| NTSB: Pilots confused by wrong airport's lights Posted: 17 Jan 2014 04:02 PM PST  Southwest pilots landed a 737 at landing strip about half the size of destination airport.
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| Federal judge sent hundreds of bigoted emails Posted: 17 Jan 2014 04:13 PM PST  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A former Montana judge who was being investigated for forwarding a racist email involving President Barack Obama sent hundreds of other inappropriate messages from his federal email account, according to the findings of a judicial review panel released Friday.
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| Eight questions about Obama’s spying overhaul Posted: 17 Jan 2014 10:43 AM PST  Speech served mostly to feed, not resolve, big debates over NSA surveillance.
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| Dramatic photos of 1986 shuttle disaster found in attic Posted: 17 Jan 2014 08:01 AM PST  The tragic launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on morning of January 28th, 1986. (Michael Hindes) |
| Afghanistan suicide attack kills up to 15 Posted: 17 Jan 2014 03:08 PM PST  Four U.N. staff members are missing after a dinnertime bombing killed between 13 and 15 at a popular Kabul restaurant.
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| Company tied to W.Va. water contamination files for bankruptcy Posted: 17 Jan 2014 12:35 PM PST  Freedom Industries, the unfortunately named company whose chemical leak contaminated the water supply for parts of West Virginia, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday. The Wall Street Journal reports official company papers from the meeting estimate their debt at roughly $10 million, which does not include the impending clean-up costs and lawsuits, which will no doubt be immense.
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| Vatican child abuse data: 400 priests defrocked in 2-year span Posted: 17 Jan 2014 11:07 AM PST  VATICAN CITY - A document obtained by The Associated Press shows Pope Benedict XVI defrocked nearly 400 priests over just two years for molesting children.
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| Riddle of King Alfred the Great's remains may be solved Posted: 17 Jan 2014 10:01 AM PST  LONDON - Researchers say they may have discovered remains of King Alfred the Great, the 9th-century royal remembered for protecting England from the Vikings and educating an untutored nation.
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| Deadly attack on popular Kabul restaurant Posted: 17 Jan 2014 04:59 PM PST  U.N. says four staffers missing after dinnertime suicide plot in diplomatic district.
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| Drought emergency declared for California Posted: 17 Jan 2014 09:31 AM PST  California governor Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency on Friday, a move that will allow the parched state to seek federal aid as it grapples with what could turn out to be the driest year in recorded state history. "We can't make it rain, but we can be much better prepared for the terrible consequences that California's drought now threatens, including dramatically less water for our farms and communities and increased fires in both urban and rural areas," Brown said in a statement.
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| Cybercrime firm uncovers six active attacks on U.S. merchants Posted: 17 Jan 2014 12:45 PM PST  A cybercrime firm says it has uncovered at least six ongoing attacks at U.S. merchants whose credit card processing systems are infected with the same type of malicious software used to steal data from Target Corp. Andrew Komarov, chief executive of the cybersecurity firm IntelCrawler, told Reuters that his company has alerted law enforcement, Visa Inc and intelligence teams at several large banks about the findings. He said payment card data was stolen in the attacks, though he didn't know how much.
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| Obama: A 'new approach' to data collection Posted: 17 Jan 2014 03:06 PM PST  President clips NSA's wings, but argues phone data must be held to protect America.
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| Kerry: World won't be fooled by Assad regime Posted: 17 Jan 2014 07:39 AM PST  US Secretary of State John Kerry warned the Syrian regime Friday it would fail to divert next week's peace talks away from the aim of installing a new government. Accusing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of funding and even ceding territory to extremists in order to fuel fears of militant groups, Kerry said "nobody is going to be fooled." "They can bluster, they can protest, they can put out distortions, the bottom line is we are going to Geneva to implement Geneva I, and if Assad doesn't do that he will invite greater response," he said. Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov have led moves to bring together the divided Syrian opposition and the Assad regime for the first time since the conflict erupted in March 2011.
