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| West braces for Crimea vote after talks fail Friday, Mar 14, 2014 04:00 PM PDT  Sec. of State Kerry says result of vote to secede Ukraine is all but a foregone conclusion. Full Story | Top |
| One week since Flight 370 vanished, rival theories at play Friday, Mar 14, 2014 01:11 PM PDT  The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has generated dozens of theories on where it is now, from the Indian Ocean to the South China Sea, and how it vanished. Here's a rundown of what we know and what we don't, along with clues and theories about what happened to the Boeing 777 jetliner: Full Story | Top |
| Note from Clinton White House files: 'Send a Muslim!' Friday, Mar 14, 2014 03:06 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — An unsigned, hand-written note included with Clinton administration documents on combatting terrorism urges, "Send a Muslim!" Full Story | Top |
| Paris on alert as smog surpasses notorious cities like Beijing Friday, Mar 14, 2014 12:42 PM PDT  PARIS (AP) — Air pollution that has turned the skies over Paris a murky yellow and shrouded much of Belgium for days forced drivers to slow down Friday and gave millions a free ride on public transportation. Full Story | Top |
| Target: We missed early warning on data breach Friday, Mar 14, 2014 01:34 PM PDT  Retail giant admits immediate action wasn't taken after software picked up on cyberattack. Full Story | Top |
| Ukraine president emphasizes military strength Friday, Mar 14, 2014 11:57 AM PDT  Praises troops taking part in exercises amid buildup of Russian forces on eastern borders. Full Story | Top |
| New batch of Clinton records include Gore election strategy Friday, Mar 14, 2014 11:47 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Archives has released another 4,000 pages of records from former President Bill Clinton's White House. Full Story | Top |
| Neighbors say missing jet's pilots were community minded Friday, Mar 14, 2014 11:05 AM PDT  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — One was passionate enough about flying to build his own flight simulator in his home. The other was a 27-year-old contemplating marriage after having just graduated to the cockpit of a Boeing 777. Full Story | Top |
| Investigators weigh 'piracy' in missing jetliner Friday, Mar 14, 2014 09:17 AM PDT  It's also possible the plane may have landed somewhere, an official says. Full Story | Top |
| While U.S. and Russia talk, West preps sanctions on Russia Friday, Mar 14, 2014 07:47 AM PDT LONDON (AP) — The top diplomats for Russia and the U.S. voiced pessimism Friday about negotiating an immediate end to the crisis in Ukraine, whose strategic Crimea region is voting this weekend about whether to secede. Full Story | Top |
| Kerry: U.S. won't recognize Crimea vote Friday, Mar 14, 2014 11:12 AM PDT  Meanwhile, his Russian counterpart says there is no "common vision" over Ukraine crisis. Full Story | Top |
| Lavrov: No common vision with U.S. on Ukraine Friday, Mar 14, 2014 09:24 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that differences remain between Moscow and the U.S. following negotiations in London aimed at ending the crisis in Ukraine, whose strategic Crimea region is voting this weekend on whether to secede. Full Story | Top |
| Obama: Enough have enrolled for stable health care Friday, Mar 14, 2014 07:06 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says enough people have signed up for health care to make his signature law work. Full Story | Top |
| Moms of Jonah Hill, Adam Levine, Jennifer Lopez: Enroll in Obamacare Friday, Mar 14, 2014 03:12 AM PDT  Long before Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine was People Magazine's "sexiest man alive," he was "rambunctious, mischievous, naughty," his mom, Patsy Noah, says in a new ad meant to get more young people to sign up for Obamacare. Full Story | Top |
| After 37 years on lam, killer caught in Fla. Friday, Mar 14, 2014 06:27 PM PDT  DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (AP) — In the nearly 40 years after he escaped from the maximum-security military prison at Fort Leavenworth, convicted killer James Robert Jones carved out a new life for himself in Florida, living under an assumed name, getting married and working for an air conditioning company. Full Story | Top |
| Malnutrition grows among Syrian refugee children Friday, Mar 14, 2014 11:05 AM PDT  KAB ELIAS, Lebanon (AP) — Trapped in her northern Syrian village by fighting, Mervat watched her newborn baby progressively shrink. Her daughter's dark eyes seemed to grow bigger as her face grew more skeletal. Finally, Mervat escaped to neighboring Lebanon, and a nurse told her the girl was starving. Full Story | Top |
| Clinton records: President feared 1994 losses Friday, Mar 14, 2014 02:14 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sensing a Republican tidal wave, President Bill Clinton worried in the summer of 1994 that Republicans were energized heading into the midterm elections while his Democratic base was deflated. "There's no organization, there's no energy, there's no anything out there," Clinton said of his own party. Full Story | Top |
