Saturday, March 29, 2014

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Saturday, Mar 29, 2014 11:36 AM PDT
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Work stops briefly at slide site to honor victims 
Saturday, Mar 29, 2014 11:36 AM PDT
 A search and rescue worker carrying a probe wades through water covering Washington Highway 530 Thursday, March 27, 2014, on the eastern edge of the massive mudslide that struck Saturday near Darrington, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, Pool)DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Crews searching for victims in the tangled debris field from the Washington mudslide halted their work Saturday for a moment of silence to honor those lost.
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Magnitude-5.1 earthquake shakes Los Angeles 
Saturday, Mar 29, 2014 12:31 PM PDT
 LOS ANGELES (AP) — A magnitude-5.1 earthquake shook the Los Angeles area and surrounding counties Friday evening, authorities said
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Despite new law, Ugandan cleric ministers to gays 
Saturday, Mar 29, 2014 12:33 PM PDT
 In this photo taken Sunday, March 16, 2014, Rev. Christopher Senyonjo, 82, gives a sermon on human sexuality at his makeshift church, the size of a small office, in Kampala, Uganda. Dressed in a purple shirt and white collar that highlight his Anglican faith, Bishop Senyonjo doesn't organize his Sunday evening prayers for homosexuals only, but his sermons attract many gays who are familiar with his sympathetic views in a country where other Christian preachers have led Uganda's anti-gay crusade. (AP Photo)KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Young men sing hymns and recite the Bible before the Rev. Christopher Senyonjo gives a sermon on human sexuality. When the service is over some go to his desk, one by one, for counselling no other Ugandan religious leader is known to offer gays.
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Obama offers Europe, Mideast allies assurances 
Saturday, Mar 29, 2014 11:59 AM PDT
 In this March 24, 2014, photo, U.S. President Barack Obama waves in front of Dutch master Rembrandt's The Night Watch painting during a visit to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands. From the heart of Europe to the expanse of Saudi Arabia's desert, Obama's weeklong overseas trip amounted to a reassurance tour for stalwart, but sometimes skeptical, American allies. At a time when Obama is grappling with crises and conflict in both Europe and the Middle East, the four-country swing also served as a reminder that even those longtime partners still need some personal attention from the president. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — From the heart of Europe to the expanse of Saudi Arabia's desert, President Barack Obama's weeklong overseas trip amounted to a reassurance tour for stalwart, but sometimes skeptical, American allies.
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Police: Man, 86, kills grandson's girlfriend, self 
Saturday, Mar 29, 2014 11:40 AM PDT
 NEW YORK (AP) — Police say an 86-year-old man shot his grandson in the head and then killed the grandson's girlfriend before fatally shooting himself in New York City.
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Study backs nonsurgical way to fix heart valves 
Saturday, Mar 29, 2014 12:24 PM PDT
 Medtronic Inc.'s CoreValve is photographed at an American College of Cardiology Conference in Washington, on Saturday, March 29, 2014. A new study gives a big boost to fixing a bad aortic valve, the heart's main gate, without open-heart surgery. Survival rates were better one year later for people who had a new valve placed through a tube into an artery instead. Earlier this year, the CoreValve was also approved for treating people at too high risk to have surgery. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)WASHINGTON (AP) — A new study gives a big boost to fixing a bad aortic valve, the heart's main gate, without open-heart surgery. Survival rates were better one year later for people who had a new valve placed through a tube into an artery instead.
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Shirley Jones wants a high-flying 80th birthday 
Saturday, Mar 29, 2014 08:11 AM PDT
 FILE - In this July 15, 2013 file photo, actress Shirley Jones poses for a portrait at her home in Los Angeles. Jones wants to mark her 80th birthday with a high-flying adventure. The Oscar-winning actress and singer says she plans to go skydiving on Monday, March 31, 2014, her birthday, for the first time. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Inspired by a former president, Shirley Jones can't wait to jump into her birthday plans.
