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At least 45 arrests, some injuries in Chicago anti-NATO clashes

pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/groups-says-60-arrested-hurt-chicago-anti-nato-011949759.html"img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/CA3JBn8pXdXRLY3PAb_hYw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-05-20T054826Z_1_CBRE84J0G5700_RTROPTP_2_NATO-SUMMIT-PROTESTS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Protesters holding an American flag march over a bridge during an anti-NATO protest march in Chicago" align="left" title="Protesters holding an American flag march over a bridge during an anti-NATO protest march in Chicago" border="0" //aCHICAGO (Reuters) - Four police officers were injured and 45 demonstrators arrested after baton-wielding police clashed with anti-war protesters marching on the NATO summit in Chicago on Sunday, police said. A lawyer's group assisting protesters challenged police figures, saying at least 12 protesters were hurt, some with head wounds from police batons, and more than 60 people detained. The confrontation began after a 2 1/2 mile march from a Chicago park to near the site of the summit, where leaders of the NATO alliance are discussing the war in Afghanistan. .../pbr clear="all"/

Michelle Obama shows South Side of Chicago to first ladies

pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-shows-south-side-chicago-first-ladies-022428792.html"img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/P.4EtEwFYjRvu1pMHhqCoQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-05-21T022428Z_1_CBRE84K06OY00_RTROPTP_2_NATO-SUMMIT.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama greets Valerie Trierweiler, companion of France's President Francois Hollande, before a tour of the Gary Comer Youth Center in Chicago" align="left" title="U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama greets Valerie Trierweiler, companion of France's President Francois Hollande, before a tour of the Gary Comer Youth Center in Chicago" border="0" //aCHICAGO (Reuters) - Michelle Obama showed off her neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago to some NATO visitors on Sunday, taking five other first ladies to a youth center for lunch and for a musical performance by the children. The women toured the Gary Komer Youth Center, which features a gymnasium, dance studio and a theater. The center provides tutoring, college preparation, training in culinary arts and horticulture for young people in the community, 90 percent of whom come from low-income households. .../pbr clear="all"/

Zuckerberg's post-IPO wedding is smart legal move

pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/zuckerbergs-post-ipo-wedding-smart-legal-move-022827098--sector.html"img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/OrQUNJFEbThfudBK.18caA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-05-21T022827Z_1_CBRE84K06W800_RTROPTP_2_USA-FACEBOOK-MARRIAGE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Facebook co-founder and CEO Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are seen in this screengrab of a wedding photo posted on Zuckerberg's Facebook page" align="left" title="Facebook co-founder and CEO Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are seen in this screengrab of a wedding photo posted on Zuckerberg's Facebook page" border="0" //aSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Getting married was a smart business move as well as a personal milestone for Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, with the timing of the wedding, the day after the company's initial public offering, potentially proving particularly advantageous, California divorce lawyers said on Sunday. Assuming the couple signed a prenuptial agreement, as most wealthy Californians do, Zuckerberg and Chan would have agreed exactly how to split assets, including his Facebook stock, if their marriage dissolved in future. .../pbr clear="all"/

In tornado-weary Joplin, graduates eager to move on despite Obama visit

pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/obama-visit-marks-trials-resilience-graduates-tornado-hit-192053999.html"img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/buQPuNtH77fAXLeG71f0YQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-05-20T192255Z_1_CBRE84J1HUA00_RTROPTP_2_USA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A cross is seen in Joplin" align="left" title="A cross is seen in Joplin" border="0" //aJOPLIN, Mo (Reuters) - Having the president of the United States speak at commencement would normally be the most memorable day in the life of a high school senior. But not in Joplin, Missouri, where President Barack Obama's commencement address on Monday will come one year after the deadliest tornado in the United States in six decades killed 161 people. "I'm pretty sure we will remember the tornado more than Obama's speech," said graduating senior Ethan Ritschel. .../pbr clear="all"/

Tropical Storm Alberto not seen to gain strength, forecasters say

pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/seasons-first-atlantic-tropical-storm-forms-off-south-040623941.html"img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/XZYO6MWtsEoRkmJdb0Dg8A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT04NTt3PTEzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-05-21T022323Z_1_CBRE84K06N400_RTROPTP_2_STORM-ALBERTO.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="NASA satellite image of Tropical Storm Alberto" align="left" title="NASA satellite image of Tropical Storm Alberto" border="0" //aMIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Alberto churned slowly toward the South Carolina coast on Sunday where heavy rain and dangerous surf are expected from the beach resort of Myrtle Beach south to Savannah, Georgia, forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Bringing an early start to the Atlantic hurricane season, Alberto rose to tropical storm strength on Saturday and by Sunday morning was about 95 miles south-southeast of Charleston, according to the latest update by the hurricane center in Miami. It carried maximum sustained winds near 50 miles per hour. .../pbr clear="all"/

