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Search resumes for missing Malaysian jet Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 07:37 PM PST Mystery surrounded the identity of two passengers who may have used stolen passports. Full Story | Top |
Rand Paul wins again in conservative Republican poll Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 03:43 PM PST Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky came out the favorite for the second straight year among Republican conservative activists voting for the candidate they would like to see in the White House next. Paul, a potential 2016 White House contender, won 31 percent in the annual straw poll taken at the Conservative Political Action Conference. His closest competitors were Texas Senator Ted Cruz, with 11 percent, and conservative neurosurgeon Ben Carson with 9 percent. Full Story | Top |
American dad passenger on missing Malaysia Airlines jet Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 12:51 PM PST One of three Americans aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is a longtime IBM executive who raised his family in North Texas before moving to East Asia. Full Story | Top |
AP Exclusive: Counties undermine prison efforts Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 01:35 PM PST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California counties are confounding the state's court-ordered efforts to sharply reduce its inmate population by sending state prisons far more convicts than anticipated, including a record number of people with second felony convictions. Full Story | Top |
Rand Paul wins CPAC presidential straw poll Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 05:41 PM PST OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — She was not on the speaking program, but Hillary Rodham Clinton had presence at the nation's largest annual gathering of conservative activists on Saturday, as high-profile Republicans launched a dual effort to attack the prospective Democratic presidential candidate and improve the GOP's longstanding struggle with women voters. Full Story | Top |
Domestic violence cases spark protests in Lebanon Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 10:26 AM PST BEIRUT (AP) — Nada Sabbagh received a brief, chilling telephone call from her son-in-law last month telling her: "Come to your daughter. I am going to kill her." Full Story | Top |
South Africa: Mandela comrade stays in the game Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 08:46 AM PST JOHANNESBURG (AP) — One of Nelson Mandela's closest confidants is still challenging the powers that be, with plenty of guidance from his ancestors, the ancient Greeks. Full Story | Top |
Daylight saving time: Set clocks ahead 1 hour Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 06:21 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Spring is closer than you think, and here's a sure sign: Daylight saving time arrives this weekend. Full Story | Top |
Tee time part of Obama's Florida family vacation Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 12:42 PM PST KEY LARGO, Fla. (AP) — President Barack Obama got out on a Florida golf course Saturday with two former professional athletes and the cousin of one of his top advisers. Full Story | Top |
Controversy marks Newsweek's comeback Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 05:35 AM PST NEW YORK (AP) — A mystery man. A splashy reveal. A media frenzy. Newsweek staked its return from the dead on a story it knew would get attention. A cover story claiming it had uncovered "the face behind bitcoin," the world's most popular digital currency. Full Story | Top |
Oil slicks offer sign that Malaysian jet crashed Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 05:35 PM PST KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Two large oil slicks spotted by the Vietnamese air force offered the first sign that a jetliner carrying 239 people had crashed into the ocean after vanishing from radar without sending a single distress call. Full Story | Top |
Stern Israeli airport security measures questioned Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 08:05 AM PST JERUSALEM (AP) — Jack Angelides was about to board a flight out of Israel's international airport when he was given a curious choice that baffles him to this day. Traveling with a laptop and a stack of printed reading material, he was told to part with one or the other, due to unspecified security concerns. Full Story | Top |
Oil slicks spotted in hunt for jet with 239 aboard Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 12:51 PM PST KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Vietnamese air force planes spotted two large oil slicks Saturday in the region where a Malaysia Airlines jetliner disappeared, the first sign that the Boeing 777 with 239 people aboard had crashed. Full Story | Top |
Plea for peace and Ukraine's independence in Sochi Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 10:41 AM PST SOCHI, Russia (AP) — In the fading light in the mountains above Sochi, the athletes and flags from Russia and Ukraine appeared side by side Saturday, united by success on the opening day of action at the Paralympics as the discord between their nations deepens. Full Story | Top |
Boeing 777: 1 of the most popular, safest jets Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 12:15 AM PST NEW YORK (AP) — The Boeing 777 flown by Malaysia Airlines that disappeared Saturday morning over the South China Sea is one of the world's most popular — and safest — jets. Full Story | Top |
Pistorius trial grips viewers worldwide Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 05:14 AM PST PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — During breaks in his murder trial, Oscar Pistorius sometimes confers intensely with his camp, murmuring in the ear of his chief defense lawyer. When witnesses testify, the double-amputee athlete takes notes or sits with hands clasped, occasionally covering his face, head bowed, as though troubled by the graphic accounts of how he fatally shot his girlfriend last year. Full Story | Top |
Warning shots fired to turn monitors back from Crimea Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 12:45 PM PST The mood darkened in Russian-occupied Crimea on Saturday after overnight confrontations between Russian troops and besieged Ukrainian soldiers raised tensions on the ground in the biggest East-West face-off since the Cold War. Full Story | Top |
GOP targets Clinton, courts women as summit ends Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 12:16 PM PST OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — She was not on the speaking program, but Hillary Rodham Clinton had presence at the nation's largest annual gathering of conservative activists on Saturday, as high-profile Republicans launched a dual effort to attack the prospective Democratic presidential candidate and improve the GOP's longstanding struggle with women voters. Full Story | Top |
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