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Worker lawsuits claim McDonald's wage theft

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 10:17 AM PDT

McDonald's worker Keyana McDowell, 20, strikes outside McDonald's in Los AngelesAllegations include forcing workers to clock out but stay at work, docking pay for uniforms.


In the age of reality politics, Rubio finds his voice

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 03:21 AM PDT

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.By the time Marco Rubio arrived in Washington in 2011, his story was legend. Here was the 39-year-old son of a bartender and a maid, refugees from Castro's communism, who had risen to the covers of national magazines. He was on everybody's vice-presidential list — assuming he didn't run for president himself — before he even knew where to find his office. He was the charismatic Latino who could deliver Republicans from demographic irrelevance.


Missing jet creates legion of armchair sleuths

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 01:01 PM PDT

Vietnamese Air Force Col. Pham Minh Tuan uses binoculars on board a flying aircraft during a mission to search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the Gulf of Thailand, Thursday, March 13, 2014. With no distress call, no sign of wreckage and very few answers, the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines plane is turning into one of the biggest aviation mysteries since Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. (AP Photo)NEW YORK (AP) — There aren't supposed to be any mysteries in the Digital Age.


Pope Francis gets formal invite to address Congress

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 12:15 PM PDT

FILE -- In this file photo taken on March 13, 2013, Pope Francis waves to the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, the day of his election. From his gestures to his simple soundbites to his emphasis that priests are called to serve, Pope Francis has endeared himself to the public, radically shifted the paradigm of the papacy and reminded the world that the church's mission is one of mercy. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)WASHINGTON (AP) — The leader of the U.S. House of Representatives has invited Pope Francis to address a joint meeting of Congress.


Source: 'Indication' missing jetliner crashed in Indian Ocean

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U.S. official cites signs plane flew four or five hours after disappearing from radar.


Diamond discovery hints at 'ocean' of water deep within Earth

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 10:10 AM PDT

Rare Diamond Reveals Earth's Interior is All WetA dirty-looking, commercially worthless brown diamond found in Brazil is yielding priceless information about the composition of a layer deep inside our planet. The discovery of the water-rich mineral indicates that mammoth amounts of water are trapped in a zone 410 to 660 kilometers (255 to 410 miles) beneath the surface between Earth's upper and lower mantle, the researchers said. Ringwoodite is a form of the mineral peridot, thought to exist in large quantities under high pressures deep underground. "This sample really provides extremely strong confirmation that there are local wet spots deep in the Earth in this area," said University of Alberta diamond scientist Graham Pearson, who led the research published in the journal Nature.


Court records show man in theater shooting was also texting

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 10:58 AM PDT

FILE- In this Feb. 5, 2014 file photo, Curtis Reeves looks into the gallery Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, during a court bond hearing in Dade City, Fla. Records show that a Reeves who reportedly shot a man in a movie theater because he was texting had sent a text message to his own son moments before the incident. According to records released Thursday, March 13, 2014, by prosecutors, Curtis Reeves texted his son, who was on his way to the theater, saying that he was already inside. The 71-year-old Reeves is charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Chad Oulson on Jan. 13. (AP Photo/The Tampa Tribune, Andy Jones, Pool, File)DADE CITY, Fla. (AP) — A former police officer accused of killing a man in a movie theater during a dispute over texting had used his own phone to send a message to his son minutes before the shooting, according to documents released Thursday by Florida prosecutors.


Editor: Princess Diana leaked royal phone numbers

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 11:34 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 1992, Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana, look their separate ways, during a memorial service on their tour of South Korea. Prince Charles is readying the paperwork to claim his pension when he turns 65 on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013, but he still hasn't started the job he was born to do. (AP Photo/File)LONDON (AP) — A journalist on trial in Britain's phone hacking scandal testified Thursday that Princess Diana provided him with information on the royals, including a phone directory, as part of her feud with her estranged husband, Prince Charles.


Malaysia widens search for plane

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 08:54 AM PDT

Children read messages and well wishes displayed for all involved with the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner MH370 on the walls of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Thursday, March 13, 2014 in Sepang, Malaysia. Planes sent Thursday to check the spot where Chinese satellite images showed possible debris from the missing Malaysian jetliner found nothing, Malaysia's civil aviation chief said, deflating the latest lead in the six-day hunt. The hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 has been punctuated by false leads since it disappeared with 239 people aboard about an hour after leaving Kuala Lumpur for Beijing early Saturday. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)The latest scenario makes finding the missing airliner and its passengers vastly more difficult.


