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• The southern California blaze blocked both ends of a highway, temporarily trapping some deputies and residents trying to evacuate.
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• 9. THE SAFEST SMALL CAR TO CRASH IN
• A safety group gave the two- and four-door Honda Civic models high marks in front-end crash tests. The Nissan Sentra and two Kia models rated "poor."
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• 10. UNION APPEALS A-ROD PENALTY
• Baseball's players association sent Rodriguez' 211-game suspension to an independent arbitrator.
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AP News in Brief
Final straw in disputes between US and Russia leads Obama to back out of summit with Putin
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- The common ground between the U.S. and Russia -- and Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin -- has been shrinking steadily in spite of the much-touted "reset" of relations between the old Cold War foes. And it just got even smaller.
• The latest blow to improving relations came Wednesday when Obama, annoyed with Putin's decision to grant temporary asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, canceled a face-to-face summit with the Russian leader. While U.S. and Russian foreign and defense ministers will sit down in Washington later this week, Obama won't be going to Moscow next month.
• The Snowden decision was only the final straw in disputes that the White House cited for a lack of "recent progress." The U.S. and Russia have been at odds over the Syrian civil war, Russia's domestic crackdown on civil rights, a U.S. missile defense plan for Europe, trade, global security, human rights, even adoptions of Russian children by Americans.
• "We looked at the utility of the summit in light of a number of issues and a number of challenges that we've encountered and decided that it did not make sense to (Continued on page 27)
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