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| Dreams dashed in fatal Calif. crash Friday, Apr 11, 2014 07:23 PM PDT  Bus in deadly freeway collision carried young, low-income, motivated students. Full Story | Top |
| Obama: Our right to vote is under threat Friday, Apr 11, 2014 03:54 PM PDT  President blasts GOP in fiery speech at Al Sharpton's National Action Network conference. Full Story | Top |
| Rare T.rex sets off on road trip to Smithsonian Friday, Apr 11, 2014 03:33 PM PDT  The rare and nearly intact skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex that roamed the earth 65 million years ago set off from Montana on Friday on a cross-country road trip, its first, bound for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. The fossil of the 38-foot-long carnivore, found on federal lands in Montana in 1988, has played a starring role in scientific research at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman since its excavation by paleontologists led by curator Jack Horner. The seven-ton skeleton of a dinosaur that may have been an opportunistic eater rather than a stone-cold killer is to be mounted at the Smithsonian Institution in an exhibit that will open in 2019 and is expected to attract 8 million visitors a year, Horner said. The dinosaur is on loan to the Smithsonian for 50 years. The so-called Wankel T.rex - named after Kathy Wankel who discovered it - was about 18-years-old when it died and is considered second for extensiveness and preservation only to "Sue," the famed T.rex at The Field Museum in Chicago, he said. Full Story | Top |
| The ultimate love shack? Living large inside 150 square feet Friday, Apr 11, 2014 04:22 AM PDT  Visit a tiny house community making a big statement in the nation's capital Full Story | Top |
| New quake shakes Nicaragua; nation on alert Friday, Apr 11, 2014 06:51 PM PDT MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — A magnitude-6.6 earthquake shook Nicaragua on Friday afternoon, sending people running frightened into the streets less than 24 hours after a magnitude-6.1 quake rattled the Central American country. Full Story | Top |
| Attention all passengers: Frequent flyer miles are on the descent Friday, Apr 11, 2014 01:23 PM PDT  New airline programs make miles less valuable. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. will block Iranian diplomat from United Nations Friday, Apr 11, 2014 11:52 AM PDT  Rare rebuke comes amid controversy over role in 1979 hostage-taking at embassy. Full Story | Top |
| Pope: Please forgive us our sins Friday, Apr 11, 2014 11:04 AM PDT  Francis makes first public plea for forgiveness of "evil" committed by abuser priests. Victims groups say it's not enough. Full Story | Top |
| Nation on red alert as aftershocks rattle Nicaragua Friday, Apr 11, 2014 01:03 PM PDT  MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua's president placed his government on the highest alert level as aftershocks continued to rattle the country on Friday, a day after a magnitude-6.1 earthquake. Full Story | Top |
| Ford Mustang turns 50: How a car caused a global sensation Friday, Apr 11, 2014 05:01 AM PDT  Next week's 50th anniversary of the first Ford Mustang evokes a long-ago day when new cars could generate as much excitement, at least in America, as new iPads. Instead it was simply a smartly styled body mounted atop the underpinnings of a pedestrian compact car, the Ford Falcon. One Ford executive boasted, in the idiom of the day, that it was like "turning a librarian into a sexpot." Yet with room for four, the Mustang was surprisingly practical. That price was for the basic six-cylinder engine, but buyers could add extra-cost (and handsomely profitable) options, including an automatic transmission, air conditioning, convertible top and a 289-cubic-inch V8 engine. Full Story | Top |
| Obama nominates Burwell to lead HHS Friday, Apr 11, 2014 11:39 AM PDT  After accepting Sebelius's resignation, the president taps his budget director to succeed her. Full Story | Top |
| Woman to appeal sentence in new husband's death Friday, Apr 11, 2014 11:30 AM PDT  A Montana woman who pleaded guilty to pushing her new husband off a cliff in Glacier National Park last summer plans to appeal her 30-year prison sentence for his death. Full Story | Top |
| Armstrong provides names in written testimony Friday, Apr 11, 2014 08:14 AM PDT  Lance Armstrong says several people knew about his performance-enhancing drug use and insists he didn't pay anyone to keep his doping secret. Full Story | Top |
