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Today's Most Popular News Headlines - Yahoo! News: AP Interview: Clinton raps Benghazi critics Underground dentist not remorseful about illegal practice Postal Service says it’s immune from local traffic laws Clinton formally resigns as secretary of state Indiana murderer mistakenly freed in Chicago Yahoo News interview: Mitch McConnell on immigration, guns, bourbon and Sen. Ashley Judd Sylvester Stallone supports assault weapon ban Unemployment rises to 7.9 percent, economy adds 157,000 jobs Negotiators talking to Ala. captor through pipe LA archbishop relieves retired cardinal of duties Here's what would happen if every state split its electoral votes (interactive) Energy Secretary Chu steps down, blasts climate-change skeptics Suicide bomber kills guard at U.S. embassy in Turkey Hillary Clinton departs State: What's her legacy as top US diplomat? Authorities release photo of accused Ala. abductor Obama administration offers religious colleges opt-out for contraception rule Ala. Hostage Suspect Had Court Date After Kidnapping Marine survey lists concerns on women in combat Official: Israeli warplanes fly over Lebanon Alabama town prays for release of five-year-old hostage Official: Police detain man over missing woman Plane lands safely after pilot loses consciousness Scott Brown decides to steer clear of Massachusetts U.S. Senate race Eric Cantor: I want my Spotify Dow hits 14,000, for a minute anyway

AP Interview: Clinton raps Benghazi critics  Friday, Feb 01, 2013 07:59 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is leaving office with a slap at critics of the Obama administration's handling of the September attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya. She told The Associated Press that critics of the administration's handling of the attack don't live in an "evidence-based world," and their refusal to "accept the facts" is unfortunate and regrettable for the political system. Full Story	Top
Underground dentist not remorseful about illegal practice  Friday, Feb 01, 2013 05:39 AM PST Jose Delao during a jailhouse interview with Yahoo News this week. (Jason Sickles) PLANO, Texasâ€"Inside the unassuming ranch-style house, investigators discovered things like an x-ray machine, grinders, syringes, surgical instruments and anesthetics. Police say the homeowner, 63-year-old Jose Santiago Delao, had been running an underground dental clinic in the aging suburban Dallas neighborhood for years: [...] Full Story	Top
Postal Service says it’s immune from local traffic laws  Friday, Feb 01, 2013 08:59 AM PST A U.S. postal service truck. (AP) A government lawyer’s attempt to get dismissed nearly $700 in traffic tickets given to the U.S. Postal Service is being met with a hearty and humorous, Heck no. In a Jan. 22 letter sent to both the city of East Cleveland, Ohio, and the company that operates the city's [...] Full Story	Top
Clinton formally resigns as secretary of state  Friday, Feb 01, 2013 12:46 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Hillary Rodham Clinton formally resigned Friday as America's 67th secretary of state, capping a four-year tenure that saw her shatter records for the number of countries visited. Full Story	Top
Indiana murderer mistakenly freed in Chicago  Friday, Feb 01, 2013 09:40 AM PST CHICAGO (AP) â€" Authorities in Illinois and Indiana searched Friday for a convicted murderer who was mistakenly released from custody in Chicago, with the two sides differing over whether a paperwork error could be to blame. Full Story	Top
Yahoo News interview: Mitch McConnell on immigration, guns, bourbon and Sen. Ashley Judd  Friday, Feb 01, 2013 04:08 AM PST Yahoo! News Chief Washington Correspondent Olivier Knox sits down for an exclusive interview with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Full Story	Top
Sylvester Stallone supports assault weapon ban  Friday, Feb 01, 2013 04:53 PM PST BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) â€" Sylvester Stallone says that despite his "Rambo" image and new shoot-em-up film "Bullet to the Head," he's in favor of new national gun control legislation. Full Story	Top
Unemployment rises to 7.9 percent, economy adds 157,000 jobs  Friday, Feb 01, 2013 05:40 AM PST The unemployment rate rose from 7.8 in December to 7.9 percent in January, but the economy added 157,000 new jobs last month, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly report released Friday morning. The report indicates that job gains were seen in retail trade, construction, health care and wholesale trade, while employment edged [...] Full Story	Top
Negotiators talking to Ala. captor through pipe  Friday, Feb 01, 2013 04:16 AM PST MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) â€" More than three days after he allegedly shot a school bus driver dead, grabbed a kindergartner and slipped into an underground bunker, Jimmy Lee Dykes was showing no signs Friday of turning himself over to police. Full Story	Top
LA archbishop relieves retired cardinal of duties  Friday, Feb 01, 2013 01:47 AM PST LOS ANGELES (AP) â€" Cardinal Roger Mahony, who retired with a tainted career after dodging criminal charges over how he handled pedophile priests, was stripped of duties by his successor as a judge ordered confidential church personnel files released. Full Story	Top
Here's what would happen if every state split its electoral votes (interactive)  Friday, Feb 01, 2013 05:08 AM PST In the following interactive, you can see how the 2000, 2004 and 2008 elections would have played out if each state had split its electoral votes. Full Story	Top
