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CIA-Senate dispute: Who's spying on whom?

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 01:42 PM PDT

Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. leaves the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, after saying that the CIA's improper search of a stand-alone computer network established for Congress has been referred to the Justice Department. The issue stems from the investigation into allegations of CIA abuse in a Bush-era detention and interrogation program. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Complex story starts with waterboarding and ends in a secret CIA facility in northern Virginia.


Malaysian relative 'praying for divine intervention'

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 04:44 PM PDT

A board displaying messages for the missing passengers of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is seen at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang on March 11, 2014Two suspect men who flew on a missing Malaysian airliner appear to have been Iranian illegal immigrants, officials said Tuesday, lessening fears of terrorism but shedding no light on the fate of the plane's 239 passengers and crew. On the fourth day of a multinational search at sea and on land, relatives desperate for news of loved ones aboard Malaysia Airlines MH370 said their hopes for a miracle were ebbing away. Authorities have doubled the search radius to 100 nautical miles (equivalent to 185 kilometres) around the point where the Boeing 777 disappeared from radar over the South China Sea early Saturday, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The 34-year-old son of Malaysian security guard Subramaniam Gurusamy was on the flight to do business in Beijing for an oil company.


Anti-fracking activist barred from visiting friends, grocery store

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 02:32 PM PDT

Vera ScrogginsBy David DeKok HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - A court injunction obtained by Texas-based Cabot Oil & Gas is preventing Pennsylvania resident Vera Scroggins from going to her local grocery store, her friends' homes, schools, or even the hospital. That's because those properties sit atop the more than 200,000 acres in Susquehanna County that the energy producer owns and leases for gas extraction - land on which Scroggins, a determined anti-fracking activist, is not allowed to tread. A judge in October granted Cabot's request to bar Scroggins from the land - more than 40 percent of Susquehanna County, where she lives - after her repeated trespassing, court documents show. Her offending actions included giving a tour last year to anti-drilling celebrities Susan Sarandon, Yoko Ono, and Sean Lennon, the documents said.


$600K taken from safe at Osteen's Houston megachurch

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 02:21 PM PDT

Joel Osteen: 'I'm Naturally Shy and More Reserved'HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities are investigating after $600,000 in checks and cash was stolen from a safe at Pastor Joel Osteen's Houston megachurch, which has one of the largest congregations in the country.


Interpol tests giving airlines access to its passports database

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 11:52 AM PDT

Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble speaks during a news conference at the Interpol headquarters in LyonLYON, France (AP) — Interpol is allowing two airlines to check passenger passports against its vast database of lost and stolen travel documents — in a test project aimed to let private sector companies help authorities crack down on criminals who travel with fake documents, the police organization's leader said Tuesday.


NSA nominee defends bulk data collection

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 01:19 PM PDT

US Navy Vice Admiral Michael Rogers testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on his nomination Director of National Security Agency (NSA) in Washington, DC, March 11, 2014Obama's pick to head agency also says he's open to third-party storage of phone records.


Black Hawk helicopter rescues man off NC cliff

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Live from SXSW: Twitter co-founder Biz Stone

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Is Japan building an irresistible terror target?

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 09:08 AM PDT

RokkashoCenter for Public Integrity investigates Japan's new Rokkasho plutonium production plant.


CIA chief denies agency hacked Senate staff computers

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 01:00 PM PDT

Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan testifies on February 4, 2014 in WashingtonA public row erupted Tuesday between the CIA and the US lawmakers who oversee its intelligence work, with the agency's director angrily denying claims it spied on Senate staff. Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein launched an attack on the Central Intelligence Agency, accusing it of searching computers used by staffers investigating CIA interrogation methods. "I have grave concerns that the CIA's search may well have violated the separation of powers principles embodied in the United States Constitution," Feinstein declared on the Senate floor. She alleged that the CIA may have violated federal law as well as an executive order that bars it from domestic spying, but the agency's director John Brennan quickly denied the allegations.


Obama sits 'Between Two Ferns' with Zach Galifianakis

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 07:29 AM PDT

President Obama appears on "Between Two Ferns"In a bid to get young people to sign up for health care, President Barack Obama became the first sitting president in U.S. history to appear on "Between Two Ferns," Funny or Die's intentionally awkward interview show hosted by comedian Zach Galifianakis.


Fukushima children face invisible enemy

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 07:36 AM PDT

A girl opens the door of a teacher's staff room at the Emporium kindergarten in Koriyama, west of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Fukushima prefectureFear of radiation has kept kids indoors for much of their short lives.


