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Police: Fire at Florida home was arson; 4 dead

Posted: 07 May 2014 04:53 PM PDT

Handout photo of a house owned by former tennis pro James Blake, after a fire in Tampa, Florida'Unusual' scene found at ex-tennis star's home where family of four renters perished.

Marathon suspect's lawyers want bedside interrogation tossed

Posted: 07 May 2014 04:48 PM PDT

FILE - This file photo released Friday, April 19, 2013 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. In court documents filed Monday, March 17, 2014, prosecutors said Tsarnaev should not be allowed to see autopsy photos that will not be used at his trial. They said allowing the man accused of killing them to see photos of their mutilated bodies "would violate the victims' rights to dignity and privacy and subject them to needless harm and suffering." (AP Photo/Federal Bureau of Investigation, File)BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev argued Wednesday that statements he made to authorities after he was arrested should be thrown out because he was questioned for 36 hours in a hospital room without being told his rights and while suffering from gunshot wounds.

Accountant charged with stealing $1M from Kentucky abbey

Posted: 07 May 2014 04:40 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 3, 1998 file photo, Trappist monks observe their first group prayer of the day called Vigils at 3:15 a.m. in Trappist, Ky. Within the walls of the Chapel at the Abbey of Gethsemani the monks read scripture and chant as they begin their day. Police said John Hutchins, an accountant, began diverting money from an account at the Abbey of Gethsemani near Bardstown in 2008. Hutchins and his wife, Carrie Hutchins, were indicted by a grand jury, Wednesday, May 7, 2014, on multiple counts of felony theft over and under $10,000 and unlawful access to a computer, said Nelson County Sheriff's Detective Jason Allison. He said they were also charged with complicity to commit theft, which "means it was two people working together." (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police say an ex-employee at a central Kentucky abbey run by an order of Catholic monks has been indicted on charges that he stole more than $1 million from the institution.

Pussy Riot’s lost weekend in Washington

Posted: 07 May 2014 12:36 PM PDT

Pussy RiotRussian activists were slow to step into spotlight that eagerly awaited their presence.

Scientists find the Black Death had a silver lining

Posted: 07 May 2014 02:02 PM PDT

bubonic plagueThe Black Death, a plague that first devastated Europe in the 1300s, had a silver lining. An analysis of bones in London cemeteries from before and after the plague reveals that people had a lower risk of dying at any age after the first plague outbreak compared with before. In the centuries before the Black Death, about 10 percent of people lived past age 70, said study researcher Sharon DeWitte, a biological anthropologist at the University of South Carolina. \"It is definitely a signal of something very important happening with survivorship,\" DeWitte told Live Science.

Man charged in marathon hoax makes tearful court appearance

Posted: 07 May 2014 01:34 PM PDT

Kevin Edson cries during a hearing as he stands beside his attorney, Shannon Lopez, left, in Municipal Court Wednesday, May 7, 2014 in Boston. Edson, accused of a bomb hoax near the Boston Marathon finish line on the anniversary of the 2013 bombing anniversary, was found mentally competent for trial after being evaluated at a state hospital following his April 15 arrest. (AP Photo/Boston Herald, John Wilcox, Pool)BOSTON (AP) — With his friends and family in tears in court Wednesday, the man charged with placing a backpack with a rice cooker near the Boston Marathon finish line on the one-year anniversary of the bombing was found mentally competent to stand trial.

Michael Jordan says he was 'against all white people' as a teen

Posted: 07 May 2014 11:55 AM PDT

Jordan walks along the 11th fairway during the morning foursomes round at the 39th Ryder Cup matches at the Medinah Country ClubBasketball Hall of Famer Michael Jordan says in a new book that he considered himself a racist growing up. In a new book entitled "Michael Jordan: The Life" by author Roland Lazenby, the five-time National Basketball Association most valuable player and current owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, says that as a teenager he was "against all white people." Excerpts of the book published on Wednesday by the New York Post include Jordan describing how growing up in North Carolina during the 1970s, where he said the Klu Klux Klan thrived, helped shaped his views on racism. In one instance, Jordan recalls a school girl calling him the n-word. Jordan, who went on to win six NBA titles with the Chicago Bulls, recently spoke out against racist remarks by Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, who has since been banned for life by the NBA and could be forced to sell the team.

Fla. police: Deadly mansion fire was intentional

Posted: 07 May 2014 02:58 PM PDT

Handout photo of a house owned by former tennis pro James Blake, after a fire in Tampa, Florida'Unusual' scene found at ex-tennis star's home where family of four renters perished.

Feds issue emergency order on crude oil trains

Posted: 07 May 2014 03:26 PM PDT

In this image made from a video provided by Darrin Rademacher, a fireball goes up at the site of an oil train derailment Monday, Dec 30, 2013, in Casselton, N.D. The train carrying crude oil derailed near Casselton Monday afternoon. Several explosions were reported as some cars on the mile-long train caught fire. (AP Photo/Darrin Rademacher)Move follows warning of 'higher body count' if NTSB waits on new regulations.

