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| Ariz. gov. urged to veto religious freedom bill Monday, Feb 24, 2014 05:49 PM PST  Critics line up against bill that would allow businesses to deny service to gay patrons. Full Story | Top |
| 'Microbial Pompeii' found on 1,000-year-old human teeth Monday, Feb 24, 2014 03:33 PM PST  A "microbial Pompeii" has been found on the teeth of 1,000-year-old human skeletons. Just as volcanic ash entombed the citizens of the ancient Roman city, dental plaque preserved bacteria and food particles on the skeletons' teeth. Researchers analyzed dental plaque from skeletons in a medieval cemetery in Germany, and found that the mouths of these aged humans were home to many of the same bacterial invaders that cause gum disease in the mouths of modern humans. "One thing that is clear about the population we studied is that they didn't brush their teeth very often, if at all," said study leader Christina Warinner, an anthropologist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland and the University of Oklahoma in Norman. Full Story | Top |
| Polar vortex redux? Monday, Feb 24, 2014 10:37 AM PST  Frigid Arctic air on its way to the northern U.S. could create coldest event of the season. Full Story | Top |
| New link between common pain reliever and risk of ADHD Monday, Feb 24, 2014 01:27 PM PST  Acetaminophen, a common pain reliever considered safe for pregnant women, has been linked for the first time to an increased risk of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder in children, said a study Monday. More studies are needed to confirm the findings, but experts said the research points to a new potential cause for the worldwide rise in cases of ADHD, a neuro-behavioral condition which has no known cause and affects as many as five percent of US children. Women who took acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol, while pregnant had a 37 percent higher risk of having a child who would be later given a hospital diagnosis of hyperkinetic disorder, a particularly severe form of ADHD, said the study in February 24 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics. Full Story | Top |
| Governors get into on-camera dispute outside 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 |
| Epic spelling bee is stopped after organizers run out of words Monday, Feb 24, 2014 10:50 AM PST  How do you spell a spelling bee that goes 66 rounds in more than four hours and causes the organizers to run out of words? The answer is T-I-E, for now. Sophia Hoffman, a fifth-grader at Highland Park Elementary School in the Kansas City suburb... Full Story | Top |
| Defense secretary seeks big cuts to Army Monday, Feb 24, 2014 10:43 AM PST  Facing new priorities, Hagel says military must adjust to reality of smaller budgets. Full Story | Top |
| Climate case has Supreme Court divided on EPA's power Monday, Feb 24, 2014 09:35 AM PST  The justices on take on a politically-charged issue of cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Full Story | Top |
| Big thud: Record-breaking meteorite crashes into moon 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 |
| New Uganda anti-gay law provides for prison sentences 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 |
| Drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzman charged in Mexico Monday, Feb 24, 2014 04:45 PM PST  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have set in motion a legal process that makes it unlikely drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman will soon face U.S. cases also pending against him. Full Story | Top |
| Bill Clinton takes 2014 surrogate role, helps Dems Monday, Feb 24, 2014 02:51 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Bill Clinton, popular in territory unfriendly to President Barack Obama, is reprising his role as a super-surrogate for Democrats battling to keep their Senate majority and win other races. In the long run, Clinton could pick up political chits for his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, should she run for president in 2016. Full Story | Top |
| Polio-like illnesses called a 'rare phenomenon' Monday, Feb 24, 2014 08:14 PM PST STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — More than a dozen children in California have developed an extremely rare, polio-like syndrome within the past year that within days paralyzed one or more of the children's arms or legs, Stanford University researchers say. Full Story | Top |
| Getting a clearer picture on Netflix-Comcast deal Monday, Feb 24, 2014 03:25 PM PST  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After years of bickering, Netflix and Comcast are working together to provide their subscribers with a more enjoyable experience when they're watching movies and television shows over high-speed Internet connections. Full Story | Top |
| New host Seth Meyers lands at NBC's 'Late Night' Monday, Feb 24, 2014 07:09 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — The monologue jokes were mostly thin and the host seemed stiff delivering them. Full Story | Top |
