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| 3 dozen indicted in Atlanta cheating scandal Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 12:40 AM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — Juwanna Guffie was sitting in her fifth-grade classroom taking a standardized test when, authorities say, the teacher came around offering information and asking the students to rewrite their answers. Juwanna rejected the help. Full Story | Top |
| Easter Science: 6 Facts About Jesus Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 06:00 AM PDT  He may be the most famous man who ever lived, but surprisingly little is known about his life. Full Story | Top |
| Teachers who stomped American flag, Jesus are officially no longer teaching Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 01:46 AM PDT You don't tug on Superman's cape. You don't spit into the wind. You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger. And, as two educators have recently learned, it's also generally good advice to avoid stomping on Jesus and the American flag in public schools. Full Story | Top |
| Justin Bieber's monkey quarantined in Germany Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 05:45 AM PDT  BERLIN (AP) — Justin Bieber had to leave a monkey in quarantine after landing in Germany last week without the necessary papers for the animal, an official said Saturday. Full Story | Top |
| NKorea says it is in a 'state of war' with SKorea Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 01:23 PM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea warned Seoul on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula had entered "a state of war" and threatened to shut down a border factory complex that's the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. Full Story | Top |
| Lawmakers tighten belts amid automatic budget cuts Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 12:05 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of Congress are traveling less and worrying more about meeting office salaries. Their aides are contending with long lines to get inside their offices and fewer prospects of a raise. Such are the indignities thrust upon the men and women who brought the country $85 billion in government spending cuts this month. Full Story | Top |
| North Korea says enters "state of war" against South Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 09:07 AM PDT  By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Saturday it was entering a "state of war" with South Korea, but Seoul and its ally the United States played down the statement as tough talk. Pyongyang also threatened to close a border industrial zone, the last remaining example of inter-Korean cooperation which gives the impoverished North access to $2 billion in trade a year. The United States said it took Pyongyang's threats seriously but cautioned that the North had a history of bellicose rhetoric. Russia, another a permanent U.N. Security Council member, urged all sides to show restraint. ... Full Story | Top |
| NKorean propaganda mill serves up soft side of Kim Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 03:35 AM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The outside world focuses on the messages of doom and gloom from North Korea: bombastic threats of nuclear war, fantasy videos of U.S. cities in flames, digitally altered photos of leader Kim Jong Un guiding military drills. But back home, North Koreans get a decidedly softer dose of propaganda: Kim portrayed as a young, energetic leader, a people person and family man. Full Story | Top |
| Veterans fight changes to disability payments Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 08:00 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Veterans groups are rallying to fight any proposal to change disability payments as the federal government attempts to address its long-term debt problem. They say they've sacrificed already. Full Story | Top |
| 'I love mysteries,' says man claiming hidden gold Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 07:09 PM PDT  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — For more than a decade, he packed and repacked his treasure chest, sprinkling in gold dust and adding hundreds of rare gold coins and gold nuggets. Pre-Columbian animal figures went in, along with prehistoric "mirrors" of hammered gold, ancient Chinese faces carved from jade and antique jewelry with rubies and emeralds. Full Story | Top |
| The South: A near-solid block against 'Obamacare' Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 01:05 PM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — As more Republicans give in to President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul, an opposition bloc remains across the South, including from governors who lead some of the nation's poorest and unhealthiest states. Full Story | Top |
| YOUNGER AMERICANS ACCEPT FULL HUMANITY OF GAYS Friday, Mar 29, 2013 10:01 PM PDT Familiarity breeds ... acceptance. That's why the battle for full equality for gays and lesbians is already won, no matter what the U.S. Supreme Court decides.A generation of young Americans has grown up with openly gay friends, neighbors and family members, teachers, preachers and entertainment idols. They know them in all their humanity: as responsible parents, as respectable business owners, as conscientious churchgoers, as liars, as cheaters, as drunks. For voters under 35, gay and lesbian Americans are no strange breed apart; they are simply people, just like heterosexuals. ... Full Story | Top |
| Bank of Cyprus big savers to lose up to 60 percent Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 12:02 PM PDT  NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Big depositors at Cyprus' largest bank may be forced to accept losses of up to 60 percent, far more than initially estimated under the European rescue package to save the country from bankruptcy, officials said Saturday. Full Story | Top |
| Ex-Anglican leader says Britain's PM alienating Christians Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 04:06 AM PDT  LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron is alienating Christians by promoting gay marriage, an influential former leader of the world's 80 million Anglicans said on Saturday. In a strongly worded article, former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey said Cameron's plan to legalize gay unions hid an "aggressive secularist" approach that threatened the link between church and state. ... Full Story | Top |
| Egypt issues arrest warrant for TV satirist Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 02:03 PM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's state prosecutors ordered the arrest Saturday of a popular television satirist for allegedly insulting Islam and the country's leader, in a move that government opponents say is aimed at silencing critics of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. Full Story | Top |
| US pushes back against North Korean war rhetoric Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 11:16 AM PDT In the wake of North Korea's latest war-like pronouncements, the United States is assuming a sober, tough-minded stance it hopes will avert further threats and provocative acts by Pyongyang. Full Story | Top |
| Business, Labor Get Deal on Worker Program Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 05:44 PM PDT Business and labor strike deal on low-skilled worker program for immigration bill Full Story | Top |
| In Pakistan underworld, a cop is said to be a king Friday, Mar 29, 2013 11:52 PM PDT  KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A corrupt, low-level cop with a healthy dose of street smarts rises to control hundreds of illegal gambling dens in Pakistan's largest city. By doling out millions of dollars in illicit proceeds, he protects his empire and becomes one of the most powerful people in Karachi. Full Story | Top |
| Business, labor groups reach immigration deal Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 02:29 PM PDT  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prospects for a broad U.S. immigration overhaul brightened on Saturday after major U.S. business and labor groups reached an agreement on a guest-worker program, a source familiar with the deal said. The agreement was reached on Friday night in a conference call between the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Tom Donohue, and the president of the AFL-CIO labor organization, Richard Trumka, with New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer acting as the mediator, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. ... Full Story | Top |
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