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Senate GOP blocks Dems' minimum wage bill

Senate GOP blocks Dems' minimum wage bill


Senate GOP blocks Dems' minimum wage bill

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 10:18 AM PDT

The vote derailed one of President Obama's top economic priorities.

Four people shot at western Canadian sawmill

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 10:02 AM PDT

There are unconfirmed reports that at least three people have been shot at the Western Forest Products mill in Nanaimo, B.C. This unconfirmed Twitter image of one of the victims arriving at Vancouver General Hospital has been circulating on social media. Image via Cathy O'Connor/TwitterFour people were taken to hospital and a suspect was in custody after a shooting at a sawmill in British Columbia on Wednesday, police said.


Autopsy underway after botched Okla. execution

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 09:56 AM PDT

FILE - This June 29, 2011 file photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Clayton Lockett. Oklahoma prison officials halted the execution of Lockett Tuesday, April 29, 2014, after the delivery of a new three-drug combination failed to go as planned.. (AP Photo/Oklahoma Department of Corrections, File)An Oklahoma inmate's erred execution has prompted an autopsy and fueled debate over lethal injection drugs, the death penalty.


Egypt's judges rebuff criticism of death sentences

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 09:54 AM PDT

Islamist preacher Safwat Hegazi speaks inside a defendant's cage during his trial in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Egyptian court officials say a Salafi preacher and top Muslim Brotherhood ally has been sentenced to a year in prison with labor for insulting judges during a trial at the Cairo police academy. Hegazy, who joined ranks with the Brotherhood in supporting the electoral campaign of the now-deposed Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, was sentenced Wednesday for remarks made the same day while on trial with 130 others, including Morsi, for escaping from prison during the country's 2011 uprising. (AP Photo/Ahmed Omar) EGYPT OUTEgypt's Justice Minister on Wednesday rebuffed international criticism of a mass trial this week in which some 680 defendants were sentenced to death, saying the judiciary is not a tool of executive authority and that rulings can be overturned upon appeal.


Amid massive security, Iraqis vote for parliament

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 09:05 AM PDT

An Iraqi man casts his vote at a polling center in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. A key election for a new Iraqi parliament was underway on Wednesday amid a massive security operation as the country continued to slide deeper into sectarian violence more than two years after U.S. forces left the country. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqis braved the threat of bombs and other violence to vote Wednesday in parliamentary elections amid a massive security operation as the country slides deeper into sectarian strife.


Kurt Cobain death-scene note mocks wedding vows to Courtney Love

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 06:06 AM PDT

Kurt Cobain and Courtney LoveA note found in the rock star's wallet at the time of his death, made public by the Seattle Police Department for the first time this week, mocks wedding vows the Nirvana frontman made to Courtney Love.


Actor Bob Hoskins, lauded for British mobster roles, dies at 71

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 08:54 AM PDT

Bob Hoskins turns on the Christmas lights at St Paul's CathedralBritish actor Bob Hoskins, whose roles ranged from London gangsters to FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover and who starred opposite a cast of cartoon characters in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," has died after a bout of pneumonia, his publicist said on Wednesday.


Unique home spares Vilonia family from Arkansas tornado's direct hit

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 06:30 AM PDT

Twister passed directly over Vilonia, Ark., family's underground homeJerri Weaver's house is certainly unconventional. Some might even call it kooky. But come crunch time – when Mother Nature's fury is at her doorstep as it was Sunday night – the native Arkansan has peace of mind in her bunkerlike abode. "I have no fear," Weaver said. "I know that we're going to be OK."


Syrian airstrike on school in Aleppo kills 19

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 07:51 AM PDT

This photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a damaged school that was hit by a Syrian government air strike in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Many people were killed and wounded, including several children, activists reported. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)A Syrian government airstrike hit a school Wednesday in an opposition-held district of the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 19 people, including 10 children, activists reported.


