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Expert wants to help nab Russian password thieves 08/07/2014 01:52pm • MARTHA MENDOZA AP National Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The hackers are a tight knit group, 10 or 11. They live in a Russian town, and have real jobs. But in their down time, the cybercriminals have spent the past seven months gathering a hoard of personal data, stealing 1.2 billion user names and passw Thailand pushes to ban commercial surrogacy 08/07/2014 11:30am • THANYARAT DOKSONE Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) -- Thailand pushed to ban commercial surrogacy Thursday as a case involving nine surrogate babies allegedly with the same Japanese father emerged just days after a furor over the alleged abandonment of a surrogate-born baby with Down syndrome.The disco Volunteers step up in China's response to quake 08/07/2014 05:18am • CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press LONGTOUSHAN, China (AP) -- Minutes after a deadly earthquake shook western China, disaster teams were on the move. Within hours, food, tents, and even a 4G cellphone network were in place, showing how a fast-developing China can bring its plentiful experience and General killed in Afghan attack was engineer 08/07/2014 01:44am • ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Harold J. Greene, the two-star Army general who became the highest-ranking U.S. military officer to be killed in either of America's post-9/11 wars, was an engineer who rose through the ranks as an expert in developing and fielding the Army Woman sentenced for stealing benefits checks 08/06/2014 08:00pm • GREENBELT, Md. (AP) -- A woman who pleaded guilty to cashing a friend's Social Security checks for 19 years after the friend died has been sentenced to a year in prison.Fifty-nine-year-old Yolando Guerrero of Laurel was also ordered to pay more than $335,000 in restitution at sentencing Wednesday in Report: Russian hackers steal 1.2B passwords 08/06/2014 12:20pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- Russian hackers have stolen 1.2 billion user names and passwords in a series of Internet heists affecting 420,000 websites, according to a report published Tuesday.The thievery was described in a New York Times story based on the findings of Hold Security, a Milwaukee firm that has Thailand's censors ban 'Tropico 5' computer game 08/05/2014 06:40pm • BANGKOK (AP) -- Censors under Thailand's military junta have banned a city-building simulation computer game, saying it could hurt the country's security, a video game distributor said Monday.The film and video censorship office blocked sales of "Tropico 5" because they feared "some part of its cont Ex-boss says longtime fugitive became a good man 08/05/2014 02:48pm • RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Before learning his friend was really Ronald Carnes, an armed robber who escaped from a North Carolina prison in 1973, Seattle businessman Carl Bryant knew him as Louie Vance, a trusted worker and confidant whom he had over for holidays and birt Australia proposes new counterterrorism laws 08/05/2014 04:50am • ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia's government on Tuesday announced plans to regulate travel to terrorist hotbeds such as Iraq and Syria as part of a raft of counterterrorism measures aimed at addressing the domestic threat posed by war-hardened homegrown Islamic ext Business, Ebola discussed at US-Africa summit 08/05/2014 01:54am • DEB RIECHMANN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration sought Monday to strengthen ties with Africa at an unprecedented summit with dozens of African leaders, grappling with issues such as investment, poverty, terrorism, corruption and deadly diseases.Nearly 50 African heads of s Australia may intervene in surrogate baby case 08/04/2014 09:06pm • ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Seven-month-old Gammy, who was born with Down syndrome and a congenital heart condition, is being cared for by his young Thai surrogate mother after his Australian biological parents left him behind in Thailand, taking home only his healthy tw US sent Latin youth undercover in anti-Cuba ploy 08/04/2014 06:26pm • DESMOND BUTLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fernando Murillo was typical of the young Latin Americans deployed by a U.S. agency to work undercover in Cuba. He had little training in the dangers of clandestine operations -- or how to evade one of the world's most sophisticated counter-intellig Hospital killing shows safety gap in mental health 08/04/2014 04:50pm • MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press When a man opened fire at a hospital outside Philadelphia, fatally shooting his caseworker and wounding his psychiatrist, the doctor saved his own life and probably the lives of others by pulling out a gun and shooting the patient.If Dr. Lee Silverman's decision to Experts: Obama can do a lot to change immigration 08/04/2014 12:22pm • ALICIA A. CALDWELL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- What can President Barack Obama actually do without Congress to change U.S. immigration policies? A lot, it turns out.There are some limits under federal law, and anything the White House ultimately decides to do may be challenged in court as un Not so golden: Wealth gap lasting into retirement 08/04/2014 11:32am • MICHAEL HILL Associated Press William Kistler views retirement like someone tied to the tracks and watching a train coming. It's looming and threatening, but there's little he can do.Kistler, a 63-year-old resident of Golden, Colorado, has been unable to build up a nest egg for himself and his wife