Hillary Clinton leads GOP by double digits in Iowa, new poll shows

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 07:14 AM PDT

Former U.S. Secretary of State Clinton attends an International Women's Day event at the U.N. headquarters in New YorkThe 2016 Iowa caucuses are still more than 22 months away. But according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday, Hillary Clinton leads among all possible presidential candidates by double digits.


'The whole building was on me'

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 07:12 AM PDT

New York City emergency responders search through the rubble at the site of a building explosion in the Harlem section of New YorkColin Patterson survives New York gas explosion thanks to a 'cocoon' of pianos.


Pope marks his one-year anniversary with a simple tweet

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 08:09 AM PDT

FILE -- In this file photo taken in the St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, on Feb. 22, 2014, Pope Francis salutes Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, left, at the end of a consistory. When Pope Benedict XVI abdicated, he insisted he would remain "hidden from the world" in prayer. But Francis has slowly coaxed him out of retirement and giving him an increasily public role in the church, believing that he like all elderly have something to offer and shouldn't be holed up in a museum like a "statue." (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis marked his one-year anniversary Thursday with a simple tweet: "Please pray for me."


Holder endorses proposal to shorten drug-related prison sentences

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 01:07 PM PDT

File photo of U.S. Attorney General Holder speaking at the Justice Department in WashingtonWASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday endorsed a proposal that would result in shorter prison sentences for many nonviolent drug traffickers, saying the change would rein in runaway federal prison costs and create a fairer criminal justice system.


Hunter bags 500-pound wild boar you have to see to believe

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 06:38 AM PDT

Jett Webb's wild boarJett Webb, of Conetoe, N.C., was hunting boar at the White Oak Ranch Hunting Club in Bertie County last month when he spotted the giant swine.


7th victim found in NYC explosion rubble

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 11:01 AM PDT

Emergency workers respond to the scene of an explosion that leveled two apartment buildings in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. Con Edison spokesman Bob McGee says a resident from a building adjacent to the two that collapsed reported that he smelled gas inside his apartment, but thought the odor could be coming from outside. (AP Photo/Jeremy Sailing)Search crews continue to scour debris after two buildings collapsed.


Police: 1 man, 1 woman died at South by Southwest

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 12:54 PM PDT

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A suspected drunken driver fleeing police crashed through barricades set up for a major festival in Texas early Thursday, slamming into a crowd outside a nightclub and killing a Dutch man on a bicycle and a local woman on a moped. Twenty-three people were injured.

Photos show 'trail of blood' in Pistorius' home

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 10:32 AM PDT

Oscar Pistorius covers his head with his hands and a notebook as he listens to forensic evidence during his trial in court in Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday March 13, 2014. Pistorius is charged with the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentines Day in 2013. (AP Photo/Alet Pretorius, Pool)PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — The photographs show blood on the stairs, blood spatter on walls and furniture, a cocked 9 mm pistol lying on a mat, a damaged metal panel and fallen wall tiles in the bathroom and wooden splinters from the toilet door through which Oscar Pistorius fatally shot his girlfriend.


Mississippi man who awakened inside body bag dies

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 11:41 AM PDT

LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — A 78-year-old Mississippi man has died two weeks after he woke up in a body bag at a funeral home after being mistakenly pronounced deceased, a coroner said.

Russian troops engage in war games near Ukraine

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 01:10 PM PDT

Pro Ukraine protestors, some of them injured, are shielded by police at right during clashes with pro Russia protestors following a rally in Donetsk, Ukraine, Thursday, March 13, 2014. Bloody clashes erupted between pro Russia and pro Ukraine protestors in the eastern city of Donetsk on Thursday evening, leaving dozens injured as police struggled to prevent the violence. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Russia conducted new military maneuvers near its border with Ukraine on Thursday, and President Vladimir Putin said the world shouldn't blame his country for what he called Ukraine's "internal crisis."


Death toll climbs to 7 in NYC gas explosion

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 01:20 PM PDT

A firefighter applies water to rubble a day after a gas leak-triggered explosion, Thursday, March 13, 2014, in East Harlem, New York. Rescuers working amid gusty winds, cold temperatures and billowing smoke pulled additional bodies Thursday from the rubble of two apartment buildings that collapsed Wednesday. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)NEW YORK (AP) — Rescue workers using dogs and thermal-detection gear searched the rubble Thursday for victims of a gas explosion that killed at least seven people, while investigators tried to pinpoint the leak and determine whether it had anything to do with New York's aging gas and water mains, some dating to the 19th century.


