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U.S. military: No sign of Russian pullback

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U.S. military: No sign of Russian pullback

U.S. military: No sign of Russian pullback

Posted: 07 May 2014 09:41 AM PDT

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, centre, talks with Ukrainian soldiers at Slovyansk, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Russian President Putin on Wednesday announced that Russia has pulled back its troops from the Ukrainian border, and called on Ukraine's military to halt operations against pro-Russia activists who have seized government buildings and police stations in cities in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)Pentagon spokesman says "we would know" if Putin's latest claims were true.

Over 80 percent of Obamacare premiums paid, insurers say

Posted: 07 May 2014 10:54 AM PDT

Julian Gomez explains Obamacare to people at a health insurance enrolment event in CommerceWASHINGTON (AP) — Top health insurance companies told members of Congress Wednesday that more than 80 percent of people who've signed up under the president's new health care law have gone on to pay their premiums — a necessary step for the enrollment figures touted by the Obama administration to hold up.

3 dead in fire at ex-tennis star's Fla. home

Posted: 07 May 2014 08:48 AM PDT

In this photo provided by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, flames destroy a home in a gated community Wednesday May 7, 2014 in Tampa, Fla. Officials have confirmed that three bodies have been found in the home. (AP Photo/Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office)Officials: James Blake owns the Tampa Bay-area house, but wasn't living there at the time

125 killed in Islamist attack on Nigerian border town

Posted: 07 May 2014 09:28 AM PDT

The latest big Islamist attack in Nigeria has killed least 125 people, police said on Wednesday after gunmen rampaged through a town in the northeast, near the Cameroon border. Scores of gunmen whom police suspect were from Boko Haram, the al Qaeda-linked group that seized the girls in the same region last week, surrounded Gamburu before dawn on Monday.

Obama's top advisers set to spill insider details

Posted: 07 May 2014 08:26 AM PDT

Obama's top advisers set to spill insider detailsOver the next month, two of President Barack Obama's closest first-term advisers will spill insider details on the administration's handling of the early days of the Great Recession, the White House's ...

Federal raids target synthetic drugs, sellers across U.S.

Posted: 07 May 2014 10:57 AM PDT

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officers display cocaine seized in a routine patrol during a media presentation in San JuanThe DEA on Wednesday broadened its national crackdown on synthetic drug manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers as federal agents served hundreds of search and arrest warrants in at least 25 states.

Former mortician set free in Texas murder of rich widow

Posted: 07 May 2014 06:36 AM PDT

Bernie Tiede smiles after a court hearing granting his releaseA former mortician whose killing of a rich widow shook an East Texas town and later inspired a movie is a free man after a judge agreed to reduce his life sentence and release him on bond.

Beverly Hills condemns Brunei, hotel boycott grows

Posted: 07 May 2014 05:23 AM PDT

the Beverly Hills HotelBeverly Hills officials have condemned Brunei's strict new Islamic criminal laws and want its government to separate itself from the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Court forces out Thai leader, part of her Cabinet

Posted: 07 May 2014 03:29 AM PDT

Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra gives a traditional greeting as she arrives at the Constitutional Court in BangkokBANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's prime minister was ordered by a court to step down Wednesday in a divisive ruling that handed a victory to anti-government protesters who have staged six months of street protests — but does little to resolve the country's political crisis.

GOP establishment favorite wins in N.C.

Posted: 06 May 2014 08:09 PM PDT

Thom Tillis greets supporters at a election night rally in Charlotte, N.C., after winning the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Tillis, the Republican establishment's favored son in North Carolina, won the state's Senate nomination by running as a proud conservative who's not terribly different from his tea party and Christian-right opponents. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)Thom Tillis fought off tea party and Christian conservative rivals in the Senate primary.

South Africans vote in first 'Born Free' election

Posted: 07 May 2014 09:49 AM PDT

By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africans voted in the first "Born Free" election on Wednesday, with the image of the ruling African National Congress as conqueror of apartheid likely to appeal even to those with no memory of white-minority rule. Voters young and old wrapped up against the early winter chill to stand in long lines across the country, evoking memories of the huge queues that snaked through streets and fields for South Africa's historic all-race elections in 1994. Chief election commissioner Pansy Tlakula said turnout was "extremely high" but voting was proceeding smoothly at all the 22,263 polling stations, which were due to close at 1900 GMT (1500 ET). Polls put ANC support near 65 percent, only a shade lower than the 65.9 percent it won in the 2009 election that brought President Jacob Zuma to power.

Coming days feared to be decisive for Ukraine

Posted: 06 May 2014 01:19 PM PDT

Young Ukrainian recruits march near the infantry school in Donetsk, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 6, 2014. The foreign ministers of Ukraine and Russia met Tuesday, but their open disagreements did nothing to suggest a diplomatic solution was near. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)Surge in violence changes tone of international diplomacy, with talk of war on the rise.

