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Obama tells Pentagon to plan Afghan pullout

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Obama tells Pentagon to plan Afghan pullout

Obama tells Pentagon to plan Afghan pullout

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 10:42 AM PST

U.S. soldiers and Afghan security forces search the site where a suicide attacker rammed a car bomb into a NATO convoy killing two foreign civilian contractors, in the Afghan capital Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Feb. 10, 2014. The Islamic militant group Hizb-i-Islami claimed responsibility for the attack in eastern Kabul, saying it would drive all foreign forces from Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has balked at signing a bilateral security agreement.

Conductor writes apology to commuters for train that never came

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 05:41 AM PST

Metro-North To Upgrade Transformers On New Haven LineMichael Shaw distributed 500 copies of a letter apologizing to commuters after telling them to wait for an express train he didn't realize had been canceled. But Metro North said it does not condone Shaw's letter.

Oyster found off Denmark breaks Guinness record

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 09:09 AM PST

World's Largest Oyster Is One Big BivalveA Pacific Oyster found off the coast of Denmark has officially been named the world's largest, according to Guinness World Records. The oyster measures 13.97 inches in length and 4 inches in width, which is around a size 11 shoe. This large oyster also has...

First Lady watching scoreboards for kids' health

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 10:24 AM PST

FILE - This Feb. 27, 2013 file photo shows first lady Michelle Obama and Food Network chef Rachel Ray discussing lunches with students from the Eastside and Northside Elementary Schools in Clinton, Miss. Moving beyond the lunch line, new rules expected to be proposed by the White House and the Agriculture Department Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, would limit marketing of unhealthy foods in schools, phasing out the advertising of sugary drinks and junk foods around school campuses and ensuring that other promotions in schools are in line with health standards that apply to school foods. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)New rules take aim at marketing of unhealthy food at schools—and at their sporting facilities.

Colo. Girl Scouts can't sell cookies outside pot shops

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 05:41 AM PST

Girl Scout sells cookies outside marijuana clinicIn response to a California Girl Scout's ingenious strategy to sell Girl Scout cookies outside of a marijuana dispensary, the Girl Scouts of Colorado issued a statement on its Facebook page effectively barring its members from doing the same.

Report: Few Army women want combat jobs

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 08:26 AM PST

FILE - This Sept. 18, 2012 file photo shows female soldiers training on a firing range while wearing new body armor in Fort Campbell, Ky. Only a small fraction of Army women say they'd like to move into one of the newly opening combat jobs, but those few who do, say they want a job that takes them right into the heart of battle, according to preliminary results from a survey of the service's nearly 170,000 women. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)FORT EUSTIS, Va. (AP) — Only a small fraction of Army women say they'd like to move into one of the newly opening combat jobs, but those few who do say they want a job that takes them right into the heart of battle, according to preliminary results from a survey of the service's nearly 170,000 women.

U.S. diplomats tell Obama nominees should know their destinations

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 05:50 AM PST

George Tsunis, ambassador-designate to NorwayPlease, presidents, stop picking big campaign donors to be ambassadors whether or not they know anything about the country where they'd be posted and are clueless about foreign affairs in general.

Uganda tabloid outs 'top' homosexuals

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 09:49 AM PST

A Ugandan reads a copy of the "Red Pepper" tabloid newspaper in Kampala, Uganda Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. The Ugandan newspaper published a list Tuesday of what it called the country's "200 top" homosexuals, outing some Ugandans who previously had not identified themselves as gay, one day after the president Yoweri Museveni enacted a harsh anti-gay law. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A Ugandan newspaper published a list Tuesday of what it called the country's "200 top" homosexuals, outing some Ugandans who previously had not identified themselves as gay one day after the president enacted a harsh anti-gay law.

California 'lifers' leaving prison at record pace

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 09:34 AM PST

A guard tower is shown at Corcoran State Prison in California in this file photoUnder Gov. Jerry Brown, the state has released nearly 1,400 inmates with life sentences.

Boko Haram school attack kills 43 in Nigeria

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 09:16 AM PST

Residents, who were injured during an attack by Boko Haram militants, wait at the Bama General Hospital in BamaKano (Nigeria) (AFP) - Suspected Boko Haram Islamists killed 43 people on Tuesday when they attacked secondary school students as they slept in the latest school massacre to hit Nigeria's troubled northeast. The raid at 2:00 am (0100 GMT) targeted the Federal Government College in the town of Buni Yadi in Yobe state and bore the hallmarks of a similar attack last September in which 40 died. The attackers reportedly hurled explosives into student residential buildings, sprayed gunfire into rooms and hacked a number students to death. A senior medical source at the Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital in Yobe's capital Damaturu said the gunmen only targeted male students and that female students were "spared".