| Hosts' real Olympic challenge: after the games Monday, Feb 24, 2014 11:25 AM PST  LONDON (AP) — For athletes and spectators at Sochi, it's time to pack up. But for the host cities, the real challenge begins with the end of the Olympics. How do they continue to use the expensive stadiums after the party's over? What happens to the athletes' villages? What is the legacy of the games? Full Story | Top |
| APNewsBreak: Aid group: Afghan medical needs unmet Monday, Feb 24, 2014 03:32 PM PST  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Gaping holes in Afghanistan's health care system are being obscured by misleading narratives of success ahead of the international troop withdrawal in 2014, aid organization Medecins Sans Frontieres warns in a new report published Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| Madoff's ex-secretary testifies at NY trial Monday, Feb 24, 2014 02:54 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Imprisoned financier Bernard Madoff's longtime secretary defended herself from the witness stand Monday, telling a Manhattan jury about a 40-year career working unwittingly alongside a historic Ponzi scheme that began when she recognized through Madoff's stutter on her first day that he wanted a ham and cheese sandwich for lunch. 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 |
| Comedy father figure Harold Ramis dies Monday, Feb 24, 2014 03:31 PM PST  "Caddyshack." ''National Lampoon's Animal House." ''Ghostbusters." ''Groundhog Day." ''Stripes." Full Story | Top |
| 'Ghostbuster' writer, actor Harold Ramis dies Monday, Feb 24, 2014 01:19 PM PST CHICAGO (AP) — Harold Ramis, the bespectacled "Ghostbusters" sidekick to Bill Murray whose early grounding in live comedy led to blockbuster movies such as "National Lampoon's Animal House," ''Caddyshack" and "Groundhog Day," died Monday. He was 69. Full Story | Top |
| Calif. kids hit with mysterious illness Monday, Feb 24, 2014 06:33 AM PST  As many as 25 children suffer from the polio-like virus that leaves them with paralyzed limbs. Full Story | Top |
| High court declines challenge of gun laws Monday, Feb 24, 2014 07:00 AM PST  The Supreme Court opted to not wade into the politically volatile issue of gun control. Full Story | Top |
| Ukraine seeks ex-leader on murder warrant Monday, Feb 24, 2014 11:55 AM PST  The nation also appeals for $35 billion in Western aid to pull it from economic collapse. Full Story | Top |
| Egypt's military-backed government resigns Monday, Feb 24, 2014 06:13 AM PST  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's interim prime minister announced Monday the resignation of his Cabinet, a surprise move that could be designed in part to pave the way for the nation's military chief to leave his defense minister's post to run for president. Full Story | Top |
| Pope overhauls Vatican bureaucracy, appoints finance chief 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 |
| Uganda's Museveni signs anti-gay bill Monday, Feb 24, 2014 03:05 AM PST  ENTEBBE, Uganda (Reuters) - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed into law on Monday an anti-gay bill that toughens already strict legislation against homosexuals, defying warnings from the United States that relations could be complicated by the new rules. Museveni's signature will please a staunchly conservative local constituency that is vehemently opposed to homosexuality, but risks alienating Western aid donors. Museveni signed the bill during a press conference at State House in Entebbe, close to the capital Kampala. ... Full Story | Top |
| Earnhardt Jr. wins 2nd Daytona 500 a decade later Sunday, Feb 23, 2014 10:24 PM PST DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Through rain and wrecks, on Daytona's longest day, this was a drought Dale Earnhardt Jr. was determined to end. Full Story | Top |
| Collins takes court as first openly gay NBA player Monday, Feb 24, 2014 12:18 AM PST  Jason Collins took another trailblazing step as the first openly gay man in a major US pro sports league when he took the court for the NBA's Brooklyn Nets. Hours after the Nets inked Collins to a 10-day contract, he came in as a substitute in the second quarter of the Nets' game against the Los Angeles Lakers, receiving the kind of warm welcome from the Staples Center crowd more usually reserved for their own players. It was the 13-year NBA veteran's first appearance in the league since he went public in April about his homosexuality, a revelation that came after his contract with the Washington Wizards had expired. Full Story | Top |
| Venezuelans build barricades as protest death toll rises Monday, Feb 24, 2014 08:13 PM PST Venezuelans erected barricades in major cities in some of the worst demonstrations against the government since the protests began almost three weeks ago, with the death toll now 14. Flames raged as tires were burned in cities from the Andes to the plains to Caracas near the Caribbean, adding to the pressure on President Nicolas Maduro's administration, which, though facing its strongest challenge, has not yet had its socialist rule seriously threatened by the recent discontent. Full Story | Top |
| Ukraine: Arrest warrant for President Yanukovych Monday, Feb 24, 2014 01:25 AM PST  The warrant accuses fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych of mass crimes against protesters. Full Story | Top |
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