In Cairo on Tuesday, Egyptian Army military policemen carried the coffin of one of the 16 border guards killed during an attack on a crossing post in the northern Sinai on Sunday.
Steve Inskeep speaks with Leila Fadel on 'Morning Edition'
The news that Egypt's military has attacked groups of what it says are "Islamist militants" in the Sinai with missiles from aircraft and shells fired from tanks underscores how "extremely dangerous" the situation has quickly become along that nation's border with Israel, NPR's Leila Fadel said earlier today on Morning Edition.
Originally published on Tue August 7, 2012 10:11 pm
Leo Manzano, 27, came from behind with a last-minute kick to claim silver in the men's 1,500-meter final, today. That's no small feat for the Mexican-born American runner: He is the first American to medal in the metric mile since Jim Ryun won a silver in 1968.
Russia's Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina compete in the duets free routine final during the synchronized swimming competition. The pair won the event.
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U.S. hurdler Dawn Harper competes in the women's 100m hurdles semifinals. Harper placed second in the finals.
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Russia's Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina compete in the duets free routine final during the synchronized swimming competition during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The pair won the event.
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Malaysia's Yeoh Ken Nee competes in the men's 3m springboard diving semifinals. He finished 10th in the final.
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U.S. gymnast Alexandra Raisman competes during the artistic gymnastics women's beam final. She won bronze for the event and won gold for her performance in the floor exercise.
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U.S. gymnast Gabrielle Douglas falls off the balance beam during the finals. Douglas finished in seventh place.
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Erik Kynard of the U.S. clears the bar in the men's high jump final. He finished second in the event.
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Misty May-Treanor of the U.S. celebrates at the end of the women's beach volleyball semifinal with Kerri Walsh Jennings (in the background) against China's Xue Chen and Zhang Xi.
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Ruslan Albegov of Russia reacts after completing one of his lifts during the men's 105kg weightlifting final. He finished third in the event.
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South Korea's Kim Hyeonwoo, winner of the gold medal in the 66-kilogram Greco-Roman Wrestling event, bites his medal as he poses on the podium. He won the final despite a badly swollen eye.
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U.S. hurdler Dawn Harper competes in the women's 100-meter hurdles semifinals. She won a silver medal in the finals.
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Russia's Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina compete in the duets free routine final during the synchronized swimming competition. The pair won the event.
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Malaysia's Yeoh Ken Nee competes in the men's 3-meter springboard diving semifinals. He finished 10th in the final.
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U.S. gymnast Alexandra Raisman took bronze during the artistic gymnastics women's beam final. She also won a gold medal for her performance in the floor exercise.
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U.S. gymnast Gabrielle Douglas falls off the balance beam during the individual event finals, finishing in seventh place.
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Erik Kynard of the U.S. clears the bar in the men's high jump final. He finished second in the event.
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Misty May-Treanor of the U.S. celebrates at the end of the women's beach volleyball semifinal with Kerri Walsh Jennings (in the background) against China's Xue Chen and Zhang Xi. The U.S. team won 2-0.
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Ruslan Albegov of Russia reacts after completing one of his lifts during the men's 105-kilogram weightlifting final. He finished third in the event.
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South Korea's Kim Hyeonwoo, winner of the gold medal in the 66kg Greco Roman Wrestling event, bites his medal as he poses on the podium. He won the final despite a badly swollen eye.
Originally published on Wed August 8, 2012 5:54 pm
Photo highlights from today's Olympic action feature women's synchronized swimming, women's gymnastics, several track and field events, and men's weightlifting.
Misty May-Treanor of the U.S. celebrates at the end of the women's beach volleyball semifinal with Kerri Walsh Jennings (in the background) against China's Xue Chen and Zhang Xi. USA won 2-0.
The United States will have at least two shiny new medals no matter what happens tomorrow at the women's beach volleyball final.
After defeating China (2-0) and Brazil (2-1), today, the two American teams advanced to the finals, setting up an all-American match. It means the U.S. will receive a gold and silver.
