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Nelson Mandela dies at 95

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 01:40 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2005, file photo, former South African President Nelson Mandela, 87, is in a jovial mood at the Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg, where he met with the winner and runner-up of the local "Idols" competition. South Africa's president says, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, that Mandela has died. He was 95. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File)The former South African president was a revered statesman and anti-apartheid leader.


Mandela was just a man, and that made what he did extraordinary

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 01:40 PM PST

Nelson Mandela and John CarlinJohn Carlin, the author of the book "Playing the Enemy," on which the film "Invictus" was based, reveals what it was like to know and cover Nelson Mandela.


Obama: Mandela guided by hope

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 02:33 PM PST

President Barack Obama turns from the podium after speaking in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, about the death of Nelson Mandela. Obama says the world has lost an influential, courageous and 'profoundly good' man with the death of anti-apartheid icon Mandela. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)President Barack Obama paid somber tribute to Nelson Mandela Thursday, celebrating the late South African leader's "fierce dignity and unbending will" and unquenchable thirst for justice.


Mandela's 10 memorable moments

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 01:55 PM PST

Mandela's 10 memorable momentsNelson Mandela at the law office he opened with his colleague, Oliver Tambo in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1952. This was the first black legal practice in Johannesburg. Both men were founding members of the African National Congress Youth League.

A more 'sensitive' GOP? Boehner hopes it'll attract female votes

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 11:03 AM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2013, file photo, Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., right, participates in a mock swearing-in ceremony with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, for the 113th Congress in Washington. Cloistered in a tense, private Capitol Hill meeting for House Democrats this month, Eshoo had some advice for the aides to President Barack Obama who were trying, with questionable success, to assure the unhappy caucus present that the woeful web site for the president's signature health care law would soon be working. In fact, they pledged, by Nov. 30, the "vast majority" of Americans who try to buy policies on the "Obamacare" will succeed. Stop setting "red lines" that might be broken, Eshoo told the presidential aides, according to a person present who was not authorized to release the exchange. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)U.S. House of Representative Speaker John Boehner said on Thursday he wants his fellow Republicans to be more "sensitive" as they seek to appeal to women voters in next year's congressional elections. "I try to get them to be a little bit more sensitive," Boehner said at his weekly news conference, when asked what advice he was giving his fellow Republicans as they campaign against Democratic women candidates, and try to attract female voters. There are 81 women members of the House, of whom 62 are Democrats, compared with 19 Republicans. In the Senate, 16 of the 20 women are Democrats and four are Republicans.


White House reverses course, says Obama lived with Kenyan uncle

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 12:20 PM PST

Onyango Obama arrives for a hearing at a federal immigration court in BostonThe White House acknowledged Thursday that President Barack Obama lived with a Kenyan uncle targeted for deportation — after initially saying there was no evidence they had ever met.


10 memorable Mandela quotes

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 01:56 PM PST

10 memorable Mandela quotesA group of American and South African students, aged from 11 to 19, met with Nelson Mandela at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg, on June 2, 2009. This was part of a series of activities ahead of Mandela Day on 18 July, 2008.

Gracious and tough, Mandela was fun to cover

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 04:51 PM PST

FILE - In this July 7, 1991, file photo, newly-elected African National Congress President Nelson Mandela and his wife, Winnie, greet the crowd after arriving at a rally and a week-long national ANC conference held inside South Africa for the first time in 30 years. South Africa's President Jacob Zuma said, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, that Mandela has died. He was 95. (AP Photo/John Parkin, File)NEW YORK (AP) — The thing about Nelson Mandela was that he made the rest of us want to be almost as noble as he.


What you might not have known about Nelson Mandela

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 04:55 PM PST

FILE - In this May 15, 2004 file photo, former South African President Nelson Mandela lifts the World Cup trophy in Zurich, Switzerland, after FIFA's executive committee announced that South Africa would host the 2010 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament. Mandela was pivotal in helping the country win the right to host the tournament. South Africa's President Jacob Zuma said, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, that Mandela has died. He was 95. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)The world knows Nelson Mandela as a man who forever changed the course of modern history and who will surely continue to leave his mark long after his death Thursday at the age of 95.


