Sunday, April 28, 2013

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In a first, black voter turnout rate passes whites 
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 08:42 PM PDT
In this photo taken April 23, 2013, Lauren Howie, 27, poses outside the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. America's blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time. In Ohio, a battleground state where the share of eligible black voters is more than triple that of other minorities, Howie didn't start out thrilled with President Barack Obama in 2012. She felt he didn't deliver on promises to help students reduce college debt, promote women's rights and address climate change, she said. But she became determined to support Obama as she compared him with Romney. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)WASHINGTON (AP) — America's blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time, reflecting a deeply polarized presidential election in which blacks strongly supported Barack Obama while many whites stayed home.
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Court may limit use of race in college admission decisions 
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 08:09 AM PDT
Tourists walk in front of the Supreme Court building in WashingtonBy Joan Biskupic WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thirty-five years after the Supreme Court set the terms for boosting college admissions of African Americans and other minorities, the court may be about to issue a ruling that could restrict universities' use of race in deciding who is awarded places. The case before the justices was brought by Abigail Fisher, a white suburban Houston student who asserted she was wrongly rejected by the University of Texas at Austin while minority students with similar grades and test scores were admitted. ...
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Mother of bomb suspects found deeper spirituality 
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 03:45 PM PDT
In this image taken from a video, an undated family photo provided by Patimat Suleimanova, the aunt of USA Boston bomb suspects, shows Anzor Tsarnaev left, Zubeidat Tsarnaev holding Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Anzor's brother Mukhammad Tsarnaev. Now known as the angry and grieving mother of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Zubeidat Tsarnaev is drawing increased attention after federal officials say Russian authorities intercepted her phone calls, including one in which she vaguely discussed jihad with her elder son. In another, she was recorded talking to someone in southern Russia who is under FBI investigation in an unrelated case, U.S. officials said. (AP Photo/Patimat Suleimanova)BOSTON (AP) — In photos of her as a younger woman, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva wears a low-cut blouse and has her hair teased like a 1980s rock star. After she arrived in the U.S. from Russia in 2002, she went to beauty school and did facials at a suburban day spa.
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Exclusive: Boston bomb suspects' parents retreat to village, cancel U.S. trip 
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 11:42 AM PDT
Anzor Tsarnaev, father of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, gives an interview to Reuters in Russia's North CaucasusBy Maria Golovnina UNDISCLOSED LOCATION IN NORTH CAUCASUS, Russia (Reuters) - The parents of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects have retreated to a village in southern Russia to shelter from the spotlight and abandoned plans for now to travel to the United States, the father of the suspects told Reuters on Sunday. Speaking in the garden of a large house, Anzor Tsarnaev said he believed he would not be allowed to see his surviving son DzhokharŸ, who was captured and has been charged in connection with the April 15 bomb blasts that killed three people and wounded 264. ...
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Pyongyang glitters but most of NKorea still dark 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 10:07 PM PDT
In this April 22, 2013 photo, the sun rises over Juche Tower in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — The heart of this city, once famous for its Dickensian darkness, now pulsates with neon.
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Top GOP Donors Launch Push for Gay Marriage: ‘The Right Thing for the Country But Also Good Politics’ 
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 02:36 PM PDT
"We intend to work on this effort until every American citizen is treated equally under the law."
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Analysis: Israeli credibility on line over Iran nuclear challenge 
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 02:59 AM PDT
Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu points to red line he has drawn on graphic of bomb as he addresses 67th United Nations General Assembly in New YorkBy Crispian Balmer and Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel risks a loss of credibility over both its "red line" for Iran's nuclear program and its threat of military action, and its room for unilateral maneuver is shrinking. After years of veiled warnings that Israel might strike the Islamic Republic, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid out an ultimatum at the United Nations last September. Iran, he said, must not amass enough uranium at 20 percent fissile purity to fuel one bomb if enriched further. ...
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Boston suspects' father postpones trip to US 
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 08:34 AM PDT
The father of the two Boston bombing suspects, Anzor Tsarnaev speaks at a news conference in Makhachkala, the southern Russian province of Dagestan, Thursday, April 25, 2013. The father of the two Boston bombing suspects said Thursday that he is leaving Russia for the United States in the next day or two, but their mother said she was still thinking it over. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) — The father of the two Boston bombing suspects said Sunday that he has postponed a trip from Russia to the United States because of poor health.
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Israel responds to Gaza rocket fire with airstrike 
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 01:16 AM PDT
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel responded to rockets fired from the Gaza Strip with airstrikes on sites used by Islamic militant group Hamas, which rules the Palestinian territory, the military said on Sunday.
