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Hillary's question: not if, but how?

Hillary's question: not if, but how?


Hillary's question: not if, but how?

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 04:00 AM PST

465736125SG020_Hillary_ClinShe needs to determine the persona she'll present to voters, Yahoo columnist Matt Bai says.


$5M Stradivarius stolen in stun-gun attack recovered in Milwaukee

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 11:07 AM PST

In this undated photo provided by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Frank Almond plays a 300-year-old Stradivarius violin that was on loan to him during a concert in Milwaukee. Police said Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, three people have been arrested in connection with the theft of the multi-million-dollar instrument. (AP Photo/Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra)MILWAUKEE (AP) — The rare multimillion dollar Stradivarius violin stolen last month in Wisconsin has been recovered, police said Thursday.


Video: U.S. Olympian Bode Miller grades Sochi accommodations

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U.S. charges Russian student with making bomb in Pa.

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 09:37 AM PST

This undated photo provide by the Blair County Prison shows eighteen-year-old Vladislav Miftakhov. Miftakhov, a Pennsylvania college student from Russia, was arrested Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 and charged with building a suspected bomb. Police say he had bomb-making and marijuana-growing materials in his rented bedroom near the Penn State-Altoona campus. (AP Photo/Blair County Prison)PITTSBURGH (AP) — Federal agents have charged a university student from Russia with making a bomb in his Pennsylvania apartment.


Atlanta drivers warned of another winter storm, problem is ...

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 10:04 AM PST

FILE -In this Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 file photo, In this aerial photo taken with a fisheye lens looking south toward downtown Atlanta, the ice-covered interstate system shows the remnants of a winter snow storm, in Atlanta. Less than nine days after a storm trapped commuters in cars and children on school buses in metro Atlanta, state officials say they "overreacted" to information from federal forecasters and posted incorrect information on giant message boards over freeways. (AP Photo/David Tulis, File)ATLANTA (AP) — A little more than a week after snow trapped commuters in cars and children on school buses in metro Atlanta, state officials say they overreacted to information from federal forecasters and posted incorrect information on giant message boards over freeways, warning drivers of a new storm watch.


Cop handcuffs on-duty firefighter for not moving truck

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 07:01 AM PST

handcuffedA California Highway Patrol officer placed an on-duty Chula Vista firefighter in handcuffs for refusing to move his truck while tending to victims of a car crash on the side of the 805 Freeway near Orange County.


Hollande will not address Congress during state visit

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 06:54 AM PST

French President Francois Hollande, makes a joke towards the media after a lunch with Belgian King Philippe and Queen Mathilde at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)Francois Hollande will be the first French president since 1958 to make a state visit to the United States without addressing Congress. Republican House Speaker John Boehner blames a "schedule" problem.


Syrian rebels free hundreds from prison

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 07:52 AM PST

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, residents of the besieged Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp wait to leave the camp, on the southern edge of the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. Over the past six days the U.N. continued to distribute food parcels in the Palestinian camp where activists say at least 85 people have died as a result of lack of food and medicine since mid-2013. (AP Photo/SANA)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels launched a new push in the northern province of Aleppo on Thursday to capture key symbols of the government and stormed a major section of a prison there, freeing hundreds of prisoners in the process, activists said.


Russia tries to soothe jitters as Games begin

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 08:39 AM PST

UN Secretary-General Ban runs with the 2014 Sochi Olympics torch as the torch relay arrives in SochiDespite security measures, there is fear of a planned a suicide bomber.


Taliban captures U.S. military canine

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 07:36 AM PST

A US soldier walks with a sniffer dog at Afghan National Army (ANA) Forward Operating Base Muqor in Ghazni province on May 28, 2013The Taliban say they have captured a dog belonging to the US military following a raid in eastern Afghanistan late last year. A video posted on the insurgents' website on Wednesday and later on Facebook shows the animal, named by the Taliban as "Colonel", being held on a leash in a small, well-lit courtyard surrounded by five men holding guns and grenades. The video's narrator says three guns, one pistol and other equipment including a GPS and a torch were seized from the dog, which was captured after a US operation in Alingar, a volatile district in Afghanistan's Laghman province. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told AFP Thursday: "The Americans conducted an operation on the positions of Mujahideen in Alingar district (of Laghman province).