Ex-Christie aides want judge revoke subpoenas

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 08:47 AM PDT

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's former Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Kelly, and her attorney Michael Critchley, right, arrive at court for a hearing Tuesday, March 11, 2014, in Trenton, N.J. Attorneys for Kelly and two-time campaign manager Bill Stepien are in court to try to persuade a judge not to force them to turn over text messages and other private communications to New Jersey legislators investigating the political payback scandal ensnaring Christie's administration. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Lawyers for two key figures in a political payback scandal ensnaring Gov. Chris Christie's administration are trying to persuade a judge not to force them to turn over text messages and other private communications to New Jersey legislators investigating the matter.


Missing jet traced hundreds of miles off-course

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 10:35 AM PDT

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370Radar evidence shows the Boeing 777 was last detected off Malaysia's west coast.


Feinstein accuses CIA of improperly searching Senate computers

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 10:05 AM PDT

This video framegrab from Senate Television shows Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. speaking on the floor of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2014. Feinstein said the CIA improperly searched a stand-alone computer network established for Congress as part of its investigation into allegations of CIA abuse in a Bush-era detention and interrogation program. (AP Photo/Senate Television)WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee accused the CIA Tuesday of criminal activity in improperly searching a computer network set up for lawmakers investigating allegations that the agency used torture in terror investigations during the Bush administration.


Malaysia military tracks plane to west coast

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 02:40 PM PDT

Malaysia's Department of Civil Aviation's Director General Azharuddin Abdul Rahman briefs reporters on search and recovery efforts within existing and new areas for missing Malaysia Airlines plane during a press conference, Monday, March 10, 2014 in Sepang, Malaysia. The search operation for the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 which has involved 34 aircraft and 40 ships from several countries covering a 50-nautical mile radius from the point the plane vanished from radar screens between Malaysia and Vietnam continues after its disappearance since Saturday. Experts say possible causes of the apparent crash include an explosion, catastrophic engine failure, terrorist attack, extreme turbulence, or pilot error or even suicide. (AP Photo/Daniel Chan)Radar indicates the airliner was far from where it last made contact.


Japan marks third anniversary of quake-tsunami disaster

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 03:32 AM PDT

An elderly couple looks at names of tsunami victims on a seaside monument in Arahama district, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 11, 2014Namie (Japan) (AFP) - Japan observed a moment of silence Tuesday to mark the third anniversary of the quake-tsunami disaster which swept away thousands of victims, destroyed coastal communities, and sparked the nuclear emergency that forced a re-think on atomic power. Survivors bowed deeply and joined hands at remembrance ceremonies in towns and cities around the disaster zone and in Tokyo, where Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko led tributes to those who died in Japan's worst peace-time disaster. Giant waves also crashed into the Fukushima nuclear plant, sparking reactor meltdowns and explosions, and setting off the worst atomic crisis in a generation. As night fell, an event in a Fukushima park saw about 2,000 lit candles arranged to read "Fukushima 3/11".


Army general's defense seeks new plea deal in sex case

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 11:09 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 4, 2014, file photo, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, right, leaves the courthouse with his lawyers Richard Scheff, left, and Ellen C. Brotman, not pictured, following a day of motions at Fort Bragg, N.C. A military judge declined Monday, March 10, 2014, to dismiss sexual assault charges against Sinclair after reviewing what he said was evidence that political considerations influenced the military's handling of the case. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, James Robinson, File)FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — A military judge on Tuesday dismissed the jury in the midst of an Army general's court martial on sexual assault charges to give prosecutors and defense lawyers time to hammer out a plea deal in the closely watched case.


Russia preparing counterproposals over Ukraine

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 07:49 PM PDT

Two girls wearing tops with a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin hold baloons in colors of Russian national flag stand in front of patriotic demonstrators gathered to support Russians in Crimea in Moscow, Russia, Monday, March 10, 2014. In Ukraine's Crimean peninsula a referendum has been called to see whether the region should split off and seek to become part of Russia is expected to held on Sunday . (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia said Monday it is drafting counterproposals to a U.S. plan for a negotiated solution to the Ukraine crisis, denouncing the new Western-backed government as an unacceptable "fait accompli" and claiming that Russian-leaning parts of the country have been plunged into lawlessness.


'Fatal Vision' author Joe McGinniss dies at age 71

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 08:01 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2010 file photo, author Joe McGinniss, who is working on a book on former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, poses for a photograph at the home he's renting next to Palin's home in Wasilla, Alaska. McGinniss, the adventurous and news-making author and reporter who skewered the marketing of Richard Nixon in "The Selling of the President 1968" and tracked his personal journey from sympathizer to scourge of convicted killer Jeffrey MacDonald in the blockbuster "Fatal Vision," died Monday, March 10, 2014, at age 71. McGinniss, who announced in 2013 that he had been diagnosed with inoperable prostate cancer, died from complications related to his disease. (AP Photo/Dan Joling, file)NEW YORK (AP) — Joe McGinniss wasn't one to let a story tell itself.