Florida, Alabama hit by record rainfall

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 07:52 AM PDT

Vehicles rest at the bottom of a ravine after the Scenic Highway collapsed near Pensacola, Fla., Wednesday April 30, 2014. Heavy rains and flooding have left people stranded in houses and cars in the Florida Panhandle and along the Alabama coast. According to the National Weather Service, an estimated 15-20 inches of rain has fallen in Pensacola in the past 24 hours. (AP Photo/Pensacola News Journal, Katie E. King)Flash flooding in Fla., Ala. left many stranded in cars and homes on Wednesday.


Malaysia to open new budget airport in MH370 shadow

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 07:40 AM PDT

Picture taken on April 12, 2014 shows a tractor passing under a skybridge at the under-construction low-cost carrier terminal at Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (KLIA2) in Sepang outside Kuala LumpurSepang (Malaysia) (AFP) - Malaysia this week opens what it calls the world's largest airport built specifically for low-cost airlines, a project driven by budget travel's phenomenal growth but which debuts under the shadow of missing flight MH370. The $1.2 billion facility near the main Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) was originally targeted to open three years ago but has been hit by repeated delays, amid concerns over safety and subpar construction, even as costs have doubled. But the new KLIA2 budget terminal will begin operations Friday with an initial 56 flights, increasing the load as airlines move full operations over from a nearby existing facility in coming days. Its modern design features soaring ceilings, natural lighting, people-mover belts and improved connectivity with access to an existing express airport train to Kuala Lumpur 50 kilometres (31 miles) away.


China media: Blast at train station in China's Urumqi, some injured

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 10:36 AM PDT

China's Muslim Uighur ethnic communityAn explosion at a railway station in Urumqi, capital of China's restive far western region of Xinjiang, on Wednesday injured some people, state media said.


Adam Silver's ban of Donald Sterling unites NBA

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From the moment Adam Silver listened to those tapes of Donald Sterling, the NBA's commissioner understood the unmistakable and unprecedented breadth of his burden.


Poll: Most young voters to sit out midterms

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 01:21 PM PDT

Obama's campaign used social media to drum up support from young voters.Significant drop in interest among voters aged 18-29 may be problematic for Democrats.


Kiev: Forces "helpless" to restore order in east

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 07:49 AM PDT

A pro-Russian gunman guards an entrance of the Regional Prosecutor's Office building they seized on Tuesday in Luhansk, one of the largest cities in eastern, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Pro-Russian gunmen have seized more administrative buildings in eastern Ukraine, further raising tensions in Ukraine's Russian-leaning regions shaken by separatist unrest. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)HORLIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's police and security forces are "helpless" to quell the unrest in two eastern regions bordering Russia and in some cases are cooperating with the pro-Russia gunmen who have seized scores of buildings and taken people hostage, Ukraine's leader said Wednesday.


Senate GOP blocks Dems' minimum wage boost

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 10:19 AM PDT

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., talks to reporters as Congress returns from a two week recess, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, April 29, 2014. A long-shot Senate Democratic effort to raise the federal minimum wage seems doomed without needed votes to overcome a procedural blockade by most Republican senators, who say the measure would be too costly for employers. (AP Photo)WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans blocked an election-year Democratic bill on Wednesday that would boost the federal minimum wage, handing a defeat to President Barack Obama on a vote that is sure to reverberate in this year's congressional elections.


AP PHOTOS: Iraq votes in parliamentary election

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 10:41 AM PDT

Electoral workers count ballots under lamplight, due to a power cut, as polls close at a polling center in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Iraqis braved the threat of bombs and other violence to vote Wednesday in parliamentary elections amid a massive security operation as the country slides deeper into sectarian strife. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)BAGHDAD (AP) — As violence rages on, Iraq voted Wednesday in its first parliamentary election since the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country.


Abducted girls forced to marry Nigerian extremists

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 10:31 AM PDT

An unidentified mother cries out during a demonstration with others who have daughters among the kidnapped school girls of government secondary school Chibok, Tuesday April 29, 2014, in Abuja, Nigeria. Two weeks after Islamic extremists stormed a remote boarding school in northeast Nigeria, more than 200 girls and young women remain missing despite a LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Scores of girls and young women kidnapped from a school in Nigeria are being forced to marry their Islamic extremist abductors, a civic organization reported Wednesday.


