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Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 07:30 PM PDT
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Toronto mayor takes leave of absence 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 07:30 PM PDT
FILE - In this Tuesday, December 10 2013 file photo, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford speaks in Toronto. Rob Ford's lawyer said on Wednesday, April 30, 2014, that Ford will take a leave of absence to seek help for substance abuse. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young File)Rob Ford acknowledges that he has a problem with alcohol and says he will be seeking help.
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New video emerges from inside South Korean ferry as ship sank 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 06:34 PM PDT
Photos of the day - April 30, 2014A 15 minute video taken from inside the sinking ferry reveals that the student passengers were instructed to stay inside their cabins even as the ship's captain and crew fled the vessel.
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GOP senators: Arm Ukraine, hit Russian banks 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 12:45 PM PDT
Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., right, walks with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Sen. Corker was the only Republican to cross party lines and vote "yes" in favor of allowing debate on the Minimum Wage Fairness Act to proceed, handing a defeat to President Barack Obama on a vote that is sure to reverberate in this year's congressional contests. (AP Photo)Saying President Obama hasn't been tough enough on Russia, a high-powered group of Republican senators introduced legislation on Wednesday aimed at imposing new sanctions on Moscow over its actions in Ukraine.
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Train carrying crude derails into Virginia river 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 03:19 PM PDT
Emergency personnel attend to a CSX Corp train carrying crude oil that derailed and burst into flames in downtown LynchburgHundreds evacuated from downtown Lynchburg as burning oil spills into Chesapeake system.
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Irish Sinn Fein leader held over woman's 1972 murder 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 05:38 PM PDT
Gerry Adams, president of the Irish republican party Sinn Fein, attends the funeral of British veteran left-wing politician Tony Benn at St Margaret's Church in central London on March 27, 2014Irish republican leader Gerry Adams, head of the Sinn Fein political party, was on Wednesday arrested over the murder of a woman in 1972, the party said in a statement. "Last month Gerry Adams said he was available to meet the PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) about the Jean McConville case," said a statement on the party's website. In 1999 the IRA admitted her murder and her remains were found on a beach in County Louth four years later. Opposed to British rule in Northern Ireland, the IRA carried out a campaign of violence during the three decades of sectarian bombings and shootings known as the Troubles.
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Kiev: Forces "helpless" to restore order in east 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 01:04 PM PDT
Pro Russian masked armed militants guard barricades near Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Ukraine's police and security forces are "helpless" to quell unrest in two eastern regions bordering Russia, and in some cases are cooperating with pro-Russian gunmen who have seized scores of government buildings and taken people hostage, the country's president Oleksandr Turchynov said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)HORLIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's acting president conceded Wednesday that his police and security forces were "helpless" to stifle unrest in the country's east, where pro-Russia gunmen seized more buildings, walking into the police station and mayor's office in this mining hub without resistance.
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Editor who catapulted Mad magazine into pop culture dies at 88 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 12:28 PM PDT
FILE - In this 1972 file photo, "Mad" magazine Editor Al Feldstein, center, sits with Art Director John Putnam, left, and a freelancer named Jack, at the magazine's New York headquarters. Feldstein, whose 28 years at the helm of Mad transformed the satirical magazine into a pop culture institution, died Tuesday, April 29, 2014. He was 88. (AP Photo/Jerry Mosey, File)BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Al Feldstein, whose 28 years at the helm of Mad magazine transformed the satirical publication into a pop culture institution, has died. He was 88.
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Kidnapped Nigerian girls reportedly married off to captors 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 01:02 PM PDT
An unidentified mother cries out during a demonstration with others who have daughters among the kidnapped school girls of government secondary school Chibok, Tuesday April 29, 2014, in Abuja, Nigeria. Two weeks after Islamic extremists stormed a remote boarding school in northeast Nigeria, more than 200 girls and young women remain missing despite a LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Scores of girls and young women kidnapped from a school in Nigeria are being forced to marry their Islamic extremist abductors, a civic organization reported Wednesday.
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Experiment grows new muscle in men's injured legs 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 11:25 AM PDT
This undated handout photo provided by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center shows Dr. Stephen Badylak, a surgery professor at the university, and deputy director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, holding a sheet of WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists implanted thin sheets of scaffolding-like material from pigs into a few young men with disabling leg injuries — and say the experimental treatment coaxed the men's own stem cells to regrow new muscle.
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Two dead in shooting at western Canadian sawmill, suspect held 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 01:34 PM PDT
There are unconfirmed reports that at least three people have been shot at the Western Forest Products mill in Nanaimo, B.C. This unconfirmed Twitter image of one of the victims arriving at Vancouver General Hospital has been circulating on social media. Image via Cathy O'Connor/TwitterFour people were taken to hospital and a suspect was in custody after a shooting at a sawmill in British Columbia on Wednesday, police said.
