Tuesday, April 8, 2014

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Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 08:13 PM PDT
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Underwater pings relocated in hunt for missing jet 
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 08:13 PM PDT
 In this April 7, 2014 photo provided by the Australian Defense Force a fast response craft manned by members from the Australian Defense's ship Ocean Shield is deployed to scan the water for debris of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean. Up to 14 planes and as many ships were focusing on a single search area covering 77, 580 square kilometers (29,954 square miles) of ocean, 2,270 kilometers (1,400 miles) northwest of the Australian west coast city of Perth, Australia. (AP Photo/Australia Defense Force, LSIS Bradley Darvill) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAn Australian official says equipment on a ship searching for the missing Malaysian jet has relocated an underwater signal that is consistent with a plane's black boxes.
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Hillary Clinton says she's 'thinking' about White House run 
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 07:46 PM PDT
 Former U.S. Secretary of State Clinton speaks during the USAID announcement of the formation of the U.S. Global Development Lab, in New YorkAsked again the question on the mind of everyone who follows U.S. politics, Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday she was "thinking" about running for president in 2016.
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Ex-President Carter: US 'dormant' on inequality 
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 08:57 PM PDT
 FILE - In this June 28, 2013 file photo, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter speaks in Atlanta. Carter will be the keynote speaker Tuesday, April 8, 2014 on the first day of the Civil Rights Summit at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Jaime Henry-White, File)AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter on Tuesday night lamented continuing inequalities between black and white Americans during a 50th anniversary celebration of the Civil Rights Act in Texas that will feature four of the five living U.S. presidents this week.
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Inside a Guantanamo parole hearing 
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 12:51 PM PDT
 Ghaleb Nassar al-BihaniThe prison President Obama vowed to close still holds 154 men 12 years after it opened.
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GM is late getting recall fix to dealers, answers to Congress 
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 04:19 PM PDT
 A group of Chevrolet Camaro cars for sale is pictured at a car dealership in Los Angeles, CaliforniaGeneral Motors Co is running two days behind Chief Executive Mary Barra's plan to begin shipping replacement ignition switches in its massive recall, dealerships and the company said on Tuesday. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also said on Tuesday that GM had missed an April 3 deadline to respond to the agency's request for information about the recall. GM said it was cooperating fully. The automaker, which recalled 2.6 million vehicles including the Chevrolet Cobalt, Saturn Ion and other models, said no parts to dealerships had been shipped as of late Tuesday afternoon.
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What's behind the increase in stay-at-home moms? 
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 02:28 PM PDT
 This Dec. 7, 2013 photo released by The Williamson family shows, from left, Tricia Williamson, her husband Mike Williamson, and their one-year-old son Adam at their home in Liberty, N.C. Tricia Williamson, 30, in Liberty, N.C., quit her job as an editor and producer at a TV station after crunching the numbers and realizing her salary after the birth of her son a year ago would go primarily to her commuting and child care expenses. (AP Photo/Rick Williamson)NEW YORK (AP) — The rising cost of child care is among likely reasons for a rise in the number of women staying home full-time with their children, according to a new Pew Research Center report released Tuesday.
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Screeners discover WWI artillery shells at O'Hare airport 
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 01:58 PM PDT
 This Monday, April 7, 2014 photo provided by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) shows two World War I artillery shells discovered by baggage screeners in checked luggage that arrived on a flight from London at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. The TSA says the bags belonged to a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old who were returning from a school field trip to Europe. A bomb disposal crew determined the shells were inert and no one was ever in danger. The teens were questioned then allowed to travel onward. They weren't charged. (AP Photo/Transportation Security Administration)CHICAGO (AP) — Baggage screeners at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport have discovered two World War I artillery shells in checked luggage that arrived on a flight from London.
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Does the White House have a gender pay gap? 
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 11:41 AM PDT
 President Barack Obama gives two thumbs as Women's rights activist Lilly Ledbetter, left, acknowledges him in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 8, 2014, during an event marking Equal Pay Day, and where the president will announce and sign new executive actions to strengthen enforcement of equal pay laws for women. The president and his Democratic allies in Congress are making a concerted election-year push to draw attention to women's wages, linking Obama executive actions with pending Senate legislation aimed at closing a compensation gender gap that favors men. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)In the latest round in a long, bitter duel between Democrats and Republicans over which party is more on the side of women voters, White House press secretary Jay Carney was hit with questions on Monday from reporters about a report finding that the salary for the average median White House female staffer is about 12 percent lower than that for a male staffer. The median woman working in the White House makes about $65,000, almost $9,000 less than her male counterpart, according to the report from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative group. That difference divides out to women in the White House making about 88 cents for each dollar that men in the administration make, the report said. But it is back and getting tossed like a hot potato to Democrats – just as President Obama is observing National Equal Pay Day on Tuesday by signing two executive orders that address the gender pay gap.
