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| Report details how Oklahoma execution faltered Thursday, May 01, 2014 02:56 PM PDT  Convicted killer in botched execution had fought state's new lethal injection cocktail. Full Story | Top |
| L.A. NAACP head resigns over move to honor Sterling Thursday, May 01, 2014 08:58 PM PDT  The president of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP resigned Thursday, following outrage over a decision he later reversed to give Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling an award for promoting civil rights. Leon Jenkins was to honor Sterling later this month, but rescinded that offer Monday after a recording surfaced over the weekend on which Sterling disparaged black men. In a letter to the national leader of the nation's oldest civil rights organization, Jenkins wrote that he resigned ''to separate the Los Angeles NAACP and the NAACP from the negative exposure I have caused.'' A telephone message and email seeking comment after business hours from the Los Angeles chapter were not immediately returned. Full Story | Top |
| 55 U.S. schools face federal sex assault probes Thursday, May 01, 2014 06:15 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — From huge state universities to small colleges and the Ivy League, 55 schools across America are facing federal investigation for the way they handle sexual abuse allegations by their students. Full Story | Top |
| Oklahoma took 51 minutes to find vein in execution Thursday, May 01, 2014 08:39 PM PDT OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma prison officials tried for 51 minutes to find a vein in a death row inmate's arms and feet before inserting an IV through the man's groin ahead of a botched execution this week, the state's prisons chief said Thursday in a report urging more oversight of executions. Full Story | Top |
| Gunfire, blasts in insurgent-held Ukraine city Thursday, May 01, 2014 09:05 PM PDT SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Gunfire and blasts have been heard around an eastern city in Ukraine that has become the focus of an armed pro-Russian insurgency. Full Story | Top |
| Heartbreaking video shows teens on sinking ferry Thursday, May 01, 2014 08:28 PM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Soon after the ferry began to tilt, there was nervous laughter, jokes about the Titanic and talk of selfies and Facebook posts from the doomed high school students huddled below deck. Full Story | Top |
| Victim's kids hope Adams charged in Belfast murder Thursday, May 01, 2014 07:56 PM PDT  BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — For decades, Helen McKendry has demanded that Sinn Fein chief Gerry Adams come clean about the Irish Republican Army's abduction, slaying and secret burial of her mother in 1972, and his alleged role as the outlawed group's Belfast leader who ordered the killing. Full Story | Top |
| General's opinion on Benghazi draws a rebuke Thursday, May 01, 2014 08:03 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A retired U.S. general came under sharp criticism from a Republican committee chairman on Thursday after testifying that the Obama administration reacted weakly to the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya. Full Story | Top |
| Toronto mayor takes leave, heads to rehab center Thursday, May 01, 2014 03:53 PM PDT  TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford began a leave of absence and headed for a rehab center Thursday, leaving his scandalized city in the dark about his political future after a report surfaced of a second video of him apparently smoking crack cocaine. Full Story | Top |
| Oil-train wreck brings demands for more regulation Thursday, May 01, 2014 03:43 PM PDT  LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — The latest in a string of fiery oil-train wrecks brought renewed demands Thursday that the Obama administration quickly tighten regulations governing the burgeoning practice of transporting highly combustible crude by rail. Full Story | Top |
| Tears of joy: Pharrell 'happy' at awards show Thursday, May 01, 2014 08:56 PM PDT  Pharrell is still full of tears of joy — even after that viral interview with Oprah Winfrey. Full Story | Top |
| Thunder force Game 7, beat Grizzlies 104-84 Thursday, May 01, 2014 09:07 PM PDT  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Kevin Durant insisted the Thunder facing elimination was all the motivation he needed. Full Story | Top |
| Deadly Nigeria bombing bears hallmarks of Islamic extremists Thursday, May 01, 2014 04:00 PM PDT  ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A car bomb exploded on a busy road in Nigeria's capital late Thursday, killing at least nine people days before the city is to host a major international economic forum. Full Story | Top |
| Seattle mayor proposes phased-in $15 minimum wage Thursday, May 01, 2014 05:57 PM PDT  SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Mayor Ed Murray on Thursday proposed a phased-in increase of the minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next seven years — a compromise endorsed by both business and labor that would make the city's pay baseline the highest in the nation. Full Story | Top |
| Remains of Vietnam vet missing since 1980 ignite murder probe Thursday, May 01, 2014 01:52 PM PDT  RENO, Nev. (AP) — Sheriff's deputies in northern Nevada are investigating the suspected murder of a highly-decorated Vietnam veteran whose remains were found last summer in a septic tank near the historic Comstock mining town of Virginia City nearly 34 years after he disappeared. Full Story | Top |
