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| McCain: 'Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country' Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 09:08 AM PDT  The Arizona senator returned from a trip to Ukraine with harsh words for Vladamir Putin. Full Story | Top |
| Malaysian police examine pilot's flight simulator Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 02:31 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian police on Sunday were examining a flight simulator belonging to one of the pilots of the missing jetliner and investigating engineers who worked on the plane, sharpening the probe into the jet's disappearance after authorities revealed it was a deliberate act. Full Story | Top |
| Crimeans overwhelmingly vote for secession Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 02:27 PM PDT  SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Fireworks exploded and Russian flags fluttered above jubilant crowds Sunday after residents in Crimea voted overwhelmingly to secede from Ukraine and join Russia. The United States and Europe condemned the ballot as illegal and destabilizing and were expected to slap sanctions on Russia for it. Full Story | Top |
| Democrats seek ways to limit Obamacare fallout after Florida defeat Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 04:07 AM PDT  By Steve Holland and Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and his Democrats face the challenge of limiting fallout from Obamacare and drumming up voter enthusiasm in the November congressional elections, problem areas exposed by the loss of a Florida candidate who had led in the polls. The defeat of Democrat Alex Sink by Republican David Jolly in a special election last Tuesday has raised anxiety levels for Democrats as they struggle to hold on to control of the Senate in November and pick up seats in the Republican-held House of Representatives. The Florida race reflected turnout concerns, as Sink had been leading in the polls in the days ahead of the election. "We need to think about how to energize our base." A focus simply on turnout, however, could distract party leaders from recognizing the dangers presented by the president's healthcare law and, with his approval rating mired in the mid-40s, his relative unpopularity. Full Story | Top |
| Seoul: NKorea test-fires 18 short-range rockets Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 05:58 AM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired 18 short-range rockets into the sea off its east coast Sunday, South Korean officials said, in an apparent continuation of protests against ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills. Full Story | Top |
| Boston mayor skips St. Patrick's parade over exclusion of gay group Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 12:33 PM PDT  By Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston's Irish-American mayor skipped the city's St. Patrick's Day parade on Sunday after failing to hammer out a deal with organizers to allow a group of gay and lesbian activists to march openly. Mayor Marty Walsh had tried to negotiate a deal with organizers, the conservative Allied War Veteran's Council, to allow members of MassEquality, one of Massachusetts' largest gay activist groups, to join the parade. "As mayor of the city of Boston, I have to do my best to ensure that all Bostonians are free to participate fully in the civic life of our city. Unfortunately, this year, the parties were not able to come to an understanding that would have made that possible." Despite Walsh's boycott, other prominent Democratic Boston politicians, including Representative Stephen Lynch, marched in the parade, which drew tens of thousands of spectators, some of whom expressed disappointment at MassEquality's exclusion. Full Story | Top |
| Deathbed Promise Turns Into A Living Nightmare Saturday, Mar 15, 2014 10:00 PM PDT DEAR ABBY: I have been widowed for five years. I have a close friend, "Louise," who was also close to my late husband. She promised him on his deathbed she would "take care of me" when he was gone. Well, she has taken it to the extreme. She became very controlling and didn't want me doing anything without her. I went along with it to keep the peace until about a year ago, when I met a wonderful man I'll call Bill. Bill recently moved into my home. Louise says he has no right to live with me here because my late husband had it built and I have no right to let anyone else stay here. ... Full Story | Top |
| 'Good night': Haunting final contact from missing Malaysian jet Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 05:33 PM PDT  By Anshuman Daga, Niluksi Koswanage and Tim Hepher KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The last words from the cockpit of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 - "all right, good night" - were uttered after someone on board had already begun disabling one of the plane's automatic tracking systems, a senior Malaysian official said. Both the timing and informal nature of the phrase, spoken to air traffic controllers as the plane with 239 people aboard was leaving Malaysian-run airspace on a March 8 flight to Beijing, could further heighten suspicions of hijacking or sabotage. The sign-off came after one of the plane's data communication systems, which would have enabled it to be tracked beyond radar coverage, had been deliberately switched off, Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said on Sunday. The pilot's informal hand-off went against standard radio procedures, which would have called for him to read back instructions for contacting the next control center and include the aircraft's call sign, said Hugh Dibley, a former British Airways pilot and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Full Story | Top |