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Attacks threaten to undermine Afghan vote 
Saturday, Mar 29, 2014 10:35 AM PDT
 An Afghan policeman rides on top of his armored vehicle as he rushes to the scene as Taliban militants attacked the main Afghan election commission's headquarters on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, firing on the compound with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns from a house outside its perimeter wall, Saturday, March 29, 2014. Dozens of employees and other people who had been inside the Independent Election Commission compound took cover in the basement, and no casualties were reported. But two warehouses were hit and set on fire, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban militants attacked the main Afghan election commission's headquarters in Kabul on Saturday, the latest in a series of audacious assaults threatening to scare voters away just a week before Afghans go to the polls.
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Latest information on search for missing jet 
Saturday, Mar 29, 2014 09:03 AM PDT
 FILE - In this March 20, 2014 file photo provided by the Australia Defence Department, Royal Australian Air Force Loadmasters Sgt. Adam Roberts, left, and Flight Sgt. John Mancey, launch a Self Locating Data Marker Buoy from a C-130J Hercules aircraft in the southern Indian Ocean as part of the Australian Defence Force's assistance to the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The disappearance of the airplane has presented two tales of modern technology. The public has been surprised to learn of the limitations of tracking and communications devices, which contributed to the plane vanishing for more than two weeks. But the advanced capabilities of some technologies, particularly satellites, have provided hope that the mystery won't go unsolved. (AP Photo/Australian Defence Department, Justin Brown, File)Planes and ships scoured the new search zone for the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 on Saturday, hoping to recover and analyze any of the several objects spotted from the air.
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Klitschko backs billionaire for Ukraine presidency 
Saturday, Mar 29, 2014 11:31 AM PDT
 People reacts during former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, speech at the Batkivshchina (Fatherland) party congress in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, March 29, 2014. Tymoshenko, declared this week that she will "be the candidate of Ukrainian unity." The May 25 election is taking place against the backdrop of the annexation of Crimea, Ukraine's dire economic straits and rumblings of discontent in the country's mainly Russian-speaking eastern provinces. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ex-world boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, considered a strong contender to become Ukraine's next leader, upended the country's presidential race Saturday by announcing he will throw his support instead behind a billionaire candy maker.
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Thousands of Muslims stuck in C. African Republic 
Saturday, Mar 29, 2014 03:46 AM PDT
 BODA, Central African Republic (AP) — There is only one neighborhood in Boda where Muslims are safe from the bullets and machetes of Christian militia fighters. Many who ventured out were killed, their throats slit or their cars showered in gunfire.
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UN panel: 8 reasons to worry about global warming 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 10:16 PM PDT
 FILE - This Nov. 13, 2013 file photo, shows typhoon damaged fuel tanks along the coast in Tanawan, central Philippines. A United Nations panel of scientists has drafted a list of eight ``key risksYOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — If you have already read "12 Pieces of Practical Advice from Housecats," now you can move on to "8 Reasons to Worry about Global Warming."
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Turkish court backs Twitter but site still blocked 
Saturday, Mar 29, 2014 04:22 AM PDT
 FILE - In this March 17, 2014 file photo, a huge poster of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan seen in the city center in Istanbu, Turkey. Erdogan has been ensnared in a corruption scandal that has toppled four Cabinet ministers. He has provoked outrage at home and abroad with an attempt to block Twitter and YouTube. His incessant us-against-them rhetoric and conspiracy theories have alienated allies. Meanwhile, the Turkish Lira has fallen, interest rates are up and the Turkish economy has fallen off a cliff. It all might be enough to oust any leader. But as Turks prepare to vote in local elections Sunday, it's all about Erdogan.(AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, File)ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — In a second ruling against Turkey's ban on Twitter, a Turkish court has overturned an order for the social media network to remove an account that accuses a former minister of corruption, reports said Saturday.