Mom with flesh-eating disease had seven operations: brother

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - A 36-year-old new mother of twins who is suffering from a "flesh-eating" bacterial infection has undergone a series of operations to remove dead or damaged tissue in a South Carolina hospital, her brother said on Sunday. Lana Kuykendall was admitted to Greenville Memorial Hospital on May 11, days after giving birth, with a painful spot on her leg that was ultimately diagnosed as necrotizing fasciitis, a serious infection of the skin and soft tissues. ...

Dale Chihuly's 'Glass House' shines in Seattle

pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/dale-chihulys-glass-house-shines-seattle-172054836.html"img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/_dPEwU2mmlJCPSx6W3hogw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-05-20T175608Z_1_CBRE84J1DTO00_RTROPTP_2_DALECHIHULY.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The Seattle Sun by artist Dale Chihuly is on display at the Chihuly Garden and Glass exhibit in Seattle" align="left" title="The Seattle Sun by artist Dale Chihuly is on display at the Chihuly Garden and Glass exhibit in Seattle" border="0" //a(Reuters) - Pioneering glass artist Dale Chihuly, whose work has been shown in over 200 museums worldwide, will be honored in his home city Seattle when "Chihuly Garden and Glass" opens on Monday, offering the most comprehensive collection of his work ever. Spanning one and a half acres in the shadow of the Space Needle, the show includes an exhibition hall, a garden and a "Glass House" structure by Chihuly, inspired by his two favorite buildings, Paris' Sainte-Chapelle and London's Crystal Palace. .../pbr clear="all"/

Fed by dry brush, wildfires persist in Southwest

pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/weather-helps-battle-against-u-southwest-wildfires-003716078.html"img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/xZlMZzkoyotMBJYGWL.npA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-05-20T181610Z_2_CBRE84J01QA00_RTROPTP_2_USA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Firefighters prepare to use a helicopter to survey the Gladiator Fire in Cleator" align="left" title="Firefighters prepare to use a helicopter to survey the Gladiator Fire in Cleator" border="0" //aPHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona wildfire whipped up by winds and dry conditions threatened to trigger more evacuations on Sunday, just as firefighters were nearly done battling the biggest of four blazes in the state. Fires in Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado have forced the evacuation of several small towns and torched more than 65 square miles (168 square km) of forest, brush and grass in the U.S. Southwest. .../pbr clear="all"/

U.S. marks 150th anniversary of Homestead Act offering free land

OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - The United States on Sunday marks the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln signing the Homestead Act, the law that gave away 270 million acres of land and transformed the vast American interior. Representatives from 30 states will take part in a ceremony at the National Monument of America in the Nebraska town of Beatrice, representing the states where nearly 2 million people each received 160 acres of free land under the program. ...

Civil rights group NAACP endorses gay marriage

(Reuters) - The nation's largest civil rights group, the NAACP, endorsed gay marriage on Saturday, giving a boost to the movement to legalize same-sex nuptials despite reservations expressed by some black ministers. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People passed the resolution at its board meeting in Miami "as a continuation of its historic commitment to equal protection under the law," the organization said. "Civil marriage is a civil right and a matter of civil law. ...

Possible engine problem delays U.S. rocket launch

pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/possible-engine-problem-delays-u-rocket-launch-094446041--sector.html"img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/l2N0AOhqCzn9qMt9.GCWqw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-05-19T120022Z_3_CBRE84H1M0100_RTROPTP_2_USA-SPACESHIP.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="SpaceX Falcon 9 test rocket is being prepared for launch from Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida" align="left" title="SpaceX Falcon 9 test rocket is being prepared for launch from Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida" border="0" //aThe launch of a privately owned Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station was delayed on Saturday when a computer detected a possible problem with one of the rocket's engines, a Space Exploration Technologies official said. Preparations for the company's trial cargo run to the International Space Station proceeded smoothly until 4:55 a.m. EDT (0855 GMT) when an onboard computer aborted the launch. "Liftoff ... we've had a cutoff. .../pbr clear="all"/

Mom with flesh-eating disease had seven operations: brother

New York City's most senior openly gay official weds

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Christine Quinn, New York's highest-ranking openly gay official and the leading candidate to be the city's next mayor, married her longtime girlfriend on Saturday, walking down the aisle to Beyonce's "Ave Maria." The wedding came less than a year after New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a law legalizing same-sex marriage in the state, whose first same-sex nuptials were held July 24. ...

