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Obama to lay out NSA reforms next week

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Obama to lay out NSA reforms next week

Obama to lay out NSA reforms next week

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 10:48 AM PST

US President Barack Obama stands next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the G20 summit in Saint Petersburg on September 6, 2013May call for curb on spying on friendly leaders, changes to phone data storage.

Iran: Nukes roadmap ready for sign-offs

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 10:01 AM PST

The future of Iran's Arak heavy water IR-40 reactor is one of the key points in a landmark nuclear deal Tehran recently signed with world powers in GenevaOfficial tied to UN nuclear agency confirms report on secret Geneva negotiations.

Google apologizes for Berlin map with Third Reich gaffe

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 07:57 AM PST

A screenshot made on January 10, 2014 from the Google Maps website shows an online map of Berlin with Theodor Heuss-Plazt Square resulting from a search of its Nazi-era name "Adolf Hitler"Google issued an apology after it was discovered a popular spot in Berlin had been temporarily and inexplicably renamed after Adolf Hitler on the company's online map service.

'I don't know if the water is not safe'

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 10:13 AM PST

Charleston resident Niru Parikshak loads up the back of her car with bottled water Thursday Jan. 9, 2014 in Charleston, W.Va. . Sam's Club and every retailer for a twenty mile radius sold out of bottled water after a chemical leak Thursday morning up river from the WV American Plant on the Elk River forced the water plant to shut down. (AP Photo/Charleston Daily Mail, Bob Wojcieszak)Thousands of gallons of a hazardous chemical leaked into a W. Va. river.

Federal government to recognize same-sex couples in Utah

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 10:30 AM PST

Tony Butterfield and his husband Paul Redd-Butterfield play board games with their adopted 11 year-old twin sons Lucas and Liam at their home in SandyWASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday extended federal recognition to the marriages of more than 1,000 same-sex couples in Utah that took place before the Supreme Court put those unions in the state on hold.

N.J. town caught in scandal loves, hates that bridge

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 07:19 AM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2011 file photo two women walk at Palisades Interstate Park as the sun sets over the George Washington Bridge, in Fort Lee, N.J. Many people have known little about Fort Lee until a political scandal centering on New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie enveloped the borough. Now for residents of the New York City bedroom community defined by both a feisty pride and frustration over the mixed blessings of proximity to the George Washington Bridge, the scandal is the reminder they did not need of how the bridge dictates the rhythm of everyday life. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)FORT LEE, N.J. (AP) — When Mayor Mark Sokolich's annual Christmas card showed up in mailboxes a few weeks ago, some residents took careful note of the photo selected for the front: the steely silhouette of this borough's treasured, and sometimes detested, George Washington Bridge — and a Revolutionary War cannon firing off a shot, as if to warn off unseen enemies who might try to threaten it.

U.S. considering sanctions against South Sudan

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 10:16 AM PST

Displaced people walk past razor wire at Tomping camp, where some 15,000 displaced people who fled their homes are sheltered by the United Nations, near JubaBy Louis Charbonneau and Warren Strobel UNITED NATIONS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is weighing targeted sanctions against South Sudan due to the failure of leaders in the world's youngest nation to take steps to end a crisis that has brought the country to the brink of civil war, sources briefed on U.S. discussions told Reuters. "It's a tool that has been discussed," a source told Reuters on condition of anonymity about the possibility of U.S. sanctions against those blocking peace efforts or fueling violence in South Sudan. The U.S. government was unlikely to consider steps intended to economically harm impoverished South Sudan but would likely focus on any measures on those individuals or groups it sees as blocking efforts at brokering peace or committing atrocities. Three weeks of fighting, often along ethnic lines, is ringing alarm bells in Washington over the prospect that the conflict could spiral into full-blown civil war, spawning atrocities or making South Sudan the world's next failed state.

Target data breach grows to 70M customers

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 10:28 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 19, 2013 file photo, a passer-by walks near an entrance to a Target retail store in Watertown, Mass. Target on Friday, Dec. 27, 2013 said that customers' encrypted PIN data was removed during the data breach that occurred earlier this month. But the company says it believes the PIN numbers are still safe because the information was strongly encrypted. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)Phone numbers, addresses and other personal information was stolen.

U.S. job growth falters as cold weather grips nation

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 10:50 AM PST

Job seekers stand in line to meet prospective employers at a career fair in New York CityBy Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers hired the fewest workers in nearly three years in December, but the setback was likely to be temporary amid signs that unusually cold weather may have had an impact. The surprisingly weak job growth figures reported by the Labor Department on Friday, however, could cause some discomfort at the Federal Reserve, which last month announced plans to scale back its massive monetary stimulus program. Nonfarm payrolls rose only 74,000 in December, the smallest increase since January 2011 and well short of the 200,000 jobs or so that most economists had expected. While the unemployment rate fell 0.3 percentage point to 6.7 percent, its lowest level since October 2008, the decline mostly reflected people leaving the labor force.

Will bridge scandal hurt a Christie 2016 bid?

