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| CNN pulls plug on Piers Morgan show Monday, Feb 24, 2014 03:09 AM PST  CNN president Jeff Zucker has pulled the plug on British host Piers Morgan's TV show after its ratings plunge, ending the former tabloid editor's three year run on U.S. television. Full Story | Top |
| Mystery poliolike illness affects as many as 25 children in California Monday, Feb 24, 2014 06:33 AM PST  Doctors in California say as many as 25 children are suffering from a mysterious, poliolike virus that is leaving them with paralyzed limbs, USA Today reports. Full Story | Top |
| Governors erupt in partisan dispute at White House Monday, Feb 24, 2014 12:54 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's governors emerged from a meeting with President Barack Obama on Monday claiming harmony, only to immediately break into an on-camera partisan feud in front of the West Wing. Full Story | Top |
| Seafaring drug smugglers challenging Coast Guard Monday, Feb 24, 2014 04:35 PM PST  SAN DIEGO (AP) — While security has tightened at the U.S. border, drug smugglers are increasingly turning to the high seas. Full Story | Top |
| Dingell, longest-serving congressman, to retire Monday, Feb 24, 2014 04:52 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. John Dingell, the longest-serving member of Congress in American history who mastered legislative deal-making and was fiercely protective of Detroit's auto industry, will announce his retirement on Monday, a person familiar with his plans said. Full Story | Top |
| Paula Deen says she's 'back in the saddle' Monday, Feb 24, 2014 05:33 AM PST Paula Deen continued maneuvering for a comeback Sunday, turning a beachside cooking demonstration into a public apology for the racist comments that decimated her career last year. The former Food Network ... Full Story | Top |
| The Pentagon Wants the Smallest Army Since World War II Sunday, Feb 23, 2014 09:19 PM PST  Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is set to unveil a new, proposed Pentagon budget on Monday that considerably reduces the size of the United States military. The proposal has come about for two main reasons: President Obama's to end the nation's extended wars in Iran and Afghanistan, and the federal government's fiscal woes. That idea of a military being able to fight on multiple fronts has been perpetuated since the first days of the Cold War, when the Pentagon expected to need boots on the ground in both Europe and Asia. Full Story | Top |
| A New Tidal Wave of Money Could Decide Senate Races Monday, Feb 24, 2014 03:15 AM PST Just when it seemed there was no limit to what the Koch brothers and others could spend this year to influence the outcome of Senate races, the Supreme Court may rule any day in a case that could blow the lid off the limits on individual contributions to congressional races. That decision paved the way for creation of conservative super PACs like the Koch brothers' Americans for Prosperity and liberal super PACs like Senate Majority Pac that have poured hundreds of millions into presidential and congressional campaigns. Full Story | Top |
| Smaller Army: Hagel proposes cuts in 2015 budget Monday, Feb 24, 2014 10:43 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel proposed shrinking the Army, closing military bases and making other military-wide savings Monday as part of a broad reshaping of priorities after more than a decade of war. Full Story | Top |
| Obama looks to governors for help with economy Monday, Feb 24, 2014 09:53 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Stymied by a divided Congress, President Barack Obama appealed for help from the nation's governors Monday as he seeks to advance economic policies that stand little chance of winning passage on Capitol Hill. Full Story | Top |
| Uganda president signs harsh anti-gay law Monday, Feb 24, 2014 12:34 PM PST  ENTEBBE, Uganda (AP) — Uganda's president on Monday signed an anti-gay bill that punishes gay sex with up to life in prison, a measure likely to send Uganda's beleaguered gay community further underground as the police try to implement it amid fevered anti-gay sentiment across the country. Full Story | Top |
| Pressure mounts over Arizona bill opposed by gays Monday, Feb 24, 2014 05:49 PM PST  PHOENIX (AP) — Republican Gov. Jan Brewer faced intensifying pressure Monday from CEOs, politicians in Washington and state lawmakers in her own party to veto a bill that would allow business owners with strongly held religious beliefs to deny service to gays and lesbians. Full Story | Top |
| 'Avatar' actor Sam Worthington arrested in NYC Monday, Feb 24, 2014 03:01 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Police say actor Sam Worthington has been arrested in New York City on charges of punching a photographer after the man kicked Worthington's girlfriend in the shin. Full Story | Top |
| Record-Breaking Meteorite Crash on Moon Sparks Brightest Lunar Explosion Ever Monday, Feb 24, 2014 08:39 AM PST  "At that moment I realized that I had seen a very rare and extraordinary event," Jose Madiedo, a professor at the University of Huelva, said in a statement. The space rock hit at a staggering speed of 37,900 mph (61,000 km/h), gouging out a new crater roughly 131 feet (40 meters) wide in an ancient lava-filled lunar basin known as Mare Nubium, Madiedo and colleagues said. If a space rock this size hit the Earth, it might create some spectacular fireball meteors, but it likely would not pose a threat to people on the ground, researchers explained. During that crash, a space rock hit at an estimated 56,000 mph (90,000 km/h), carving a new crater 65 feet (20 meters) wide. Full Story | Top |
| Uganda's president signs anti-gay bill Monday, Feb 24, 2014 05:35 AM PST  ENTEBBE, Uganda (AP) — Uganda's president on Monday signed a controversial anti-gay bill that has harsh penalties for homosexual sex, saying it is needed to deter what he called the West's "social imperialism" promoting homosexuality in Africa. Full Story | Top |