Thousands protest in Chicago as NATO summit opens

pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/chicago-protests-eve-nato-summit-raucous-peaceful-044154096.html"img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/CA3JBn8pXdXRLY3PAb_hYw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-05-20T054826Z_1_CBRE84J0G5700_RTROPTP_2_NATO-SUMMIT-PROTESTS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Protesters holding an American flag march over a bridge during an anti-NATO protest march in Chicago" align="left" title="Protesters holding an American flag march over a bridge during an anti-NATO protest march in Chicago" border="0" //aCHICAGO (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters carried their anti-war message to world leaders at a NATO summit on a steamy Sunday, in a mostly peaceful march led by a group of Iraq War veterans who symbolically gave back their military medals. During the march, a group of black-clad demonstrators darted toward police lines along the route, and some threw water bottles at officers who pushed back and yelled at them to move along, but there were no major incidents. .../pbr clear="all"/

Kennedy clan, celebrities attend Mary Kennedy's funeral

pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/kennedy-clan-celebrities-attend-mary-kennedys-funeral-194518252.html"img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/C5LCUZIVR34awVyV7UffyA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-05-19T194518Z_1_CBRE84I1IVO00_RTROPTP_2_USA-KENNEDY-DEATH.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Mary Kennedy's casket is carried out of St. Patrick's Church by her family after her funeral service concluded in Bedford" align="left" title="Mary Kennedy's casket is carried out of St. Patrick's Church by her family after her funeral service concluded in Bedford" border="0" //aBEDFORD, New York (Reuters) - Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who died in an apparent suicide earlier this week, was recalled Saturday as an "angel" who was ultimately overwhelmed by a lengthy fight with depression. Those remembrances came as members of the Kennedy clan, including Robert F. Kennedy's widow Ethel and late President John F. Kennedy's daughter Caroline, gathered for her funeral here at St. Patrick's, a small Catholic church in this wealthy Westchester County hamlet about 50 miles north of New York City. .../pbr clear="all"/

Climber dies in 1,100-foot fall on Alaska's Mount McKinley

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A climber on Alaska's Mount McKinley died in a 1,100-foot fall that started with an effort to retrieve a sliding backpack during an attempt to ascend North America's tallest peak, the National Park Service said on Saturday. The Friday afternoon fall was the first serious accident in this year's climbing season, the service said. The climber - who was not from the United States - was in a three-person party that was not roped together. At the time of the accident, the group was heading up from the 16,200-foot level of the 20,320-foot mountain, officials said. ...

Anti-NATO activists weighed Obama HQ attack: prosecutors

pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/three-anti-nato-protesters-face-terrorism-charges-164010270--finance.html"img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/RCJ.gECi68N1P2YjF4Vb3w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-05-19T184116Z_1_CBRE84I1FX300_RTROPTP_2_NATO-SUMMIT.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Police officer patrols a street before the NATO Summit in Chicago" align="left" title="Police officer patrols a street before the NATO Summit in Chicago" border="0" //aCHICAGO (Reuters) - Three protesters arrested on terrorism-related charges ahead of the NATO-summit considered targeting U.S. President Barack Obama's re-election campaign headquarters and the home of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, according to court documents released on Saturday. The Chicago Police Department said the men were arrested on Wednesday and were charged on Friday with conspiracy to commit terrorism, providing material support for terrorism, and possession of an explosive incendiary device. .../pbr clear="all"/

U.S. marks 150th anniversary of Homestead Act offering free land

Latest anti-NATO protest in Chicago small, peaceful

pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/small-protest-descends-chicago-mayors-home-164703078.html"img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/VO_WLCLdkRidC3qFH6FISA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-05-19T184843Z_1_CBRE84I1G9A00_RTROPTP_2_NATO-SUMMIT-PROTEST.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Protester takes part in demonstration ahead of NATO meeting in Chicago" align="left" title="Protester takes part in demonstration ahead of NATO meeting in Chicago" border="0" //aAround 500 demonstrators gathered outside the home of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Saturday to protest the recent closure of mental health clinics as part of a series of rallies and marches timed to coincide with a NATO summit here. But the protest was much smaller than one attended by an estimated 2,500 people at a downtown plaza on Friday. The biggest rally is expected to be on Sunday near the convention center where world leaders will gather. .../pbr clear="all"/

Alabama governor signs bill tweaking immigration law

MOBILE, Alabama (Reuters) - Alabama's governor signed into law revisions to the state's controversial immigration statute on Friday, despite his earlier suggestions he might veto the measure because it did not make enough changes to the toughest state crackdown against illegal immigrants. Republican Governor Robert Bentley had publicly urged lawmakers to modify sections of the law that took effect last year and which sparked lawsuits by the Obama administration and immigrant rights groups that argued it is unconstitutional. ...