| 2 convicted in NYC kidnap-rape-killing plot case Friday, Mar 14, 2014 04:33 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — A retired New York high school librarian and a New Jersey auto mechanic were convicted Friday of scheming to carry out gruesome fantasies of kidnapping, raping, torturing and killing women and girls. Full Story | Top |
| Authorities: Chris Brown arrested on warrant Friday, Mar 14, 2014 06:19 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chris Brown was arrested Friday and will be held without bail on a warrant issued by probation officials in the latest legal entanglement for the R&B singer who has struggled to put his 2009 attack on Rihanna behind him. Full Story | Top |
| Trump says he's not running for New York governor Friday, Mar 14, 2014 05:40 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Real estate mogul Donald Trump said Friday he will not run for governor and criticized the state's Republican Party for failing to unify behind him. Full Story | Top |
| AP Source: Jackson to be introduced by Knicks Friday, Mar 14, 2014 05:22 PM PDT  Phil Jackson won NBA titles as a player and a coach. He'll now try winning as an executive. Full Story | Top |
| Missing plane: Piracy theory gains more credence Friday, Mar 14, 2014 05:51 PM PDT  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Piracy and pilot suicide are among the scenarios under study as investigators grow increasingly certain the missing Malaysia Airlines jet changed course and headed west after its last radio contact with air traffic controllers. Full Story | Top |
| Longtime Hollywood reporter Bob Thomas dead at 92 Friday, Mar 14, 2014 04:37 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — He was the institutional memory for the movies at The Associated Press and a passage for the world to a Hollywood both longed for and long gone. Full Story | Top |
| 8 dead in NY gas blast as rescue operation goes on Friday, Mar 14, 2014 08:48 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The bodies of all eight people reported missing after a deadly gas explosion destroyed two buildings have been recovered, the city fire commissioner said Friday, but workers are treating the scene as a rescue operation in case there are unknown survivors in the rubble. Full Story | Top |
| What happened to the missing plane's transponder? Friday, Mar 14, 2014 02:36 PM PDT  As the search continues for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight, a key unanswered question is what happened to the Boeing 777's transponder. Full Story | Top |
| APNewsBreak: LAX union wants emergency training Friday, Mar 14, 2014 04:10 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thousands of Los Angeles International Airport workers had no idea what to do when a gunman opened fire last year in a terminal because they were inadequately trained to deal with an emergency, according to a union report. Full Story | Top |
| After Crimea, wary Eastern Europe asks: who's next Friday, Mar 14, 2014 07:53 AM PDT  BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Broken promises of help from the West. A tragic history of Russian invasion that goes back centuries. A painful awareness that conflicts in this volatile region are contagious. These are the factors that make nations across Eastern Europe watch events in Ukraine — and tremble. Full Story | Top |
| Crimea crisis: Lessons from the first Cold War Friday, Mar 14, 2014 02:53 AM PDT  If we are in a new Cold War, some lessons of the first one should apply today. Full Story | Top |
| Kerry meets with Russian counterpart in last-ditch Ukraine talks Friday, Mar 14, 2014 02:41 PM PDT  Top Russian and US diplomats utterly failed Friday to defuse the crisis over Ukraine, ending up at loggerheads following tense talks over the worst East-West clash since the Cold War. After six hours of talks between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry, US officials said they "did not find common ground" and everything now depended on Russian President Vladimir Putin's reaction to Sunday's breakaway vote in Crimea. Despite flying in early Friday from Washington for crisis talks only two days before Crimea is to decide whether to split away from Ukraine, Kerry acknowledged that his mad dash to London had been in vain. Full Story | Top |
| Search for missing jet shifts to Indian Ocean Friday, Mar 14, 2014 02:16 AM PDT  There were new signs the aircraft may have flown on for hours after its last radar contact. Full Story | Top |
| Under pressure, Obama vows to examine deportations Friday, Mar 14, 2014 08:47 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are warning that any steps President Barack Obama takes to bypass Congress to ease deportations of immigrants illegally in the United States would severely hurt chances of overhauling the nation's immigration laws. Full Story | Top |
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