Friday, March 28, 2014

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Friday, Mar 28, 2014 03:28 PM PDT
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Putin calls Obama to talk Ukraine 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 03:28 PM PDT
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a Security Council meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 28, 2014. Russia's president says Ukraine could regain some arms and equipment of military units in Crimea that did not switch their loyalty to Russia. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)White House says president pressed Russia for written response to U.S. diplomatic plan.
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Brother describes pulling mudslide victim's body from car 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 03:59 PM PDT
Brother recovers sister's body from Oso landslideBy Jonathan Kaminsky DARRINGTON, Washington (Reuters) - Days after risking his own life and defying arrest by joining the search for Washington state mudslide victims in a vast, mucky debris field near Oso, Dayn Brunner retrieved the body of the No. 1 person he had been looking for - his sister. Brunner, 42, recounted the tragic coincidence in an interview with Reuters on Friday, two days after it unfolded on the enormous mound of mud and rubble left by last Saturday's disaster, which has claimed at least 26 lives and left 90 people still missing. Brunner said he was on the mud pile on Wednesday afternoon when other rescue workers found a blue object and called him over to the spot. It was the same color as the car his sister, Summer Raffo, 36, was known to have been driving through the area when the slide struck.
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Latinos wary of Obamacare as deadline looms 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 04:07 AM PDT
Dominguez, who does not have health insurance, reads a pamphlet at a health insurance enrollment event in Cudahy, CaliforniaThe deportation surge has made enrollment much harder than expected.
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Boston bombing suspect's lawyers say FBI scouted brother 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 04:28 PM PDT
FILE - This combination of file photos shows brothers Tamerlan, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15, 2013. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died after a gunfight with police several days later, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was captured and is held in a federal prison on charges of using a weapon of mass destruction. On Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder authorized the government to seek the death penalty in the case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Opposition to the death penalty runs deep in liberal Massachusetts. In a Boston Globe survey in September 2013, 57 percent of Massachusetts residents polled favored life in prison for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, while 33 percent favored execution. (AP Photos/Lowell Sun and FBI, File)BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev say the FBI asked his older brother and fellow suspect to be an informant on the Chechen and Muslim community.
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GM adds nearly 1 million more cars to ignition recall 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 03:24 PM PDT
File photo of General Motors logo outside its headquarters at the Renaissance Center in DetroitBy Paul Lienert DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co is adding 971,000 cars to its global ignition switch recall, which began in February with 1.6 million vehicles and has been linked to at least a dozen deaths. Even before the expansion, the recall had sparked investigations by Congress, federal regulators, the Department of Justice and GM itself. All are asking why it took GM so long to address an issue first noted by the company in 2001. GM said the newer models made after 2007 were equipped with a redesigned ignition switch, but that some of those cars might have been repaired with older replacement parts that may be faulty.
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Third batch of Clinton records go public 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 03:04 PM PDT
FILE - Former president Bill Clinton speaks at a student conference for the Clinton Global Initiative University at Arizona State University, in this March 21, 2014 file photo taken in Tempe, Ariz. The National Archives is scheduled to release thousands of pages of documents from Bill Clinton's administration Friday March 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bill Clinton's top aides began debating how to build a presidential legacy days after he won re-election in 1996, newly released documents show.
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Christian school pressures 'tomboy' to transfer 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 01:50 PM PDT
Sunnie Kahle, 8, puts on her shoes before leaving her home in Forest, Va. on March 26, 2014. Kahle recently withdrew from Timberlake Christian School in Forest, Va. after the school sent a letter asking her to either dress and act more feminine or not enroll again because she looked too much like a boy. (AP Photo/The News & Advance, Jill Nance)FOREST, Va. (AP) — Eight-year-old Sunnie Kahle likes to keep her hair short, wear boys' clothes, collect hunting knives and shoot her BB gun.
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Ebola reaches Guinea's capital; 8 cases confirmed 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 12:17 PM PDT
An electron micrograph image of an Ebola virus virion obtained March 24, 2014 from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, GeorgiaCONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Health officials in the West African nation of Guinea say they're now treating eight cases of Ebola in the capital.
