| Looking skyward, for the first time, with fear Posted: 02 Apr 2014 08:14 AM PDT  In the last 15 years, Moore, Okla., has been hit by three of the most dangerous tornadoes ever recorded.
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| American spy Jonathan Pollard's ex-handler judges Israel's position Posted: 02 Apr 2014 07:34 AM PDT  As a complicated deal for Pollard's release falters, his former handler says Israel blew a golden opportunity to gain leverage in Middle East peace talks.
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| Stolen masterpieces worth $50M found in Italian auto worker's home Posted: 02 Apr 2014 09:22 AM PDT  Fiat Worker Bought the Stolen Paintings for $25 at an Auction
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| U.S. Supreme Court: Money is speech Posted: 02 Apr 2014 07:52 AM PDT  Court strikes down limits on overall campaign contributions biggest individual donors may make to candidates.
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| Senators set to demand 9/11 'torture report' release Posted: 02 Apr 2014 07:22 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate panel appears likely to demand the release of a contentious torture report that has sharply divided lawmakers and the CIA, as two centrist senators joined the push Wednesday for a summary of the review to be declassified.
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| Massive Chile quake still not the expected 'big one,' say experts Posted: 02 Apr 2014 06:58 AM PDT  SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Authorities lifted tsunami warnings for Chile's long coastline early Wednesday after a magnitude-8.2 earthquake struck the South American nation north. Six people were crushed to death or suffered fatal heart attacks, a remarkably low toll for such a powerful shift in the Earth's crust.
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| Waters recede, helping search for mudslide victims Posted: 02 Apr 2014 08:56 AM PDT  ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — It is a grim step forward in the search for human remains at a mudslide that crushed a rural Washington community, but an important one: floodwaters at the site are receding, allowing crews to expand their search and yielding more human remains in areas that previously couldn't be reached. The views presented Tuesday on a media tour were chilling: shredded homes and twisted cars.
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| New Palestinian recognition bid largely symbolic Posted: 02 Apr 2014 09:32 AM PDT  RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A decision by President Mahmoud Abbas to seek further international recognition of a "state of Palestine" — despite promises to hold off while negotiating with Israel — has thrown into disarray the troubled U.S. mediation efforts on a peace deal. Here's a look at the possible repercussions.
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| Bombs at Egypt university hit riot police, 1 dead Posted: 02 Apr 2014 08:52 AM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Three bombs exploded Wednesday outside Cairo University's main campus, hitting riot police deployed against near daily protests by Islamist students, killing a police general and wounding seven others, including several top police officers. |
| Malaysian police: Jet mystery may never be solved Posted: 02 Apr 2014 05:48 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A police investigation may never determine the reason why the Malaysia Airlines jetliner disappeared, and search planes scouring the Indian Ocean for any sign of its wreckage aren't certain to find anything either, officials said Wednesday. |
| Blast kills 6 at Afghan Interior Ministry compound Posted: 02 Apr 2014 06:13 AM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber wearing a military uniform killed six police officers Wednesday inside the heavily fortified Interior Ministry compound in the heart of Kabul, authorities said, the latest in a wave of violence as the Taliban threatens to disrupt this weekend's presidential election. |
| Stolen Gauguin on Sicily kitchen wall for years Posted: 02 Apr 2014 10:15 AM PDT  ROME (AP) — A Paul Gauguin still life stolen from a wealthy collector's home in Britain has been recovered after hanging for 40 years in a Sicilian autoworker's kitchen.
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| Judge halts execution, cites drug source secrecy Posted: 02 Apr 2014 10:12 AM PDT  HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday stopped the scheduled execution of a serial killer in Texas, saying justice department officials must disclose information to the inmate's lawyers about the supplier of a new batch of drugs that would be used to kill him.
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| Ted Cruz: Religious liberties under attack Posted: 02 Apr 2014 10:10 AM PDT  LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Possible Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz said Wednesday that religious Americans have a duty to take a stand against policies, such as President Barack Obama's health care law, that could threaten their liberties.
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| Senators press Barra about GM's delay in recall Posted: 02 Apr 2014 08:20 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — General Motors CEO Mary Barra underwent a second day of harsh questioning from Congress Wednesday, as lawmakers pressed her for answers about mistakes the company made in not recalling cars with defective ignition switch for a decade.
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| Scandal-weary voters boot DC mayor from office Posted: 02 Apr 2014 01:58 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Reeling from allegations by federal prosecutors that he knew about the dirty tricks that helped him get elected four years ago, District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray tried to rally his base. But his core supporters weren't nearly enough, as a scandal-weary electorate rallied behind a much-younger challenger who promised honest and ethical leadership.
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| Sheer size is just 1 complexity in Indian election Posted: 02 Apr 2014 05:59 AM PDT  NEW DELHI (AP) — In a country where men have long told their wives whom to vote for, Sheila Kumar says she has no intention of letting her husband dictate her vote in next month's national election.
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| AP Interview: Yanukovych hopes for Crimea return Posted: 02 Apr 2014 06:26 AM PDT  ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AP) — Ukraine's ousted president, Viktor Yanukovych, said Wednesday that he was "wrong" to invite Russian troops into Crimea, and vowed to try to persuade Russia to return the Black Sea peninsula.
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| Russia: NATO re-fighting Cold War Posted: 02 Apr 2014 06:02 AM PDT  NATO agreed Tuesday to suspend cooperation with Russia, strengthen defenses.
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| Blasts hit area outside Cairo University Posted: 02 Apr 2014 04:30 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's state television says a third explosion has hit the area outside the main campus of Cairo University. There was no immediate word on casualties in the latest blast.
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| Razor blades found at playground near Philadelphia Posted: 02 Apr 2014 05:03 AM PDT  BROOKHAVEN, Pa. (AP) — Police say razor blades were found duct-taped to playground equipment at a park outside Philadelphia.
