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| Michele Bachmann: Jan Brewer wrong to veto Arizona's 'anti-gay' bill Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 04:07 AM PST 5 years after founding the tea party, Bachmann says the GOP needs unity in 2014 Full Story | Top |
| U.S. House hearing on IRS scandal dissolves in shouting Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 09:34 AM PST  By Patrick Temple-West WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A brief congressional hearing ended in shouting and confusion on Wednesday after a former U.S. Internal Revenue Service official refused to answer questions about a 10-month-old controversy involving IRS scrutiny of conservative political groups. Lois Lerner, who was at the center of last year's so-called Tea Party targeting scandal, declined to answer questions from Darrell Issa, the Republican chairman of the House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Issa, who has relentlessly pursued the tax agency over the controversy for months, dismissed Lerner and gaveled the hearing to a close after just 15 minutes, cutting off remarks by Representative Elijah Cummings, the panel's top Democrat. That was days after she issued a public apology, in answer to a planted question from the audience at a legal conference, in which she said the IRS had done "inappropriate" targeting of political groups with the words "Tea Party" in their names. Full Story | Top |
| Adorable photo of baby waiting to meet her father goes insanely viral Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 08:43 AM PST Seven-month-old Harper meets father for the first time with an assist from a catchy Carley Rae Jepsen tune. Full Story | Top |
| Former IRS official refuses to testify at hearing Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 12:45 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The former Internal Revenue Service official at the heart of the controversy over the agency's targeting of conservative groups once again refused to answer questions at a House hearing Wednesday amid signs that a congressional investigation into the affair may be stalling. Full Story | Top |
| Israel intercepts 'Iranian weapons shipment' to Gaza Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 01:34 PM PST  Israel said it intercepted a ship Wednesday carrying an Iranian shipment of advanced rockets bound for Palestinian militants, claiming it proved Tehran could not be trusted in international nuclear talks. The announcement came hours after Israel said it struck two Hezbollah fighters as they tried to plant a bomb near the Syrian-Israeli frontier and just over a week after Israel reportedly bombed the Iran-backed group inside Lebanon for the first time since 2006. Israel has long accused Iran and Syria of providing military aid to Hezbollah and to Palestinian militant groups, and the military spokesman's office tweeted that the ship was carrying weapons "capable of striking anywhere in Israel". Full Story | Top |
| Hillary Clinton compares Putin actions to Hitler's Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 10:04 AM PST  LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton likened Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions on the Crimean peninsula of Ukraine to those of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. Full Story | Top |
| Analysts: Russia unlikely to pull back in Crimea Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 08:49 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia is unlikely to pull back its military forces in Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, analysts and former Obama administration officials say, forcing the United States and Europe into a more limited strategy of trying to prevent President Vladimir Putin from making advances elsewhere in the former Soviet republic. Full Story | Top |
| New SAT: The essay portion is to become optional Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 03:32 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Essay optional. No penalties for wrong answers. The SAT college entrance exam is undergoing sweeping revisions. Full Story | Top |
| Why gay rights groups care about a Supreme Court birth control case Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 05:13 AM 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 seen offering Putin way out of Ukraine crisis Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 05:01 AM PST  While increasing pressure on Russia on the Ukraine crisis, the United States is also seeking to offer President Vladimir Putin a way out. US President Barack Obama has offered to address point by point Moscow's concerns over the situation in Ukraine, said a senior White House official, who declined to be named. He said Obama suggested the possibilty during telephone talks Saturday with Putin on the crisis in the ex-Soviet state, where pro-Kremlin forces have taken control of the strategic Crimea peninsula. Full Story | Top |
| #SydneyStorm produces dramatic images down under Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 07:08 AM PST A powerful thunderstorm rolled into Sydney on Wednesday. And the ominous clouds that accompanied it were captured by social media users, who shared plenty of dramatic images. Full Story | Top |
| Satellite captures massive storm swirling off Antarctica Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 10:02 AM PST A European satellite that flew over Antarctica on Wednesday captured a massive storm churning in the ocean off its northern coast. Full Story | Top |
| Health plans that don't meet Obamacare rules can renew for two more years Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 03:57 PM PST  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Wednesday said it would allow health insurers to extend plans that fail to comply with its signature health law for an additional two years, a move Republicans quickly condemned as a politically motivated delay. In a release of new guidelines to insurers and employers for 2015, the administration said it would now allow renewal of noncompliant health plans that begin as late as October 1, 2016. Officials said they believe the change would affect 500,000 to 1.5 million people who hold "transitional policies" that lack consumer protections enshrined in the law known as Obamacare. The policy stems from a wave of insurance plan cancellations last year that sparked a public outcry against President Barack Obama and Democrats, forcing the administration to abruptly allow people to renew noncompliant policies in states where regulators allowed the change. Full Story | Top |
| No legitimate claim to $10 million California gold find, firm says Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 01:24 PM PST  By Laila Kearney SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The currency firm representing a California couple who found $10 million worth of rare Gold Rush-era coins buried on their property says no valid claim to the collection has emerged, despite rumors that the stash was swiped in a 1901 heist. A sale of the treasure trove, which includes 1,400 gold pieces in nearly mint condition, will proceed as planned, said coin expert David McCarthy of currency firm Kagin's. "To my knowledge, no legitimate claims have surfaced, and I don't think that any will," McCarthy told Reuters. ... Full Story | Top |
