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Jetliner search area known as 'Roaring Forties'

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 12:23 PM PDT

This graphic made Wednesday, March 19, 2014 and released by Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) Thursday, March 20, 2014, shows an area in the southern Indian Ocean that the AMSA is concentrating its search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on. AMSA response division manager John Young has identified their search will cover a massive 600,000 square kilometers (232,000 square miles) area, saying it will take weeks to search thoroughly. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot said Thursday that two objects possibly related to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight have been spotted on satellite imagery in the Indian Ocean and an air force aircraft was diverted to the area to try to locate them. (AP Photo/Australian Maritime Safety Authority)Deep sea at focus of search for Malaysia Flight 370 has a treacherous reputation.

Houston 'stash house' horrors don't shock advocates

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 12:46 PM PDT

People wait outside a house, Wednesday, March 19, 2014, in southeast Houston. A house overflowing with more than 100 people presumed to be in the United States illegally was uncovered just outside Houston on Wednesday, a police spokesman said. The suspected stash house was found during a search for a 24-year-old woman and her two children that were reported missing by relatives Tuesday after a man failed to meet them, said a spokesman for the Houston Police Department. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Cody Duty)"The scope of this is incredible … but this happens on a smaller scale with great frequency," says Cecelia Friedman Levin, a staff attorney at ASISTA Immigration Assistance in Des Moines, Iowa. He is due to be sentenced in June and could face life in prison.

29 of 30 major U.S. banks pass 'stress test'

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 04:29 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, file photo, a person walks past a Citibank location, in Philadelphia. As announced Thursday, March 20, 2014,a ll but one of the nation's 30 largest banks are in a stronger position to withstand a severe U.S. recession and a global downturn than at any time since the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve has determined .(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)Federal Reserve checkup measures how well industry would fare in another severe recession.

Chewing gum is losing its pop with American consumers

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 03:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday Oct. 24, 2010, file photo, a garbage bin sits full of bubble gum, at Yankee Stadium, in New York. U.S. gum sales tumbled 11 percent over the past four years. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Gum seems as appealing as that sticky wad on the bottom of a shoe these days.

On Politics: How the Kochs make their political money count

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 02:25 AM PDT

Koch BrothersI've never met David and Charles Koch, the conservative billionaires who have apparently set out to acquire our democracy, much as you or I might hope to purchase a timeshare. When I think of them, which isn't all that often, I tend to picture Dan Aykroyd and John Lithgow, who played industrialists called the "Motch" brothers in a recent comedy called "The Campaign," and whose main goal in the film was to relocate a Chinese sweatshop to North Carolina.

American fisheries' tragic waste gutting oceans: Report

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 11:58 AM PDT

In this Oct. 30, 2013 photo, Ismael Areizaga cuts fresh fish to use as bait as he fishes in the San Juan Bay Estuary in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Across the open waters, people still catch fish and crab, despite health warnings due to contamination. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)Report: U.S. fishermen throw away 22 percent of their catch, and kill other animals in the process

Russia's economy loses millions

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 01:01 PM PDT

The head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Alexander Shokhin, left, listens as Russia's President Vladimir Putin speaks at a congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, March 20, 2014. (AP Photo/ Sergei Chirikov, pool)President Putin about to hear from oligarch friends on costs of Crimea annex.

Anti-gay pastor Fred Phelps Sr. dies at 84

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 09:54 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 19, 2006 file photo, the Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. preaches at his Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan. Phelps, the founder of the Kansas church known for anti-gay protests and pickets at military funerals, died Thursday, March 20, 2014. He was 84. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., the fiery founder of a small Kansas church who led outrageous and hate-filled protests that blamed almost everything, including the deaths of AIDS victims and U.S. soldiers, on America's tolerance for gay people, has died. He was 84.