Peter Forcelli, an ATF agent who blew the whistle on management lapses in the gun trafficking scandal known as Fast and Furious, has reached an agreement with the bureau over his retaliation claims.
A lawyer for Forcelli declined to disclose the terms of the settlement because it was the product of a confidential mediation process.
Originally published on Tue August 7, 2012 9:14 pm
There's a life-or-death drama unfolding in Texas tonight. It involves the death penalty, the Supreme Court and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.
First the basics: Marvin Wilson, 54, is set to be executed by Texas tonight. He was convicted of the 1992 killing of a police informant. His attorneys however argue that a Supreme Court ban on the death penalty for the mentally impaired prohibits the state from going forward with tonight's execution and are asking the high court to step in.
This artist concept shows NASA's Curiosity rover as it will look once it starts investigating the Martian surface for the ability to sustain microbial life — past or present.
Originally published on Tue August 7, 2012 9:36 pm
Our world seems so broken now and so much of it seems our own fault. The whole of our infrastructure — from highways to high schools, power-grids to public universities — seem on the verge of crumbling. The resources to repair or expand these arteries of public life are gone, we are told, in part because four years ago the economy was jerked to halt through (what appear to be) selective acts of titanic greed and apocalyptic mismanagement.
Another once-promising Alzheimer's drug has just been tossed on the pharmaceutical scrap heap.
This time it's a drug called bapineuzumab. Like several previous experimental drugs, it was designed to attack the plaques that build up in the brains of people with Alzheimer's.
U.S. water polo players on the bench react during their semifinal match between Australia and the United States at the Water Polo Arena in London. The Americans will play for gold on Thursday.
The American women's water polo team will again chase an elusive gold medal, this time at the London Olympics. The team qualified for the gold medal match by defeating longtime Olympic rival Australia.
Tied after regular time expired, the Americans scored two goals in overtime to beat the Australian water polo women, 11-9. Now the U.S. team moves on to the gold medal match Thursday.
There's always a line at the Boulangerie Cauvet on the corner of rue St. Charles in Paris's 15th district. In their family owned bakery, Esmeralda Cauvet and her husband Cyril sell around 800 croissants and 3,500 baguettes a day.
In the kitchen, head pastry maker Pierre Gibert still rolls his croissants from triangular strips of dough. "The key to a good croissant is good ingredients and a high quality dough. You have to knead it, let it rise and roll it a second time in butter. That's what gives a croissant its flaky quality," Gibert says.
Originally published on Tue August 7, 2012 4:42 pm
Jared Loughner, the man accused of going on a shooting spree during a meet-and-greet held by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Ariz., pleaded guilty today. The shooting spree left six people dead and 13 others wounded.
The AP adds:
"Loughner's plea Tuesday allows him to avoid the death penalty in a mass shooting that gained worldwide attention in January 2011 because his intended target was the congresswoman. Among the dead were Arizona's chief federal judge and a Giffords aide.
A cloned foal named "ET Cryozootech Stallion" stands with Hugo Simon, Austrian former Olympic rider of "princeps" (initial donor) ET. The main equestrian organization has ended its ban on clones in the Olympics
Will the London 2012 Games be remembered as the last Olympics of the pre-clone era? The answer is maybe — because the group that oversees equestrian events has given its OK to allowing cloned horses to compete in the Summer Olympics.
Former baseball player Barry Bonds arrives at federal court for sentencing in Dec. 2011. Bonds was convicted of obstructing a government investigation into steroid use among athletes.
Originally published on Tue August 7, 2012 2:24 pm
Barry Bonds will be in the Hall of Fame ballot for the first time this November. Whether he deserves a spot in Cooperstown will no doubt be debated endlessly. One side are those who say you can't take away the 762 home runs that made Bonds the sport's most successful slugger. Others will say that he and others like Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa are forever tarnished because of their connection to performance enhancing drugs.
