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Uniformed men occupy Donetsk police HQ

Uniformed men occupy Donetsk police HQ


Uniformed men occupy Donetsk police HQ

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 09:52 AM PDT

DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Men in the uniforms of Ukraine's now-defunct riot police on Saturday occupied police headquarters in Donetsk, the eastern city that is one of the flashpoints of a wave of pro-Russia protests, hours after armed men seized local police headquarters and local branch of the Security Service in a nearby city.

With no new signals, Aussie PM sees long jet hunt

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 10:17 AM PDT

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott speaks during a press conference at a hotel in Beijing, China Saturday, April 12, 2014. Abbott told Chinese President Xi Jinping during their meeting on Friday that he was confident signals heard by an Australian ship towing a U.S. Navy device that detects flight recorder pings are coming from the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. Officials believe the plane flew off course for an unknown reason and went down in the southern Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)PERTH, Australia (AP) — A day after expressing optimism about the hunt for the missing Malaysian jet, Australia's leader warned Saturday that the massive search would likely continue "for a long time."


'Obamacare' under attack at conservative gathering

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 07:20 AM PDT

conservativeMANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is coming under renewed attack as some of the nation's leading conservatives gather in New Hampshire for a summit that some consider the unofficial kickoff for the state's 2016 presidential selection process.


Couple: Truck was on fire before deadly bus crash

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 08:31 AM PDT

Massive flames engulf a tractor-trailer and a tour bus just after they collide on Interstate 5, Thursday, April, 10, 2014, near Orland, Calif. At least 10 people were killed in the crash, authorities said. (AP Photo/Jeremy Lockett)ORLAND, Calif. (AP) — A tractor-trailer already was on fire as it came across a median and crashed into a tour bus, killing 10 people, according to a couple whose car was sideswiped by the big rig.


Syria rebels, government report poison gas attack

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 09:41 AM PDT

FILE - This file image made from an AP video posted on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013 shows a volunteer adjusting a gas mask and protective suit on a student during a classroom session a on how to respond to a chemical weapons attack in Aleppo, Syria. On Saturday, April 12, 2014 the Syrian government and rebel forces say poison gas has been used in a central village, injuring scores of people, while blaming each other for the attack. The main Western-backed opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, says dozens of people were hurt in a poison gas attack Friday in the village of Kfar Zeita. State-run Syrian television on Saturday blamed members of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front for using chlorine gas at Kfar Zeita, killing two people and injuring more than 100. (AP Photo via AP video, File)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government media and rebel forces said Saturday that poison gas had been used in a central village, injuring scores of people, while blaming each other for the attack.


Disappointment, forgiveness mix in La. scandal

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 09:40 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2013, photo newly-elected Rep. Vance McAllister, a Republican of Louisiana, waits to be sworn in at the Capitol in Washington. Louisiana voters say they're disappointed but not surprised by a video showing McAllister in an extramarital encounter with an aide. Several of the congressman's constituents say he should not resign, though Gov. Bobby Jindal and some other Republican Party leaders suggest he should step down. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)MONROE, La. (AP) — To Louisiana voters accustomed to tawdry scandals involving elected officials, disappointment with an eye toward forgiveness is the prevailing sentiment about their new congressman, caught on video embracing an aide married to one of his friends.


Hezbollah develops new tactics in Syrian civil war

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 05:45 AM PDT

In this Friday, April 12, 2013 photo, Hezbollah fighters walk through a field at the Lebanon-Syria border, near the northeastern Lebanese town of al-Qasr, Lebanon. The Shiite group has sent hundreds of its fighters into Syria to shore up President Bashar Assad's overstretched troops, helping them gain ground around the capital, Damascus, and near the Lebanese border. But with its own casualties mounting in a civil war that activists say has killed more than 150,000 people in three years, officials say Hezbollah has turned to a variety of new tactics - including complicated commando operations - to hunt down rebels and opposition commanders. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)BEIRUT (AP) — The commandos infiltrated Syrian rebel-held territory near the Lebanese border, watching rebel fighters come and go from a two-story villa before slipping inside to plant a powerful bomb. The next morning, they detonated it as three rebel explosive experts and four assistants met inside, turning the villa to rubble in seconds.


