| Crimea conflict enters military stage Posted: 18 Mar 2014 09:14 AM PDT  Ukraine PM accuses Russia of committing a "war crime" by firing on servicemen.
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| Seattle Fire Dept.: Two dead after TV helicopter crash Posted: 18 Mar 2014 08:10 AM PDT  Spirals of smoke could be seen from the scene near the Space Needle.
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| U.S. suspends diplomatic relations with Syria Posted: 18 Mar 2014 08:23 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior State Department official says the Syrian government has been told it must immediately suspend its diplomatic and consular missions in the United States.
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| 'Crimea has always been...part of Russia' Posted: 18 Mar 2014 09:39 AM PDT  Defiant of the West, Putin signs a treaty to annex part of the Ukraine.
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| Thai radar: Malaysia airliner followed a twisting path to Strait of Malacca Posted: 18 Mar 2014 06:36 AM PDT  BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's military said Tuesday that its radar detected a plane that may have been Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 just minutes after the jetliner's communications went down, and that it didn't share the information with Malaysia earlier because it wasn't specifically asked for it.
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| Retired Pope Benedict critiqued Francis' interview Posted: 18 Mar 2014 07:59 AM PDT  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The man who serves two popes has revealed that retired Pope Benedict XVI wrote four pages of critique and commentary on Pope Francis's landmark interview in which he blasted the church's obsession with "small-minded" rules.
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| TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau gets 10-year sentence Posted: 17 Mar 2014 05:26 PM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — Best-selling author Kevin Trudeau, whose name became synonymous with late-night TV pitches, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday for bilking consumers through ubiquitous infomercials for his book, "The Weight Loss Cure 'They' Don't Want You to Know About."
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| China finds no terror link to its nationals on missing jet Posted: 18 Mar 2014 12:53 AM PDT  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Checks into the background of all the Chinese nationals on board the missing Malaysian jetliner have uncovered no links to terrorism, the Chinese ambassador in Kuala Lumpur said Tuesday.
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| Illinois GOP voters seek to upend political order Posted: 18 Mar 2014 10:33 AM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — With a hunger to reclaim the governor's office, Republican voters set out Tuesday to shake up Illinois' Democratic-dominated political order, energized by candidates' talk of taking on unions, unseating "career politicians" and righting the state's troubled finances.
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| 2 killed in fiery news helicopter crash in Seattle Posted: 18 Mar 2014 10:55 AM PDT  SEATTLE (AP) — A news helicopter crashed into the street and exploded into flames Tuesday near Seattle's Space Needle, killing two people on board, badly injuring a man in a car and sending plumes of black smoke over the city during the morning commute.
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| Jeb Bush in the White House? He's considering it Posted: 18 Mar 2014 09:57 AM PDT  MIAMI (AP) — Jeb Bush gets the question at just about every public appearance these days: Will you run for president?
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| Israel building center for ancient artifacts Posted: 18 Mar 2014 08:39 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is building a national archaeological center to store and showcase its rich collection of some two million ancient artifacts, including the world's largest collection of Dead Sea Scrolls, Israel's Antiquities Authority said Tuesday.
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| Jagger posts tribute to companion L'Wren Scott Posted: 18 Mar 2014 09:42 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Mick Jagger has posted a poignant tribute on Facebook to his late companion, L'Wren Scott, saying he is still struggling to understand her death and will never forget her.
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| Coming home: Phil Jackson is Knicks' president Posted: 18 Mar 2014 09:39 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Phil Jackson has returned to the New York Knicks as their team president.
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| 2nd day of sentencing in US Army general sex case Posted: 18 Mar 2014 10:55 AM PDT  FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — A witness at the sentencing of an Army general who admitted to having inappropriate relationships with three subordinates testified about a bawdy skit intended to depict the man and his primary accuser.
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| News helicopter crashes near Space Needle; 2 dead Posted: 18 Mar 2014 10:26 AM PDT  SEATTLE (AP) — A news helicopter crashed into the street and exploded into flames Tuesday near Seattle's Space Needle, killing two people on board, badly injuring a man in a car and sending plumes of black smoke over the city during the morning commute.