Season's first Atlantic tropical storm forms off South Carolina

MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Alberto formed off the South Carolina coast on Saturday, bringing an early start to the Atlantic hurricane season, forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Alberto was in the Atlantic about 140 miles east-southeast of Charleston. Forecasters initially estimated its top sustained winds at 45 miles per hour but raised that to 60 mph when data from a ship in the area showed the storm was stronger than first thought. ...

Georgia woman with flesh-eating disease in "critical" condition

(Reuters) - A Georgia woman fighting a flesh-eating bacterial infection was in critical condition at Augusta Hospital on Saturday, a hospital spokeswoman said. The spokeswoman said she could not comment on whether Aimee Copeland had undergone surgery to remove her hands and right foot, amputations that Copeland's father had said were pending on Friday. Surgeons had amputated the 24-year-old's left leg at the hip. "All I can say is Aimee is still in critical condition," hospital spokeswoman Barclay Bishop said. ...

California police arrest two in killing of Chinese students

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles police said Friday they have arrested two suspects in the killings of two Chinese graduate students slain near the University of Southern California last month. Ming Qu and Ying Wu, both 23, were fatally shot early on April 11 as they were sitting in a parked car outside Wu's rented home, a few blocks from the USC campus. Bryan Barnes, 20, and Javier Bolden, 19, were arrested on Friday without incident in swoops on two homes, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement. Both men were charged with murder and are being held without bail. ...

Atlantic storm could bring early start to hurricane season

MIAMI (Reuters) - A swirling mass of thunderstorms off the South Carolina coast has a 50-percent chance of developing into a tropical depression or a tropical storm and could bring an early start to the Atlantic hurricane season, forecasters said on Saturday. The weather disturbance was in the Atlantic Ocean about 120 miles southeast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said. "Showers and thunderstorms have increased near the circulation center. ...

Gorilla patriarch of Columbus Zoo surrogacy program dies

CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A gorilla known for being the patriarch of a renowned gorilla surrogacy program at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio died on Friday at an estimated age of 47, the zoo said. The popular gorilla, Mumbah, was eating breakfast with his family when he collapsed, the zoo said in a statement. The animal care team was unable to resuscitate him. Mumbah was born in equatorial Africa around 1965 and brought to the Columbus zoo from England in 1984. He was well past a male gorilla's average life expectancy of 31 years. ...

Retail rent on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue soars

pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/retail-rent-manhattans-fifth-avenue-soars-203723451--sector.html"img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/.AtGL.q9ddu.WLAd_BbmFg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-05-18T203723Z_1_CBRE84H1LAD00_RTROPTP_2_USA-WEATHER.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A commuter walks down Fifth Avenue past a store front advertising winter clothing in New York" align="left" title="A commuter walks down Fifth Avenue past a store front advertising winter clothing in New York" border="0" //aNEW YORK (Reuters) - The price for staking ground on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue jumped 22 percent in the past year, spurred by a record number of tourists spending their dollars at top U.S. and international retailers on America's most coveted shopping ground. The asking rent for street-level stores on Fifth Avenue between 50th and 59th streets rose to $2,750 per square foot this spring, the Real Estate Board of New York said in a report released Friday. .../pbr clear="all"/

Jury deliberations in Edwards trial to resume next week

pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/jury-set-deliberate-case-ex-senator-edwards-103629077.html"img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/oNx65mCHyOnuFjTmL9MztA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-05-18T174434Z_3_CBRE84G1HAJ00_RTROPTP_2_USA-COURT-EDWARDS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Former U.S. Senator John Edwards walks to the federal courthouse in Greensboro" align="left" title="Former U.S. Senator John Edwards walks to the federal courthouse in Greensboro" border="0" //aGREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - Jurors weighing whether former U.S. Senator John Edwards illegally used campaign funds to conceal an extramarital affair when he ran for president headed home on Friday and will resume deliberations next week. A judge let the jury go for the weekend after 5-1/2 hours of discussions. Earlier Friday, jurors asked to review more than a dozen prosecution exhibits. Among the evidence they requested were notes from Rachel "Bunny" Mellon, a wealthy donor to Edwards' campaign, and testimony from her lawyer, Alex Forger. .../pbr clear="all"/

Police nab airline pilot with loaded gun in luggage

BUFFALO, New York (Reuters) - An airline pilot was arrested Friday morning at Buffalo Niagara International Airport after security screeners discovered a loaded revolver in his baggage. Brett Dieter, 52, of Barbersville, Virginia, arrived at the upstate New York airport Friday to pilot a flight to New York City's LaGuardia International Airport for Piedmont Airlines, a passenger airline that subcontracts under U.S. Airways. While at a security checkpoint, a scan of Dieter's bag revealed a .357 magnum revolver loaded with five rounds. ...

