Underwater pings relocated in hunt for missing jet
An
Australian official says equipment on a ship searching for the missing
Malaysian jet has relocated an underwater signal that is consistent with
a plane's black boxes.Read More ...
Medicare database reveals top-paid doctors
Medicare paid a tiny group of doctors $3 million or more apiece in 2012. One got nearly $21 million.Read More ...
Hillary Clinton says she's 'thinking' about White House run
Asked
again the question on the mind of everyone who follows U.S. politics,
Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday she was "thinking" about running for
president in 2016.Read More ...
Ex-President Carter: US 'dormant' on inequality
AUSTIN,
Texas (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter on Tuesday night lamented
continuing inequalities between black and white Americans during a 50th
anniversary celebration of the Civil Rights Act in Texas that will
feature four of the five living U.S. presidents this week.Read More ...
Inside a Guantanamo parole hearing
The prison President Obama vowed to close still holds 154 men 12 years after it opened.Read More ...
GM is late getting recall fix to dealers, answers to Congress
General
Motors Co is running two days behind Chief Executive Mary Barra's plan
to begin shipping replacement ignition switches in its massive recall,
dealerships and the company said on Tuesday. The National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration also said on Tuesday that GM had missed an
April 3 deadline to respond to the agency's request for information
about the recall. GM said it was cooperating fully. The automaker, which
recalled 2.6 million vehicles including the Chevrolet Cobalt, Saturn
Ion and other models, said no parts to dealerships had been shipped as
of late Tuesday afternoon.Read More ...
What's behind the increase in stay-at-home moms?
NEW
YORK (AP) — The rising cost of child care is among likely reasons for a
rise in the number of women staying home full-time with their children,
according to a new Pew Research Center report released Tuesday.Read More ...
Screeners discover WWI artillery shells at O'Hare airport
CHICAGO
(AP) — Baggage screeners at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport have
discovered two World War I artillery shells in checked luggage that
arrived on a flight from London.Read More ...
Does the White House have a gender pay gap?
In
the latest round in a long, bitter duel between Democrats and
Republicans over which party is more on the side of women voters, White
House press secretary Jay Carney was hit with questions on Monday from
reporters about a report finding that the salary for the average median
White House female staffer is about 12 percent lower than that for a
male staffer. The median woman working in the White House makes about
$65,000, almost $9,000 less than her male counterpart, according to the
report from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative
group. That difference divides out to women in the White House making
about 88 cents for each dollar that men in the administration make, the
report said. But it is back and getting tossed like a hot potato to
Democrats – just as President Obama is observing National Equal Pay Day
on Tuesday by signing two executive orders that address the gender pay
gap.Read More ...
White House: Iran’s U.N. envoy pick ‘not viable’
Hamid Aboutalebi could be barred from U.S. over alleged ties to embassy hostage crisis.Read More ...
How this man manages the social images of the world famous
Social management is evolving from managing content to actually creating content for famous clients around the world.Read More ...
California senator denies Chinatown scam
A
California state senator denied Tuesday plotting to smuggle guns from
the Philippines and trading political favors for cash, in a colorful
case centred on San Francisco's Chinatown underworld. Appearing in a
federal courthouse, now-suspended Democratic Senator Leland Yee pleaded
not guilty to eight felony charges for which he could face life in
prison if convicted. The five-year FBI sting that ensnared the
politician was initially aimed at triad gangs linked to the West Coast
city's renowned Chinatown. He is accused of offering a man he believed
to be a mafia member -- actually an undercover agent -- his services as
an arms trafficker.Read More ...
A war photographer's last testament
A new book features the photos and writings of a Getty Images photographer who lost his life covering the war in Libya in 2011.Read More ...
Obama takes aim at equal pay for women
Signs directives to boost workplace fairness, swipes at GOP for "gumming up the works" on issue.Read More ...
Brawl breaks out among Ukraine lawmakers
Meanwhile, separatists hold 60 hostages in Luhansk.Read More ...
16,000 tons of rock crash in Yosemite National Park
YOSEMITE
NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Officials at Yosemite National Park say a
massive amount of rock has fallen from a cliff, closing a hiking trail.Read More ...
