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Gov't shares data breach tricks with retailers

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 03:01 PM PST

Merchandise baskets are lined up outside a Target department store in Palm Coast, FloridaDetails of confidential Target investigation released to thwart, identify ongoing attacks.


Family plans lawsuit over Ohio killer's nearly 25-minute execution

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 04:10 PM PST

FILE-In this undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows Dennis McGuire. A condemned Ohio killer facing a never-tried lethal injection method has arrived at the state death house a day ahead of his scheduled execution. The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction plans to use a combination of a sedative and a painkiller to put McGuire to death for the 1989 rape and fatal stabbing of Joy Stewart in Preble County in western Ohio. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, File)LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — An attorney for the family of a killer whose Ohio execution by lethal injection was marked by several minutes of unprecedented gasping and unusual sounds plans to sue the state over what happened.


Senate easily passes $1.1 trillion spending bill

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 03:26 PM PST

Republican lawmakers arrive at the Capitol as the Senate votes to approve a $1.1 trillion spending package, the Omnibus Appropriations Act, a bipartisan compromise that all but banishes the likelihood of an election-year government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. From left to right are: Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan. The legislation is a follow-up to the budget compromise the two parties pushed through Congress in December that set overall spending limits for the next two years. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress sent President Barack Obama a $1.1 trillion government-wide spending bill Thursday, easing the harshest effects of last year's automatic budget cuts after tea party critics chastened by October's partial shutdown mounted only a faint protest.


Suspicious resident tipped police to Calif. wildfire suspects

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 02:13 PM PST

Motorists exchange information after a car accident as a wildfire burns in the hills just north of the San Gabriel Valley community of Glendora, Calif. on Thursday, Jan 16, 2014. Southern California authorities have ordered the evacuation of homes at the edge of a fast-moving wildfire burning in the dangerously dry foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)3 arrested for allegedly starting blaze by tossing paper into a campfire in hills north of L.A.


Barbara Bush does not want her son Jeb to run for president

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 01:45 PM PST

File photo of former U.S. first lady Barbara Bush listening to her son President George W. Bush at an event in Orlando.The wife and mother of past presidents says it's time for a new family to run for the White House.


Speed-trap Samaritan's trial is one for the legal textbooks

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 08:10 AM PST

Speed Zone AheadA Frisco, Texas, man is facing a trial after he was arrested for holding up a sign warning drivers that they were about to enter a speed trap, KHOU.com reports.


Member of elite Army crew killed in 'hard landing'

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 10:58 AM PST

MH-60 Pave Hawk,SAVANNAH, Georgia - A U.S. military spokesman says one member of an elite Army helicopter unit is dead and two crew members suffered injuries when their aircraft slammed into the ground while trying to land at a Georgia airfield.


LA fires force evacuations, three arrested

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 12:17 PM PST

Wildfire burns homes near GlendoraMore than 900 homes to be evacuated Thursday as fire ravages 1,700 acres in suburbs just north of LA.


U.S. urges Syria rebels to attend peace talks, slams government

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 02:49 PM PST

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during his news conference at Syrian Donors Conference at the Bayan Palace in Kuwait CityBy Arshad Mohammed and Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States urged Syria's opposition on Thursday to attend January 22 peace talks and criticized its government for suggesting the meeting should be about fighting terrorism rather than forging a political settlement. The comments by Secretary of State John Kerry, less than a week before the talks are to begin, suggest some uncertainty by the United States over whether the opposition will show up at the U.N.-hosted conference in Montreux, Switzerland. The main umbrella opposition body in exile, the Syrian National Coalition, which is riven with internal divisions, will decide on Friday whether it will attend the conference. Syria's centrist internal opposition group, the National Coordination Body, on Thursday said it would not attend.


Wildfire rages in forest outside Los Angeles

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 02:42 PM PST

Southern California wildfiresResidents flee fire which broke out before dawn in the Angeles National Forest.


Dangerous conditions fuel So.Cal wildfire

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 11:22 AM PST

A wildfire burns in the hills just north of the San Gabriel Valley community of Glendora, Calif. on Thursday, Jan 16, 2014. Southern California authorities have ordered the evacuation of homes at the edge of a fast-moving wildfire burning in the dangerously dry foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)Officials say up to 2,000 people have been evacuated; three held on recklessness charges.


Christie tests political waters amid scandal

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 09:50 AM PST

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie gestures as he speaks to media and homeowners about the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Sandy in Manahawkin, New JerseyThe New Jersey governor will attend a $1,000-per-ticket reception for a GOP colleague.


