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Recruit describes being quizzed by bin Laden 
Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 05:43 PM PST
 In this courtroom sketch, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, left, listens as U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan stands to speak Monday, March 3, 2014 during jury selection at the start of Abu Ghaith's trial in New York on charges that he conspired to kill Americans and support terrorists in his role as al-Qaida's spokesman after the Sept. 11 attacks. Abu Ghaith is Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and is the highest-ranking al-Qaida figure to face trial on U.S. soil since the Sept. 11 attacks. Seated next to Abu Ghaith is a translater, next to defense attorney Stanley Cohen, right. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams)American testifies about safe house encounter with terror leader in spring of 2001.
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Sports medicine pioneer Frank Jobe dies at 88 
Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 07:55 PM PST
 FILE - In a Saturday, July 27, 2013 file photo, Dr. Frank Jobe, known for the development of the historic elbow procedure known as LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dr. Frank Jobe, the sports medicine pioneer who was the first to perform an elbow procedure that became known as Tommy John Surgery, died Thursday. He was 88.
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Man revealed in report as bitcoin creator denies story 
Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 02:59 PM PST
 A man widely believed to be Bitcoin currency founder Satoshi Nakamoto is surrounded by reporters as he leaves his home in Temple City, CaliforniaA reclusive Japanese American man thought to be the father of Bitcoin emerged from his Southern California home and denied any involvement with the digital currency, before leading reporters on a car chase leading to the headquarters of the Associated Press. Satoshi Nakamoto, a name known to legions of bitcoin traders, practitioners and boosters around the world, appeared to lose his anonymity on Thursday after Newsweek published a story that said Nakamoto lived in Temple City, California, just east of Los Angeles, and included a photograph. In the afternoon, Nakamoto stepped outside and told reporters he had nothing to do with bitcoin but was looking for someone who understood Japanese, to buy him a free lunch. According to a Los Angeles Times reporter, who followed his car, Nakamoto was driven to the Associated Press offices in downtown Los Angeles, where he again denied any involvement with bitcoin.
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Senate blocks change to military sex assault cases 
Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 06:15 PM PST
 Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, center, talks with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 6, 2014, during a news conference following a Senate vote on military sexual assaults. The Senate blocked a bill that would have stripped senior military commanders of their authority to prosecute rapes and other serious offenses, capping an emotional, nearly yearlong fight over how best to curb sexual assault in the ranks. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. is at left. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — Bowing to the Pentagon, the Senate agreed after impassioned debate Thursday to leave the authority to prosecute rapes and other serious crimes with military commanders in a struggle that highlighted the growing role of women in Congress.
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General admits guilt on 3 counts; denies assault 
Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 03:27 PM PST
 Brig. Gen. Paul Wilson leaves the courthouse after testifying in pretrial motions in the case of Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, Tuesday, March 4, 2014, at Fort Bragg, N.C. Less than a month before Sinclair's trial on sexual assault charges, the lead prosecutor broke down in tears Tuesday as he told a superior he believed the primary accuser in the case had lied under oath. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, James Robinson)FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — An Army general accused of sexual assault is pleading guilty to three lesser charges, but maintains his innocence on five remaining counts.
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Here comes El Nino; good news for US weather woes 
Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 03:15 PM PST
 FILE - In this Wednesday, March 25, 1998 file photo, Enrique Lagunas digs a trench to redirect water toward a street in Laguna Beach, Calif. after heavy rains from an El Nino storm hit Southern California. On Thursday, March 6, 2014, the U.S. National Oceanic Atmospheric and Administration announced their prediction of an El Nino warming of the central Pacific Ocean in 2014 that will change weather worldwide. It is expected to trigger fewer Atlantic hurricanes, more rain next winter for drought-struck California and southern states and even cause a milder winter for the nation's cold-struck northern tier next year, meteorologists say. For the world it can mean an even hotter year coming up and food crop losses. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Bruce Chambers)WASHINGTON (AP) — Relief may be on the way for a weather-weary United States with the predicted warming of the central Pacific Ocean brewing this year that will likely change weather worldwide. But it won't be for the better everywhere.
