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Coming days feared to be decisive for Ukraine

Posted: 06 May 2014 01:19 PM PDT

Young Ukrainian recruits march near the infantry school in Donetsk, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 6, 2014. The foreign ministers of Ukraine and Russia met Tuesday, but their open disagreements did nothing to suggest a diplomatic solution was near. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)Surge in violence changes tone of international diplomacy, with talk of war on the rise.


Photos compare school lunches around the world

Posted: 06 May 2014 04:23 PM PDT

Assorted lunch plates are arranged at a table for students at the Bahria Foundation school in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Most of the kids seen there have home cooked food for lunch. Principal Syeda Arifa Mohsin says the school tries to dissuade parents from fixing junk food for their children. SEATTLE (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama is on a mission to make American school lunches healthier by replacing greasy pizza and french fries with whole grains, low fat protein, fresh fruit and vegetables.


Gov't: UPS 'misdelivered' $350,000 drone to college student

Posted: 06 May 2014 10:39 AM PDT

droneA package that contained a $350,000 government drone sent from an Air Force base in Tampa, Fla., was "misdelivered" by UPS to a college student. Reddit user Seventy_Seven, who has declined to release his real name, discovered the box on his doorstep. The college student lives somewhere in the northern U.S. "I had ordered a weightlifting bench (which I received) and this came with it," he wrote with photos of the item. "Both boxes has UPS labels with my name and address."


U.S. team to help Nigeria search for girls

Posted: 06 May 2014 11:21 AM PDT

Muslim women attend a demonstration calling on the government to increase efforts to rescue the 276 missing kidnapped school girls of a government secondary school Chibok, in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, May 5, 2014. Leader of a protest march Saratu Angus Ndirpaya of Chibok town, said that Nigeria's First Lady ordered her and another protest leader to be arrested Monday, and expressed doubts there was any kidnapping and accused them of belonging to the Islamic insurgent group blamed for the abductions. (AP Photo/ Sunday Alamba)Sec. of State Kerry urged Nigerian president to step up hunt for more than 200 kidnapped girls.


Pot burglars may have set off man accused in exchange student's death

Posted: 06 May 2014 01:14 PM PDT

Relatives and friends mourn at the coffin of Diren Dede during a funeral service in Hamburg, Germany, Sunday, May 4, 2014. More than 500 people were attending a memorial service for the 17-year-old German exchange student who was shot dead a week ago in the United States. (AP Photo/dpa, Bodo Marks)MISSOULA, Montana (AP) — Police in Montana received a judge's permission to test whether a homeowner was drunk or high when he shot and killed a 17-year-old German exchange student in his garage, a newly published court document reveals.


Shipwreck hunters and scientists at odds over Lake Michigan find

Posted: 06 May 2014 12:26 PM PDT

In this June 16, 2013 file photo provided by Great Lakes Exploration Group, diver Jim Nowka of Great Lakes Exploration Group inspects a wooden beam extending from the floor of Lake Michigan that experts believe may be part of the Griffin, a ship that sank in 1679. The timber has been examined by U.S. and French experts and underwent a hospital CT scan and carbon dating to determine its age and whether it once was part of a vessel. Nearly a year later, reports obtained by The Associated Press and interviews with key players reveal sharp divisions over whether the elusive ship has been found. (AP Photo/Great Lakes Exploration Group, David J. Ruck, File)TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Excited shipwreck hunters and scientists assembled in a Lake Michigan fishing village last June, hoping to solve a mystery dating back more than three centuries: the fate of a ship sailed by the 17th century French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, during a voyage of discovery extending from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.


Illegal home-brewed liquor kills at least 50 in Kenya

Posted: 06 May 2014 10:15 AM PDT

home brewed alcoholic liquorAt least 50 people in Kenya have died this week from drinking illegal liquor, local media and officials said on Tuesday. Television footage showed victims writhing in pain in hospitals in the eastern and central counties of Embu, Kitui and Kiambu. In Kiambu County, where 11 people died, Police Commander James Mugera said authorities were looking out for more victims. Embu Police Commander William Okello said at least 24 people died while 77 were in hospital after consuming the brew.