Peace talks start between Pakistan, Taliban team

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 06:52 AM PST

Pakistani religious clerics and members of Taliban's negotiating committee, from left to right, Professor Ibrahim Khan, Maulana Sami-ul-Haq, and Maulana Abdul Aziz, answer a question during their press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. A three-member committee appointed by Pakistani Taliban to hold peace talks with Pakistan has accused its Pakistani counterparts of scuttling the peace process by not turning up for the first round of talks in the capital. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)ISLAMABAD (AP) — Peace talks between the Pakistani government and representatives of the Taliban began on Thursday after a short delay, the first test for the government's controversial initiative of seeking a peaceful resolution to the country's bloody insurgency, officials said.


After lightning strike, FAA to inspect hundreds of airport towers

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 04:27 AM PST

.WASHINGTON (AP) — A lightning strike that injured an air traffic controller at Baltimore's main airport has exposed a potential vulnerability at airport towers during storms and is prompting Federal Aviation Administration officials to inspect hundreds of towers nationwide, The Associated Press has learned.


Sochi Games get started with slopestyle

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 06:45 AM PST

Canada's Sebastien Toutant performs a jump during the men's slopestyle snowboarding qualifying session at the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games in Rosa KhutorThere were thrills, spills and plenty of nerves as snowboarding opened competition.


The White House Obamacare playbook for vulnerable Democrats

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 02:57 AM PST

FILE - In this June 25, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks about climate change, at Georgetown University in Washington. President Barack Obama is sticking to a fossil-fuel dependent energy policy, delivering a blow to a monthslong, behind-the-scenes effort by nearly every major environmental group to convince the White House that the policy is at odds with his goals on global warming. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)It's mid-October, 2014. On TV, a woman from your state looks directly at the camera as she tells the story of how Obamacare helped her get health insurance just before a devastating accident, or helped her kids with a chronic but common illness like asthma.


Sochi's opening show: Let Putin's games begin

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 07:33 AM PST

The Olympic Cauldron, left, is lit during a test between the Bolshoy Ice Dome, top, and the Iceberg Skating Palace, foreground, early Thursday morning, Feb. 6, 2014, in Sochi, Russia, prior to the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)SOCHI, Russia (AP) — They're designed to celebrate a millennium of Russian might and this country's modern rebound, and kick off two weeks of extraordinary human endeavors and planetary sportsmanship. But the ceremony opening the Sochi Olympics on Friday, more than anything, will be about one man: Vladimir Putin.


Speaker: Immigration measure will be tough to pass

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 10:39 AM PST

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. Boehner said Thursday it will be difficult to pass immigration legislation this year, dimming prospects for one of President Barack Obama's top domestic priorities. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday it will be difficult to pass immigration legislation this year, dimming prospects for one of President Barack Obama's top domestic priorities.


A year adrift on the Pacific? A medical Q and A

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 10:45 AM PST

In this Monday, Feb. 3, 2014 photo provided by the Marshall Islands Foreign Affairs Department, a man identifying himself as 37-year-old Jose Salvador Alvarenga sits on a couch in Majuro in the Marshall Islands, after he was rescued from being washed ashore on the tiny atoll of Ebon in the Pacific Ocean. Alvarenga told the U.S. ambassador in the Marshall Islands Tom Armbruster and the nation's officials that he left Mexico in December 2012 for a day of shark fishing and ended up surviving 13 months on fish, birds and turtles before washing ashore on the remote Marshall Islands thousands of miles (kilometers) away. (AP Photo/Foreign Affairs Department The Marshall Islands, Gee Bing)WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The story of a Salvadoran fisherman who says he survived more than a year adrift on the Pacific Ocean raises many medical questions. The Associated Press spoke with Claude Piantadosi, a professor of medicine at Duke University and author of the book "The Biology of Human Survival," to find out what is physically possible and for his view on the tale of Jose Salvador Alvarenga. This is an edited version of the interview:


After 22 years, Leno bids farewell to 'Tonight'

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 09:23 AM PST

This Nov. 5, 2012 photo released by NBC shows Jay Leno, host of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," on the set in Burbank, Calif. After 22 years, Leno will host his last show on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. Jimmy Fallon starts his NBC "Tonight Show" on Feb. 17, 2014, from New York. (AP Photo/NBC, Paul Drinkwater)BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Jay Leno said farewell to "The Tonight Show" once before, but that turned out to be just a rehearsal.


