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| Obama to unveil manufacturing institutes in Detroit, Chicago Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 08:42 PM PST  By Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will announce two new manufacturing institutes aimed at attracting and nurturing businesses that will hire workers for highly paid jobs in the United States, a White House official said on Saturday. The Department of Defense will lead the effort with $140 million in government money. Part of that push is an effort to expand manufacturing jobs, many of which were lost in preceding decades as U.S. firms searched for cheaper labor abroad. With a Republican-led House of Representatives focused on cutting federal spending and reducing the size of government, the president has been forced to scale back his plans for the institutes, finding money from savings within existing programs rather than securing a big chunk of new spending for them. Full Story | Top |
| Noose closed on Mexican drug lord as allies fell Sunday, Feb 23, 2014 08:48 AM PST CULIACAN, Mexico (AP) — For 13 years Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman watched from western Mexico's rugged mountains as authorities captured or killed the leaders of every group challenging his Sinaloa cartel's spot at the top of global drug trafficking. Full Story | Top |
| Senate candidate under fire for posting grisly images to Facebook Sunday, Feb 23, 2014 12:57 PM PST  Dr. Milton Wolf, who is challenging Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts in the GOP primary, is under fire for posting to his Facebook page a collection of gruesome X-ray images he acquired as a radiologist. Full Story | Top |
| Governors: 'Obamacare' here to stay Sunday, Feb 23, 2014 05:46 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The explosive politics of health care have divided the nation, but America's governors, Republicans and Democrats alike, suggest that President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is here to stay. Full Story | Top |
| Woman held in tribal shooting known as bully Sunday, Feb 23, 2014 02:14 AM PST  CEDARVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Practically everyone in this tiny town in the high desert of northeastern California's Surprise Valley knew Cherie Lash Rhoades. Full Story | Top |
| Susan Rice: No regrets about Benghazi remarks Sunday, Feb 23, 2014 01:45 PM PST President Obama's top national security adviser also weighed in on the Ukraine, Russia and Syria. Full Story | Top |
| Federal wood burning rule prompts rural backlash Sunday, Feb 23, 2014 08:15 AM PST  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal proposal to clean up the smoke wafting from wood-burning stoves has sparked a backlash from some rural residents, lawmakers and manufacturers who fear it could close the damper on one of the oldest ways of warming homes on cold winter days. Full Story | Top |
| Documents at Ukraine leader's home detail spending Sunday, Feb 23, 2014 11:41 AM PST KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Cash: $12 million. Decoration of a dining hall and tea room: $2.3 million. Statue of a wild boar: $115,000. "A bribe": $4,000. Full Story | Top |
| Parents' Irresponsibility Could Put Son At Mercy Of The State Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 09:01 PM PST DEAR ABBY: When my son was 17, he met an "older girl" who was 21 and began an on-again, off-again relationship with her. Fast-forward two years: He now has a felony and several misdemeanors for fighting with her, and they have a wonderful little baby boy whom neither can take care of. I have been supporting the child. The young woman is schizophrenic and bipolar and will not stay on her meds. I feel torn because I don't want to be raising children at 49, but my son refuses to take care of the baby because he "isn't ready to be a father. ... Full Story | Top |
| Taliban says it suspends talks on held US soldier Sunday, Feb 23, 2014 08:53 AM PST  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan's Taliban said Sunday they had suspended "mediation" with the United States to exchange captive Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five senior Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, halting — at least temporarily — what was considered the best chance yet of securing the 27-year-old soldier's freedom since his capture in 2009. Full Story | Top |
| Ukraine: Parliament boss takes presidential powers Sunday, Feb 23, 2014 10:08 AM PST KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A top Ukrainian opposition figure assumed presidential powers Sunday, plunging Ukraine into new uncertainty after a deadly political standoff — and boosting long-jailed Yulia Tymoshenko's chances of a return to power. Full Story | Top |
