| Protesters, police clash in Albuquerque Posted: 31 Mar 2014 07:44 AM PDT  People demand officials' resignations after string of police shootings.
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| Kerry returns to Middle East for flailing peace talks Posted: 31 Mar 2014 09:50 AM PDT  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry broke from his travel schedule for the second time in a week and rushed back to the Middle East on Monday to try to salvage Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. A major stumbling block is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's demand that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas explicitly recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Sources close to the negotiations said that an Israeli spy serving a life sentence in the United States and groups of Palestinian prisoners could be freed under an emerging deal to salvage the talks. The U.S.-brokered negotiations faced a crisis at the weekend when Israel, saying it was seeking a Palestinian commitment to continue negotiations beyond an end-April deadline, failed to press ahead with a promised release of Palestinian prisoners.
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| Israel police recover ancient burial boxes Posted: 31 Mar 2014 09:59 AM PDT  The boxes contain bone fragments and remnants of pottery buried with the dead.
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| Russian prime minister angers Ukraine by visiting Crimea Posted: 31 Mar 2014 08:02 AM PDT  By Darya Korsunskaya SIMFEROPOL, Crimea (Reuters) - Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev flaunted Russia's grip on Crimea by flying to the region and holding a government meeting there on Monday, angering Ukraine and defying Western demands to hand the peninsula back to Kiev. The Ukrainian government denounced the visit, a few hours after the latest round of crisis talks between Russia and the United States ended inconclusively, as a "crude violation" of the rules of diplomacy. Russia said it had pulled some troops back from near Ukraine's eastern border, a move that could ease tension in the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War. However, Medvedev's visit taunted Western leaders by underlining their inability to force President Vladimir Putin to relinquish Crimea, seized after the overthrow of Russian-backed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich and annexed on March 21.
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| NSA tool increased RSA security vulnerability, researchers say Posted: 31 Mar 2014 08:01 AM PDT  By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Security industry pioneer RSA adopted not just one but two encryption tools developed by the U.S. National Security Agency, greatly increasing the spy agency's ability to eavesdrop on some Internet communications, according to a team of academic researchers. Reuters reported in December that the NSA had paid RSA $10 million to make a now-discredited cryptography system the default in software used by a wide range of Internet and computer security programs. The system, called Dual Elliptic Curve, was a random number generator, but it had a deliberate flaw - or "back door" - that allowed the NSA to crack the encryption. A group of professors from Johns Hopkins, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Illinois and elsewhere now say they have discovered that a second NSA tool exacerbated the RSA software's vulnerability.
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| International court orders stay on Japanese whaling Posted: 31 Mar 2014 04:52 AM PDT  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Court of Justice on Monday ordered a temporary halt to Japan's Antarctic whaling program, ruling that it is not for scientific purposes as the Japanese government had claimed.
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| Senate report: Torture didn't lead to bin Laden Posted: 31 Mar 2014 09:12 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate investigation concludes waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods provided no key evidence in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to congressional aides and outside experts familiar with a still-secret, 6,200-page report. The finding could deepen the worst rift in years between lawmakers and the CIA.
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| Koreas trade fire; island residents in shelters Posted: 31 Mar 2014 06:26 AM PDT SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea fired hundreds of artillery shells into each other's waters Monday in a flare-up of animosity that forced residents of five front-line South Korean islands to evacuate to shelters for several hours, South Korean officials said. |
| Crews clear road through mudslide debris Posted: 31 Mar 2014 07:15 AM PDT  DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Crews have cleared a path through the muck and devastation wrought by Washington's deadly mudslide, making the painstaking search for victims easier.
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| Surgery gives long-term help for obese diabetics Posted: 31 Mar 2014 07:15 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — New research is boosting hopes that weight-loss surgery can put some patients' diabetes into remission for years and perhaps in some cases, for good.
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| Engaged Johnny Depp shows off 'chick's ring' Posted: 31 Mar 2014 10:25 AM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — Johnny Depp showed off a diamond engagement ring that he called a "chick's ring" on Monday — indirectly confirming rumors of his engagement to actress Amber Heard.