Website of major Bitcoin exchange vanishes

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 02:04 AM PST

A mock Bitcoin is displayed on a table in an illustration picture taken in BerlinBitcoin exchange Mt. Gox is offline amid reports it suffered a debilitating theft.

'Secrets of the Vatican' exposes church crises

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 03:53 AM PST

Pope Francis leaves after meeting cardinals and bishops to discuss family issues at the Vatican on February 21, 2014Pope Francis gave hope to many Catholics, but he also inherited a litany of problems.

Ukraine: no new government before Thursday

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 06:28 AM PST

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A former presidential aide despised by protesters has been shot and wounded, his spokesman said Tuesday, raising fears of retaliation as Ukraine charts a new tumultuous political course.

Pollution worsens in Beijing as statues don masks

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 11:30 PM PST

Tourists put on their masks after they posed for souvenir photos as they visit Tiananmen Square on a severely polluted day in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. Pollution across a large swath of northern China worsened on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)BEIJING (AP) — The smog is so bad even the statues wear masks. Or at least they do in pictures of a campus stunt that circulated online Tuesday as parts of northern China suffered a sixth straight day of severe pollution.

Ariz. gov. urged to veto religious freedom bill

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 05:49 PM PST

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer walks towards the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 24, 2014, after the National Governors Association met with President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Critics line up against bill that would allow businesses to deny service to gay patrons.

Major bitcoin exchange said to be insolvent

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 10:17 AM PST

Bitcoin trader Kolin Burges, right, of London and American Aaron (only his first name was given) hold protest signs as they conduct a sit-in in front of the office tower housing Mt. Gox in Tokyo Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. The website of major Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox is offline Tuesday amid reports it suffered a debilitating theft, a new setback for efforts to gain legitimacy for the virtual currency. The URL of Tokyo-based Mt. Gox was returning a blank page. The disappearance of the site follows the resignation Sunday of Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles from the board of the Bitcoin Foundation, a group seeking legitimacy for the currency. Burgess said he had picketed the building since Feb. 14 after flying in from London, hoping to get back $320,000 he has tied up with Mt Gox. (AP Photo/Kaori Hitomi)TOKYO (AP) — One of the world's largest bitcoin exchanges has seemingly disappeared, delivering a severe blow to the virtual currency as it struggles to gain legitimacy.

What's a bitcoin? A look at the digital currency

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 10:03 AM PST

LONDON (AP) — Early Tuesday, the world's most established exchange for Bitcoin disappeared from the Internet, sending the price of the virtual currency tumbling and prompting fears that the world's biggest experiment in electronic cash could soon be strangled by fraud or regulation.

C. African Republic orphans walk to safety alone

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 09:17 AM PST

Ibrahim Adamou sits on a bench at a Catholic church in Carnot a town 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the Cameroonian border, in the Central African Republic Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. Ibrahim Adamou wasn't sure whether any of his five siblings had survived the attack by Christian militiamen who opened fire on his family as the group of herders journeyed on foot. His parents already had been killed in front of him. (AP Photo/Krista Larson)CARNOT, Central African Republic (AP) — Ibrahim Adamou's parents had just been killed in front of him. He wasn't sure whether any of his five siblings had survived the attack by Christian militiamen who opened fire on his family of herders as they journeyed on foot.

Palestinian film spotlights Israeli Arab identity

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 10:18 AM PST

This film image released by Adopt Films shows Adam Bakri in a scene from the film "Omar." The film was nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign picture on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. The 86th Academy Awards will be held on March 2. (AP Photo/Adopt Films)JERUSALEM (AP) — In the Holy Land, the state of Palestine does not yet exist. But in Hollywood, it already has an Oscar finalist.

Phone makers look to emerging markets for growth

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 08:34 AM PST

Photographers swarm around a Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphones, left, and Samsung Gear 2's at the Samsung Galaxy Studio, in New York, Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. Samsung on Monday unveiled a new smartphone with a built-in heart rate monitor to complement three upcoming fitness devices, as the Korean companies tries to turn its technological wizardry into lifestyle product. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Here's the rub for companies: A good part of the key markets they serve already own smartphones and use them to connect various Internet services. How do you grow from there?

Congress skeptical about plan to shrink military

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 03:42 AM PST

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel briefs reporters at the Pentagon, Monday, Feb. 24, 2014, where he recommended shrinking the Army to its smallest size since the buildup to U.S. involvement in World War II in an effort to balance postwar defense needs with budget realities. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration's push for a smaller, nimbler military must now face the scrutiny of a Congress that has spent years battling the Pentagon's vision for a new security strategy.

