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ousted Islamist leader's first meeting with the outside world since he was overthrown by a military coup on July 3. He had been held incommunicado since his ouster.
• Ashton told reporters in Cairo on Tuesday that her meeting with Morsi took place at an undisclosed location.
• She said he "has access to information, in terms of TV and newspapers, so we were able to talk about the situation, and we were able to talk about the need to move forward." She declined to elaborate.
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Time Warner Cable removes CBS from lineup in 3 cities after fee fight, then reverses decision
• BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- The fee dispute between Time Warner Cable and CBS Corp. took an odd turn when the cable giant announced it was turning off the broadcaster in three major cities, then quickly reversed the decision.
• The two sides negotiated through the day Monday to avoid a programming blackout. Both parties kept extending the deadline before the cable provider appeared to replace regular programming on the network with a company statement for a brief, undetermined amount of time.
• Around 9 p.m. PDT, Time Warner Cable said about 3 million customers in New York, Los Angeles, and Dallas would lose the network and four CBS cable stations because of "outrageous demands for fees" by CBS.
• "We offered to pay reasonable increases, but CBS's demands are out of line and unfair -- and they want Time Warner Cable to pay more than others pay for the same programming," Time Warner Cable said in a statement.
• CBS countered, saying that it remained firm in getting fair compensation for its programming. It accused Time Warner Cable of having a "short-sighted, anti-consumer strategy."
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DIGITS: 79 percent in neighborhoods hardest hit by Sandy say rebuild even in face of risk
• A superstorm. A mile-wide tornado. A wildfire that killed 19 firefighters in seconds. These three crushing natural disasters, all in the past year, illustrate a new challenge facing policymakers: Should communities damaged by disaster rebuild in the same places, knowing the risks of the same thing happening again? Or should they encourage residents to move to safer ground, potentially wiping those places off the map?
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