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APNewsBreak: Many NYC inmates report 'head shots' 
Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 02:14 PM PST
 FILE - In this May 17, 2011 file photo, a bus drives past the the entrance to Rikers Island in New York. Nearly a third of Rikers Island inmates who said their visible injuries came at the hands of a correction officer last year had suffered a blow to the head, a tactic that is supposed to be a guard's last resort because it is potentially fatal, according to an internal report obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly a third of Rikers Island inmates who said their visible injuries came at the hands of a correction officer last year had suffered a blow to the head, a tactic that is supposed to be a guard's last resort because it is potentially fatal, according to an internal report obtained by The Associated Press.
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Girl Scouts asked to end partnership with Barbie 
Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 12:54 PM PST
 FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 14, 2014 file photo, a mock-up cover of Barbie on a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue is displayed at the Mattel booth at the American International Toy Fair in New York. A few weeks after her foray into the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition, Barbie is entangled in controversy again, this time over her ties with the Girl Scouts. Two advocacy groups often critical of corporate advertising tactics _ the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and the Center for a New American Dream _ on Thursday, March 6, 2014 urged the Girl Scouts of USA to end its partnership with the doll's manufacturer, the Mattel toy company. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)NEW YORK (AP) — America's top doll, Barbie, finds herself in controversy once again, this time over a business partnership between her manufacturer, Mattel, and the Girl Scouts.
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5 things to know about Google's mystery barge 
Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 05:07 PM PST
 The Google barge is seen moored at the Port of Stockton Thursday, March 6, 2014, in Stockton, Calif. Google's mystery barge has arrived at its new home in the California delta after the Internet company was ordered to move it from San Francisco. The odd-looking, four-story vessel made of recycled shipping containers departed from Treasure Island to comply with a Jan. 31, regulatory order concluding that Google Inc. didn't have the proper permits to build it there. Construction stopped on the project late last year. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Google barge built with recycled shipping containers proved its seaworthiness Thursday as it cruised from the San Francisco Bay to Stockton. But many other details about the odd-looking vessel remain a mystery. Here are five things that we do know so far:
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AP Exclusive: Man denies he's Bitcoin founder 
Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 06:16 PM PST
 Dorian S. Nakamoto listens during an interview with the Associated Press, Thursday, March 6, 2014 in Los Angeles. Nakamoto, the man that Newsweek claims is the founder of Bitcoin, denies he had anything to do with it and says he had never even heard of the digital currency until his son told him he had been contacted by a reporter three weeks ago. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)LOS ANGELES (AP) — The man Newsweek claims is the founder of Bitcoin denied he had anything to do with the digital currency.
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GOP presidential hopefuls vie for clout with base 
Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 04:42 PM PST
 Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. walks onto the stage holding a rifle before speaking at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference at National Harbor, Md., Thursday, March 6, 2014. Thursday marks the first day of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, which brings together prospective presidential candidates, conservative opinion leaders and tea party activists from coast to coast. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Republicans vying for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016 auditioned Thursday before some of the nation's most ardent conservative leaders, calling for the party to unite behind a clear agenda and draw contrasts with Democrats.
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Iditarod: 5 things to know about trail conditions 
Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 03:24 PM PST
 Kristy Berington mushes down the Iditarod Trail in the middle of the Farewell Burn during the 2014 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday, March 4, 2014. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, Bob Hallinen)ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Punishing conditions along the early part of Alaska's nearly 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race have brought many mushers literally to their knees, knocking some out of the running altogether.