Over 80 percent of Obamacare premiums paid, insurers say

Posted: 07 May 2014 02:14 PM PDT

Julian Gomez explains Obamacare to people at a health insurance enrolment event in CommerceWASHINGTON (AP) — Top health insurance companies told members of Congress Wednesday that more than 80 percent of people who've signed up under the president's new health care law have gone on to pay their premiums — a necessary step for the enrollment figures touted by the Obama administration to hold up.

Nintendo rejects campaign to add gay relationships to game

Posted: 07 May 2014 12:55 PM PDT

This photo provided by Nintendo shows a screenshot from the video game, "Tomodachi Life." The gaming company said Tuesday, May 6, 2014, it wouldn't bow to pressure to allow players to engage in romantic entanglements with characters of the same sex in the English version of "Tomodachi Life" following a social media campaign launched last month seeking virtual equality for the game's characters, which are modeled after real people. (AP Photo/Nintendo)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nintendo isn't allowing gamers to play as gay in an upcoming life simulator game.

U.S. military: No sign of Russian pullback

Posted: 07 May 2014 01:28 PM PDT

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, centre, talks with Ukrainian soldiers at Slovyansk, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Russian President Putin on Wednesday announced that Russia has pulled back its troops from the Ukrainian border, and called on Ukraine's military to halt operations against pro-Russia activists who have seized government buildings and police stations in cities in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)Pentagon spokesman says "we would know" if Putin's latest claims were true.

3 dead in fire at ex-tennis star's Fla. home

Posted: 07 May 2014 08:48 AM PDT

In this photo provided by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, flames destroy a home in a gated community Wednesday May 7, 2014 in Tampa, Fla. Officials have confirmed that three bodies have been found in the home. (AP Photo/Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office)Officials: James Blake owns the Tampa Bay-area house, but wasn't living there at the time

125 killed in Islamist attack on Nigerian border town

Posted: 07 May 2014 09:28 AM PDT

The latest big Islamist attack in Nigeria has killed least 125 people, police said on Wednesday after gunmen rampaged through a town in the northeast, near the Cameroon border. Scores of gunmen whom police suspect were from Boko Haram, the al Qaeda-linked group that seized the girls in the same region last week, surrounded Gamburu before dawn on Monday.

Obama's top advisers set to spill insider details

Posted: 07 May 2014 08:26 AM PDT

Obama's top advisers set to spill insider detailsOver the next month, two of President Barack Obama's closest first-term advisers will spill insider details on the administration's handling of the early days of the Great Recession, the White House's ...

Federal raids target synthetic drugs, sellers across U.S.

Posted: 07 May 2014 10:57 AM PDT

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officers display cocaine seized in a routine patrol during a media presentation in San JuanThe DEA on Wednesday broadened its national crackdown on synthetic drug manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers as federal agents served hundreds of search and arrest warrants in at least 25 states.

Former mortician set free in Texas murder of rich widow

Posted: 07 May 2014 03:25 PM PDT

Bernie Tiede smiles after a court hearing granting his releaseA former mortician whose killing of a rich widow shook an East Texas town and later inspired a movie is a free man after a judge agreed to reduce his life sentence and release him on bond.

Beverly Hills condemns Brunei, hotel boycott grows

Posted: 07 May 2014 05:23 AM PDT

the Beverly Hills HotelBeverly Hills officials have condemned Brunei's strict new Islamic criminal laws and want its government to separate itself from the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Court forces out Thai leader, part of her Cabinet

Posted: 07 May 2014 03:29 AM PDT

Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra gives a traditional greeting as she arrives at the Constitutional Court in BangkokBANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's prime minister was ordered by a court to step down Wednesday in a divisive ruling that handed a victory to anti-government protesters who have staged six months of street protests — but does little to resolve the country's political crisis.

GOP establishment favorite wins in N.C.

Posted: 06 May 2014 08:09 PM PDT

Thom Tillis greets supporters at a election night rally in Charlotte, N.C., after winning the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Tillis, the Republican establishment's favored son in North Carolina, won the state's Senate nomination by running as a proud conservative who's not terribly different from his tea party and Christian-right opponents. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)Thom Tillis fought off tea party and Christian conservative rivals in the Senate primary.

South Africans vote in first 'Born Free' election

Posted: 07 May 2014 09:49 AM PDT

By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africans voted in the first "Born Free" election on Wednesday, with the image of the ruling African National Congress as conqueror of apartheid likely to appeal even to those with no memory of white-minority rule. Voters young and old wrapped up against the early winter chill to stand in long lines across the country, evoking memories of the huge queues that snaked through streets and fields for South Africa's historic all-race elections in 1994. Chief election commissioner Pansy Tlakula said turnout was "extremely high" but voting was proceeding smoothly at all the 22,263 polling stations, which were due to close at 1900 GMT (1500 ET). Polls put ANC support near 65 percent, only a shade lower than the 65.9 percent it won in the 2009 election that brought President Jacob Zuma to power.

