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Putin’s retaliatory sanctions unite Washington

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Putin’s retaliatory sanctions unite Washington

Putin’s retaliatory sanctions unite Washington

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 09:53 AM PDT

Russia's President Vladimir Putin looks on during his meeting with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu in the Kremlin in Moscow on March 20, 2014Russia's president probably didn't expect to spark a bipartisan love-in in Washington.

Spring outlook: Bad news for a weather-weary nation

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 10:36 AM PDT

Donald Croteau works to clear nearly a foot of snow off his car on the first day of spring, Thursday, March 20, 2014 in North Woodstock, N.H. Much of the country remains in a deep freeze, delaying the risk of spring flooding into April in the upper Midwest to New England. While major flooding is not expected, experts say there's a moderate risk of flooding in the southern Great Lakes region because of above-average snowpack. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)LOS ANGELES (AP) — On the first day of spring, there's some bad news for the weather-weary nation.

Anti-gay pastor Fred Phelps Sr. dies at 84

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 09:54 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 19, 2006 file photo, the Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. preaches at his Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan. Phelps, the founder of the Kansas church known for anti-gay protests and pickets at military funerals, died Thursday, March 20, 2014. He was 84. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., the fiery founder of a small Kansas church who led outrageous and hate-filled protests that blamed almost everything, including the deaths of AIDS victims and U.S. soldiers, on America's tolerance for gay people, has died. He was 84.

Teen bypasses security, climbs atop of WTC, police say

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 07:12 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2013 file photo, 4 World Trade Center, center, and its neighbor, One World Trade Center, left, are aglow in New York. The 1,776-foot One World Trade Center is the marquee skyscraper at ground zero; but the first office tower to open there will be its shorter neighbor 4 World Trade Center on Wednesday, Nov. 13.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)NEW YORK (AP) — A 16-year-old boy bypassed security in the middle of the night and climbed a ladder to the spire of 1 World Trade Center, the nation's tallest building, where he apparently took pictures, authorities said Thursday.

Army general fined, reprimanded in sex case

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 10:33 AM PDT

Brig Gen. Jeff Sinclair arrives to the Fort Bragg courthouse, for his sentencing hearing, Wednesday, March 19, 2014, in Fort Bragg, N.C. Sinclair, who was accused of sexually assaulting a subordinate, plead guilty to lesser charges in a plea deal reached with government prosecutors. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, Andrew Craft) MANDATORY CREDITFORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — An Army general who carried on a three-year affair with a captain and had two other inappropriate relationships with subordinates was reprimanded and docked $20,000 in pay Thursday, avoiding prison in one of the military's most closely watched courts-martial.

Obama tells Iranians there is chance nuclear deal could happen

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 07:15 AM PDT

A picture taken on October 26, 2010 shows the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern IranPresident Barack Obama sent a video message to Iranians on Thursday to say there is a chance to reach a nuclear agreement with Iran if Tehran takes verifiable steps to assure the West its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only. This will be difficult," Obama said in a message to mark the Iranian holiday Nowruz. "But I'm NEWS1committed to diplomacy because I believe there is the basis for a practical solution." The United States and five other major powers are trying to reach a comprehensive deal to deny Iran a nuclear bomb capability after reaching a six-month temporary deal implemented on January 20. Under that deal, which can be renewed, Iran agreed to curb its nuclear program in return for gaining access to more than $4 billion in oil revenues that had been frozen by Western sanctions.

Obama expands U.S. sanctions on Russians

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 09:51 AM PDT

U.S. President Obama pauses while making a statement about Ukraine on the South Lawn of the White House in WashingtonList includes people close to Putin, bank linked to Moscow's move to annex Crimea.

Russian lawmakers approve annexation of Crimea

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 06:59 AM PDT

A man looks at the Ukrainian ship Slavutich blocked by two Russian ships at the harbour in SevastopolThe vote followed a brief discussion when members assailed Ukrainian authorities.

Matt Bai: How the Kochs make their political money count

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 02:25 AM PDT

Koch BrothersI've never met David and Charles Koch, the conservative billionaires who have apparently set out to acquire our democracy, much as you or I might hope to purchase a timeshare. When I think of them, which isn't all that often, I tend to picture Dan Aykroyd and John Lithgow, who played industrialists called the "Motch" brothers in a recent comedy called "The Campaign," and whose main goal in the film was to relocate a Chinese sweatshop to North Carolina.

Phelps tested free speech with anti-gay protests

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 10:34 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 19, 2006 file photo, the Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. preaches at his Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan. Phelps, the founder of the Kansas church known for anti-gay protests and pickets at military funerals, died Thursday, March 20, 2014. He was 84. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Fred Phelps did not care what you thought of his Westboro Baptist Church, nor did he care if you heard its message that society's tolerance for gay people is the root of all earthly evil.