US general spared prison in sexual misconduct case

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 01:21 PM PDT

Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, who admitted to inappropriate relationships with three subordinates, arrives at the courthouse for sentencing at Fort Bragg, N.C., Thursday, March 20, 2014. Sinclair was reprimanded and docked $20,000 in pay Thursday, avoiding jail time in one of the U.S. military's most closely watched courts-martial.(AP Photo/Ellen Ozier)FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — The Army general at the center of a sexual misconduct case that put the military justice system itself on trial was spared prison Thursday and sentenced to a reprimand and a $20,000 fine — a punishment legal experts, a women's group and members of Congress decried as shockingly light.

2 Taliban attacks in Afghanistan show dangers loom

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 02:05 PM PDT

Afghan police officers arrive to the scene after a multi-pronged attack on a police station in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, Thursday, March 20, 2014. Taliban insurgents staged the attack, using a suicide bomber and gunmen to lay siege to the station, government officials said. Two remotely detonated bombs also exploded nearby. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Four gunmen with pistols stuffed into their socks attacked a luxury hotel frequented by foreigners in Afghanistan's capital Thursday, just hours after militants killed 11 people in an audacious assault on a police station in eastern Afghanistan.

Syrian troops capture famed Crusader castle

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 01:12 PM PDT

This Wednesday, March. 19, 2014 photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrians inspect the rubble of destroyed buildings following a Syrian government airstrike in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops captured a famed Crusader castle near the border with Lebanon on Thursday, running the two-starred government flag high above the stone ramparts of the 12th century fortress after days of intense clashes with rebel fighters.

Google enhances encryption technology for email

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 04:40 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Google has enhanced the encryption technology for its flagship email service in ways that will make it harder for the National Security Agency to intercept messages moving among the company's worldwide data centers.

Phelps tested free speech with anti-gay protests

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 11:57 AM PDT

This file photo shows Fred Phelps Sr. displays one of his many infamous protest signs. Phelps, the fiery founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, a small Kansas church, who drew international condemnation for outrageous and hate-filled protests that blamed almost everything, including the deaths of AIDS victims and U.S. soldiers, on America's tolerance for gay people, has died the family said Thursday, March 20, 2014. He was 84. (AP Photo/The Topeka Capital Journal)TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Fred Phelps did not care what you thought of his Westboro Baptist Church, nor did he care if you heard its message that society's tolerance for gay people is the root of all earthly evil.

NCAA upsets crush bracket hopes

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 04:09 PM PDT

Cincinnati's Justin Jackson (5) tries to stop a shot by Harvard's Steve Moundou-Missi in the first half during a second-round game of the NCAA college basketball tournament in Spokane, Wash., Thursday, March 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)SAN DIEGO (AP) — So you were confident in your bracket, hoping to win the office pool, maybe get lucky and take down that $1 billion prize Warren Buffett is offering for a perfect run of picks.

Harvard upsets 5th-seed Cincinnati 61-57

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 02:53 PM PDT

Harvard's Steve Moundou-Missi (14) dunks against Cincinnati in the second half during the second-round of the NCAA men's college basketball tournament in Spokane, Wash., Thursday, March 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Young Kwak)SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Those kids from Harvard are getting a passing grade when it comes to the first game of the NCAA tournament.

Echoes of Crimea keep Ukraine's east rumbling

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 03:25 PM PDT

Pro Russian activists block a road with car tires near the armory Ukrainian army to prevent the export of arms and ammunition in the village of Poraskoveyevka, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, March 20, 2014. The disheveled men barricading the muddy lane leading into a military base in this eastern Ukraine village say they're taking a stand to defend Russian-speakers. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)ARTEMIVSK, Ukraine (AP) — The disheveled men barricading the muddy lane leading into a military facility in this eastern Ukraine town say they are making a stand to defend the region's Russian-speaking majority.

Congress raises pressure on CIA in torture dispute

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 01:33 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Adding heat on the CIA, the Senate will investigate a computer network that contained a still-secret review of U.S. terror interrogations that led to dueling criminal referrals to the Justice Department and a dramatic collapse in relations between the nation's spy agencies and the lawmakers entrusted with their oversight.

