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Study warns of worldwide cancer surge

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 01:40 PM PST

A boy suffering from cancer plays with balloons during an event to mark World Cancer Day at the Tata Memorial cancer treatment and research center in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Feb 4, 2014. The World Health Organization's cancer agency warns there will be 22 million new cases of cancer every year within the next two decades. Monday's report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer estimated in 2012 there were 14 million new cases but predicted that figure would jump significantly due to global aging and the spread of cancers to developing countries. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)World Health Organization sees 57 percent jump in next 20 years, urges prevention, early diagnoses.


'Science Guy' Bill Nye defends evolution in live public debate

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 04:35 PM PST

Bill Nye onstage at "Hub Network's First Annual Halloween Bash" on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013, at the Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, Calif. The star-studded special will be broadcasted on the Hub Network on Saturday Oct. 26, 2013. (Photo by xxx/Invision for the Hub/AP Images) (Photo by Todd Williamson/Invision for the Hub/AP Images)PETERSBURG, Ky. (AP) — TV's "Science Guy" Bill Nye and the leader of a Kentucky museum who believes in creationism are debating a question that has nagged humankind: "How did we get here?"


Weather service: Storm to hit two-thirds of U.S.

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 03:07 PM PST

An SUV goes through a toll booth on the Kansas Turnpike during a winter storm, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, near Lecompton, Kan. The storm has left the turnpike and other major highways in Kansas packed with snow. (AP Photo/John Hanna)Snow hits Kansas hard before expected quick march across the Midwest and into New England.


Video spotlights anti-gay violence in Russia

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 01:17 PM PST

HRW: Violence against LGBT in RussiaWith the eyes of the world about to turn to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, a human rights group has released a new disturbing video highlighting violence against gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual people under Russia's anti-gay laws that went into effect last year.


McDonald's Canada addresses 'pink goop' claims

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 10:12 AM PST

McDonald's Canada: How McNuggets are madeMcNuggets have earned a bad rap in recent years, partially due to photos of "pink goop" purported to be the main ingredient in McDonald's product.


Anti-abortion groups boycotting Girl Scout cookies

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 12:56 PM PST

Girl Scouts Dessert FirstMILWAUKEE (AP) — Anti-abortion groups angry over what they see as the Girl Scouts' support for abortion-rights advocates are organizing a cookie boycott.


Senate sends long-overdue farm bill to Obama

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 01:40 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2013 file photo, Larry Hasheider walks along one of his corn fields on his farm in Okawville, Ill. Cuts in food stamps, continued subsidies to farmers and victories for animal rights advocates. The massive farm bill heading toward final passage this week has broad implications for just about every American from the foods we eat to what we pay for them. Five things you should know about the legislation. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The sweeping farm bill that Congress sent to President Obama Tuesday has something for almost everyone, from the nation's 47 million food stamp recipients to Southern peanut growers, Midwest corn farmers and the maple syrup industry in the Northeast.


Olympic hosts try to shake outcry over fate of stray dogs

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 10:13 AM PST

Previews - Winter Olympics Day -4SOCHI, Russia, Feb 4 (Reuters) - An outcry over the fate of stray animals being rounded up in Sochi is the latest problem to dog Russia's preparations for the Winter Olympics. Already scrambling to get hotels ready on time, make the Games safe and convince the world Russians are not homophobic, the host nation is now trying to shake off accusations that it is killing stray dogs. It is hardly the showcase for modern Russia that President Vladimir Putin had hoped for at the Olympics. Residents say thousands of dogs have disappeared from the streets of Sochi since a local business won a contract to catch stray animals before the Games, which open on Friday.


Libya: Gadhafi's chemical weapons cache 100 percent gone

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 12:33 PM PST

Libyan Foreign Affairs Minister Mohamed Abdelaziz (L) in Tripoli on February 4, 2014TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libya's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday the country's caches of chemical weapons, including bombs and artillery shells filled with mustard gas, have been completely destroyed.


Lawmakers seek redo on Endangered Species Act

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 09:36 AM PST

FILE - In this undated photo released by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, a bald eagle files in Utah. Proponents credit the Endangered Species Act with staving off extinction for hundreds of species, from the bald eagle and American alligator to the gray whale, but Republicans in Congress say the 40-year-old law meant to protect animals and plants from extinction has become bogged down by litigation and needs to be updated. (AP Photo/Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Lynn Chamberlain)Environmentalists have abused the law in the name of animals, its critics say.


