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| Russia says intercepted US drone over Crimea: arms group Friday, Mar 14, 2014 11:38 AM PDT  A United States surveillance drone has been intercepted above the Ukranian region of Crimea, a Russian state arms and technology group said Friday. It was possible to break the link with US operators with complex radio-electronic" technology, said Rostec in a statement. "Judging by its identification number, UAV MQ-5B belonged to the 66th American Reconnaissance Brigade, based in Bavaria," Rostec said on its website, which also carried a picture of what it said was the captured drone. The Crimean port of Sevastopol is home to Russia's Black Sea Fleet, which is believed to be equipped with detection equipment. Full Story | Top |
| Couple kicked out of McDonald’s for sitting ‘too long’ offered free meals for life Friday, Mar 14, 2014 12:08 PM PDT 87-year-old Carl and 81-year-old Barbara Becker of Rixeyville, Virginia made headlines when news of their letter to the editor, detailing an episode at the Culpeper McDonald's, spread and eventually got them free meals for life. Full Story | Top |
| Investigators focus on foul play behind missing Malaysia plane: sources Friday, Mar 14, 2014 04:48 PM PDT By Niluksi Koswanage and Siva Govindasamy KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - An investigation into a missing Malaysian jetliner, now into its second week, is focusing more on the possibility of foul play as evidence suggests it was deliberately flown hundreds of miles off course, sources familiar with the Malaysian probe said. Two sources told Reuters that military radar data showed an unidentified aircraft that investigators suspect was Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 following a commonly used navigational route toward the Middle East and Europe when it was last spotted early on March 8, northwest of Malaysia. That course - headed into the Andaman Sea and towards the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean - could only have been set deliberately, either by flying the Boeing 777-200ER jet manually or by programming the auto-pilot. A third source familiar with the investigation said inquiries were focusing more on the theory that someone with knowledge of navigational waypoints - used by airlines to track established commercial flight paths - had diverted the flight off its scheduled course from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Full Story | Top |
| Obama says enough people signed up to make U.S. healthcare law work Friday, Mar 14, 2014 09:17 AM PDT  By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, aiming to allay concerns about the viability of his signature healthcare law, said on Friday enough people have enrolled to make its insurance marketplaces stable. "Well, at this point, enough people are signing up that the Affordable Care Act is going to work," Obama said in an interview with the medical website WebMD. "The insurance companies will continue to offer these plans." The Obama administration is mounting an enrollment drive aimed at adults aged 18 to 34, whose participation in the marketplaces is vital to the success of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. "For the average person, many folks who don't have health insurance initially, they're going to have to make some choices. Full Story | Top |
| Paul Ryan to meet black U.S. lawmakers after 'offensive' remarks Friday, Mar 14, 2014 03:01 PM PDT  Republican Representative Paul Ryan on Friday agreed to meet with the Congressional Black Caucus after members of the group branded his remarks about inner-city poverty this week "highly offensive". The controversy began on Wednesday after Ryan said on William Bennett's talk radio show, "Morning in America," that there was a "tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value of work." Representative Barbara Lee of California, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, called Ryan's remarks a "thinly veiled racial attack." "Let's be clear, when Mr. Ryan says 'inner city,' when he says, 'culture,' these are simply code words for what he really means: 'black'," Lee said in a statement. Ryan, the 2012 Republican vice presidential candidate, is known for budgets with proposed deep cuts to programs that help the poor. The Wisconsin lawmaker, who chairs the House Budget Committee, said in a statement that he "was inarticulate" about the point he was trying to make. Full Story | Top |
| Moms of Jonah Hill, Alicia Keys, Adam Levine, Jennifer Lopez: Enroll in Obamacare Friday, Mar 14, 2014 03:12 AM PDT Long before Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine was People Magazine's "sexiest man alive," he was "rambunctious, mischievous, naughty," his mom, Patsy Noah, says in a new ad meant to get more young people to sign up for Obamacare. Full Story | Top |
| Obama: Enough have enrolled for stable health care Friday, Mar 14, 2014 07:06 AM PDT  President Barack Obama says enough people have signed up for health care to make his signature law work. Obama tells medical web site WebMD that the 4.2 million people enrolled for this year, quote, "is ... Full Story | Top |
| Kerry: US won't recognize Crimea vote Friday, Mar 14, 2014 11:12 AM PDT LONDON (AP) — Despite six hours of talks, the U.S. and Russia found "no common vision" Friday over the crisis in Ukraine, where residents in the country's strategic Crimean region are holding a secession vote this weekend. Full Story | Top |
