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West braces for Crimea vote after talks fail

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:00 PM PDT

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and US Secretary of State John Kerry stand together prior to a meeting at Winfield House in London, Friday March 14, 2014. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to London on Friday to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in a last-minute bid to stave off a new chapter in the East-West crisis over Ukraine. (AP Photo/Sean Dempsey, Pool)Sec. of State Kerry says result of vote to secede Ukraine is all but a foregone conclusion.


Note from Clinton White House files: 'Send a Muslim!'

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 03:06 PM PDT

White House. File photo.WASHINGTON (AP) — An unsigned, hand-written note included with Clinton administration documents on combatting terrorism urges, "Send a Muslim!"


Paris on alert as smog surpasses notorious cities like Beijing

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 12:42 PM PDT

The Eiffel Tower, is barely seen through the smog from Paris, Friday, March 14, 2014. Air pollution that has turned Paris skies a murky yellow is giving a break to millions of French travelers ó all public transportation in the Paris region and two other cities is free for the next three days. Nearly three-quarters of France is under alert in what the European Environment Agency says is the worst air pollution since 2007. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)PARIS (AP) — Air pollution that has turned the skies over Paris a murky yellow and shrouded much of Belgium for days forced drivers to slow down Friday and gave millions a free ride on public transportation.


Target: We missed early warning on data breach

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 01:34 PM PDT

Target retail storeRetail giant admits immediate action wasn't taken after software picked up on cyberattack.


Bloomberg: People forget 'charter schools are public schools'

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The ex-NYC mayor shares his take on gun debate with Yahoo's Katie Couric.


Ukraine president emphasizes military strength

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 11:57 AM PDT

Ukraine's acting President Turchinov speaks with the media during a military exercise near the village of GoncharivskePraises troops taking part in exercises amid buildup of Russian forces on eastern borders.


New batch of Clinton records include Gore election strategy

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 11:47 AM PDT

CLINTON GORE EDUCATIONWASHINGTON (AP) — The National Archives has released another 4,000 pages of records from former President Bill Clinton's White House.


Neighbors say missing jet's pilots were community minded

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 11:05 AM PDT

Muslim men leave a mosque after Friday prayers, just down the road of the home of Fariq Abdul Hamid, co-pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner MH370, center, Friday, March 14, 2014 in Shah Alam, Malaysia. The pilots of the missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet were a contented middle-aged family man passionate enough about flying to build his own simulator and a 27-year-old contemplating marriage who had just graduated to the cockpit of the Boeing 777. Details about the men have emerged from interviews with neighbors, Malaysia Airlines staff, a religious leader and from social networks and news reports in Malaysia and Australia.(AP Photo/Eileen Ng)KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — One was passionate enough about flying to build his own flight simulator in his home. The other was a 27-year-old contemplating marriage after having just graduated to the cockpit of a Boeing 777.


Investigators weigh 'piracy' in missing jetliner

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 09:17 AM PDT

Lt. Col Bambang Sudewo, commander of the 5th Air Squadron "Black Mermaids" examines a map following a search operation for the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that was conducted over the Strait of Malacca, at Suwondo air base in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Friday, March 14, 2014. The jetliner vanished nearly a week ago with 239 people aboard. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)It's also possible the plane may have landed somewhere, an official says.


While U.S. and Russia talk, West preps sanctions on Russia

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 07:47 AM PDT

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and US Secretary of State John Kerry stand together prior to a meeting at Winfield House in London, Friday March 14, 2014. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to London on Friday to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in a last-minute bid to stave off a new chapter in the East-West crisis over Ukraine. (AP Photo/Sean Dempsey, Pool)LONDON (AP) — The top diplomats for Russia and the U.S. voiced pessimism Friday about negotiating an immediate end to the crisis in Ukraine, whose strategic Crimea region is voting this weekend about whether to secede.


Kerry: U.S. won't recognize Crimea vote

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 11:12 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to the media during a press conference in London after his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Friday, March 14, 2014. Kerry arrived in London Friday, for his last meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov before the Crimea referendum vote. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)Meanwhile, his Russian counterpart says there is no "common vision" over Ukraine crisis.