Sunni anger in Lebanon against army grows

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 07:00 AM PST

FILE -- In this May 15, 2012, file photo, Lebanese army soldiers patrol after a clashes in the old market of the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon. From radical preachers to irreverent taxi drivers, anger is spreading through Lebanon's Sunni community toward the country's military, adding a dangerous twist to Lebanon's instability, already shaken by relentless bombings. Many Sunnis accuse the military of siding with their rivals, the powerful Shiite group Hezbollah, as sectarian tensions grow in Lebanon, stoked by the civil war in neighboring Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — From radical preachers to irreverent taxi drivers, anger is spreading through Lebanon's Sunni community toward the country's military, adding a dangerous twist to Lebanon's instability, already shaken by relentless bombings.

Polio-like disease appears in California children

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 06:02 AM PST

In this photo taken with a mobile phone, Jeff Jarvis of Berkeley, Calif., holds his 4-year-old daughter, Sofia Jarvis, during a news conference at Lucille Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University on Monday, Feb. 24, 2014, in Palo Alto, Calif. Sofia is one of a handful of California children who has been diagnosed with a rare polio-like syndrome that has left her arm paralyzed. Stanford researchers say there is a possibility of an emerging infectious polio-like syndrome in California. (AP Photo/Martha Mendoza)STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — An extremely rare, polio-like disease has appeared in more than a dozen California children within the past year, and each of them suffered paralysis to one or more arms or legs, Stanford University researchers say. But public health officials haven't identified any common causes connecting the cases.

Westward shift by Ukraine would be momentous event

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 05:53 AM PST

Ukrainian opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk, left, and Ukrainian lawmaker and chairman of the Ukrainian opposition party Udar (Punch), former WBC heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, foreground center, during their talks with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, foreground right, during their talks in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 24, 2014.The head of the European security organization, OSCE is proposing the establishment of an international contact group to support Ukraine in its difficult transition period.(AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko, Pool)BRUSSELS (AP) — A firm course change in Ukraine — westward and turning away from Moscow — would have momentous consequences for the balance of power in Europe.

Dozens killed in Nigerian school attack

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 09:55 AM PST

DAMATURU, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic militants killed 29 students in a pre-dawn attack Tuesday on a northeast Nigerian school, survivors said, setting ablaze a locked dormitory and shooting and slitting the throats of those who escaped through windows. Some were burned alive.

'Microbial Pompeii' found on 1,000-year-old human teeth

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 03:33 PM PST

'Microbial Pompeii' Found on Teeth of 1,000-Year-Old SkeletonsA "microbial Pompeii" has been found on the teeth of 1,000-year-old human skeletons. Just as volcanic ash entombed the citizens of the ancient Roman city, dental plaque preserved bacteria and food particles on the skeletons' teeth. Researchers analyzed dental plaque from skeletons in a medieval cemetery in Germany, and found that the mouths of these aged humans were home to many of the same bacterial invaders that cause gum disease in the mouths of modern humans. "One thing that is clear about the population we studied is that they didn't brush their teeth very often, if at all," said study leader Christina Warinner, an anthropologist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland and the University of Oklahoma in Norman.

Polar vortex redux?

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 10:37 AM PST

Winter Comes Back: Return of the Polar Vortex?Frigid Arctic air on its way to the northern U.S. could create coldest event of the season.

New link between common pain reliever and risk of ADHD

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 01:27 PM PST

Acetaminophen, a common pain reliever considered safe for pregnant women, has been linked for the first time to an increased risk of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder in children, said a studyAcetaminophen, a common pain reliever considered safe for pregnant women, has been linked for the first time to an increased risk of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder in children, said a study Monday. More studies are needed to confirm the findings, but experts said the research points to a new potential cause for the worldwide rise in cases of ADHD, a neuro-behavioral condition which has no known cause and affects as many as five percent of US children. Women who took acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol, while pregnant had a 37 percent higher risk of having a child who would be later given a hospital diagnosis of hyperkinetic disorder, a particularly severe form of ADHD, said the study in February 24 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics.

Governors get into on-camera dispute outside White House

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 12:54 PM PST

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, center, speaks to reporters outside the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 24, 2014, following a meeting between President Barack Obama and members of the National Governors Association (NGA). From left are, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, NGA Chair, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, Jindal, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, and Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's governors emerged from a meeting with President Barack Obama on Monday claiming harmony, only to immediately break into an on-camera partisan feud in front of the West Wing.

Epic spelling bee is stopped after organizers run out of words

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 10:50 AM PST

Spelling Bee Runs Out of WordsHow do you spell a spelling bee that goes 66 rounds in more than four hours and causes the organizers to run out of words? The answer is T-I-E, for now. Sophia Hoffman, a fifth-grader at Highland Park Elementary School in the Kansas City suburb...

Defense secretary seeks big cuts to Army

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 10:43 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2014 file photo, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon. A U.S. official says that as part of the proposed 2015 defense budget, Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel is recommending shrinking the Army to its smallest size in decades. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)Facing new priorities, Hagel says military must adjust to reality of smaller budgets.

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