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| Fearsome Final Foursome headed to North Texas Posted: 31 Mar 2014 12:26 AM PDT  Florida had not been to the Final Four since all those future first-round draft picks were in Gainesville. Wisconsin and coach Bo Ryan had never been.
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| Russian PM Medvedev makes surprise visit to Crimea Posted: 31 Mar 2014 06:04 AM PDT  SIMFEROPOL, Crimea (AP) — On a surprise visit Monday to Crimea, Russia's prime minister promised to quickly pour funds into the newly annexed peninsula so residents see positive changes after the Russian takeover.
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| Senate torture report examines hunt for bin Laden Posted: 31 Mar 2014 01:04 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A hotly disputed Senate torture report concludes that waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods provided no key evidence in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to congressional aides and outside experts familiar with the investigation. |
| Germany returns looted Guardi painting to Poland Posted: 31 Mar 2014 08:32 AM PDT  BERLIN (AP) — An 18th-century painting looted by the Nazis for Adolf Hitler's 'Fuehrer Museum' was handed back to Poland on Monday, a move Germany hopes will revive thorny talks over a vast trove of historical documents Berlin that wants to recover from Poland.
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| Kerry to Mideast at critical point in peace talks Posted: 31 Mar 2014 08:55 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry rushed to the Middle East on Monday for a surprise visit aimed at rescuing his Mideast diplomatic efforts, as peace talks approached a critical make-or-break point.
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| Mudslide death toll rises; rains expected to ease Posted: 31 Mar 2014 06:08 AM PDT DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — The rains that have bedeviled crews searching for victims in the debris field from the deadly Washington state mudslide are expected to ease this week, but searchers faced other challenges at the site like household chemicals and sewage. |
| In Kentucky, Obamacare's success did nothing to change the politics of the law Posted: 31 Mar 2014 03:56 AM PDT  Although Gov. Steve Beshear embraced the law, a Republican says it's "unsustainable."
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| Weight loss surgery helps reverse type 2 diabetes, study shows Posted: 31 Mar 2014 05:46 AM PDT  By Bill Berkrot and Ransdell Pierson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bariatric weight loss surgery on obese patients with type 2 diabetes helped many to get their blood sugar to healthy levels and to no longer require any diabetes medicines, including insulin, three years after the procedure, according to data presented at a major medical meeting on Monday. The study called Stampede, which involved 150 obese patients who had poorly controlled type 2 diabetes for at least eight years, was conducted by Cleveland Clinic researchers. It compared two types of weight loss surgery against weight loss attained by diet and exercise along with nutrition counseling and, for some, additional diabetes medicines that can help promote weight loss, such as Victoza from Novo Nordisk.
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| UN panel: Warming worsens food, hunger problems Posted: 31 Mar 2014 02:26 AM PDT  Climate change makes feeding the world harder and more expensive, a United Nations scientific panel said.
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| US, Russia offer differing solutions on Ukraine Posted: 31 Mar 2014 05:02 AM PDT PARIS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov are advancing far different proposals on how to calm tensions and de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine as Russia continues to mass troops along its border with the former Soviet republic. |
| Global warming dials up our risks, UN report says Posted: 30 Mar 2014 08:26 PM PDT  If the world doesn't cut pollution of heat-trapping gases, the already noticeable harms of global warming could spiral "out of control," the head of a U.N. scientific panel warned.
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| U.S., Russia talks fail to end Ukraine deadlock Posted: 30 Mar 2014 10:39 PM PDT  Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian diplomat Sergey Lavrov disagreed on crucial issues.
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| SKorea fires shells at NKorean waters after drills Posted: 30 Mar 2014 10:07 PM PDT  South Korea has fired artillery shells in response to North Korean shells from a live-fire drill that fell in waters south of the rivals' disputed western sea boundary.
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| Australia PM: No time limit on Malaysia jet search Posted: 31 Mar 2014 04:17 AM PDT  Prime Minister Tony Abbott said there was no time limit on the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
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| NKorea conducts live-fire drills near sea boundary Posted: 30 Mar 2014 09:08 PM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Monday conducted live-fire drills near the rival Koreas' disputed western sea boundary, South Korean officials said, in a move seen as an expression of Pyongyang's frustration at making little progress in its recent push to win outside aid.
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