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| Mom, dad, daughter accused in $7M shoplift spree Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 04:11 AM PST A father, mother and daughter from a posh Chicago suburb stole $7 million in merchandise during a decadelong shoplifting spree — traveling to stores nationwide and targeting dolls, toys, cosmetics and ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama blames Congress for deportations Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 10:19 AM PST  US President Barack Obama on Thursday said he was powerless to stop mass expulsions of illegal immigrants, which prompted one Latino advocacy group to brand him "deporter in chief." The president said Congress was requiring him to enforce existing immigration laws while balking at passing a comprehensive bill that would offer illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. "I am constrained in terms of what I am able to do," Obama said. "The reason why these deportations are taking place is that Congress said 'you have to enforce these laws'" Full Story | Top |
| Clinton slams Putin, a day after her Hitler remark Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 12:16 AM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Russian President Vladimir Putin is a tough but thin-skinned leader who is squandering his country's potential. Full Story | Top |
| What you should hear at CPAC — but won’t Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 04:00 AM PST  The annual Conservative Political Action Conference gets underway Thursday morning at National Harbor, just across the Potomac River from Ronald Reagan National Airport. Thanks to events in Kiev this week, you can bet there will be a lot of rumbling from the lectern about turning back Russian expansionism, along with heated denunciations of the Democratic president for his spineless internationalism and socialist tendencies, and calls for government to stop taxing the citizenry. Full Story | Top |
| Crimea votes to join Russia, Obama orders sanctions Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 01:35 PM PST By Alissa de Carbonnel and Luke Baker SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Crimea's parliament voted to join Russia on Thursday and its Moscow-backed government set a referendum in 10 days' time in a dramatic escalation of the crisis over the Ukrainian region that drew a sharp riposte from U.S. President Barack Obama. Obama ordered sanctions on those responsible for Moscow's military intervention in Ukraine, including bans on travel to the United States and freezing of their U.S. assets. He echoed European Union leaders and the pro-Western government in Ukraine in declaring that the proposed referendum would violate international law. The sudden acceleration of moves to bring Crimea, which has an ethnic Russian majority and has effectively been seized by Russian forces, formally under Moscow's rule came as EU leaders held an emergency summit groping for ways to pressure Russia to back down and accept mediation. Full Story | Top |
| US announces visa restrictions on Russians Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 06:04 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration slapped new visa restrictions Thursday on pro-Russian opponents of the new Ukraine government in Kiev and cleared the way for financial sanctions as the West began punishing Moscow for its occupation of Ukraine's Crimea region. Full Story | Top |
| Putin is not crazy. Frustrating, unpredictable. Not crazy. Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 09:49 AM PST Is the judo-loving former KGB colonel with the nuclear arsenal and the unsettling fondness for being photographed shirtless insane? No. Full Story | Top |
| John Bolton's address to conservatives was heavy on 2016 talk Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 09:25 AM PST  Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton stokes rumors of a presidential run in 2016. Full Story | Top |
| Anderson Cooper in Kiev: 'It almost feels like something out of World War II' Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 10:57 AM PST  CNN's prime-time host talks to Yahoo News about the situation on the ground in the Ukraine capital, his approach to storytelling, and the time he slipped into Burma with a fake press pass — and found his calling. Full Story | Top |
| Obama to Latinos: Last call for health care signup Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 10:56 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Issuing a last call for health care, President Barack Obama assured Latinos on Thursday that signing up for new insurance exchanges won't lead to deportation for any relatives in the U.S. illegally. Full Story | Top |
| Here comes El Nino; good news for US weather woes Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 03:15 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Relief may be on the way for a weather-weary United States with the predicted warming of the central Pacific Ocean brewing this year that will likely change weather worldwide. But it won't be for the better everywhere. Full Story | Top |
| Forecasters see El Nino warming of Pacific Ocean Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 07:44 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. federal forecasters predict a warming of the central Pacific Ocean this year that will change weather worldwide. Full Story | Top |
| Christie To Obama: 'What The Hell Are We Paying You For?' Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 12:20 PM PST  OXON HILL, Md. – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie gave a rousing speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference today taking on President Obama while stressing his own conservative credentials. Christie's signature tough talking style was on full display when he took on Obama asking,... Full Story | Top |
| Time running out for Great Barrier Reef: scientists Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 08:32 PM PST  Time is running out for Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef, with climate change set to wreck irreversible damage by 2030 unless immediate action is taken, marine scientists said Thursday. In a report prepared for this month's Earth Hour global climate change campaign, University of Queensland reef researcher Ove Hoegh-Guldberg said the world heritage site was at a turning point. "If we don't increase our commitment to solve the burgeoning stress from local and global sources, the reef will disappear," he wrote in the foreword to the report. It is the conclusion of the world's most qualified coral reef experts." Full Story | Top |
| Pope very popular in United States, but no 'Francis effect': poll Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 09:09 PM PST One year after his election, Pope Francis is "immensely popular among American Catholics," a survey said on Thursday, but there is no sign of a "Francis effect" inspiring more to attend Mass or do volunteer work. The Washington-based Pew Research Center said 85 percent of Catholics in the United States viewed the Argentine-born pontiff favorably, with 51 percent reporting a "very favourable" view of him, while only 4 percent expressed a negative opinion. Among Catholics, 68 percent thought he represented "a major change for the better," a view shared by 51 percent of the non-Catholics responding to the poll in telephone interviews of 1,340 Americans from February 14 to 23. "Nor has there been a statistically significant change in how often Catholics say they go to Mass." Forty percent of Catholics said they were now praying more often and 26 percent were "more excited" about their faith, but their frequency of going to confession or volunteering at church has not changed. Full Story | Top |
| US Congress rushing toward Russia sanctions Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 05:18 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Congress is rushing to put in place hard-hitting sanctions on Russia in response to its takeover of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, hoping Europe will follow the lead of the United States in upping the pressure on President Vladimir Putin's government. Full Story | Top |
| Conservatives: GOP needs to stand on principle Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 11:42 AM PST  OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Republican leaders implored conservatives to offer a stark contrast to President Barack Obama's policies and stand firm on principles as a way to win back Senate control in the fall elections and prepare for the 2016 presidential campaign. Full Story | Top |
| Bus-Size Asteroid Gives Earth Super-Close Shave Today, Second in 2 Days Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 04:54 AM PST  Editor's update (for 9 p.m. ET): Asteroid 2014 EC has zipped by Earth during its super-close flyby on Thursday (March 6). It was actually the third close flyby of an asteroid inside the orbit of the moon in the last two days, according to NASA. For the second day in a row, a space rock is going to zip close by Earth within the orbit of the moon, and you can watch the encounter live online. The 33-foot-wide (10 meters) near-Earth asteroid 2014 EC will come within 38,000 miles (62,000 kilometers) of Earth's surface at 4:30 p.m. ET (2130 GMT) Thursday (March 6), NASA officials said. Full Story | Top |
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