Monday, March 31, 2014

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Sources: Health law sign-ups on track to hit 7M 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 07:34 PM PDT
People line up to enroll for health insurance at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas on Monday, March 31, 2014. The deadline is just hours away to sign up for insurance in the first enrollment period under President Barack Obama's signature health care law. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Jerry Lara) RUMBO DE SAN ANTONIO OUT; NO SALESGovernment officials say Obamacare is on track to hit 7 million sign-ups as a result of a deadline-day surge.
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Mudslide missing drops to 22; 24 confirmed dead 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 06:32 PM PDT
An American flag hangs from the only cedar post left standing at the scene of a deadly mudslide, Monday, March 31, 2014, in Oso, Wash. (AP Photo/The Herald, Sofia Jaramillo, Pool)DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Authorities in Washington state say they believe 22 people are still missing in the deadly Washington state mudslide that has killed at least 24 people.
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UN panel: Warming worsens food, hunger problems 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 02:26 AM PDT
FILE - In this July 16, 2012 file photo, corn stalks struggle from lack of rain and a heat wave covering most of the country lie flat on the ground in Farmingdale, Ill. as the nation's widest drought in decades is spreading. Global warming makes feeding the world harder and more expensive, a United Nations scientific panel said. A warmer world will push food prices higher, trigger "hotspots of hunger" among the world's poorest people, and put the crunch on Western delights like fine wine and robust coffee, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded in a 32-volume report issued Monday, March 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)Climate change makes feeding the world harder and more expensive, a United Nations scientific panel said.
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Australia says no time limit on Flight 370 search 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 06:50 PM PDT
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, center, gathers for a picture in front of a Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion aircraft with the leaders of Chinese, Japanese and South Korean military efforts searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 at RAAF Base Pearce near Perth Monday, March 31, 2014. Pictured with Abbott are from second left to right, China's Air Force Senior Colonel Liu Dian Jun, Abbott, Japan's Maritime Self Defense Force Commander Hidetsugu Iwamasa and South Korean Navy Captain Lee Jin-young. (AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool)PERTH, Australia (AP) — Although it has been slow, difficult and frustrating so far, the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet is nowhere near the point of being scaled back, Australia's prime minister said.
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More mudslide victims found as state seeks new aid 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 09:25 PM PDT
Workers and volunteers search for articles and belongings at the scene of the deadly March 22 mudslide, Monday, March 31, 2014, in Oso, Wash. The number of confirmed dead has reached 24. More than two dozen people remain missing, authorities have said. (AP Photo/The Herald, Sofia Jaramillo, Pool)DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Estimated financial losses from the deadly Washington mudslide that has killed at least 24 people have reached $10 million, Gov. Jay Inslee said Monday in a letter asking the federal government for a major disaster declaration.
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GM recall: Many victims were young drivers 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 06:41 PM PDT
This combination of undated family photos shows, from left, Amber Marie Rose, Natasha Weigel, and Amy Rademaker. All three were killed in deadly car crashes involving GM's Cobalt during 2005-2006. The complaint tally for the top-selling small cars in the 2005-2007 model years was: Corolla, 228; Cobalt, 164; Honda Civic, 60; Ford Focus, 25; and the Mazda 3, 19. (AP Photo)DETROIT (AP) — As the deaths are tallied from General Motors' delayed recall of compact cars, one thing is becoming clear: Of those killed, the majority were young.
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Russia pulls back a battalion from Ukraine border 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 02:45 PM PDT
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, speaks at a meeting for the economic development of Crimea in Simferopol, Crimea, Monday, March 31, 2014. Russia's prime minister is visiting Crimea to consider priorities for its economic development following the Russian takeover. Dmitry Medvedev is leading a delegation of Cabinet ministers and is chairing a meeting Monday to discuss priorities for federal assistance to the region, which Russia annexed from Ukraine earlier this month. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexander Astafyev, Government Press Service)SIMFEROPOL, Crimea (AP) — Russia said Monday it was pulling a battalion of several hundred troops away from the Ukrainian border but kept tens of thousands in place, prompting a worried response from the Kiev government about what the U.S. warned was still a "tremendous buildup."
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Body in DC park believed to be murder suspect's 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 05:38 PM PDT
Washington Metro Police and cadets search in Kenilworth Park in Washington, Monday, March 31, 2014. Police have been searching the park in northeast Washington since last week for clues in the case of eight-year-old Relisha Rudd, last seen in the company of Kahlil Tatum, a janitor at the homeless shelter where she lived with her mother and brothers.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)WASHINGTON (AP) — The body of a man found dead in a park of an apparent suicide Monday is believed to be that of a murder suspect who was the last person seen with a missing 8-year-old girl, police said.