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White House: Iran’s U.N. envoy pick ‘not viable’ 
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 12:48 PM PDT
 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani addresses a High-Level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament during the 68th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New YorkHamid Aboutalebi could be barred from U.S. over alleged ties to embassy hostage crisis.
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How this man manages the social images of the world famous 
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 10:18 AM PDT
 Oliver Luckett inside his offices at TheAudience (Yahoo News)Social management is evolving from managing content to actually creating content for famous clients around the world.
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California senator denies Chinatown scam 
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 11:34 AM PDT
 California State Senator Leland Yee (C) leaves the Phillip Burton Federal Building after a court appearance in San Francisco on March 31, 2014A California state senator denied Tuesday plotting to smuggle guns from the Philippines and trading political favors for cash, in a colorful case centred on San Francisco's Chinatown underworld. Appearing in a federal courthouse, now-suspended Democratic Senator Leland Yee pleaded not guilty to eight felony charges for which he could face life in prison if convicted. The five-year FBI sting that ensnared the politician was initially aimed at triad gangs linked to the West Coast city's renowned Chinatown. He is accused of offering a man he believed to be a mafia member -- actually an undercover agent -- his services as an arms trafficker.
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A war photographer's last testament 
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 07:50 AM PDT
 'Testament': New book documents the work of the late photojournalist Chris HondrosA new book features the photos and writings of a Getty Images photographer who lost his life covering the war in Libya in 2011.
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Obama takes aim at equal pay for women 
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 01:31 PM PDT
 President Barack Obama signs executive actions, with pending Senate legislation, aimed at closing a compensation gender gap that favors men, Tuesday, April 8, 2014, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, during an event marking Equal Pay Day. Obama announced new executive actions to strengthen enforcement of equal pay laws for women. The president and his Democratic allies in Congress are making a concerted election-year push to draw attention to women's wages. Lilly Ledbetter, in green, watches at left. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)Signs directives to boost workplace fairness, swipes at GOP for "gumming up the works" on issue.
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16,000 tons of rock crash in Yosemite National Park 
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 09:40 AM PDT
 In this photo supplied by Yosemite National Park, a rockfall is seen on Monday, March 31, 2014. Officials at Yosemite National Park say a massive amount of rock has fallen from a cliff, closing a hiking trail. The National Park Service said nobody was hurt on March 31 when approximately 16,000 tons of rock fell 500 feet from a cliff near Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. Officials say the rock crashed down from a cliff east of Wapama Falls. Some 400 feet of the Rancheria Falls Trail were destroyed and park staff says it will remain closed for now. Park officials say hikers can still get to Wampama Falls starting at O'Shaughnessy Dam. (AP Photo/Yosemite National Park)YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Officials at Yosemite National Park say a massive amount of rock has fallen from a cliff, closing a hiking trail.
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London lab grows ears, noses; part of plan to attract biotech firms 
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 09:26 AM PDT
 Dr Michelle Griffin, a plastic research fellow, poses for photographs with a synthetic polymer ear at her research facility in the Royal Free Hospital in London, Monday, March 31, 2014. In a north London hospital, scientists are growing noses, ears and blood vessels in the laboratory in a bold attempt to make body parts using stem cells. It is among several labs around the world, including in the U.S., that are working on the futuristic idea of growing custom-made organs in the lab. While only a handful of patients have received the British lab-made organs so far— including tear ducts, blood vessels and windpipes — researchers hope they will soon be able to transplant more types of body parts into patients, including what would be the world's first nose made partly from stem cells. "It's like making a cake," said Alexander Seifalian at University College London, the scientist leading the effort. "We just use a different kind of oven." (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)LONDON (AP) — In a north London hospital, scientists are growing noses, ears and blood vessels in a bold attempt to make body parts in the laboratory.
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American imprisoned in Cuba begins hunger strike 
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 01:19 PM PDT
 FILE - In this Nov. 27, 2012 file photo provided by U.S. lawyer James L. Berenthal, jailed American Alan Gross poses for a photo during a visit by Rabbi Elie Abadie and Berenthal at Finlay military hospital in Havana, Cuba. Gross, a U.S. government subcontractor imprisoned in Cuba, released a statement through his lawyer Tuesday, April 8, 2014, saying he began fasting to protest his treatment by the governments of Cuba and the United States. (AP Photo/James L. Berenthal, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — An American who has been imprisoned in Cuba for more than four years after illegally setting up Internet access on the island is on a hunger strike, according to a statement his lawyer released Tuesday.
