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| Gunman reported at Stevenson University near Baltimore Monday, Mar 31, 2014 12:19 PM PDT  Police were investigating a report on Monday of a gunman at Maryland's Stevenson University but no shots had been fired, authorities said. The school said on its website that it had an "active shooter" on its Owings Mills campus north of Baltimore. "Police are searching but have been unable to find anything at this time," the Baltimore County Police said. Full Story | Top |
| For sale to qualified buyers: Leftovers from 13 years of war Monday, Mar 31, 2014 11:15 AM PDT  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United States is trying to sell or dispose of billions of dollars in military hardware, including sophisticated and highly specialized mine resistant vehicles as it packs up to leave Afghanistan after 13 years of war, officials said Monday. Full Story | Top |
| Discovery could solve 61-year-old mystery of missing N.M. woman Monday, Mar 31, 2014 07:53 AM PDT  Authorities in New Mexico say they have a new lead in a 61-year-old cold case after bone fragments were discovered at the former home of a man whose 26-year-old wife, Inez Garcia, went missing in 1952. Full Story | Top |
| Protesters, police clash in Albuquerque Monday, Mar 31, 2014 07:44 AM PDT  People demand officials' resignations after string of police shootings. Full Story | Top |
| Israel police recover ancient burial boxes Monday, Mar 31, 2014 09:59 AM PDT  The boxes contain bone fragments and remnants of pottery buried with the dead. Full Story | Top |
| Kerry returns to Middle East for flailing peace talks Monday, Mar 31, 2014 09:50 AM PDT  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry broke from his travel schedule for the second time in a week and rushed back to the Middle East on Monday to try to salvage Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. A major stumbling block is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's demand that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas explicitly recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Sources close to the negotiations said that an Israeli spy serving a life sentence in the United States and groups of Palestinian prisoners could be freed under an emerging deal to salvage the talks. The U.S.-brokered negotiations faced a crisis at the weekend when Israel, saying it was seeking a Palestinian commitment to continue negotiations beyond an end-April deadline, failed to press ahead with a promised release of Palestinian prisoners. 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 |
| NSA tool increased RSA security vulnerability, researchers say Monday, Mar 31, 2014 08:01 AM PDT  By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Security industry pioneer RSA adopted not just one but two encryption tools developed by the U.S. National Security Agency, greatly increasing the spy agency's ability to eavesdrop on some Internet communications, according to a team of academic researchers. Reuters reported in December that the NSA had paid RSA $10 million to make a now-discredited cryptography system the default in software used by a wide range of Internet and computer security programs. The system, called Dual Elliptic Curve, was a random number generator, but it had a deliberate flaw - or "back door" - that allowed the NSA to crack the encryption. A group of professors from Johns Hopkins, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Illinois and elsewhere now say they have discovered that a second NSA tool exacerbated the RSA software's vulnerability. Full Story | Top |
| International court orders stay on Japanese whaling Monday, Mar 31, 2014 04:52 AM PDT  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Court of Justice on Monday ordered a temporary halt to Japan's Antarctic whaling program, ruling that it is not for scientific purposes as the Japanese government had claimed. Full Story | Top |
| Russia pulls back a battalion from Ukraine border Monday, Mar 31, 2014 12:48 PM PDT  SIMFEROPOL, Crimea (AP) — Russia said Monday it was pulling a battalion of several hundred troops away from the Ukrainian border but kept tens of thousands in place, prompting a worried response from the Kiev government about what the U.S. warned was still a "tremendous buildup." 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 |
| Congress to pass bill to stop cut to Medicare docs Monday, Mar 31, 2014 11:27 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is poised to give doctors who treat Medicare patients an eleventh-hour reprieve from a cut in their government fees. Full Story | Top |
| Engaged Johnny Depp shows off 'chick's ring' Monday, Mar 31, 2014 10:25 AM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — Johnny Depp showed off a diamond engagement ring that he called a "chick's ring" on Monday — indirectly confirming rumors of his engagement to actress Amber Heard. Full Story | Top |
| Germany returns looted Guardi painting to Poland Monday, Mar 31, 2014 12:38 PM PDT  BERLIN (AP) — An 18th-century painting looted by the Nazis for Adolf Hitler's 'Fuehrer Museum' was handed back to Poland on Monday, a move Germany hopes will revive thorny talks over a vast trove of historical documents that Berlin wants to recover from Poland. Full Story | Top |
