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• Arkansas high court halts gay marriages
• Shut your 'deathtrap': GM probe reveals banned words list
• Destructive force of 'firenadoes' can even surprise experts
• India's historic election: Why Modi matters
• Top VA health official resigns under fire
• House GOP blocks vote on new immigration bill
• Switzerland, home to world's highest prices, mulls $25 minimum wage
• N.H. town urges top cop to quit over Obama racial slur
• Railroad's new owner hopes town where 47 died will OK oil trains
• Watergate figure who claimed he heard Nixon green-light break-in dies
• Town's top cop urged to quit over Obama slur
• Police officer, mail carrier team up to stop runaway pickup
• 10 dead, 70 wounded in Kenya bombings
• U.S. fines GM $35M in safety case
• Some evacuations lifted in San Diego fire area
• Police shoot armed man at Utah hospital
• 10 dead, 70 wounded in Kenya blasts
• Rare footage shows 'brave struggle' of FDR walking
• Pro-Russian insurgents retreat in Ukraine's east
• Turkish firm, government officials deny negligence in mining blast
• Rocket attack kills 13 in Syria's Aleppo
• Violence abates in Vietnam as U.S. warns China for 'provocation'
• Severe floods sweep Serbia, Bosnia
• Paris summit to try to rally region against Nigeria's Boko Haram
• Darden announces sale of Red Lobster for $2.1B
• India opposition wins election landslide
• Some California wildfire evacuees return home as weather shifts
• Reports: Sterling refusing to pay NBA fine
• Idaho just hosted the best political debate of the year
• Will Iran's missile program doom nuke talks?

Arkansas high court halts gay marriages Posted: 16 May 2014 03:59 PM PDT More than 450 same-sex licenses were issued since ruling against constitutional amendment.

Shut your 'deathtrap': GM probe reveals banned words list Posted: 16 May 2014 04:24 PM PDT DETROIT (AP) — The revelation of a list of banned words at General Motors is one of the odder twists in the company's ongoing recall of 2.6 million small cars for defective ignition switches.

Destructive force of 'firenadoes' can even surprise experts Posted: 16 May 2014 02:26 PM PDT What is a fire tornado, and how dangerous are they? In 1926, a series of fire tornadoes were spawned after lightning struck a Union Oil Co. tank farm near San Luis Obispo, California.

India's historic election: Why Modi matters Posted: 16 May 2014 09:31 AM PDT Blunt outsider who swept to victory inspires with single-minded focus on growth.

Top VA health official resigns under fire Posted: 16 May 2014 04:12 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The top official for veterans' health care resigned Friday amid a firestorm over delays in care and falsified records at veteran hospitals.

House GOP blocks vote on new immigration bill Posted: 16 May 2014 01:15 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaders intervened Friday to prevent a vote on U.S. immigration legislation, dealing a severe blow to election-year efforts to overhaul the widely denigrated system.

Switzerland, home to world's highest prices, mulls $25 minimum wage Posted: 16 May 2014 09:16 AM PDT GENEVA (AP) — In a nation of mostly haves and have-mores, Swiss voters head to the polls Sunday to decide on a union proposal that would create a new nationwide minimum wage at 22 Swiss francs ($24.70) an hour — the world's highest.

N.H. town urges top cop to quit over Obama racial slur Posted: 16 May 2014 01:32 PM PDT Political leaders in a New Hampshire town have officially joined residents in demanding the resignation of a police commissioner who uttered a racial slur about President Barack Obama.

Railroad's new owner hopes town where 47 died will OK oil trains Posted: 16 May 2014 01:48 PM PDT The company purchasing the assets of a railroad responsible for a fiery oil train derailment that claimed 47 lives in Quebec plans to resume oil shipments once track safety improvements are made, the firm's ...

Watergate figure who claimed he heard Nixon green-light break-in dies Posted: 16 May 2014 11:03 AM PDT COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Jeb Stuart Magruder, a Watergate conspirator who claimed in later years to have heard President Richard Nixon order the office break-in, has died. He was 79.

Town's top cop urged to quit over Obama slur Posted: 16 May 2014 09:51 AM PDT N.H. town board says it's powerless to remove commissioner who admitted to racist remark.

Police officer, mail carrier team up to stop runaway pickup Posted: 16 May 2014 08:30 AM PDT A man's attempt to fix his pickup truck by tinkering with the engine led to a wild scene in Chesnee, South Carolina.

10 dead, 70 wounded in Kenya bombings Posted: 16 May 2014 09:39 AM PDT Two bombs exploded in a market in Kenya's capital on Friday, killing 10 people and injuring 70 as hundreds of British tourists were evacuated from a coastal area where Islamic extremists have operated.

U.S. fines GM $35M in safety case Posted: 16 May 2014 09:31 AM PDT The U.S. government is fining General Motors $35 million for delays in recalling small cars with faulty ignition switches.

Some evacuations lifted in San Diego fire area Posted: 16 May 2014 11:13 AM PDT Some evacuation orders were lifted early Friday in an area near the fiercest of several wildfires in San Diego County, as crews building containment lines around the blazes hoped cooler temperatures will help them make further progress.