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| Obama wants limits on NSA spying Posted: 17 Jan 2014 08:37 AM PST  The president calls for end of government's control of phone data from Americans.
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| Inspired by Mandela, Serena Williams rethinks tournament boycott Posted: 17 Jan 2014 08:12 AM PST  World number one Serena Williams Friday said she could end her 13-year boycott of the Indian Wells tournament after being inspired by Nelson Mandela. The American 32-year-old and her sister Venus have not played the event in the California desert since being booed in 2001. The capacity crowd was livid and made their feelings clear during the final against Kim Clijsters, booing Venus and her father Richard as they entered the stadium and Serena throughout the match.
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| Uganda's president opposes tough new anti-gay bill Posted: 17 Jan 2014 07:32 AM PST  KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda's president opposes an anti-gay bill passed by lawmakers that calls for life imprisonment for gays, even as he characterizes homosexuals as "abnormal" who should be rehabilitated, according to excerpts of his letter to the speaker of parliament.
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| GO FIGURE: Fed budget bill comes to $3M per word Posted: 17 Jan 2014 08:02 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Talk about words more costly than gold.
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| Crews chase flare-ups in California fire Posted: 17 Jan 2014 07:42 AM PST  GLENDORA, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters were chasing flare-ups Friday morning in a damaging wildfire that was largely tamed but kept thousands of people from their homes in the foothill suburbs northeast of Los Angeles.
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| Judge spikes photo ID requirement for Pa. voters Posted: 17 Jan 2014 01:32 PM PST  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania judge on Friday struck down a requirement that nearly all of the state's 8.2 million voters show photo identification at the polls, saying it imposes an unreasonable burden on the right to vote and that officials failed to demonstrate the need for it.
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| Palace: Queen's granddaughter Zara has baby girl Posted: 17 Jan 2014 07:21 AM PST  LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter Zara Phillips has given birth to a baby girl, Buckingham Palace said Friday. The child is 16th in line to the British throne.
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| Happy birthday for Michelle Obama, who turns 50 Posted: 17 Jan 2014 07:20 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama is celebrating her 50th birthday Friday.
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| Pa. couple advertises home as 'slightly haunted' Posted: 17 Jan 2014 03:36 AM PST  DUNMORE, Pa. (AP) — Between the mysteriously banging doors, the odd noises coming from the basement, and the persistent feeling that someone is standing behind them, homeowners Gregory and Sandi Leeson are thoroughly creeped out by their 113-year-old Victorian.
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| French president visits hospitalized first lady Posted: 17 Jan 2014 07:24 AM PST  PARIS (AP) — President Francois Hollande has visited France's first lady for the first time since she was hospitalized late last week after a gossip magazine reported he was having an affair with an actress.
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| Cuban travel in record numbers a year into reform Posted: 17 Jan 2014 05:40 AM PST HAVANA (AP) — Last February, Amalia Reigosa Blanco experienced for the first time the rush of an airplane taking off. She browsed the clothing shops of Italy's fashion capital, and strolled cobblestone streets echoing with an unfamiliar tongue. She learned what snow feels like. |
| Djokovic, Williams into 4th round in Australia Posted: 17 Jan 2014 05:47 AM PST  MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic extended his winning streak to 27 matches and stayed on track for a fourth consecutive Australian Open title with a 6-3, 6-3, 7-5 win Friday over Denis Istomin.
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| Explosion hits Bangkok protesters, wounding dozens Posted: 17 Jan 2014 07:18 AM PST  BANGKOK (AP) — Dozens of people were wounded in Thailand's capital Friday when a grenade blast ripped through a crowd of marching anti-government demonstrators, an ominous development that raises tensions in the country's political crisis and the specter of more bloodshed to come.
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| Google contact lens could be option for diabetics Posted: 17 Jan 2014 12:34 AM PST  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Brian Otis gingerly holds what looks like a typical contact lens on his index finger. Look closer. Sandwiched in this lens are two twinkling glitter-specks loaded with tens of thousands of miniaturized transistors. It's ringed with a hair-thin antenna. Together these remarkable miniature electronics can monitor glucose levels in tears of diabetics and then wirelessly transmit them to a handheld device.
