NY case underscores Wi-Fi privacy dangers

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- Lying on his family room floor with assault weapons trained on him, shouts of "pedophile!" and "pornographer!" stinging like his fresh cuts and bruises, the Buffalo homeowner didn't need long to figure out the reason for the early morning wake-up call from a swarm of federal agents.

That new wireless router. He'd gotten fed up trying to set a password. Someone must have used his Internet connection, he thought.

"We know who you are! You downloaded thousands of images at 11:30 last night," the man's lawyer, Barry Covert, recounted the agents saying. They referred to a screen name, "Doldrum."

In Misrata clinic, doctor keeps a grim record

MISRATA, Libya (AP) -- Dr. Mohammed al-Fagieh, chief surgeon at Hilal Hospital in Misrata, carries around a gruesome catalog of recent cases that have come through his wards.

When asked about common wounds, he pulled a cell phone from the pocket of his blue scrubs and flipped through a sampling of images.

"This was yesterday morning," he said Wednesday, showing a photo of a man with a gaping hole in his head. "His brains are out."

US envoy criticized for religious activism resigns

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. ambassador to Malta, an important Roman Catholic supporter of President Barack Obama, said Sunday he would resign after a State Department report criticized him for spending too much time writing and speaking about his religious beliefs.

In letters to Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Douglas Kmiec said he would step down Aug. 15. He told The Associated Press that no one pressured him to leave.

Kmiec was a well-known conservative law professor and commentator before being taking the job in 2009. But a report this month by the State Department's inspector general rebuked Kmiec for concentrating too much on issues such as abortion and his faith, while neglecting his ambassadorial duties

2012 presidential candidates `friend' social media

NEW YORK (AP) -- Republican Tim Pawlenty disclosed his 2012 presidential aspirations on Facebook. Rival Mitt Romney did it with a tweet. President Barack Obama kicked off his re-election bid with a digital video emailed to the 13 million online backers who helped power his historic campaign in 2008.

Welcome to The Social Network, presidential campaign edition.

The candidates and contenders have embraced the Internet to far greater degrees than previous White House campaigns, communicating directly with voters on platforms where they work and play. If Obama's online army helped define the last campaign and Howard Dean's Internet fundraising revolutionized the Democratic primary in 2004, next year's race will be the first to reflect the broad cultural migration to the digital world.

A Consumer's Guidebook to Health Care Modernize

The six-month capable age 26 on your health plan if he or she can not get coverage done a job. Recently policies can not deny coverage for children up to age 19 based on pre-existing medical circumstances. "Grandfathered" plans can, even so, they as well can determine annual dollar bounds on coverage and require patients to assist pay for some preventive services.

Most people in the individual market are expected to move to new plans by 2014. Analysts say nearly plans in the group market will belike have misplaced their "grandfathered" condition because of alterations fixed to them.