| La.'s Landrieu looks for independent, GOP support Sunday, Feb 23, 2014 11:51 AM PST  LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — Democrat Mary Landrieu's quest for a fourth Senate term will turn on whether she can attract just enough support from independents and Republicans to win in this increasingly conservative state. Full Story | Top |
| Former Va. first lady at heart of gift scandal Sunday, Feb 23, 2014 08:06 AM PST  VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Elaine Kubiak finds it impossible to reconcile the social-climbing, bullying and bizarre-acting former first lady of Virginia being portrayed in federal court papers and the media with the woman she's known for two decades. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. governors plan to urge Obama not to downsize National Guard Sunday, Feb 23, 2014 11:08 AM PST  By Aruna Viswanatha WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Governors from both U.S. political parties plan to talk to President Barack Obama on Monday about preventing potential cuts to National Guard units, several governors said on Sunday. "In downsizing the military, we want to make sure that reserve and National Guard is protected in our country," Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy said on CNN's "State of the Union." "I'm going to have that discussion with the President tomorrow," Malloy, a Democrat, said. Many governors are in Washington this week for a national conference of state executives. Several appeared on Sunday morning talk shows, where they said they wanted to speak to the president about the potential cuts to the National Guard. Full Story | Top |
| Source of Stonehenge Bluestone Rocks Identified Sunday, Feb 23, 2014 06:34 AM PST  Scientists have found the exact source of Stonehenge's smaller bluestones, new research suggests. The work "locates the exact sources of the stones, which highlight areas where archaeologists can search for evidence of the human working of the stones," said geologist and study co-author Richard Bevins of the National Museum of Wales. The first megaliths at Stonehenge were erected 5,000 years ago, and long-lost cultures continued to add to the monument for a millennium. The creation consists of massive, 30-ton sarsen stones, as well as smaller bluestones, so named for their hue when wet or cut. Full Story | Top |
| Pope to prelates: no intrigue, favoritism, gossip Sunday, Feb 23, 2014 04:34 AM PST VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday gave his new cardinals what amounted to a code of conduct : "no intrigue, gossip, power pacts, favoritism." Full Story | Top |
| U.S. wants Ukraine to remain unified, cautions Russia Sunday, Feb 23, 2014 12:49 PM PST  By Will Dunham and Ros Krasny WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials insisted on Sunday that Ukraine should remain unified and cautioned that any military intervention by Russia would be a mistake after bloody street protests ousted the pro-Moscow president. In an appearance on the NBC TV program "Meet the Press," National Security Adviser Susan Rice was asked about a scenario in which Russia would send troops to restore a government more friendly to Moscow, or for the country to be carved up. It is not in the interests of Ukraine or of Russia or of Europe or the United States to see the country split. Rice's appearance provided the most extensive White House comments yet on days of drama in Ukraine in which opposition groups with leanings toward western Europe took control and Russian-backed President Viktor Yanukovich left the capital, Kiev. Full Story | Top |
| Gorbachev: Ukraine failed to act democratically Sunday, Feb 23, 2014 03:24 AM PST  SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Sunday that the political crisis in Ukraine, which has seen its president driven from the capital after months of protests, stems from its government's failure to act democratically. Full Story | Top |
| Fox's ratings hopes pinned on ex-CNBC anchor Bartiromo Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 09:06 PM PST  Maria Bartiromo, whose high-profile Wall Street coverage earned her the nickname "Money Honey" during two decades on business channel CNBC, now takes aim at her former employer as host of a new morning show on the rival Fox Business Network. "Opening Bell with Maria Bartiromo" will air from 9-11 am ET (1400-1600 GMT), replacing "Varney & Co" anchored by Stuart Varney, who moves to the following two-hour period. Luring Bartiromo away from CNBC was a high-stakes gamble by Fox and Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO of Fox News, to boost the ratings of the six-year-old business channel. Fox Business increased its ratings and added homes to which it is telecast but still trails CNBC. Full Story | Top |