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Major League Baseball launches expanded replay era 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 06:05 PM PDT
Major League Baseball launched the expanded replay era Monday, and saw instant results — a pair of missed calls by umpires got fixed fast, without any arguments.
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Congress passes bill to stop cut to Medicare docs 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 05:16 PM PDT
FILE - This Oct. 14, 2009 file photo shows Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington. Congress is poised to give doctors who treat Medicare patients an 11th hour reprieve from a cut in their government fees. Monday's Senate vote would send legislation to repair Medicare's flawed payment formula for a year to President Barack Obama for his signature. It comes just hours before a midnight deadline Wyden promises to keep pressing ahead with a long-term solution, proposing to use savings from the troop drawdown in Afghanistan to pay the cost. Republicans and most budget experts say such savings are phony and are demanding at least some of the money to come from cuts to Obama's Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — With just hours to spare, Congress stepped Monday to finalize legislation to prevent doctors who treat Medicare patients from being hit with a 24 percent cut in their payments from the government.
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Deadline dash: Glitches slow health care sign-ups 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 03:02 PM PDT
People line up to enroll for health insurance at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas on Monday, March 31, 2014. The deadline is just hours away to sign up for insurance in the first enrollment period under President Barack Obama's signature health care law. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Jerry Lara) RUMBO DE SAN ANTONIO OUT; NO SALESWASHINGTON (AP) — In a flood of last-minute sign-ups, hundreds of thousands of Americans rushed to apply for health insurance Monday, but deadline day for President Barack Obama's overhaul brought long, frustrating waits and a new spate of website ills.
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AP PHOTOS: Play ball! Baseball season underway 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 05:46 PM PDT
Wes Roberts, of Whiteford, Md., poses in a Baltimore Orioles-themed fireman's helmet before an opening day baseball game between the Orioles and the Boston Red Sox, Monday, March 31, 2014, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)Freshly painted logos on the field. Large American flags unfurled in pre-game ceremonies. Fans with painted faces hoping this is their team's year. These were some of the images at ballparks across the country Monday as the 2014 season got underway for most of Major League Baseball's 30 teams.
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MLB back with replays, metal detectors, comebacks 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 07:26 PM PDT
A giant American flag is unfurled before a baseball game between the New York Mets and Washington Nationals on opening day at Citi Field, Monday, March 31, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)Jimmy Rollins began the season with a slam, Neil Walker with a walkoff homer and the Washington Nationals with a thrilling ninth-inning comeback.
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Ump's call overturned, 1st time by expanded replay 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 04:35 PM PDT
Umpire Ted Barrett, left, signals an out call after listening to the central replay booth in New York in the sixth inning of an opening day baseball game between the Atlanta Braves and Milwaukee Brewers, Monday, March 31, 2014, in Milwaukee. An umpire's call has been overturned for the first time under Major League Baseball's expanded replay system, with Brewers' Ryan Braun ruled out instead of safe. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)MILWAUKEE (AP) — An umpire's call was overturned Monday for the first time under Major League Baseball's expanded replay system, with Milwaukee Brewers star Ryan Braun ruled out instead of safe.
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Koreas trade fire; island residents in shelters 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 12:33 PM PDT
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea fired hundreds of artillery shells into each other's waters Monday in a flare-up of animosity that forced residents of five front-line South Korean islands to evacuate to shelters for several hours, South Korean officials said.
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US, Russia offer differing solutions on Ukraine 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 05:02 AM PDT
PARIS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov are advancing far different proposals on how to calm tensions and de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine as Russia continues to mass troops along its border with the former Soviet republic.
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Mudslide death toll rises; rains expected to ease 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 06:08 AM PDT
DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — The rains that have bedeviled crews searching for victims in the debris field from the deadly Washington state mudslide are expected to ease this week, but searchers faced other challenges at the site like household chemicals and sewage.
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SKorea fires shells at NKorean waters after drills 
Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 10:07 PM PDT
Map showing the seven designated areas for live-fire drill announced by North Korea near the disputed maritime border with South KoreaSouth Korea has fired artillery shells in response to North Korean shells from a live-fire drill that fell in waters south of the rivals' disputed western sea boundary.
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Australia PM: No time limit on Malaysia jet search 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 02:58 PM PDT
Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott is briefed on the search for MH370 by Royal Australian Air Force Group Commander Craig Heap at RAAF Base Pearce near PerthPrime Minister Tony Abbott said there was no time limit on the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
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