Pro-Morsi supporters in Egypt start new vigil

CAIRO (AP) ? Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi have expanded their vigils in Cairo, starting a third near the capital's international airport. That's in defiance of threats from authorities to break-up their sit-ins.

The new vigil started Friday in the eastern Cairo neighborhood of Heliopolis, close to the airport. Protester Hani el-Shafei said thousands of supporters already set up tents and blocked traffic. He said a military helicopter flew over the new sit-in.

On the other side of town, an official said security forces lobbed tear gas canisters at pro-Morsi supporters who tried to storm a complex housing most of Egypt's private television stations.

The expanding protests follow threats from authorities that they would besieged and break up pro-Morsi vigils, describing them a "threat to national security."

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Oil falls after data show tepid US jobs growth

The price of oil fell Friday after two days of big gains, as investors took profits following a report that showed job growth slowed in the U.S. last month.

Benchmark crude for September delivery fell 95 cents to close at $106.94 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Oil still finished the week up $2.24 a barrel, or 2 percent, due to a gain of $4.81 over Wednesday and Thursday.

U.S. employers added 162,000 jobs in July, the government said, a modest increase and the fewest since March. Although the unemployment rate dropped to a 4 1/2-year low of 7.4 percent, that was one of few hopeful signs in an otherwise lackluster report.

At the pump, the average price for a gallon of gasoline held steady at $3.63. That's up 15 cents from a month ago and 10 cents higher than at this time last year.

Brent crude, traded on the ICE Futures exchange in London, fell 59 cents to finish at $108.95 per barrel. Brent gained $1.78 a barrel for the week.

In other energy futures trading on the Nymex:

_ Heating oil fell 3 cents to end at $3.07 a gallon.

_ Natural gas fell 4 cents to finish at $3.35 per 1,000 cubic feet.

_ Wholesale gasoline fell 3 cents to end at $2.99 a gallon.

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Pamela Sampson in Bangkok contributed to this report.

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Keith Urban returning as 'American Idol' judge

FILE - This May 16, 2013 file photo shows Keith Urban at the "American Idol" finale in Los Angeles. Urban will return as a judge on the singing competition series. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - This May 16, 2013 file photo shows Keith Urban at the "American Idol" finale in Los Angeles. Urban will return as a judge on the singing competition series. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) ? Keith Urban is coming back to "American Idol."

Fox chairman Kevin Reilly on Thursday confirmed the return of the country music star, settling the fate of the only judge left from last season on the talent competition.

"He did a really good job last year," Reilly said to a gathering of the Television Critics Association. "The fans really like him."

Reilly said Urban didn't have a chance to show his personality. The executive didn't say why, but the country singer was routinely overshadowed by bickering between fellow judges Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey. Their departures, along with that of Randy Jackson, were announced weeks ago, a response to the show's sagging ratings.

But Reilly was mum on who would sit beside Urban at the judges' table next season, which begins in January. Reilly said there have been discussions with Jennifer Lopez, a former judge, "but there is no deal with her or with anyone else."

"Idol" is looking for judges who make it comfortable for viewers, Reilly said. Whoever is on the panel, there will be a renewed emphasis on the contestants.

"The show always has been about the contestants," he said.

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On Motorola's dance with the devil

I'll take my Moto X free of any carrier shenanigans, please

Like most everyone here, I was pretty excited to see exactly what Motorola had to tell us yesterday. After months of hype and countless rumors, I was curious about what they would, and could, offer up with the X Phone and how it would differ from all those rumors. You just knew they all couldn't be true.

As the news came in, I was pretty happy with the parts that were true. The specs and the new X8 computing system is something I'm excited to have a go with, allowing folks to pick their color may sound silly but it will be a big hit with plenty of folks, and even the 720p screen was something I'm fine with. A screen is more than the ppi. But the killer feature, and one that matters most to me, was just not to be. That broke the deal.

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See what happens when young libertarians meet Ted Cruz

ARLINGTON, Va. -- There?s an old clich? that if you?re looking for a friend in Washington, get a dog. That may help explain why three renegade Republican senators, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah, briefly fled across the Potomac Wednesday night to mingle with a crowd more appreciative of their brand of politics.

Earlier this week, several hundred college-aged libertarians gathered for the fifth annual Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) conference inside a ballroom room of the Westin Hotel, located a safe seven miles from the capitol building. YAL is the youth outreach group that was birthed from the womb of former Texas Rep. Ron Paul?s first run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, and it works with Paul?s other organization, the Campaign for Liberty, to continue advocating for his causes.

The young Paulites at the Westin howled when Paul, Cruz and Lee strolled onto the stage. United screams of ?Run Rand Run!??a chant that shares the cadence of another Paulian rallying cry, ?End the Fed!??rippled through the room. The trio stood on the stage for a full minute until the noise simmered. Rand Paul, who had changed out of the buttoned up suit he wore on Capitol Hill to jeans and a blazer, sat in a chair next to Cruz and Lee looking comfortable among his flock.