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| Illinois voters picking GOP governor nominee Posted: 18 Mar 2014 09:06 AM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — Sensing a real chance to put one of their own back in the governor's office, Republican primary voters picked candidates Tuesday who they hoped would put the state's finances in order, take on labor unions and chip away at Democratic dominance of the state.
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| VP Biden: US weighs rotating forces to Baltics Posted: 18 Mar 2014 09:59 AM PDT  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden says the U.S. is considering rotating American forces to the Baltic region as a step toward ensuring the collective defense of NATO allies against Russian aggression.
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| Immigrant activists push to stop deportations Posted: 18 Mar 2014 10:13 AM PDT  DENVER (AP) — Late last year members of the Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition acknowledged that there was little hope Congress would pass much-anticipated legislation granting citizenship to people in the U.S. illegally. So the group stopped lobbying for the bill and shifted to a different approach.
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| Excerpts from Putin's speech on Crimea Posted: 18 Mar 2014 10:07 AM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin made his case for taking Crimea back from Ukraine and explained his decision to defy the West despite the threat of sanctions. He also spoke to concerns that Russia will move into other regions of Ukraine as well. Here are excerpts of Tuesday's 40-minute, anger-tinged speech, which drew enthusiastic applause from the hundreds of Russian parliament members and government officials seated before him in a grand Kremlin hall:
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| Passengers, crew on board missing Malaysia plane Posted: 18 Mar 2014 04:56 AM PDT  There were 12 crew and 227 passengers on the Malaysia Airlines jet that disappeared about 40 minutes into a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8. They were from far-flung parts of the world: 14 nationalities that included New Zealanders, Iranians, Americans and Indonesians. Two thirds of the passengers were from China. These are the stories of some of those on board.
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| Could Westboro Baptist Church survive without ailing founder? Posted: 17 Mar 2014 02:03 PM PDT  The church is known worldwide for picketing the funerals of military personnel and prominent people to promote its harshly antigay doctrines. Mr. Phelps's son, Nate Phelps, has said his father is near death. But Westboro could survive and remain active, says Barry Crawford, a religion professor at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, where Westboro is located. Though the church has only 15 to 20 members, "They have this missionary zeal.
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| Study to test 'chocolate' pills for heart health Posted: 17 Mar 2014 02:07 PM PDT  It won't be nearly as much fun as eating candy bars, but a big study is being launched to see if pills containing the nutrients in dark chocolate can help prevent heart attacks and strokes.
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| Putin approves draft bill to annex Crimea Posted: 18 Mar 2014 03:50 AM PDT President Vladimir Putin signs a draft treaty to make the Ukrainian region part of Russia. |
| Photos: NYC St. Patrick's Day Parade Posted: 17 Mar 2014 11:40 AM PDT  Members of the Wantagh American Legion Band, Wantagh, Long Island perform while marching during the St. Patricks Day Parade, Monday, March 17, 2014 in New York. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) |
| Winter takes a parting shot at Northeast Posted: 17 Mar 2014 01:37 PM PDT  Washington, D.C., and nearby states blanketed by some of the heaviest snows of the season.
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| 107-year-old Syrian refugee reunites with family in Germany Posted: 17 Mar 2014 12:34 PM PDT  BERLIN (AP) — A 107-year-old woman who fled the conflict in Syria has arrived in Germany to be reunited with her family, including her newborn great-great-granddaughter, officials said Monday.
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| Astronomers discover 'smoking gun' for universe's expansion Posted: 17 Mar 2014 07:59 AM PDT  Astronomers have found the first direct evidence of cosmic inflation, the theorized dramatic expansion of the universe that put the "bang" in the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, new research suggests. If it holds up, the landmark discovery — which also confirms the existence of hypothesized ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves — would give researchers a much better understanding of the Big Bang and its immediate aftermath. "If it is confirmed, then it would be the most important discovery since the discovery, I think, that the expansion of the universe is accelerating," Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, who is not a member of the study team, told Space.com, comparing the finding to a 1998 observation that opened the window on mysterious dark energy and won three researchers the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics. A team led by John Kovac, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is announcing the results today (March 17), unveiling two manuscripts that have not yet been submitted to peer-reviewed journals.
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| Putin signs decree on Crimean independence Posted: 17 Mar 2014 01:36 PM PDT  Declares 'sovereign and independent state' after vote to secede Ukraine and join Russia.
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