| German FM calls on Israel to make tough decisions Sunday, Feb 23, 2014 10:24 AM PST  JERUSALEM (AP) — A day before German chancellor Angela Merkel and nearly her entire Cabinet arrive in Israel, her foreign minister published an op-ed in an Israeli newspaper Sunday encouraging Israel to take the "difficult but necessary decisions" to allow U.S.-led peace efforts to succeed. Full Story | Top |
| Sun-dimming volcanoes partly explain global warming hiatus-study Sunday, Feb 23, 2014 10:06 AM PST By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - Small volcanic eruptions help explain a hiatus in global warming this century by dimming sunlight and offsetting a rise in emissions of heat-trapping gases to record highs, a study showed on Sunday. Eruptions of at least 17 volcanoes since 2000, including Nabro in Eritrea, Kasatochi in Alaska and Merapi in Indonesia, ejected sulfur whose sun-blocking effect had been largely ignored until now by climate scientists, it said. The pace of rising world surface temperatures has slowed since an exceptionally warm 1998, heartening those who doubt that an urgent, trillion-dollar shift to renewable energies from fossil fuels is needed to counter global warming. "This is a complex detective story," said Benjamin Santer of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, lead author of the study in the journal Nature Geoscience that gives the most detailed account yet of the cooling impact of volcanoes. Full Story | Top |
| Venezuelans protest en masse in rival rallies Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 11:02 PM PST Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets of Caracas in marches for and against President Nicolas Maduro's government Saturday, as the nation's massive divide became ever more visible. The protests -- which began on February 4 -- are seen as the biggest test yet to socialist leader Maduro since he succeeded late leftist icon Hugo Chavez last year, with the country's economic problems at the heart of often bloody scenes that have left 10 people dead and scores injured. Just 24 hours after Maduro made a rare offer to US President Barack Obama of talks to end more than a decade of enmity, there appeared no prospect of rapprochement after Secretary of State John Kerry hit out at the Venezuelan government's handling of the protests. Heeding the call of opposition leader Henrique Capriles, who narrowly lost to Maduro in the election to succeed Chavez last year, at least 50,000 anti-government protesters streamed into several avenues in the Caracas neighborhood of Sucre. Full Story | Top |
| Paula Deen says she's 'back in the saddle' Sunday, Feb 23, 2014 03:12 PM PST  MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Paula Deen continued maneuvering for a comeback Sunday, turning a beachside cooking demonstration into a public apology for the racist comments that decimated her career last year. Full Story | Top |
| Exclusive: China, eyeing Japan, seeks WW2 focus for Xi during Germany visit Sunday, Feb 23, 2014 12:57 PM PST  By Ben Blanchard and Michael Martina BEIJING (Reuters) - China wants to make World War Two a key part of a trip by President Xi Jinping to Germany next month, much to Berlin's discomfort, diplomatic sources said, as Beijing tries to use German atonement for its wartime past to embarrass Japan. China has increasingly contrasted Germany and its public contrition for the Nazi regime to Japan, where repeated official apologies for wartime suffering are sometimes undercut by contradictory comments by conservative politicians. Full Story | Top |
| Pope tells cardinals to shun intrigue, cliques of a royal court Sunday, Feb 23, 2014 03:22 AM PST  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis urged cardinals, who make up the top echelon of the Roman Catholic Church, on Sunday to shun the intrigue, gossip and cliques typical of a royal court. Since his election nearly a year ago, Francis has often told his top aides not to live or behave like a privileged class. The eight-year papacy of his predecessor, Benedict, was marked by mishaps and missteps, which were often blamed on a dysfunctional Vatican bureaucracy and intrigue befitting a Renaissance court. "A cardinal enters the Church of Rome, not a royal court," Francis said in his sermon, welcoming the men into the elite group that help him run the Church in the Vatican and around the world. Full Story | Top |
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