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Honduran man waits for asylum after 12-year fight 08/03/2014 10:40am • BY SHARON COHEN AP National Writer When he arrived at the Texas border, Celvyn Mejia Romero was a scared 10-year-old, with a machete scar and memories of a murdered uncle as reminders of why he'd embarked on a long, perilous journey from Honduras.He feared staying in his homeland and desperately wan Slug lines: Ride-sharing relieves D.C.'s dire commute 08/01/2014 12:59pm • WASHINGTON -- Brittne Nelson is a senior researcher at AARP -- and a slug. "You'd be amazed what you have to do to survive in this area. That's what I have to do to get around," Nelson says. If you've never heard of the term, you're probably shaking your head at this point. But slugging -- com Comm Games athlete convicted for assault on rival 07/31/2014 06:43pm • ROB HARRIS AP Sports Writer GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) -- An Australian medal-winning weightlifter was convicted Thursday of head-butting another Commonwealth Games competitor in the athletes' village and Australia's athletics coach was sent home for criticizing his top star -- just as the country's 20- Despite good news, benefit programs face problems 07/31/2014 11:48am • RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite some good news, Medicare and Social Security still face long-term financial problems as millions of baby boomers reach retirement. Social Security's disability program is already in crisis as it edges toward the brink of insolvency. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 07/30/2014 03:00pm • The Associated Press Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:___July 28News and Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, on Ebola:To be a missionary or a health care worker who tends to the poor has always required an admirable level of compassion, but now in West Af Argentina fights with debt holdouts; default nears 07/30/2014 12:40am • ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Argentina risks financial default unless it reaches an agreement with a group of holdout bondholders by Wednesday. Here are the issues at stake:HOW DID ARGENTINA GET HERE?In 1998, Argentina fell into recession and faced crushing pay New Hampshire man held on $1M in teen's kidnapping 07/29/2014 03:07pm • LYNNE TUOHY Associated Press CONWAY, N.H. (AP) -- A New Hampshire man charged with kidnapping a teenage girl nine months ago was ordered held on $1 million bail Tuesday as the girl watched from the front row of the courtroom.Abigail Hernandez disappeared after leaving her high school in October and Man charged in teen's 9-month disappearance 07/29/2014 08:56am • LYNNE TUOHY Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- A New Hampshire man was arrested Monday and charged with kidnapping 15-year-old Abigail "Abby" Hernandez more than nine months ago sometime after she left Kennett High School in Conway.Nathaniel Kibby, 34, was arrested without incident at his Gorham Ernst back from military training to Senate race 07/29/2014 03:20am • CATHERINE LUCEY Associated Press URBANDALE, Iowa (AP) -- Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst has returned from two weeks of training with the Iowa National Guard to a midterm election race against Democrat Bruce Braley that has become a competitive contest in the battle for Senate control.The sea Medicare's own health looking better, report says 07/29/2014 03:12am • STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Medicare's financial future is looking brighter despite a growing wave of baby boomers reaching retirement.Getting relief from a slowdown in health care spending, the program's giant hospital trust fund won't be exhausted until 2030, the governm Fighting in Ukraine prompts residents to flee 07/29/2014 02:28am • MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press SHAKHTARSK, Ukraine (AP) -- Panicky residents in an eastern Ukrainian town fled their homes Monday carrying a few possessions in plastic bags and small suitcases as shells exploded in the distance, fighting that also prevented an international police team from reach Liberia president orders new anti-Ebola measures 07/28/2014 01:10pm • JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Liberia's president has closed all but three land border crossings, restricted public gatherings and quarantined communities heavily affected by the Ebola outbreak in the West African nation.President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf described the Chinese police remove church cross amid crackdown 07/28/2014 12:30pm • BEIJING (AP) -- Hundreds of police took down a church's cross Monday in a city known as "China's Jerusalem" for its many houses of worship amid a crackdown on church buildings in a coastal region where thousands of people are embracing Christianity.Evangelist Qu Linuo said he and about 200 others ha Rosario Murillo: Nicaragua's 'first comrade' 07/28/2014 10:15am • ALBERTO ARCE Associated Press MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) -- In Nicaragua, where Marxist dogma has given way to a free market economy, the red-and-black flags of the Sandinista revolution have been supplanted by the pink and baby blue colors favored by the country's first lady, "la companera" Rosario Mu Richmond man makes plea deal in woman's death 07/28/2014 10:00am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A Richmond man has agreed to plead guilty in the slaying of a woman during an argument.The Richmond Times-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1rR30Nx) reports Jamarr R. Hursey agreed to a deal Friday in which he would receive a 20-year prison term for pleading guilty to second-degree murde