Reid asks for computer examination in CIA dispute

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 09:19 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has instructed the Senate's chief law enforcement officer to examine the Intelligence Committee's computers amid an escalating fight between the CIA and lawmakers over access to secret documents about the agency's interrogation tactics during the Bush administration.

Pistorius selling house where he shot Steenkamp

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 09:36 AM PDT

File - This file aerial image taken from video provided by VNS24/7 on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, shows the home of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius in a gated housing complex in Pretoria, South Africa. Oscar Pistorius is selling the house where Reeva Steenkamp was kiiled to raise money for his legal bills, and has still never returned to the upscale villa since the day he shot his girlfriend in an upstairs bathroom over a year ago, the athlete's lawyer said Thursday. (AP Photo/VNS24/7-File)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Oscar Pistorius is selling the house where he killed Reeva Steenkamp to raise money for his legal bills, the athlete's lawyer said Thursday.

Police: NJ teen bypasses guard, reaches WTC spire

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 10:37 AM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A New Jersey teenager who police say bypassed security and climbed a ladder to the spire of 1 World Trade Center in the middle of the night faces trespassing charges.

Chew on this: Gum loses its pop

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 09:20 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday Oct. 24, 2010, file photo, a garbage bin sits full of bubble gum, at Yankee Stadium, in New York. U.S. gum sales tumbled 11 percent over the past four years. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Gum seems as appealing as that sticky wad on the bottom of a shoe these days.

Guardianship sought for Paul Walker's daughter

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 09:35 AM PDT

FILE - This March 21, 2013 file photo shows U.S. actor Paul Walker wearing a creation from the Colcci summer collection at Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Walker's mother, Cheryl Ann Walker, petitioned to become her granddaughter's legal guardian in a Los Angeles court on Tuesday March 20, 2014. The 40-year-old actor died Nov. 30 in a fiery crash after a specialty Porsche driven by his friend and financial adviser struck a light pole and a tree in northern Los Angeles County. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Paul Walker's mother has petitioned to become the legal guardian of the late actor's teenage daughter in accordance with his final wishes.

NJ teen accused of gaining access to top of WTC

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 07:56 AM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A 16-year-old bypassed "inattentive" security in the middle of the night and climbed a ladder to the spire of 1 World Trade Center, the nation's tallest building, where he apparently took pictures, authorities said Thursday.

Italy picks up 4,000 migrants at sea in 4 days

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 10:34 AM PDT

In this photo released by the Italian Navy Thursday, March 20, 2014, migrants stand on a dinghy after being rescued along the Mediterranean sea. Italian authorities say they have rescued more than 4,000 would-be migrants at sea over the past four days as the war in Syria and instability in Libya spawn new waves of refugees. The numbers of migrants reaching Italian shores generally rises as warm weather and calm seas make the Mediterranean Sea crossing from North Africa easier. But the U.N. refugee agency says the 2014 numbers represent a 300 percent increase over the same period in 2013. (AP Photo/Italian Navy)ROME (AP) — Italian authorities say they have rescued more than 4,000 would-be migrants at sea over the past four days as the war in Syria and instability in Libya spawn new waves of refugees.

Syrian troops capture Crusader-era citadel

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 10:01 AM PDT

This Wednesday, March. 19, 2014 photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrians inspect the rubble of destroyed buildings following a Syrian government airstrike in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops captured a famous Crusader castle Thursday near the border with Lebanon after days of intense clashes with opposition fighters, the latest in a series of battlefield gains by government forces along the frontier, state media and officials said.

Latest information on search for Malaysian plane

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 08:17 AM PDT

In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, Lt. j.g. Kyle Atakturk, left, and Lt. j.g. Nicholas Horton, pilot a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon during a mission to assist in search and rescue operations for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 Wednesday March 19, 2014. Military planes from Australia, the U.S. and New Zealand have been searching for the plane in a region over the southern Indian Ocean that was narrowed down from 600,000 square kilometers (232,000 square miles) to 305,000 square kilometers (117,000 square miles). (AP Photo/US Navy, Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Eric A. Pastor)The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is concentrating on two objects located by satellite and identified by analysts as possible debris. A summary of the latest information from Australian maritime authorities and others involved in the investigation:

Pro-Russian crowds seize 2 Ukrainian warships

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 07:24 AM PDT

Ukrainian air force officers walk with their bags at the Belbek airbase, outside Sevastopol, Crimea, on Thursday, March 20, 2014. With thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and sailors trapped on military bases, surrounded by heavily armed Russian forces and pro-Russia militia, the Kiev government said it was drawing up plans to evacuate its outnumbered troops from Crimea back to the mainland and would seek U.N. support to turn the peninsula into a demilitarized zone. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Pro-Russian crowds seized two Ukrainian warships Thursday and Ukraine said its troops were being threatened in Crimea as the European Union considered new sanctions against Russia for its annexation of the Black Sea peninsula.