Police shoot armed man at Utah hospital Posted: 16 May 2014 09:28 AM PDT A man wielding a gun was shot by police inside a northern Utah hospital, officials said.

10 dead, 70 wounded in Kenya blasts Posted: 16 May 2014 07:42 AM PDT Two blasts hit Kenya's capital on Friday in the latest in a string of terror attacks.

Rare footage shows 'brave struggle' of FDR walking Posted: 16 May 2014 10:31 AM PDT Rare film footage featuring President Franklin D. Roosevelt walking to his seat at a baseball game helps dispel the myth that he tried to hide his disability and shows the courage it took to go about his daily life, experts said Friday.

Pro-Russian insurgents retreat in Ukraine's east Posted: 16 May 2014 09:51 AM PDT Local patrols by steelworkers have forced pro-Russia insurgents to retreat from the government buildings they had seized in a major city in eastern Ukraine, giving residents hope that a wave of anarchy was over.

Turkish firm, government officials deny negligence in mining blast Posted: 16 May 2014 03:52 PM PDT Four days after mining blast killed 284, Turkish officials deny allegations of oversight.

Rocket attack kills 13 in Syria's Aleppo Posted: 16 May 2014 09:33 AM PDT Rebels fired a rocket that struck a government-held neighborhood Friday in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, killing 13 people, Syria's state news agency reported.

Violence abates in Vietnam as U.S. warns China for 'provocation' Posted: 16 May 2014 10:45 AM PDT By Nguyen Phuong Linh and Matt Spetalnick HANOI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Anti-China violence subsided in Vietnam on Friday after the prime minister called for calm, but the United States said China's "provocative" actions in maritime disputes were dangerous and had to stop. Thousands of people attacked businesses and factories in Vietnam's industrial parks earlier in the week, targeting Chinese workers and Chinese-owned businesses after Beijing parked an oil rig in a part of the South China Sea claimed by Hanoi. The riots risk derailing a major driver of the country's economic growth - industrial parks account for more than 30 percent of Vietnam's exports and have attracted around $110 billion in foreign direct investment.

Severe floods sweep Serbia, Bosnia Posted: 16 May 2014 05:41 AM PDT Boats sailed through the streets of a Serbian town on Friday on a mission to rescue people trapped by rising waters as the worst floods ever recorded swept Serbia and Bosnia. Some residents of Obrenovac, 30 km (20 miles) southwest of the capital Belgrade, were stranded on the roofs of their homes, calling for help. Thousands have been evacuated from homes in central and western areas of Serbia. Another 65,000 were without electricity in neighboring Bosnia.

Paris summit to try to rally region against Nigeria's Boko Haram Posted: 16 May 2014 05:44 AM PDT By John Irish and Bate Felix PARIS/ABUJA (Reuters) - West African leaders meet in Paris on Saturday to try to improve cooperation in their fight against the Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which has kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls and threatens to destabilize the wider region. Outrage over the kidnapping has already prompted Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, criticized at home for his government's slow response, to accept U.S., British and French intelligence help in the hunt for the girls. Last week he asked France, itself a target of Islamist militants for its military intervention against Islamist rebels in Mali, to arrange a summit in Paris with Nigeria's neighbors Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Benin, and Western officials. French diplomats ruled out any Western military operation but said they expected a regional plan to take shape for countering Boko Haram, which has killed more than 3,000 people in a five-year campaign to establish an Islamic state in mostly Muslim northeast Nigeria.

Darden announces sale of Red Lobster for $2.1B Posted: 16 May 2014 06:01 AM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Darden Restaurants says it will sell its Red Lobster chain to investment firm Golden Gate Capital in a $2.1 billion cash deal.

India opposition wins election landslide Posted: 16 May 2014 03:40 AM PDT Opposition leader Narendra Modi's party routs the ruling Congress party, early results show.

Some California wildfire evacuees return home as weather shifts Posted: 16 May 2014 04:18 PM PDT By Marty Graham SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Several thousand suburban San Diego residents forced to flee a wildfire threatening their community were allowed to return home on Friday as firefighters gained ground against a swarm of blazes burning in and around California's second-largest city. The conflagrations, which marked an intense, early start to California's wildfire season, have scorched more than 30 square miles or nearly 20,000 acres of drought-parched brush this week across San Diego County, leaving dozens of homes damaged or destroyed. By morning, fire crews had managed to carve containment lines around 10 percent of the fiercest of the blazes, which has blackened some 3,000 acres since erupting on Wednesday near the town of San Marcos, north of San Diego, fire officials said.

Reports: Sterling refusing to pay NBA fine Posted: A lawyer for the Clippers owner has written a letter to the league threatening a lawsuit.

Idaho just hosted the best political debate of the year Posted: 15 May 2014 02:41 PM PDT Idaho gubernatorial candidates debated Wednesday and it was very entertaining.

Will Iran's missile program doom nuke talks? Posted: 15 May 2014 03:36 PM PDT Confidential report sees no slowdown on expansion of ballistic missile program.

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