| Winter Comes Back: Return of the Polar Vortex? Monday, Feb 24, 2014 10:37 AM PST Another bout of painfully cold Arctic air is on its way to the northern United States, reviving talk of what has become popularly known as the "polar vortex." By Thursday, temperatures will have dropped to as low as 30 degrees Fahrenheit (17 degrees Celsius) below the average temperature for this time of the year, meteorologists say, with highs dipping down into the teens in New York City and into the single digits in Chicago. Average temperatures for this time of year in those regions are generally closer to 45 and 40 F (7.2 and 4.4 C), respectively, said Bernie Rayno, a meteorologist with Accuweather. While it's not necessarily inaccurate to refer to the event as the "polar vortex," Rayno said, the increased hype around this phrase since January's deep chill has warped people's perceptions of what is actually a fairly common weather phenomenon. Full Story | Top |
| 3 Arizona Republican senators urge veto of bill Monday, Feb 24, 2014 01:07 PM PST  Three Republican Arizona state senators who voted for a bill allowing business owners with strongly held religious beliefs to refuse service to gays sent a letter to Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday urging her ... Full Story | Top |
| Report: Israel airstrikes hit Lebanon-Syria border Monday, Feb 24, 2014 02:51 PM PST BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli aircraft carried out two airstrikes Monday near the Lebanese-Syrian border, Lebanon's state news agency said. There was no immediate confirmation from Lebanese security officials, and the Israeli military declined comment. Full Story | Top |
| Ukraine issues arrest warrant for missing leader Monday, Feb 24, 2014 02:00 PM PST SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine (AP) — With Viktor Yanukovych on the run, Ukraine's interim government drew up a warrant Monday for the fugitive president's arrest in the killing of anti-government protesters last week, while Russia issued its strongest condemnation yet of the new leaders in Kiev, deriding them as "Kalashnikov-toting people in black masks." Full Story | Top |
| Babies Born, Raised Behind Bars May Keep Mothers from Returning to Prison Monday, Feb 24, 2014 06:59 AM PST After serving nine months in prison for stealing, Jacqueline McDougall's future was on the line. A parole board would decide whether she would be locked up for an additional three years. But her fate was not the only one hanging in the balance. If denied parole, McDougall's young son Max, who grew up behind bars [...] Full Story | Top |
| Who needs Ted Nugent? New poll shows Greg Abbott up big in Texas Monday, Feb 24, 2014 08:52 AM PST Republican Greg Abbott has a comfortable lead in the Texas governor's race, according to a just-released poll. That result points to the partisan leaning that makes any Democratic governor hopeful face an uphill climb. Full Story | Top |
| US drone, phone taps used to hunt Mexican drug lord Monday, Feb 24, 2014 02:00 AM PST US authorities announced plans to seek the extradition of Mexico's most powerful drug lord after his capture in a US-backed operation that included a drone, cellphone intercepts and elite Mexican marines. As prosecutors in New York prepared their request, new details emerged Sunday from the manhunt that led to the capture of Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, whose empire has smuggled drugs to the United States, Europe and Asia. The US surveillance drone was used for two weeks between mid-January and mid-February to back up a massive operation in the northwestern city of Culiacan, a US government official told AFP on condition of anonymity. Guzman eventually slipped out of Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state, after escaping through tunnels under one of his safe houses as the marines closed in on him, Mexican and US officials said. Full Story | Top |
| Pope makes first overhaul of Vatican in 25 years Monday, Feb 24, 2014 07:44 AM PST  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Monday announced the first major overhaul of the Vatican's outdated and inefficient bureaucracy in a quarter-century, creating an economics secretariat to control all economic, administrative, personnel and procurement functions of the Holy See. Full Story | Top |
| Kerry Kennedy drugged-driving trial to open in NY Monday, Feb 24, 2014 07:17 AM PST  WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Ethel Kennedy was among the supporters who went to a suburban New York courthouse Monday for her daughter Kerry Kennedy's drugged-driving trial. Full Story | Top |
| Effort to build gay marriage support heads South Monday, Feb 24, 2014 05:35 PM PST  ATLANTA (AP) — Less than two weeks after a federal judge declared Virginia's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, a new effort has been launched in the South seeking to build wider acceptance of gay and lesbian couples in the hope of overturning similar bans across the region. Full Story | Top |
| Actor Alec Baldwin contemplates leaving NYC Monday, Feb 24, 2014 08:47 AM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Alec Baldwin says he misses the days when New Yorkers signaled their appreciation of celebrities briefly and politely while taking care to maintain privacy. Full Story | Top |
| First They Came for the Gays Monday, Feb 24, 2014 09:42 AM PST  If Republicans allow businesses to refuse people in the name of religious freedom, you can expect women, minorities, and others to get the cold shoulder. Full Story | Top |
| ‘Carolina Comeback’ Masks Long-Term Unemployment Monday, Feb 24, 2014 02:45 AM PST  When Congress returns to session this week, renewing an extension of federal unemployment benefits will be near the top of the Senate's agenda. Look at North Carolina, they will say. Last summer, the state legislature passed a bill reducing unemployment insurance payments to workers, and slashing the duration of benefits from 73 weeks to one of the lowest-in-the-nation at 20 weeks. The law took effect in July, and not long afterward, the state's unemployment rate began to plummet, falling far faster than the national average. Full Story | Top |
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