Posted: 09 Jan 2014 04:15 PM PST

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie departs City Hall in Fort Lee, New JerseyThe road to the White House just got bumpier for the N.J. governor - but it's not closed.

India orders U.S. to withdraw diplomat as row festers

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 11:06 AM PST

By Frank Jack Daniel NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The United States said on Friday it would withdraw one of its diplomats from New Delhi at India's request after Washington effectively expelled an Indian envoy at the center of a dispute between the countries. Devyani Khobragade, 39, who was India's deputy consul-general in New York, was arrested in December on charges of visa fraud and lying to U.S. authorities about what she paid her housekeeper. Khobragade's arrest angered Indians amid disclosures she was handcuffed and strip-searched. Khobragade arrived in New Delhi on Friday night and was met by her father, Uttam Khobragade.

NJ's Christie looks to recover after staff shakeup

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 06:06 AM PST

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie leaves City Hall Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, in Fort Lee, N.J. Christie traveled to Fort Lee to apologize in person to Mayor Mark Sokolich. Moving quickly to contain a widening political scandal, Christie fired one of his top aides Thursday and apologized repeatedly for the "abject stupidity" of his staff, insisting he had no idea anyone around him had engineered traffic jams to get even with a Democratic mayor. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A wounded Chris Christie is working to move beyond the most challenging test of his political career, a traffic scandal that rocked his administration this week and threatens to tarnish his national image ahead of the next presidential contest.

Activists: Nearly 500 dead in Syria rebel clashes

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 06:03 AM PST

BEIRUT (AP) — Rebel-on-rebel fighting between an al-Qaida-linked group and an array of more moderate and ultraconservative Islamists has killed nearly 500 people over the past week in northern Syria, an activist group said Friday, in the most serious bout of violence among opponents of President Bashar Assad since the civil war began.

US withdraws diplomat after India expulsion demand

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 11:29 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2013 file photo, photo shows Devyani Khobragade, who served as India's deputy consul general in New York, during the India Studies Stony Brook University fund raiser event at Long Island, New York. In a move that could cool a smoldering diplomatic dispute, the U.S. allowed Khobragade to leave the country Friday after she was indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury, giving both countries a way to claim victory. (AP Photo/Mohammed Jaffer, File)NEW DELHI (AP) — The United States said Friday it was withdrawing a diplomat from India in hopes it would end a bitter dispute that started with the arrest and strip search of an Indian diplomat in New York.

Jordan Valley settlements hit by boycott campaign

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 11:43 AM PST

In this Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 photo, a Thai worker sits in a back of a truck load with flowers in the fields of the West Bank Jordan Valley Jewish settlement of Petsael. For Israeli farmers in the West Bank's Jordan Valley, an international campaign to boycott settlement products has turned almost overnight from a distant nuisance into a harsh economic reality. The export-driven income of growers in the valley's 21 settlements dropped by 15 percent, or $29 million dollars, last year because Western European supermarket chains trying to avoid political entanglements largely stopped buying the valley's grapes, dates and sweet peppers. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)NETIV HAGDUD, West Bank (AP) — An international campaign to boycott Israeli settlement products has rapidly turned from a distant nuisance into a harsh economic reality for Israeli farmers in the West Bank's Jordan Valley.

Niagara Falls sparkles after windy deep freeze

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 10:41 AM PST

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — Niagara Falls hasn't frozen over, but it has become an icy spectacle, thanks to a blast of arctic wind and cold that blew around and froze the mist on surfaces and landscaping.

Agent: Rodman did not accept North Korean money

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 11:41 AM PST

El basquetbolista Dennis Rodman canta "Feliz cumpleaños" al líder norcoreano Kim Jong Un, sentado en las gradas, antes de un partido de exhibición de básquetbol en un estadio techado en Pyongyang, Corea del Norte, el miércoles 8 de enero de 2014. (Foto AP/Kim Kwang Hyon)Dennis Rodman's agent says the former NBA star did not take any payment from the North Korean government during his trip this week to the country.

Iran: Initial deal on implementing nuke agreement

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 11:34 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2013 file photo Iran's deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, right, shakes hands with Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano prior to a meeting at the International Center in Vienna, Austria. Nearly seven weeks after signing a landmark nuclear deal, representatives of Iran and six world powers hope to reach agreement this week on its implementation. But differences over Tehranís push to improve its uranium enrichment abilities could further delay enactment and strengthen critics of the accord in Washington and Tehran. A meeting, scheduled to start Thursday afternoon, Jan. 9, 2014 in Geneva, is formally being held by Araghchi and EU senior negotiator Helga Schmid, on behalf of the six world powers. (AP Photo/Hans Punz, File)GENEVA (AP) — Iran's nuclear envoy in Geneva said Friday that an initial agreement has been reached on how to implement a nuclear deal with six world powers.