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T-O-R-T-U-R-E 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 05:08 PM PDT
Jeremiah DentonJeremiah Denton, Vietnam POW, blinked out that message in enemy propaganda film. The former senator died today.
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Syrian government denies 3.5 million people access to UN aid 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 01:59 PM PDT
Syrian Arab Red Crescent workers offload aid from a lorry in the central Syrian city of Homs, on February 12, 2014United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The Syrian government is denying 3.5 million civilians access to UN aid convoys in defiance of a Security Council resolution that has seen the crisis worsen, Western powers warned Friday. Britain and the United States told the United Nations that Damascus bears overwhelming responsibility for denying UN relief workers access to an escalating number of people in need. The Syrian government has allowed aid convoys to cross only one of eight border crossings identified by the United Nations as a priority, Western ambassadors said. Since February 22, 300 cases of sexual violence have been recorded in and around Damascus alone, and hundreds of thousands more Syrians had been newly displaced, Amos added.
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Tigers' Cabrera has 292 million reasons to smile for 10 years 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 09:18 AM PDT
Detroit Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera shares a laugh with Tigers President, CEO and General Manager David Dombrowski during a news conference where the details of Cabrera's eight-year contract extension was officially announced in Lakeland, Fla., Friday, March 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)DETROIT (AP) — Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera will earn a baseball-record $292 million over the next decade under a $248 million, eight-year deal with the Detroit Tigers through 2023.
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Slide survivor tells of 'wave' of mud hitting home 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 11:10 AM PDT
Robin Youngblood poses for a photo Thursday, March 27, 2014, with Whitehorse Mountain behind her in Darrington, Wash. Youngblood survived the massive mudslide that hit the nearby community of Oso, Wash. last Saturday, and was rescued by a helicopter as she floated on a piece of a roof. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — The roar of the hillside collapsing was so loud that Robin Youngblood thought an airplane had crashed. But when she looked out the window of her mobile home, all she saw was a wall of mud racing across her beloved river valley toward her home.
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Searchers checking latest objects for link to jet 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 09:04 PM PDT
In this Friday, March 28, 2014 photo released by the Australian Defence, a Royal Australian Air Force C-17 Globemaster arrives to help with the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 at RAAF Pearce Base in Perth, Australia. Objects spotted floating in a new search area for debris from the missing Malaysian jetliner need to be recovered and inspected before they can be linked to the plane, Australian officials said Saturday. Eight planes were ready to comb the newly targeted area off the west coast of Australia after several objects were spotted Friday, including two rectangular items that were blue and gray, and ships on the scene will attempt to recover them, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said. (AP Photo/Australian Defence, Justin Brown)PERTH, Australia (AP) — Objects spotted floating in a new search area for debris from the missing Malaysian jetliner need to be recovered and inspected before they can be linked to the plane, Australian officials said Saturday.
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At midnight hour, UK holds first same-sex weddings 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 07:03 PM PDT
Sean Adl-Tabatabai, left, and Sinclair Treadway kiss each other after they were announced officially married during a wedding ceremony in the Council Chamber at Camden Town Hall in London, minutes into Saturday, March 29, 2014. Gay couples in Britain waited decades for the right to get married. When the opportunity came, some had just days to plan the biggest moment of their lives. Adl-Tabatabai, a 32-year-old TV producer from London, and Treadway, a 20-year-old student originally from Los Angeles, registered their intent to marry on March 13, the first day gay couples could sign up for wedding ceremonies under Britain's new law. Eager to be part of history, the two men picked the earliest possible moment - just after midnight Friday, when the act legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)LONDON (AP) — Gay couples in Britain waited decades for the right to get married. When the opportunity came, it took just a few minutes to make history.
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NJ Gov. Christie on major push to shed scandal 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 03:46 PM PDT
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie pauses before answering a question Friday, March 28, 2014, in Trenton, N.J., about the lane closures near the George Washington Bridge, during his first news conference since his nearly two-hour back and forth with reporters in January, a day after documents revealing that the traffic jams were politically motivated were made public. Investigations led by federal authorities and New Jersey legislators are continuing to delve into the lane closures near the George Washington Bridge, even as Gov. Chris Christie's own probe has concluded that he was not involved in the plot to block traffic. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Republican Gov. Chris Christie has spent the past few days putting down traffic cones to separate himself from scandal.