?We?re not accustomed to that kind of welcome in Washington,? Lee beamed over the whoops and hollers. "There are people just a few miles from here who give us quite the opposite reception.? (He wasn?t exaggerating. A lot of Republicans find these three really annoying.)

"It seems there may be a few wacko birds in the house,? Cruz said from his perch in the middle of the stage, a reference to a term coined by Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain that was not made with affection at the time.

For some of the Paulites, Cruz was somewhat of a new face. His thinking on issues dear to them?ending the Federal Reserve, taming the welfare state and embracing a non-interventionist foreign policy, to name a few?are still largely untested, although both Ron and Rand Paul endorsed him during his Senate race.? The conference provided Cruz with an opportunity to prove himself as a true believer.

A few weeks ago, Cruz underwent a similar test in front of more than 600 Christian church leaders in Iowa? where he passed with flying colors. Now was his chance to do the same with college-aged libertarians.

Acting as a moderator for the discussion, YAL Executive Director Jeff Frazee wasted no time in quizzing Cruz on his ideological credentials.

?Would you support a war that was not constitutionally declared by the Congress?? Frazee asked, directing the question specifically to Cruz.

?No,? Cruz replied, pausing to let the audience applaud. ?The Declaration of War is one of the most important checks and balances the Constitution gives on the power of the president."

By the end of the forum, it appeared that Cruz had found himself in the Paulite's good graces. The era of positive feelings, however, will only last as long as he?s not running against Rand Paul for president in a future election cycle. Check out what the Campaign for Liberty is already doing to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio , who earlier that day voted against a bill Paul introduced in the Senate. Oof! But for now, Cruz seems to be making a fine impression.

Paul, 50, and Cruz and Lee, both 42, are from diverse regions of the country and were elected as a direct result of the tea party movement. Paul and Lee came to the Senate in 2011, while Cruz arrived just this year.

All three believe they represent the future of the party and hold that elusive key that can help bring young people back to the GOP -- a demographic that largely left the party after the Reagan era.

Part of that effort, as it has played out over the past few months, has required a bit of troublemaking, at least from the viewpoint of some of the seasoned Republicans with more mileage walking the halls of Congress.

While it is traditional in the Senate for new members, for instance, to be seen and not heard in their first few years in office, newbie lawmakers like Cruz, Paul and Lee have been anything but. All have been highly outspoken during their brief careers, and that includes issues that have separated them from some of their Republican colleagues in the chamber.

In March, Paul spent nearly 13 hours on the Senate floor to protest the president?s drone policy using old-fashioned filibuster tactics, and both Lee and Cruz joined him. (While many in the GOP leadership cheered him on, the filibuster received mixed reviews from some Republicans .) Just this week, McCain?the same McCain who made the ?wacko birds? remark that Cruz loves to mention so often?told The New Republic magazine that it would be a ? tough choice? for him if Paul ran against Democrat Hillary Clinton for president.

Most recently, Cruz, Lee and Paul?as well as Rubio?have been leading an effort to refuse to vote to fund the government unless the federal health care law known as Obamacare is defunded. The push is causing a bit of consternation among some of the other lawmakers who don?t want to risk being blamed for trying to shut down the government. (Because let?s face it, Republicans will be blamed if they pick that fight.) Many Republicans have warned them to drop it, and lambasted their campaign as ?dumb? and ? silly.?

But Paul has a prediction about many of their naysayers: They won?t be around long. And the wacko birds will multiply.

?I think that when you look at the contrast between the old guard, it?s part of the shrinking of the Republican Party,? Paul told the audience. ?They?re presiding over a dying party.?

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/senate--wacko-birds--at-home-among-the-ron-paul-faithful--210259493.html

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Lawyer: Snowden has a place to live in Russia

In this still image taken on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013 and released by Russia24 TV channel, shows Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, second right in the center, and National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, center back to a camera, as Snowden leaves Sheremetyevo airport outside Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013. Snowden has received asylum in Russia for one year and left the transit zone of Moscow's airport, his lawyer said Thursday. Kucherena said that Snowden's whereabouts will be kept secret for security reasons. (AP Photo/Russia24 via Associated Press Television) TV OUT

In this still image taken on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013 and released by Russia24 TV channel, shows Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, second right in the center, and National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, center back to a camera, as Snowden leaves Sheremetyevo airport outside Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013. Snowden has received asylum in Russia for one year and left the transit zone of Moscow's airport, his lawyer said Thursday. Kucherena said that Snowden's whereabouts will be kept secret for security reasons. (AP Photo/Russia24 via Associated Press Television) TV OUT

A street cafe visitor reads a fresh Russian newspaper "Izvestia" with a front page pictures of Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, center, and National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, center left, taken on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013 at Sheremetyevo airport outside Moscow, Russia, on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. Snowden has received asylum in Russia for one year and left the transit zone of Moscow's airport, his lawyer said Thursday. Kucherena said after meeting with the fugitive at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, where he was stuck since his arrival from Hong Kong on June 23, that he handed him the papers proving his status. Kucherena said that Snowden's whereabouts will be kept secret for security reasons. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