Ex-mortician who killed rich Texas widow gets early release

Posted: 06 May 2014 06:41 PM PDT

Bernie Tiede smiles after a court hearing granting his releaseCARTHAGE, Texas (AP) — A former mortician whose killing of a rich widow shook an East Texas town and later inspired a movie was released on bond Tuesday after the district attorney who prosecuted him agreed to let him out of a life sentence.

Photos compare school lunches around the world

Posted: 06 May 2014 05:11 PM PDT

Assorted lunch plates are arranged at a table for students at the Bahria Foundation school in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Most of the kids seen there have home cooked food for lunch. Principal Syeda Arifa Mohsin says the school tries to dissuade parents from fixing junk food for their children. SEATTLE (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama is on a mission to make American school lunches healthier by replacing greasy pizza and french fries with whole grains, low fat protein, fresh fruit and vegetables.

EPA pledges cooperation in internal investigations

Posted: 07 May 2014 11:15 AM PDT

Bob Perciasepe, Deputy Administrator, EPA, testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform full committee hearing, Wednesday, May 7, 2014 in Washington. A turf battle between the Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general and an EPA unit run by President Barack Obama's political staff gets an airing before Congress. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency assured Congress on Wednesday it will resolve a sensational dispute with its inspector general over allegations that an EPA office run by President Barack Obama's top political staff interfered with independent investigations.

Rebels evacuating strongholds in Syria's Homs

Posted: 07 May 2014 11:06 AM PDT

In this image made from amateur video released by Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian rebels board a bus to leave Homs, Syria, Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Exhausted and worn out from a year-long siege, hundreds of Syrian rebels on Wednesday left their last remaining bastions in the heart of the central city of Homs under a cease-fire deal with government forces. The exit of some 1,200 fighters and civilians will mark a de facto end of the rebellion in the battered city, which was one of the first places to rise up against President Bashar Assad's rule, earning it the nickname of "capital of the revolution."(AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP Video)BEIRUT (AP) — Exhausted and worn out from a year-long siege, hundreds of Syrian rebels on Wednesday left their last remaining bastions in the heart of the central city of Homs under a cease-fire deal with government forces.

Vietnam: Chinese ships ram vessels near oil rig

Posted: 07 May 2014 11:03 AM PDT

In this video image released by Vietnam Coast Guard, Vietnamese surveillance ship crew members stand near the side of the ship, allegedly damaged after being rammed by a Chinese ship, in the South China Sea, off Vietnam's coast, Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Chinese ships have been ramming into and firing water cannons at Vietnamese vessels trying to stop Beijing from putting an oil rig in the South China Sea, according to officials and video footage Wednesday, in a dangerous escalation of tensions over waters considered a global flashpoint. (AP Photo/Vietnam Coast Guard)HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Chinese ships have been ramming into and firing water cannons at Vietnamese vessels trying to stop Beijing from putting an oil rig in the South China Sea, according to officials and video footage Wednesday, in a dangerous escalation of tensions over waters considered a global flashpoint.

Nation's report card: No gains for 12th-graders

Posted: 07 May 2014 08:48 AM PDT

Graphic shows reading and math scores for 12th graders in 2013; 2c x 4 inches; 96.3 mm x 101 mm;WASHINGTON (AP) — In an abysmal showing, only about one-quarter of U.S. high school seniors performed solidly in math in a major assessment known as the nation's report card, reinforcing concerns that large numbers of students are unprepared for either college or the workplace.

Nigerian extremist leader surfaced in 2010

Posted: 07 May 2014 10:08 AM PDT

In this image made from video received by The Associated Press on Monday, May 5, 2014, Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Nigeria's Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, speaks in a video in which his group claimed responsibility for the April 15 mass abduction of nearly 300 teenage schoolgirls in northeast Nigeria. Shekau threatened to sell the nearly 300 teenage schoolgirls abducted from a school in the remote northeast three weeks ago, in a new videotape received Monday. It was unclear if the video was made before or after reports emerged last week that some of the girls have been forced to marry their abductors — who paid a nominal bride price of $12 — and that others have been carried into neighboring Cameroon and Chad. Those reports could not be verified. (AP Photo)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The leader of the Nigerian Islamic extremist group tugged on his winter hat and said with a sneer: "I will sell women."

Nigerian official: Hundreds killed in attack

Posted: 07 May 2014 09:01 AM PDT

Brig. Gen. Chris Olukolade, Nigeria's top military spokesman, speaks to people at a demonstration calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped school girls from the Chibok government secondary school, outside the defense headquarters, in Abuja, Nigeria, Tuesday May 6, 2014. The plight — and the failure of the Nigerian military to find them — has drawn international attention to an escalating Islamic extremist insurrection that has killed more than 1,500 so far this year. Boko Haram, the name means "Western education is sinful," has claimed responsibility for the mass kidnapping and threatened to sell the girls. The claim was made in a video seen Monday. The British and U.S. governments have expressed concern over the fate of the missing students, and protests have erupted in major Nigerian cities and in New York. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)Islamic militants killed hundreds of people in an attack on a border town in Nigeria's remote northeast, a state government official said Thursday.

