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Official: Mudslide death toll to rise substantially

Official: Mudslide death toll to rise substantially


Official: Mudslide death toll to rise substantially

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 09:34 AM PDT

Searchers walk into the scene of a deadly mudslide that covers the road, Wednesday, March 26, 2014, in Oso, Wash. Sixteen bodies have been recovered, but authorities believe at least 24 people were killed. And scores of others are still unaccounted for, although many of those names were believed to be duplicates or people who escaped safely. (AP Photo/Rick Wilking, Pool)Fire official warns tragedy will grow as medical examiner catches up in next 24-48 hours.


Obama and Pope Francis: Complete coverage

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Comprehensive coverage of Obama's papal visit, from Rome. Plus: Historic papal meetings.


Turkey moves to block YouTube ahead of crucial local elections

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 10:09 AM PDT

YouTube logos displayed on a laptop screen partially covered with Turkey's national flag in this photo illustration taken in AnkaraISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish authorities were moving to block access to YouTube on Thursday following similar action against Twitter, the country's state-run news agency said.


Matt Bai: Health care law's here, get used to it, and make it work

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 03:57 AM PDT

Obamacare: Taxpayers in the Hole for $1.5 TrillionThe truth is that whether it takes six weeks or six months to meet the next arbitrary benchmark, the health care law is now embedded in the society, and it's not going anywhere.


Mudslide crews face daunting task in body search

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 09:54 AM PDT

DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Firefighter Jeff McClelland uncovered a body on the moon-like surface that blankets what used to be the community of Oso. Suddenly, he realized the dead man's son and brother were among the volunteers scouring the debris field.

Senate, House back bills to aid Ukraine

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 10:29 AM PDT

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio wraps up a news conference on his legislative agenda, Wednesday, March 26, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Boehner touched on the Ukraine crisis, relations with Russia, the NSA surveillance program, jobs and other issues. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress spoke with one voice on Thursday against Russia's annexation of Crimea, passing legislation in the House and Senate giving help to cash-strapped Ukraine and imposing sanctions against Russia.


West to help Ukraine with $18 billion bailout

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 10:23 AM PDT

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, speaks to lawmakers during a session at the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, March. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Western nations rushed to help Ukraine on Thursday, with the International Monetary Fund pledging up to $18 billion in loans, the U.N. condemning the vote that drove Crimea into Russian hands and the U.S. Congress considering even harsher sanctions against Russia.


UN approves inquiry into Sri Lanka war abuses

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 10:41 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 26, 2014 file photo Sri Lankan government supporters shout slogans against the U.S. and U.N. during a demonstration in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The U.N.'s top human rights body has approved Thursday, March 27, 2014, an international criminal investigation into alleged abuses in Sri Lanka's civil war, which ended in 2009. Members of the 47-nation U.N. Human Rights Council have agreed to set up the yearlong investigation, estimated to cost US dollar 1.46 million, based on the recommendation of U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay. Placard carrying a portrait of Pillay reads "Navi Pillay hangs on to tiger tail." (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.'s top human rights body launched an investigation Thursday into Sri Lanka's civil war, approving a U.S.-led resolution over the strong protests of Sri Lanka's government.


Union ruling comes at bad time for NCAA

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 11:06 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2014, file photo, Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter, right, speaks while College Athletes Players Association President Ramogi Huma listens during a news conference in Chicago. In a Wednesday, March 26, 2014, landmark ruling, a federal agency has given football players at Northwestern University the green light to unionize. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty, File)They're battling in courtrooms, and could one day meet over a bargaining table. About the only things the two sides in the debate over big-time college athletics agree on is that things are changing.


Pistorius on the line now in murder trial

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 10:35 AM PDT

FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 file photo, South Africa's Oscar Pistorius wins gold in the men's 400-meter T44 final at the 2012 Paralympics, in London. The man who racing commentators said was slow from the starting blocks, Pistorius went on to win many medals for his running prowess, but is now expected to testify in his own defense during his trial in South Africa for the killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Before he killed his girlfriend, Oscar Pistorius broke barriers and the world embraced him for it. The double-amputee runner challenged the athletic establishment and secured the right to race on his carbon fiber blades in the 2012 Olympics.


