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| Russia warns could 'reduce to zero' economic dependency on US Tuesday, Mar 04, 2014 05:21 AM PST  Moscow (AFP) - Russia could reduce to zero its economic dependency on the United States if Washington agreed sanctions against Moscow over Ukraine, a Kremlin aide said on Tuesday, warning that the American financial system faced a "crash" if this happened. Full Story | Top |
| US prepares $1B aid package for troubled Ukraine Tuesday, Mar 04, 2014 04:32 PM PST  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — In a somber show of U.S. support for Ukraine's new leadership, Secretary of State John Kerry walked the streets Tuesday where more than 80 anti-government protesters were killed last month, and promised beseeching crowds that American aid is on the way. Full Story | Top |
| Russia test-fires ICBM amid tension over Ukraine Tuesday, Mar 04, 2014 12:43 PM PST  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said it had successfully test-fired an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) on Tuesday, with tensions running high over its military intervention in Ukraine's Crimea region. A U.S. official said the United States had received proper notification from Russia ahead of the test and that the initial notification pre-dated the crisis in Crimea. The Russian Defence Ministry could not be reached for comment. ... Full Story | Top |
| High school senior lands date with Texans cheerleader, thanks to Twitter Tuesday, Mar 04, 2014 11:28 AM PST It's a tale as old as time. Boy sees photo of beautiful NFL cheerleader. Boy asks for date over Twitter. Tweet goes viral. Cheerleader says yes. The date is on. Full Story | Top |
| Bear wakes early from hibernation, wanders onto ski slope Tuesday, Mar 04, 2014 08:59 AM PST Occasionally Yahoo Sideshow invites outside voices to offer their own takes on current events. Today's guest editorial comes from a bear who was spotted wandering around Heavenly ski resort at Lake Tahoe. Full Story | Top |
| Obama 2015 budget focuses on boosting economy Tuesday, Mar 04, 2014 11:14 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama sent Congress a $3.9 trillion budget Tuesday that would funnel money into road building, education and other economy-bolstering programs, handing Democrats a playbook for their election-year themes of creating jobs and narrowing the income gap between rich and poor. Full Story | Top |
| Putin: Russia has right to use force in Ukraine Tuesday, Mar 04, 2014 09:20 AM PST MOSCOW (AP) — Accusing the West of encouraging an "unconstitutional coup" in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Moscow reserves the right to use its military to protect Russians there but voiced hope it won't need to do so. The Russian leader's first comments on Ukraine since its fugitive president fled to Russia came just as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Kiev to meet with Ukraine's new government. Full Story | Top |
| Pregnant Mom Wants Another Princess, Not A Little Frog Monday, Mar 03, 2014 09:00 PM PST DEAR ABBY: I'm a single mother of a beautiful 2-year-old daughter. I have always pictured myself as a mom of four little princesses. When I fantasized about having children, I imagined fairy tales, ballet, cheerleading, dress-up, tea parties -- all girl things. Now I'm expecting a little boy and I feel heartbroken. When I learned my first was a girl, I couldn't wait to meet her. I bought her everything pink and frilly. Here I am eight weeks from my due date, and I have yet to buy this baby a single thing. When I look at baby boy items, I become severely depressed. ... Full Story | Top |
| How Russian, Ukrainian forces stack up Tuesday, Mar 04, 2014 06:26 AM PST  By Peter Apps LONDON (Reuters) - Underfunded, underequipped and with its senior leadership often seen close to Moscow, Ukraine's military has been something of a no-show in its confrontation with Moscow. Ukrainian forces have been involved in some stand-offs with Russian forces particularly around bases in Crimea, some of which have long been shared between Kiev and Russian forces attached to the Black Sea Fleet. On Sunday, Ukraine's newly appointed navy commander publicly defected to Crimea's regional administration, long Russian dominated and now effectively under Moscow's control. Full Story | Top |
| US, Europeans try to rally Western front vs Russia Monday, Mar 03, 2014 08:38 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S and major allies strained on Monday to rally a strong Western front to persuade Russia to step back from a military takeover of Ukraine's strategic Crimea region. But several acknowledged there are few options beyond already-threatened economic and diplomatic penalties, and critics said Obama administration efforts were too little, too late after years of pressing for friendlier relations with Moscow. Full Story | Top |
| Transgender student sexually assaulted at school Tuesday, Mar 04, 2014 04:07 PM PST  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A transgender teenager was beaten and sexually assaulted by three boys in a bathroom at a suburban San Francisco public school, police said, marking the second time a transgender student reported being the target of violence at the campus. Full Story | Top |
| How to keep yourself and your car out of the winter's next pile-up accident Tuesday, Mar 04, 2014 04:59 AM PST Take a spin around Ford's winter driving test track for some winter driving safety tips Full Story | Top |
| Putin on Ukraine: What he said, and what he meant Tuesday, Mar 04, 2014 07:29 AM PST Vladimir Putin broke his long public silence over events in Ukraine Tuesday, speaking to a small group of Russian journalists at his official residence just outside Moscow. ● Moscow rejects the way the government in Kiev was changed after months of political upheaval and street violence, but also on principle will never accept revolution as a means of taking power in any other part of the post-Soviet area in future. "I strictly object to this form [of changing power] in Ukraine, and anywhere in the post-Soviet space. In other words, if people in Russia or other former Soviet countries are watching events in Kiev and thinking they might remove their own autocratic leaders in similar fashion, the swift Russian military reaction of the past few days in Crimea is an example of what they may expect. Full Story | Top |
