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NBA investigating alleged recording of L.A. Clippers owner

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 03:37 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Friday, Oct. 25, 2013, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, right, and V. Stiviano, left, watch the Clippers play the Sacramento Kings during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles. The NBA is investigating a report of an audio recording in which a man purported to be Sterling makes racist remarks while speaking to Stiviano. NBA spokesman Mike Bass said in a statement Saturday, April 26, 2014, that the league is in the process of authenticating the validity of the recording posted on TMZ's website. Bass called the comments "disturbing and offensive." (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)A man identified as Donald Sterling tells his girlfriend not to bring blacks 'to my games.'


Study: Nearly half of all homeless men suffered brain injury

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 01:36 PM PDT

Becoming Invisible and HomelessThe study's results align with recent research on brain injuries and prison inmates


Sanctions loom as observers held in east Ukraine

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 02:40 PM PDT

Sanctions loom as observers held in east UkraineAs Western governments vowed to impose more sanctions against Russia and its supporters in eastern Ukraine, a group of foreign military observers remained in captivity Saturday accused of being NATO spies ...


Sanctions loom as observers held in east Ukraine

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 02:40 PM PDT

Ukrainian government troops atop an armored personal carrier travel on a country road outside the town of Svyitohirsk near Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, April 26, 2014. Ukrainian authorities are undertaking a security operation to liberate the nearby city of Slovyansk, which is currently controlled by an armed pro-Russian insurgency. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — As Western governments vowed to impose more sanctions against Russia and its supporters in eastern Ukraine, a group of foreign military observers remained in captivity Saturday accused of being NATO spies by a pro-Russian insurgency.


5 NATO troops killed in Afghan helicopter crash

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 04:16 PM PDT

An Afghan policeman prevents journalists from approaching Cure International Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, April 24, 2014. The U.S. embassy in Afghanistan says three American doctors have been killed at by an Afghan security guard who opened fire at a hospital in Kabul. The shooting at Cure International Hospital in western Kabul was the latest attack on foreign civilians in the Afghan capital this year. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A British helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing five NATO troops in the single deadliest day this year for foreign forces as they prepare to withdraw from the country, officials said.


In Asia, Obama carefully calibrates China message

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 09:02 AM PDT

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — President Barack Obama is hopscotching through China's neighborhood with a carefully calibrated message for Beijing, trying both to counter and court.

Benedict to join in double sainthood ceremony

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 02:23 PM PDT

Priests sing and dance in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, April 26, 2014. Pilgrims and faithful are gathering in Rome to attend Sunday's ceremony at the Vatican where Pope Francis will elevate in a solemn ceremony John XXIII and John Paul II to sainthood. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Retired pontiff Benedict XVI will help Pope Francis celebrate the sainthood ceremony Sunday for John Paul II and John XXIII, setting the stage for an unprecedented occurrence of two living popes canonizing two of their predecessors. About 1 million pilgrims are expected at the event and many were flooding into Rome on Saturday.


Afghan election appears headed for June runoff

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 10:29 AM PDT

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's presidential elections are headed for a runoff after full preliminary results released Saturday showed the front-runners failed to win to a majority and avoid a second round of voting.

School stabbing suspect is under psych evaluation

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 04:09 PM PDT

This undated image of Maren Sanchez provided by her family is from Maren Sanchez's Facebook page. A 16-year-old teenager is accused of fatally stabbing 16-year-old Maren Sanchez Friday, April 25, 2014 in the hallway of Jonathan Law High School in Milford. (AP Photo/The Sanchez famly)HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A teenager charged with stabbing a fellow high school student to death on the day of their junior prom is being held in a hospital under psychiatric evaluation where he will likely remain for two weeks, one of his attorneys said Saturday.


Diggers find Atari's E.T. games in landfill

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 01:16 PM PDT

Film Director Zak Penn shows a box of a decades-old Atari 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' game found in a dumpsite in Alamogordo, N.M., Saturday, April 26, 2014. Producers of a documentary dug in a southeastern New Mexico landfill in search of millions of cartridges of the game that has been called the worst game in the history of video gaming and were buried there in 1983. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Llorca)ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — A documentary film production company has found buried in a New Mexico landfill hundreds of the Atari "E.T." game cartridges that some call the worst video game ever made.


Carter beats buzzer, sends Mavs past Spurs 109-108

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 04:45 PM PDT

Dallas Mavericks guard Monta Ellis (11) shoots over San Antonio Spurs forward Tim Duncan (21) during the first half in Game 3 in the first round of the NBA basketball playoffs in Dallas, Saturday, April 26, 2014. (AP Photo/LM Otero)DALLAS (AP) — Vince Carter hit a double-pump 3-pointer at the buzzer to give the Dallas Mavericks a 109-108 victory in Game 3 and a first-round series lead over the top-seeded San Antonio Spurs on Saturday.


Trauma warnings move from Internet to Ivory Tower

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 08:14 AM PDT

Filmmaker and writer Aishah Shahidah Simmons, who teaches in the women's and LGBT studies program at Temple University, poses for a photograph Friday, April 25, 2014, in Philadelphia. Students on college campuses across the country are increasingly asking their professors to provide "trigger warnings" for classes that cover content that might be upsetting to individuals who have been sexually assaulted, touched by suicide, survived war or experienced other traumatic situations. Such warnings, long a feature of the blogosphere, are now cropping up on course syllabi or before lectures. Simmons is a rape and incest survivor who is SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — It seemed like a modest proposal, or so thought Bailey Loverin, a literature major at the University of California, Santa Barbara: What if professors were prodded to give students a written or oral heads-up before covering graphic material that could cause flashbacks in those who had been sexually assaulted, survived war or suffered other traumas?


U.S. concerned by 'provocative' Russian troop movements

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 01:09 PM PDT

US Secretary of State John Kerry at the State Department in Washington, DC, on April 24, 2014US Secretary of State John Kerry expressed concern to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Saturday about "provocative" Russian troop movements along Ukraine's border, a US official said. In a morning call with his counterpart, Kerry also urged full Moscow support for efforts to free a mission from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe held hostage by pro-Moscow militants in the flashpoint eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk. The top US diplomat "expressed continued concern that Russia's provocative troop movements on Ukraine's border, its support for separatists and its inflammatory rhetoric are undermining stability, security and unity in Ukraine," the senior State Department official said.


Ukraine separatists open to swap for OSCE release

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 04:25 AM PDT

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — A leader for pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine said Saturday that a group of foreign military observers who have been detained as suspected "NATO spies" could be released in exchange for jailed pro-Russian activists.

G-7 nations agree to more sanctions on Russia

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 12:12 AM PDT

Pro Russian armed militants inspect a truck near Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Friday, April 25, 2014. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused the West of plotting to control Ukraine and said the pro-Russian insurgents in the southeast would lay down their arms only if the Ukrainian government clears out the Maidan protest camp in the capital Kiev. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)The penalties are expected to target wealthy individuals close to Vladimir Putin.


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