In this image taken form Russia24 TV channel, Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena shows Snowden's a temporary document Russia while speaking to the media after visiting National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden at Sheremetyevo airport outside Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013. National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has received asylum in Russia for one year and left the transit zone of Moscow? airport, his lawyer said Thursday. Kucherena said after meeting with the fugitive at Moscow?s Sheremetyevo airport, where he was stuck since his arrival from Hong Kong on June 23, that he handed him the papers proving his status. Kucherena said that Snowden?s whereabouts will be kept secret for security reasons. (AP Photo/Russia24 via APTN) TV OUT

MOSCOW (AP) ? National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has a place to live in Russia after being granted temporary asylum, but he still hasn't decided what he wants to do next, his lawyer said Friday. The big question may be how much choice he actually has.

Russia granted a year of asylum to Snowden on Thursday, allowing him to quietly slip out of the Moscow airport where he had been holed up for almost six weeks as he evades charges of espionage in the United States. Authorities have suggested he will have wide freedom to work, but Kremlin watchers believe his moves are likely being closely controlled by Russian intelligence.

Snowden "is in a safe place," but the location will remain secret out of concern for his security, his lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, told Russian news agencies. The systems analyst who revealed himself as the source of reports in the Guardian newspaper of a vast U.S. Internet surveillance program needs time after his ordeal in airport limbo to figure out his next steps.

He was seen only once in his weeks in the transit zone of the Sheremetyevo airport. Despite troops of photographers and reporters camped out inside and outside the airport, no one apparently saw him leaving, except for someone who snapped a photo of Kucherena talking to blurry figures who the attorney later said were Snowden and Sarah Harrison, a WikiLeaks staffer who has been advising him.

Kucherena said he expects Snowden to speak to journalists soon. "As soon as he decides what he will do, I hope he will announce it himself," the ITAR-Tass news agency quoted the lawyer as saying.

The move to grant Snowden asylum infuriated the Obama administration, which said it was "extremely disappointed" and warned that the decision could derail an upcoming summit between President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul on Friday met with Putin's foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov to discuss matters including Snowden, the U.S. Embassy said on its Twitter account. There were no further details.

The asylum decision gives Russia cover to depict itself as a defender of human rights, pointing a finger to deflect criticism of its own poor record on rights including free speech. But the secrecy that surrounded Snowden's time at the Moscow airport and his unwillingness so far to talk to the press indicates he is being controlled by Russian intelligence, Andrei Soldatov, a Russian journalist who co-authored a book on the Russian intelligence services said.

"Does he have independent sources of information and communication? My impression is that he has none, which means he's not his own master," Soldatov said.

He said Kucherena's statements about concerns for Snowden's safety do not hold water.

"We are all perfectly aware that Snowden, who has just received asylum, does not face any danger in Russia," Soldatov said. "American intelligence does not kidnap or assassinate people in Russia, that's a fact. This is a just a pretext."

One of the reasons for keeping Snowden isolated may be to prevent him from speaking about the people he met and what really happened to him during the 39 days he spent in the airport's transit zone, Soldatov said. For the same reason, Soldatov said he expected Russian authorities to find a job for Snowden that will prevent him from having contacts with journalists.

Putin has denied that Russia's security services have worked with Snowden, either before or after he arrived in Moscow on a flight from Hong Kong. But security experts have said that Russia's intelligence agencies would not have passed up a chance to at least question a man who is believed to hold reams of classified U.S. documents and could shed light on how the U.S. intelligence agencies collect information.

Snowden's temporary asylum allows him to work in Russia, with some restrictions, said immigration lawyer Bakhrom Ismailov.

"Snowden has the same rights for employment as a Russian citizen except that he is not allowed to work as a public servant or take a job in law enforcement agencies," said Ismailov, a managing partner at Yurinvestholding. The founder of Russia's Facebook-like social network site VKontakte, has already made what sounded like a job offer on Twitter.

The law on temporary asylum says a person with this status is entitled "to receive assistance" in traveling out of Russia. Ismailov said that this assistance could mean issuing a travel document, but this is not normally done for people with temporary asylum.

Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia had offered Snowden asylum and he told human rights figures during a meeting in mid-July that he wanted to visit all those countries. But Kucherena said Thursday that Snowden no longer has such plans.

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Associated Press writer Lynn Berry in Moscow contributed to this report.

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LA Galaxy vs. Real Madrid

LA Galaxy vs. Real Madrid
Thursday, August 1, 7:30 p.m. PT

BROADCAST INFO:

English TV ? Fox Soccer

English Radio ? AM 1150 (30 minute pre-game show)

Spanish Radio ? AM 1330 (30 minute pre-game and 30 minute post-game show)

Satellite Radio ? Sirius XM

Live audio and web chat (English and Spanish) ? lagalaxy.com/gameday

Source: http://www.lagalaxy.com/gameday/live?altcast_code=c69b120ec5

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