Will Lewinsky essay bring back politics of the '90s?

Posted: 06 May 2014 09:30 AM PDT

Bill Clinton 1998Monica Lewinsky is breaking her silence. After decades of maintaining a low profile in the wake of her affair with then-President Bill Clinton, Ms. Lewinsky has written a piece for Vanity Fair that recounts her side of the story and some of the difficulties she's faced since due to her notoriety. Happened," writes Lewinsky in excerpts from the upcoming piece released Tuesday. For instance, she insists that her affair with Mr. Clinton was "one between two consenting adults."


Missouri enacts first income tax cut in almost a century

Posted: 06 May 2014 02:25 PM PDT

Missouri House Speaker Tim Jones stands behind a lectern with microphones Tuesday, April 22, 2014, alongside Sen. Will Kraus, left, and other Republican lawmakers during a news conference at the Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo. Jones said Republicans remain supportive of an income tax cut sponsored by Kraus, despite Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon's new assertion that it could bust a $4.8 billion hole in the state budget. (AP Photo/David Lieb)Missouri's Republican-led Legislature enacted the state's first income tax rate reduction in almost a century Tuesday by overriding the veto of Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon, who has denounced it as a reckless.


Climate change 'a new source of risk' in U.S.

Posted: 06 May 2014 02:56 PM PDT

This April 28, 2010 photo shows the Colstrip Steam Electric Station, a coal-fired power plant in Colstrip, Mont. Plants such as Colstrip, which produces more than 15 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, could face new regulations under President Barack Obama's latest climate change proposal. The coal industry, which was hoping for a rebound in 2013 after struggling to stay competitive in recent years, is back on the defensive after President Barack Obama renewed calls for carbon dioxide reductions from new and existing power plants.(AP Photo/Matt Brown)Federal report stresses how warming and all-too-wild weather are changing our daily lives.


Illegal alcohol kills at least 33 people in Kenya

Posted: 06 May 2014 05:36 AM PDT

home brewed alcoholic liquorAt least 33 people in Kenya died on Monday night and Tuesday from drinking illegal liquor, local media and government officials said on Tuesday. In Kiambu County, where nine people died, Police Commander James Mugera said authorities were still looking for more victims. The spirits probably all originated from one batch, John Mututho, chairman of the state-run National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse, said on Citizen Television. Drinking dens selling illicit homemade brews from jerry cans are common in the back streets of many towns and villages in Kenya.


Keystone bid stalls as Senate prepares for energy debate

Posted: 06 May 2014 09:34 AM PDT

Jerry Seib: Senate Democrats' Win-Win on KeystoneThe U.S. Senate agreed on Tuesday to begin debate on a bipartisan energy efficiency bill, but seems unlikely to pass it unless lawmakers agree on how to proceed with the long-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline project.


San Diego burn unit treats Chinese fishermen

Posted: 06 May 2014 09:16 AM PDT

In this May 5, 2014 photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, a U.S. Air Force HH-60G Pavehawk helicopter from the 55th Rescue Squadron hovers 600 nautical miles off the Pacific Coast of Mexico to hoist two badly burned Chinese fishermen. The two were among 17 Chinese crew members believed aboard a fishing vessel that caught fire and sank in the Pacific Ocean. Two died from burn injuries, seven were determined to be in good condition and six are believed missing, said Maj. Sarah Schwennesen of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Staff Sgt. Adam Grant)SAN DIEGO (AP) — Two badly burned Chinese fishermen rescued from the Pacific were being treated Tuesday at a San Diego hospital, three days after a Venezuelan fishing boat spotted them and nine of their crew members floating in a life raft more than 1,000 miles off Mexico.


Report: Global warming disrupts lives

Posted: 06 May 2014 11:24 AM PDT

Federal report: Warming disrupts Americans' livesClimate change is detrimental to weather, health and safety conditions, a new federal report finds.


