Saturday, April 27, 2013

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Obama pokes fun at himself at White House Correspondents' Dinner 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 09:04 PM PDT
 President Barack Obama looks to the podium during the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel, Saturday, April 27, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)President Barack Obama joked Saturday about his plans for a radical second-term evolution from "strapping young Socialist" to retiree golfer, all with a new hairstyle like first lady Michelle's.
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Russia caught bomb suspect on wiretap 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 02:18 PM PDT
 Boston terror: Anatomy of a failure in intelRussian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 between Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his mom vaguely discussing jihad.
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Miss. man charged in ricin letters case 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 04:06 PM PDT
 FILE - In this Tuesday April 23, 2013 file photo, Everett Dutschke stands in the street near his home in Tupelo, Miss., and waits for the FBI to arrive and search his home in connection with the sending of poisoned letters to President Barack Obama and others. FBI spokeswoman Deborah Madden says Dutschke, 41, was arrested Saturday, April 27, 2013, at his Tupelo home in connection with the letters, which allegedly contained ricin. They were sent last week to Obama, Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi and earlier to 80-year-old Mississippi Judge Sadie Holland. (AP Photo/Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Thomas Wells, File) MANDATORY CREDITA Mississippi man was charged Saturday with making and possessing ricin for use as a weapon as part of the investigation into poison-laced letters sent to President Barack Obama and others, authorities said.
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Boston bomb suspect in small cell with steel door 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 08:24 PM PDT
 A guard stands near the entrance to the Devens Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Devens, Mass., Friday, April 26, 2013. The U.S. Marshals Service said Friday that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, charged in the April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, had been moved from a Boston hospital to the federal medical center at Devens, about 40 miles west of the city. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)The Boston Marathon bombing suspect is being held in a small cell with a steel door at a federal medical detention center about 40 miles outside the city, a federal official said Saturday.
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Bangladesh building collapse death toll hits 359 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 08:34 PM PDT
 A survivor is carried on a stretcher into a waiting ambulance after being evacuated from a garment factory building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, April 27, 2013. Police in Bangladesh took five people into custody in connection with the collapse of a shoddily-constructed building this week, as rescue workers pulled 19 survivors out of the rubble on Saturday and vowed to continue as long as necessary to find others despite fading hopes.(AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)Police in Bangladesh took six people into custody in connection with the collapse of a shoddily-constructed building that killed at least 359 people, as rescue workers admitted that voices of survivors are getting weaker after four days of being pinned under the increasingly unstable rubble.
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Saturn is closest to Earth on Sunday: See it live online 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 05:40 AM PDT
 Saturn Is Closest to Earth on Sunday: See It Live OnlineThe best view of Saturn available to Earth dwellers in six years should be on Sunday (April 28), with the planet reaching its opposition point, when Earth lies directly between it and the sun.
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American charged, ex-general held in Venezuela 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 08:44 PM PDT
 This undated family photo released Thursday, April 25, 2013, shows Timothy Tracy inside of a vehicle in Venezuela. The 35-year-old filmmaker from California was arrested Wednesday, by Venezuelan authorities who are accusing him of fomenting post election violence on behalf of the U.S. government. Friends and family told The Associated Press said that he had been in Venezuela since last year making a documentary about the confrontation between the opposition and a socialist government that is struggling to maintain its once-high popularity after the death of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez. (AP Photo/Family courtesy photo)An American filmmaker was formally charged late Saturday by Venezuelan officials who accuse him of paying right-wing groups to foment postelection unrest on behalf of U.S. intelligence.
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NYC officials seek human remains amid plane debris 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 10:38 AM PDT
 This Friday, April 26, 2013, photo provided by the New York City Police Department shows a piece of landing gear that authorities believe belongs to one of the airliners that crashed into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, that was found wedged between a mosque and another building, in New York. Police say the medical examiner's office will complete a health and safety evaluation to determine whether to sift the soil around the buildings for possible human remains. (AP Photo/New York City Police Department)The New York City medical examiner's office plans to resume searching for human remains two blocks from the World Trade Center after the sudden discovery of an airplane's landing gear.
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Former Ms. magazine editor Mary Thom dies in N.Y. crash 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 07:15 PM PDT
 Prominent feminist Mary Thom, a writer and former editor of Ms. magazine who also was an avid motorcyclist, crashed while riding on a highway and was killed, her nephew said Saturday. She was 68.