Coroner: Berezovsky death remains unexplained

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 11:16 AM PDT

CAPTION CORRECTS THE SURNAME OF THE DAUGHTER TO BEREZOVSKAYA Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky's daughters Elizaveta, right and Ekatrina arrive for the second day of the inquest into his death at Windsor Coroner's Court, in Windsor, England, Thursday, March, 27, 2014. Elizaveta Berezovskaya is due to appear as a witness on the second day of the hearing into the death of the tycoon. He was found dead at his former wife's property, in March 2013. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)LONDON (AP) — Boris Berezovsky's death remains unexplained, a British coroner said Thursday, saying it wasn't possible to conclude beyond a reasonable doubt whether the self-exiled Russian tycoon and opponent of President Vladimir Putin was killed or committed suicide.


Mandatory Kim Jong Un haircuts a baldfaced lie?

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 10:48 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 27, 2013 file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves to war veterans during a mass military parade celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Korean War armistice in Pyongyang, North Korea. Despite thinly sourced reports that an order went out in mid-March 2014 for university students to buzz cut the sides of their heads just like North Korea's supreme leader, recent visitors to the country say they haven't seen evidence of any mass haircutting. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)TOKYO (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's distinctive hairstyle is the 'do of the day on the Internet, thanks to a viral report that every male university student in the capital is now under orders to get a buzz just like it. But it appears the barbers of Pyongyang aren't exactly sharpening their scissors.


Christie's lawyer: Governor not involved in plot

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 09:48 AM PDT

The report by a lawyer hired by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is released in New York, Thursday, March 27, 2014. The lawyer hired by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to review a traffic-blocking scandal that has engulfed Christie's administration releases a report on his findings, which a published report said clears the governor of any role in the plot. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)NEW YORK (AP) — A law firm hired by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Thursday that the governor was not involved in a plot to create gridlock near a major bridge as part of a political retribution scheme.


IMF offers Ukraine up to $18 billion in loans

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 07:38 AM PDT

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, speaks to lawmakers during a session at the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, March. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The International Monetary Fund pledged up to $18 billion in loans Thursday to prop up Ukraine's teetering economy, and the prime minister warned that everyone is going to feel some pain from the necessary financial reforms ahead.


Senate backs bill to aid Ukraine, sanction Russia

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 09:36 AM PDT

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio wraps up a news conference on his legislative agenda, Wednesday, March 26, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Boehner touched on the Ukraine crisis, relations with Russia, the NSA surveillance program, jobs and other issues. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is speaking with one voice against Russia's annexation of Crimea, passing legislation in the House and Senate giving help to Ukraine and imposing sanctions against Russia.


90 still missing after Washington mudslide

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 08:14 AM PDT

Rescue workers look for victims in the mudslide near OsoOfficials acknowledged that some victims' remains may never be recovered.


25 feared dead in Wash. mudslide; 911 calls ranged from calm to frantic

Posted: 26 Mar 2014 11:23 PM PDT

SEATTLE (AP) — Audio recordings of 911 calls made in the moments after a massive, deadly mudslide struck the tiny Washington state town of Oso ranged from a frantic woman who reported people screaming for help to a caller who described her amazement that the landslide had pushed a house all the way across a highway.

Weather frustrates hunt for missing Malaysian jet as new leads reported

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 05:39 AM PDT

Ground staff assist a ROKN P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft after it arrived at the RAAF Base Pearce, before searching for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370By Matt Siegel and Michael Martina PERTH (Reuters) - High winds and icy weather halted the air search on Thursday for a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet presumed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, just as new satellite images emerged showing what could be a large debris field from the plane. The latest possible sightings of wreckage from Flight MH370, which went missing 19 days ago, were captured by Thai and Japanese satellites in roughly the same remote expanse of sea as earlier images reported by France, Australia and China. "We have never said that the pieces are part of MH370 but have so far identified them only as floating objects." A Japanese satellite also captured images of 10 objects which could be part of the plane, Kyodo news agency quoted the government as saying on Thursday. "The forecast in the area was calling for severe icing, severe turbulence and near-zero visibility," said Lieutenant Commander Adam Schantz, the officer in charge of the U.S. Navy Poseidon P8 maritime surveillance aircraft detachment.