Lavrov: No common vision with U.S. on Ukraine

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 09:24 AM PDT

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during a news conference at the Russian ambassador's residence in LondonLONDON (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that differences remain between Moscow and the U.S. following negotiations in London aimed at ending the crisis in Ukraine, whose strategic Crimea region is voting this weekend on whether to secede.


Obama: Enough have enrolled for stable health care

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 07:06 AM PDT

President Barack Obama arrives for a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 13, 2014, to sign a Presidential Memorandum directing Labor Secretary Tom Perez to modernize overtime protections. Obama is bypassing Congress and orders changes in overtime rules so employers would required to pay millions more for extra time they put in on the job. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says enough people have signed up for health care to make his signature law work.


Moms of Jonah Hill, Adam Levine, Jennifer Lopez: Enroll in Obamacare

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 03:12 AM PDT

Moms of Jonah Hill, Alicia Keys, Adam Levine, Jennifer Lopez: Enroll in ObamacareLong before Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine was People Magazine's "sexiest man alive," he was "rambunctious, mischievous, naughty," his mom, Patsy Noah, says in a new ad meant to get more young people to sign up for Obamacare.


Malnutrition grows among Syrian refugee children

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 11:05 AM PDT

In this Tuesday, March 11, 2014 photo, Mervat, 31, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press as she holds her 9-month-old daughter Shurouk inside their tent camp for Syrian refugees camp in Kab Elias, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Trapped in her northern Syrian village by fighting, Mervat watched her newborn baby progressively shrink. Her daughter's dark eyes seemed to grow bigger as her face grew more skeletal. Finally, Mervat escaped to neighboring Lebanon, and a nurse told her the girl was starving. Such stark malnutrition was rare in Syria in the past, but as the country's conflict enters its fourth year, international aid workers fear malnutrition is rising among children in Syria and among refugees amid the collapse in the health care system. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)KAB ELIAS, Lebanon (AP) — Trapped in her northern Syrian village by fighting, Mervat watched her newborn baby progressively shrink. Her daughter's dark eyes seemed to grow bigger as her face grew more skeletal. Finally, Mervat escaped to neighboring Lebanon, and a nurse told her the girl was starving.


After 37 years on lam, killer caught in Fla.

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 01:06 PM PDT

In this photo provided by the Broward County, Fla., Sheriff's Office is James Robert Jones, 59. Authorities say Jones, who escaped federal custody more than three decades ago, was arrested Thursday, March 13, 2014, when he showed up for work in Pompano Beach, Fla. He had been listed as one of the U.S. Army's 15 Most Wanted for escaping from a federal prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kan., in 1977. (AP Photo/Broward County Sheriff's Office)DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (AP) — In the nearly 40 years after he escaped from the maximum-security military prison at Fort Leavenworth, convicted killer James Robert Jones carved out a new life for himself in Florida, living under an assumed name, getting married and working for an air conditioning company.


APNewsBreak: LAX union wants emergency training

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:10 PM PDT

FILE - This Nov. 11, 2013 file photo shows airport employees preparing to clear security as they wait to reopen after a shooting at Terminal 3 caused a shutdown of Los Angeles International Airport. Thousands of Los Angeles International Airport workers had no idea what to do when a gunman opened fire last year or how to help because they were inadequately trained to deal with an emergency, according to a union report obtained Friday March 14, 2014. AP Photo/Reed Saxon, file)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thousands of Los Angeles International Airport workers had no idea what to do when a gunman opened fire last year in a terminal because they were inadequately trained to deal with an emergency, according to a union report.


8 dead in NY gas blast as rescue operation goes on

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 03:44 PM PDT

Firefighters look over the site of a building explosion in New York, Friday, March 14, 2014. Using sound devices to probe for voices and telescopic cameras to peer into small spaces, workers searching a pile of rubble from a gas explosion in the East Harlem section of Manhattan, continued to treat it as a rescue operation, holding onto the possibility of finding survivors from a blast that brought down two apartment buildings and killed at least eight people. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)NEW YORK (AP) — The bodies of all eight people reported missing after a deadly gas explosion destroyed two buildings have been recovered, the fire commissioner said Friday, but workers are treating the scene as a rescue operation in case there are unknown survivors in the rubble.