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Crimea sets vote to break away from Ukraine 
Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 02:20 PM PST
 A Ukrainian Navy officer looks at the scuttled decommissioned Russian vessel "Ochakov" from the Black Sea shore outside the town of Myrnyi, western Crimea, Ukraine, Thursday, March 6, 2014. In the early hours of Thursday Russian naval personnel scuttled the decommissioned ship, blockading access for five Ukrainian Naval vessels now trapped inside of the Southern Naval Headquarters located in Myrnyi in Western Crimea as Russian war vessels patrolled just of the coast. The vessel was brought by Russian naval forces on the 4th of March towed by a tug boat while escorted by a warship and several gun boats. Marines from the Ukrainian navy heard a loud explosion in the early hours of last night coming from the vessel blocking a channel leading to the Black Sea. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine lurched toward breakup Thursday as lawmakers in Crimea unanimously declared they wanted to join Russia and would put the decision to voters in 10 days. President Barack Obama condemned the move and the West answered with the first real sanctions against Russia.
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EU slaps initial sanctions on Russia 
Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 12:31 PM PST
 British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, March 6, 2014. European Union leaders held an emergency summit on Thursday to decide on imposing sanctions against Russia over its military incursion in Ukraine's Crimean peninsula. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)BRUSSELS (AP) — BRUSSELS — The European Union suspended talks with Russia on a wide-ranging economic pact and a visa agreement Thursday in response to its military incursion into Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, threatening tougher sanctions unless Moscow swiftly defuses the crisis.
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Judge: Texas man can be tried in childhood crime 
Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 07:07 PM PST
 CORRECTS TO JUDGE HAMILTON, NOT COLLINS IN SECOND SENTENCE - Colleen and Boby Middleton, the parents of victim Robert Middleton, speak to the media after hearing regarding Don Willburn Collins at the 359th Judicial District Court with Judge Kathleen Hamilton on Thursday, March 6, 2014, in Conroe, Texas. Collins, now 28, accused of dousing Middleton with gasoline and setting him on fire in 1998 when he was a teenager, can be tried as an adult for murder after the victim died from his burns nearly 13 years later, Judge Hamilton ruled Thursday. (AP Photo/ The Courier, Jason Fochtman) MANDATORY CREDITCONROE, Texas (AP) — In the years that followed the 1998 attack that horribly burned her then-8-year-old son, Colleen Middleton felt fear and frustration over the possibility that the person she believed was responsible would never be taken to trial.
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Conservatives: GOP needs to stand on principle 
Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 11:42 AM PST
 Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. walks onto the stage holding a rifle before speaking at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference at National Harbor, Md., Thursday, March 6, 2014. Thursday marks the first day of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, which brings together prospective presidential candidates, conservative opinion leaders and tea party activists from coast to coast. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Republican leaders implored conservatives to offer a stark contrast to President Barack Obama's policies and stand firm on principles as a way to win back Senate control in the fall elections and prepare for the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Why the SAT had to change 
Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 06:42 AM PST
 SAT Overhaul ComingEarlier this week, high school students were given a surprise gift — the dreaded essay portion of the Scholastic Aptitude Test would be going optional in spring 2016.
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Despite the name calling, Putin is not crazy 
Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 09:49 AM PST
 Putin, shirtless on a horseThe Russian president may be calculating, sources say, even miscalculating.
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Enigmatic bitcoin creator Nakamoto's true identity revealed 
Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 04:03 PM PST
 A man walks out of a shop displaying a bitcoin sign during the opening ceremony of the first bitcoin retail shop in Hong Kong on February 28, 2014After years of speculation, the true identity of "Satoshi Nakamoto," the mysterious person or group behind the Bitcoin revolution, appeared to have been revealed by Newsweek on Thursday. It turns out it is a Japanese-American model train enthusiast whose name is, indeed, Satoshi Nakamoto. A reporter tracked down the 64-year-old, a physicist, living under the name Dorian S. Nakamoto in a modest two-story house in suburban Los Angeles. Nakamoto did not admit to being behind the phenomenon that, since its 2009 launch, has been hailed as a financial revolution despite scandals over its use in the drugs trade and money-laundering.
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