Crimea's parliament pushes for independence

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 01:17 PM PDT

A woman holds a banner that reads: "Putin is Occupier" during a rally against the breakup of the country in Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 11, 2014. The Crimean parliament voted Tuesday that the Black Sea peninsula will declare itself an independent state if its residents agree to split off from Ukraine and join Russia in a referendum. Crimea's regional legislature on Tuesday adopted a "declaration of independence of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea." The document specified that Crimea will become an independent state if its residents vote on Sunday in favor of joining Russia in the referendum. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — As the campaign increased for tension-filled Crimea to split off from Ukraine in a weekend referendum and join Russia, the region's parliament said Tuesday that if voters approve the move it would first declare itself an independent state, a maneuver that could de-escalate the standoff between Moscow and the West.


Judge's decision is latest twist in Army sex case

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 02:34 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 4, 2014, file photo, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, right, leaves the courthouse with his lawyers Richard Scheff, left, and Ellen C. Brotman, not pictured, following a day of motions at Fort Bragg, N.C. A military judge declined Monday, March 10, 2014, to dismiss sexual assault charges against Sinclair after reviewing what he said was evidence that political considerations influenced the military's handling of the case. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, James Robinson, File)FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — The trial of an Army general accused of sexual assault moved into uncharted legal territory Tuesday when the judge dismissed the jury to allow the defense time to hammer out a new plea deal with the military.


Friend: Pistorius fired guns in public

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 01:56 PM PDT

With a bucket on the floor nearby, Oscar Pistorius covers his face with his hands as he listens to cross questioning about the events surrounding the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, in court during his trial in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, March 11, 2014. Pistorius is charged with the shooting death of Steenkamp, on Valentines Day in 2013. (AP Photo/Kevin Sutherland, Pool)PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius fired guns in public in the months before he killed his girlfriend — once out of a car sunroof on a road and once in a crowded restaurant, a onetime friend said at the athlete's murder trial Tuesday, drawing an aggressive effort from the chief defense lawyer to pick holes in his testimony.


UN: 5.5 million Syrian children affected by war

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 02:49 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013 file photo, veiled Syrian women wait with their children for vaccinations against polio at one of the Syrian refugee camps in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon. An international charity organization Save Children has warned Monday, March 10, 2014 of a health care disaster in Syria with newborns dying in hospital incubators during power cuts and children having their limbs amputated for lack of alternative treatment. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)BEIRUT (AP) — The number of Syrian children affected by the civil war in their homeland has doubled in the past year to at least 5.5 million — more than half the country's children — with devastating effects on the health, education and psychological well-being of an entire generation, the United Nations children's agency said Tuesday.


Obama pitches his health care plan on Funny or Die

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 04:12 PM PDT

This image from video released by Funny Or Die shows President Obama, left, with actor-comedian Zach Galifianakis during an appearance on "Between Two Ferns," the digital short with a laser focus on reaching people aged 18 to 34. The president urged young people to sign up for the new health care plan through an appearance posted Tuesday, March 11, 2014, on the comic website Funny or Die, bypassing TV talk show titans like Jimmy Fallon or Jimmy Kimmel for an online audience. (AP Photo/Funny Or Die)NEW YORK (AP) — Zach Galifianakis brought the ferns, and President Barack Obama opened a new avenue of presidential communication.


Ware, Peppers released as NFL free agency opens

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 04:53 PM PDT

File - In this Sept. 22, 2013, file photo, Dallas Cowboys defensive end DeMarcus Ware (94) sacks St. Louis Rams quarterback Sam Bradford (8) during the third quarter of an NFL football game, in Arlington, Texas. The Cowboys are releasing franchise sacks leader Ware to save salary cap room after the worst season of his career. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)A couple of accomplished NFL pass rushers suddenly became available when DeMarcus Ware and Julius Peppers were released to create room under the salary cap in two of the biggest moves at Tuesday's start of the free-agency signing period.


Peverley hospitalized, teammates try to regroup

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 03:51 PM PDT

Dallas Stars' Vernon Fiddler speaks to the media following an NHL hockey practice Tuesday, March 11, 2014, in St. Louis. Dallas Stars' Rich Peverley is undergoing testing to determine what triggered his collapse during a game Monday night in Dallas. The Stars are scheduled to play the St. Louis Blues tonight in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)ST. LOUIS (AP) — Stars forward Rich Peverley remained hospitalized Tuesday in Dallas, undergoing heart tests after collapsing on the bench during a game that was postponed.