How much credit should the Occupy movement get?

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 10:01 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2011 file photo, demonstrators affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement march through the streets of the financial district in New York. Income inequality is having a moment. Some of the wealth gap's earliest champions - a group of bearded and tattooed protesters who called themselves Occupiers - made the problem famous in 2011 when they took up residence in a small granite plaza near the New York Stock Exchange. Two and a half years later, long after Occupy Wall Street fizzled out, income inequality is finally being taken seriously by world leaders. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Glimmers of Occupy Wall Street will surface this week in a smattering of cities as activists join rallies for workers' rights, as they do every year on May Day.


Colorado eyes edibles rules as more people eat pot

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 08:21 AM PDT

FILE - This April 18, 2014 file photo shows edible marijuana products on display at a medical marijuana dispensary in Denver. Colorado's marijuana experiment is under threat by the very popularity of eating it instead of smoking it, so the pot industry is joining health officials and state regulators in studying the problem of consumers eating too much too quickly. They plan to meet Wednesday, April 30, 2014, at Children's Hospital Colorado to discuss the potency and serving size of pot edibles. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)DENVER (AP) — Colorado's marijuana experiment is threatened by the popularity of eating it instead of smoking it, leading the pot industry to join health officials and state regulators to try to curb the problem of consumers ingesting too much weed.


'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' actor Hoskins dies at 71

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 10:09 AM PDT

FILE - A Monday Oct. 30 2006 photo from files showing ast member British actor Bob Hoskins giving a television interview as he arrives at a gala screening for the film 'Hollywoodland' as part of the London Film Festival at a West End cinema in Leicester Square, London. Bob Hoskins, whose varied career ranged from "Mona Lisa" to "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" has died aged 71. A family statement released Wednesday by agent Clair Dobbs said Hoskins died in a hospital after a bout of pneumonia. In 2012 Hoskins announced that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and was retiring from acting. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)LONDON (AP) — Bob Hoskins never lost his Cockney accent, even as he became a global star who charmed and alarmed audiences in a vast range of roles.


Colorado Symphony links up with pot industry

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 05:08 PM PDT

With the Colorado state capitol building visible in the background, partygoers dance and smoke pot on the first of two days at the annual 4/20 marijuana festival in Denver, Saturday April 19, 2014. The annual event is the first 420 marijuana celebration since retail marijuana stores began selling in January 2014. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Symphony Orchestra said Tuesday it will play a series of "cannabis-friendly" fundraising concerts sponsored by the state's burgeoning pot industry.


More than 100 attendees get sick at Baltimore food safety summit

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 02:09 PM PDT

food poisoning medical check list(Reuters) - A U.S. food safety summit in Maryland earlier this month has become a cautionary tale after more than 100 attendees came down with suspected food poisoning. Most of those affected complained of diarrhea, the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said in a statement. The April 8-10 meeting at the Baltimore Convention Center included representatives from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and food companies such as McDonald's Corp, Tyson Foods Inc and ConAgra Foods Inc. "We are working on evaluating possible exposures and doing testing at the Maryland state public health laboratory to attempt to identify an agent," the health department said in the statement. The convention center and its food service provider, Centerplate, were inspected by city health officials.


Iran's president talks back to internal critics

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 01:51 PM PDT

A handout picture released by the Iranian Presidency shows the Islamic Republic's President Hassan Rouhani on March 20, 2014, shows him addressing the nation on the occasion of Noruz, the Iranian New Year, in TehranRouhani defends nuclear talks with West, says sanctions must end to fix buckling economy.


Pounded by tornado, Alabama church shows its resilience

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 10:53 AM PDT

Storm Damage in Central AlabamaA church in Kimberly, Ala., took a direct hit from a tornado Monday, and more storms are predicted Tuesday.


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