Suspected shooter ID'd in grocery store attack

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 11:08 AM PST

Indiana State Police public information officer Sgt. Trent Smith talks to the media at the scene of a shooting at Martin's Supermarket in Elkhart, Ind., late Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014. A man fatally shot two women inside the grocery store and was lining up to shoot a third person when police officers tracked him down and killed him, authorities said. Elkhart police received a call about a gunman at Martin's Super Market about 10 p.m. Wednesday, Smith said Thursday. The 22-year-old gunman used a semi-automatic handgun to shoot and kill a 20-year-old employee and a 44-year-old shopper, Smith said. The victims' bodies were found about 12 aisles apart. (AP Photo/The Elkhart Truth, Jon Garcia)ELKHART, Ind. (AP) — A man fatally shot two women in a northern Indiana grocery store and was waving a gun at a kneeling store manager when police officers arrived and killed the gunman, authorities said Thursday.


U.N. critical of Vatican on sex abuse handling

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 03:50 PM PST

Vatican's UN Ambassador Monsignor Silvano Tomasi, left, speaks with Former Vatican Chief Prosecutor of Clerical Sexual Abuse Charles Scicluna, right, prior to the start of a questioning over clerical sexual abuse of children at the headquarters of the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR, in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. The Vatican came under blistering criticism from a U.N. committee Thursday for its handling of the global priest sex abuse scandal, facing its most intense public grilling ever over allegations that it protected pedophile priests at the expense of victims. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)GENEVA (AP) — It resembled a courtroom cross-examination, except no question was off-limits, dodging the answer wasn't an option and the proceedings were webcast live.


Kerry urges Syria opposition to join peace talks

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 01:19 PM PST

US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a news conference on January 15, 2014On the eve of a key meeting, US Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday made a powerful plea to the divided Syrian opposition to join landmark peace talks aimed at installing a new government. Next week's peace conference in Switzerland was "the best opportunity for the opposition to achieve the goals of the Syrian people and the revolution," Kerry said in a surprise statement to reporters. Despite months of cajoling and negotiations, the Syrian opposition has yet to agree to sit down at the table with members of the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad to chart a path to end the war. The UN-led peace conference, to be attended by some 35 countries, will open on January 22 in the Swiss city of Montreux, and then move to Geneva.


Live chat: Is college affordable? Worth it?

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 07:50 AM PST

How to Fund a College EducationUniversity experts and Yahoo users discuss higher education's price tag.


Ohio killer snorts, snores during execution with by drug combo

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 10:21 AM PST

FILE-In this undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows Dennis McGuire. A condemned Ohio killer facing a never-tried lethal injection method has arrived at the state death house a day ahead of his scheduled execution. The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction plans to use a combination of a sedative and a painkiller to put McGuire to death for the 1989 rape and fatal stabbing of Joy Stewart in Preble County in western Ohio. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, File)LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A condemned Ohio inmate appeared to gasp several times and took more than 15 minutes to die Thursday as he was executed with a combination of drugs never before tried in the U.S.


Security expert: Sochi terror attack is likely

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 07:07 AM PST

Sochi Olympics securityBill Rathburn's biggest concern is with Doku Umarov, described as "Russia's bin Laden."


Chopper crashes in besieged Daraya

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Christie hires firm to review traffic scandal

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 11:58 AM PST

In this Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 file photo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie arrives to deliver his State Of The State address at the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J. Christie, eager to get on with business amid a scandal over traffic jams that appear to have manufactured by aides, is meeting Thursday morning, Jan. 16, 2014, with homeowners affected by Superstorm Sandy even as the Legislature prepares to issue new subpoenas as part of its investigation. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)A former federal prosecutor heads up a probe for the New Jersey governor.


Rainforest warriors stand guard over Amazon

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 06:53 AM PST

The construction site of an illegal sawmill is seen from a police helicopter in Nova Esperanca do PiriaIn Brazil, officials say progress depends on awareness, education and deterrence of deforestation.


Al-Qaida asks Iraqis in embattled city for support

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 02:31 PM PST

BAGHDAD (AP) — Members of al-Qaida's branch in Iraq handed out pamphlets in Fallujah on Thursday, urging people to take up arms and back them in their weekslong fight against government troops for control of the city.

'American Hustle,' 'Gravity' lead Oscar noms

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 09:54 AM PST

This film image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Sandra Bullock in a scene from "Gravity." The film was nominated for an Academy Award for best picture on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. The 86th Academy Awards will be held on March 2. (AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures, File)The con-artist comedy and the 3-D space odyssey each get 10 nominations.