AP photographer captured humanity amid chaos

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 09:38 AM PDT

A photograph of Associated Press photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus is displayed inside Corvey Abbey during her funeral in Hoexter, Germany, Saturday, April 12, 2014. Niedringhaus was killed by an Afghan policeman in an attack on April 4, 2014 in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, pool)HOEXTER, Germany (AP) — Hundreds of mourners packed a church in central Germany on Saturday to remember Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, who was killed on assignment in Afghanistan last week after a life spent between the chaos of war and the serenity of her rural birthplace.


Gary Woodland shoots 30 on front side at Masters

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 10:42 AM PDT

Caddie Tony Navarro looks at Gary Woodland as he holds up his ball after a birdie on the 10th hole during the third round of the Masters golf tournament Saturday, April 12, 2014, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — With the leaders still waiting to tee off, Gary Woodland put on quite a show for the early arrivers at Augusta National.


Iran rejects naming new UN envoy after US refusal

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 10:35 AM PDT

In this Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014 photo provided by the office of the Iranian President, Hamid Aboutalebi, an Iranian diplomat, who was recently named as Iran's ambassador at the United Nations, speaks at his office in Tehran, Iran. Iran has no plans to name a new diplomat to the United Nations, its Foreign Ministry said Saturday, after the United States blocked its pick in a rare rebuke that could stir fresh animosity at a time when the two countries have been seeking a thaw in relations. The Obama administration said Friday that the U.S. had informed Iran it would not grant a visa to Hamid Aboutalebi, a member of the group responsible for the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. While U.S. officials had been trying to persuade Iran to simply withdraw Aboutalebi's name, the announcement amounted to an acknowledgement that those efforts had not been successful. (AP Photo/Iranian Presidency Office, Mohammad Berno)TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran rejected naming a new diplomat Saturday to represent it at the United Nations, with one lawmaker urging the Islamic Republic to stand up to "bullying" from the U.S., which has rejected granting its pick a visa.


Beef prices reach highest level since 1987

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 08:20 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 25, 2012 file photo butcher Freddie Quina cuts meat at Super Cao Nguyen in Oklahoma City. The highest beef prices in decades _ fresh beef climbing to $5.28 a pound in February 2014, up from $5.04 in January _ have some consumers spending extra time in meat market aisles as they search for cuts that won't break their budgets. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — The highest beef prices in almost three decades have arrived just before the start of grilling season, causing sticker shock for both consumers and restaurant owners — and relief isn't likely anytime soon.


Iran says has no plans to substitute UN envoy pick

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 06:01 AM PDT

In this undated photo provided by the office of the Iranian President, Hamid Aboutalebi, an Iranian diplomat, who was recently named as Iran's ambassador at the United Nations, sits in his office in Tehran, Iran. Iran has no plans to name a new diplomat to the United Nations, its Foreign Ministry said Saturday April 12, 2014, after the United States blocked its pick in a rare rebuke that could stir fresh animosity at a time when the two countries have been seeking a thaw in relations. The Obama administration said Friday that the U.S. had informed Iran it would not grant a visa to Hamid Aboutalebi, a member of the group responsible for the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. (AP Photo/Iranian Presidency, Mohammad Berno)TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has no plans to name a new diplomat to the United Nations, its Foreign Ministry said Saturday, after the United States blocked its pick in a rare rebuke that could stir fresh animosity at a time when the two countries have been seeking a thaw in relations.


Obama: Our right to vote is under threat

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 03:54 PM PDT

President Barack Obama gestures while speaking at a National Action Network conference Friday, April 11, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)President blasts GOP in fiery speech at Al Sharpton's National Action Network conference.


Space station computer outage may force spacewalk

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 01:04 AM PDT

FILE - This May 23, 2011 photo released by NASA shows the International Space Station at an altitude of approximately 220 miles above the Earth, taken by Expedition 27 crew member Paolo Nespoli from the Soyuz TMA-20 following its undocking. A computer outage at the International Space Station may require a spacewalk by astronauts and threatens to delay next week's launch of a commercial supply ship for NASA. NASA said Friday night April 11, 2014 that a backup computer on the outside of the orbiting lab is not responding to commands. (AP Photo/NASA, Paolo Nespoli)CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A computer outage at the International Space Station may require a spacewalk by astronauts and threatens to delay next week's launch of a commercial supply ship for NASA.


