Malaysia not sure which way lost jet was headed
Officials acknowledge they don't know which direction the plane was heading when it vanished.Read More ...
San Francisco firefighters stop big blaze spread
SAN
FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco firefighters prevented a five-alarm fire
from spreading from a condominium construction site to nearby buildings
on Tuesday.Read More ...
Obamacare tested in Florida special election won by GOP
The Republican victory in Florida's special election Tuesday serves as an example for future battles over Obamacare.Read More ...
CIA-Senate dispute: Who's spying on whom?
Complex story starts with waterboarding and ends in a secret CIA facility in Virginia.Read More ...
Fla. House race could be warning for Democrats
CLEARWATER
BEACH, Fla. (AP) — After months of railing against President Barack
Obama's health care overhaul, Republicans scored a key victory in a
hard-fought congressional race that had been closely watched as a
bellwether of midterm elections in November.Read More ...
Pistorius trial: cricket bat, toilet door shown
PRETORIA,
South Africa (AP) — A South African forensic analyst has said at the
Oscar Pistorius murder trial that a cricket bat was used to strike the
toilet door at the athlete's home, in testimony focusing on the events
of the night when Pistorius fatally shot his girlfriend.Read More ...
Obama to host new Ukrainian PM at White House
WASHINGTON
(AP) — In a diplomatic dig at Russia, President Barack Obama is hosting
the new Ukrainian prime minister at the White House, a high-profile
gesture aimed at cementing the West's allegiance to Ukraine's fledgling
government.Read More ...
Cold and snow returns after brief period of warmth
CHICAGO
(AP) — The Midwest and the Eastern Seaboard are bracing for another
blast of below-normal temperatures and heavy snowfall after a few days
of temperatures that moved slightly above normal for this time of year.Read More ...
Tumult over military sexual assaults far from over
WASHINGTON
(AP) — The turmoil over how to end an epidemic of sexual assaults in
the U.S. military is far from over as Congress haggles over legislative
remedies and new details emerge about a high-profile case involving an
Army general and a female captain under his command.Read More ...
Flobots classroom project takes off in Denver
DENVER
(AP) — The Flobots, a Denver hip-hop band that gained fame with the hit
single "Handlebars," are known for social activism and supporting the
Occupy Wall Street movement. Drew Elder, a senior vice president of the
investment firm Janus, is more familiar with the cello than with Chuck
D.Read More ...
49ers acquire Jonathan Martin from Dolphins
SAN
FRANCISCO (AP) — Jonathan Martin has had Jim Harbaugh's support all
along, from his early college days at Stanford to the offensive tackle's
tumultuous year in which he accused a Dolphins teammate of bullying,
and even in a formal NFL investigation into the situation in Miami.Read More ...
Obama pitches his health care plan on Funny or Die
NEW
YORK (AP) — Zach Galifianakis brought the ferns, and President Barack
Obama opened a new avenue of presidential communication.Read More ...
Pistorius trial: Toilet door set up in courtroom
PRETORIA,
South Africa (AP) — The brown, bullet-marked toilet door through which
Oscar Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend was set up in the
courtroom at the athlete's murder trial Wednesday, suggesting
prosecutors will attempt to recreate his shooting of Reeva Steenkamp a
year ago for the judge.Read More ...
Republican Jolly wins Fla. congressional race
CLEARWATER
BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Republican David Jolly defeated Democrat Alex Sink
on Tuesday in a Tampa-area House district where President Barack Obama's
health care overhaul got its first test ahead of November's midterm
elections and both sides spent millions auditioning national strategies.Read More ...
APNewsBreak: Defense contractor to plead guilty
HONOLULU
(AP) — A civilian defense contractor accused of giving military secrets
to a Chinese girlfriend half his age will be entering a guilty plea,
his attorney said Tuesday.Read More ...
Crimea's parliament pushes for independence
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Work until you die: Lifelong labor becomes the new normal
There’s
an interesting paradox happening in the U.S. labor market: Today there
are more incentives than ever for a healthy, prosperous retirement. Yet
over the same time period since investment options like 401(k)’s become
available, people have been choosing to work further into their golden
years.Read More ...
Malaysian relative 'praying for divine intervention'
Two
suspect men who flew on a missing Malaysian airliner appear to have
been Iranian illegal immigrants, officials said Tuesday, lessening fears
of terrorism but shedding no light on the fate of the plane's 239
passengers and crew. On the fourth day of a multinational search at sea
and on land, relatives desperate for news of loved ones aboard Malaysia
Airlines MH370 said their hopes for a miracle were ebbing away.
Authorities have doubled the search radius to 100 nautical miles
(equivalent to 185 kilometres) around the point where the Boeing 777
disappeared from radar over the South China Sea early Saturday, en route
from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The 34-year-old son of Malaysian security
guard Subramaniam Gurusamy was on the flight to do business in Beijing
for an oil company.Read More ...