Official: Egyptian voters have backed new charter

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 11:44 AM PST

An Egyptian army soldier stands guard as voters line up outside a polling station for the first day in the country's constitutional referendum in the upscale neighborhood of Zamalek in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014. Egyptians voted Tuesday on a draft constitution that represents a key milestone in a military-backed roadmap put in place after the nation's Islamist president was overthrown in a popularly backed coup last July. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)CAIRO (AP) — An overwhelming majority of Egyptians who voted on the country's new constitution backed the draft charter, a senior Egyptian official said Thursday, despite criticism from an international monitoring group of a clampdown on free speech ahead of the election.


Obama channels 'Ike's' security warning

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 03:53 AM PST

Obama expected to support new restrictions on NSAIt's coincidence his NSA address falls on the anniversary of Eisenhower's speech, aides say.


Syria allows aid into 2 contested areas

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 11:04 AM PST

This undated image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. Two weeks of fighting between an al-Qaida-linked group and other rebel forces in Syria has killed more than 1,000 people, an activist group said Thursday, as clashes raged between the rival factions in a northwestern town. The fighting pitting the al-Qaida-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and other groups are the most serious among rebel forces since the Syrian conflict began in March 2011. (AP Photo/militant website)BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government allowed supplies to enter two contested front-line areas near the capital, a relief official said Thursday. Activists said the death toll from two weeks of infighting in the north between rebel forces and an al-Qaida-linked group climbed to more than 1,000 people.


'Hustle,' 'Gravity' lead Oscars with 10 nods each

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 09:23 AM PST

This film image released by Sony Pictures shows, from left, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, Christian Bale and Jennifer Lawrence in a scene from "American Hustle." The film was nominated for an Academy Award for best picture on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. The 86th Academy Awards will be held on March 2. (AP Photo/Sony - Columbia Pictures, Francois Duhamel)The Academy Awards appear to be the three-horse race many expected they would be, with "Gravity," ''American Hustle" and "12 Years a Slave" all receiving a heap of nominations in an Oscar field that blends otherworldly endurance with glamorous escapism.


India police close in on homeless men in gang rape

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 09:06 AM PST

An Indian policeman stands outside the police station which is investigating the gang-rape of a Danish tourist in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014. A 51-year-old Danish tourist was gang-raped near a popular shopping area in New Delhi after she stopped to ask for directions, police said Wednesday, the latest case to focus attention on the scourge of violence against women in India. The woman managed to reach her hotel in Paharganj area Tuesday evening and the owner called police. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police said Thursday that they were closing in on five homeless men in the gang rape of a 51-year-old Danish tourist in New Delhi, a case that highlights the plague of sexual violence in the country and threatens to tarnish its tourism industry.


Health care website passed recent security test

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 03:29 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2013, file photo, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., right, confers with the committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the start of the committee's hearing on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act's HealthCare.gov website. The top cybersecurity officer for the federal Health and Human Services department was concerned about potential vulnerabilities ahead of the launch of the Obama administration's health care website. Issa, investigating the chaotic rollout of the website contends the administration risked the personal information of millions of Americans in its zeal to meet a self-imposed Oct. 1 deadline. Cummings says the administration addressed the potential security issues through added vigilance instituted before the site went live. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Cybersecurity concerns over President Barack Obama's health care website have been cleared up through testing, a government security professional who initially had qualms about the system assured lawmakers Thursday.


11-term Rep. McKeon leaving, exodus continues

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 08:46 AM PST

FILE - This April 11, 2013 file photo shows House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Buck McKeon, R-Calif. during a heairng on Capitol Hill in Washington. Joining an exodus from Congress by both Democrats and Republicans, veteran McKeon tearfully announced Thursday that he's retiring after 21 years, stepping down as House Armed Services Committee chairman. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Joining an exodus from Congress by both Democrats and Republicans, veteran Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon tearfully announced Thursday that he's retiring after 21 years, stepping down as House Armed Services Committee chairman.


Syrian government allows supplies in 2 rebel areas

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 09:05 AM PST

This undated image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. Two weeks of fighting between an al-Qaida-linked group and other rebel forces in Syria has killed more than 1,000 people, an activist group said Thursday, as clashes raged between the rival factions in a northwestern town. The fighting pitting the al-Qaida-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and other groups are the most serious among rebel forces since the Syrian conflict began in March 2011. (AP Photo/militant website)BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government allowed supplies to enter two besieged areas under opposition control near the capital, a relief official said Thursday, as activists say weeks of infighting between rebel forces and an al-Qaida group-linked group have killed more than 1,000 people.


