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| House holds ex-IRS official in contempt Wednesday, May 07, 2014 06:21 PM PDT  Lois Lerner sparked a scandal last year for targeting conservative political groups. Full Story | Top |
| Marathon suspect's lawyers want bedside interrogation tossed Wednesday, May 07, 2014 05:58 PM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev argued Wednesday that statements he made to authorities after he was arrested should be thrown out because he was questioned for 36 hours in a hospital room while suffering from gunshot wounds and without being told his rights. Full Story | Top |
| Police: Fire at Florida home was arson; 4 dead Wednesday, May 07, 2014 06:00 PM PDT  'Unusual' scene found at ex-tennis star's home where family of four renters perished. Full Story | Top |
| Accountant charged with stealing $1M from Kentucky abbey Wednesday, May 07, 2014 04:40 PM PDT  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police say an ex-employee at a central Kentucky abbey run by an order of Catholic monks has been indicted on charges that he stole more than $1 million from the institution. Full Story | Top |
| Pussy Riot’s lost weekend in Washington Wednesday, May 07, 2014 12:36 PM PDT  Russian activists were slow to step into spotlight that eagerly awaited their presence. Full Story | Top |
| Scientists find the Black Death had a silver lining Wednesday, May 07, 2014 02:02 PM PDT  The Black Death, a plague that first devastated Europe in the 1300s, had a silver lining. An analysis of bones in London cemeteries from before and after the plague reveals that people had a lower risk of dying at any age after the first plague outbreak compared with before. In the centuries before the Black Death, about 10 percent of people lived past age 70, said study researcher Sharon DeWitte, a biological anthropologist at the University of South Carolina. \"It is definitely a signal of something very important happening with survivorship,\" DeWitte told Live Science. Full Story | Top |
| Man charged in marathon hoax makes tearful court appearance Wednesday, May 07, 2014 01:34 PM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — With his friends and family in tears in court Wednesday, the man charged with placing a backpack with a rice cooker near the Boston Marathon finish line on the one-year anniversary of the bombing was found mentally competent to stand trial. Full Story | Top |
| Michael Jordan says he was 'against all white people' as a teen Wednesday, May 07, 2014 11:55 AM PDT  Basketball Hall of Famer Michael Jordan says in a new book that he considered himself a racist growing up. In a new book entitled "Michael Jordan: The Life" by author Roland Lazenby, the five-time National Basketball Association most valuable player and current owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, says that as a teenager he was "against all white people." Excerpts of the book published on Wednesday by the New York Post include Jordan describing how growing up in North Carolina during the 1970s, where he said the Klu Klux Klan thrived, helped shaped his views on racism. In one instance, Jordan recalls a school girl calling him the n-word. Jordan, who went on to win six NBA titles with the Chicago Bulls, recently spoke out against racist remarks by Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, who has since been banned for life by the NBA and could be forced to sell the team. Full Story | Top |
| Fla. police: Deadly mansion fire was intentional Wednesday, May 07, 2014 02:58 PM PDT 'Unusual' scene found at ex-tennis star's home where family of four renters perished. Full Story | Top |
| Feds issue emergency order on crude oil trains Wednesday, May 07, 2014 03:26 PM PDT  Move follows warning of 'higher body count' if NTSB waits on new regulations. Full Story | Top |
| Over 80 percent of Obamacare premiums paid, insurers say Wednesday, May 07, 2014 02:14 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Top health insurance companies told members of Congress Wednesday that more than 80 percent of people who've signed up under the president's new health care law have gone on to pay their premiums — a necessary step for the enrollment figures touted by the Obama administration to hold up. Full Story | Top |
| Nintendo rejects campaign to add gay relationships to game Wednesday, May 07, 2014 12:55 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nintendo isn't allowing gamers to play as gay in an upcoming life simulator game. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. military: No sign of Russian pullback Wednesday, May 07, 2014 01:28 PM PDT  Pentagon spokesman says "we would know" if Putin's latest claims were true. Full Story | Top |
| 3 dead in fire at ex-tennis star's Fla. home Wednesday, May 07, 2014 08:48 AM PDT  Officials: James Blake owns the Tampa Bay-area house, but wasn't living there at the time Full Story | Top |