Minister: Lack of peace will hurt Israeli economy

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 11:25 AM PST

In this Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 photo, a Thai worker sits in a back of a truck load with flowers in the fields of the West Bank Jordan Valley Jewish settlement of Petsael. For Israeli farmers in the West Bank's Jordan Valley, an international campaign to boycott settlement products has turned almost overnight from a distant nuisance into a harsh economic reality. The export-driven income of growers in the valley's 21 settlements dropped by 15 percent, or $29 million dollars, last year because Western European supermarket chains trying to avoid political entanglements largely stopped buying the valley's grapes, dates and sweet peppers. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)NETIV HAGDUD, West Bank (AP) — Israel's finance minister says Israel will be hurt economically by growing international isolation if it fails to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians.

India asks US Embassy to remove an officer

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 08:17 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2013 file photo, photo shows Devyani Khobragade, who served as India's deputy consul general in New York, during the India Studies Stony Brook University fund raiser event at Long Island, New York. In a move that could cool a smoldering diplomatic dispute, the U.S. allowed Khobragade to leave the country Friday after she was indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury, giving both countries a way to claim victory. (AP Photo/Mohammed Jaffer, File)NEW DELHI (AP) — India asked the United States on Friday to withdraw a diplomat from the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, the latest retaliation in a smoldering diplomatic dispute touched off by the arrest and strip search of an Indian diplomat in New York.

French president angry over report on love life

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 09:27 AM PST

FILE - This Sunday, May 6, 2012, file photo shows French president-elect Francois Hollande kissing his companion, Valerie Trierweiler, after greeting crowds gathered to celebrate his election victory in Bastille Square in Paris. Hollande is threatening legal action over magazine report saying he is having a secret affair with a French actress. The magazine Closer published images Friday Jan.10, 2014 showing his bodyguard and a helmeted man it says is Hollande visiting what it says is the apartment of the actress. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande threatened legal action Friday over a magazine report saying he is having a secret affair with an actress, the latest breach in the French media's practice of turning a blind eye to presidential love affairs.

GOP-led House again targets Obama health care law

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 07:26 AM PST

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. The top Democrat in the Republican-controlled House focused on the Affordable Care Act and the fight to pass immigration reform. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans targeted President Barack Obama's health care law on Friday, pushing legislation to impose new rules on the administration that Democrats argued was designed to scare Americans from enrolling for coverage.

Activist writer Amiri Baraka dies at 79

Posted: 09 Jan 2014 02:44 PM PST

FILE - This March 12, 1972 file photo shows poet and social activist Amiri Baraka speaking during the Black Political Convention in Gary, Ind. Baraka, a Beat poet, black nationalist and Marxist revolutionary known for his blues-based, fist-shaking manifestos, died, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, N.J. at age 79. (AP Photo/Julian C. Wilson, File)Amiri Baraka, the militant man of letters and tireless agitator whose blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticism made him a provocative and groundbreaking force in American culture, has died. He was 79.

More than half in Congress are millionaires

Posted: 09 Jan 2014 12:15 PM PST

Dr. EvilIf you're not worth a million bucks, you are now a minority in Congress.

Nuke launch officers tied to drug probe

Posted: 09 Jan 2014 12:56 PM PST

An image provided by Vandenberg Air Force Base shows an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile being launched during an operational test Wednesday May 22, 2013, from Launch Facility-4 on Vandenberg AFB, Calif. The U.S. Air Force launched this unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from a California base, a month after the test flight was postponed because of tensions with North Korea. (AP Photo/ Vandenberg Air Force Base)F.E. WARREN AIR FORCE BASE, Wyo. (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel made a rare visit Thursday to an Air Force nuclear missile base, hoping to boost morale among the men and women who operate and safeguard the nation's Minuteman 3 nuclear missiles. But his attempt to cheer the troops was tempered by news that launch officers at another base had been implicated in an illegal-narcotics investigation.

Niagara Falls captured in eye-catching partial freeze

Posted: 09 Jan 2014 06:24 AM PST

Partially frozen Niagara FallsThe polar vortex that has gripped the U.S. and Canada this week has led to some spectacular icy images. The latest come Niagara Falls, which partially froze on Tuesday.

Did Obama screw up by picking Gates?

Posted: 09 Jan 2014 11:47 AM PST

FILE - In this April 28. 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama stands in the East Room of the White House in Washington with, from left: Vice President Joe Biden and outgoing Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The White House is bristling over former Defense Secretary Robert Gates' new memoir accusing President Barack Obama of showing too little enthusiasm for the U.S. war mission in Afghanistan and sharply criticizing Vice President Joe Biden's foreign policy instincts. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Former defense secretary, a Republican, is out with a buzzy new memoir.

Obama unveils first five economic 'Promise Zones'

Posted: 09 Jan 2014 12:26 AM PST

In this Feb. 13, 2013 photo, President Barack Obama speaks to workers and guests at the Linamar Corporation plant in Arden, N.C. Obama says raising the minimum wage to $9 an hour and tying future increases to inflation will raise the incomes of millions living in poverty and spur job growth. Business groups are not so sure. They complain that boosting the federal rate from $7.25 an hour would discourage employers from hiring new workers, hurting the very people Obama aims to help. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is announcing ways the federal government can help economically challenged communities through five new "Promise Zones."

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