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| CIA-Senate dispute: Who's spying on whom? Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 01:42 PM PDT  Complex story starts with waterboarding and ends in a secret CIA facility in Virginia. 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 |
| Work until you die: Lifelong labor becomes the new normal Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 01:03 PM PDT  There's an interesting paradox happening in the U.S. labor market: Today there are more incentives than ever for a healthy, prosperous retirement. Yet over the same time period since investment options like 401(k)'s become available, people have been choosing to work further into their golden years. Full Story | Top |
| Malaysian relative 'praying for divine intervention' Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 04:44 PM PDT  Two suspect men who flew on a missing Malaysian airliner appear to have been Iranian illegal immigrants, officials said Tuesday, lessening fears of terrorism but shedding no light on the fate of the plane's 239 passengers and crew. On the fourth day of a multinational search at sea and on land, relatives desperate for news of loved ones aboard Malaysia Airlines MH370 said their hopes for a miracle were ebbing away. Authorities have doubled the search radius to 100 nautical miles (equivalent to 185 kilometres) around the point where the Boeing 777 disappeared from radar over the South China Sea early Saturday, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The 34-year-old son of Malaysian security guard Subramaniam Gurusamy was on the flight to do business in Beijing for an oil company. Full Story | Top |
| Anti-fracking activist barred from visiting friends, grocery store Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 02:32 PM PDT  By David DeKok HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - A court injunction obtained by Texas-based Cabot Oil & Gas is preventing Pennsylvania resident Vera Scroggins from going to her local grocery store, her friends' homes, schools, or even the hospital. That's because those properties sit atop the more than 200,000 acres in Susquehanna County that the energy producer owns and leases for gas extraction - land on which Scroggins, a determined anti-fracking activist, is not allowed to tread. A judge in October granted Cabot's request to bar Scroggins from the land - more than 40 percent of Susquehanna County, where she lives - after her repeated trespassing, court documents show. Her offending actions included giving a tour last year to anti-drilling celebrities Susan Sarandon, Yoko Ono, and Sean Lennon, the documents said. Full Story | Top |
| $600K taken from safe at Osteen's Houston 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 |
| Interpol tests giving airlines access to its passports database Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 11:52 AM PDT  LYON, France (AP) — Interpol is allowing two airlines to check passenger passports against its vast database of lost and stolen travel documents — in a test project aimed to let private sector companies help authorities crack down on criminals who travel with fake documents, the police organization's leader said Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| NSA nominee defends bulk data collection Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 01:19 PM PDT  Obama's pick to head agency also says he's open to third-party storage of phone records. Full Story | Top |
| Is Japan building an irresistible terror target? Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 09:08 AM PDT  Center for Public Integrity investigates Japan's new Rokkasho plutonium production plant. Full Story | Top |
| CIA chief denies agency hacked Senate staff computers Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 08:32 PM PDT  A top US lawmaker's hotly disputed charge that the CIA illegally spied on Senate staff has roiled the intelligence community, fraying ties between the agency and its overseers in Congress. Senator Dianne Feinstein brought what had been a behind-the-scenes spat into the public glare Tuesday with her furious broadside against the Central Intelligence Agency, saying its agents searched computers used by staffers investigating its interrogation methods. "I have grave concerns that the CIA's search may well have violated the separation of powers principles embodied in the United States Constitution," Feinstein said on the Senate floor. She alleged the CIA may have breached federal law as well as the executive order that bars it from domestic spying, but the agency's director John Brennan quickly denied the allegations. 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 |
| Fukushima children face invisible enemy Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 07:36 AM PDT  Fear of radiation has kept kids indoors for much of their short lives. Full Story | Top |
| Ex-Christie aides want judge revoke subpoenas Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 08:47 AM PDT  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Lawyers for two key figures in a political payback scandal ensnaring Gov. Chris Christie's administration are trying to persuade a judge not to force them to turn over text messages and other private communications to New Jersey legislators investigating the matter. Full Story | Top |
| Missing jet traced hundreds of miles off-course Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 10:35 AM PDT  Radar evidence shows the Boeing 777 was last detected off Malaysia's west coast. Full Story | Top |
| Feinstein accuses CIA of improperly searching Senate computers 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 |
| Malaysia military tracks plane to west coast Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 02:40 PM PDT  Radar indicates the airliner was far from where it last made contact. Full Story | Top |
