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• West braces for Crimea vote after talks fail
• Note from Clinton White House files: 'Send a Muslim!'
• Paris on alert as smog surpasses notorious cities like Beijing
• Target: We missed early warning on data breach
• Bloomberg: People forget 'charter schools are public schools'
• Ukraine president emphasizes military strength
• New batch of Clinton records include Gore election strategy
• Neighbors say missing jet's pilots were community minded
• Investigators weigh 'piracy' in missing jetliner
• While U.S. and Russia talk, West preps sanctions on Russia
• Kerry: U.S. won't recognize Crimea vote
• Lavrov: No common vision with U.S. on Ukraine
• Obama: Enough have enrolled for stable health care
• Moms of Jonah Hill, Adam Levine, Jennifer Lopez: Enroll in Obamacare
• Malnutrition grows among Syrian refugee children
• After 37 years on lam, killer caught in Fla.
• APNewsBreak: LAX union wants emergency training
• 8 dead in NY gas blast as rescue operation goes on
• 2 convicted in NYC kidnap-rape-killing plot case
• AP Source: Jackson to be introduced by Knicks
• Longtime Hollywood reporter Bob Thomas dead at 92
• After Crimea, wary Eastern Europe asks: who's next
• Clinton records: President feared 1994 losses
• Tests detected gas underground after NYC blast
• Clinton records: Fight back hard after 1994 losses
• FDNY: Explosion death toll at 8, may not rise
• Crimea crisis: Lessons from the first Cold War
• Kerry meets with Russian counterpart in last-ditch Ukraine talks
• Search for missing jet shifts to Indian Ocean
• Under pressure, Obama vows to examine deportations
• Jet aborts takeoff after gear failure in Philly
• Source: 'Indication' missing jetliner crashed in Indian Ocean
• Death toll in NYC gas explosion climbs to 8
• Worker lawsuits claim McDonald's wage theft
• Missing jet creates legion of armchair sleuths
• Pope Francis gets formal invite to address Congress

West braces for Crimea vote after talks fail Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:00 PM PDT Sec. of State Kerry says result of vote to secede Ukraine is all but a foregone conclusion.

Note from Clinton White House files: 'Send a Muslim!' Posted: 14 Mar 2014 03:06 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — An unsigned, hand-written note included with Clinton administration documents on combatting terrorism urges, "Send a Muslim!"

Paris on alert as smog surpasses notorious cities like Beijing Posted: 14 Mar 2014 12:42 PM PDT PARIS (AP) — Air pollution that has turned the skies over Paris a murky yellow and shrouded much of Belgium for days forced drivers to slow down Friday and gave millions a free ride on public transportation.

Target: We missed early warning on data breach Posted: 14 Mar 2014 01:34 PM PDT Retail giant admits immediate action wasn't taken after software picked up on cyberattack.

Bloomberg: People forget 'charter schools are public schools' Posted: The ex-NYC mayor shares his take on gun debate with Yahoo's Katie Couric.

Ukraine president emphasizes military strength Posted: 14 Mar 2014 11:57 AM PDT Praises troops taking part in exercises amid buildup of Russian forces on eastern borders.

New batch of Clinton records include Gore election strategy Posted: 14 Mar 2014 11:47 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Archives has released another 4,000 pages of records from former President Bill Clinton's White House.

Neighbors say missing jet's pilots were community minded Posted: 14 Mar 2014 11:05 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — One was passionate enough about flying to build his own flight simulator in his home. The other was a 27-year-old contemplating marriage after having just graduated to the cockpit of a Boeing 777.

Investigators weigh 'piracy' in missing jetliner Posted: 14 Mar 2014 09:17 AM PDT It's also possible the plane may have landed somewhere, an official says.

While U.S. and Russia talk, West preps sanctions on Russia Posted: 14 Mar 2014 07:47 AM PDT LONDON (AP) — The top diplomats for Russia and the U.S. voiced pessimism Friday about negotiating an immediate end to the crisis in Ukraine, whose strategic Crimea region is voting this weekend about whether to secede.

Kerry: U.S. won't recognize Crimea vote Posted: 14 Mar 2014 11:12 AM PDT Meanwhile, his Russian counterpart says there is no "common vision" over Ukraine crisis.

Lavrov: No common vision with U.S. on Ukraine Posted: 14 Mar 2014 09:24 AM PDT LONDON (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that differences remain between Moscow and the U.S. following negotiations in London aimed at ending the crisis in Ukraine, whose strategic Crimea region is voting this weekend on whether to secede.

Obama: Enough have enrolled for stable health care Posted: 14 Mar 2014 07:06 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says enough people have signed up for health care to make his signature law work.

Moms of Jonah Hill, Adam Levine, Jennifer Lopez: Enroll in Obamacare Posted: 14 Mar 2014 03:12 AM PDT Long before Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine was People Magazine's "sexiest man alive," he was "rambunctious, mischievous, naughty," his mom, Patsy Noah, says in a new ad meant to get more young people to sign up for Obamacare.

Malnutrition grows among Syrian refugee children Posted: 14 Mar 2014 11:05 AM PDT KAB ELIAS, Lebanon (AP) — Trapped in her northern Syrian village by fighting, Mervat watched her newborn baby progressively shrink. Her daughter's dark eyes seemed to grow bigger as her face grew more skeletal. Finally, Mervat escaped to neighboring Lebanon, and a nurse told her the girl was starving.