| MLB uses expanded replay 1st time, call confirmed Monday, Mar 31, 2014 11:53 AM PDT PITTSBURGH (AP) — Major League Baseball has used expanded replay for the first time, and the umpire's call was confirmed in a game between the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates. Full Story | Top |
| Firefighter rescues 6-foot python from blaze Monday, Mar 31, 2014 10:15 AM PDT  MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) — A firefighter put his reptile-handling experience to good use when he rescued a 6-foot-long python from a burning home in western Michigan. Full Story | Top |
| Surgery gives long-term help for obese diabetics Monday, Mar 31, 2014 07:15 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — New research is boosting hopes that weight-loss surgery can put some patients' diabetes into remission for years and perhaps in some cases, for good. Full Story | Top |
| Mad dash for health care sign-ups on deadline day Monday, Mar 31, 2014 11:18 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A flood of last-minute applicants rushed to sign up for health insurance on Monday, deadline day for President Barack Obama's health care law, with more than 100,000 people at a time using the fragile system despite a new spate of intermittent ills. 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 |
| Objects seen in jet search are fishing equipment Monday, Mar 31, 2014 06:05 AM PDT  PERTH, Australia (AP) — A cluster of orange objects spotted by a search plane was just fishing equipment and not related to the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, officials said Monday, in the latest disappointment in the three-week hunt that Australia's prime minister said will continue indefinitely. Full Story | Top |
| Senate report: Torture didn't lead to bin Laden Monday, Mar 31, 2014 09:12 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate investigation concludes waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods provided no key evidence in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to congressional aides and outside experts familiar with a still-secret, 6,200-page report. The finding could deepen the worst rift in years between lawmakers and the CIA. 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  Although Gov. Steve Beshear embraced the law, a Republican says it's "unsustainable." Full Story | Top |
| Weight loss surgery helps reverse type 2 diabetes, study shows Monday, Mar 31, 2014 10:31 AM PDT  By Bill Berkrot and Ransdell Pierson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bariatric weight loss surgery on obese patients with type 2 diabetes helped many get their blood sugar to healthy levels and to no longer require any diabetes medicines, including insulin, three years after the procedure, according to data presented at a major medical meeting on Monday. The study called Stampede, which involved 150 obese patients who had poorly controlled type 2 diabetes for at least eight years, was conducted by Cleveland Clinic researchers. It compared two types of weight loss surgery against weight loss attained by diet and exercise along with nutrition counseling and, for some, additional diabetes medicines that can help promote weight loss, such as Victoza from Novo Nordisk. Full Story | Top |
| Mudslide death toll rises; rains expected to ease Monday, Mar 31, 2014 06:08 AM PDT  DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — The rains that have bedeviled crews searching for victims in the debris field from the deadly Washington state mudslide are expected to ease this week, but searchers faced other challenges at the site like household chemicals and sewage. Full Story | Top |
| UN panel: Warming worsens food, hunger problems Monday, Mar 31, 2014 02:26 AM PDT  Climate change makes feeding the world harder and more expensive, a United Nations scientific panel said. 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 |
| Global warming dials up our risks, UN report says Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 08:26 PM PDT  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 U.N. scientific panel warned. Full Story | Top |
| U.S., Russia talks fail to end Ukraine deadlock Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 10:39 PM PDT  Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian diplomat Sergey Lavrov disagreed on crucial issues. Full Story | Top |
| SKorea fires shells at NKorean waters after drills Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 10:07 PM PDT  South Korea has fired artillery shells in response to North Korean shells from a live-fire drill that fell in waters south of the rivals' disputed western sea boundary. Full Story | Top |
| Australia PM: No time limit on Malaysia jet search Monday, Mar 31, 2014 04:17 AM PDT  Prime Minister Tony Abbott said there was no time limit on the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. Full Story | Top |
| NKorea conducts live-fire drills near sea boundary Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 09:08 PM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Monday conducted live-fire drills near the rival Koreas' disputed western sea boundary, South Korean officials said, in a move seen as an expression of Pyongyang's frustration at making little progress in its recent push to win outside aid. Full Story | Top |
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