his rural home before sunrise, before the police officers watching his home awaken. He rides a bus to an adjacent province and jumps aboard a train just Barbour faces off with tea party at GOP conference 05/31/2014 05:44am • BILL BARROW Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Even as Republicans preach the need for solidarity, divisions between the tea party and the GOP establishment are clear at a national conservative summit.Former Republican Party Chairman Haley Barbour played the part of elder statesman Friday, warning Turkey highest court: YouTube ban violates rights 05/30/2014 04:40am • SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey's highest court on Thursday ruled that the country's two month-old ban on YouTube violates constitutional rights to freedom of expression, a setback for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan who wanted to shut down the video-sharing website.T Behind landslide, a generation divide in Egypt 05/30/2014 02:56am • SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press CAIRO (AP) -- "El-Sissi will leave no one wanting!" the 50-year-old shopkeeper in a Cairo slum barked when a younger man criticized the landslide victor of Egypt's presidential election, former army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.Their heated argument -- even though both Man accused in Iranian's death depicted as violent 05/29/2014 07:20pm • JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) -- A Jordanian-born man facing a state murder charge in the 2012 shooting death of an Iranian student and women's rights activist also played a role in his son-in-law's death 11 months later, a federal prosecutor alleged Thursday.During a detention hearin Hillshire Brands and Twitter are big market movers 05/29/2014 05:41pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market:NYSEThe Hillshire Brands Co., up $7.95 to $52.76Two days after a takeover bid for the food producer from Pilgrim's Pride, Tyson Foods comes over the top with a $7 bi Children increasingly victimized by terrorists, not just targets 05/29/2014 01:54pm • WASHINGTON - As terrorism proliferates around the world, children are increasingly victimized, not only as targets but also as pawns, like the Nigerian girls kidnapped by the Boko Haram. "Children are vulnerable. In many cases, they're easy to get a hold of and they can't put up much of a fight a Thai Facebook users get censorship scare 05/29/2014 11:10am • GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) -- Thailand's new military rulers said that a sudden interruption of access to Facebook on Wednesday was not part of a censorship policy, but due instead to a technical hitch.The afternoon blockage did not affect all users but drew a flurry of attention onlin Anonymous "HiddenCash" creates social media frenzy 05/29/2014 10:12am • TERRY COLLINS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Someone is dropping envelopes full of cash across San Francisco -- and causing an international frenzy on social media.An anonymous man with the Twitter handle @HiddenCash has been hiding money throughout the city since Friday, leading scores on a scavenger hunt. Immigration delay ups the ante on Obama, GOP 05/29/2014 03:12am • ERICA WERNER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- When President Barack Obama announced he was looking for ways to ease deportations without going through Congress, Republicans called it a case study in overreach, arguing that it's Obama -- not Republicans -- who is undermining prospects for an immig FTC wants more transparency for data brokers 05/29/2014 01:40am • JENNIFER C. KERR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Companies are collecting billions of pieces of information about consumers to create individual profiles to more effectively target individuals for coupons or product offers, decide whether a would-be buyer gets a car loan or help people check out Venezuela implicates US envoy in opposition plot 05/28/2014 07:50pm • JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Venezuela alleged on Wednesday that the U.S. ambassador to Colombia has plotted to destabilize President Nicolas Maduro's rule, adding to tensions between the two countries as the U.S. House approved a measure calling for sanctions on official In Patrick, Texas may find another tea party star 05/28/2014 05:56pm • WILL WEISSERT Associated Press SALADO, Texas (AP) -- Scoffing at the issue of climate change was easy, but tea party favorite Dan Patrick also didn't miss the chance to savage the White House's purported efforts to slow it -- really working the conservative crowd into a frenzy."I understand why Obam Natali Fani-Gonzalez: Why You Should Vote For Me 05/28/2014 01:05pm • We asked local candidates in contested primary elections to write a sub-750 word essay describing why residents should vote for them on June 24. First up is Natali Fani-Gonzalez, running for one of three District 18 House of Delegates seats. Below is Fani-Gonzalez’s unedited response: District Text of Obama's remarks at military graduation 05/28/2014 12:10pm • The Associated Press A text of President Barack Obama's remarks at the U.S. Military Academy graduation ceremony in West Point, New York, as provided by the White House:---Good morning. Thank you, General Caslen, for that introduction. To General Trainor, General Clarke, and the faculty and staff a