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Senate GOP blocks Dems' minimum wage bill 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 11:28 AM PDT
Senate to vote on increase in federal minimum wageThe vote derailed one of President Obama's top economic priorities.
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Autopsy underway after botched Okla. execution 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 09:56 AM PDT
FILE - This June 29, 2011 file photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Clayton Lockett. Oklahoma prison officials halted the execution of Lockett Tuesday, April 29, 2014, after the delivery of a new three-drug combination failed to go as planned.. (AP Photo/Oklahoma Department of Corrections, File)An Oklahoma inmate's erred execution has prompted an autopsy and fueled debate over lethal injection drugs, the death penalty.
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Egypt's judges rebuff criticism of death sentences 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 04:29 PM PDT
Islamist preacher Safwat Hegazi speaks inside a defendant's cage during his trial in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Egyptian court officials say a Salafi preacher and top Muslim Brotherhood ally has been sentenced to a year in prison with labor for insulting judges during a trial at the Cairo police academy. Hegazy, who joined ranks with the Brotherhood in supporting the electoral campaign of the now-deposed Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, was sentenced Wednesday for remarks made the same day while on trial with 130 others, including Morsi, for escaping from prison during the country's 2011 uprising. (AP Photo/Ahmed Omar) EGYPT OUTEgypt's Justice Minister on Wednesday rebuffed international criticism of a mass trial this week in which some 680 defendants were sentenced to death, saying the judiciary is not a tool of executive authority and that rulings can be overturned upon appeal.
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Amid massive security, Iraqis vote for parliament 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 09:05 AM PDT
An Iraqi man casts his vote at a polling center in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. A key election for a new Iraqi parliament was underway on Wednesday amid a massive security operation as the country continued to slide deeper into sectarian violence more than two years after U.S. forces left the country. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqis braved the threat of bombs and other violence to vote Wednesday in parliamentary elections amid a massive security operation as the country slides deeper into sectarian strife.
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Kurt Cobain death-scene note mocks wedding vows to Courtney Love 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 06:06 AM PDT
Kurt Cobain and Courtney LoveA note found in the rock star's wallet at the time of his death, made public by the Seattle Police Department for the first time this week, mocks wedding vows the Nirvana frontman made to Courtney Love.
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Actor Bob Hoskins, lauded for British mobster roles, dies at 71 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 08:54 AM PDT
Bob Hoskins turns on the Christmas lights at St Paul's CathedralBritish actor Bob Hoskins, whose roles ranged from London gangsters to FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover and who starred opposite a cast of cartoon characters in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," has died after a bout of pneumonia, his publicist said on Wednesday.
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Unique home spares Vilonia family from Arkansas tornado's direct hit 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 06:30 AM PDT
Twister passed directly over Vilonia, Ark., family's underground homeJerri Weaver's house is certainly unconventional. Some might even call it kooky. But come crunch time – when Mother Nature's fury is at her doorstep as it was Sunday night – the native Arkansan has peace of mind in her bunkerlike abode. "I have no fear," Weaver said. "I know that we're going to be OK."
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Syrian airstrike on school in Aleppo kills 19 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 07:51 AM PDT
This photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a damaged school that was hit by a Syrian government air strike in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Many people were killed and wounded, including several children, activists reported. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)A Syrian government airstrike hit a school Wednesday in an opposition-held district of the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 19 people, including 10 children, activists reported.
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Florida, Alabama hit by record rainfall 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 07:52 AM PDT
Vehicles rest at the bottom of a ravine after the Scenic Highway collapsed near Pensacola, Fla., Wednesday April 30, 2014. Heavy rains and flooding have left people stranded in houses and cars in the Florida Panhandle and along the Alabama coast. According to the National Weather Service, an estimated 15-20 inches of rain has fallen in Pensacola in the past 24 hours. (AP Photo/Pensacola News Journal, Katie E. King)Flash flooding in Fla., Ala. left many stranded in cars and homes on Wednesday.
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Malaysia to open new budget airport in MH370 shadow 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 07:40 AM PDT
Picture taken on April 12, 2014 shows a tractor passing under a skybridge at the under-construction low-cost carrier terminal at Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (KLIA2) in Sepang outside Kuala LumpurSepang (Malaysia) (AFP) - Malaysia this week opens what it calls the world's largest airport built specifically for low-cost airlines, a project driven by budget travel's phenomenal growth but which debuts under the shadow of missing flight MH370. The $1.2 billion facility near the main Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) was originally targeted to open three years ago but has been hit by repeated delays, amid concerns over safety and subpar construction, even as costs have doubled. But the new KLIA2 budget terminal will begin operations Friday with an initial 56 flights, increasing the load as airlines move full operations over from a nearby existing facility in coming days. Its modern design features soaring ceilings, natural lighting, people-mover belts and improved connectivity with access to an existing express airport train to Kuala Lumpur 50 kilometres (31 miles) away.
