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| Global warming dials up our risks, UN report says Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 08:26 PM PDT  YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — If the world doesn't cut pollution of heat-trapping gases, the already noticeable harms of global warming could spiral "out of control," the head of a United Nations scientific panel warned Monday. Full Story | Top |
| In Kentucky, Obamacare's success did nothing to change the politics of the law Monday, Mar 31, 2014 03:56 AM PDT  In one of the poorest areas of Appalachia, about 2,500 people have signed up to get health insurance over the last six months — a number that represents more than a tenth of Clay County's residents. Full Story | Top |
| Koreas trade fire; island residents in shelters Monday, Mar 31, 2014 12:33 PM PDT SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea fired hundreds of artillery shells into each other's waters Monday in a flare-up of animosity that forced residents of five front-line South Korean islands to evacuate to shelters for several hours, South Korean officials said. Full Story | Top |
| Health care website stumbles on last day Monday, Mar 31, 2014 10:52 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says a new technical problem briefly prevented last-minute users from signing up on the government's health insurance website. The new problem comes as traffic is surging on deadline day. Full Story | Top |
| Ocean garbage frustrates search for Flight 370 Monday, Mar 31, 2014 04:02 AM PDT  Sometimes the object spotted in the water is a snarled fishing line. Or a buoy. Or something that might once have been the lid to an ice box. Not once — not yet at least — has it been a clue. Anticipation ... Full Story | Top |
| SKorea fires shells at NKorean waters after drills Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 10:07 PM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea on Monday returned fire into North Korean waters after shells from a North Korean live-fire drill fell south of the rivals' disputed western sea boundary, a South Korean military official said. Residents on a front-line South Korean island said they were evacuated to shelters during the exchange. Full Story | Top |
| Top UN court orders Japan to end Antarctic whale hunt Monday, Mar 31, 2014 09:49 AM PDT  The United Nations' top court on Monday ordered Japan to end its annual Antarctic whale hunt, saying in a landmark ruling that the programme was a commercial activity disguised as science. Tokyo said it would honour the ruling shortly after it was handed down at the Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ), but did not rule out the possibility of future whaling programmes. "Japan shall revoke any existent authorisation, permit or licence granted in relation to JARPA II (research programme) and refrain from granting any further permits," ICJ presiding judge Peter Tomka ordered. Tokyo was accused of exploiting a legal loophole in the 1986 ban on commercial whaling that allowed the practice to collect scientific data. Full Story | Top |
| Hourslong protest turns to 'mayhem' in Albuquerque Monday, Mar 31, 2014 04:21 AM PDT ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Albuquerque's mayor said that a more than 10-hour protest over recent police shootings turned from peaceful into "mayhem," as officers in riot gear clashed with hundreds of protesters who blocked traffic, tried to get on freeways and shouted anti-police slogans. Full Story | Top |
| Yellowstone National Park rattled by largest earthquake in 34 years Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 05:49 PM PDT  The latest earthquake struck at 6:34 a.m. near the Norris Geyser Basin and was felt about 23 miles away in two small Montana towns adjacent to year-around entrances to the park - Gardiner and West Yellowstone. The national park spans 3,472 square miles (8,992 square km) of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, and draws about 3 million visitors each year to its iconic geysers and wildlife attractions, including bison. A U.S. Geological Survey team planned to tour the Norris Geyser Basin on Sunday to determine if the quake altered any of Yellowstone's geothermal features, such as geysers, mud pots and hot springs. Several people reported having felt shaking they compared to the rumble of a tractor-trailer truck driving by, and a few items fell off the shelves at a local grocery store, a West Yellowstone police dispatcher said. Full Story | Top |
| Is Walking Just as Good as Running? Monday, Mar 31, 2014 05:56 AM PDT A May 2013 study by researchers in the Life Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory looked at data from 33,000 runners and nearly 16,000 walkers to compare the relative health benefits of each activity. To be sure, both walking and running had positive effects. When the researchers checked in with participants six years after the start of the study, they found that running significantly reduced the risk of high blood pressure (by 4.2 percent), high cholesterol (4.3 percent), diabetes (12.1 percent) and cardiovascular heart disease (4.5 percent), for every MET h/d, which is a standard measure of metabolic energy expenditure. Walking decreased risk by 7.2 percent for high blood pressure, 7 percent for high cholesterol, 12.3 percent for diabetes and 9.3 percent for cardiovascular heart disease. Full Story | Top |
| Paris gets first female mayor as concierge bites back Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 06:42 PM PDT  It was a victory to savour. As she bid to become the first female mayor of Paris, Spanish-born Socialist Anne Hidalgo had to endure taunts from her opponents about her modest origins and lack of Parisian roots. Hidalgo had been expected to be run extremely close by her centre-right rival, glamorous former minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, on a night when the Socialists took a beating from voters across the country because of the unpopularity of President Francois Hollande's government. But Hidalgo emerged with nearly 55 percent of second-round votes in the capital, comfortably seeing off Kosciusko-Morizet's challenge. Full Story | Top |
