| Obama's next initiative: Lift up minority boys Posted: 26 Feb 2014 08:40 AM PST  After the Trayvon Martin shooting, he wants young black men to have a better chance.
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| NASA knew spacesuit leaked before astronaut's near-drowning Posted: 26 Feb 2014 05:58 AM PST  Accident Report to Shed Light on NASA Communication Failures
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| If Republican governors did local news promos... Posted: 25 Feb 2014 01:32 PM PST  Here's looking at you.
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| Army general: Talk of Afghan impasse threatens security Posted: 26 Feb 2014 11:02 AM PST  BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) — Depicting a grim future for Afghanistan without U.S. help, the top U.S. military officer said Wednesday that Afghanistan's refusal to sign a security agreement with the United States may make the fight more difficult this year, embolden the enemy and prompt some Afghan security forces to cooperate with the Taliban to "hedge their bets."
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| Ukraine requests international arrest warrant for Yanukovych Posted: 26 Feb 2014 08:41 AM PST  Kiev (AFP) - Ukraine's interim general prosecutor said Wednesday that Kiev has requested an international arrest warrant for ousted president Viktor Yanukovych, who is wanted within his own crisis-hit country over the "mass murder" of protesters.
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| Dems want Hillary over Biden in 2016 Posted: 26 Feb 2014 07:13 AM PST  Meanwhile, Republicans like Jeb Bush and Rand Paul over Christie, a poll shows.
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| Supreme Court: Ponzi scheme victims can sue lawyers, brokers Posted: 26 Feb 2014 10:35 AM PST  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that lawyers, insurance brokers and others who worked with convicted swindler Allen Stanford cannot avoid lawsuits by investors seeking to recoup losses incurred in his $7 billion Ponzi scheme. New York-based law firms Chadbourne & Parke and Proskauer Rose and insurance brokerage Willis Group Holdings Plc were all sued by former Stanford investors. Writing for the majority, Justice Stephen Breyer said the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act did not prevent the state lawsuits from proceeding. The law says that state lawsuits are barred when the alleged misrepresentations are "in connection with" the purchase or sale of a covered security.
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| NASA photo shows N. Korea is—literally—in the dark Posted: 26 Feb 2014 06:22 AM PST  A recent image taken from the International Space Station shows the mysterious, dictator-ruled country almost completely in the dark.
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| Ex-NFL player Hernandez involved in jail house scuffle Posted: 26 Feb 2014 07:13 AM PST  Former National Football League star Aaron Hernandez, charged with shooting a friend to death last year, was involved in a Massachusetts jailhouse scuffle with another inmate that left neither man seriously injured, law enforcement officials said on Wednesday. "There was an altercation between two inmates in our special management unit, and one of them was Aaron Hernandez," said Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson. "It was stopped very quickly by my staff." Neither inmate involved in the incident on Tuesday required medical attention, and officials are investigating whether Hernandez or the other man, who was not identified, will face internal disciplinary measures or criminal charges, Hodgson said. Hernandez, 24, is jailed in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, about 60 miles south of Boston.
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| Rival factions clash in Ukraine's Crimea Posted: 26 Feb 2014 05:44 AM PST  Fistfights break out among demonstrators as Russia's Putin orders military exercises.
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| Irony strikes: Baldwin to play meddling newsman on TV cops drama Posted: 25 Feb 2014 04:47 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alec Baldwin is putting a twist on his rocky relationship with the media: He's playing a meddling newspaperman on a NBC drama.
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| Data-breach hits Target's bottom line Posted: 26 Feb 2014 11:20 AM PST  Revenue takes a dive as shoppers are scared away from the Minneapolis-based retailer.
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| Ukraine's Maidan protest unites different beliefs Posted: 26 Feb 2014 09:34 AM PST  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — For the past three months, tens of thousands of Ukrainians have been singing the Ukrainian national anthem on Kiev's central square, the Maidan, united in their dreams of change. In fact, the protest movement is a mixed bag of pro-Western intelligentsia and well-off businessmen, white-collar office clerks and student romantics, radical far-rightists, pop singers, poets and even priests. The one thing holding them together: anger against now fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych and his government.