AP PHOTOS: Art honoring Mandela around the world

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 02:31 PM PST

FILE - In this July 16, 2013 file photo, a portrait of former South African President Nelson Mandela is attached to a wall outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where he was being treated in Pretoria, South Africa. On Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, Mandela died at the age of 95. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)An Indian artist wishes Nelson Mandela improved health with a portrait sculpted from sand during his treatment in June for what the South African government has said is a lung infection. Colorful murals of South Africa's first black president adorn walls in the cities of Johannesburg and Cape Town. A snow-dusted bronze likeness stands with arms outstretched in London's Parliament Square.


Clashes sweep Central Africa Republic capital

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 04:11 PM PST

Civilians wait for further treatment at Bangui's hospital, Bangui, Central African Republic, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 following a day-long gun battle between Seleka soldiers and Christian militias. Fighting came to the capital of Central African Republic on Thursday, leaving dozens of casualties and posing the biggest threat yet to the new government just as the U.N. Security Council authorized an intervention force to prevent a bloodbath between Christians and Muslims. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Wielding rifles and machetes, armed Christian fighters who support the Central African Republic's exiled president assaulted the capital at dawn on Thursday, leaving nearly 100 people dead. Shrouded bodies were lined up in a mosque as dozens of wounded lay on blood-stained hospital floors.


Jobs report to help show if US economy is for real

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 02:05 PM PST

FILE- In thisTuesday, July 16, 2013, file photo, a covered vehicle sits in part of the new paint shop at Chrysler's Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in Sterling Heights, Mich. The Commerce Department issues its second of three estimates of how fast the U.S. economy grew in the July-September quarter of 2013 on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013. Analyst forecast that third-quarter growth will be revised to a 3.1 percent annual rate, faster than the initial estimate of 2.8 percent. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy is growing faster, corporate profits are rising and companies are laying off the fewest workers in six years.


Oil crews endure even when wind chill drops to -40

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 04:49 PM PST

In this undated photo provided by The North Dakota Petroleum Council is an oil rig surrounded by snow in western North Dakota's oil patch. Some people were choosing to stay indoors as an arctic blast swept across the Northern Plains, but the prospect of temperatures not cracking single digits is just another challenge for the roustabouts, roughnecks and thousands of others working outside who grin and encdure. (AP Photo/North Dakota Petroleum Council)BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — With the wind chill falling to almost minus 40, Steve Hendershot's mind was elsewhere Thursday as he and his crew of roustabouts worked a well in North Dakota's booming oil patch.


Springsteen 'Born to Run' draft sells for $197K

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 04:34 PM PST

FILE - This file image released by Sotheby's shows a page from a handwritten manuscript of Bruce Springsteen's 1975 hit "Born to Run." The handwritten, working lyric sheet for Bruce Springsteen's 1975 hit "Born to Run" could sell for as much as $100,000 on Thursday Dec. 5, 2013, Sotheby's has predicted. (AP Photo/Sotheby's, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Someone was willing to pay big bucks for an early glimpse of what would become the Boss' "runaway American dream."


When it comes to World Cup draw, location matters

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 04:44 PM PST

FIFA World Cup ambassadors, from left; Carlos Alberto, Ronaldo, Amarildo, Bebeto, Zagallo, and Marta pose for a photo after a press conference in Salvador, Brazil, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013. The draw for the 2014 World Cup soccer finals takes place Friday, Dec. 6, in Costa do Sauipe, Brazil. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)For about an hour Friday, much of the planet will come to a dead stop, all eyes and attention glued to four bowls of what look an awful lot like pingpong balls. A lottery that could make someone rich beyond his or her wildest dreams? No, though some would argue this can bring even more happiness.


Budget deal? Big obstacles, New Year's deadline

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 03:16 PM PST

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center, discusses the unfinished work of Congress and the struggle for Republican and Democratic budget negotiators to reach a compromise, at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013. She is joined by House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Md., left, and Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., the ranking member of the House Budget Committee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — With hopes of a "grand bargain" long gone, congressional negotiators now are seeking a more modest deal before year-end to ease the automatic spending cuts that are squeezing both the Pentagon and domestic federal programs. But the going is getting rougher.