Anti-fracking activist barred from visiting friends, grocery store
By
David DeKok HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - A court injunction
obtained by Texas-based Cabot Oil & Gas is preventing
Pennsylvania resident Vera Scroggins from going to her local grocery
store, her friends' homes, schools, or even the hospital. That's because
those properties sit atop the more than 200,000 acres in Susquehanna
County that the energy producer owns and leases for gas extraction -
land on which Scroggins, a determined anti-fracking activist, is not
allowed to tread. A judge in October granted Cabot's request to bar
Scroggins from the land - more than 40 percent of Susquehanna County,
where she lives - after her repeated trespassing, court documents show.
Her offending actions included giving a tour last year to anti-drilling
celebrities Susan Sarandon, Yoko Ono, and Sean Lennon, the documents
said.Read More ...
$600K taken from safe at Osteen's Houston megachurch
HOUSTON
(AP) — Authorities are investigating after $600,000 in checks and cash
was stolen from a safe at Pastor Joel Osteen's Houston megachurch, which
has one of the largest congregations in the country.Read More ...
Interpol tests giving airlines access to its passports database
LYON,
France (AP) — Interpol is allowing two airlines to check passenger
passports against its vast database of lost and stolen travel documents —
in a test project aimed to let private sector companies help
authorities crack down on criminals who travel with fake documents, the
police organization's leader said Tuesday.Read More ...
NSA nominee defends bulk data collection
Obama's pick to head agency also says he's open to third-party storage of phone records.Read More ...
Black Hawk helicopter rescues man off NC cliff
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Is Japan building an irresistible terror target?
Center for Public Integrity investigates Japan's new Rokkasho plutonium production plant.Read More ...
CIA chief denies agency hacked Senate staff computers
A
top US lawmaker's hotly disputed charge that the CIA illegally spied on
Senate staff has roiled the intelligence community, fraying ties
between the agency and its overseers in Congress. Senator Dianne
Feinstein brought what had been a behind-the-scenes spat into the public
glare Tuesday with her furious broadside against the Central
Intelligence Agency, saying its agents searched computers used by
staffers investigating its interrogation methods. "I have grave concerns
that the CIA's search may well have violated the separation of powers
principles embodied in the United States Constitution," Feinstein said
on the Senate floor. She alleged the CIA may have breached federal law
as well as the executive order that bars it from domestic spying, but
the agency's director John Brennan quickly denied the allegations.Read More ...
Obama sits 'Between Two Ferns' with Zach Galifianakis
In
a bid to get young people to sign up for health care, President Barack
Obama became the first sitting president in U.S. history to appear on
"Between Two Ferns," Funny or Die's intentionally awkward interview show
hosted by comedian Zach Galifianakis.Read More ...
Fukushima children face invisible enemy
Fear of radiation has kept kids indoors for much of their short lives.Read More ...
Ex-Christie aides want judge revoke subpoenas
TRENTON,
N.J. (AP) — Lawyers for two key figures in a political payback scandal
ensnaring Gov. Chris Christie's administration are trying to persuade a
judge not to force them to turn over text messages and other private
communications to New Jersey legislators investigating the matter.Read More ...
Missing jet traced hundreds of miles off-course
Radar evidence shows the Boeing 777 was last detected off Malaysia's west coast.Read More ...
Feinstein accuses CIA of improperly searching Senate computers
WASHINGTON
(AP) — The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee accused the CIA
Tuesday of criminal activity in improperly searching a computer network
set up for lawmakers investigating allegations that the agency used
torture in terror investigations during the Bush administration.Read More ...
Malaysia military tracks plane to west coast
Radar indicates the airliner was far from where it last made contact.Read More ...
Japan marks third anniversary of quake-tsunami disaster
Namie
(Japan) (AFP) - Japan observed a moment of silence Tuesday to mark the
third anniversary of the quake-tsunami disaster which swept away
thousands of victims, destroyed coastal communities, and sparked the
nuclear emergency that forced a re-think on atomic power. Survivors
bowed deeply and joined hands at remembrance ceremonies in towns and
cities around the disaster zone and in Tokyo, where Emperor Akihito and
Empress Michiko led tributes to those who died in Japan's worst
peace-time disaster. Giant waves also crashed into the Fukushima nuclear
plant, sparking reactor meltdowns and explosions, and setting off the
worst atomic crisis in a generation. As night fell, an event in a
Fukushima park saw about 2,000 lit candles arranged to read "Fukushima
3/11".Read More ...
Army general's defense seeks new plea deal in sex case
FORT
BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — A military judge on Tuesday dismissed the jury in
the midst of an Army general's court martial on sexual assault charges
to give prosecutors and defense lawyers time to hammer out a plea deal
in the closely watched case.Read More ...
'Burger King baby' seeks birth mom on Facebook
In
1986, a newborn wrapped in a red sweater was found abandoned in the
bathroom of a fast-food restaurant. Nearly three decades later, the baby
is all grown up and looking for her biological mother, and tens of
thousands of people are trying to help.Read More ...
Passenger with stolen passport had no terror links
Police identify one of two men on the missing Malaysian jet using a stolen passport.Read More ...
Colorado reports $2 million marijuana sales tax windfall
Report on January sales taxes is world's first accounting of the recreational pot business.Read More ...
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