| Captain of sunken S. Korean ferry, 2 crew arrested Posted: 19 Apr 2014 09:08 AM PDT  He was arrested Saturday on suspicion of negligence and abandoning people in need.
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| Governor: Closing Boston amid bomber hunt 'tough' Posted: 19 Apr 2014 10:06 AM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — Several days after the Boston Marathon bombing, Gov. Deval Patrick received a call in the pre-dawn hours from a top aide telling him that police officers outside the city had just engaged in a ferocious gun battle with the two men suspected of setting the bombs and that one was dead and the other had fled.
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| Asia seeks Obama's assurance in territorial spats Posted: 19 Apr 2014 10:25 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Barack Obama travels through Asia this coming week, he will confront a region that's warily watching the crisis in Ukraine through the prism of its own territorial tensions with China.
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| Drone in Yemen kills 9 suspected al-Qaida fighters Posted: 19 Apr 2014 08:33 AM PDT  SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A U.S. drone strike in southern Yemen killed nine suspected al-Qaida militants and three civilians Saturday, authorities said, part of America's ongoing strikes in the country against what it considers the terror network's most dangerous local group.
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| Delay won't quell 2014 wrangling over Keystone XL Posted: 19 Apr 2014 01:42 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats sweating this year's elections may be hoping that the Obama administration's latest delay to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline takes a politically fraught issue off the table for the midterms.
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| SpaceX making Easter delivery of station supplies Posted: 18 Apr 2014 06:51 PM PDT  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A SpaceX supply ship rocketed toward the International Space Station on Friday, setting the stage for an Easter morning delivery and urgent spacewalking repairs later in the week.
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| California farmers to get more water Posted: 18 Apr 2014 05:07 PM PDT  Allotments increased from zero to 5 percent of what districts have requested.
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| Autopsies completed on 7 babies found in Utah garage Posted: 18 Apr 2014 04:27 PM PDT  PLEASANT GROVE, Utah (AP) — The Utah State Medical Examiner's Office has completed autopsies of seven infants found in cardboard boxes in a woman's garage, but it is unclear when the results will be released.
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| Support pours in for man who avoided jail due to clerical error Posted: 18 Apr 2014 01:28 PM PDT  ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri man who avoided prison because of a clerical error and led a law-abiding life for 13 years said he is overwhelmed by the support he's received since the story of his incarceration became public.
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| State Dept. delays review of Keystone pipeline Posted: 18 Apr 2014 12:49 PM PDT  Move could push decision about controversial oil pipeline until after midterm elections.
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| Public skepticism surges in Nigeria after false military report Posted: 18 Apr 2014 11:27 AM PDT  As he waited outside a hospital on Wednesday for the body of one of his friends to be released for burial, Basiru Youseff, a young toy salesman, was bitter about government claims that they crushing the insurgency. Violence in Nigeria reached new heights this week, with the biggest attack on the capital in the city's history, gun battles in the countryside, and the abduction of at least 129 girls from their schoolhouse by militants. It is not known who perpetrated these attacks, though Boko Haram insurgents are widely blamed. While the military may make such comments in an effort to keep up morale, it feeds public frustration with a military that seems incapable of stemming what appears to be a widening conflict. "The skepticism in the public mind is increasing, perhaps even about the government's culpability with the security concerns that Nigerians have," says Clement Nwankwo, who heads the Policy and Legal Advocacy Center in Abuja.
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| Clock ticks for states to start health exchanges Posted: 18 Apr 2014 12:12 PM PDT  Chance for hundreds of millions in aid is set is to expire, but issue remains election-year risk.
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| Everest avalanche a reminder of risks Sherpas face Posted: 19 Apr 2014 09:20 AM PDT  KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The rescuers moved quickly, just minutes after the first block of ice tore loose from Mount Everest and started an avalanche that roared down the mountain, ripping through teams of guides hauling gear.
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| 4 French journalists held hostage in Syria freed Posted: 19 Apr 2014 03:27 AM PDT  PARIS (AP) — Four French journalists held hostage in Syria since June have been released, France's presidential palace said Saturday.
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| At barricades, Ukraine insurgents await Easter Posted: 19 Apr 2014 07:02 AM PDT  DOENTSK, Ukraine (AP) — Pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine on Saturday prepared to celebrate Orthodox Easter at barricades outside government offices seized in nearly a dozen cities, despite an international agreement to disarm and free the premises.
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| Sub search for missing jet to be finished in week Posted: 19 Apr 2014 04:01 AM PDT  PERTH, Australia (AP) — A robotic submarine looking for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet is expected to finish searching a patch of the Indian Ocean seabed within a week after so far coming up empty, and the search area may be expanded after that, officials said Saturday.
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| Student fought bureaucrats for Holocaust justice Posted: 19 Apr 2014 03:43 AM PDT  AMSTERDAM (AP) — Charlotte van den Berg was a 20-year-old college student working part-time in Amsterdam's city archives when she and other interns came across a shocking find: letters from Jewish Holocaust survivors complaining that the city was forcing them to pay back taxes and late payment fines on property seized after they were deported to Nazi death camps.
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| Documents detail another delayed GM recall Posted: 19 Apr 2014 10:58 AM PDT  DETROIT (AP) — Government documents show that General Motors waited years to recall nearly 335,000 Saturn Ions for power steering failures despite getting thousands of consumer complaints and warranty repair claims.
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| Fiat and Chrysler to build 3 Jeep models in China Posted: 19 Apr 2014 10:38 AM PDT  ROME (AP) — Fiat and Chrysler announced plans Saturday to build three new Jeep models in China for that market, the biggest for the vehicles outside the United States, as they attempt to boost sales in a country where they lag behind their competitors.
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| Nigeria preacher: Healer or controversial leader? Posted: 19 Apr 2014 08:38 AM PDT  LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — It's Sunday, and 15,000 people are seated in the enormous arena-like church, fanning themselves against the dusty humid air in Nigeria.
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| 13th body pulled from snow in Everest avalanche Posted: 19 Apr 2014 10:08 AM PDT  KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Search teams recovered a 13th body Saturday from the snow and ice covering a dangerous climbing pass on Mount Everest, where an avalanche a day earlier swept over a group of Sherpa guides in the deadliest disaster on the world's highest peak.
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