No charges for Heisman hopeful Jameis Winston

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 04:31 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2013, file photo, Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston warms up before an NCAA college football game against Florida in Gainesville, Fla. The prosecutor overseeing the investigation of sexual assault allegations against Winston says it is completed. State Attorney Willie Meggs has scheduled a news conference at 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, in his office to announce his findings. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida State quarterback and Heisman hopeful Jameis Winston will not face any charges in a sexual assault case, mostly because there were too many gaps in his accuser's story, a prosecutor said Thursday.


5 key moments in Mandela's life

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 02:26 PM PST

FILE - In this June 27, 2013 file photo, large photographs of former South African President Nelson Mandela are displayed at the Nelson Mandela Legacy Exhibition at the Civic Centre in Cape Town, South Africa. The "father of the nation" has inspired many artists to create works to commemorate Nelson Mandela International Day on Thursday, July 18, 2013 declared by the United Nations as a way to recognize the Nobel Prize winner's contribution to reconciliation. On Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, Mandela died at the age of 95. (AP Photo/File)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa's first black president, was regarded as one of the great figures of the past century for his generosity of spirit, sacrifices in the name of equality and his efforts to reconcile the races in South Africa amid the ever-present specter of conflict.


Obama mourns death of icon Nelson Mandela

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 05:05 PM PST

President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, about the death of Nelson Mandela. Obama says the world has lost an influential, courageous and 'profoundly good' man with the death of anti-apartheid icon Mandela. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)WASHINGTON (AP) — Counting himself among the millions influenced by Nelson Mandela, President Barack Obama on Thursday mourned the death of the anti-apartheid icon with whom he shares the distinction of being his nation's first black president.


Mandela inspired music, movies, poems

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 03:17 PM PST

FILE - In this May 25, 2002 file photo, Irish rock star Bono, right, and former South African President Nelson Mandela pose after meeting at Mandela's residence at Houghton in Johannesburg, South Africa. Heroic in his deeds, graceful in his manner, sainted in his image, Nelson Mandela long served as both cause and muse in the entertainment community. From the 1960s, when he was a political prisoner and South Africa was under the laws of apartheid, right up to recent times, when the racist laws of the land had fallen and he was among the world's most admired people, Mandela inspired concerts, songs, poems, fiction and movies. (AP Photo/Juda Ngwenya, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Heroic in his deeds, graceful in his manner, sainted in his image, Nelson Mandela long served as both cause and muse in the entertainment community.


Bloodbath in Central African Republic as UN backs force

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 01:41 PM PST

Soldiers patrol on December 5, 2013 in a street of BanguiBangui (Central African Republic) (AFP) - France ordered more troops into its former colony of the Central African Republic on Thursday, hours after a sectarian bloodbath left more than 120 people dead in the troubled nation's capital of Bangui. Shortly after the UN Security Council issued a green light for the military intervention, French President Francois Hollande ordered an additional 600 troops to the African country, doubling the force it already has in and around Bangui. The depiction of a chaotic, desperate situation was confirmed by AFP reporters in Bangui, who counted 54 corpses gathered in a mosque in the PK5 area of the capital. The violence appeared to vindicate recent warnings from France, the United States and others that the Central African Republic (CAR) was on the brink of collapse with tensions soaring between its Christian and Muslim communities.


New poison gas attack alleged in Syria

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 12:55 PM PST

A U.N. chemical weapons expert holds a plastic bag containing samples from one of the sites of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Ain TarmaOpposition activists again accused President Bashar al-Assad's forces of using poison gas in Syria's civil war on Thursday, and said victims had been discovered with swollen limbs and foaming at the mouth. The activists told Reuters two shells loaded with gas hit a rebel-held area in the town of Nabak, 68 km (40 miles) northeast of Damascus, on a major highway in the Qalamoun region. Separately, the Syrian Revolution Coordinators Union also accused Assad's forces of using poison gas. "We have documented nine casualties from poison gas used by the regime in neighborhoods of Nabak," it said on its Facebook page.