10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 09:03 AM PDT

10ThingsToSee - Hotel security officers guard at an entrance door of a hotel room set aside for relatives or friends of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane, in Beijing, China Wednesday, March 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)Here's your look at highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.

Feds probe colorful financier's business dealings

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 02:00 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 10, 2011 file photo, Lynn Tilton is seen in Gorham, N.H. The Justice Department is building a corruption case against a flamboyant Wall Street financier who won millions of dollars in military contracts and then hired the Army officer who steered the money her way. Interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press portray entrepreneur Lynn Tilton and Col. Bert Vergez as being in unusually close contact for more than a year before Vergez retired from the Army in late 2012. Among the allegations is that Vergez provided Tilton with details about upcoming contracts to give her company, MD Helicopters of Mesa, Ariz., an advantage over the competition (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is investigating a flamboyant Wall Street financier who won millions of dollars in military contracts and then hired the Army officer who allegedly steered the money her way.

Health care law has uneven impact on companies

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 01:24 PM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013 file photo, Maygan Rollins, 22, a field organizer with Enroll America, holds a clipboard with pamphlets while canvassing at a bus stop in Miami. The Affordable Care Act, which aims to provide coverage for millions, is playing to decidedly mixed reviews in corporate America. Its impact on companies varies greatly, depending on factors such as a firm's number of employees and whether it already provides health insurance. Some businesses (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)Sarah Curtis-Fawley will have to offer insurance to her workers at Pacific Pie Co. because of the health care overhaul, and the estimated $100,000 cost means she may have to raise prices or postpone opening a third restaurant.

4 gunmen killed in attack on luxury Afghan hotel

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 12:48 PM PDT

Afghan police officers arrive to the scene after a multi-pronged attack on a police station in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, Thursday, March 20, 2014. Taliban insurgents staged the attack, using a suicide bomber and gunmen to lay siege to the station, government officials said. Two remotely detonated bombs also exploded nearby. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Four gunmen opened fire in a luxury hotel frequented by foreigners in the Afghan capital Thursday, prompting guests and staff members to take refuge in the basement as security forces killed the assailants in a three-hour standoff, officials said.

Putin’s retaliatory sanctions unite Washington

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 09:53 AM PDT

Russia's President Vladimir Putin looks on during his meeting with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in the Kremlin in Moscow on March 20, 2014.Russia's president probably didn't expect to spark a bipartisan love-in in Washington.

Police surround luxury Kabul hotel; 3 gunmen said dead

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 02:02 PM PDT

Armed Afghan police surrround the Serena hotel in central Kabul on October 28, 2009Four teenage Taliban gunmen opened fire inside a luxury hotel in Kabul on Thursday before being shot dead, officials said, adding that three people were wounded as guests rushed to reinforced safe rooms. Just weeks before Afghanistan's presidential election, the attackers hid small pistols in their socks and penetrated several layers of security at the Serena hotel, a prestigious venue favoured by foreign visitors to the Afghan capital. The Taliban, who have vowed a campaign of violence to disrupt the election on April 5, claimed responsibility for the attack. No guests were reported to have been injured as intense bursts of gunfire erupted inside the hotel and security forces rushed to the scene.

Everybody's got a theory, even weird ones, on missing MH370

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 07:41 AM PDT

ADCOLOR AwardsEveryone from Courtney Love to News Corp. executive chairman Rupert Murdoch seems eager to offer a theory about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Spring outlook: Bad news for a weather-weary nation

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 10:36 AM PDT

Donald Croteau works to clear nearly a foot of snow off his car on the first day of spring, Thursday, March 20, 2014 in North Woodstock, N.H. Much of the country remains in a deep freeze, delaying the risk of spring flooding into April in the upper Midwest to New England. While major flooding is not expected, experts say there's a moderate risk of flooding in the southern Great Lakes region because of above-average snowpack. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)LOS ANGELES (AP) — On the first day of spring, there's some bad news for the weather-weary nation.