Mystery of Toronto mayor's whereabouts deepens

Posted: 06 May 2014 01:32 PM PDT

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford leaves his home early Thursday May 1, 2014, in Toronto. Ford will take an immediate leave of absence to seek help for alcohol, he said, as a report surfaced about a second video of the mayor smoking what appears to be crack cocaine. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)The mystery of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's whereabouts has deepened, following reports that Ford did not enter the United States via Chicago last week, as expected.


Pistorius's housekeeper was also inside home

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Frank Chiziweni was asleep at the athlete's home the night he killed Reeva Steenkamp.


Florida fishermen rescued after 17 hours at sea

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Two Florida men who had only their capsized boat and a small cooler full of food and water to survive were rescued after 17 hours at sea.


Hash oil explosions rise with legalized marijuana

Posted: 06 May 2014 06:51 AM PDT

Hash oil explosions rise with legalized marijuanaThe opening months of Colorado's first-in-the-nation recreational marijuana industry have seen a rise in fiery explosions and injuries as pot users try to make the drug's intoxicating oil in crude home-based ...


Report: Ford withdrew application to enter U.S.

Posted: 06 May 2014 07:07 AM PDT

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford leaves his home early Thursday May 1, 2014, in Toronto. Ford will take an immediate leave of absence to seek help for alcohol, he said, as a report surfaced about a second video of the mayor smoking what appears to be crack cocaine. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)Toronto Mayor Rob Ford decided not to try to enter the United States shortly after flying to Chicago last Thursday, hours after saying he would take a leave of absence from his job to seek treatment for an alcohol problem, the Globe and Mail newspaper said on Tuesday.


New documentary explores South Africa mine shootings

Posted: 06 May 2014 07:19 AM PDT

A policeman gestures in front of some of the dead miners after they were shot outside a South African mine in RustenburgIt was like a scene from the darkest days of apartheid: South African police opening fire with live ammunition, killing 34 striking black miners demanding a "living wage" from an international firm rich in capital. But the killings outside of the Marikana mine of platinum company Lonmin happened on August 16, 2012, almost two decades after Nelson Mandela's "Rainbow Nation" exchanged white-minority rule for multi-racial democracy.


Eight more girls abducted in Nigeria

Posted: 06 May 2014 05:51 AM PDT

FILE - In this Monday April 21, 2014 file photo, four female students of government secondary school Chibok, who were abducted by gunmen and reunited with their families walk in Chibok, Nigeria. The number of kidnapped schoolgirls missing in Nigeria has risen to 276, up by more than 30 from a previous estimate, police said, adding that the actual number abducted by Islamic extremists on April 14 was more than 300. Police Commissioner Tanko Lawan said the number of girls and young women who have escaped also has risen, to 53. (AP Photo/ Haruna Umar, File)Gunmen kidnapped the girls from a northeast village overnight, reports detailed Tuesday.


U.S., Singapore reach agreement on tax evasion: U.S. Treasury

Posted: 06 May 2014 06:08 AM PDT

People take photos with the skyline of the financial district of Singapore in the backgroundWASHINGTON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore has reached a tax information-sharing agreement with the United States under a new law meant to combat offshore tax dodging by Americans, a U.S. Treasury Department spokeswoman said on Monday. The deal, which was expected for more than a year, will make it much easier for institutions in one of Asia's biggest wealth management centers to comply with U.S. rules, and puts it ahead of rival Hong Kong which is yet to finalize a deal. Set to take effect on July 1, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act of 2010 (FATCA) will require foreign banks, investment funds and insurers to hand over information to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service about accounts with more than $50,000 held by Americans. Foreign firms that do not comply face a 30 percent withholding tax on their U.S. investment income and could effectively be frozen out of U.S. capital markets.


Reclusive German art collector Gurlitt dies at 81

Posted: 06 May 2014 10:48 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2013 file photo cars are parked outside the apartment building in Munich, Germany, where more than 1,400 artworks were found in the apartment of collector Cornelius Gurlitt. Gurlitt, a reclusive German collector whose long-secret hoard of well over 1,000 artworks triggered an international uproar over the fate of art looted by the Nazis, died Tuesday, May 6, 2014. He was 81. (AP Photo/dpa, Marc Mueller, File)BERLIN (AP) — Cornelius Gurlitt's long-secret hoard of 1,280 major artworks set off an international uproar last year over the fate of art looted by the Nazis. Now his death has triggered a new round of speculation over who will eventually own his unparalleled collection.