| State TV says Russia could turn US to 'radioactive ash' Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 02:20 PM PDT  A leading anchor on Russian state television on Sunday described Russia as the only country capable of turning the United States into "radioactive ash", in an incendiary comment at the height of tensions over the Crimea referendum. "Russia is the only country in the world realistically capable of turning the United States into radioactive ash," anchor Dmitry Kiselyov said on his weekly news show on state-controlled Rossiya 1 television. Kiselyov made the comment to support his argument that the United States and President Barack Obama were living in fear of Russia led by President Vladimir Putin amid the Ukraine crisis. Full Story | Top |
| Crimeans vote to leave Ukraine, join Russia Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 04:35 PM PDT  SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Just two weeks after Russian troops seized their peninsula, Crimeans voted Sunday to leave Ukraine and join Russia, overwhelmingly approving a referendum that sought to unite the strategically important Black Sea region with the country it was part of for some 250 years. Full Story | Top |
| US rejects Crimea vote, cites Russian intimidation Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 05:25 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday that Crimea's vote to secede from Ukraine and join Russia "would never be recognized" by the United States, as he and other top U.S. officials warned Moscow against making further military moves toward southern and eastern Ukraine. Full Story | Top |
| Crimea votes on joining Russia amid soaring tensions Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 10:32 AM PDT Simferopol (Ukraine) (AFP) - Crimeans voted Sunday in a referendum to join former political master Russia as tensions escalated in eastern Ukraine in the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War. Ukraine's new leaders and the West have branded as "illegal" the vote in the strategic Black Sea peninsula that has been under the de facto control of Russian forces for weeks. US Secretary of State John Kerry demanded that Moscow pull back its forces to their bases in Crimea in return for constitutional reforms in Ukraine to protect minority rights. Full Story | Top |
| Campaign to save dog in Arizona mauling Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 06:53 PM PDT  PHOENIX (AP) — A dog that mauled a 4-year-old Phoenix boy has received thousands of pleas for mercy through a Facebook campaign ahead of a court hearing to decide his fate. Full Story | Top |
| Rupert Murdoch tweets his theory on Malaysian plane disappearance Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 08:20 AM PDT  The 83-year-old News Corp. executive chairman took to Twitter over the weekend to offer his own theory on the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight 370. Full Story | Top |
| Final words from jet came after systems shutdown Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 07:59 PM PDT  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — When someone at the controls calmly said the last words heard from the missing Malaysian jetliner, one of the Boeing 777's communications systems had already been disabled, authorities said, adding to suspicions that one or both of the pilots were involved in the disappearance of the flight. Full Story | Top |
| Founder of anti-gay Kansas church in care facility Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 08:59 PM PDT  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., who founded a Kansas church widely known for its protests at military funerals and anti-gay sentiments, is in a care facility, according to a church spokesman. Full Story | Top |
| Bizarro Common Core kindergarten math homework stumps DAD WITH Ph.D. Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 12:02 PM PDT Here is the latest in the never-ending litany of frighteningly stupid Common Core math worksheets. This one comes from the father of a kindergarten student in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. "I have a Ph.D., and I have no idea what is supposed to be done with this homework assignment," the flummoxed father told The Daily Caller. "I can tell you that my five-year-old brought this home as kindergarten homework Thursday," he said. Full Story | Top |
| Malaysia asks countries for data to help find jet Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 08:17 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian authorities on Sunday examined a flight simulator that was confiscated from the home of one of the missing jetliner's pilots and asked governments to divulge sensitive radar data, warning that without it locating the plane in what is now a massive search area might be impossible. Full Story | Top |
