AT&T to buy Leap Wireless for $1.2 billion

Consolidation continues in the wireless industry. After failing to land T-Mobile US, AT&T said Friday it agreed to buy prepaid wireless provider Leap Wireless International for $15 per share in cash. The nation's second largest carrier will pay about $1.2 billion for all of Leap's stock and wireless properties, including licenses, network assets, retail stores and about 5 million subscribers. Shares of Leap, which is based in San Diego and...

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23 injured in Pamplona as bull run ends in a stampede by the revelers

PAMPLONA, Spain — The penultimate bull run of Spain's San Fermin festival left at least 23 people injured Saturday, when thrill-seekers fleeing the beasts were crushed at the narrow entrance to the bullring, officials said. An American citizen from Ohio was one of two runners gored. As the huge animals thundered into the entrance of the tunnel, they were blocked by a mound of dozens of people who had fallen and were piled on top of one other. One bull that had fallen before the entrance got up and charged into the clogged passageway. Two steers...

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Mobile App Update Bonanza

Chrome, Facebook, Vine and other popular apps for Android and iOS platforms got significant updates this week. App developers pushed out scores of updates to their applications this week. Smartphone and tablet owners can now do more with apps including Chrome, Facebook, Maps, Skype, Twitter, Vine and Yahoo Mail. Here's what's new. -- Chrome: Google offered an update to its popular Android browser that adds full-screen browsing to tablets. Chrome...

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Napolitano resigns as Homeland Security secretary

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who has handled hot-button issues ranging from immigration to counter-terrorism, said Friday she is resigning to run the University of California and its system of colleges. "I thank President Obama for the chance to serve our nation during this important chapter in our history," Napolitano said in a statement. "And I know the Department of Homeland Security will continue to perform its important duties...

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Democrats vow abortion fight in Texas

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republicans in the Texas Legislature passed an omnibus abortion bill that is one of the most restrictive in the nation, but Democrats vowed Saturday to fight both in the courts and the ballot box as they used the measure to rally their supporters. More than 2,000 demonstrators filled the Capitol building in Austin to oppose the bill, and state troopers drug six out of the Senate chamber for trying to disrupt the debate. The...

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Kanye West Is "Not Changing Diapers" for Baby North

Kanye West Is "Not Changing Diapers" for Baby NorthIt's a dirty job and somebody's gotta do it, but that somebody is not Kanye West. Since welcoming baby daughter North with girlfriend Kim Kardashian on June 15, West, 36, has embraced almost every aspect of fatherhood, with one notable exception: dirty diapers.Read more:http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/news/kanye-west-is-not-changing-diapers-for-baby-north-201...

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Mandela on life support, faces 'impending death'

Mandela on life support, faces 'impending death'JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela is being kept alive by a breathing machine and faces "impending death," court documents show.The former president's health is "perilous," according to documents filed in the court case that resulted in the remains of his three deceased children being reburied Thursday in their original graves."The anticipation of his impending death is based on real and substantial...

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How to Be Better at Email: A Comprehensive Scientific Guide

How to Be Better at Email: A Comprehensive Scientific Guide Email is all-pervasive, and arguably one of the most important tools of modern business. But the fact is most of us are not particularly good at it, wasting time on messages we should ignore and losing track of those that we should be focusing on. Then there's the base human instinct to cc: everyone in our address notebook whenever possible.What are the best ways to take control and...

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Ex-Russian spy Anna Chapman proposes marriage to Edward Snowden

Ex-Russian spy Anna Chapman proposes marriage to Edward SnowdenThe rest of the world may not want him, but NSA leaker Edward Snowden has at least one potential taker: Anna Chapman. The ex-spy tweeted yesterday, “Snowden, will you marry me?!”The former Russian spy may have sympathy for the man who spilled top-secret documents. Chapman, after all, is no stranger to run-ins with government authorities.The 31-year-old had been posing as a real-estate...

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Egypt's security forces move against Muslim Brotherhood

Egypt's security forces move against Muslim Brotherhood Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- A day after deposing the nation's first democratically elected president, Egypt's security forces on Thursday moved to arrest leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood that had supported his rule and to silence their communications outlets. Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad told CNN the ousted president, Mohamed Morsy, was under house arrest at the presidential...

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Morsi is out as Egypt’s president

Morsi is out as Egypt’s president CAIRO -- The leader of Egypt’s military ousted President Mohammed Morsi from office and replaced him with the head of the country’s constitutional court -- a move the presidential palace quickly branded a “complete military coup.”The announcements capped days of political crisis that brought millions of Egyptians out to the country’s streets, spurring bellicose rhetoric from Morsi’s backers and Egypt’s military,...

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Snowden's Options for Refuge Narrow

Snowden's Options for Refuge Narrow As Edward Snowden entered his second week of limbo in Moscow's airport on Sunday, his decision to go to Russia is looking riskier than it first appeared, and may have left him in a worse situation than if he had stayed in Hong Kong. Even with his next move uncertain, the former National Security Agency contractor caused fresh uproar over the weekend. On Sunday, German weekly Der Spiegel, citing information from Mr. Snowden, reported that the U.S. had placed listening devices in a European...

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Snowden seeks asylum in Russia

Snowden seeks asylum again in RussiaMOSCOW (MarketWatch) — Edward Snowden, the former U.S. National Security Agency staffer accused of espionage, has filed an application for political asylum in Russia, a Russian consular official said Monday.The application was filed at the consular office in Terminal F of Moscow’s Sheremetevo Airport around 10:30 p.m. Sunday by Sarah Harrison, the WikiLeaks staffer who has accompanied Snowden since he left Hong Kong just over a week ago, the official said, noting that it was sent to the Foreign Ministry for processing.The...

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Putin says Snowden should stop harming 'our American partners'

Putin says Snowden should stop harming 'our American partners'(Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin made starkly clear on Monday that Edward Snowden was not welcome in Russia, and voiced solidarity with the United States over the fugitive former U.S. spy agency contactor.However, speaking eight days after Snowden arrived at a Moscow airport where he is believed to remain, Putin repeated that Russia had no intention of handing the American over to...

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