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Some are overlooked in US immigration overhaul 
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 11:28 AM PDT
In this April 18, 2013, photo, Carlos Jair Gonzalez, 29, left, gives guidance to a newcomer at the Padre Chava migrant shelter in the northern border city of Tijuana. Gonzalez, who was deported from the U.S. last December, has been at the shelter for a month while nursing a foot he fractured when he jumped the border fence in a failed attempt to rejoin his family in California. Gonzalez, who came to the U.S. when he was two years old, is one of nearly 2 million removals from the United States since Barack Obama was first elected president. (AP Photo/Alex Cossio)SAN DIEGO (AP) — Carlos Gonzalez has lived nearly all his 29 years in a country he considers home but now finds himself on the wrong side of the border — and the wrong side of a proposed overhaul of the U.S. immigration system that would grant legal status to millions of people.
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Dozens of air shows cancel without military jets 
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 01:58 PM PDT
In this June 22, 2012, photo the United States Air Force Thunderbirds perform at the Indianapolis Air Show at the Indianapolis Regional Airport near Greenfield, Ind. The air show, canceled in February over concerns the Blue Angels wouldn't participate, is one of dozens that have been canceled this year after the military grounded its jet and demonstration teams because of automatic federal budget cuts. (AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Charlie Nye) NO SALESMILWAUKEE (AP) — Dozens of air shows that draw tens of thousands of people and generate millions of dollars for local economies have been cancelled this year after the military grounded its jet and demonstration teams because of automatic federal budget cuts.
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Bangladesh owner is at nexus of politics, business 
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 03:23 AM PDT
FILE - In this April 25, 2013 file photo, Bangladeshi people gather as rescuers look for survivors and victims at the site of a building that collapsed a day earlier, in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. The owner of the building sits at the nexus of party politics and the powerful $20 billion garment industry that drives the economy of this deeply impoverished nation. Experts say this intersection of politics and business, combined with a minimum wage of $9.50 a week that has made Bangladesh the go-to nation for many of the world's largest clothing brands, has created a predictable danger for factory workers. Government officials, labor activists, manufacturers and retailers all called for improved safety standards after a November fire in the same suburb, when locked emergency exits trapped hundreds of garment workers inside amid spreading flames and 112 people died. But almost nothing has changed. (AP Photo/A.M.Ahad, File)SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — When the cracks in the building appeared early Tuesday afternoon, a stocky man in his early 30s, a feared political operative who a neighbor says dropped out of school in seventh grade, quickly arrived at the scene in this crowded industrial suburb of the capital.
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Lawmakers: Syria chemical weapons could menace US 
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 11:21 AM PDT
FILE - In this April 26, 2013, file photo House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., walks to a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington as he and national intelligence advisers prepare to update House members on Syria's alleged use of poisonous gas in its ongoing civil war. On a talk show Sunday, April 28, 2013, Rogers said he's worried about chemical weapons in Syria falling into the wrong hands after President Bashar Assad is driven from power. He said the United States needs to worry about the region's stability and U.S. credibility, and that other countries, like North Korea and Iran, are watching how the United States responds to intelligence suggesting Syria probably has used sarin gas. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons could be a greater threat after that nation's president leaves power and could end up targeting Americans at home, lawmakers warned Sunday as they considered a U.S. response that stops short of sending military forces there.
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U.S. lawmakers press Obama to take action on Syria 
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 10:33 AM PDT
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican senators on Sunday pressed U.S. President Barack Obama to intervene in Syria's civil war, saying America could attack Syrian air bases with missiles but should not send in ground troops. Pressure is mounting on the White House to do more to help Syrian rebels fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad, which the Obama administration last week said had probably used chemical arms in the conflict. ...
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Lawmaker: FBI checking training angle in bombing 
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 11:19 AM PDT
FILE - In this Saturday, April 27, 2013 file photo, visitors pause at a makeshift memorial in Copley Square for victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, in Boston. Rep. Michael McCaul, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, says he believes the Boston Marathon bombing suspects had some training in carrying out their attack. McCaul is citing the type of device used in the attack, the shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs, and the weapons' sophistication as signs of training. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said Sunday that the FBI is investigating in the United States and overseas to determine whether the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing received training that helped them carry out the attack.
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Speed of Light May Not Be Constant, Phycisists Say 
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 06:35 AM PDT
The speed of light is constant, or so textbooks say. But some scientists are exploring the possibility that this cosmic speed limit changes, a consequence of the nature of the vacuum of space.