Amazon hikes Prime membership to $99 per year

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 12:46 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2010 file photo, an Amazon.com package awaits delivery from UPS in Palo Alto, Calif. Amazon on Thursday, March 13, 2014 said it is raising the price of its popular Prime membership to $99 per year, an increase of $20. It's the first price increase since the online retailer introduced its Prime membership program in 2005. T(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is betting that shoppers will pay $20 more for its popular Prime two-day free shipping and video streaming service of movies and TV shows.


Rockets strike Israel, jeopardizing truce talk

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 12:03 PM PDT

An Israeli soldier walks near the Israel and Gaza border on Thursday, March 13, 2014. Gaza militants resumed rocket fire toward Israel on Thursday, striking the outskirts of two major cities a day after launching the largest barrage since an eight-day Israeli offensive in late 2012. Israel has responded with a series of airstrikes on militant targets. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad said Thursday it had agreed to halt a wave of rocket fire on Israel, signaling an end to the heaviest fighting between the sides since 2012, though soon after the announcement seven rockets fired from Gaza exploded inside Israel.


Up, up and away for a live TV special from space

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 10:09 AM PDT

FILE - This Nov. 7, 2013 file photo shows U.S. astronaut Rick Mastracchio, a crew member of the International Space Station, waving prior to the launch of Soyuz-FG rocket at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Mastracchio, along with Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata will serve as on-board correspondents for a National Geographic special called "Live From Space," airing Friday, March 14 at 8 p.m. EST on the National Geographic Channel. (AP Photo/Shamil Zhumatov, File)NEW YORK (AP) — National Geographic Channel is targeting a subject that's literally over our heads, bringing it down to Earth in an ambitious two-hour special.


2 weeks after waking up in body bag, Miss man dies

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 10:24 AM PDT

LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — A coroner says a 78-year-old Mississippi man has died two weeks after he woke up in a body bag at a funeral home after being mistakenly pronounced deceased.

Minot nuke crew weaknesses worse than reported

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 11:16 AM PDT

FILE - This undated handout photo provided by the National Park Service shows the inside of the deactivated Delta Nine Launch Facility near Wall, S.D., that is now open to the public. Failings exposed last spring at an Air Force nuclear missile base, described by one officer as WASHINGTON (AP) — Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that failings exposed last spring at an Air Force nuclear missile base were worse than originally reported.


Police: 2 dead as car drives into crowd at SXSW

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 02:25 AM PDT

People are treated after being struck by a vehicle on Red River Street in downtown Austin, Texas, during SXSW on Wednesday March 12, 2014. Police say two people were confirmed dead at the scene after a car drove through temporary barricades set up for the South By Southwest festival and struck a crowd of pedestrians. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Jay Janner)A suspected drunken driver crashed through barricades and hit a crowd in front of a club.


Malaysia rejects China satellite photos said to show plane wreckage

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 03:31 AM PDT

Malaysia's acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein answers questions from journalists at a hotel near Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang on March 12, 2014Malaysia on Thursday denied a media report that its missing airliner flew on for hours after last making contact, and said Chinese photos that raised hopes of a search breakthrough actually showed no wreckage. "Those reports are inaccurate," Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said of a Wall Street Journal report that said US investigators suspected the plane had flown on. The report said data automatically sent to the ground from the aircraft's Rolls-Royce engines suggested the Boeing 777 was in the air for four hours after its last contact with air traffic control at 1.30 a.m. Malaysian time. "The last transmission from the aircraft was at 0107 hours which indicated that everything was normal," Hishammuddin said.


Malaysia: No debris at spot shown on China images

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 12:12 AM PDT

In this March 9, 2014 satellite image seen on the website of the Chinese State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, floating objects are seen at sea next to the red arrow which was added by the source. China's Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday that the images show suspected debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner floating off the southern tip of Vietnam. (AP Photo/Chinese State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense)No signs of the missing jetliner have been found, Malaysia's civil aviation chief said.


Gas blast destroys 2 NY buildings; 6 people dead

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 01:34 AM PDT

A gas leak triggered an earthshaking explosion that flattened two apartment buildings on Wednesday, killing at least six people and injuring more than 60. A tenant said residents had complained repeatedly ...

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