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| Prince Harry ends role as helicopter pilot Posted: 17 Jan 2014 05:14 AM PST  LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry is ending his role as a helicopter pilot and taking up a new job with the army in London, royal officials said Friday.
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| 'Agonizing' execution puts new focus on capital punishment Posted: 17 Jan 2014 06:16 AM PST  LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's capital punishment system is likely to face new challenges following an unusually long execution in which the condemned man appeared to gasp several times.
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| Record number of rhinos poached in South Africa in 2013 Posted: 17 Jan 2014 05:52 AM PST  By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - More than 1,000 rhinos were poached for their horns in South Africa in 2013, a record number and an increase of over 50 percent from the previous year, the country's department of environmental affairs said on Friday. The data is sure to ring conservation alarm bells about a downward population spiral in a country that is home to almost all of Africa and the world's rhinos, and it may bring renewed pressure on the government to do something to halt the slayings. In 2013, 1,004 of the massive animals were illegally killed in South Africa, compared with 668 the previous year and 448 in 2011. Most of the killings are taking place in South Africa's flagship Kruger National Park, which lost 606 rhinos last year and 425 in 2012.
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| Surgeon general adds to list of smoking's harms Posted: 17 Jan 2014 12:32 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — It's no secret that smoking causes lung cancer. But what about diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, erectile dysfunction? Fifty years into the war on smoking, scientists still are adding diseases to the long list of cigarettes' harms — even as the government struggles to get more people to kick the habit.
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| Conservative group targets Hispanics Posted: 17 Jan 2014 05:09 AM PST  The effort includes a seven-figure ad campaign against Democratic lawmakers.
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| Player in NJ bridge scandal will talk for immunity Posted: 16 Jan 2014 11:33 PM PST  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The former appointee of Gov. Chris Christie who directed lane closures that backed up traffic for hours in one New Jersey town is reiterating that he is ready to share more information if he can be granted immunity from prosecution.
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| Japan WWII soldier who hid in jungle until 1974 dies Posted: 17 Jan 2014 02:42 AM PST  A Japanese soldier who hid in the Philippine jungle for three decades, refusing to believe World War II was over until his former commander returned and ordered him to surrender, has died in Tokyo aged 91. Hiroo Onoda waged a guerilla campaign in Lubang Island near Luzon until he was finally persuaded in 1974 that peace had broken out, ignoring leaflet drops and successive attempts to convince him the Imperial Army had been defeated. He and three other soldiers continued to obey that order long after Japan's 1945 defeat. Their existence became widely known in 1950, when one of their number emerged and returned to Japan.
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| 'Seeds of genocide' in Central African Republic, U.N. warns Posted: 16 Jan 2014 04:57 PM PST  By Emmanuel Braun and Tom Miles BANGUI/GENEVA (Reuters) - A senior U.N. official warned of the risk of genocide in Central African Republic without a more robust international response to communal bloodshed in which at least 20 more people were killed on Thursday. More than a million people have been displaced by the violence since Seleka installed their leader Michel Djotodia as interim president. Over 1,000 people were killed last month alone in the capital Bangui, prompting neighboring countries to evacuate more than 30,000 of their citizens. There has been relative calm since Djotodia resigned last week under intense international pressure, but sporadic violence has persisted in Bangui.
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| L.A.-area wildfire partly contained Posted: 16 Jan 2014 06:09 PM PST  Authorities plan to reopen evacuated neighborhoods after winds die down.
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| Driver cited for wearing Google Glass beats ticket in court Posted: 16 Jan 2014 05:44 PM PST  SAN DIEGO (AP) — A San Diego traffic court threw out a citation Thursday against a woman believed to be the first motorist in the country ticketed for driving while wearing a Google Glass computer-in-eyeglass device.
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