Teen bypasses security, climbs atop of WTC, police say

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 07:12 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2013 file photo, 4 World Trade Center, center, and its neighbor, One World Trade Center, left, are aglow in New York. The 1,776-foot One World Trade Center is the marquee skyscraper at ground zero; but the first office tower to open there will be its shorter neighbor 4 World Trade Center on Wednesday, Nov. 13.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)NEW YORK (AP) — A 16-year-old boy bypassed security in the middle of the night and climbed a ladder to the spire of 1 World Trade Center, the nation's tallest building, where he apparently took pictures, authorities said Thursday.

Army general fined, reprimanded in sex case

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 10:33 AM PDT

Brig Gen. Jeff Sinclair arrives to the Fort Bragg courthouse, for his sentencing hearing, Wednesday, March 19, 2014, in Fort Bragg, N.C. Sinclair, who was accused of sexually assaulting a subordinate, plead guilty to lesser charges in a plea deal reached with government prosecutors. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, Andrew Craft) MANDATORY CREDITFORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — An Army general who carried on a three-year affair with a captain and had two other inappropriate relationships with subordinates was reprimanded and docked $20,000 in pay Thursday, avoiding prison in one of the military's most closely watched courts-martial.

Obama tells Iranians there is chance nuclear deal could happen

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 07:15 AM PDT

A picture taken on October 26, 2010 shows the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern IranPresident Barack Obama sent a video message to Iranians on Thursday to say there is a chance to reach a nuclear agreement with Iran if Tehran takes verifiable steps to assure the West its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only. This will be difficult," Obama said in a message to mark the Iranian holiday Nowruz. "But I'm NEWS1committed to diplomacy because I believe there is the basis for a practical solution." The United States and five other major powers are trying to reach a comprehensive deal to deny Iran a nuclear bomb capability after reaching a six-month temporary deal implemented on January 20. Under that deal, which can be renewed, Iran agreed to curb its nuclear program in return for gaining access to more than $4 billion in oil revenues that had been frozen by Western sanctions.

Obama expands U.S. sanctions on Russians

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 02:40 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama pauses while making a statement about Ukraine on the South Lawn of the White House in WashingtonList includes people close to Putin, bank linked to Moscow's move to annex Crimea.

Russian lawmakers approve annexation of Crimea

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 06:59 AM PDT

A man looks at the Ukrainian ship Slavutich blocked by two Russian ships at the harbour in SevastopolThe vote followed a brief discussion when members assailed Ukrainian authorities.

25 years later, Exxon Valdez spill effects linger

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 12:25 PM PDT

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, there was the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska, at the time the nation's largest oil spill.

Possible debris from missing jet spotted

Posted: 20 Mar 2014 10:28 AM PDT

Satellite imagery provided to AMSA of objects that may be possible debris of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370Two objects spotted by satellite in the Indian Ocean off Australia are being investigated.

Obama rules out 'military excursion' in Ukraine

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 05:42 PM PDT

President Barack Obama ruled out U.S. military involvement in Ukraine on Wednesday, emphasizing diplomacy in the U.S. standoff with Russia over Crimea. "We are not going to be getting into a military excursion in Ukraine," Obama told KNSD, San Diego's NBC affiliate, in an interview. "We need do not need to trigger an actual war with Russia," he told KSDK, a St. Louis station owned by Gannett in a separate interview. Obama, who imposed sanctions on 11 Russian and Ukrainian officials on Monday, said the United States will push diplomatic efforts to bring pressure on Russia to loosen its grip on the Crimea region of southern Ukraine.

US, Russia exchange threats at tense UN meeting

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 05:51 PM PDT

U.N. Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin arrives early and is seated alone as he waits for the start of a U.N. Security Council meeting on the crisis in the Ukraine, Wednesday March 19, 2014, at United Nations Headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia and the United States exchanged threats Wednesday at a tense U.N. Security Council meeting over the Ukraine crisis, with Moscow's envoy warning that the U.S. ambassador's "insults" are jeopardizing Moscow's willingness to cooperate with Washington on other diplomatic matters.

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