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U.S. ship pulled off search for missing jet

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 03:00 PM PDT

Sailors inspect the flight deck of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Kidd during search for missing Malaysian airlinerNavy: Long-range aircraft best option now that Flight 370 search area has broadened.

Study to test 'chocolate' pills for heart health

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 02:07 PM PDT

Brigham And Women's Study To Test 'Chocolate' Pills For Heart HealthIt won't be nearly as much fun as eating candy bars, but a big study is being launched to see if pills containing the nutrients in dark chocolate can help prevent heart attacks and strokes.

In digital era, presidents still rely on an old standby: a phone call

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 02:12 AM PDT

U.S. President Obama talks on the phone with Iranian President Rouhani in the Oval Office at the White House in WashingtonWhen President Barack Obama is on the line, nothing is left to chance.

Photos: NYC St. Patrick's Day Parade

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 11:40 AM PDT

Photos: NYC St. Patrick's Day ParadeMembers of the Wantagh American Legion Band, Wantagh, Long Island perform while marching during the St. Patricks Day Parade, Monday, March 17, 2014 in New York. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

Winter takes a parting shot at Northeast

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 01:37 PM PDT

Snow is plowed behind a jogger running on the Washington Monument grounds in Washington, Monday, March 17, 2014. Snow has been falling in parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast as winter-weary motorists faced another potentially treacherous commute Monday morning, just days before the start of spring. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)Washington, D.C., and nearby states blanketed by some of the heaviest snows of the season.

107-year-old Syrian refugee reunites with family in Germany

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 12:34 PM PDT

107-year-old Syrian Sabria Khalaf, right, is greeted by a family member as she arrives at the airport in Duesseldorf, Germany, Monday, March 17, 2014. The woman who fled the conflict in Syria has been reunited with her family in Germany. German officials say Khalaf arrived from Greece where she had originally applied for asylum. (AP Photo/dpa, Federico Gambarini)BERLIN (AP) — A 107-year-old woman who fled the conflict in Syria has arrived in Germany to be reunited with her family, including her newborn great-great-granddaughter, officials said Monday.

Astronomers discover 'smoking gun' for universe's expansion

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 07:59 AM PDT

In this 2007 photo provided by Steffen Richter, the sun sets behind the BICEP2 telescope, foreground, and the South Pole Telescope in Antarctica. In the faint glowing remains of the Big Bang, scientists found "smoking gun" evidence that the universe began with a split-second of astonishingly rapid growth from a seed far smaller than an atom. To find a pattern of polarization in the faint light left over from the Big Bang, astronomers scanned about 2 percent of the sky for three years with the BICEP2 at the south pole, chosen for its very dry air to aid in the observations, said the leader of the collaboration, John Kovac of Harvard. (AP Photo/Steffen Richter)Astronomers have found the first direct evidence of cosmic inflation, the theorized dramatic expansion of the universe that put the "bang" in the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, new research suggests. If it holds up, the landmark discovery — which also confirms the existence of hypothesized ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves — would give researchers a much better understanding of the Big Bang and its immediate aftermath. "If it is confirmed, then it would be the most important discovery since the discovery, I think, that the expansion of the universe is accelerating," Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, who is not a member of the study team, told Space.com, comparing the finding to a 1998 observation that opened the window on mysterious dark energy and won three researchers the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics. A team led by John Kovac, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is announcing the results today (March 17), unveiling two manuscripts that have not yet been submitted to peer-reviewed journals.

Man declared the 'face behind bitcoin' hires lawyer to dispute story

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 01:14 PM PDT

Dorian S. Nakamoto talks during an interview with the Associated Press, Thursday, March 6, 2014 in Los Angeles. Nakamoto, the man that Newsweek claims is the founder of Bitcoin, denies he had anything to do with it and says he had never even heard of the digital currency until his son told him he had been contacted by a reporter three weeks ago. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)LOS ANGELES (AP) — The man Newsweek claimed is the creator of bitcoin has hired a lawyer in an attempt to clear his name, repeating a denial he made to The Associated Press more than a week ago that he has never had anything to do with the digital currency.