Energy Secretary Chu steps down, blasts climate-change skeptics  Friday, Feb 01, 2013 09:06 AM PST Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist frequently the target of Republican criticism, announced Friday that he was stepping down in the latest shake-up of President Barack Obama's Cabinet. Chu, who disclosed his decision in a letter to Energy Department staff, frequently clashed with GOP lawmakers over gas prices as well as government backing [...] Full Story	Top
Suicide bomber kills guard at U.S. embassy in Turkey  Friday, Feb 01, 2013 01:24 PM PST ANKARA (Reuters) - A far-leftist suicide bomber killed a Turkish security guard at the U.S. embassy in Ankara on Friday, officials said, blowing open an entrance and sending debris flying through the air. The attacker detonated explosives strapped to his body after entering an embassy gatehouse. The blast could be heard a mile away. A lower leg and other human remains lay on the street. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said the bomber was a member of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), a far-left group which is virulently anti-U.S. ... Full Story	Top
Hillary Clinton departs State: What's her legacy as top US diplomat?  Friday, Feb 01, 2013 09:30 AM PST Hillary Rodham Clinton steps down as America’s top diplomat still flying high. Full Story	Top
Authorities release photo of accused Ala. abductor  Friday, Feb 01, 2013 07:11 PM PST MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) â€" After four anxious days, only the slimmest of details has come to light in a police standoff with an Alabama man who is accused of holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in a bunker, a sign of just how delicate the negotiations are. Full Story	Top
Obama administration offers religious colleges opt-out for contraception rule  Friday, Feb 01, 2013 09:06 AM PST Religious universities and other nonprofits may opt out of requirements to provide no-cost contraception through their group health plans following a change announced Friday to President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. Nonprofits will not have to "contract, arrange, pay or refer for any contraceptive coverage to which they object on religious grounds," the Department of [...] Full Story	Top
Ala. Hostage Suspect Had Court Date After Kidnapping  Friday, Feb 01, 2013 08:41 AM PST Retired Trucker Was to Answer for Allegedly Shooting at His Neighbors Full Story	Top
Marine survey lists concerns on women in combat  Friday, Feb 01, 2013 04:20 PM PST SAN DIEGO (AP) â€" Male Marines listed being falsely accused of sexual harassment or assault as a top concern in a survey about moving women into combat jobs, and thousands indicated the change could prompt them to leave the service altogether. Full Story	Top
Official: Israeli warplanes fly over Lebanon  Friday, Feb 01, 2013 05:51 AM PST BEIRUT (AP) â€" Israeli warplanes flew over southern Lebanon Friday, two days after the Jewish state launched an airstrike near Damascus, as Syria's army chief of staff warned against testing his country's capabilities. Full Story	Top
Alabama town prays for release of five-year-old hostage  Friday, Feb 01, 2013 01:33 PM PST MIDLAND CITY, Alabama (Reuters) - Residents in a rural Alabama town prayed on Friday and called for the release of a 5-year-old boy being held captive for a fourth day by a man accused of shooting a school bus driver and then taking the child hostage. The suspected gunman has been locked in a standoff with law enforcement officers near the small town of Midland City since Tuesday, when authorities say he grabbed the kindergartner from the bus after killing 66-year-old driver Charles Albert Poland. ... Full Story	Top
Official: Police detain man over missing woman  Friday, Feb 01, 2013 03:21 AM PST ANKARA, Turkey (AP) â€" Police in Istanbul on Friday detained a man who exchanged online messages with a missing New York City woman after questioning him over her disappearance. Full Story	Top
Plane lands safely after pilot loses consciousness  Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 11:38 PM PST PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) â€" An Alaska Airlines jetliner bound for Seattle made an emergency landing in Portland, Ore., Thursday night after the pilot lost consciousness, an airline spokesman said. Full Story	Top
Scott Brown decides to steer clear of Massachusetts U.S. Senate race  Friday, Feb 01, 2013 10:50 AM PST Scott Brown announced Friday that he won't vie for a political comeback this year in the special Massachusetts U.S. Senate race, dashing Republican hopes of having the well-known former senator on the ticket. After a stunning 2010 special election victory that brought him to Congress, Brown was defeated last November by Democrat Elizabeth Warren in [...] Full Story	Top
Eric Cantor: I want my Spotify  Friday, Feb 01, 2013 10:51 AM PST The official Twitter account for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Friday complained about music websites that are blocked on office computers in the U.S. Capitol building, and demanded the walls be torn down. "House blocked Spotify?" read his account, referring to the music-sharing website. "This is 2013. It is a legal service that should [...] Full Story	Top
Dow hits 14,000, for a minute anyway  Friday, Feb 01, 2013 07:50 AM PST NEW YORK (AP) â€" The Dow Jones industrial average briefly topped 14,000 on Friday morning, a milestone not seen since before the financial crisis rocked the markets and the world economy. Full Story	Top

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