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| Amazing video captures hippo saving a gnu from a crocodile Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 10:34 AM PDT Score one for Team Mammal. In addition to their reputation for being hungry (HUNGRY!), hippos are also known being rather ruthless. But let it never be said that the hippopotamus doesn't have a heart. Full Story | Top |
| Malaysian military: Missing jet changed course Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 06:58 PM PDT  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The missing Boeing 777 jetliner changed course over the sea, crossed Malaysia and reached the Strait of Malacca — hundreds of miles from its last position recorded by civilian authorities, Malaysian military officials said Tuesday, citing military radar data. Full Story | Top |
| The Secret Pope Francis Haters Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 02:45 AM PDT On the one year anniversary of the pope's election, Francis is the darling of the globe—except for the group of hard-core Catholics he's managed to alienate. Full Story | Top |
| Arena’s concession rip-off discovered: ‘Large’ size beer found to be same volume as ‘regular’ Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 12:27 PM PDT A YouTube video recently posted by hockey fans, Gwen Gibbs and Heath Forsey, uncovering a beer cup controversy has caught the attention of arena attendees and officials. Full Story | Top |
| Democrats clock all-nighter with climate talk Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 08:22 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic senators clocked an all-nighter, working in shifts into Tuesday morning to warn of devastation from climate change and the danger of inaction. Full Story | Top |
| Senator: CIA improperly searched computer network Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 10:05 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee accused the CIA Tuesday of criminal activity in improperly searching a computer network set up for lawmakers investigating allegations that the agency used torture in terror investigations during the Bush administration. Full Story | Top |
| Attitudes and laws against pit bulls soften Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 04:24 PM PDT  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — For much of the past three decades, pit bulls have been widely regarded as America's most dangerous dog — the favorite breed of thugs, drug dealers and dog-fighting rings, with a fearsome reputation for unprovoked, sometimes deadly attacks. Full Story | Top |
| Malaysia military source says missing jet veered to west Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 02:40 PM PDT By Niluksi Koswanage and Eveline Danubrata KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's military believes a jetliner missing for almost four days turned and flew hundreds of kilometers to the west after it last made contact with civilian air traffic control off the country's east coast, a senior officer told Reuters on Tuesday. In one of the most baffling mysteries in recent aviation history, a massive search operation for the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER has so far found no trace of the aircraft or the 239 passengers and crew. Malaysian authorities have said previously that Flight MH370 disappeared about an hour after it took off early Saturday from Kuala Lumpur bound for the Chinese capital, Beijing. But a senior military officer who has been briefed on investigations told Reuters the aircraft had made a detour to the west after communications with civilian authorities ended. Full Story | Top |
| Obama sits 'Between Two Ferns' with Zach Galifianakis Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 07:29 AM PDT In a bid to get young people to sign up for health care, President Barack Obama became the first sitting president in U.S. history to appear on "Between Two Ferns," Funny or Die's intentionally awkward interview show hosted by comedian Zach Galifianakis. Full Story | Top |
| Ukraine appeals to West as Crimea turns to Russia Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 01:42 PM PDT By Andrew Osborn and Alastair Macdonald SEVASTOPOL/KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's government appealed for Western help on Tuesday to stop Moscow annexing Crimea but the Black Sea peninsula, overrun by Russian troops, seemed fixed on a course that could formalize rule from Moscow within days. With their own troops in Crimea effectively prisoners in their bases, the new authorities in Kiev painted a sorry picture of the military bequeathed them by the pro-Moscow president overthrown two weeks ago. They announced the raising of a new National Guard to be drawn from volunteers among veterans. The prime minister, heading for talks at the White House and United Nations, told parliament in Kiev he wanted the United States and Britain, as guarantors of a 1994 treaty that saw Ukraine give up its Soviet nuclear weapons, to intervene both diplomatically and militarily to fend off Russian "aggression". Full Story | Top |