Dreams dashed in fatal Calif. crash

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 10:56 PM PDT

High school students, Jazmine Villalobos, 14, left, and Michelle Lopez, 14, react after learning the death of senior student Adrian Castro, as they leave El Monte High School in El Monte, Calif., Friday, April 11, 2014. Adrian Castro, an El Monte High School senior, was on the Humboldt State University-bound bus that crashed in Orland on Thursday, an El Monte school official said. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)Bus in deadly freeway collision carried young, low-income, motivated students.


Woman accused of tossing shoe at Clinton released

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 10:07 PM PDT

This image provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows Alison Ernst, who was arrested April 10, 2014 in connection with an incident involving throwing a shoe at Former Secretary of State and Former First Lady Hillary Clinton. Alison was arrested for Disorderly Conduct and released. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Phoenix woman accused of throwing a shoe some 60 feet toward Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared aware during questioning by U.S. Secret Service agents of the allegation against her, authorities said Friday.


Rare T.rex sets off on road trip to Smithsonian

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 03:33 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, April 8, 2014 photo, released by Montana State University, Pat Leiggi, left, the Museum of the Rockies director of exhibitions and administrator of paleontology, Brian Baziak, center, preparator paleontology, and Carrie Ancell, right, senior preparator of paleontology, check the contents of a crate containing fossilized bones from a Tyrannosaurus rex in Bozeman, Mont. The specimen, known as the Wankel T. rex, is being prepared for shipment from Montana to Washington, where it will be on display in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's new paleontology exhibit scheduled to open in 2019. (AP Photo/Montana State University, Sepp Jannotta)The rare and nearly intact skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex that roamed the earth 65 million years ago set off from Montana on Friday on a cross-country road trip, its first, bound for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. The fossil of the 38-foot-long carnivore, found on federal lands in Montana in 1988, has played a starring role in scientific research at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman since its excavation by paleontologists led by curator Jack Horner. The seven-ton skeleton of a dinosaur that may have been an opportunistic eater rather than a stone-cold killer is to be mounted at the Smithsonian Institution in an exhibit that will open in 2019 and is expected to attract 8 million visitors a year, Horner said. The dinosaur is on loan to the Smithsonian for 50 years. The so-called Wankel T.rex - named after Kathy Wankel who discovered it - was about 18-years-old when it died and is considered second for extensiveness and preservation only to "Sue," the famed T.rex at The Field Museum in Chicago, he said.


The ultimate love shack? Living large inside 150 square feet

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 04:22 AM PDT

The Ultimate Love Shack? Living Large Inside 140 Square FeetVisit a tiny house community making a big statement in the nation's capital


New quake shakes Nicaragua; nation on alert

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 06:51 PM PDT

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — A magnitude-6.6 earthquake shook Nicaragua on Friday afternoon, sending people running frightened into the streets less than 24 hours after a magnitude-6.1 quake rattled the Central American country.

Attention all passengers: Frequent flyer miles are on the descent

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 01:23 PM PDT

first classNew airline programs make miles less valuable.


U.S. will block Iranian diplomat from United Nations

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 11:52 AM PDT

Hamid AboutalebiRare rebuke comes amid controversy over role in 1979 hostage-taking at embassy.


Bloomberg: NSA exploited Heartbleed for years

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Sources say government agency used flaw to collect intelligence on Web surfers.


Pope: Please forgive us our sins

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 11:04 AM PDT

In this photo released by Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis delivers his blessing during a meeting with the Italian pro-life movement, at the Vatican Friday, April 11, 2014. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano)Francis makes first public plea for forgiveness of "evil" committed by abuser priests. Victims groups say it's not enough.


White House: No visa for Iran's UN envoy pick

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 10:53 AM PDT

Hamid AboutalebiIn rare rebuke, ex-member of group behind embassy hostage crisis denied access to US soil.


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