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Ellen, GoPro among nominees for Webby awards 
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 07:57 AM PDT
 Ellen's Oscar selfie crashes Twitter, breaks recordNEW YORK (AP) — This year's list of nominees for Webby awards celebrating Internet achievement range from celebrities such as Beyonce and Ellen DeGeneres to Google and GoPro, the maker of popular mountable video cameras.
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In South Korea, draft dodgers go to prison, many for shared beliefs 
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 06:10 AM PDT
 South Korean army soldiers man a K-55 self-propelled howitzer during an exercise in Pocheon, near the border with North Korea, South Korea, Wednesday, April 2, 2014. The two Koreas fired on Monday hundreds of artillery shells into each other's waters in a flare-up of animosity over a long-disputed sea boundary between the countries. No one was reported injured and all the shells splashed into the water. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)Kim Ji-gwan has a succinct explanation for why he, his father, and two brothers all chose to go to jail rather than be drafted into the South Korean armed forces. In the past, the US and many other countries accepted religious beliefs as grounds for opting out of military service. The UN Human Rights Council reports that 669 of 723 conscientious objectors in jail worldwide as of last November are Korean. And almost all of these prisoners are Jehovah's Witnesses, an evangelical Christian sect whose members refuse to serve because, they say, the Bible teaches people to "love one another." Since the Korean War ended in 1953, an astonishing 17,549 Jehovah's Witnesses have gone to jail in South Korea for their beliefs.
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Back on stand, Pistorius sobs as he recalls girlfriend's shooting 
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 06:25 AM PDT
 Oscar Pistorius attends his trial at the high court in PretoriaPRETORIA (Reuters) - South African Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius broke down and sobbed in the witness stand on Tuesday when he described the moment he realized he had shot dead his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, through a locked toilet door at his home. (Reporting by David Dolan; Writing by Ed Cropley; Editing by Pascal Fletcher)
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Separatists holding 60 hostages in Luhansk 
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 09:54 AM PDT
 Pro-Russian activists in face masks stand near a barricade in front of an entrance of the Ukrainian regional office of the Security Service in Luhansk, 30 kilometers (20 miles) west of the Russian border, in Ukraine, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. A crowd of pro-Russian activists stormed the building on Sunday, April 6, 2014. Local media reported that demonstrators pelted the building with eggs, and then stones, a smoke grenade and finally a firebomb. The flames were reportedly quickly extinguished. (AP Photo/Igor Golovniov)The unidentified captives are being threatened with arms and explosives, Ukraine officials say.
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Connecticut wins NCAA title, 60-54 over Kentucky 
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 03:01 AM PDT
 Connecticut wins NCAA title, 60-54 over KentuckyConnecticut players, including center Amida Brimah (35) and guard Lasan Kromah (20) celebrate as Kentucky guard James Young (1) leaves the court at the end the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball championship game Monday, April 7, 2014, in Arlington, Texas. Connecticut won 60-54. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Lawmakers brawl in Ukraine 
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 02:34 AM PDT
 Raw: Brawl Erupts in Ukraine's ParliamentFists fly after a communist leader accuses nationalists of playing to Russia.
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Ship hunting for more 'pings' in plane search 
Monday, Apr 07, 2014 11:19 PM PDT
 In this April 7, 2014 photo provided by the Australian Defense Force a fast response craft manned by members from the Australian Defense's ship Ocean Shield is deployed to scan the water for debris of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean. Up to 14 planes and as many ships were focusing on a single search area covering 77, 580 square kilometers (29,954 square miles) of ocean, 2,270 kilometers (1,400 miles) northwest of the Australian west coast city of Perth, Australia. (AP Photo/Australia Defense Force, LSIS Bradley Darvill) EDITORIAL USE ONLYSearch crews fail to relocate faint sounds heard deep in the Indian Ocean.
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Japan drugmaker Takeda says will fight $6.0 bn US damages order 
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 12:57 AM PDT
 A pack of Actos diabetes medicine is photographed at a pharmacy in Lille, France in June 2011Japan's biggest drugs maker Takeda Pharmaceutical said Tuesday it would fight a huge $6.0 billion damages order imposed by a US jury following a trial over the safety of its Actos diabetes medicine. The company said it "respectfully disagrees" with the judgement awarded in the southern state of Louisiana on Monday, which also ordered the firm's co-defendant, US drugs firm Eli Lilly, to pay $3.0 billion in damages. The issue at the trial, which began in February, was whether the drug could be blamed for bladder cancer in a plaintiff who was taking the medicine, and whether the firm knew about those risks. "We believe the evidence did not support a finding that Actos caused (the plaintiff's) bladder cancer.
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Russia warns of possible civil war in Ukraine 
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 06:28 PM PDT
 Pro-Russian activists who seized the main administration building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk hold a Russian flag and the flag of so called Donetsk Republic on April 7, 2014Moscow tells Kiev that any use of force in Ukraine's east could lead to a civil war.
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