An expensive tip: Gratuity leads to job loss for NYC sanitation worker

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 07:31 AM PST

A sanitation worker sweeps up debris in New York's Times Square early New Year's Day Wednesday Jan. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)A New York City sanitation worker with 24 years experience was forced out of his job after he was caught accepting a $20 tip, the New York Daily News reports.


U.S. ambassador to Russia stepping down

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 08:38 AM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 15, 2013 file photo the U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul leaves the Foreign Ministry in Moscow, Russia. The U.S. ambassador to Russia has announced that he is stepping down after two turbulent years in Moscow. Michael McFaul is considered the architect of President Barack Obama's effort to reset relations with Russia. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File)MOSCOW (AP) — U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul, the architect of President Barack Obama's effort to reset relations with Russian, announced on Tuesday that he is stepping down after two turbulent years in Moscow.


Target takes steps to protect customer data

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 02:19 PM PST

People shop at Target store during Black Friday sales in the Brooklyn borough of New YorkThe retailer will implement a $100 million chip-enabled smart-card program by early 2015.


Blast in Pakistan kills nine near Shiite mosque

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 07:53 AM PST

Pakistani religious cleric and member of Taliban's negotiating committee Maulana Sami-ul-Haq arrives for a press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. A three-member committee appointed by Pakistani Taliban to hold peace talks with Pakistan has accused its Pakistani counterparts of scuttling the peace process by not turning up for the first round of talks in the capital. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani official says a bomb blast in the northwestern city of Peshawar has killed nine people near a mosque belonging to the Shiite Muslim minority sect.


Kidnapping, carjacking charges filed against escaped Mich. killer

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 11:52 AM PST

This Monday, Feb. 3, 2014 image provided by the LaPorte County Sheriff's office shows escaped prisoner Michael David Elliot. Elliot, a convicted killer who peeled a hole in two fences with his hands to escape from the Ionia Correctional Facility in western Michigan before abducting a woman and fleeing to Indiana was captured Monday evening after a chase, authorities said. (AP Photo/LaPorte County Sheriff's Office)IONIA, Mich. (AP) — A convicted killer captured in Indiana after a daring one-day escape from a Michigan prison refused to waive extradition Tuesday and said he made a run after 20 years in custody because he "just wanted a second chance."


'SNL' alum Victoria Jackson files for political office

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 06:47 AM PST

Dumb Blonde JokesTHOMPSON STATION, Tenn. (AP) — Former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Victoria Jackson has filed to run as an independent candidate for a seat on a county commission outside Nashville, Tenn.


Budget deficit drops to $514 billion

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 07:19 AM PST

FILE – In this March 1, 2013, file photo President Barack Obama talks to reporters in the White House briefing room in Washington after his meeting with congressional leaders about the automatic spending cuts. Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress say the wealthy must pay their fair share if the federal government is ever going to fix its finances and reduce the budget deficit to a manageable level. A new analysis the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), however, shows that average tax bills for high-income families have rarely been higher since the CBO began tracking the data in 1979, and that middle- and low-income families aren't paying as much as they used to. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)It's a substantial decrease and the lowest by far since Obama took office, a new report says.


Microsoft hopes new, old leaders can rekindle magic

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 03:34 PM PST

Satya Nadella, executive vice president, Cloud and Enterprise, addresses employees during the One Microsoft Town Hall event in SeattleBy Bill Rigby SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is betting a mix of old and young blood will revive the aging technology pioneer, but new Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella may find it tough to push change with co-founder Bill Gates and former CEO Steve Ballmer breathing down his neck. The 46-year-old India native and former enterprise business chief takes on the monumental task of exploring new directions - but with Gates as his consigliere, and on a strategy that Ballmer orchestrated with the board. That uphill endeavor helped sour other candidates on the job, including proven change agent Alan Mulally at Ford Motor Co, sources have said. Gates is giving up the board chairmanship to fellow director John Thompson.