25 years later, Exxon Valdez spill effects linger

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 04:01 AM PDT

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, there was the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska, at the time the nation's largest oil spill.

Possible debris from missing jet spotted

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 10:28 AM PDT

Satellite imagery provided to AMSA of objects that may be possible debris of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370Two objects spotted by satellite in the Indian Ocean off Australia are being investigated.

Obama rules out 'military excursion' in Ukraine

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 05:42 PM PDT

President Barack Obama ruled out U.S. military involvement in Ukraine on Wednesday, emphasizing diplomacy in the U.S. standoff with Russia over Crimea. "We are not going to be getting into a military excursion in Ukraine," Obama told KNSD, San Diego's NBC affiliate, in an interview. "We need do not need to trigger an actual war with Russia," he told KSDK, a St. Louis station owned by Gannett in a separate interview. Obama, who imposed sanctions on 11 Russian and Ukrainian officials on Monday, said the United States will push diplomatic efforts to bring pressure on Russia to loosen its grip on the Crimea region of southern Ukraine.

US, Russia exchange threats at tense UN meeting

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 05:51 PM PDT

U.N. Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin arrives early and is seated alone as he waits for the start of a U.N. Security Council meeting on the crisis in the Ukraine, Wednesday March 19, 2014, at United Nations Headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia and the United States exchanged threats Wednesday at a tense U.N. Security Council meeting over the Ukraine crisis, with Moscow's envoy warning that the U.S. ambassador's "insults" are jeopardizing Moscow's willingness to cooperate with Washington on other diplomatic matters.

Ukraine seen succumbing to Crimea seizure

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 04:58 PM PDT

Ukrainian soldiers fold the Ukrainian flag, which was removed by a Crimean pro- Russian self-defense force at the Ukrainian Navy headquarters in Sevastopol, Crimea, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. An Associated Press photographer said several hundred militiamen took down the gate and made their way onto the base. They then raised the Russian flag on the square by the headquarters. The unarmed militia waited for an hour on the square before the move to storm the headquarters. Following the arrival of the commander of the Russian Black Sea fleet, the Crimeans took over the building. (AP Photo/Andrew Lubimov)Official says gov't will seek U.N. support to turn peninsula into demilitarized zone.

Court reverses ruling that freed ex-cop

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 03:18 PM PDT

FILE- In this Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013 file photo, Doug Prade, a former Ohio police captain who has spent nearly 15 years in prison for his ex-wife's killing, answers questions from the media after being released from the Madison Correctional Institution in London, Ohio. An appeals court in Ohio says a judge was wrong to release Prade. The ruling released Wednesday, March 19, 2014, comes a little more than a year after Prade was freed from prison based on new testing of a bite mark. A judge in Akron ruled in January 2013 that new DNA test results proved Prade didn't kill his former wife. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File)A former Ohio police captain who spent nearly 15 years in prison before being exonerated in his ex-wife's killing could be headed back behind bars after an appeals court ruled that a judge was wrong to free him.

Alaska Democratic senator appears on obscure YouTube show

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 12:26 PM PDT

BegichA week after President Obama appeared on "Between Two Ferns," Alaska Democratic Sen. Mark Begich showed up on "Alaska Robotics News."

Is Malaysia pilot's flight simulator that unusual?

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 05:36 PM PDT

Pilot Says At-Home Flight Simulator Not UnusualLower prices leading many to buy at-home devices for fun and practice, says one expert.

Global effort produces bone marrow donor for 'Baby Mateo'

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 11:11 AM PDT

Baby Mateo finds a donorThe desperate call for a donor by the family of a 10-month-old Spanish child suffering from juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia has been answered. Baby Mateo, as he is known, will undergo an operation next month expected to cure his disease.

World War I shell kills two in Belgium

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 11:03 AM PDT

Police and firefighters work at an industrial site where a World War I era shell exploded during excavation works on March 19, 2014, in Ypres, northern Belgium, killing two workers and severely injuring anotherTwo workers were killed Wednesday by the explosion of a World War I shell near the Belgian town of Ypres, site of some of the bloodiest battles in the conflict, officials said. The Western Front trenches ran just outside Ypres, a small medieval town completely destroyed in the war that was fought from 1914 to 1918.

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