| US, Russia talks fail to end Ukraine deadlock Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 10:39 PM PDT  PARIS (AP) — The U.S. and Russia are advancing far different proposals on how to calm tensions and de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine as Russia continues to mass troops along its border with the former Soviet republic. Full Story | Top |
| Russian prime minister angers Ukraine by visiting Crimea Monday, Mar 31, 2014 11:09 AM PDT  By Darya Korsunskaya SIMFEROPOL, Crimea (Reuters) - Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev flaunted Russia's grip on Crimea by flying to the region and holding a government meeting there on Monday, angering Ukraine and defying Western demands to hand the peninsula back to Kiev. But in a gesture that could ease tension in the worst East-West stand-off since the Cold War, Russia pulled some troops back from near Ukraine's eastern border. President Vladimir Putin told Germany's Angela Merkel that he had ordered a partial drawdown in the region, the German chancellor's spokesman said. ... Full Story | Top |
| GOP opposition to Obamacare baffles Dr. Sullivan Monday, Mar 31, 2014 03:00 AM PDT Commentary: former HHS Secretary Sullivan says Obamacare resembles plan crafted by Republicans. Full Story | Top |
| Obamacare Enrolled Millions in Health Care, but It Is Still Only Loved by Democrats Monday, Mar 31, 2014 08:34 AM PDT  As new reports show that Obamacare is the largest healthcare expansion in 50 years, it faces a weird political problem: conservatives hate it far more than the left likes it. According to the Los Angeles Times, more than 9.5 million previously uninsured people have gained insurance through Obamacare, and less than a million people whose plans were cancelled are now currently uninsured. That figure includes a third of the people who bought private plans through the exchanges, part of the 4.5 million estimated to to have enrolled in Medicaid and a small portion of the 9 million people who bought plans directly from their insurers. It's a number that flat out debunks one of the GOP's biggest talking points, that the health care law has actually led to a net decrease in insurance. Full Story | Top |
| GOP has built-in advantage in fight for US House Monday, Mar 31, 2014 09:59 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Even if Democrats recruit great candidates, raise gobs of money and run smart campaigns, they face an uphill fight to retake control of the House in this year's congressional elections, regardless of the political climate in November. Full Story | Top |
| Josh Elliot Leaves GMA Via Passive-Aggressive Memo Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 05:03 PM PDT  Josh Elliot is leaving Good Morning America, where he's been a news anchor since 2011, for NBC Sports. While it seems like a downgrade to go from ABC's morning show to NBC's sports arm, it was apparently Elliot's choice. ABC News president Ben Sherwood made this pretty clear in his memo announcing Elliot's move: Josh Elliott let us know today that he is going to NBC Sports. Full Story | Top |
| Kerry, Russian counterpart meet on Ukraine crisis Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 02:39 PM PDT  PARIS (AP) — Russia on Sunday set out demands for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis in Ukraine, saying the former Soviet republic should be unified in a federation allowing wide autonomy to its various regions as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met in Paris in another bid to calm tensions. Full Story | Top |
| US, Russia offer differing solutions on Ukraine Monday, Mar 31, 2014 05:02 AM PDT PARIS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov are advancing far different proposals on how to calm tensions and de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine as Russia continues to mass troops along its border with the former Soviet republic. Full Story | Top |
| Kerry to Mideast at critical point in peace talks Monday, Mar 31, 2014 08:55 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry rushed to the Middle East on Monday for a surprise visit aimed at rescuing his Mideast diplomatic efforts, as peace talks approached a critical make-or-break point. Full Story | Top |
| Scale of Guinea's Ebola epidemic unprecedented: aid agency Monday, Mar 31, 2014 07:43 AM PDT By Saliou Samb CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea faces an Ebola epidemic on an unprecedented scale as it battles to contain confirmed cases now scattered across several locations that are far apart, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Monday. The warning from an organization used to tackling Ebola in Central Africa comes after Guinea's president appealed for calm as the number of deaths linked to an outbreak on the border with Liberia and Sierra Leone hit 80. The outbreak of one of the world's most lethal infectious diseases has spooked a number of governments with weak health systems, prompting Senegal to close its border with Guinea and other neighbors to restrict travel and cross-border exchanges. Figures released overnight by Guinea's health ministry showed that there had been 78 deaths from 122 cases of suspected Ebola since January, up from 70. Full Story | Top |
| 11 ancient burial boxes recovered in Israel Monday, Mar 31, 2014 09:59 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities on Monday unveiled 11 ancient burial boxes dating to around the time of Jesus, recovered by police during a midnight raid on suspected antiquities dealers. Full Story | Top |
| Israel hands Palestinians proposal to extend peace talks Monday, Mar 31, 2014 01:45 AM PDT  Israel has handed the Palestinians a proposal aimed at extending peace talks beyond an April 29 deadline, as efforts to salvage the negotiations came to a head. The fate of the US-brokered peace process could be decided within days, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier, warning that "either the matter will be resolved or it will blow up". Netanyahu's remarks to ministers from his rightwing Likud party came as US officials were working around the clock to prevent a collapse of the negotiations over a dispute about Palestinian prisoners. "In any case, there won't be any deal without Israel knowing clearly what it will get in exchange," Netanyahu said. Full Story | Top |
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