Republican takes lead in Fla. congressional race

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 04:39 PM PDT

FILE - This Nov. 23, 2013 file photo shows Florida Republican Congressional candidate David Jolly, right, speaking in Indian Rocks Beach, Fla. The special election in this stretch of coastal beach towns and retirement communities was expected to be a referendum on President Barack Obama's health care law. Instead, in the waning days of the spirited campaign to replace the late Rep. Bill Young, another issue has roared to the forefront. (AP Photo/Steve Nesius, File)CLEARWATER BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Republican David Jolly has taken the lead in the Florida congressional race to replace the late Republican Rep. Bill Young.


Ware's Dallas exit biggest early free agency move

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 04:35 PM PDT

File - In this Sept. 22, 2013, file photo, Dallas Cowboys defensive end DeMarcus Ware (94) sacks St. Louis Rams quarterback Sam Bradford (8) during the third quarter of an NFL football game, in Arlington, Texas. The Cowboys are releasing franchise sacks leader Ware to save salary cap room after the worst season of his career. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)The biggest move at Tuesday's start of the NFL free-agency signing period was a departure: Franchise sack leader DeMarcus Ware was released by the Dallas Cowboys to create room under the salary cap.


Dallas Seavey wins his second Iditarod dog race

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 11:56 AM PDT

Dallas Seavey gets a kiss from one of his dogs after winning the 2014 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Nome, Alaska, Tuesday, March 11, 2014. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, Bob Hallinen) LOCAL TV OUT (KTUU-TV, KTVA-TV) LOCAL PRINT OUT (THE ANCHORAGE PRESS, THE ALASKA DISPATCH)NOME, Alaska (AP) — Two hours, 38 minutes.


Democrat takes lead in Fla. congressional race

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 04:17 PM PDT

FILE - This Nov. 23, 2013 file photo shows Florida Republican Congressional candidate David Jolly, right, speaking in Indian Rocks Beach, Fla. The special election in this stretch of coastal beach towns and retirement communities was expected to be a referendum on President Barack Obama's health care law. Instead, in the waning days of the spirited campaign to replace the late Rep. Bill Young, another issue has roared to the forefront. (AP Photo/Steve Nesius, File)LARGO, Fla. (AP) — Democrat Alex Sink has taken an early lead in the Florida congressional race to replace the late Republican Rep. Bill Young.


50 years later, New York murder still fascinates

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 12:17 PM PDT

In this March 5, 2014 photo, a pedestrian uses the stairway leading past the entrance to 82-70 Austin street in the Queens borough of New York. The 50th anniversary of the killing of Kitty Genovese's, whose screams could not save her the night she was stalked and killed in the neighborhood on March 13, 1964, is on Thursday. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)NEW YORK (AP) — Kitty Genovese's screams for help couldn't save her on the night she was murdered outside her apartment in 1964. Fifty years later, those screams still echo, a symbol of urban breakdown and city dwellers' seeming callousness toward their neighbors.


Health care law gets 1st test in Florida election

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 03:32 PM PDT

FILE - This Nov. 23, 2013 file photo shows Florida Republican Congressional candidate David Jolly, right, speaking in Indian Rocks Beach, Fla. The special election in this stretch of coastal beach towns and retirement communities was expected to be a referendum on President Barack Obama's health care law. Instead, in the waning days of the spirited campaign to replace the late Rep. Bill Young, another issue has roared to the forefront. (AP Photo/Steve Nesius, File)LARGO, Fla. (AP) — President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is getting its first test ahead of the 2014 midterm elections Tuesday in a Tampa-area House district where Democrats and Republicans have spent millions of dollars trying out national strategies for the rest of the year.


Passenger with stolen passport had no terror links

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 01:02 AM PDT

Airport staff move a white board plastered with messages of hope and encouragement to all involved with the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, MH370, at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, in Sepang, Malaysia. Authorities hunting for the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner expanded their search on land and sea Tuesday, reflecting the difficulties in locating traces of the plane more than three days after it vanished. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)Police identify one of two men on the missing Malaysian jet using a stolen passport.


Attorney general urges first responders to carry heroin overdose drug

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 05:19 PM PDT

An educational pamphlet and samples of naloxone, a drug used to counter the effects of opiate overdose, are displayed at a news conference at the fire station in Taunton, Mass., Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. A recent surge in heroin overdoses in Taunton has shed light on an epidemic that has plagued the state and nation. At the news conference, Massachusetts Senator Edward Markey outlined a three-pronged plan to address the opiate drug epidemic, calling for expansion of naloxone programs for first responders and bystanders, greater access to proven addiction treatments and modernizing America's addiction treatment system. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday called the increase in heroin-related deaths an "urgent and growing public health crisis" and said first responders should carry with them a drug that can reverse the effects of an overdose.


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