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China media: Blast at train station in China's Urumqi, some injured 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 12:24 PM PDT
China's Muslim Uighur ethnic communityAn explosion at a railway station in Urumqi, capital of China's restive far western region of Xinjiang, on Wednesday injured some people, state media said.
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Sinn Fein leader arrested over 1972 IRA killing 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 06:47 PM PDT
FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013 file photo, Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams speaks to the media at Stormont Hotel, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland police say they have arrested Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams on suspicion of involvement in the Irish Republican Army's 1972 abduction, killing and secret burial of a Belfast widow. Adams confirmed his own arrest Wednesday in a prepared statement and described it as a voluntary, prearranged interview. Police had been expected to question the 65-year-old Adams about the 1972 killing of Jean McConville, whom the IRA executed as an alleged spy. The IRA did not admit the killing until 1998. Adams was implicated in the killing by two IRA veterans who gave taped interviews to researchers for a Boston College research project. The Northern Ireland police took legal steps to acquire the interviews, parts of which have already been published after one IRA interviewee died. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, file)DUBLIN (AP) — Sinn Fein chief Gerry Adams, the warlord-turned-peacemaker of the Northern Ireland conflict, was being interrogated Thursday over the grisly slaying of a Belfast widow that has haunted his political career for decades.
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10 Things to Know for Thursday 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 06:19 PM PDT
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, front, issues a statement to the media on the Execution of Clayton Lockett as Oklahoma Secretary of Safety and Security Michael C. Thompson, back, listens from the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City on Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Lockett apparently died of a massive heart attack during his botched execution. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Thursday:
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White House denies memo was about Benghazi attack 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 07:12 PM PDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Wednesday denied that a staff member's email three days after the deadly attack on the U.S. mission at Benghazi, Libya, was actually about the attack. Critics have branded the electronic missive as evidence that the Obama administration sought to deceive the public about the true circumstances surrounding the deaths of four Americans during the final months of the 2012 presidential campaign.
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Governor calls for review after botched execution 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 04:03 PM PDT
FILE - This June 29, 2011 file photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Clayton Lockett. Oklahoma prison officials halted the execution of Lockett Tuesday, April 29, 2014, after the delivery of a new three-drug combination failed to go as planned.. (AP Photo/Oklahoma Department of Corrections, File)OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin named a member of her Cabinet on Wednesday to lead a review of how the state conducts executions after a botched procedure that the White House said fell short of the humane standards required.
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China's Xi demands action after 3 killed in attack 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 08:17 PM PDT
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has demanded "decisive actions" against terrorism following an attack at a railway station in the far-west minority region of Xinjiang that left three people dead and 79 injured.
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Tankers carrying oil derail, catch fire in Va. 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 06:39 PM PDT
In this mobile phone photo provided Allison Hallock, people watch smoke rise from a bridge over the James river after several CSX tanker cars carrying crude oil derailed, Wednesday, April 30, 2014, in Lynchburg, Va. Authorities evacuated numerous buildings Wednesday after the derailment. (AP Photo/Ali Hallock) MANDATORY CREDITLYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Multiple CSX train cars carrying crude oil derailed and caught fire Wednesday along the James River, with three tankers ending up in the water and leaking some of their contents, becoming the most recent crash involving oil trains that has safety experts pushing for better oversight.
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Hundreds rescued from floodwaters in Fla., Ala. 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 06:01 PM PDT
In this photo provided by Kyle Smith, floodwaters surround Smith's home in Pensacola, Fla. on Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Smith had to evacuate his home with his 18-month-old son Tuesday night after severe weather hit the Florida Panhandle, causing widespread flooding. (AP Photo/Kyle Smith)PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — People were plucked off rooftops or climbed into their attics to get away from fast-rising waters when nearly 2 feet of rain fell on the Florida Panhandle and Alabama coast in the span of about 24 hours, the latest bout of severe weather that began with tornadoes in the Midwest.
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Famous bidders already lining up for LA Clippers 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 05:39 PM PDT
FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2013, file photo, Oprah Winfrey smiles before being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in the East Room of the White House in Washington. If Donald Sterling is compelled to sell the Los Angeles Clippers, the list of potential buyers will have more stars than the team's roster. Winfrey leads the list of wealthy luminaries who announced their interest in purchasing the club shortly after NBA Commissioner Adam Silver banned Sterling from the league for life. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — If Donald Sterling is compelled to sell the Los Angeles Clippers, the list of potential buyers has more stars than their roster.
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Toronto mayor says he'll seek help 
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 08:28 PM PDT
FILE - In this Tuesday, December 10 2013 file photo, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford speaks in Toronto. Rob Ford's lawyer said on Wednesday, April 30, 2014, that Ford will take a leave of absence to seek help for substance abuse. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young File)TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford will take a leave of absence to seek help for alcohol, he said Wednesday, as a report surfaced about a second video of the mayor smoking what appears to be crack cocaine.
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