China's Alibaba seeks blockbuster IPO in US

Posted: 07 May 2014 08:50 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday March 26, 2013, a worker performs shadow boxing during an open day at the Alibaba Group office in Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang province. Alibaba Group is aiming to raise $1 billion in a long-awaited IPO likely to have ripple effects across the Internet. The Tuesday, May 6, 2014 filing sets the stage for the technology industry's biggest initial public offering since short messaging service Twitter and its early investors collected $1.8 billion in its stock market debut last fall. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Alibaba Group, the king of e-commerce in China, is dangling a deal that could turn into one of the biggest IPOs in history.

Fear of economic blow as births drop around world

Posted: 07 May 2014 11:14 AM PDT

In this April 14, 2014 photo, preschool teacher Arene Galirza, left, a 4-year-old student color a rabbit-shaped paper cutout at Community Day Preschool of Garden Grove, in Garden Grove, Calif. According to the school's executive director Sue Puisis, the enrollment at the preschool has dropped by more than 50 percent since 2008. The financial crisis that followed the collapse of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2008 sent birth rates tumbling around the world as couples found themselves too short of money or too fearful about their finances to have children. Six years later, birth rates haven't bounced back. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)NEW YORK (AP) — Nancy Strumwasser, a high school teacher from Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, always thought she'd have two children. But the layoffs that swept over the U.S. economy around the time her son was born six years ago helped change her mind. Though she and her husband, a market researcher, managed to keep their jobs, she fears they won't be so fortunate next time.

Hawaii releases video of teen dropping from jet

Posted: 07 May 2014 07:30 AM PDT

HONOLULU (AP) — The security footage looks unassuming at first: a Hawaiian Airlines jet parked at a gate at the Maui airport under overcast skies, and workers going through their regular routine. Then, the 15-year-old's legs dangle briefly from the plane's belly and he drops to the concrete.

Gov't: UPS 'misdelivered' $350,000 drone to college student

Posted: 06 May 2014 10:39 AM PDT

droneA package that contained a $350,000 government drone sent from an Air Force base in Tampa, Fla., was "misdelivered" by UPS to a college student. Reddit user Seventy_Seven, who has declined to release his real name, discovered the box on his doorstep. The college student lives somewhere in the northern U.S. "I had ordered a weightlifting bench (which I received) and this came with it," he wrote with photos of the item. "Both boxes has UPS labels with my name and address."

U.S. team to help Nigeria search for girls

Posted: 06 May 2014 11:21 AM PDT

Muslim women attend a demonstration calling on the government to increase efforts to rescue the 276 missing kidnapped school girls of a government secondary school Chibok, in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, May 5, 2014. Leader of a protest march Saratu Angus Ndirpaya of Chibok town, said that Nigeria's First Lady ordered her and another protest leader to be arrested Monday, and expressed doubts there was any kidnapping and accused them of belonging to the Islamic insurgent group blamed for the abductions. (AP Photo/ Sunday Alamba)Sec. of State Kerry urged Nigerian president to step up hunt for more than 200 kidnapped girls.

Pot burglars may have set off man accused in exchange student's death

Posted: 06 May 2014 01:14 PM PDT

Relatives and friends mourn at the coffin of Diren Dede during a funeral service in Hamburg, Germany, Sunday, May 4, 2014. More than 500 people were attending a memorial service for the 17-year-old German exchange student who was shot dead a week ago in the United States. (AP Photo/dpa, Bodo Marks)MISSOULA, Montana (AP) — Police in Montana received a judge's permission to test whether a homeowner was drunk or high when he shot and killed a 17-year-old German exchange student in his garage, a newly published court document reveals.

Shipwreck hunters and scientists at odds over Lake Michigan find

Posted: 06 May 2014 12:26 PM PDT

In this June 16, 2013 file photo provided by Great Lakes Exploration Group, diver Jim Nowka of Great Lakes Exploration Group inspects a wooden beam extending from the floor of Lake Michigan that experts believe may be part of the Griffin, a ship that sank in 1679. The timber has been examined by U.S. and French experts and underwent a hospital CT scan and carbon dating to determine its age and whether it once was part of a vessel. Nearly a year later, reports obtained by The Associated Press and interviews with key players reveal sharp divisions over whether the elusive ship has been found. (AP Photo/Great Lakes Exploration Group, David J. Ruck, File)TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Excited shipwreck hunters and scientists assembled in a Lake Michigan fishing village last June, hoping to solve a mystery dating back more than three centuries: the fate of a ship sailed by the 17th century French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, during a voyage of discovery extending from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.

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