| Putin cools tensions in Ukraine, Kerry in Kiev Tuesday, Mar 04, 2014 01:10 PM PST MOSCOW (AP) — Stepping back from the brink of war, Vladimir Putin talked tough but cooled tensions in the Ukraine crisis in his first comments since its president fled, saying Tuesday that Russia has no intention "to fight the Ukrainian people" but reserved the right to use force. Full Story | Top |
| SPOILED BRAT: New Jersey teen sues parents because they won’t pay her college tuition Tuesday, Mar 04, 2014 07:47 AM PST A high school senior at Morris Catholic High School in New Jersey's suburban sprawl is suing her parents because, she claims, they threw her out of the house when she turned 18 and have refused to pay for her college education. The plaintiff in the novel lawsuit is Rachel Canning, reports the Daily Record of Parsippany, N.J. Canning filed her lawsuit in New Jersey family court against her parents, Sean and Elizabeth Canning. Specifically, Canning and her attorney, Tanya N. Helfand, are asking a New Jersey court to force Canning's parents to pay a $5,306 Morris Catholic High tuition bill that is currently outstanding. Full Story | Top |
| Shilling discovery could rewrite Canadian history Tuesday, Mar 04, 2014 12:09 AM PST  Victoria (Canada) (AFP) - An amateur treasure hunter with a hand-held metal detector has turned Canadian history on its head after finding a 16th century shilling buried in clay on the shores of Vancouver Island. The 435-year-old coin discovered in western-most Canada has rekindled a theory that a British explorer made a secret voyage here two centuries before it was discovered by Spanish sailors. Official historical records show the Spanish were the first Europeans to set foot in what is now Canada's British Columbia province in 1774, followed four years later by British Royal Navy Captain James Cook. Retired security systems installer Bruce Campbell found the coin in mid-December, along with a rare 1891 Canadian nickel, a 1960s dime and penny from 1900. Full Story | Top |
| Why gay rights groups care about a Supreme Court birth control case Tuesday, Mar 04, 2014 01:13 PM PST Access to hormonal birth control hasn't typically been a goal of the gay rights movement. But after a near miss on an anti-gay bill in Arizona last week, LGBT advocacy groups are rallying around a Supreme Court birth control case, arguing that gay people's rights will be collateral damage if the court rules that for-profit businesses do not have to provide contraceptives to female employees. Full Story | Top |
| Obama budget sets up election-year clash with Republicans Tuesday, Mar 04, 2014 02:28 PM PST  By Jeff Mason, Mark Felsenthal and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama proposed new tax credits and job-training programs for U.S. workers on Tuesday in a 2015 budget that drew instant condemnation from Republicans, who dismissed the document as an election-year campaign pitch. The proposal has almost no chance of passage in Congress, where Republicans control the House of Representatives, but it lays out Obama's policy priorities ahead of November congressional elections. "Our budget is about choices, it's about our values," Obama told reporters during a visit to an elementary school. "At a time when our deficits are falling at the fastest rate in 60 years, we've got to decide if we're going to keep squeezing the middle class or if we're going to continue to reduce the deficits responsibly while taking steps to grow and strengthen the middle class." While working within the overall cap of $1.014 trillion for discretionary spending that Congress set for 2015, the president proposed $56 billion in additional spending for education, welfare and defense programs, paid for in part by ending a tax break for wealthy retirees. Full Story | Top |
| Nepal says litterbugs no longer welcome on Everest Tuesday, Mar 04, 2014 03:57 AM PST  KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Litterbugs, beware: Nepal is making new rules to persuade trekkers to clean up after themselves on Mount Everest, in the hopes of clearing the tons of rubbish now clogging the world's highest peak. Full Story | Top |
| Florida Parents Arrested After Abandoning Three Kids in the Woods Tuesday, Mar 04, 2014 01:04 PM PST  Couple also had drugs in their possession when police officers picked them up Full Story | Top |
| Windows XP diehards aren’t going quietly Monday, Mar 03, 2014 08:59 PM PST  Microsoft has a problem: It desperately wants any remaining Windows XP users to upgrade to a newer version of the operating system but a huge chunk of them still haven't budged. The latest numbers from NetMarketShare show that Windows XP still accounts for around 29.5% of all desktops in use even though Microsoft is due to end support for the 13-year-old platform on April 8th. ZDNet reports that Microsoft plans to pester remaining XP holdovers starting next week by sending them pop-up notifications reminding them — again — that it will end XP support within a month. However, as Computerworld reports, Microsoft may have a tough time convincing some Windows XP users to upgrade because it's trying to sell them Full Story | Top |
| Putin brings down Crimea tensions; Kerry in Kiev Tuesday, Mar 04, 2014 11:37 AM PST MOSCOW (AP) — Vladimir Putin talked tough but cooled tensions in the Ukraine crisis in his first comments since its president fled, saying Russia has no intention "to fight the Ukrainian people" but reserved the right to use force. As the Russian president held court Tuesday in his personal residence, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Kiev's fledgling government and Moscow agreed to sit down with NATO. Full Story | Top |
| Sam Brownback: The possible GOP presidential contender no one's talking about Monday, Mar 03, 2014 11:53 PM PST  Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is flying under the radar. Is he considering another presidential run? Full Story | Top |
| Russia Today anchor speaks out against invasion of Crimea, now faces assignment in Crimea Tuesday, Mar 04, 2014 07:26 AM PST Abby Martin, a news anchor with RT (also known as Russia Today), gave a brief editorial on Crimea during the conclusion of the English language news program "Breaking the Set." Full Story | Top |
| Another blast of arctic air follows latest snow Tuesday, Mar 04, 2014 05:31 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The seemingly endless winter dumped a half a foot snow on the ground in parts of the South, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, and many areas Tuesday morning saw something even more unusual in March: a blast of arctic air that sent temperatures plummeting into the single digits. Full Story | Top |
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