Putin signs decree on Crimean independence

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 01:36 PM PDT

Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends an awards ceremony for Russian athletes, winners of the XI Paralympic Olympic games, in Sochi on March 17, 2014Declares 'sovereign and independent state' after vote to secede Ukraine and join Russia.

Mick Jagger's girlfriend, fashion designer L'Wren Scott found dead

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Another GM recall: 1.18M SUVs for air bag issue

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 01:03 PM PDT

Chevrolet cars are seen at a GM dealership in Miami in this file photoDETROIT (AP) — General Motors issued a new recall of 1.5 million vehicles Monday, part of an effort to assure buyers that it's moving faster to fix safety defects in its cars and trucks.

Obama ups the 'cost' to Russia over Ukraine

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 11:34 AM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks about Ukraine, Monday, March 17, 2014, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington. The president imposed sanctions against Russian officials, including advisers to President Vladimir Putin, for their support of Crimea's vote to secede from Ukraine. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)The president introduces the most comprehensive sanctions since the end of the Cold War.

The pot lobby makes its pitch across Washington, D.C.

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 02:18 AM PDT

An attendee holds marijuana buds at the International Cannabis & Hemp Expo in OaklandAs more states legalize marijuana, the cannabis industry is solidifying its presence in Washington, D.C.

General in sex case pleads guilty to lesser counts

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 06:59 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 4, 2014, file photo, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair leaves the courthouse following a day of motions at Fort Bragg, N.C. A news release Sunday, March 16, 2014, from lawyers representing Sinclair said that he will plead to lesser charges in exchange for having the sexual assault charges dropped along with two others that might have required Sinclair to register as a sex offender. Sinclair was accused of twice forcing a female captain to perform oral sex on him during a three-year extramarital affair. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, James Robinson, File)FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — An Army general who admitted to inappropriate relationships with three soldiers who had served under his command pleaded guilty Monday to a host of lesser charges as prosecutors dropped the most serious — sexual assault counts — as part of a deal.

Jet search expands north, south; mystery persists

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 08:30 AM PDT

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The search for the missing Malaysian jet pushed deep into the northern and southern hemispheres Monday as Australia scoured the southern Indian Ocean and China offered 21 satellites to respond to Malaysia's call for help in the unprecedented hunt.

EU sanctions people linked to Ukraine unrest

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 06:34 AM PDT

British Foreign Secretary William Hague, left, talks with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, right, and Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans, during the EU foreign ministers council at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, March 17, 2014. British Foreign Secretary William Hague says he is confident that the European Union will ratchet up pressure on Russia over its role in the breakaway of Ukraine's Crimea region by imposing sanctions on people linked to the secession of the peninsula. The 28-nation EU condemned the Crimea referendum which overwhelmingly backed a return to Russia, and the EU foreign ministers were assessing on Monday who to target for asset freezes and travel bans. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)Travel bans and asset freezes hit 21 people linked to the Crimea secession effort.

New uncertainty about missing Malaysian plane

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 04:23 PM PDT

Malaysia's acting Transport Minister Hishamuddin Hussein shows maps of southern corridor and northern corridor of the search and rescue operation during a press conference at a hotel near the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, in Sepang, Malaysia, Monday, March 17, 2014. Twenty-six countries are involved in the massive international search for the Malaysia Airlines jetliner that disappeared on March 8 with 239 people aboard. They include not just military assets on land, at sea and in the air, but also investigators and the specific support and assistance requested by Malaysia, such as radar and satellite information. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Officials revealed a new timeline Monday suggesting the final voice transmission from the cockpit of the missing Malaysian plane may have occurred before any of its communications systems were disabled, adding more uncertainty about who aboard might have been to blame.

Texas makes final push for insurance enrollment

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 01:30 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, March 11, 2014 photo, Sara Rodriguez looks over an Affordable Care Act brochure, in Houston. Rodriguez, like others who gathered to listen to a presentation about President Barack Obama's signature health care overhaul, says she can't afford insurance, even for $50 a month. With two young children and barely $400 of disposable income a month, she struggles to feed her family. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)HOUSTON (AP) — Sara Rodriguez recently received a $4,000 bill for a six-hour emergency room visit to treat a fever. She says she can't pay, but she's also not planning to buy health insurance through the new federal marketplace.