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| Arizona governor holding meetings over rights bill Posted: 26 Feb 2014 10:18 AM PST  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer was holding a series of private meetings Wednesday with opponents and proponents of legislation adding protections for people who assert their religious beliefs in refusing service to gays, a proposal that has focused national attention on the state as business groups, gay rights supporters and even many fellow Republicans urged her to use her veto power.
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| Man guilty of slaying UK soldier sentenced to life Posted: 26 Feb 2014 10:20 AM PST  LONDON (AP) — An al-Qaida-inspired extremist was sentenced to life without parole Wednesday for hacking an off-duty British soldier to death on a London street in front of horrified passers-by.
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| Kentucky snake handler death doesn't shake belief Posted: 26 Feb 2014 08:52 AM PST  Three days after pastor Jamie Coots died from a rattlesnake bite at church, mourners leaving the funeral went to the church to handle snakes.
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| Behaviorists: Dogs feel no shame despite the look Posted: 26 Feb 2014 09:18 AM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The next time you start shaking your finger and shouting "Shame on you!" because your dog chewed up your favorite fuzzy slippers, just remember that no matter how guilty your dog looks, it doesn't know what your rant is about.
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| Incentives are coming for payments by phones Posted: 26 Feb 2014 07:48 AM PST  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Many people use their smartphones to watch video, play games and wake them up in the morning. Some even use them to generate digital boarding passes to fly. So why not use phones to buy stuff at retail stores as well?
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| Kingpin's high-tech gadgetry helped him stay free Posted: 25 Feb 2014 11:16 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Mexico's most powerful drug cartel leader employed high-tech communications gadgetry and sophisticated counterespionage practices to elude an international manhunt for 13 years, The Associated Press has learned. In the end, however, life on the run unraveled for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in a decidedly low-tech way. |
| Rival groups clash in Ukraine's Crimea, 20 injured Posted: 26 Feb 2014 09:45 AM PST  SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Fistfights broke out between pro- and anti-Russian demonstrators in Ukraine's strategic Crimea region on Wednesday as Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered major military exercises just across the border.
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| State media says Syrian army killed 175 rebels Posted: 26 Feb 2014 06:20 AM PST BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian army troops killed 175 rebels in an ambush Wednesday south of Damascus, state media reported, a major attack targeting mostly al-Qaida-linked fighters as part of a government effort to secure the capital. |
| Arizona governor to hold meetings over rights bill Posted: 26 Feb 2014 08:36 AM PST PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer will hold a series of private meetings with opponents and proponents of legislation adding protections for people who assert their religious beliefs in refusing service to gays. |
| Sentence due for 2 guilty of UK soldier murder Posted: 26 Feb 2014 08:00 AM PST  LONDON (AP) — Sentencing is underway for two al-Qaida-inspired extremists convicted of murdering an off-duty British soldier who was stabbed to death in a frenzied attack on a London street.
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| With 'Broken Circle,' Belgium vies for first Oscar Posted: 26 Feb 2014 07:38 AM PST  BRUSSELS (AP) — When Belgian film producer Dirk Impens lost out in the Oscars 21 years ago, he remembers swearing to himself never to put on a tuxedo again unless he had another shot at the golden statuette.
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| Pressure mounts on Arizona governor over anti-gay bill Posted: 25 Feb 2014 05:34 PM PST  Prominent Republicans, including Mitt Romney and John McCain, are urging a veto.
