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| Nelson Mandela dies at 95 Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 01:40 PM PST  The former South African president was a revered statesman and anti-apartheid leader. Full Story | Top |
| Mandela was just a man, and that made what he did extraordinary Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 01:40 PM PST  John Carlin, the author of the book "Playing the Enemy," on which the film "Invictus" was based, reveals what it was like to know and cover Nelson Mandela. Full Story | Top |
| Jail that spawned slogan 'Free Nelson Mandela!' Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 06:00 AM PST  African National Congress (ANC) president Nelson Mandela stares out of the window of the prison cell he occupied on Robben Island for much of his 27 year incarceration, February 11, 1994. (Getty Images) Full Story | Top |
| Obama: Mandela guided by hope Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 02:33 PM PST  President Barack Obama paid somber tribute to Nelson Mandela Thursday, celebrating the late South African leader's "fierce dignity and unbending will" and unquenchable thirst for justice. Full Story | Top |
| Mandela's 10 memorable moments Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 01:55 PM PST  Nelson Mandela at the law office he opened with his colleague, Oliver Tambo in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1952. This was the first black legal practice in Johannesburg. Both men were founding members of the African National Congress Youth League. Full Story | Top |
| A more 'sensitive' GOP? Boehner hopes it'll attract female votes Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 11:03 AM PST  U.S. House of Representative Speaker John Boehner said on Thursday he wants his fellow Republicans to be more "sensitive" as they seek to appeal to women voters in next year's congressional elections. "I try to get them to be a little bit more sensitive," Boehner said at his weekly news conference, when asked what advice he was giving his fellow Republicans as they campaign against Democratic women candidates, and try to attract female voters. There are 81 women members of the House, of whom 62 are Democrats, compared with 19 Republicans. In the Senate, 16 of the 20 women are Democrats and four are Republicans. Full Story | Top |
| White House reverses course, says Obama lived with Kenyan uncle Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 12:20 PM PST  The White House acknowledged Thursday that President Barack Obama lived with a Kenyan uncle targeted for deportation — after initially saying there was no evidence they had ever met. Full Story | Top |
| 10 memorable Mandela quotes Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 01:56 PM PST  A group of American and South African students, aged from 11 to 19, met with Nelson Mandela at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg, on June 2, 2009. This was part of a series of activities ahead of Mandela Day on 18 July, 2008. Full Story | Top |
| Gracious and tough, Mandela was fun to cover Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 04:51 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — The thing about Nelson Mandela was that he made the rest of us want to be almost as noble as he. Full Story | Top |
| What you might not have known about Nelson Mandela Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 04:55 PM PST  The world knows Nelson Mandela as a man who forever changed the course of modern history and who will surely continue to leave his mark long after his death Thursday at the age of 95. Full Story | Top |
| White House changes story on Obama's uncle Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 07:51 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Thursday that President Barack Obama briefly lived with an uncle who faced deportation from the United States, correcting its previous statements that the president had never met Onyango Obama. Full Story | Top |
| Oil crews endure even when wind chill drops to -40 Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 04:49 PM PST  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — With the wind chill falling to almost minus 40, Steve Hendershot's mind was elsewhere Thursday as he and his crew of roustabouts worked a well in North Dakota's booming oil patch. Full Story | Top |
| Clashes sweep Central Africa Republic capital Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 04:11 PM PST  BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Wielding rifles and machetes, armed Christian fighters who support the Central African Republic's exiled president assaulted the capital at dawn on Thursday, leaving nearly 100 people dead. Shrouded bodies were lined up in a mosque as dozens of wounded lay on blood-stained hospital floors. Full Story | Top |
| Mexico plans how to safely box up recovered cobalt Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 06:52 PM PST  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Officials were engaged Thursday in the delicate task of recovering a stolen shipment of highly radioactive cobalt-60 abandoned in a rural field in central Mexico state. Full Story | Top |
| No charges for Heisman hopeful Jameis Winston Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 04:31 PM PST  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida State quarterback and Heisman hopeful Jameis Winston will not face any charges in a sexual assault case, mostly because there were too many gaps in his accuser's story, a prosecutor said Thursday. Full Story | Top |
| Springsteen 'Born to Run' draft sells for $197K Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 04:34 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Someone was willing to pay big bucks for an early glimpse of what would become the Boss' "runaway American dream." Full Story | Top |
| When it comes to World Cup draw, location matters Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 04:44 PM PST  For about an hour Friday, much of the planet will come to a dead stop, all eyes and attention glued to four bowls of what look an awful lot like pingpong balls. A lottery that could make someone rich beyond his or her wildest dreams? No, though some would argue this can bring even more happiness. Full Story | Top |
| South Africans mourn, celebrate Mandela Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 06:57 PM PST  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — As the news of Nelson Mandela's death spread across South Africa, residents of the black township of Soweto gathered in the streets near the house where he once lived, singing and dancing to mourn his death and celebrate his colossal life. Full Story | Top |