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Vatican open to facilitator role for Venez crisis 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 05:10 PM PDT
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks at a meeting with a South American delegation of foreign ministers at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. The foreign ministers representing the Union of South American Nations or UNASUR arrived Tuesday aiming to ease political tensions and facilitate dialogue between Venezuela's government and opponents who are urging Maduro's resignation. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Vatican says it's willing to help facilitate talks between Venezuela's government and its opponents aimed at ending weeks of deadly unrest that have paralyzed much of the country.
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Colbert caught in Twitter rage 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 05:07 PM PDT
FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2013 file photo, Stephen Colbert delivers the keynote address during the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a charity gala organized by the Archdiocese of New York, at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York. Comedy Central deleted a message Thursday, March 27, 2014, from its "Colbert Report" Twitter feed showing a still from Wednesday night's show where Stephen Colbert joked about starting a "Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever." The joke was part of a skit in which Colbert talked about the Washington Redskins' owner buying things for Native Americans upset with the team's name.(AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, file)NEW YORK (AP) — Sometimes satire isn't made for Twitter's 140-character world.
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5 Things Miguel Cabrera's big deal can buy 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 03:41 PM PDT
Miguel Cabrera scored the richest contract in U.S. sports history, reaching a $292 million deal over 10 years with the Tigers.
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Australians say latest objects need to be checked 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 07:13 PM PDT
In this image made from TV, released by AMSA (Australia Maritime Safety Authority), a marker flare is deployed into the Indian Ocean from a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) plane searching for debris from the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, off the west coast of Australia, Friday March 28, 2014. Three weeks into the mystery of missing Flight 370, investigators are relying on newly analyzed satellite data to dictate their search field, and some potential flotsam has been photographed for assessment overnight, but the objects cannot be verified or discounted as being from MH370 until they are relocated and recovered by surface vessels. (AP Photo / AMSA, pool)PERTH, Australia (AP) — Objects spotted floating in a new search area for debris from the missing Malaysian jetliner need to be recovered and inspected before they can be linked to the plane, Australian officials said Saturday.
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Officials abandoning hope of finding survivors 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 06:45 PM PDT
A search and rescue worker carrying a probe wades through water covering Washington Highway 530 Thursday, March 27, 2014, on the eastern edge of the massive mudslide that struck Saturday near Darrington, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, Pool)ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Washington authorities say they have all but abandoned hope of finding mudslide survivors, but are keeping the official death toll at 17.
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Community waits to hear full toll of mudslide 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 05:15 PM PDT
A search and rescue worker carrying a probe wades through water covering Washington Highway 530 Thursday, March 27, 2014, on the eastern edge of the massive mudslide that struck Saturday near Darrington, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, Pool)ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — A mountainside community waited in anguish Friday to learn the full scope of the Washington state mudslide as authorities worked to identify remains and warned that they were unlikely to find anyone alive nearly a week after the disaster.
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Rogers, GOP hawk, quitting Congress for radio show 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 05:49 PM PDT
FILE - House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this June 6, 2013 file photo. Rogers said he won't seek re-election during an interview on Detroit radio station WJR-AM Friday March 28, 2014. He says he'll serve out the end of his term and plans to start a national radio program. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Mike Rogers, the brash-talking Republican security hawk who has criticized the Obama administration yet commanded uncommon bipartisan support as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Friday he was retiring from Congress next year.
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Flight 370 search shifts after new look at data 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 04:12 PM PDT
Royal Australia Air Force C-17 lands at RAAF Base Pearce to deliver a Sea Hawk helicopter to help with the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, in Perth, Australia, Friday, March 28, 2014. Australian officials moved the search area for the lost Malaysian jetliner 1,100 kilometers (680 miles) to the northeast Friday, following a new analysis of radar data, and a plane quickly found objects that a ship set out to investigate. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)PERTH, Australia (AP) — Three weeks into the mystery of Flight 370, investigators relying on newly analyzed satellite data shifted the search zone yet again, focusing on a swath of Indian Ocean where better conditions could help speed a hunt that is now concentrated thousands of miles from where it began.