2 convicted in NYC kidnap-rape-killing plot case

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:33 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A retired New York high school librarian and a New Jersey auto mechanic were convicted Friday of scheming to carry out gruesome fantasies of kidnapping, raping, torturing and killing women and girls.

AP Source: Jackson to be introduced by Knicks

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:18 PM PDT

FILE - At left, in a June 13, 1997, file photo, Chicago Bulls coach Phil Jackson hoists the NBA Championship trophy aloft after the Bulls beat the Utah Jazz 90-86 in Game 6 of the NBA Finals. in Chicago. At center, in a June 21, 2000 file photo, Los Angeles Lakers head coach Phil Jackson waves to the crowd as the Lakers and thousands of their fans celebrate their NBA Championship in downtown Los Angeles. At right, in a June 16, 1996 file photo, Chicago Bulls coach Phil Jackson hoists the NBA championship trophy after the Bulls beat Seattle in Game 6 of the NBA Finals in Chicago. Carmelo Anthony says he has heard that 11-time NBA champion coach Phil Jackson will be "coming on board" in a leadership capacity with the New York Knicks, though cautioned that nothing is yet official. Anthony made the comments Wednesday, March 12, 2014, to reporters in Boston, where the Knicks are playing the Celtics. (AP Photo/File)Phil Jackson is returning to the NBA.


Longtime Hollywood reporter Bob Thomas dead at 92

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:37 PM PDT

Flowers are next to the star of Associated Press entertainment reporter Bob Thomas on Hollywood's Walk of Fame in Los Angeles Friday, Mar. 14, 2014. Bob Thomas died Friday at his Encino, Calif., home at age 92. He is listed twice in Guinness World Records: for most consecutive Academy Awards shows covered by an entertainment reporter and for longest career as an entertainment reporter (1944-2010). In 1988, he became the first reporter-author awarded a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)LOS ANGELES (AP) — He was the institutional memory for the movies at The Associated Press and a passage for the world to a Hollywood both longed for and long gone.


After Crimea, wary Eastern Europe asks: who's next

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 07:53 AM PDT

In this photo taken on Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014, people holding a Poland flag, left, and a Ukraine flag listen to speakers during a demonstration in Warsaw, Poland showing their support for protesters in Ukraine. Broken promises of help from the West. A tragic history of Russian invasion that goes back centuries. A painful awareness that conflicts in this volatile region are contagious. These are the factors that make nations across Eastern Europe watch events in Ukraine. Some countries like Poland, which shares a border with both Ukraine and Russia, are already starting to take precautionary measures. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has warned that instability in Ukraine may be prolonged and lead Warsaw to upgrade its weapons. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Broken promises of help from the West. A tragic history of Russian invasion that goes back centuries. A painful awareness that conflicts in this volatile region are contagious. These are the factors that make nations across Eastern Europe watch events in Ukraine — and tremble.


Clinton records: President feared 1994 losses

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 02:14 PM PDT

This photo taken March 13, 2014 shows visitors walking to the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Ark. The National Archives makes public another 4,000 pages of documents from the Clinton White House on Friday, including previously unreleased records related to Vice President Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign and the 2000 recount in Florida. The records have been highly anticipated as former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton considers a 2016 presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)WASHINGTON (AP) — Sensing a Republican tidal wave, President Bill Clinton worried in the summer of 1994 that Republicans were energized heading into the midterm elections while his Democratic base was deflated. "There's no organization, there's no energy, there's no anything out there," Clinton said of his own party.


Tests detected gas underground after NYC blast

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 02:08 PM PDT

Firefighters look over the site of a building explosion in New York, Friday, March 14, 2014. Using sound devices to probe for voices and telescopic cameras to peer into small spaces, workers searching a pile of rubble from a gas explosion in the East Harlem section of Manhattan, continued to treat it as a rescue operation, holding onto the possibility of finding survivors from a blast that brought down two apartment buildings and killed at least eight people. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)NEW YORK (AP) — Federal investigators say underground tests conducted in the hours after a deadly New York City gas explosion detected the presence of natural gas.