On the media buffet, people still seek meaty news

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 12:59 PM PDT

Graphic shows survey results on news consumption; 2c x 5 inches; 96.3 mm x 127 mm;WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans of all ages still pay heed to serious news even as they seek out the lighter stuff, choosing their own way across a media landscape that no longer relies on front pages and evening newscasts to dictate what's worth knowing, according to a new study from the Media Insight Project.

General chokes up as he details affair during plea

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 01:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 4, 2014, file photo, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair leaves the courthouse following a day of motions at Fort Bragg, N.C. A news release Sunday, March 16, 2014, from lawyers representing Sinclair said that he will plead to lesser charges in exchange for having the sexual assault charges dropped along with two others that might have required Sinclair to register as a sex offender. Sinclair was accused of twice forcing a female captain to perform oral sex on him during a three-year extramarital affair. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, James Robinson, File)FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — An Army general who admitted to improper relationships with three subordinates appeared to choke up Monday as he told a judge that he'd failed the female captain who had leveled the most serious accusations against him.

St. Pat's parades proceed amid tension over gays

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 02:36 PM PDT

People dress in the emerald green to honour Ireland's Saint Partick, as they enjoy the atmosphere during the St Patrick's day parade in Dublin, Ireland, March, 17, 2014. The world's largest parade celebrating Irish heritage set off on a cold and gray morning, the culmination of a weekend of St. Patrick's Day revelry. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)NEW YORK (AP) — A weekend of St. Patrick's Day revelry and tensions over the exclusion of gays in some of the celebrations culminated Monday in New York, where the world's largest parade celebrating Irish heritage stepped off without the city's new mayor and Guinness beer amid a dispute over whether participants can carry pro-gay signs.

Evidence spotted for universe's early growth spurt

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 02:17 PM PDT

In this 2007 photo provided by Steffen Richter, the sun sets behind the BICEP2 telescope, foreground, and the South Pole Telescope in Antarctica. In the faint glowing remains of the Big Bang, scientists found "smoking gun" evidence that the universe began with a split-second of astonishingly rapid growth from a seed far smaller than an atom. To find a pattern of polarization in the faint light left over from the Big Bang, astronomers scanned about 2 percent of the sky for three years with the BICEP2 at the south pole, chosen for its very dry air to aid in the observations, said the leader of the collaboration, John Kovac of Harvard. (AP Photo/Steffen Richter)NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers say they have spotted evidence that a split-second after the Big Bang, the newly formed universe ballooned out at a pace so astonishing that it left behind ripples in the fabric of the cosmos.

Scott, Jagger's designer girlfriend, found dead

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 03:20 PM PDT

FILE - This May 7, 2012 file photo shows singer Mick Jagger, left, and L'Wren Scott at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala benefit, celebrating Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, in New York. Scott, a fashion designer, was found dead Monday, March 17, 2014, in Manhattan of a possible suicide. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)NEW YORK (AP) — L'Wren Scott, who left her small-town Utah home as a teenager to become a model in Paris, then a top Hollywood stylist and finally a high-end fashion designer best known as the longtime girlfriend of Mick Jagger, has died in what was being investigated as an apparent suicide.

Judge orders Chris Brown to remain in jail

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 04:02 PM PDT

R&B singer Chris Brown, left, appears in Los Angeles Superior Court with his attorney Mark Geragos, on Monday, March 17, 2014. Brown will spend another month in jail after a judge said Monday he was told the singer made troubling comments in rehab about being good at using guns and knives. The singer was arrested on Friday, March 14, 2014, after he was dismissed from a Malibu facility where he was receiving treatment for anger management, substance abuse and issues related to bipolar disorder. (AP Photo/Lucy Nicholson, Pool)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chris Brown will spend another month in jail after a judge said Monday he was told the singer made troubling comments in rehab about being good at using guns and knives.

