| Violent death of Ukraine politician tests accord Posted: 22 Apr 2014 10:23 AM PDT  Ukraine's acting president calls for an anti-terrorist operation to be relaunched in the east of the country.
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| Justices appear conflicted over Aereo TV copyright fight Posted: 22 Apr 2014 11:17 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared unsure on Tuesday whether to rule against online TV startup Aereo Inc in a major copyright case, with several raising concerns about how a ruling in favor of broadcast networks could affect increasingly popular cloud computing services. Aereo, backed by media mogul Barry Diller, could be forced to shut down if the high court rules for the four major television broadcasters, who say the service violates copyright law. (Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Editing by Will Dunham)
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| Five things you (probably) don't know about Earth Day Posted: 22 Apr 2014 07:19 AM PDT  Earth Day turns 44 on Tuesday, and it's more popular than ever. One might suspect the holiday was created by eco-warriors in tie-dyed shirts and leather-fringe vests. Not so. Read on for a collection of facts you (probably) didn't know about Earth Day.
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| Friend of accused Boston Marathon bomber seeks trial venue change Posted: 22 Apr 2014 08:40 AM PDT  A friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber on Tuesday asked a judge to move his trial on charges of interfering with the investigation, arguing that pretrial publicity has made it impossible for him to get a fair hearing in Massachusetts. Kazakh exchange student Dias Kadyrbayev filed papers in U.S. District Court in Boston, joining earlier motions by two other defendants, Azamat Tazhayakov, also of Kazakhstan, and Robel Phillipos, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prosecutors accused ethnic Chechen brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of killing three people and injuring 264 others in the April 15, 2003 bombing at the marathon finish line and shooting dead a university police officer three days later. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died after a gunbattle with police and Dzhokhar was arrested and is awaiting trial on charges that carry the possibility of execution if he is convicted.
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| Deadly Texas blast could have been prevented Posted: 22 Apr 2014 10:05 AM PDT  The flammable fertilizers were in a wood building without sprinklers, investigators said.
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| Lawsuit challenging Georgia gay marriage ban filed Posted: 22 Apr 2014 09:15 AM PDT  A gay rights group on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit in Atlanta challenging the state of Georgia's constitutional ban on same-sex marriages.
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| High court upholds Mich. affirmative action ban Posted: 22 Apr 2014 08:26 AM PDT  The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Michigan's ban on using race as a factor in college admissions.
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| Death toll in S. Korea ferry disaster passes 120 Posted: 22 Apr 2014 06:46 AM PDT  Nearly 200 of the 476 people who were aboard the ship are still unaccounted for.
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| Biden: Russia must 'stop talking and start acting' Posted: 22 Apr 2014 10:22 AM PDT  The vice president warns on Ukraine as Russia dismisses sanctions threat.
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| The face of hemp in Washington Posted: 22 Apr 2014 04:21 AM PDT Yahoo News spends a day with Ben Droz, Capitol Hill's hemp lobbyist. |
| A look into the lives of S. Korea ferry's dead, missing Posted: 22 Apr 2014 05:58 AM PDT  A bicycle, never ridden. A lipstick prank pulled off by old friends. Mother-daughter conversations that now burn in the memory, laden with regret.
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| Death toll in ferry disaster tops 100 Posted: 22 Apr 2014 05:11 AM PDT  Nearly one week after the South Korea ferry disaster, nearly 200 people are still unaccounted for.
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| Lawsuit accuses entertainment figures of sex abuse Posted: 22 Apr 2014 05:09 AM PDT  A man who has accused "X-Men" director Bryan Singer of sexually abusing him when he was a teen sued three more entertainment industry figures Monday, claiming they also molested him. The allegations ...
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| Cyclone curtails aerial search for MH370 Posted: 22 Apr 2014 03:12 AM PDT  Perth (Australia) (AFP) - The aerial search for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 was suspended Tuesday due to a tropical cyclone, but not before several aircraft had departed on the mission, Australian officials said. Up to 10 military aircraft had been scheduled to fly over the Indian Ocean in hopes of spotting clues as to the fate of the Boeing 777, which vanished on March 8 carrying 239 people. "Planned air search activities have been suspended for today due to poor weather conditions in the search area as a result of Tropical Cyclone Jack," Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Centre said, adding that 10 ships in the search zone would continue their work.
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| In Internet TV case, justices show concern Posted: 22 Apr 2014 11:12 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Grappling with fast-changing technology, Supreme Court justices debated Tuesday whether they can protect the copyrights of TV broadcasters to the shows they send out without strangling innovations in the use of the internet.
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| Ukraine orders new 'anti-terror' operation Posted: 22 Apr 2014 11:15 AM PDT  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's acting president ordered security forces to resume "anti-terror" operations in the country's east Tuesday after the bodies of two people allegedly abducted by pro-Russia insurgents were found and a military aircraft was reported to be hit by gunfire.