My spring break with Big Liquor

Posted: 06 May 2014 04:38 AM PDT

Yahoo News spends five rowdy days on the American Whiskey Trail.

Saudi Arabia: al Qaeda cell plotting attacks uncovered

Posted: 06 May 2014 10:10 AM PDT

Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday it had uncovered an al Qaeda militant group with links to "extremist elements" in Syria and Yemen that had been plotting to assassinate officials and attack government and foreign targets.

Accused Boston bomber's lawyers seek privacy for family meetings

Posted: 06 May 2014 06:52 AM PDT

Defense attorneys for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev called on a federal judge late Monday to block law enforcement agents from monitoring jailhouse meetings between the suspect, his attorneys and his sisters. "Only real time monitoring of social visitors' conversations with Tsarnaev by someone familiar generally with terrorist tradecraft and specifically with the facts of this case can ensure that those conversations are not being used as a vehicle to convey forbidding messages," they argued in a prior court filing.

34 reported dead in Ukraine

Posted: 06 May 2014 04:30 AM PDT

Pro-Russian gunmen carry their weapons at the local administration building in the center of Slovyansk, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Gunbattles took place at various positions around the city Monday in what has proven the most ambitious government effort to date to quell unrest in the mainly Russian-speaking east. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)Thirty pro-Russia insurgents and four government troops have been killed during operations to expunge anti-government forces around a key eastern city, Ukraine's interior minister reported Tuesday.


Pistorius trial: Neighbor describes ‘desperate’ cries, athlete's state

Posted: 06 May 2014 02:23 AM PDT

Oscar Pistorius looks back as he arrives at the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Using witness accounts of a panicked nighttime phone call from Pistorius begging for help and his desperate pleas for Reeva Steenkamp to stay alive, the defense at his murder trial tried to reinforce its case Monday that the double-amputee Olympian fatally shot his girlfriend in a tragic error of judgment. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)The athlete's neighbor on Tuesday testified that he heard a man crying loudly and that he called the security of the housing estate for help.


Nigerian teen describes kidnap that's left at least 276 still missing

Posted: 06 May 2014 03:27 PM PDT

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The girls in the school dorm heard the sound of gunshots from a nearby town. So when armed men in uniforms burst in and promised to rescue them, at first they were relieved.

White House to unveil dire climate warning

Posted: 06 May 2014 12:06 PM PDT

White House senior counselor Podesta speaks to reporters at the White House briefing roomSome environmental and public health groups expect the report to be a "game changer."


Ukraine says 30 pro-Russian insurgents killed

Posted: 06 May 2014 01:48 AM PDT

Pro-Russian gunmen carry their weapons at the local administration building in the center of Slovyansk, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Gunbattles took place at various positions around the city Monday in what has proven the most ambitious government effort to date to quell unrest in the mainly Russian-speaking east. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)Ukraine's Interior Minister said Tuesday that 30 pro-Russian insurgents were killed during operations to expunge anti-government forces in and near a city in the east, while the Kiev authorities attempted to reassert control over the southern region of Odessa by appointing a new governor there.


FAA: Data from U-2 spy plane caused LAX computer issue

Posted: 05 May 2014 06:04 PM PDT

A U2 reconnaissance planeLOS ANGELES (AP) — The primary air traffic control system around Los Angeles shut down last week because data from the a U-2 spy plane's flight plan confused software that helps track and route aircraft around the region, the Federal Aviation Administration said Monday.


Vatican: 848 priests defrocked for abuse since '04

Posted: 06 May 2014 04:10 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, May 5, 2014, file photo, the Vatican's United Nations ambassador in Geneva, Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, arrives prior to the U.N. torture committee hearing on the Vatican, at the headquarters of the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in the Palais Wilson, in Geneva. Tomasi revealed comprehensive statistics for the first time Tuesday on how the Vatican has disciplined priests accused of raping and molesting children, saying 848 priests have been defrocked and another 2,572 given lesser sanctions over the past decade. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi, File)GENEVA (AP) — The Vatican revealed Tuesday that over the past decade, it has defrocked 848 priests who raped or molested children and sanctioned another 2,572 with lesser penalties, providing the first ever breakdown of how it handled the more than 3,400 cases of abuse reported to the Holy See since 2004.