Scott, Jagger's designer girlfriend, found hanging

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 01:11 PM PDT

FILE - This May 7, 2012 file photo shows singer Mick Jagger, left, and L'Wren Scott at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala benefit, celebrating Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, in New York. Scott, a fashion designer, was found dead Monday, March 17, 2014, in Manhattan of a possible suicide. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)NEW YORK (AP) — L'Wren Scott, a fashion designer and celebrity stylist who was Mick Jagger's girlfriend, was found dead in Manhattan on Monday in what was being investigated as an apparent suicide.

Putin declares Crimea 'sovereign and independent'

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 12:11 PM PDT

A man lifts his sweater standing between armed men in riot gear, performing identity and bag checks on people walking near the building of Crimea's regional parliament in Simferopol, Ukraine, Monday, March 17, 2014. Crimea's parliament on Monday declared the region an independent state, after its residents voted overwhelmingly to break off from Ukraine and seek to join Russia. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized Crimea as a "sovereign and independent country" Monday, just hours after the strategic Black Sea peninsula declared it had broken away from Ukraine.

Missing jet reveals uncomfortable Malaysian truths

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 10:37 AM PDT

Malaysia's acting Transport Minister Hishamuddin Hussein looks on a map of a search corridor during a press conference at a hotel near the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, in Sepang, Malaysia, Monday, March 17, 2014. Twenty-six countries are involved in the massive international search for the Malaysia Airlines jetliner that disappeared on March 8 with 239 people aboard. They include not just military assets on land, at sea and in the air, but also investigators and the specific support and assistance requested by Malaysia, such as radar and satellite information. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — It's apparently a challenge to find people satisfied with the Malaysian government's performance in its search for Flight 370: A mainstream daily newspaper here ran a story Monday on praise being lavished by an anonymous Facebook user from Sweden.

U.S. sanctions Putin advisers after Crimea vote

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 07:47 AM PDT

Pro-Russian people celebrate in the central square in Sevastopol, Ukraine, late Sunday, March 16, 2014. Russian flags fluttered above jubilant crowds Sunday after residents in Crimea voted overwhelmingly to secede from Ukraine and join Russia. The United States and Europe condemned the ballot as illegal and destabilizing and were expected to slap sanctions against Russia for it.(AP Photo/Andrew Lubimov)The White House also says it is working to identify and target the assets of others.

Last words from missing Malaysian jet spoken by co-pilot

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 03:14 PM PDT

A navigational radar on Indonesia's National Search and Rescue boat shows details during a search in the Andaman sea area around northern tip of Indonesia's Sumatra island for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 on March 17, 2014The last words from a Malaysian passenger jet missing for 10 days were apparently spoken by the co-pilot, the airline said Monday, providing a glimpse into the crucial period when the plane was deliberately diverted. Clarification that the voice was most likely that of First Officer Fariq Abdul Hamid came during a press conference at which Malaysian officials hit back at "irresponsible" suggestions that they had misled the public -- and passengers' relatives -- over what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and Fariq, his co-pilot, have become a primary focus of the investigation, with one of the key questions being who was in control of the aircraft when it veered off course about an hour into its flight to Beijing.

Moscow wins overwhelming Crimea vote

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 11:54 AM PDT

Pro-Russian people celebrate in the central square in Sevastopol, Ukraine, late Sunday, March 16, 2014. Russian flags fluttered above jubilant crowds Sunday after residents in Crimea voted overwhelmingly to secede from Ukraine and join Russia. The United States and Europe condemned the ballot as illegal and destabilizing and were expected to slap sanctions against Russia for it.(AP Photo/Andrew Lubimov)Western powers call the annexation vote illegal and say it will bring swift sanctions.

Seoul: NKorea test-fires 25 short-range rockets

Posted: 16 Mar 2014 07:23 PM PDT

North Korean leader Kim Jong UnSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired 25 short-range rockets into the sea off its east coast Sunday in an apparent continuation of protests against ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills, South Korean officials said.

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