GI Joe, the world's first action figure, turns 50

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 08:20 AM PST

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — G.I. Joe is turning 50.

10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 09:02 AM PST

AP10thingsToSee - People watch huge waves approaching the lighthouse outside the fishing village of Nazare, in the central coast of Portugal on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014. Many ports, most in in the north of the country, were closed due to the rough seas. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)Here's your look at highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.


Water shortage in California town stokes fears

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 10:35 AM PST

In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, a warning buoy sits on the dry, cracked bed of Lake Mendocino near Ukiah, Calif. Despite recent spot rains The reservoir is currently only about 37 percent full. California remans in the midst of an historic drought causing Gov. Jerry Brown to declare a state of emergency.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)WILLITS, Calif. (AP) — In this small logging town in Northern California's redwood country, small blue signs urging water conservation are almost everywhere you look.


AP PHOTOS: Athletes get ready for Sochi

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 09:23 AM PST

The Olympic Park is illuminated early Thursday morning, Feb. 6, 2014, in Sochi, Russia, prior to the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)The athletes have arrived in Sochi, and they're hitting the ice and snow to get in a few practice runs before the games officially begin.


Ed Sullivan Beatles' item headed to NYC auction

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 09:14 AM PST

.NEW YORK (AP) — A large piece of stage backdrop autographed by the Beatles during their first live U.S. concert 50 years ago is headed to auction, where it could draw $800,000 to $1 million.


Inspiration for 'Philomena' doesn't blame church

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 10:12 AM PST

Philomena Lee gives an interview at the end of a press conference in Rome, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, after her meeting with Pope Francis a day earlier and the Oscar-nominated film based on her story of trying to find a son taken from her 50 years earlier. One of the main criticisms of the Vatican in a U.N. report on sex abuse was the Holy See's failure to investigate the arbitrary placement of girls in church-run workhouses in Ireland, where their out-of-wedlock babies were taken from them and put up for adoption. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)VATICAN CITY (AP) — The woman who inspired the Oscar-nominated film "Philomena," about an Irish mother forced to give up her son for adoption, says she doesn't blame the Vatican for her ordeal, despite a damning U.N. report essentially holding the Holy See responsible for such practices.


Pa. utility agency says 451K remain without power

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 09:37 AM PST

A man inspects an ice covered downed tree that took out an utility line and landed atop a minivan, after a winter storm Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, in Philadelphia. Icy conditions have knocked out power to more than 200,000 electric customers in southeastern Pennsylvania and prompted school and legislative delays as well as speed reductions on major roadways. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pennsylvania's utility regulator said Thursday that 451,000 customers were still without power as the south-central and Philadelphia regions worked to recover from a crippling ice storm.


Storm leaves hundreds of thousands in dark

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 08:00 AM PST

David Sarja clears the sidewalk in front of the Lutheran Healthdcare Center in Worcester, Mass on Wednesday Feb. 5, 2014. A winter storm that dropped close to a foot of snow in some areas of Massachusetts made driving treacherous Wednesday and prompted closures and school cancellations around the state. (AP Photo/Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Christine Peterson)The vast majority of the outages from the latest Northeast storm are in Pennsylvania.


Syria undecided on next round of peace talks

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 01:25 AM PST

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, residents of the besieged Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp wait to leave the camp, on the southern edge of the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. Over the past six days the U.N. continued to distribute food parcels in the Palestinian camp where activists say at least 85 people have died as a result of lack of food and medicine since mid-2013. (AP Photo/SANA)BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government has not decided yet whether to take part in a second round of peace talks tentatively scheduled for next week, a senior official said.