After 37 years on lam, killer caught in Fla. Posted: 14 Mar 2014 01:06 PM PDT DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (AP) — In the nearly 40 years after he escaped from the maximum-security military prison at Fort Leavenworth, convicted killer James Robert Jones carved out a new life for himself in Florida, living under an assumed name, getting married and working for an air conditioning company.

APNewsBreak: LAX union wants emergency training Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:10 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thousands of Los Angeles International Airport workers had no idea what to do when a gunman opened fire last year in a terminal because they were inadequately trained to deal with an emergency, according to a union report.

8 dead in NY gas blast as rescue operation goes on Posted: 14 Mar 2014 03:44 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — The bodies of all eight people reported missing after a deadly gas explosion destroyed two buildings have been recovered, the fire commissioner said Friday, but workers are treating the scene as a rescue operation in case there are unknown survivors in the rubble.

2 convicted in NYC kidnap-rape-killing plot case Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:33 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — A retired New York high school librarian and a New Jersey auto mechanic were convicted Friday of scheming to carry out gruesome fantasies of kidnapping, raping, torturing and killing women and girls.

AP Source: Jackson to be introduced by Knicks Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:18 PM PDT Phil Jackson is returning to the NBA.

Longtime Hollywood reporter Bob Thomas dead at 92 Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:37 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — He was the institutional memory for the movies at The Associated Press and a passage for the world to a Hollywood both longed for and long gone.

After Crimea, wary Eastern Europe asks: who's next Posted: 14 Mar 2014 07:53 AM PDT BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Broken promises of help from the West. A tragic history of Russian invasion that goes back centuries. A painful awareness that conflicts in this volatile region are contagious. These are the factors that make nations across Eastern Europe watch events in Ukraine — and tremble.

Clinton records: President feared 1994 losses Posted: 14 Mar 2014 02:14 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Sensing a Republican tidal wave, President Bill Clinton worried in the summer of 1994 that Republicans were energized heading into the midterm elections while his Democratic base was deflated. "There's no organization, there's no energy, there's no anything out there," Clinton said of his own party.

Tests detected gas underground after NYC blast Posted: 14 Mar 2014 02:08 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Federal investigators say underground tests conducted in the hours after a deadly New York City gas explosion detected the presence of natural gas.

Clinton records: Fight back hard after 1994 losses Posted: 14 Mar 2014 12:40 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Stung by the GOP takeover of Congress in the 1994 elections, White House advisers urged President Bill Clinton not to take the blame and make light of it in public but instead to hit back hard by casting Republicans as defenders of "wealthy special interests," according to documents released Friday.

FDNY: Explosion death toll at 8, may not rise Posted: 14 Mar 2014 11:46 AM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — All eight people reported missing after a deadly New York City gas explosion have been recovered, the fire commissioner said Friday, but workers are still treating the scene as a rescue operation in case there are unknown survivors in the rubble.

Crimea crisis: Lessons from the first Cold War Posted: 14 Mar 2014 02:53 AM PDT If we are in a new Cold War, some lessons of the first one should apply today.

Kerry meets with Russian counterpart in last-ditch Ukraine talks Posted: 14 Mar 2014 02:41 PM PDT Top Russian and US diplomats utterly failed Friday to defuse the crisis over Ukraine, ending up at loggerheads following tense talks over the worst East-West clash since the Cold War. After six hours of talks between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry, US officials said they "did not find common ground" and everything now depended on Russian President Vladimir Putin's reaction to Sunday's breakaway vote in Crimea. Despite flying in early Friday from Washington for crisis talks only two days before Crimea is to decide whether to split away from Ukraine, Kerry acknowledged that his mad dash to London had been in vain.

Search for missing jet shifts to Indian Ocean Posted: 14 Mar 2014 02:16 AM PDT There were new signs the aircraft may have flown on for hours after its last radar contact.

Under pressure, Obama vows to examine deportations Posted: 14 Mar 2014 08:47 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are warning that any steps President Barack Obama takes to bypass Congress to ease deportations of immigrants illegally in the United States would severely hurt chances of overhauling the nation's immigration laws.

Jet aborts takeoff after gear failure in Philly Posted: 13 Mar 2014 08:09 PM PDT Emergency slides were deployed to allow passengers to get off the crippled plane.

Source: 'Indication' missing jetliner crashed in Indian Ocean Posted: U.S. official cites signs plane flew four or five hours after disappearing from radar.

Death toll in NYC gas explosion climbs to 8 Posted: 13 Mar 2014 08:08 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Rescue workers using dogs and thermal-detection gear to search rubble for more victims of a gas explosion found an eighth body on Thursday while investigators tried to pinpoint the leak and determine whether it had anything to do with the city's aging gas and water mains, some from the 1800s.

Worker lawsuits claim McDonald's wage theft Posted: 13 Mar 2014 10:17 AM PDT Allegations include forcing workers to clock out but stay at work, docking pay for uniforms.

Missing jet creates legion of armchair sleuths Posted: 13 Mar 2014 02:36 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — There aren't supposed to be any mysteries in the Digital Age.

Pope Francis gets formal invite to address Congress Posted: 13 Mar 2014 12:15 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The leader of the U.S. House of Representatives has invited Pope Francis to address a joint meeting of Congress.

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