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| Savings and loan figure Charles Keating dies at 90 Posted: 01 Apr 2014 08:38 PM PDT  PHOENIX (AP) — Charles H. Keating Jr., the notorious financier who served prison time and was disgraced for his role in the costliest savings and loan failure of the 1980s, has died. He was 90.
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| Tsunami warning lifted, six dead in Chile Posted: 02 Apr 2014 05:37 AM PDT  Authorities are still assessing damage from an 8.2-magnitute earthquake that hit Tuesday night.
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| US confirms warrantless searches of Americans Posted: 01 Apr 2014 02:50 PM PDT  Letter says NSA searched for Americans' communications within material on foreigners.
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| British submarine, director Peter Jackson's jet join MH370 hunt Posted: 02 Apr 2014 06:00 AM PDT  Perth (Australia) (AFP) - A British nuclear sub with underwater search capabilities reinforced the Indian Ocean hunt for flight MH370 on Wednesday, but Malaysian police warned the cause of the jet's mysterious disappearance may never be known. Despite extensive scouring of the remote waters southwest of Perth where Malaysia believes the jet went down, ships and planes have found no debris that would indicate a crash site. Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said a three-week-old criminal investigation into what caused the flight with 239 people aboard to veer far from its intended route between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing had so far been inconclusive. The sober assessment will add to the frustrations of anxious family members of the missing passengers, who have denounced Malaysia's handling of the crisis.
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| At least 5 dead in powerful Chile earthquake Posted: 01 Apr 2014 09:40 PM PDT The magnitude-8.2 quake sets off a small tsunami and forces coastal evacuations. |
| Scandal-tainted D.C. mayor vanquished in primary Posted: 01 Apr 2014 11:29 PM PDT  By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - District of Columbia city council member Muriel Bowser swept to victory over scandal-plagued Mayor Vincent Gray in the U.S. capital's crowded Democratic Party primary on Wednesday. Winning the Democratic primary is seen as tantamount to taking the general election in the heavily Democratic city. "God bless you, and let's go to work," Bowser, a city council member for the past seven years, told cheering supporters. In the November election, Bowser will face David Catania, an openly gay independent member of the city council who is seen as the strongest challenger.
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| Obama declares victory in health care debate Posted: 01 Apr 2014 01:59 PM PDT  Says 7.1 million Obamacare sign-ups prove "the Affordable Care Act is here to stay."
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| GM CEO hints at possible victims' compensation fund Posted: 01 Apr 2014 02:29 PM PDT  By Ben Klayman and Eric Beech WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Motors Co CEO Mary Barra on Tuesday called her company's slow response to at least 13 deaths linked to faulty ignition switches "unacceptable," but could not give U.S. lawmakers many answers as to what went wrong as she pointed to an ongoing internal investigation. After taking an oath administered by House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy, Barra kicked off the contentious hearing by declaring, "I am deeply sorry" for the company's failure to respond quickly to the safety problem and subsequent deaths. Representative Henry Waxman, a veteran Democrat who has spearheaded past attempts to tighten U.S. laws on automotive safety, bluntly told Barra: "Because GM didn't implement this simple fix when it learned about the problem, at least a dozen people have died in defective GM vehicles." GM first learned of a problem with its ignition switches on Chevrolet Cobalts, Saturn Ions and other models in 2001, documents have shown, but took no steps to recall any cars until this past February.
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| Magnitude-8.0 quake strikes northern Chile Posted: 01 Apr 2014 05:39 PM PDT  The tremor hits in the Pacific off the northern region, prompting an evacuation in case of a tsunami.
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| World Health Organization downplays extent of Ebola outbreak Posted: 01 Apr 2014 01:25 PM PDT  By Saliou Samb CONAKRY (Reuters) - The World Health Organization on Tuesday played down the extent of an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus suspected to have killed over 80 in Guinea, a day after medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) warned of an unprecedented epidemic. MSF has warned they face an uphill task because the infections are scattered across several locations, most worryingly in Guinea's densely populated capital Conakry. It blasted governments and international public health organizations for not doing enough to tackle it. However, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said the number of suspected and confirmed cases in Guinea was unchanged from the previous day at 122, of whom 80 had died.
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| U.S. Bishops pass communion through Mexico border fence Posted: 01 Apr 2014 05:24 PM PDT  NOGALES, Arizona (AP) — Roman Catholic leaders made a rare visit to the border and celebrated Mass on Tuesday in the shadow of the fence separating the U.S. and Mexico, offering Holy Communion through the steel barrier to people on the Mexican side as they sought to bring attention to the plight of immigrants.
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| Palestinian president blasts Israel after prisoner deadline passes Posted: 01 Apr 2014 12:25 PM PDT  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed more than a dozen international conventions on Tuesday citing anger at Israel's delay of a prisoner release, in a move jeopardized U.S. efforts to salvage fragile peace talks. His unexpected decision came just a day before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had been due to travel to Ramallah for talks aimed at finalizing a complex, three-way deal that would enable the talks to continue into 2015. Israel had promised in exchange to free more than 100 prisoners by the end of March, but failed to release the final batch, saying it wanted guarantees that the Palestinians would extend the negotiations beyond the April 29 deadline. In his remarks to Palestinian leaders in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Abbas made clear he was not abandoning the negotiations, but blasted Israel's delay in freeing prisoners.
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| GM CEO in the hot seat over recall deaths Posted: 01 Apr 2014 12:36 PM PDT  New chief grilled on why automaker used part that didn't meet GM's own specifications.
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| GM CEO in the hot seat over recall deaths Posted: 01 Apr 2014 11:32 AM PDT  New chief tells Congress she's "disturbed" automaker weighed cost of fixing ignitions.
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