New York concert defies Putin on eve of Sochi

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 08:05 AM PST

Madonna (L) introduces Maria Alyokhina (C) and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot at the Amnesty International Concert presented by the CBGB Festival at Barclays Center on February 5, 2014 in New York CityFeted by Madonna and cheered by thousands, Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot defied President Vladimir Putin on the eve of the Sochi Olympics at a star-studded New York concert. The performance highlighted soaring tensions between Russia and the United States, which drastically deteriorated when Moscow granted asylum to US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden last year. US pop icon Madonna hailed the courage and fearlessness of punk heroines Maria Alyokhina, 25, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 24, who were released from Russian penal colonies last December.


CDC seeks to allay W.Va. tap water fears

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 06:31 PM PST

Emma Del Torto of Charleston, W.Va. holds a sign during a demonstration at the state Capitol on Saturday, Jan.18, 2014. More than 100 people gathered to question their tap water's quality following a chemical spill that tainted the local water supply. (AP Photo/John Raby)Facing ongoing skepticism since chemical spill, gov't health official insists water is OK.


Rare execution in 1998 Texas torture killing

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 04:54 PM PST

This handout image provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows capital murder defendant Suzanne Basso. On Wednesday, Feb 5, 2014 Basso, 59, is scheduled to die for for the torture slaying of Louis HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A woman convicted of torturing and killing a mentally impaired man she lured to Texas with the promise of marriage was put to death Wednesday evening in a rare execution of a female prisoner.


Olympic flights get toothpaste bomb warning

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U.S. tells airlines to watch for tubes which could potentially hold bomb ingredients.


Crowds at Seahawks victory parade exceed city's population

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 03:35 PM PST

Seattle Seahawks fans cheer along the route of the Super Bowl champions parade on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, in Seattle. The Seahawks beat the Denver Broncos 43-8 in NFL football's Super Bowl XLVIII on Sunday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Seahawks coaches, players and staff say they wouldn't have been able to win the Super Bowl without the help of their fans — the 12th Man.


Doctors still warning patients on water, W.Va. official says

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 03:09 PM PST

In this Jan. 13, 2014, photo, workers, left, inspect an area outside a retaining wall around storage tanks where a chemical leaked into the Elk River at Freedom Industries storage facility in Charleston, W.Va. The chemical spill that contaminated water for hundreds of thousands of West Virginians is just the latest and most high-profile case of coal polluting the nation's waters. An Associated Press analysis of federal environmental data found chemicals and waste from the coal industry have tainted hundreds of waterways and groundwater supplies for decades, spoiling private wells, shutting down fishing and rendering streams virtually lifeless. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A county health official in West Virginia said doctors are advising some patients not to drink tap water weeks after it was deemed safe from a chemical contamination, though a federal health official on Wednesday said it could be used for any purpose.


Fire breaks out at underground nuclear repository in N.M.

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 02:29 PM PST

Waste Isolation Pilot PlantCARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — Emergency crews battled a fire Wednesday at the southeastern New Mexico site where the federal government seals away its low-grade nuclear waste, including plutonium-contaminated clothing and tools.


3 arrested in stun-gun theft of 300-year-old Stradivarius

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 12:04 PM PST

In this undated photo provided by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra is the 300-year-old Stradivarius violin that was stolen from MSO concertmaster Frank Almond. Police said Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 three people have been arrested in connection with the theft of the multi-million-dollar instrument that was on loan to Almond. Authorities say a robber used a stun gun on Almond and took the instrument from him in a parking lot. (AP Photo/Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra)MILWAUKEE (AP) — Three people were arrested in connection with the theft of a multi-million dollar Stradivarius violin stolen last week from the concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, a prosecutor said Wednesday.


Nearly 1 million without power in Northeast

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 12:13 PM PST

A woman clears snow near a downed tree limb after a winter storm Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, in Philadelphia. Icy conditions have knocked out power to more than 200,000 electric customers in southeastern Pennsylvania and prompted school and legislative delays as well as speed reductions on major roadways. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)Pennsylvania is hardest-hit following severe snow and ice storms overnight.


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