| Explosion kills at least 9 in Nigeria Thursday, May 01, 2014 02:20 PM PDT  Second bombing in 3 weeks comes as Islamic extremist network steps up brutal insurgency. Full Story | Top |
| Cuba keeps spot on U.S. terror list Thursday, May 01, 2014 01:21 PM PDT  By Daniel Trotta HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba labeled as absurd and manipulative an annual U.S. State Department report that once again designated Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, a setback for advocates hoping for a change in Washington's Cuba policy this year. The annual Country Reports on Terrorism issued on Wednesday continued to list Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria as countries that have "repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism." Cuba has been on the list since 1982. Cuba's Foreign Ministry "energetically rejects the manipulation of a matter as sensitive as international terrorism by turning it into an instrument of policy against Cuba and it demands that our country be definitively excluded from this spurious, unilateral and arbitrary list," the Cuban government said in a statement late on Wednesday. Opponents of Washington's Cold War-era policy on Cuba had hoped it would drop Cuba from the list this year in a sign U.S. President Barack Obama might want to normalize relations with the communist-ruled island 90 miles from Florida. Full Story | Top |
| Colombian shaman dismisses role in UK teen's death Thursday, May 01, 2014 03:13 PM PDT  BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A Colombian shaman is showing no remorse and taking no responsibility for the death of a British teenager who drank a hallucinogen during a tribal ritual. Full Story | Top |
| Appeal of cheerleader's suit seen as major test of online speech Thursday, May 01, 2014 12:05 PM PDT  CINCINNATI (AP) — An appeals court heard arguments Thursday over whether a gossip website should have been immune from a defamation lawsuit brought by a former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader, a case that Internet giants such as Google and Facebook are watching closely. Full Story | Top |
| Explosion kills at least 9 in Nigeria Thursday, May 01, 2014 01:50 PM PDT Second bombing in 3 weeks comes as Islamic extremist network steps up brutal insurgency. Full Story | Top |
| 3 missing prisoners located after Florida blast Thursday, May 01, 2014 12:36 PM PDT  Official says three were unaccounted for in chaos after explosion but didn't escape system. Full Story | Top |
| Matt Bai: The time has come to make you vote Thursday, May 01, 2014 02:03 AM PDT  Word is that Sean Parker, the 34-year-old Web visionary who built Napster and then helped grow Facebook, is the latest billionaire with an idea to save the political system, or at least a lot of money in search of an idea to save the political system. Parker and other investors are said to be planning a startup aimed at organizing disaffected voters. They've hired some well-connected Washington consultants, because that's what you do when you really want to stick it to the status quo. Full Story | Top |
| Ukraine renews military draft as unrest deepens Thursday, May 01, 2014 01:36 PM PDT  Move comes after Putin says withdrawal of units fighting insurgents is his "main thing." Full Story | Top |
| Heartbreaking video shows students as ferry sinks Thursday, May 01, 2014 09:40 AM PDT Soon after the ferry begins to tilt, nervous laughter can be heard from the high school students huddled below deck. In video clips from the cellphone of a victim of a disaster that has shaken South Korea, the teenagers talk of taking selfies, wonder if they'll make the news and discuss posting about the excitement later on Facebook. Full Story | Top |
| 55 schools face U.S. federal sex assault probe Thursday, May 01, 2014 12:14 PM PDT  The Dept. of Education investigates institutions' handling of sexual abuse complaints. Full Story | Top |
| Malaysia releases preliminary report into MH370 Thursday, May 01, 2014 09:18 AM PDT  Brief reveals 17-minute lapse between jet's disappearance from radar and ATC's response. Full Story | Top |
| Pro-Russian protesters storm prosecutor's office in Ukraine's Donetsk Thursday, May 01, 2014 07:23 AM PDT Pro-Russian protesters stormed the prosecutor's office in the separatist-held city of Donetsk on Thursday, lobbing stones and smashing windows after accusing the office of working for the Western-backed government in Kiev. Donetsk, a city of about 1 million people in Ukraine's industrial east, is at the center of an armed uprising across the steel and coal belt by mainly Russian-speakers threatening to secede from Ukraine. "The prosecutor's office was issuing criminal orders from Kiev against its own people, charging them with separatism and other fake crimes," said one protester, a 43-year-old man from Donetsk who gave his name as Igor. Interfax-Ukraine news agency said the protesters had allowed security officers inside the building to leave, but that some were wounded. Full Story | Top |
| China points to suicide blast in Urumqi attack Thursday, May 01, 2014 08:06 PM PDT  Chinese authorities said Thursday that two religious extremists carried out a terror attack at a train station in far-western Xinjiang region by detonating explosives, in an apparent suicide bombing that also killed one other person and wounded 79. Full Story | Top |
| Florida jail blast kills 2, injures 150 Thursday, May 01, 2014 08:55 AM PDT Three inmates were unaccounted for after explosion on Thursday, police said. Full Story | Top |
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