| Japan marks third anniversary of quake-tsunami disaster Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 03:32 AM PDT  Namie (Japan) (AFP) - Japan observed a moment of silence Tuesday to mark the third anniversary of the quake-tsunami disaster which swept away thousands of victims, destroyed coastal communities, and sparked the nuclear emergency that forced a re-think on atomic power. Survivors bowed deeply and joined hands at remembrance ceremonies in towns and cities around the disaster zone and in Tokyo, where Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko led tributes to those who died in Japan's worst peace-time disaster. Giant waves also crashed into the Fukushima nuclear plant, sparking reactor meltdowns and explosions, and setting off the worst atomic crisis in a generation. As night fell, an event in a Fukushima park saw about 2,000 lit candles arranged to read "Fukushima 3/11". Full Story | Top |
| Army general's defense seeks new plea deal in sex case Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 11:09 AM PDT  FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — A military judge on Tuesday dismissed the jury in the midst of an Army general's court martial on sexual assault charges to give prosecutors and defense lawyers time to hammer out a plea deal in the closely watched case. Full Story | Top |
| 'Fatal Vision' author Joe McGinniss dies at age 71 Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 08:01 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Joe McGinniss wasn't one to let a story tell itself. Full Story | Top |
| Malaysia's air force says jet may have turned back Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 07:40 PM PDT  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The missing Malaysian jetliner may have attempted to turn back before it vanished from radar, but there is no evidence it reached the Strait of Malacca, the country's air force chief said Wednesday, denying reported remarks he said otherwise. 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 |
| Crimea's parliament pushes for independence Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 01:17 PM PDT  SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — As the campaign increased for tension-filled Crimea to split off from Ukraine in a weekend referendum and join Russia, the region's parliament said Tuesday that if voters approve the move it would first declare itself an independent state, a maneuver that could de-escalate the standoff between Moscow and the West. Full Story | Top |
| Judge's decision is latest twist in Army sex case Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 02:34 PM PDT FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — The trial of an Army general accused of sexual assault moved into uncharted legal territory Tuesday when the judge dismissed the jury to allow the defense time to hammer out a new plea deal with the military. Full Story | Top |
| Obama pitches his health care plan on Funny or Die Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 07:15 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Zach Galifianakis brought the ferns, and President Barack Obama opened a new avenue of presidential communication. Full Story | Top |
| 49ers acquire Jonathan Martin from Dolphins Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 09:20 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jonathan Martin is returning to familiar territory, months after he accused a teammate of bullying and left the Miami Dolphins. Full Story | Top |
| UN: 5.5 million Syrian children affected by war Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 02:49 PM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — The number of Syrian children affected by the civil war in their homeland has doubled in the past year to at least 5.5 million — more than half the country's children — with devastating effects on the health, education and psychological well-being of an entire generation, the United Nations children's agency said Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| Malaysia's air force jet may have turned back Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 07:23 PM PDT KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia's air force chief has denied remarks attributed to him in a local paper that a passenger jet missing for more than four days had been tracked by military radar to the Malacca strait. Full Story | Top |
| Ware, Peppers released as NFL free agency opens Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 07:37 PM PDT  A couple of accomplished NFL pass rushers suddenly became available when DeMarcus Ware and Julius Peppers were released to create room under the salary cap in two of the biggest moves at Tuesday's start of the free-agency signing period. 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 |
| Friend: Pistorius fired guns in public Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 01:56 PM PDT  PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius fired guns in public in the months before he killed his girlfriend — once out of a car sunroof on a road and once in a crowded restaurant, a onetime friend said at the athlete's murder trial Tuesday, drawing an aggressive effort from the chief defense lawyer to pick holes in his testimony. Full Story | Top |
| Peverley hospitalized, teammates try to regroup Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 03:51 PM PDT  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Stars forward Rich Peverley remained hospitalized Tuesday in Dallas, undergoing heart tests after collapsing on the bench during a game that was postponed. Full Story | Top |
| Republican takes lead in Fla. congressional race Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 04:39 PM PDT CLEARWATER BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Republican David Jolly has taken the lead in the Florida congressional race to replace the late Republican Rep. Bill Young. Full Story | Top |
| 'Burger King baby' seeks birth mom on Facebook Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 12:05 AM PDT  In 1986, a newborn wrapped in a red sweater was found abandoned in the bathroom of a fast-food restaurant. Nearly three decades later, the baby is all grown up and looking for her biological mother, and tens of thousands of people are trying to help. Full Story | Top |
| Passenger with stolen passport had no terror links Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014 01:02 AM PDT  Police identify one of two men on the missing Malaysian jet using a stolen passport. Full Story | Top |
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