Obama holds first meeting with Pope Francis

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 05:40 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Pope Francis, Thursday, March 27, 2014 at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)The president tells the pontiff he is a "great admirer" during talks at the Vatican.


Thai satellite spots 300 objects in Indian Ocean

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 02:46 AM PDT

BANGKOK (AP) — A Thai satellite has detected about 300 objects floating in the Indian Ocean near the search area for the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner, officials said Thursday.

Obama and Francis: What divides them

Posted: 26 Mar 2014 09:28 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama and Pope FrancisPresident has much to gain from historic meeting but must tread carefully.


At least two firefighters killed in 9-alarm Boston blaze

Posted: 26 Mar 2014 04:02 PM PDT

Boston brownstone fireTwo firefighters were reported killed and at least 17 people injured as a nine-alarm fire raced through a four-story building in the city's historic Back Bay neighborhood on Wednesday, drawing a large-scale emergency response, local officials said. The Boston Globe, quoting two people with direct knowledge of the fire, said the two Boston firefighters died while battling the blaze but gave no further details. All residents of the apartment building escaped unharmed, said Boston Fire Department spokesman Steve MacDonald. With the winds, "it's hard fighting it from the outside." Boston Emergency Medical Service said it had taken 17 people to area hospitals.


Over half of uninsured don't know health care deadline

Posted: 26 Mar 2014 01:53 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2013 file photo, Maygan Rollins, 22, a field organizer with Enroll America, left, talks with Jerry Correa, 27, about his health care options while canvassing at a bus stop in Miami. Enroll America is a private, non-profit organization running a grassroots campaign to encourage people to sign up for health care offered by the Affordable Care Act. Despite Florida Republicans' efforts to fight the Affordable Care Act at every turn, more than 440,000 Florida residents had been enrolled through the federal marketplace through the end of February. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)If you don't have health insurance and didn't know the government's deadline for signing up is just days away, you're in arguably good company, according to a new survey.


Obama urges Europe to retrench amid Ukraine crisis

Posted: 26 Mar 2014 12:02 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama gives a speech at Bozar concert hall in BrusselsIn Brussels, asks Europeans to recommit to war-won ideals of freedom and human dignity.


Charlotte, NC's new mayor accused of taking bribes

Posted: 26 Mar 2014 03:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2013 file photo, then candidate for Charlotte mayor Patrick Cannon speaks to students at Queens University in Charlotte, N.C. Cannon, now mayor of Charlotte, was arrested Wednesday, March 26, 2014, on public corruption charges. U.S. Attorney Anne Tompkins says that Cannon solicited and accepted bribes from undercover FBI agents posing as real estate developers who wanted to do business in Charlotte. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Less than six months on the job, the mayor of Charlotte was arrested Wednesday and accused of accepting more than $48,000 in bribes from undercover FBI agents posing as businessmen who wanted to do work with North Carolina's largest city.


Two firefighters hurt in 9-alarm Boston blaze

Posted: 26 Mar 2014 01:42 PM PDT

In this photo released by the Boston Fire Department via Twitter, firefighters tend a colleague at the scene of a multi-alarm fire at a four-story brownstone in the Back Bay neighborhood near the Charles River Wednesday, March 26, 2014 in Boston. (AP Photo/Boston Fire Department)At least three Boston firefighters were injured, one seriously, on Wednesday when a fire broke out in a four-story building in the city's historic Back Bay neighborhood, drawing a large-scale emergency response, local officials said. All residents of the apartment building escaped unharmed, said Boston Fire Department spokesman Steve MacDonald. He described the blaze as a nine-alarm incident, the department's highest level of severity, with more than 150 firefighters at the scene. "It's a very unstable condition right now with the flames that are through the roof, and it's hard fighting it from the outside." Of the three firefighters brought to area hospitals, one was listed in serious condition while the injuries to the other two were not believed to be life-threatening, MacDonald said.


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