| Missing flight's co-pilot was religious, not reckless: family Friday, Mar 14, 2014 05:27 AM PDT  By Niluksi Koswanage KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Friends and family of the co-pilot who flew the missing Malaysia Airlines jet said the 27-year-old was religious and serious about his career, countering news reports suggesting he was a cockpit Romeo who was reckless on the job. Fariq Abdul Hamid, who joined the national flag carrier in 2007, was helping to fly the Boeing 777 whose disappearance on Saturday has turned into one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries. Australian media reported that Fariq and a pilot invited two women to join them in the cockpit on a flight from Thailand to Malaysia in 2011, where he smoked and flirted with them. Jonti Roos, a South African living in Melbourne, confirmed to Reuters that the incident took place but said she did not feel that Fariq behaved irresponsibly. Full Story | Top |
| West prepares sanctions as Russia presses on with Crimea takeover Friday, Mar 14, 2014 03:17 PM PDT  By Andrew Osborn and Lina Kushch SEVASTOPOL/DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Dozens of Russians linked to Russia's gradual takeover of Crimea could face U.S. and EU travel bans and asset freezes on Monday, after six hours of crisis talks between Washington and Moscow ended with both sides still far apart. Moscow shipped more troops and armor into Crimea on Friday and repeated its threat to invade other parts of Ukraine in response to violence in Donetsk on Thursday night despite Western demands to pull back. EU diplomats will choose from a long list of 120-130 possible Russian targets for sanctions on Sunday, as pro-Moscow authorities who have taken power in Crimea hold a vote to join Russia in the worst East-West confrontation since the Cold War. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. Preps for Russian Retaliation Friday, Mar 14, 2014 02:45 AM PDT  If the U.S. moves to sanction Putin and his pals next week, Moscow will definitely strike back. Inside the Obama administration, officials are gearing up for an economic Cold War. Full Story | Top |
| After Crimea, wary Eastern Europe asks: who's next Friday, Mar 14, 2014 07:53 AM PDT  BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Broken promises of help from the West. A tragic history of Russian invasion that goes back centuries. A painful awareness that conflicts in this volatile region are contagious. These are the factors that make nations across Eastern Europe watch events in Ukraine — and tremble. Full Story | Top |
| US re-indicts Indian diplomat on visa fraud Friday, Mar 14, 2014 02:39 PM PDT  A New York grand jury on Friday re-indicted an Indian diplomat accused of mistreating her housekeeper on two counts of visa fraud and making false statements, threatening to reignite a bitter row with New Delhi. The announcement from the Manhattan federal prosecutor came two days after a US judge threw out a previous case on the grounds that the former consular official was granted full diplomatic immunity after her arrest. But the new, 21-page indictment paints a devastating picture of the lengths to which Devyani Khobragade allegedly went to infringe US laws in hiring a nanny-cum-housekeeper when she moved to New York in 2012. Khobragade was arrested on December 12 outside her children's school and later strip-searched, enraging the Indian government and some of the Indian public. Full Story | Top |
| Missing plane: Piracy theory gains more credence Friday, Mar 14, 2014 05:51 PM PDT  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Piracy and pilot suicide are among the scenarios under study as investigators grow increasingly certain the missing Malaysia Airlines jet changed course and headed west after its last radio contact with air traffic controllers. Full Story | Top |
| Cooks saved nuke missile crews from test failure Friday, Mar 14, 2014 07:06 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Failings last spring by nuclear missile operators at an Air Force base in North Dakota were worse than first reported, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. Full Story | Top |
| After a year, retired Air Force sergeant reunited with service dog from Iraq Friday, Mar 14, 2014 07:09 AM PDT They were partners while serving in Iraq. Now they'll get to enjoy retirement together. Full Story | Top |
| Under pressure, Obama vows to examine deportations Friday, Mar 14, 2014 08:47 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are warning that any steps President Barack Obama takes to bypass Congress to ease deportations of immigrants illegally in the United States would severely hurt chances of overhauling the nation's immigration laws. Full Story | Top |
| Dress to impress: The secrets of a stylish power dresser Friday, Mar 14, 2014 04:28 AM PDT Author of "Style Bible" shares her top tips to be stylish at work. Full Story | Top |
| Crimea Crisis: Lessons from the first Cold War Friday, Mar 14, 2014 02:53 AM PDT The Second Cold War is upon us, or so reporting from Kiev, Brussels, Moscow and Washington leads us to believe. There has been no shortage of ideas for how the West should respond to Russia's takeover of Crimea — from imposing wide-ranging sanctions on Russian political leaders and oligarchs to inviting Georgia to join NATO. Any accurate recollection of the original Cold War seems to be forgotten. The first Cold War was not all about bluster and one-upmanship. Compromise, trade-offs and skillful, patient diplomacy were a big part of U.S. policy then. U.S. actions were guided by a long-term strategy rather than dueling tweets. If we are in a new Cold War, some lessons of the first one should apply today. We should act accordingly. Full Story | Top |
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