London lab grows ears, noses; part of plan to attract biotech firms
LONDON
(AP) — In a north London hospital, scientists are growing noses, ears
and blood vessels in a bold attempt to make body parts in the
laboratory.Read More ...
American imprisoned in Cuba begins hunger strike
WASHINGTON
(AP) — An American who has been imprisoned in Cuba for more than four
years after illegally setting up Internet access on the island is on a
hunger strike, according to a statement his lawyer released Tuesday.Read More ...
Ellen, GoPro among nominees for Webby awards
NEW
YORK (AP) — This year's list of nominees for Webby awards celebrating
Internet achievement range from celebrities such as Beyonce and Ellen
DeGeneres to Google and GoPro, the maker of popular mountable video
cameras.Read More ...
In South Korea, draft dodgers go to prison, many for shared beliefs
Kim
Ji-gwan has a succinct explanation for why he, his father, and two
brothers all chose to go to jail rather than be drafted into the South
Korean armed forces. In the past, the US and many other countries
accepted religious beliefs as grounds for opting out of military
service. The UN Human Rights Council reports that 669 of 723
conscientious objectors in jail worldwide as of last November are
Korean. And almost all of these prisoners are Jehovah’s Witnesses, an
evangelical Christian sect whose members refuse to serve because, they
say, the Bible teaches people to "love one another." Since the Korean
War ended in 1953, an astonishing 17,549 Jehovah’s Witnesses have gone
to jail in South Korea for their beliefs.Read More ...
Back on stand, Pistorius sobs as he recalls girlfriend's shooting
PRETORIA
(Reuters) - South African Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Oscar
Pistorius broke down and sobbed in the witness stand on Tuesday when he
described the moment he realized he had shot dead his girlfriend, Reeva
Steenkamp, through a locked toilet door at his home. (Reporting by David
Dolan; Writing by Ed Cropley; Editing by Pascal Fletcher)Read More ...
Separatists holding 60 hostages in Luhansk
The unidentified captives are being threatened with arms and explosives, Ukraine officials say.Read More ...
Putin's reality check in Crimea
Russia lost a war on March 21 and virtually no one noticed.Read More ...
Connecticut wins NCAA title, 60-54 over Kentucky
Connecticut
players, including center Amida Brimah (35) and guard Lasan Kromah (20)
celebrate as Kentucky guard James Young (1) leaves the court at the end
the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball championship game
Monday, April 7, 2014, in Arlington, Texas. Connecticut won 60-54. (AP
Photo/Eric Gay)Read More ...
Lawmakers brawl in Ukraine
Fists fly after a communist leader accuses nationalists of playing to Russia.Read More ...
Japan drugmaker Takeda says will fight $6.0 bn US damages order
Japan's
biggest drugs maker Takeda Pharmaceutical said Tuesday it would fight a
huge $6.0 billion damages order imposed by a US jury following a trial
over the safety of its Actos diabetes medicine. The company said it
"respectfully disagrees" with the judgement awarded in the southern
state of Louisiana on Monday, which also ordered the firm's
co-defendant, US drugs firm Eli Lilly, to pay $3.0 billion in damages.
The issue at the trial, which began in February, was whether the drug
could be blamed for bladder cancer in a plaintiff who was taking the
medicine, and whether the firm knew about those risks. "We believe the
evidence did not support a finding that Actos caused (the plaintiff's)
bladder cancer.Read More ...
Russia warns of possible civil war in Ukraine
Moscow tells Kiev that any use of force in Ukraine's east could lead to a civil war.Read More ...
Senate passes jobless bill, but chances slimmer in House
WASHINGTON
(AP) — The Senate voted 59-38 Monday to resurrect federal jobless
benefits for the long-term unemployed, and a small band of Republican
supporters swiftly appealed to a reluctant Speaker John Boehner to
permit election-year action in the House as well.Read More ...
Woman raises $91,000 to help mom who left kids in hot car
PHOENIX
(AP) — A Phoenix woman arrested after leaving her two kids in a hot
vehicle during a job interview is fighting to clear her name in court,
with the support of a New Jersey woman who has raised more than $91,000
to help her effort.Read More ...
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