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| In Ukraine's east, mayor held hostage by insurgent Posted: 22 Apr 2014 11:18 AM PDT  SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — When armed men seized the police station in this eastern Ukrainian city, mayor Nelya Shtepa declared she was on their side. She changed her story a few days later. Then she disappeared — the victim of an apparent abduction by the man who now lays claim to her job.
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| Cries of anguish as SKorea ferry toll tops 100 Posted: 22 Apr 2014 09:14 AM PDT JINDO, South Korea (AP) — For a moment there is silence in the tent where bodies from the ferry disaster are brought for identification. Then the anguished cries begin. |
| 'Piles and piles' of bodies in S. Sudan slaughter Posted: 22 Apr 2014 11:20 AM PDT  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The townsfolk believed the mosque was safe. They crammed inside as rebel forces in South Sudan took control of the town from government troops. But it wasn't safe. Robbers grabbed their cash and mobile phones. Then gunmen came and opened fire on everyone, young and old.
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| Court critical of Ohio law punishing campaign lies Posted: 22 Apr 2014 11:19 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appears to be highly skeptical of laws that try to police false statements during political campaigns, raising doubts about the viability of such laws in more than 15 states.
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| Drones unearth more details about Chaco culture Posted: 22 Apr 2014 08:45 AM PDT  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Recently published research describes how archaeologists outfitted a customized drone with a heat-sensing camera to unearth what they believe are ceremonial pits and other features at the site of an ancient village in New Mexico.
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| A bipolar doctor probes the brain on 'Black Box' Posted: 22 Apr 2014 07:50 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — ABC's brainy new medical drama "Black Box" does a neat trick: It dares viewers to imagine for themselves the cost-benefit ratio of addiction, and does it without taking a firm stand.
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| Navalny's conviction in Russia a chilling message Posted: 22 Apr 2014 11:22 AM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow judge on Tuesday left open the possibility of jailing President Vladimir Putin's main critic for years, a sign of Putin's increasingly hard-line rule against opponents.
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| Teen stowaway shows holes in vast airport security Posted: 22 Apr 2014 07:20 AM PDT  Surveillance cameras at San Jose International Airport successfully captured the teenager on the tarmac, climbing up the landing gear of a jet. But in the end, the cameras failed because no one noticed the security breach until the plane — and the boy — landed in Hawaii.
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| How jet stowaways can survive Posted: 21 Apr 2014 04:58 PM PDT  Trips like teen's journey to Hawaii inside wheel well survived with surprising frequency.
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| North Korea 'may be close to nuclear test' warns Seoul Posted: 22 Apr 2014 04:33 AM PDT  North Korea could well be preparing to carry out a fourth nuclear test, South Korea said Tuesday, citing increased activity at its main test site just days ahead of a visit to Seoul by US President Barack Obama. "Our military is currently detecting a lot of activity in and around the Punggye-ri nuclear test site," defence ministry spokesman Kim Min-Seok told a press briefing. Kim stressed that North Korea's nuclear weapons programme was at a stage where it could conduct a test "at any moment" once the order was given by the leadership in Pyongyang.
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| 'No response' as ferry crew asked for orders to abandon ship Posted: 22 Apr 2014 02:46 AM PDT  The crew of a South Korean ferry that sank with hundreds of people on board repeatedly asked officers on the bridge whether or not to give the order to abandon ship, but there was no response, a crew member has said. The captain of the ship, Lee Joon-seok, 69, and other crew members have been arrested on negligence charges. Several crew members, including the captain, left the ferry as it was sinking before many of the passengers, witnesses have said, after passengers were told to stay in their cabins. President Park Geun-hye said on Monday that instruction was tantamount to an "act of murder".
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| Okla. Supreme Court stays executions of 2 challenging drug secrecy Posted: 21 Apr 2014 04:23 PM PDT  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court has stayed the execution of two death row inmates who have challenged the state's secrecy protocol surrounding the source of lethal injection drugs.
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| Seabed hunt for Malaysia jet stretches beyond week Posted: 22 Apr 2014 12:07 AM PDT  SYDNEY (AP) — An air search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was suspended for a day due to stormy weather on Tuesday as the painstakingly slow sonar scanning of a targeted patch of seabed continued.
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| Man dies after being shot at federal courthouse Posted: 21 Apr 2014 03:59 PM PDT  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Defendant Siale Angilau was listening to a witness describe gang initiation rituals on Monday when authorities said he grabbed a pen, rushed toward the witness and lunged at him.
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| Boy Scouts shut down troop for standing by gay scoutmaster Posted: 21 Apr 2014 11:16 AM PDT  The Boy Scouts of America, one of the country's largest and oldest youth organizations, has shut down a Seattle troop and pack for refusing to remove an openly homosexual scoutmaster.
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| Sherpas call for boycott of Everest climbs Posted: 21 Apr 2014 07:02 AM PDT  Guides seek more protections and victim compensation from Nepal after 13 die in avalanche.
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| Biden visits Ukraine as talk of civil war grows Posted: 21 Apr 2014 11:58 AM PDT  Vice president's aides suggest sanctions against Russia could come as early as this week.
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