California judge allows cremation of remains in paupers' cemetery

FAIRFAX, California (Reuters) - Relatives of a pioneer buried in a paupers' cemetery unearthed by construction crews beneath the parking lot of a California hospital implored a judge on Friday to spare Anna Cardenas from cremation and allow them to give her a Catholic burial. Following a hearing in San Jose on the fate of a long-forgotten cemetery for indigent patients like Cardenas, who died in 1915, Judge Thomas Cain granted Santa Clara County permission to exhume 100 pine coffins buried at the site. ...

Soldier to stand trial for 2009 Iraq shooting

SEATTLE (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier accused of killing five fellow servicemen at a military combat stress center in Baghdad in 2009 has been ordered to stand trial in a U.S. military court, officials said on Friday. Sergeant John Russell, who could face the death penalty if convicted, is accused of going on a shooting spree at Camp Liberty, near the Baghdad airport, in an assault the military said at the time could have been triggered by combat stress. ...

Tropical Storm Alberto loses strength, forecasters say

pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/tropical-storm-alberto-loses-strength-forecasters-030431029--sector.html"img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/XZYO6MWtsEoRkmJdb0Dg8A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT04NTt3PTEzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-05-21T022323Z_1_CBRE84K06N400_RTROPTP_2_STORM-ALBERTO.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="NASA satellite image of Tropical Storm Alberto" align="left" title="NASA satellite image of Tropical Storm Alberto" border="0" //aCharleston, South Carolina (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Alberto churned off the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina on Sunday, and heavy rain and dangerous surf were expected even though forecasters said it had lost strength. Bringing an early start to the Atlantic hurricane season, Alberto reached tropical storm strength on Saturday. By Sunday evening it was about 85 miles south-east of St Augustine, Florida, according to the hurricane center in Miami. .../pbr clear="all"/

At least 45 arrests, some injuries in Chicago anti-NATO clashes

Zuckerberg's post-IPO wedding is smart legal move

Mom with flesh-eating disease had seven operations: brother

Michelle Obama shows South Side of Chicago to first ladies

Singer Robin Gibb, Bee Gees co-founder, dies at 62

pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/singer-robin-gibb-bee-gees-co-founder-dies-002242653.html"img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/9kufROZZpjHKp8lv6umY.g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-05-21T021413Z_3_CBRE84K02R000_RTROPTP_2_PEOPLE-US-ROBINGIBB-DEATH.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="File photo of former Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb speaking during a news conference in Moscow" align="left" title="File photo of former Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb speaking during a news conference in Moscow" border="0" //aLONDON (Reuters) - Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb, who with brothers Barry and Maurice helped define the disco era with their falsetto harmonies and funky beats on smash hits such as "Stayin' Alive" and "Jive Talkin'," has died after a long fight with cancer. He was 62. The singer had colon and liver cancer and, despite brief improvements in his health in recent months, passed away on Sunday evening. "The family of Robin Gibb ... announce with great sadness that Robin passed away today following his long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery," a statement posted on his official website said. .../pbr clear="all"/

Factbox: Bee Gees founder Robin Gibb dies

(Reuters) - Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb, who with brothers Barry and Maurice helped define the disco era with their falsetto harmonies and funky beats, died late on Sunday. He was 62. The three brothers, better known as the Bee Gees, were among the most successful vocal groups in rock and roll history, having sold more than 200 million albums. In 1977, they became the first and only songwriters to place five songs in the Top Ten at the same time. ...

Dale Chihuly's 'Glass House' shines in Seattle

Veterans symbolically discard service medals at anti-NATO rally

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Nearly 50 U.S. military veterans at an anti-NATO rally in Chicago threw their service medals into the street on Sunday, an action they said symbolized their rejection of the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some of the veterans, many wearing military uniform shirts over black anti-war t-shirts, choked back tears as they explained their actions. Others folded an American flag while a bugle played "Taps," which is typically performed at U.S. military funerals. "The medals are supposed to be for acts of heroism. I don't feel like a hero. ...

Mom with flesh-eating disease had seven operations: brother