China's Alibaba Group aiming to raise $1B in IPO

Posted: 06 May 2014 04:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 21, 2012 file photo, men walk past the corporate logo at the headquarters compound of Alibaba Group in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province. Alibaba Group is aiming to raise $1 billion in a long-awaited IPO likely to have ripple effects across the Internet. The Tuesday, May 6, 2014 filing sets the stage for the technology industry's biggest initial public offering since short messaging service Twitter and its early investors collected $1.8 billion in its stock market debut last fall. (AP Photo/File) CHINA OUTSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Alibaba Group, China's leading e-commerce company, is dangling a deal that could turn into one of the biggest IPOs in U.S. history.


Tea party vs GOP Establishment in NC, elsewhere

Posted: 06 May 2014 03:08 PM PDT

Republican Senate candidate Mark Harris, left, greets supporters Harvey Brown Sr, right, and Michael Cummings, back, at Harris' headquarters in Charlotte, N.C., Monday, May 5, 2014. The struggle for control of the Republican Party gets an early voter test in North Carolina, where GOP leaders Mitt Romney and Rand Paul push candidates competing against Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan in the November midterm elections. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)WASHINGTON (AP) — North Carolina Republicans sorted through their choices to challenge Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan on Tuesday, and Speaker John Boehner sought re-nomination to Congress from Ohio, first in a springtime spate of primaries pitting the GOP establishment against tea party challengers.


Ukraine tightens cordon around rebellious city

Posted: 06 May 2014 02:23 PM PDT

DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — A pro-Russia militia holding an eastern Ukrainian city came under further pressure Tuesday from advancing government troops, but militants acted with impunity elsewhere in the turbulent region.

Monica Lewinsky speaks out on affair with Clinton

Posted: 06 May 2014 12:53 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 11, 2001, file photo, Monica Lewinsky arrives for a special screening of "The Score" in New York. Lewinsky says there's no question her boss, Bill Clinton, "took advantage" of her when he was president. But if there was any abuse in their affair, she says, it came afterward, when Clinton's inner circle tried to discredit her and his opponents used her as a pawn. The former White House intern, now 40, writes about her life in the next issue of Vanity Fair magazine, out in May 2014. In released excerpts, she says she's perhaps the first Internet scapegoat and wants to speak out on behalf of other victims of online humiliation.(AP Photo/Darla Khazei, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Monica Lewinsky says there's no question her boss — Bill Clinton — "took advantage" of her when he was president.


Water flows uphill? Maybe, in California drought

Posted: 06 May 2014 02:40 PM PDT

File - This undated file photo released by the California Department of Water Resources shows water making its way south through the Central Valley by way of the California Aqueduct. The California Aqueduct has been ferrying water from the state's verdant north to the south's arid croplands and cities since Gov. Jerry Brown's father was in office half a century ago. But now, amid one of the worst droughts on record, a group of farmers want to route some of that water back uphill. (AP Photo/California Department of Water Resources, Dale Kolke, File)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Water has flowed from Northern California's snow-capped peaks to the south's parched cities ever since the California Aqueduct was built in the 1960s. Now, amid one of the worst droughts in history, state officials are considering an audacious plan to send some of the water back uphill.


Civilian diver dies in South Korea ferry searches

Posted: 05 May 2014 08:04 PM PDT

A girl prays in front of paper ships bearing messages for the victims of the sunken ferry Sewol at a group memorial altar in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 5, 2014. More than 300 people are dead or missing in the water off the southern coast in the disaster that caused widespread grief, anger and shame. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A civilian diver involved in searches for dozens of missing people from the South Korean ferry disaster died Tuesday, as other divers helped by better weather and easing ocean currents were picking up efforts to retrieve more bodies from the sunken ship.


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