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| Oil slicks found in hunt for missing Malaysia jet Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 09:22 AM PST KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Vietnamese air force planes on Saturday spotted two large oil slicks close to where a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 went missing earlier in the day, the first sign that the aircraft carrying 239 people had crashed. Full Story | Top |
| Oil slicks spotted in hunt for jet with 239 aboard Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 12:51 PM PST  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Vietnamese air force planes spotted two large oil slicks Saturday in the region where a Malaysia Airlines jetliner disappeared, the first sign that the Boeing 777 with 239 people aboard had crashed. Full Story | Top |
| American father Philip Wood confirmed as passenger on missing Malaysia Airlines jet Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 12:51 PM PST One of three Americans aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is a longtime IBM executive who raised his family in North Texas before moving to East Asia. Full Story | Top |
| Oil slicks offer sign that Malaysian jet crashed Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 05:35 PM PST  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Two large oil slicks spotted by the Vietnamese air force offered the first sign that a jetliner carrying 239 people had crashed into the ocean after vanishing from radar without sending a single distress call. Full Story | Top |
| Malaysian plane presumed crashed; questions over false IDs Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 01:14 PM PST  By Anuradha Raghu and Nguyen Phuong Linh KUALA LUMPUR/HO CHI MINH CITY (Reuters) - A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday, and European officials said two people on board were using false identities. There were no reports of bad weather and no sign of why the Boeing 777-200ER would have vanished from radar screens about an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing. "We are not ruling out any possibilities," Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya told a news conference. But the passenger manifest issued by the airline included the names of two Europeans - Austrian Christian Kozel and Italian Luigi Maraldi - who, according to their foreign ministries, were not in fact on the plane. Full Story | Top |
| Why Malaysia Airlines jet might have disappeared Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 05:09 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — The most dangerous parts of a flight are takeoff and landing. Rarely do incidents happen when a plane is cruising seven miles above the earth. Full Story | Top |
| Bachmann blasts Clinton as GOP summit ends Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 08:21 AM PST  OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton "has a lot to explain" should she run for president, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann told the nation's largest gathering of conservative activists on Saturday, the final day of its annual meeting. Full Story | Top |
| Sea scoured for Malaysia plane; 2 passengers' IDs raise worries Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 02:00 PM PST  Malaysia Airlines said a flight carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing went missing early Saturday, and the airline was notifying next of kin in a sign it feared the worst. The airline said flight MH370 disappeared at 2:40 am local time (1840 GMT Friday), about two hours after leaving Kuala Lumpur International Airport. It had been due to arrive in Beijing at 6:30 am local time (2230 GMT Friday). It was carrying 227 passengers, including two infants, from 13 different nationalities, and 12 crew members. Full Story | Top |
| Obama: It's time to give America a raise Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 03:03 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he's hearing from business owners across the country who are voluntarily paying their workers more than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. Full Story | Top |
| Why pro-immigrant activists are turning to hunger strikes Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 07:15 AM PST They had fasted to call attention to the Obama administration's deportations and the detention of spouses, children, and siblings, many of whom remain behind bars for being in the country illegally. With hope fading over Congress's capacity to tackle immigration reform anytime soon – a bipartisan reform bill passed the Senate last June but has stalled in the GOP-controlled House – pro-immigrant tactics to pressure the Obama administration to act are escalating. Protesters want the president to use his executive powers to end deportations, until Congress can overhaul immigration laws and establish a path to legal status for some 11 million people now in the country illegally. Critics call the fasts and vigils "protest theater" that aims to stir up emotion but doesn't fit how federal agents are enforcing the nation's immigration laws on the ground. Full Story | Top |
