| Kerry: U.S. won't recognize Crimea vote Posted: 14 Mar 2014 10:25 AM PDT  Meanwhile, his Russian counterpart says there is no "common vision" over Ukraine crisis.
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| Bloomberg: People forget 'charter schools are public schools' Posted:  The ex-NYC mayor shares his take on gun debate with Yahoo's Katie Couric.
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| Investigators weigh 'piracy' in missing jetliner Posted: 14 Mar 2014 09:17 AM PDT  It's also possible the plane may have landed somewhere, an official says.
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| While U.S. and Russia talk, West preps sanctions on Russia Posted: 14 Mar 2014 07:47 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — The top diplomats for Russia and the U.S. voiced pessimism Friday about negotiating an immediate end to the crisis in Ukraine, whose strategic Crimea region is voting this weekend about whether to secede.
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| Lavrov: No common vision with U.S. on Ukraine Posted: 14 Mar 2014 09:24 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that differences remain between Moscow and the U.S. following negotiations in London aimed at ending the crisis in Ukraine, whose strategic Crimea region is voting this weekend on whether to secede.
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| Obama: Enough have enrolled for stable health care Posted: 14 Mar 2014 07:06 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says enough people have signed up for health care to make his signature law work.
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| Moms of Jonah Hill, Adam Levine, Jennifer Lopez: Enroll in Obamacare Posted: 14 Mar 2014 03:12 AM PDT  Long before Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine was People Magazine's "sexiest man alive," he was "rambunctious, mischievous, naughty," his mom, Patsy Noah, says in a new ad meant to get more young people to sign up for Obamacare.
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| After Crimea, wary Eastern Europe asks: who's next Posted: 14 Mar 2014 07:53 AM PDT  BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Broken promises of help from the West. A tragic history of Russian invasion that goes back centuries. A painful awareness that conflicts in this volatile region are contagious. These are the factors that make nations across Eastern Europe watch events in Ukraine — and tremble.
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| FDNY: All 8 reported missing in blast recovered Posted: 14 Mar 2014 10:51 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's fire commissioner says all eight people reported missing have been found and identified at the site of a deadly gas explosion that leveled two buildings.
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| Cooks saved nuke missile crews from test failure Posted: 14 Mar 2014 07:06 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Failings last spring by nuclear missile operators at an Air Force base in North Dakota were worse than first reported, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
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| Under pressure, Obama vows to examine deportations Posted: 14 Mar 2014 08:47 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are warning that any steps President Barack Obama takes to bypass Congress to ease deportations of immigrants illegally in the United States would severely hurt chances of overhauling the nation's immigration laws.
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| AP Exclusive: FBI balks at pot background checks Posted: 14 Mar 2014 02:57 AM PDT  SEATTLE (AP) — The FBI is refusing to run nationwide background checks on people applying to run legal marijuana businesses in Washington state, even though it has conducted similar checks in Colorado — a discrepancy that illustrates the quandary the Justice Department faces as it allows the states to experiment with regulating a drug that's long been illegal under federal law.
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| Pistorius photographed in bloodied prosthetics Posted: 14 Mar 2014 10:18 AM PDT  PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Displaying photographs of a bare-chested Oscar Pistorius standing in his garage on bloodied prosthetic legs and wearing shorts soaked in his girlfriend's blood, prosecutors attempted Friday to focus attention on the killing for which the double-amputee Olympian is on trial for murder, while the defense poked holes in the police investigation that followed it.
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| Bob Thomas, dean of Hollywood reporters, dies Posted: 14 Mar 2014 07:23 AM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bob Thomas, the longtime Associated Press writer and dean of Hollywood reporters who covered a record 66 Oscar ceremonies, reported on the biggest stars, from Clark Gable to Tom Cruise, and filed AP's bulletin that Robert F. Kennedy had been shot, died Friday. He was 92.
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| Rescuers searching rubble from NYC blast Posted: 14 Mar 2014 07:34 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Using sound devices to probe for voices and telescopic cameras to peer into small spaces, workers searching a pile of rubble from a gas explosion in New York City were clinging to the possibility Friday of finding survivors from a blast that brought down two apartment buildings and killed at least eight people.
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| Pistorius was photographed in bloody prosthetics Posted: 14 Mar 2014 05:38 AM PDT  PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Police photographs of a bare-chested Oscar Pistorius standing in his garage on blood-stained prosthetic legs and wearing shorts covered in blood, taken shortly after the athlete fatally shot his girlfriend, were shown to the court at his murder trial Friday.
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| Missing jet pilots had firm community, family ties Posted: 14 Mar 2014 08:08 AM PDT  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The pilots of the missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet were a middle-aged family man passionate enough about flying to build his own simulator and a 27-year-old contemplating marriage who had just graduated to the cockpit of the Boeing 777.
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| Search for lost jet expands amid signs it flew on Posted: 14 Mar 2014 06:58 AM PDT  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The search for the missing Malaysian jetliner expanded east and west on Friday after American officials said it was emitting signals to satellites for hours after its last contact with air traffic control nearly a week ago over the South China Sea.
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| Crimea crisis: Lessons from the first Cold War Posted: 14 Mar 2014 02:53 AM PDT  If we are in a new Cold War, some lessons of the first one should apply today.
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| Kerry meets with Russian counterpart in last-ditch Ukraine talks Posted: 14 Mar 2014 06:54 AM PDT  Top US diplomat John Kerry arrived in London on Friday on an 11th-hour mission to head off a possible Russian annexation of Crimea on the heels of a breakaway vote by the Ukrainian region. With the clock ticking down to Crimea's referendum on Sunday, Kerry was to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov seeking to put the brakes on any moves by Russian President Vladimir Putin to swiftly annex the peninsula. Shortly before leaving the United States, the secretary of state admitted that it was all but impossible to stop the referendum organised by Crimea's self-declared leaders from going ahead and warned there was no question that the pro-Russian ethnic majority would vote to move closer to Moscow. Shortly after arriving in London, Kerry paid a visit to British Prime Minister David Cameron at his Downing Street residence ahead of his talks with Lavrov.
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| Search for missing jet shifts to Indian Ocean Posted: 14 Mar 2014 02:16 AM PDT There were new signs the aircraft may have flown on for hours after its last radar contact. |
| Jet aborts takeoff after gear failure in Philly Posted: 13 Mar 2014 08:09 PM PDT  Emergency slides were deployed to allow passengers to get off the crippled plane.
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| Death toll in NYC gas explosion climbs to 8 Posted: 13 Mar 2014 08:08 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Rescue workers using dogs and thermal-detection gear to search rubble for more victims of a gas explosion found an eighth body on Thursday while investigators tried to pinpoint the leak and determine whether it had anything to do with the city's aging gas and water mains, some from the 1800s.
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| Worker lawsuits claim McDonald's wage theft Posted: 13 Mar 2014 10:17 AM PDT  Allegations include forcing workers to clock out but stay at work, docking pay for uniforms.
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| Missing jet creates legion of armchair sleuths Posted: 13 Mar 2014 02:36 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — There aren't supposed to be any mysteries in the Digital Age.
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| Pope Francis gets formal invite to address Congress Posted: 13 Mar 2014 12:15 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The leader of the U.S. House of Representatives has invited Pope Francis to address a joint meeting of Congress.
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