Sea survivor's Salvadoran family thought he died

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 03:01 PM PST

In this Monday, Feb. 3, 2014 photo provided by the Marshall Islands Foreign Affairs Department, a man identifying himself as 37-year-old Jose Salvador Alvarenga sits on a couch in Majuro in the Marshall Islands, after he was rescued from being washed ashore on the tiny atoll of Ebon in the Pacific Ocean. Alvarenga told the U.S. ambassador in the Marshall Islands Tom Armbruster and the nation's officials that he left Mexico in December 2012 for a day of shark fishing and ended up surviving 13 months on fish, birds and turtles before washing ashore on the remote Marshall Islands thousands of miles (kilometers) away. (AP Photo/Foreign Affairs Department The Marshall Islands, Gee Bing)GARITA PALMERA, El Salvador (AP) — A Salvadoran fisherman's account of his survival after more than 13 months and about 6,500 miles in an open boat has proved a double miracle for his mother and father, who lost touch with him eight years ago and thought he was dead.


Broad coalition backs Keystone XL oil pipeline

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 03:21 PM PST

Canada's Ambassador to the US Gary Doer, second right, stands with Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., second left, Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., left, and American Petroleum Institute (API) President and CEO Jack N. Gerard, right, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, regarding the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — An unusual coalition of lawmakers from both parties, labor and business leaders, veterans groups and Canada's ambassador to the United States joined forces Tuesday to push for quick approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.


Long winter brings salt shortage, steeper prices

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 02:57 PM PST

Road salt is loaded into a snow plow truck equipped with a salt spreader at the public works facility in Glen Ellyn, Ill., on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. The Midwest's recent severe winter weather has caused communities to expend large amounts of their road salt supplies. (AP Photo/Andrew A. Nelles)CHICAGO (AP) — As piles of snow grow taller during this seemingly endless winter, the mounds of salt for spreading on the nation's icy, slushy roads are shrinking, forcing communities to ration supplies or try exotic new ice-melting substances.


Facebook barrels ahead on 10th anniversary

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 03:10 PM PST

FILE - In this Sunday, May 13, 2012, file photo, flowers are added to a Facebook sign in front of Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. On Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, Facebook celebrates 10 years since its inception. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)NEW YORK (AP) — It has been 10 years since a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg created a website called Thefacebook.com to let his classmates find their friends online.


Flea: Red Hot Chili Peppers mimed Super Bowl song

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 04:56 PM PST

FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014 file photo, The Red Hot Chili Peppers perform during the halftime show of the NFL Super Bowl XLVIII football game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos, in East Rutherford, N.J. Flea says in a Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, letter to fans that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members pretended to play along to a pre-taped track of "Give It Away" during the Super Bowl halftime show as Anthony Kiedis sang live. The request came from NFL officials who felt it was too difficult to pull off a completely live performance because of potential sound issues. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)The Red Hot Chili Peppers decided long ago they were never going to mime a live performance. The band made an exception for the NFL, it turns out.


More than half Americans plan to follow Olympics

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 02:24 PM PST

A man poses for a photo beneath the Olympic rings at Olympic Park, prior to the 2014 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)NEW YORK (AP) — Just over half of Americans surveyed plan to watch or follow the Winter Olympics, according to an Associated Press-GfK Poll, and one-third of respondents say they have only a little or no confidence about Russia's ability to safeguard safety at the Sochi Games that start this week.


Lawmakers seek Endangered Species Act overhaul

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 04:42 PM PST

Rep. Norman "Doc" Hastings, R-Wash., center, discusses a new report that proposes alterations to the 40-year-old Endangered Species Act, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, during a news conference on Capitol in Washington. Hastings, along with Rep. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., left, led the Endangered Species Act Congressional Working Group, a panel of House Republicans who want the law to be administered by the states to balance wildlife protection with economic development. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Republicans in Congress on Tuesday called for an overhaul to the Endangered Species Act to curtail environmentalists' lawsuits and give more power to states, but experts say broad changes to one of the nation's cornerstone environmental laws are unlikely given the pervasive partisan divide in Washington, D.C.


NY police: Hoffman's heroin didn't have additive

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 04:58 PM PST

A passerby photographs the flowers placed outside the apartment building of actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman, in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. Autopsy results are expected soon in the death of actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman but police say it may take longer to determine if the heroin found in his apartment contains additives designed intensify the high. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)NEW YORK (AP) — Heroin recovered at Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's apartment after he was found there dead with a syringe in his arm has tested negative for the powerful additive fentanyl, a police official said Tuesday.


Bill Clinton was Leno's top 'Tonight' target

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 02:23 PM PST

This Nov. 5, 2012 photo released by NBC shows Jay Leno, host of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," on the set in Burbank, Calif. During Leno's two-decade tenure as NBC's NEW YORK (AP) — For Jay Leno, Bill Clinton was the comic gift who kept giving. By one exhaustive count, the outgoing "Tonight" show host made 4,607 jokes at the former president's expense during his time on the program.