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| GM more than doubles North American ignition-switch recall Posted: 25 Feb 2014 01:22 PM PST  General Motors Co on Tuesday more than doubled a recall, mostly in North America, to correct a condition that may allow the engine and other components including airbags to be unintentionally turned off. GM said it is aware of 31 reported incidents, including 13 front-seat fatalities, involving frontal crashes in which the condition may have caused or contributed to the front airbags not deploying. "The process employed to examine this phenomenon was not as robust as it should have been," GM's North American head, Alan Batey, said in a statement. "We will take an unflinching look at what happened and apply lessons learned here to improve going forward." GM said it submitted a detailed chronology associated with the initial recall to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Monday.
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| Neighbors foil attempt to steal wall, Banksy mural Posted: 25 Feb 2014 06:11 PM PST  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Neighbors in New Orleans foiled what police say was an attempt to steal a chunk of cinderblock wall bearing a painting created by the world-renowned graffiti artist Banksy.
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| Mexico affirms 'El Chapo' will stay put Posted: 25 Feb 2014 04:38 PM PST  Rulings will delay extradition of man widely considered world's most-powerful drug lord.
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| House passes bill on 'unlocking' cell phones Posted: 25 Feb 2014 04:51 PM PST  The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday that would give mobile-phone users the right to "unlock" their devices and use them on competitors' wireless networks, although Senate action was uncertain. Major carriers, including Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc, Sprint Corp, T-Mobile US and U.S. Cellular, in December made a voluntary pledge to make it easier for consumers to unlock their cellphones, under pressure from consumer groups and the Federal Communications Commission. The notion of undoing that law has had wide support from Republicans and Democrats since the bill's introduction in the House in 2013. But the bill's author, Representative Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican, added language after the bill had been approved by a partisan majority of the House Judiciary Committee, banning "bulk unlocking." Consumer advocates have argued that customers should be allowed to sell their old devices to third parties that could unlock phones in bulk, something the wireless industry opposes.
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| Love bug: Man never stopped grieving for stolen 1965 Beetle Posted: 25 Feb 2014 12:38 PM PST  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A man whose 1965 Volkswagen Beetle was stolen nearly 40 years ago and recently recovered in Detroit says he never stopped grieving for the red convertible that he had running "slick as a ribbon" before it was stolen.
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| Watchdog: Fewer hate groups a political sign Posted: 25 Feb 2014 02:23 PM PST  Southern Poverty Law Center says decline is seen as more radical ideas go mainstream.
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| Teen invents flashlight that could change the world Posted: 25 Feb 2014 10:21 AM PST  Ann Makosinski was just another teenager with another science project when she joined her local science fair in Victoria, Canada, last year. Her invention, a flashlight that is powered solely from hand heat, took second place at the competition. Ann, 16, and her parents, both of whom are HAM radio operators and like to fiddle [...]
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| $10M stash of gold coins found while walking dog Posted: 25 Feb 2014 04:09 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Northern California couple out walking their dog on their property stumbled across a modern-day bonanza: $10 million in rare, mint-condition gold coins buried in the shadow of an old tree.
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| Hunt for Ukraine's ex-president reveals little hometown support Posted: 25 Feb 2014 12:50 PM PST  Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) - A thin wisp of smoke rises from a chimney in the barricaded residential complex of deposed president Viktor Yanukovych in the eastern city of Donetsk, but Ukraine's most famous fugitive is nowhere to be seen. The cluster of opulent villas, a few kilometres outside the industrial city of Donetsk appears thoroughly deserted apart from that small line of smoke. Donetsk, home to one million residents, sits deep in the heart of the Donbas mining region, where Yanukovych was born in 1950. It is impossible to penetrate the imposing perimeter of Yanukovych's residence here at 65 Rainissa Road, ringed by pine trees and a huge brick and cement wall topped with a metal barrier.
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| Obama and Boehner have first one-on-one in over a year Posted: 25 Feb 2014 03:00 PM PST  Both parties describe first such meeting in more than a year as 'constructive.'
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| Asiana Airlines docked $500,000 over crash Posted: 25 Feb 2014 02:14 PM PST  First time U.S. has levied fine for inadequate assistance to loved ones of crash victims.
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