| 100-Foot Asteroid Buzzing Earth Today, Is Closer Than the Moon: Watch It Live Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 07:49 AM PST  A newfound asteroid will buzz close by Earth today (March 5), flying safely between our planet and the orbit of the moon, and you can follow the space rock encounter live online. NASA officials say it poses no threat to the Earth. "This asteroid, 2014 DX110, is estimated to be about 100 feet (30 meters) across," officials at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California wrote in an alert. Two web-based skywatching services, the online Slooh observatory and the Virtual Telescope Project in Italy, will attempt to offer free live views of asteroid 2014 DX110 during its flyby. Full Story | Top |
| The Inevitability of Obamacare for Illegal Aliens Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 12:00 AM PST When government expands entitlements, illegal aliens always end up with a piece of the pie. Obamacare promoters relented to GOP pressure to include an illegal alien ban on eligibility and vowed endlessly that no benefits would go to the "undocumented." But denial isn't just a river in Egypt. It's the Obama way. In Oregon this week, officials confessed that nearly 4,000 illegal immigrants had been "accidentally" steered from the state's low-income Medicaid program and instead were enrolled in Obamacare in violation of the law. Full Story | Top |
| Davis, Abbott set to face off for Texas governor Tuesday, Mar 04, 2014 10:00 PM PST  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans picked the state's attorney general in the fight to succeed longtime Gov. Rick Perry, while a rising Democratic star coasted to her party's nomination Tuesday night during the nation's first statewide primary. Full Story | Top |
| 3 years and 120 miles later, a missing dog is found Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 07:30 AM PST If dogs could talk, this one would have quite a story. Full Story | Top |
| 'Rock Snot' Infestation Caused by Climate Change, Study Suggests Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 06:19 AM PST  Outbreaks of didymo, as the species is called, have been reported in the United States, New Zealand, Europe and Canada in recent decades, causing policymakers and many scientists to say humans transported the algae. One lake studied in the Gaspésie region of Quebec showed fossilized Didymosphenia geminata (one species of didymo) dating back to about 1970, or 36 years before the first official reports of an outbreak were recorded in the region. "We can't make any solid claims as to what the mechanism is that is favoring didymo, but we strongly suspect it has to do with climate," said study leader Michelle Lavery, a graduate student at the University of New Brunswick. Lavery performed the research at Queen's University in Ontario under the supervision of John Smol and his postdoctoral researcher Joshua Kurek, an avid fly fisherman who always heeded the advice to "wash his waders" to stop the transport of this algae from waterway to waterway. Full Story | Top |
| Girl Who Loves Troubled Boy Can't Save Him All By Herself Tuesday, Mar 04, 2014 09:00 PM PST DEAR ABBY: My 13-year-old daughter, "Lizzie," continues to talk to a 14-year-old boy who is very controlling and abusive to her. I made her stop talking to him, took away her cellphone privileges, and tried to show her how wrong he was for her and that she was going to wind up very hurt. After recently giving her the cellphone back, I learned last night that Lizzie has been talking to him and lying to me about it. He sent her a text that if she didn't answer his call within seven minutes, he was either going to shoot himself or cut himself. ... Full Story | Top |
| With Latest Victory, Assad Has Won the War in Syria Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 03:15 AM PST As the eyes of the world and the media turn to Ukraine, Syrian President Bashar al Assad has quietly been making momentous gains in his three-year civil war with rebels that all but assure he will leave office on his own terms. Yabroud, the last major town held by Sunni Muslim rebels and located near the Lebanese border, is under siege by Assad's army. The victory also comes as Syria continues to delay plans to destroy its chemical weapons. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons says Syria has now submitted one-third of its chemical weapons for destruction, far behind the schedule set in negotiations with the United States and its allies last fall. Full Story | Top |
| 2-year extension offered for canceled health plans Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 03:26 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Warding off the specter of election-year health insurance cancellations, the Obama administration Wednesday announced a two-year extension for individual policies that don't meet requirements of the new health care law. Full Story | Top |
| Russia says cannot order Crimean 'self-defense' units back to base Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 02:44 AM PST Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that Moscow cannot order pro-Russian armed groups in Ukraine's Crimea region to return to their bases because they are "self-defense" forces, not Russian soldiers. Western states are discussing a potential resolution to the crisis ignited by Russian intervention in Crimea under which Russia would pull its forces back to their bases on the Black Sea peninsula and allow in international monitors. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. House votes to delay Obamacare penalty for non-enrollment Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 03:25 PM PST  By David Morgan and Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to delay for one year the tax penalty Americans will pay under President Barack Obama's healthcare law if they decline to enroll in health coverage. The vote, part of a Republican election-year attack strategy against the 2010 healthcare law known as Obamacare, marked the 50th time House Republicans had passed legislation to try to repeal or dismantle it. The measure to delay the tax penalty passed by a vote of 250-160, with 27 Democrats joining with 223 Republicans to back the legislation. Full Story | Top |
| Defense: Marathon suspect's remark humorous Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 01:51 PM PST  BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev say a remark he made to his sister during a prison visit was meant to be funny and wasn't incriminating, as prosecutors have suggested. Full Story | Top |
| Swift response before transgender teen recanted Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 06:08 AM PST SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police, civil rights activists and school district officials in the San Francisco suburb of Hercules responded aggressively when a transgender teenager showed up at his high school health center saying he had just been beaten and sexually assaulted in a school bathroom. Full Story | Top |
| Ukraine premier: Crimea will remain in Ukraine Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 10:49 AM PST KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — In his first interview since taking office, Ukraine's new prime minister vigorously defended the legality of his government against attacks coming from Russia, but said Wednesday that Ukraine would be willing to consider granting more autonomy to the Crimea region to assuage the concerns of the province's pro-Russian population. Full Story | Top |
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