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Russia vows no Ukraine invasion as diplomacy intensifies 
Saturday, Mar 29, 2014 10:46 AM PDT
 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov holds a press conference in The Hague on March 24, 2014 on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS)Moscow pledged it would not invade mainland Ukraine and said it favored the ex-Soviet state becoming a federation as a way of defusing the crisis.
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Trip at an end, Obama has issues waiting at home 
Saturday, Mar 29, 2014 08:11 AM PDT
 U.S. President Obama presents executive director of Saudi Arabia's National Family Safety Program Al Muneef with U.S. Secretary of State's International Woman of Courage Award in RiyadhPresident Barack Obama is returning to looming domestic and foreign challenges.
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Assad preparing to run for president despite war 
Saturday, Mar 29, 2014 05:43 AM PDT
 This photo taken on March 20, 2014, posted on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, shows first lady Asma Assad, left background, and Syrian President Bashar Assad, right background, shaking hands with Syrian teachers in Damascus, Syria. As Syrian army made gains on the battlefield, Assad's Britain-born wife has come out of seclusion, joining her husband's campaign to infuse confidence and optimism into the war-wrecked nation. Since January, Asma Assad has made several carefully scripted public appearances in the past months. (AP Photo/Syrian Presidency via Facebook)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad is quietly preparing the ground to hold elections by early this summer to win another 7-year term, even as the Syrian conflict rampages into its fourth year with large parts of the country either in ruins or under opposition control and nearly a third of the population scattered by civil war.
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Putin calls Obama to talk Ukraine 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 03:28 PM PDT
 Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a Security Council meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 28, 2014. Russia's president says Ukraine could regain some arms and equipment of military units in Crimea that did not switch their loyalty to Russia. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)White House says president pressed Russia for written response to U.S. diplomatic plan.
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Brother describes pulling mudslide victim's body from car 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 03:59 PM PDT
 By Jonathan Kaminsky DARRINGTON, Washington (Reuters) - Days after risking his own life and defying arrest by joining the search for Washington state mudslide victims in a vast, mucky debris field near Oso, Dayn Brunner retrieved the body of the No. 1 person he had been looking for - his sister. Brunner, 42, recounted the tragic coincidence in an interview with Reuters on Friday, two days after it unfolded on the enormous mound of mud and rubble left by last Saturday's disaster, which has claimed at least 26 lives and left 90 people still missing. Brunner said he was on the mud pile on Wednesday afternoon when other rescue workers found a blue object and called him over to the spot. It was the same color as the car his sister, Summer Raffo, 36, was known to have been driving through the area when the slide struck.
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Boston bombing suspect's lawyers say FBI scouted brother 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 04:28 PM PDT
 FILE - This combination of file photos shows brothers Tamerlan, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15, 2013. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died after a gunfight with police several days later, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was captured and is held in a federal prison on charges of using a weapon of mass destruction. On Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder authorized the government to seek the death penalty in the case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Opposition to the death penalty runs deep in liberal Massachusetts. In a Boston Globe survey in September 2013, 57 percent of Massachusetts residents polled favored life in prison for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, while 33 percent favored execution. (AP Photos/Lowell Sun and FBI, File)BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev say the FBI asked his older brother and fellow suspect to be an informant on the Chechen and Muslim community.
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Third batch of Clinton records go public 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 03:04 PM PDT
 FILE - Former president Bill Clinton speaks at a student conference for the Clinton Global Initiative University at Arizona State University, in this March 21, 2014 file photo taken in Tempe, Ariz. The National Archives is scheduled to release thousands of pages of documents from Bill Clinton's administration Friday March 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bill Clinton's top aides began debating how to build a presidential legacy days after he won re-election in 1996, newly released documents show.
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T-O-R-T-U-R-E 
Friday, Mar 28, 2014 05:08 PM PDT
 Jeremiah DentonJeremiah Denton, Vietnam POW, blinked out that message in enemy propaganda film. The former senator died today.
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