No responsibility claimed in American teacher's death in Benghazi

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 01:10 PM PST

American teacher shot dead in Libya's BenghaziRonnie Smith, 33, of Texas was married, had 2-year-old son.


Baby, it's cold outside: Readers share their cold-snap stories

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 09:06 AM PST

Great Falls, Mont., weatherAreas further east are bracing for the frigid blast as the storm creeps into the Southern plains, the Tennessee Valley and the Northeast later this week. Yahoo News is collecting anecdotes from residents in the storm's path. Below are lightly edited excerpts from stories they shared with us this week.


Vatican to draft expert panel to fight sex abuse

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 05:27 AM PST

Pope Francis greets a child as he arrives for his weekly general audience at St. Peter's Square at the VaticanBoston Archbishop O'Malley says Pope Francis worried church's approach has been too legalistic.


New NYC mayor's top cop pick was 'stop and frisk' advocate

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 09:34 AM PST

Mayor-Elect Bill De Blasio Announces William Bratton As City's Next Police ChiefIn the most highly anticipated pick of his new administration, the incoming New York City mayor picked a veteran law enforcement official as police commissioner.


No charges against FSU's QB

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Jameis Winston's attorney says sex in assault investigation was consensual.


49 Russian diplomats illegally collected U.S. Medicare benefits: FBI

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 01:48 PM PST

Pharmaceutical tablets and capsules in blister packs are arranged on table in illustration picture in LjubljanaBy Emily Flitter and Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors have charged 49 current and former Russian diplomats and their family members with participating in a scheme to get health benefits intended for the poor by lying about their income. The charges come against a backdrop of tense exchanges between Russia and the United States over law enforcement actions in both countries. Russia's deputy foreign minister expressed disappointment Thursday that the U.S. had not tried to discuss the charges with Russia through diplomatic channels, but a spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department said she did not expect the issue to harm relations between the two countries. Meanwhile, according to the charges, the family members had their housing costs paid for by the Russian government and spent "tens of thousands of dollars" on vacations, jewelry and luxury goods from stores like Swarovski and Jimmy Choo.


'We can't survive on $7.25!'

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 08:18 AM PST

Fast food workers attend a protest against McDonald's outside one of its restaurants in New YorkFast food workers strike for higher pay, which is now $15,000 a year.


Prelude, the world's largest ship, launches

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 07:31 AM PST

Lộ ảnh tàu nổi lớn nhất thế giới hạ thủy ở Hàn QuốcShell's 1,601-foot, 600,000-metric-ton, liquified-natural-gas vessel has hit the water in South Korea.


Bill Bratton named next New York police commissioner

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 11:22 AM PST

Blasio shakes hands with Bratton during a news conference in BrooklynBy Chris Francescani NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bill Bratton, a veteran police chief who has led departments across the country, was named on Thursday as New York City's next police commissioner, taking over a force credited with a sharp drop in violent crime but criticized for its tactics. Bratton, 66, who was police commissioner under New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and has run police departments in Los Angeles and Boston, will return to the NYPD on January 1, taking over from Ray Kelly.


U.S. growth speeds to 3.6% rate in Q3

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'Duck Dynasty' congressman: 'I pray everyday for the president'

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 04:25 AM PST

The 'Duck Dynasty' Congressman: Meet the House's Newest MemberRepublican Rep. Vance McAllister says he prays for President Obama daily.


Officials blamed in deaths of 19 Ariz. firefighters

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 06:08 PM PST

The names of the 19 fallen firefighters are displayed during a memorial service at Tim's Toyota Center in Prescott Valley, Ariz. on Tuesday, July 9, 2013. Prescott's Granite Mountain Hotshots were overrun by smoke and fire while battling a blaze on a ridge in Yarnell, about 80 miles northwest of Phoenix on June 30, 2013. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Michael Chow, Pool)A report says forestry officials put property protection ahead of safety in the June blaze.


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