A look back at the allegations against Woody Allen

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 03:16 PM PST

FILE - In this July 14, 2011 file photo, filmmaker Woody Allen is shown on the set of his movie "The Bop Decameron" in Rome. Dylan Farrow, the adopted daughter of Allen and Mia Farrow, penned an emotional open letter, accusing Hollywood of callously lionizing Allen, who she claims abused her. The letter revived in stunning detail an allegation more than two decades old. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)NEW YORK (AP) — "Cries and Whispers: The Ugly Explosion of an Unconventional Family," announced the Aug. 31, 1992, cover of Time magazine, which bore Woody Allen's bespectacled face. The sordid saga involving Allen and erstwhile romantic partner Mia Farrow had indeed exploded into the public consciousness days earlier. The most sensational part: an allegation that the celebrated director had taken their adopted daughter Dylan, 7, into an attic-like space at Farrow's Connecticut home and molested her.


APNewsBreak: Police say teacher acknowledged sex

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 03:57 PM PST

This photo released by the Riverside Police Dept. shows Andrea Michelle Cardosa, 40, who was arrested on Monday, Feb. 3, 2014 in Perris, Calif. Cardosa a former Southern California educator was jailed on felony charges that could send her to prison for life after a former female student accused her of sexual abuse in a YouTube video that's gained nearly a million views and prompted another girl to come forward. (AP Photo/Riverside Police Dept.)A California educator acknowledged to police that she had a sexual relationship with a teenage student who confronted her years later over the phone and posted video of the conversation on YouTube, authorities said in a court filing released Tuesday.


Microsoft names cloud computing chief as next CEO

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 04:20 PM PST

This May 21, 2008 photo, Microsoft Senior Vice President of Portal and Advertising Platform Group Satya Nadella demonstrates some of the features of Live Search on a mobile device during the advance08 Advertising Leadership Forum at the company's campus in Redmond, Wash. Microsoft announced Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, that Nadella will replace Steve Ballmer as its new CEO. Nadella will become only the third leader in the software giant's 38-year history, after founder Bill Gates and Ballmer. Board member John Thompson will serve as Microsoft's new chairman. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear)LOS ANGELES (AP) — As longtime Microsoft insider Satya Nadella becomes the company's CEO, he is declaring a new focus on a "mobile-first, cloud-first world." So far, he only has the latter half of the formula figured out.


U.K. admits to role in deadly 1984 India raid

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 05:45 AM PST

Sikh militants throw a tear-gas canister back at Indian police during an assault on the Golden Temple, June 7, 1984The Golden Temple attack was one of the most violent episodes with Sikh separatists.


Afghanistan's Karzai in secret talks with Taliban

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 06:56 AM PST

Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during news conference in KabulBy Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been holding secret talks with Taliban officials in the hope of persuading them to make peace with his government, his spokesman told Reuters on Tuesday, confirming a New York Times report. "I can confirm that ... Taliban are willing more than ever to join the peace process," Aimal Faizi said. "Contacts have been made and we are also in touch with them." A member of Afghanistan's High Peace Council also confirmed that talks had taken place, but was measured in his assessment of their success. "Talks took place in Dubai three weeks ago between government officials and Taliban who flew from Doha, but we are still waiting to see the result," he told Reuters.


Britain admits role in deadly 1984 Golden Temple attack in India

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 08:55 AM PST

A Sikh man sits beside the wall of one of the complex of Golden Temple hit by the bullet shots in AmritsarBy Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - Britain secretly helped India plan a deadly assault on Sikh separatists holed up in the Golden Temple at Amritsar in 1984, the government said on Tuesday, saying London's influence was limited and there was therefore no need for an apology. Prime Minister David Cameron ordered a review into the matter last month after the government inadvertently released official papers suggesting that Margaret Thatcher, then prime minister, had sent an officer from the elite SAS special air service to advise India on the raid. The unplanned release upset British Sikhs, whom Cameron is courting ahead of a national election in 2015, and in India it triggered nationalist criticism of the dynastic ruling Congress party, which faces an uphill struggle to be re-elected in a national vote due by May. Congress, under then-prime minister Indira Gandhi, was in power at the time of the raid on the Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine.


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