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Icelanders oust government over austerity program 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 09:05 PM PDT
 A woman casts her vote during Iceland's general elections in ReykjavikBy Balazs Koranyi and Robert Robertson REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Fatigued by years of austerity and swayed by promises of debt relief, Icelandic voters dumped the Social Democrats from power on Saturday, returning a center-right government that ruled over its stunning financial collapse just five years ago. Once a European financial hub, this windswept north Atlantic island of glaciers, geysers and volcanoes has been limping along for years, still crippled from a crash that brought it to its knees in just a matter of days. ...
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Dave Gold, founder of 99 Cents Only Stores, dies 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 06:53 PM PDT
 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dave Gold, the founder of the 99 Cents Only Stores more than three decades ago who saw it expand into a billion-dollar empire, has died. He was 80.
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N. Korea charges U.S. man in plot to overthrow regime 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 12:26 PM PDT
 In this March 20, 2013 photo, a North Korean flag hangs inside the interior of Pyongyang's Supreme Court. North Korea says it will soon deliver a verdict in the case of detained American Kenneth Bae it accuses of trying to overthrow the government, further complicating already fraught relations between Pyongyang and Washington. The announcement about Bae comes in the middle of a lull after weeks of war threats and other provocative acts by North Korea against the U.S. and South Korea. Bae, identified in North Korean state media by his Korean name, Pae Jun Ho, is a tour operator of Korean descent who was arrested after arriving with a tour on Nov. 3 in Rason, a special economic zone bordering China and Russia. (AP Photo)North Korea announced Saturday that an American detained for nearly six months is being tried in the Supreme Court on charges of plotting to overthrow the government, a crime that could draw the death penalty if he is convicted.
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Justice hospitalized after bike accident 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 12:23 PM PDT
 In this photo taken Jan. 24, 2013, file photo U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer reacts during a lecture at Boston University School of Law in Boston. Breyer is in a Washington hospital after shoulder replacement surgery following a bicycle accident injury to his right shoulder Friday, April 26, 2013. Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg says the 74-year-old Breyer is expected to make a full recovery following the operation Saturday. Previously he broke his collarbone in an accident in 2011 and sustained broken ribs and a punctured lung in a bicycle mishap in 1993, before he joined the court. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is in a Washington hospital after shoulder replacement surgery following a bicycle accident.
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FAA says air travel to be normal Sunday night 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 10:56 AM PDT
 A long line of passengers wait to enter the security checkpoint before boarding their aircraft at Reagan National Airport in WashingtonThe Federal Aviation Administration said on Saturday it had suspended all employee furloughs and that it expects the U.S. air travel system to return to normal by Sunday evening Eastern Time.
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NATO: 4 dead in Afghanistan plane crash 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 09:37 AM PDT
 Afghan men surround a burned bus after it collided with the wreckage of a truck that was attacked by Taliban insurgents in Maiwand district, on the highway between Kandahar and Helmand, Afghanistan, Friday, April 26, 2013. Scores of people aboard the bus were killed in the fiery crash, officials said. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq Kandahari)NATO says a plane crash in southern Afghanistan has killed four international service members.
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FBI removes boat used by Boston bombing suspect 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 08:21 AM PDT
 Members of the FBI Evidence Recovery Team inspect the boat where Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was hiding at 67 Franklin St. in Watertown, MassachusettsInvestigators have removed from its Watertown, Massachusetts, backyard the now-famous boat used as a hiding spot by one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.
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Official: 1 adult, 4 kids killed in Georgia fire 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 12:32 PM PDT
 Sisters Brandy McCrary, left, and Breona Montgomery, who are cousins of the five fatal house fire victims, hug neighbors Bonita Beasley, center, and Jennifer Moss, right, in Newnan, Ga., Saturday, April 27, 2013. The fire killed Alonna T. McCrary, 27, as well as her 5-year-old daughter Eriel McCrary and 2-year-old daughter Nikia White, according to Glenn Allen, the Georgia state Insurance commissioner's spokesman. Two other children, Messiah White, 3, and McKenzie Florence, 2, also died. Allen said the two were sleeping over at the home. A fifth child, 11-year-old Nautica McCrary, escaped the burning home and was taken to a hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation. (AP Photo/David Tulis)One adult and four young children have been killed in an early morning fire in a Georgia city about 30 miles southwest of Atlanta.
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