| American who contracted Ebola now in critical condition Posted: 16 Mar 2015 01:01 PM PDT  Eleven other workers from the same nonprofit are being monitored for the virus.
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| Police: Robert Durst had revolver on him when arrested Posted: 16 Mar 2015 04:00 PM PDT  The real estate heir was arrested hours before the finale of an HBO show on his life.
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| Suspect in Ferguson shooting of police appears in court Posted: 16 Mar 2015 04:32 PM PDT  By Richard Valdmanis FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) - The man accused of wounding two policemen during a protest rally outside the Ferguson, Missouri, police headquarters last week appeared in court briefly on Monday and did not enter a plea to charges that could bring up to life in prison. The shooting was the latest violent incident in months of demonstrations in Ferguson, a St. Louis suburb, after a white police officer fatally shot unarmed black teen Michael Brown during a confrontation in August. Jeffrey L. Williams, 20, has admitted to firing the shots that wounded the officers early Thursday and told authorities he was not shooting at police, Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch said on Sunday after announcing the arrest. Williams gave no statements on Monday and told Judge Joseph Dueker in St. Louis County Circuit Court that he planned to hire a private attorney.
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| Video shows vast devastation from Cyclone Pam Posted: 16 Mar 2015 08:26 AM PDT  Cyclone Pam ravaged the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu over the weekend, killing at least 8 people, injuring dozens more and nearly wiping the country's capital off the map.
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| Defense lawyer rips Petraeus plea deal for ‘double standard’ Posted: 16 Mar 2015 01:35 AM PDT  A lawyer complains his client went to jail for leaking while the ex-CIA chief walked.
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| Putin laughs off 'rumours' over his 10-day absence Posted: 16 Mar 2015 04:18 PM PDT  Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday laughed off days of frenzied "rumours" over his health and whereabouts as he reappeared in public after an unusually long 10-day absence. Emerging after days of speculation that he was either ill or had even been deposed in a palace coup, Putin met with the leader of ex-Soviet Kyrgyzstan just outside Saint Petersburg. The typically tardy Putin was two hours late but showed up looking relaxed with no visible signs of ill-health, quelling the rumours that had nevertheless highlighted the fragility of Russia's tightly-controlled political system dominated by one man. "We would be bored if there were no rumours," Putin said as he met Kyrgyzstan's President Almazbek Atambayev at the sumptuous Konstantinov's Palace outside Saint Petersburg.
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| Witnesses recall accused Boston bomber's fight with police, arrest Posted: 16 Mar 2015 01:36 PM PDT  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - The accused Boston Marathon bombers tossed bombs and fired a pistol at police in their final hours on the run before a dazed and wounded Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found hiding in a drydocked boat and arrested, witnesses testified on Monday. Tsarnaev, 21, is accused of killing three people and wounding 264 with a pair of homemade bombs at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, and of fatally shooting a police officer three nights later, setting off a fierce gunfight with police and daylong manhunt through the suburb of Watertown. Defense attorneys opened his case early this month by bluntly admitting the younger Tsarnaev committed all the crimes he is charged with, but attempted to paint his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, as the driving force behind the attacks. "I looked outside and I could see guns firing," the man, James Foley, testified at U.S. District Court in Boston.
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| Obama: care more about jobs, war and peace - less about weed Posted: 16 Mar 2015 03:26 PM PDT  President Barack Obama has a stern message for the younger generation about their political priorities: care more about climate change, and less about legalizing marijuana. Obama, who has been open about smoking pot in high school, chided an interviewer from Vice News who suggested that young people would view legalizing marijuana as a top item when considering the president's legacy. "First of all, it shouldn't be young people's biggest priority," Obama said in the interview, posted at https://news.vice.com/ "Young people: I understand this is important to you, but as you be thinking about climate change, the economy and jobs, war and peace, maybe way at the bottom you should be thinking about marijuana," Obama said. Obama has long said he supports decriminalizing marijuana but not legalizing the drug.
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| At South by Southwest, Rand Paul champions Snapchat, criticizes Clinton Posted: 15 Mar 2015 08:13 PM PDT  Though Republican Rand Paul is not officially running for president, he had plenty to say on Sunday about the woman expected to soon make a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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| Jeb Bush’s ethanol past may complicate his Iowa future Posted: 15 Mar 2015 12:21 PM PDT  "The whole point of this was that the big increases were supposed to be in cellulosic ethanol," Bush said.
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