Alcoholics work for beer in Amsterdam program

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 06:01 AM PST

Ramon Mohamed Halim Smits, left, and Fred Schiphorst, participants in a pilot project for alcoholics, pause for a beer and cigarettes in their clubhouse in Amsterdam's eastern part Wednesday Jan. 15, 2014. In a pilot project that has drawn attention in the Netherlands and around the world, the city has teamed up with a charity organization in hopes of improving the neighborhood and possibly improving life for the alcoholics. Not by trying to cure them, but instead by offering to fund their drinking outright. That is, participants are given beer in exchange for a little work collecting litter, eating a decent meal, and sticking to their schedule. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)AMSTERDAM (AP) — The men streaming in and out of a small clubhouse in east Amsterdam could almost be construction workers at the end of a hard day, taking off their orange reflective vests and cracking jokes as they suck down a few Heinekens, waiting for their paychecks.


Cheating alleged in US nuclear missile force

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 10:11 AM PST

This image provided by the U.S. Air Force shows Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh, right, and Tech. Sgt. Justin Richie, a 341st Maintenance Operations Squadron team trainer, riding in a work cage on Nov. 20, 2012, inside the T-9 maintenance trainer at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont. The Air Force says 34 nuclear missile launch officers at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana have been implicated in a cheating scandal and have been stripped of their certification. It is believed to be the largest such breach of integrity in the nuclear force.(AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Beau Wade)WASHINGTON (AP) — In what may be the biggest such scandal in Air Force history, 34 officers entrusted with land-based nuclear missiles have been pulled off the job for alleged involvement in a cheating ring that officials say was uncovered during a drug probe.


Extreme heat brings Australian Open to a halt

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 03:35 AM PST

Varvara Lepchenko of the U.S. receives treatment for heat related illness during her second round match against Simona Halep of Romania during her second round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The scorching weather finally brought play to a halt on the fourth day of the Australian Open when the temperature topped 43 Celsius (109F), but not soon enough for some players who criticized officials for not stopping matches earlier.


Banks robbed, cars taken: S Sudan's looting spree

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 11:24 AM PST

FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014 file photo, South Sudanese government forces ride on a vehicle through the still-smoldering town, after government forces on Friday retook from rebel forces the provincial capital of Bentiu, in Unity State, South Sudan. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014 strongly condemned the commandeering of humanitarian vehicles and the theft of food and other desperately needed aid by government and anti-government forces in violence-torn South Sudan. (AP Photo/Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin, File)JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The U.N.'s top aid official in South Sudan watched helplessly as armed men in uniform stole a car from an aid group. Thugs took $50,000 of goods from Mercy Corps. Tons of food have been stolen, and $500,000 taken from a bank.


Mass. monks brewing beer like European brothers

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 12:36 AM PST

In this Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 photo Father Damion, Abbot at St. Joseph's Trappist Abbey in Spencer, Mass., stands in the community's library. St. Joseph's is a community of 63 Trappistine monks. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)SPENCER, Mass. (AP) — For more than a century, Catholic Cistercian monks known as Trappists have been brewing and selling what many beer lovers consider some of the best in the world. Eight monasteries — six in Belgium and one each in Holland and Austria — produce the only beer recognized by the International Trappist Association as authentic Trappist beer.


Gunman, 2 others dead in Indiana supermarket shooting

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The shooting happened inside a Martin's Super Market in Elkhart, Ind., police say.


Senate ready to send $1.1T spending bill to Obama

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 12:35 AM PST

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio leaves the House chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, after the final vote on a massive $1.1 trillion spending bill. The measure sailed through the House with no suspense and little dissent — fueled additionally by lawmakers' desire to avoid an election-year replay of last fall's widely unpopular 16-day federal shutdown. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Drained of much of its vitriol over the budget, Congress is poised to adopt a $1.1 trillion package financing federal agencies this year, a bipartisan compromise that all but banishes the specter of an election-year government shutdown.


Egyptians back constitution, opening way to Sisi presidential run

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 11:53 AM PST

By Tom Perry and Maggie Fick CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptians overwhelmingly approved a new constitution by referendum, state media reported on Thursday, a widely expected outcome that nudges army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ever closer to a bid for the presidency. The vote advances a transition plan the military-backed government unveiled after deposing Islamist president Mohamed Mursi last July following mass unrest over his rule. The constitution won wide support among the many Egyptians who favored Mursi's removal. The Muslim Brotherhood had called for a boycott, saying the vote was part of a coup that deposed an elected leader and revived a brutal police state.

Obama NSA announcements just the start

Posted: 15 Jan 2014 10:37 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks during an end-of-the year news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington. Obama is expected to endorse changes to the way the government collects millions of Americans' phone records for possible future surveillance, but leave many of the specific reforms for Congress to sort out, according to three U.S. officials familiar with the White House intelligence review. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)The president is expected to back changing the program, but Congress will handle specifics.


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