| 125 killed in Islamist attack on Nigerian border town Wednesday, May 07, 2014 09:28 AM PDT The latest big Islamist attack in Nigeria has killed least 125 people, police said on Wednesday after gunmen rampaged through a town in the northeast, near the Cameroon border. Scores of gunmen whom police suspect were from Boko Haram, the al Qaeda-linked group that seized the girls in the same region last week, surrounded Gamburu before dawn on Monday. Full Story | Top |
| Obama's top advisers set to spill insider details Wednesday, May 07, 2014 08:26 AM PDT  Over the next month, two of President Barack Obama's closest first-term advisers will spill insider details on the administration's handling of the early days of the Great Recession, the White House's ... Full Story | Top |
| Federal raids target synthetic drugs, sellers across U.S. Wednesday, May 07, 2014 10:57 AM PDT  The DEA on Wednesday broadened its national crackdown on synthetic drug manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers as federal agents served hundreds of search and arrest warrants in at least 25 states. Full Story | Top |
| Former mortician set free in Texas murder of rich widow Wednesday, May 07, 2014 03:25 PM PDT  A former mortician whose killing of a rich widow shook an East Texas town and later inspired a movie is a free man after a judge agreed to reduce his life sentence and release him on bond. Full Story | Top |
| Beverly Hills condemns Brunei, hotel boycott grows Wednesday, May 07, 2014 05:23 AM PDT  Beverly Hills officials have condemned Brunei's strict new Islamic criminal laws and want its government to separate itself from the Beverly Hills Hotel. Full Story | Top |
| Court forces out Thai leader, part of her Cabinet Wednesday, May 07, 2014 03:29 AM PDT  BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's prime minister was ordered by a court to step down Wednesday in a divisive ruling that handed a victory to anti-government protesters who have staged six months of street protests — but does little to resolve the country's political crisis. Full Story | Top |
| South Africans vote in first 'Born Free' election Wednesday, May 07, 2014 09:49 AM PDT By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africans voted in the first "Born Free" election on Wednesday, with the image of the ruling African National Congress as conqueror of apartheid likely to appeal even to those with no memory of white-minority rule. Voters young and old wrapped up against the early winter chill to stand in long lines across the country, evoking memories of the huge queues that snaked through streets and fields for South Africa's historic all-race elections in 1994. Chief election commissioner Pansy Tlakula said turnout was "extremely high" but voting was proceeding smoothly at all the 22,263 polling stations, which were due to close at 1900 GMT (1500 ET). Polls put ANC support near 65 percent, only a shade lower than the 65.9 percent it won in the 2009 election that brought President Jacob Zuma to power. Full Story | Top |
| Islamic militant attack in Nigeria kills hundreds Wednesday, May 07, 2014 03:17 PM PDT  LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic militants who have triggered international outrage over the kidnapping of more than 270 Nigerian schoolgirls opened fire on a busy marketplace, killing hundreds of people in a new spasm of violence in the country's northeast. Full Story | Top |
| Colorado lawmakers approve plan for pot banking Wednesday, May 07, 2014 06:18 PM PDT  Colorado lawmakers approved the world's first financial system for the marijuana industry Wednesday, a network of uninsured cooperatives designed to give pot businesses a way to access basic banking services. Full Story | Top |
| Head of sunken ferry's owner in S. Korea detained Wednesday, May 07, 2014 08:18 PM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean prosecutors on Thursday detained the head of the company that owns the ferry that sank last month over an allegation of cargo overloading. Full Story | Top |
| House GOP moves toward establishing Benghazi probe Wednesday, May 07, 2014 07:23 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Wednesday moved toward an election-year special investigation of the deadly attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Libya, brushing aside Democratic concerns over the panel's scope and composition. The Obama administration, meanwhile, accused Republicans of "political motivation" after they issued a fundraising email linked to the Benghazi probe. Full Story | Top |
| Simon makes 1st public appearance since arrest Wednesday, May 07, 2014 08:47 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Simon performed a rousing set and accepted an award from New York University in his first public appearance since he and wife Edie Brickell were arrested on disorderly conduct charges. Full Story | Top |
| Hibbert leads Pacers past Wizards, 86-82 in Game 2 Wednesday, May 07, 2014 08:08 PM PDT  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Big Roy came up with a big answer for his critics and his teammates Wednesday night. Full Story | Top |
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