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How Earthquakes in Chile Have Permanently Deformed Earth 
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 10:01 AM PDT
How Earthquakes in Chile Have Permanently Deformed EarthEarthquakes can permanently crack the Earth, an investigation of quakes that have rocked Chile over the past million years suggests.
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Leftist priests: Francis can fix church 'in ruins' 
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 08:15 AM PDT
Liberation Theologist Leonardo Boff, of Brazil, pauses as he attends the launching of a book by Clelia Luro, the wife of former bishop Jeronimo Podesta, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, April 27, 2013. Boff says Pope Francis has what it takes to fix a church BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A new pope from Latin America known for ministering to the poor in his country's slums is raising the hopes of advocates of liberation theology, whose leftist social activism had alarmed previous pontiffs.
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7 things you shouldn't bother 911 dispatchers about 
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 04:25 AM PDT
People: Think before you dial!The police have more important things to deal with than your disappointing sandwich
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Army says no to more tanks, but Congress insists 
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 06:11 AM PDT
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the General Dynamics Land System shows the production of an Abrams tank in Lima, Ohio. Lawmakers from both parties have devoted nearly half a billion dollars in taxpayer money over the past two years to build improved versions of the 70-ton Abrams, which the Army refers to with a moniker that befits their heft: the M1A2SEPv2. The upgraded tanks cost about $7.5 million each, according to the Army, and service officials say they have plenty of them. (AP Photo/General Dynamics Land System, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Built to dominate the enemy in combat, the Army's hulking Abrams tank is proving equally hard to beat in a budget battle.
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Dad Anticipates Tough Talks With His Teenage Daughters 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 10:00 PM PDT
DEAR ABBY: As a father of two teenage daughters, I have a question about couples living together. Do relationships that start this way have a higher failure rate than those that don't? What should be considered when a young girl has the "living together" question presented to her by a young man? And most important, what can I as a father do to help my daughters make an intelligent decision about this, other than just "load my shotgun" (LOL)?As always, thank you for broadening my wisdom horizon and giving me examples of solid advice from which both my and my family's life have been enriched. ...
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NYPD whistle-blowers testify at stop-frisk trial 
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 12:39 PM PDT
In this Dec. 13, 1971 file photo, New York City Detective Frank Serpico, right, sits beside his attorney, Ramsey Clark, in New York, during the Knapp Commission hearings on police corruption. Things haven't changed much since Serpico broke the NYPD's code of silence more than 40 years ago. Police officers are still encouraged to turn a blind eye to wrongdoing within their ranks and never question authority, or else face harassment by peers and punishment by superiors. (AP Photo/Jim Wells, File)NEW YORK (AP) — After Officer Pedro Serrano decided to testify in federal court about what he sees as wrongdoing within the New York Police Department, a rat sticker appeared on his locker.
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Nike Signs an Openly Gay Basketball Phenom Who Can Dunk on Anyone (VIDEO) 
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 09:23 AM PDT
If you know anything about basketball, you know about Brittney Griner. And even if you don't care about basketball you'll want to watch her play. The almost 7-foot-tall superstar is practically a one-woman team, blocking shots, playing above the rim, and moving at speeds her opponents struggle to contain. And, she can dunk—effortlessly.
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Big growth likely for Georgia's film industry 
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 01:07 PM PDT
FILE - This Jan. 24, 2008 file photo shows actors, from left, Mathieu Amalric, Gemma Arterton, Olga Kurylenko, Daniel Craig, Judy Dench, and director Marc Forster posing at a photo call for the Bond film, "Quantum of Solace," at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England. Georgia's film industry is booming and big plans are in the works for major studio projects. Of those studio projects in the works, one being planned in Fayette County, a short drive south of Atlanta, could be a game changer. British film studio Pinewood Shepperton PLC, home to the James Bond franchise, has reportedly been in talks with a group of investors to manage and operate the facility. It would be Pinewood's first production facility in the U.S. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)ATLANTA (AP) — A few years ago, Georgia was locked in a bidding war with North Carolina over the Disney movie, "The Last Song," starring Miley Cyrus.
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Syria's neighbors cautious about U.S.-led intervention 
Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 05:00 AM PDT
A Free Syrian Army fighter calls on Syrian regime troops to defect in the Khan al-Assal area, near AleppoBy Nick Tattersall ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Syria's neighbors, wary of stirring a conflict that could spill back over their borders, would be reluctant partners in a U.S.-led intervention but are ultimately likely to support limited military action if widespread use of chemical weapons is proven. The White House disclosed U.S. intelligence on Thursday that Syria had likely used chemical weapons, a move President Barack Obama had said could trigger unspecified consequences, widely interpreted to include possible U.S. military action. ...
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