| China draws 'red line' on North Korea, says won't allow war on peninsula Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 02:16 AM PST  China declared a "red line" on North Korea on Saturday, saying that China will not permit chaos or war on the Korean peninsula, and that peace can only come through denuclearization. China is North Korea's most important diplomatic and economic supporter, though Beijing's patience with Pyongyang has been severely tested following three nuclear tests and numerous bouts of saber rattling, including missile launches. "The Korean peninsula is right on China's doorstep. Full Story | Top |
| Gingrich, Palin speak as GOP summit ends Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 01:03 AM PST  OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — The nation's largest annual gathering of conservative activists comes to a finish Saturday but not before a final group of Republican all-stars takes the stage. Full Story | Top |
| Warning shots fired to turn monitors back from Crimea Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 12:45 PM PST By Peter Graff and Andrew Osborn KIEV/SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) - Shots were fired in Crimea to warn off an unarmed international team of monitors and at a Ukrainian observation plane, as the standoff between occupying Russian forces and besieged Ukrainian troops intensified. Russia's seizure of the Black Sea peninsula, which began 10 days ago, has so far been bloodless, but its forces have become increasingly aggressive towards Ukrainian troops, who are trapped in bases and have offered no resistance. President Vladimir Putin declared a week ago that Russia had the right to invade Ukraine to protect Russian citizens, and his parliament has voted to change the law to make it easier to annex territory inhabited by Russian speakers. Tempers have grown hotter in the last two days, since the region's pro-Moscow leadership declared it part of Russia and announced a March 16 referendum to confirm it. Full Story | Top |
| Obama calls European leaders over Ukraine crisis Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 01:50 PM PST  President Barack Obama and key European allies expressed "grave concern" Saturday over Russia's actions in Ukraine as Washington warned further military escalation could jeopardize chances of brokering a diplomatic solution to the crisis. The White House said Obama discussed Ukraine in calls with French counterpart Francois Hollande, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Italian leader Matteo Renzi. Full Story | Top |
| Rand Paul wins again in conservative Republican poll Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 03:43 PM PST  Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky came out the favorite for the second straight year among Republican conservative activists voting for the candidate they would like to see in the White House next. Paul, a potential 2016 White House contender, won 31 percent in the annual straw poll taken at the Conservative Political Action Conference. His closest competitors were Texas Senator Ted Cruz, with 11 percent, and conservative neurosurgeon Ben Carson with 9 percent. Full Story | Top |
| Israel brings arms ship to dock, hopes to shame Iran Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 08:18 AM PST  A ship seized by the Israeli navy on suspicion of smuggling arms from Iran to the Gaza Strip docked on Saturday in Israel, which planned to put the cargo on display in hope of denting Tehran's rapprochement with the West. Israel said it found dozens of advanced Syrian-made rockets hidden on board in Iran and destined for the ship's next port in Sudan, from where they would have been trucked through Egypt to Gaza. Iran and Gaza's Islamist Hamas rulers, both hostile to the Jewish state, rejected the Israeli findings as fabrications. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been dismayed at world powers' nuclear diplomacy with Iran since Tehran installed the relatively pragmatic Hassan Rouhani as president last year, voiced hope they would now rethink the outreach. Full Story | Top |
| Girl Is Cruising For A Bruising With Daredevil Antics In Car Friday, Mar 07, 2014 09:02 PM PST DEAR ABBY: What can I do about a child I see in an automobile who is hanging out the window when she passes my house? The child is around 4 years old. Today when I saw the little girl, the only parts of her in the car were her lower legs and feet. Her mother, father and grandmother allow her to do this. It scares me because when I was a child, I fell out of a moving car, and I still have scars on my arms because of it. ... Full Story | Top |
| Tee time part of Obama's Florida family vacation Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 12:42 PM PST KEY LARGO, Fla. (AP) — President Barack Obama got out on a Florida golf course Saturday with two former professional athletes and the cousin of one of his top advisers. Full Story | Top |
| Russia, Ukraine feud over sniper carnage Friday, Mar 07, 2014 11:53 PM PST  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — One of the biggest mysteries hanging over the protest mayhem that drove Ukraine's president from power: Who was behind the snipers who sowed death and terror in Kiev? Full Story | Top |
| Mom accused of driving into surf goes before judge Saturday, Mar 08, 2014 07:55 AM PST  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A pregnant South Carolina woman pointed to the ocean, locked the doors and rolled up the windows, telling her three children she was "trying to take them to a better place" as she drove her minivan into the surf, authorities said. Full Story | Top |
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