| Malaysia doubles scale of plane search, pilots probed Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 11:38 AM PDT Malaysia said Sunday the number of countries searching for a missing airliner had nearly doubled to 25 as a full-scale criminal probe into its disappearance got under way, with particular scrutiny of the pilots. Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said the number of participating countries had jumped from 14 to 25 as the search for the aircraft focused on two vast, and vastly contrasting, land and ocean transport corridors. Malaysian police said they had searched the homes of both pilots and examined the captain's home flight simulator after it became increasingly clear that the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that vanished March 8 had been deliberately diverted by someone on board. Experts said it would have taken specialist knowledge to disable the communications system, intensifying scrutiny of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and his First Officer, Fariq Abdul Hamid. Full Story | Top |
| A Gay Bishop’s Prayer for Francis Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 03:45 AM PDT  The pontiff will need God's strength to turn his loving words into real action that transforms the Catholic Church. Full Story | Top |
| Why 5-Year-Old Kids Can Do Algebra Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 05:29 AM PDT  Gut Instinct for Numbers Works in Animals, Too Full Story | Top |
| Why African-Americans are moving back to the South Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 09:05 AM PDT She had been born and raised in Chicago and had deep roots in the South as well, but her impressions of the region were far from idyllic. Today, as she prepares breakfast in the kitchen of their three-bedroom house in West Point – a town whose entire population would fill only a quarter of the seats at Wrigley Field – she shares his enthusiasm about the move. They recently returned from a trip to Chicago and couldn't wait to get home. Full Story | Top |
| Crimeans vote over 90 percent to quit Ukraine for Russia Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 02:25 PM PDT  By Mike Collett-White and Ronald Popeski SIMFEROPOL/KIEV (Reuters) - Russian state media said Crimeans voted overwhelmingly to break with Ukraine and join Russia on Sunday, as Kiev accused Moscow of pouring forces into the peninsula and warned separatist leaders "the ground will burn under their feet". With over half the votes counted, 95.5 percent had chosen the option of annexation by Moscow, the head of the referendum commission, Mikhail Malyshev, said two hours after polls closed. Western powers and leaders in Kiev denounced it as a sham. Underlining how Moscow's military takeover of the peninsula two weeks ago has driven Russia and the West into a crisis with echoes of the Cold War, Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama spoke by telephone and, according to the Kremlin, the Russian and U.S. presidents agreed on a need to cooperate to stabilize Ukraine. Full Story | Top |
| Will missing jet prompt change in aviation system? Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 06:13 AM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has exposed wide gaps in how the world's airlines — and their regulators — operate. But experts warn this isn't likely to be one of those defining moments that lead to fundamental changes. Full Story | Top |
| Oprah Winfrey to sell Harpo Studios in Chicago Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 03:37 PM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — Oprah Winfrey is selling Harpo Studios in Chicago to a developer, but the studio will remain on the property for another two years. Full Story | Top |
| Canadian fishermen strike Asian gold with geoduck clams Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 12:50 AM PDT  Tofino (Canada) (AFP) - From a basket hoisted on the back of his trawler, fisherman Freddy Gutmann proudly picks up a giant geoduck clam fresh from the frigid waters off the northwestern Canadian coast. "This one is a great specimen," Gutmann says as sea water gushes from the massive mollusk that measures an impressive 20 centimeters (eight inches). Gutmann has good reason to be in high spirits since within 24 hours, the super-sized shellfish -- shunned by Western chefs -- will be served at top restaurants in Hong Kong, Beijing or Tokyo for a steep price. While a kilo (2.2 pounds) of geoducks goes for some Can$30 (US$27) these days -- six times less than what top Asian eateries will ask their patrons to fork over -- that wasn't always the case, recalled Gutmann. Full Story | Top |
| RNC chairman: Primary changes will rebuild GOP Sunday, Mar 16, 2014 04:09 AM PDT  BURLINGAME, Calif. (AP) — Planned changes to the Republican Party's presidential selection process are part of a rebuilding process that will strengthen the GOP brand and hopefully make its presidential nominee more competitive in 2016, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus told California Republicans on Friday, calling the GOP's current primary process "a complete disaster." Full Story | Top |
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