| White House: No visa for Iran's UN envoy pick Friday, Apr 11, 2014 10:53 AM PDT In rare rebuke, ex-member of group behind embassy hostage crisis denied access to US soil. Full Story | Top |
| California college visit turns tragic Friday, Apr 11, 2014 09:37 AM PDT  Ten deaths confirmed in crash involving tractor-trailer and bus carrying students. Full Story | Top |
| Feds issue warning: Hackers trying to exploit 'Heartbleed' bug Friday, Apr 11, 2014 02:59 PM PDT  Hackers are targeting vulnerable networks in an attempt to exploit the "Heartbleed" bug, the U.S. Government warned on Friday. Full Story | Top |
| Suspect in deadly Fla. day care crash to remain in jail Friday, Apr 11, 2014 08:02 AM PDT ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A man who authorities say drove an SUV that crashed into another vehicle, sending it spinning into a daycare center where a girl was killed and 14 people were injured, was ordered Friday to stay in jail until a judge can determine whether he is a flight risk. Full Story | Top |
| Australian PM confident sounds are from Flight 370 Friday, Apr 11, 2014 07:39 AM PDT  PERTH, Australia (AP) — Authorities are confident that signals detected deep in the Indian Ocean are from the missing Malaysian jet's black boxes, Australia's prime minister said Friday, raising hopes they are close to solving one of aviation's most perplexing mysteries. Full Story | Top |
| Pistorius, prosecutor in heated exchange over girlfriend's screams Friday, Apr 11, 2014 05:20 AM PDT  PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius was accused by a prosecutor Friday of shooting his girlfriend through a toilet door as the couple talked and argued in the early hours of Valentine's Day last year. The dramatic courtroom exchange ended the world-famous athlete's first week testifying at his murder trial. Full Story | Top |
| Kathleen Sebelius, a lightning rod for critics, resigns Friday, Apr 11, 2014 08:12 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — For five years, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has been a lightning rod for critics of President Barack Obama's health care law. But with sign-ups exceeding expectations and a new face soon to be in charge at HHS, the White House is eager to see if the poisonous atmosphere might give way to more pragmatic efforts aimed at fixing problems with the nation's newest social program. Full Story | Top |
| 9 dead as bus, truck crash in California Friday, Apr 11, 2014 01:35 AM PDT  A FedEx truck slams into a tour bus carrying high school students to visit a college. Full Story | Top |
| Australian PM says searchers confident of position of MH370's black boxes Friday, Apr 11, 2014 05:10 AM PDT  By Swati Pandey and John Ruwitch PERTH/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Search and rescue officials in Australia are confident they know the approximate position of the black box recorders from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Friday. "Still, confidence in the approximate position of the black box is not the same as recovering wreckage from almost four and a half kilometers beneath the sea or finally determining all that happened on the flight." The mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared more than a month ago, has sparked the most expensive search and rescue operation in aviation history. The search was focusing on a small patch of the Indian Ocean on Friday, after the latest "ping" seemed to lend credence to four previous "pings" detected by a U.S. Navy "Towed Pinger Locator" (TPL) towed by Australia's Ocean Shield vessel. But Angus Houston, head of the Australian agency supervising the search effort, said on Friday that analysis of acoustic data confirmed that the latest signal was unlikely to be related to the missing plane's black boxes. Full Story | Top |
| Pistorius accused of tailoring evidence by prosecution Friday, Apr 11, 2014 07:51 AM PDT In a pummelling cross-examination, the prosecution called Oscar Pistorius's account of killing his girlfriend "impossible" on Thursday, zeroing in on apparent inconsistencies in key parts of his testimony. "Your version is so improbable that nobody would ever think it's reasonably, possibly true it's so impossible," Prosecutor Gerrie Nel thundered during his second day interrogating the Olympian. Under intense questioning, Pistorius said police moved fans, put the duvet on the floor and opened the curtains when they came to his villa, implying they had tampered with the crime scene. Full Story | Top |
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