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Obama meets with Saudi king, weighs new Syria aid 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 02:23 PM PDT
President Barack Obama meets with Saudi King Abdullah at Rawdat Khuraim, Saudi Arabia, Friday, March 28, 2014. Rawdat Khuraim is a green oasis located 62 miles northwest of the capital city of Riyadh and King Abdullah's private desert encampment is located within Rawdat Khuraim. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The United States is considering allowing shipments of portable air defense systems to Syrian rebels, a U.S. official said Friday, as President Barack Obama sought to reassure Saudi Arabia's king that the U.S. is not taking too soft a stance in Syria and other Mideast conflicts.
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25 tons of unwanted peanut butter to be dumped in landfill 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 06:07 PM PDT
FILE - This Nov. 27, 2012 photo shows the Sunland Inc. peanut butter and nut processing plant in eastern New Mexico, near Portales. For the first time ever, the Food and Drug Administration used newly granted authority to shutter a company without a court hearing. In November, the government shut down Sunland Inc., the country's largest organic peanut butter processor, after repeated food safety violations and a salmonella-triggered recall of products that sickened dozens of people. (AP Photo/Jeri Clausing, File)Nearly a million jars of peanut butter were dumped at a New Mexico landfill this week to expedite the sale of a bankrupt peanut-processing plant that was at the heart of a 2012 salmonella outbreak and ...
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Crews find objects in new Malaysia plane search area 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 06:52 AM PDT
Flight Lt. Jayson Nichols looks at a map as he flies aboard a Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion aircraft during a search operation of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 over the southern Indian Ocean, Thursday, March 27, 2014. Planes and ships searching for debris suspected of being from the downed Malaysia Airlines jetliner failed to find any Thursday before bad weather cut their hunt short in a setback that came as Thailand said its satellite had spotted even more suspect objects. (AP Photo/Michael Martina, Pool)PERTH, Australia (AP) — The search area for the lost Malaysian jetliner moved 1,100 kilometers (680 miles) to the northeast on Friday, as Australian officials said a new analysis of radar data suggests the plane had flown faster and therefore ran out of fuel more quickly than previously estimated.
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A good reason to (heart) marriage 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 04:48 PM PDT
A married coupleMarried folks are less likely to suffer heart problems, a study shows.
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Alleged sex abuse victim seeks justice 30 years later 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 04:00 AM PDT
Brzyski and Delaney illustration (Yahoo News)For years he masked the pain with drugs. Then came the countless hours of therapy. But now John Delaney says he's finally strong enough to deliver a message to the Catholic priest he says raped him as a young boy: "You tell him John Delaney's coming for him," he said in a thick Philly accent. "I'm not a little kid anymore. You can't do this to me. I'm going to fight back now."
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Planes race to new MH370 search zone 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 08:27 PM PDT
A RNZAF pilot looks at documents while sitting on the flight deck of a P-3K2 Orion maritime patrol aircraft as it returns from the southern Indian Ocean after searching for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370The search area was moved nearly 700 miles to the northeast based on new radar analysis.
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Mudslide death toll expected to soar 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 02:22 PM PDT
Rescue workers stand near a blocked portion of Highway 530 as search work continues after mudslide that struck OsoBy Eric M. Johnson ARLINGTON, Washington (Reuters) - The death toll from a catastrophic mudslide in Washington state appeared poised to climb dramatically as rescue teams drenched by steady rains on Friday clawed through thick muck searching for more victims nearly a week after a disaster that has left 90 people missing. Authorities already have said that some of those killed might never be found, and on Thursday braced the public for news - still yet to come - that the number of dead would "increase substantially" in the next 24 to 28 hours.
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Florida, Dayton advance to Elite Eight 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 12:38 AM PDT
Florida forward Casey Prather (24) celebrates a three-point shot against UCLA during the second half in a regional semifinal game at the NCAA college basketball tournament, Thursday, March 27, 2014, in Memphis, Tenn. Florida won 79-68. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Scottie "McBuckets" has Florida deep in the NCAA tournament once again. The Dayton Flyers are the latest mid-major upstart still in the bracket.
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