| World's 100 'selfiest cities' ranked Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 08:50 AM PDT According to Time magazine, which published a list of the "top 100 selfiest cities in the world," Makati City in the Philippines is the most popular among selfie-takers, with 258 per 100,000 people. Full Story | Top |
| Flames shoot 40 feet in air in 5-alarm S.F. blaze Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 06:32 PM PDT A five-alarm fire in an apartment building on San Francico's waterfront sent flames 40 feet in the air, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Full Story | Top |
| Video of store clerk refusing 'armed' robber is mesmerizing Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 08:05 AM PDT Crime doesn't pay, especially for the man who tried and failed to rob a convenience store in Victoria, Australia. Full Story | Top |
| Republican Jolly wins Fla. congressional race Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 09:13 PM PDT  CLEARWATER BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Republican David Jolly defeated Democrat Alex Sink on Tuesday in a Tampa-area House district where President Barack Obama's health care overhaul got its first test ahead of November's midterm elections and both sides spent millions auditioning national strategies. Full Story | Top |
| Israel PM says no deal unless Palestinians recognise Jewish state Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 09:13 AM PDT  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday ruled out any deal with the Palestinians unless they recognise Israel as the Jewish state and give up their refugees' right of return. And he said Israel and the Palestinians were getting further away from reaching a peace deal which would end the decades-long conflict, with US-led peace talks bogged down in a bitter dispute over the question of Israel as a Jewish state. "They (Palestinians) say they will never recognise a Jewish state and that they will never give up on the right of return," Netanyahu said in remarks broadcast on Israeli public radio. Full Story | Top |
| Obama takes shopping detour on fundraising trip Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 03:19 PM PDT  When in New York rubbing elbows with wealthy private equity types, might as well also go shopping. At the Gap. President Barack Obama, in Manhattan for some high dollar Democratic Party fundraising, made ... Full Story | Top |
| Kevin Bacon Gives Millennials a History Lesson About the '80s Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 09:25 AM PDT Kevin Bacon has an important message for you, and it has nothing to do with his hit TV show on Fox, his band, or any other project he's working on. Full Story | Top |
| Futuristic Moon Elevator Idea Takes Aim at Lunar Lifts Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 04:37 AM PDT  An elevator to the moon might not be as crazy as it sounds. Indeed, valuable resources could be extracted from the moon, then sent into Earth orbit more easily than if they were rocketed from the Earth's surface. It's no pie in the sky project according to the LiftPort Group of Seattle, Wash. A LiftPort strategic framework calls for establishing an operational Lunar Space Elevator Infrastructure (LSEI). The group envisions a rocket launched from Earth to a Lagrange Point PicoGravity Lab, where cargo is transferred to the robotic lifter and gently delivered to the moon's surface. Full Story | Top |
| $600K taken from safe at Osteen's megachurch Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 02:21 PM PDT HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities are investigating after $600,000 in checks and cash was stolen from a safe at Pastor Joel Osteen's Houston megachurch, which has one of the largest congregations in the country. Full Story | Top |
| On Senate floor, Dems talk all night about climate Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 01:08 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators have found plenty of common ground in an overnight debate about climate change that has been characterized by civil exchanges from lawmakers who hear plenty to like in each other's words. Could this really be happening in Washington? Full Story | Top |
| Obama's Interview with Zach Galifianakis Is Terrific / Completely Awkward Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 04:53 AM PDT  Demonstrating perhaps that there are few things he will not do to spread the word about Obamacare, President Obama made an appearance on Zach Galifianakis' fake web talk show Between Two Ferns. The key to the show is Galifianakis's probably-not-entirely-artificial awkwardness in the interview, and so excerpts won't entirely do it justice. But the segment contains all of the best aspects of a Between Two Ferns episode: jokes about Galifianakis's weight, combativeness, Galifianakis telling his guest to be quiet. Obama's go-to line is a puzzled, "Seriously?," offered in response to questions about his running for a third time ("If I ran a third time it would be sort of like a third Hangover movie. Full Story | Top |
| "It can happen here": Three years after Fukushima, U.S. vulnerable to nuclear disaster Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 04:31 AM PDT Nuclear expert warns of a "likely" nuclear accident if industry regulations not tightened Full Story | Top |
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