| Obama mourns death of icon Nelson Mandela Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 06:45 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Counting himself among the millions influenced by Nelson Mandela, President Barack Obama on Thursday mourned the death of the anti-apartheid icon with whom he shares the distinction of being his nation's first black president. Full Story | Top |
| Jobs report to help show if US economy is for real Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 02:05 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy is growing faster, corporate profits are rising and companies are laying off the fewest workers in six years. Full Story | Top |
| Prosecutors face tough choices in NYC derailment Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 05:45 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — While the Metro-North Railroad is already getting hit with multimillion-dollar civil claims over a deadly commuter train derailment, prosecutors will face tough choices when deciding whether to bring criminal charges against the train's engineer, who told investigators he nodded or fell into a daze at the controls. Full Story | Top |
| Bloodbath in Central African Republic as UN backs force Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 01:41 PM PST  Bangui (Central African Republic) (AFP) - France ordered more troops into its former colony of the Central African Republic on Thursday, hours after a sectarian bloodbath left more than 120 people dead in the troubled nation's capital of Bangui. Shortly after the UN Security Council issued a green light for the military intervention, French President Francois Hollande ordered an additional 600 troops to the African country, doubling the force it already has in and around Bangui. The depiction of a chaotic, desperate situation was confirmed by AFP reporters in Bangui, who counted 54 corpses gathered in a mosque in the PK5 area of the capital. The violence appeared to vindicate recent warnings from France, the United States and others that the Central African Republic (CAR) was on the brink of collapse with tensions soaring between its Christian and Muslim communities. Full Story | Top |
| New poison gas attack alleged in Syria Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 12:55 PM PST  Opposition activists again accused President Bashar al-Assad's forces of using poison gas in Syria's civil war on Thursday, and said victims had been discovered with swollen limbs and foaming at the mouth. The activists told Reuters two shells loaded with gas hit a rebel-held area in the town of Nabak, 68 km (40 miles) northeast of Damascus, on a major highway in the Qalamoun region. Separately, the Syrian Revolution Coordinators Union also accused Assad's forces of using poison gas. "We have documented nine casualties from poison gas used by the regime in neighborhoods of Nabak," it said on its Facebook page. Full Story | Top |
| No responsibility claimed in American teacher's death in Benghazi Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 01:10 PM PST  Ronnie Smith, 33, of Texas was married, had 2-year-old son. Full Story | Top |
| Baby, it's cold outside: Readers share their cold-snap stories Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 09:06 AM PST  Areas further east are bracing for the frigid blast as the storm creeps into the Southern plains, the Tennessee Valley and the Northeast later this week. Yahoo News is collecting anecdotes from residents in the storm's path. Below are lightly edited excerpts from stories they shared with us this week. Full Story | Top |
| Vatican to draft expert panel to fight sex abuse Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 05:27 AM PST  Boston Archbishop O'Malley says Pope Francis worried church's approach has been too legalistic. Full Story | Top |
| New NYC mayor's top cop pick was 'stop and frisk' advocate Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 09:34 AM PST  In the most highly anticipated pick of his new administration, the incoming New York City mayor picked a veteran law enforcement official as police commissioner. Full Story | Top |
| 49 Russian diplomats illegally collected U.S. Medicare benefits: FBI Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 01:48 PM PST  By Emily Flitter and Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors have charged 49 current and former Russian diplomats and their family members with participating in a scheme to get health benefits intended for the poor by lying about their income. The charges come against a backdrop of tense exchanges between Russia and the United States over law enforcement actions in both countries. Russia's deputy foreign minister expressed disappointment Thursday that the U.S. had not tried to discuss the charges with Russia through diplomatic channels, but a spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department said she did not expect the issue to harm relations between the two countries. Meanwhile, according to the charges, the family members had their housing costs paid for by the Russian government and spent "tens of thousands of dollars" on vacations, jewelry and luxury goods from stores like Swarovski and Jimmy Choo. Full Story | Top |
| 'We can't survive on $7.25!' Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 08:18 AM PST  Fast food workers strike for higher pay, which is now $15,000 a year. Full Story | Top |
| Prelude, the world's largest ship, launches Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 07:31 AM PST  Shell's 1,601-foot, 600,000-metric-ton, liquified-natural-gas vessel has hit the water in South Korea. Full Story | Top |
| Bill Bratton named next New York police commissioner Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 11:22 AM PST  By Chris Francescani NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bill Bratton, a veteran police chief who has led departments across the country, was named on Thursday as New York City's next police commissioner, taking over a force credited with a sharp drop in violent crime but criticized for its tactics. Bratton, 66, who was police commissioner under New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and has run police departments in Los Angeles and Boston, will return to the NYPD on January 1, taking over from Ray Kelly. Full Story | Top |
| 'Duck Dynasty' congressman: 'I pray everyday for the president' Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 04:25 AM PST  Republican Rep. Vance McAllister says he prays for President Obama daily. Full Story | Top |
| Nearly week of frigid temperatures for West Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 09:43 PM PST  DENVER (AP) — The jet stream hunkered to the south Wednesday, promising to bring nearly a week of temperatures that could dip to minus 20 or worse in the northern midsection of the country, and forcing much of the rest of the nation to deal with unexpectedly cool temperatures. Full Story | Top |
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