Clinton records: Fight back hard after 1994 losses

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 12:40 PM PDT

This photo taken March 13, 2014 shows visitors walking to the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Ark. The National Archives makes public another 4,000 pages of documents from the Clinton White House on Friday, including previously unreleased records related to Vice President Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign and the 2000 recount in Florida. The records have been highly anticipated as former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton considers a 2016 presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)WASHINGTON (AP) — Stung by the GOP takeover of Congress in the 1994 elections, White House advisers urged President Bill Clinton not to take the blame and make light of it in public but instead to hit back hard by casting Republicans as defenders of "wealthy special interests," according to documents released Friday.


FDNY: Explosion death toll at 8, may not rise

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 11:46 AM PDT

Firefighters look over the site of a building explosion in New York, Friday, March 14, 2014. Using sound devices to probe for voices and telescopic cameras to peer into small spaces, workers searching a pile of rubble from a gas explosion in the East Harlem section of Manhattan, continued to treat it as a rescue operation, holding onto the possibility of finding survivors from a blast that brought down two apartment buildings and killed at least eight people. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)NEW YORK (AP) — All eight people reported missing after a deadly New York City gas explosion have been recovered, the fire commissioner said Friday, but workers are still treating the scene as a rescue operation in case there are unknown survivors in the rubble.


Crimea crisis: Lessons from the first Cold War

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 02:53 AM PDT

The Cold War 1961If we are in a new Cold War, some lessons of the first one should apply today.


Kerry meets with Russian counterpart in last-ditch Ukraine talks

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 02:41 PM PDT

US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague in Downing Street, London on March 14, 2014Top Russian and US diplomats utterly failed Friday to defuse the crisis over Ukraine, ending up at loggerheads following tense talks over the worst East-West clash since the Cold War. After six hours of talks between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry, US officials said they "did not find common ground" and everything now depended on Russian President Vladimir Putin's reaction to Sunday's breakaway vote in Crimea. Despite flying in early Friday from Washington for crisis talks only two days before Crimea is to decide whether to split away from Ukraine, Kerry acknowledged that his mad dash to London had been in vain.


Search for missing jet shifts to Indian Ocean

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 02:16 AM PDT

Officer Lang Van Ngan of the Vietnam Air Force looks out the window onboard a flying AN-26 Soviet made aircraft during a search operation for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 plane over the southern sea between Vietnam and Malaysia Friday, March 14, 2014. Vietnam says it has downgraded but not stopped its search for the missing jetliner in the South China Sea and has been asked by Malaysian authorities to consider sending planes and ships to the Strait of Malacca. (AP Photo/Na Son Nguyen)There were new signs the aircraft may have flown on for hours after its last radar contact.


Under pressure, Obama vows to examine deportations

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 08:47 AM PDT

In this March 12, 2014, photo, President Barack Obama listens during his meeting with Ukraine Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Obama is seeking changes in overtime rules that will make millions of workers eligible for time-and-a-half pay for their extra work. Obama intends to sign a presidential memorandum on March 13 directing the Department of Labor to propose rules that expand the number of employees who benefit from overtime pay. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are warning that any steps President Barack Obama takes to bypass Congress to ease deportations of immigrants illegally in the United States would severely hurt chances of overhauling the nation's immigration laws.


Jet aborts takeoff after gear failure in Philly

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 08:09 PM PDT

Passengers evacuate US Airways Flight 1702 after the pilot was forced to abort takeoff shortly after 6 p.m., after a tire on the plane's front landing gear blew out, Thursday, March 13, 2014, in Philadelphia. The Airbus A320 jet, bound for Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was carrying 149 passengers and five crew members, airport spokeswoman Victoria Lupica said. All were rescheduled on departing flights Thursday night, she said. (AP Photo/Dennis Fee)Emergency slides were deployed to allow passengers to get off the crippled plane.


Death toll in NYC gas explosion climbs to 8

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 08:08 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 to search rubble for more victims of a gas explosion found an eighth body on Thursday while investigators tried to pinpoint the leak and determine whether it had anything to do with the city's aging gas and water mains, some from the 1800s.


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