Ex-mortician who killed rich Texas widow gets early release

Posted: 06 May 2014 06:41 PM PDT

Bernie Tiede smiles after a court hearing granting his releaseCARTHAGE, Texas (AP) — A former mortician whose killing of a rich widow shook an East Texas town and later inspired a movie was released on bond Tuesday after the district attorney who prosecuted him agreed to let him out of a life sentence.

Islamic militant attack in Nigeria kills hundreds

Posted: 07 May 2014 03:17 PM PDT

People attend a demonstration calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped school girls from the Chibok government secondary school, outside the defense headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria, Tuesday May 6, 2014. Their plight — and the failure of the Nigerian military to find them — has drawn international attention to an escalating Islamic extremist insurrection that has killed more than 1,500 so far this year. Boko Haram, the name means "Western education is sinful," has claimed responsibility for the mass kidnapping and threatened to sell the girls. The claim was made in a video seen Monday. The British and U.S. governments have expressed concern over the fate of the missing students, and protests have erupted in major Nigerian cities and in New York. (AP Photo/Gbenga Olamikan)LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic militants who have triggered international outrage over the kidnapping of more than 270 Nigerian schoolgirls opened fire on a busy marketplace, killing hundreds of people in a new spasm of violence in the country's northeast.

Abduction vaults Boko Haram leader into headlines

Posted: 07 May 2014 12:09 PM PDT

FILE - In this file image made from video received by The Associated Press on Monday, May 5, 2014, Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Nigeria's Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, speaks in a video in which his group claimed responsibility for the April 15 mass abduction of nearly 300 teenage schoolgirls in northeast Nigeria. Even before the kidnapping, the U.S. government was offering up to a $7 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Shekau, whom the U.S. has labeled a specially designated global terrorist. (AP Photo/File)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tugging on his winter hat, the Islamic militant leader declared with a sneer: "I will sell women."

Syria rebels surrender strongholds in Homs

Posted: 07 May 2014 12:15 PM PDT

BEIRUT (AP) — Carrying their rifles and small bags of belongings, hundreds of exhausted Syrian rebels withdrew Wednesday from their last remaining strongholds in the heart of Homs, surrendering to President Bashar Assad a bloodstained city that was once the center of the revolt against him.

Obama climate rules can't wait 'til after election

Posted: 07 May 2014 02:18 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 24, 2013, file photo, the Capitol Dome is seen behind the Capitol Power Plant in Washington. Democrats running for election in key states are worried about the political fallout from unprecedented greenhouse-gas limits soon to be announced by fellow Democrat Barack Obama's administration. They wish Obama would wait until after November's elections, but if he doesn't start now the rules won't be in place by the time he leaves office. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Within weeks, President Barack Obama's administration is set to unveil unprecedented emissions limits on power plants across the U.S., much to the dismay of many Democratic candidates who are running for election in energy-producing states. Fearful of a political backlash, they wish their fellow Democrat in the White House would hold off until after the voting.

No gains for 12th-graders on national exam

Posted: 07 May 2014 11:24 AM PDT

John Easton, Director of the Institute of Education Sciences and Acting Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, speaks during a program at Dunbar High School, Wednesday, May 7, 2014, in Washington, to announce results of The Nation's Report Card: 2013 Mathematics and Reading, Grade 12, which details 12th graders' performance in mathematics and reading nationwide and in 13 pilot states. In an abysmal showing, only about one-quarter of U.S. high school seniors performed solidly in math in a major assessment known as the nation's report card, reinforcing concerns that large numbers of students are unprepared for either college or the workplace. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)WASHINGTON (AP) — Handing out dismal grades, the Nation's Report Card says America's high school seniors lack critical math and reading skills for an increasingly competitive global economy.

House GOP moves toward establishing Benghazi probe

Posted: 07 May 2014 02:51 PM PDT

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, and GOP leaders talk to reporters following a Republican strategy meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Boehner has created a special select committee investigating the attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the ambassador and three other Americans. Benghazi resonates with Republicans and remains a rallying cry with conservatives whose votes are crucial to the GOP in November's historically low-turnout midterm elections. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Wednesday moved toward an election-year special investigation of the deadly attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Libya, brushing aside Democratic concerns over the panel's scope and composition. The Obama administration, meanwhile, accused Republicans of "political motivation" after they issued a fundraising email linked to the Benghazi probe.

Windfall means 'moment of reckoning' for Yahoo CEO

Posted: 07 May 2014 03:16 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 21, 2012 file photo, men walk past the corporate logo at the headquarters compound of Alibaba Group in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province. Alibaba Group is aiming to raise $1 billion in a long-awaited IPO likely to have ripple effects across the Internet. The Tuesday, May 6, 2014 filing sets the stage for the technology industry's biggest initial public offering since short messaging service Twitter and its early investors collected $1.8 billion in its stock market debut last fall. (AP Photo/File) CHINA OUTSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer faces a $10 billion decision in a few months.

NFL Draft 2014: Prospects ready to end long wait

Posted: 07 May 2014 04:38 PM PDT

South Carolina's Jadeveon Clowney smiles during an NFL football event in New York, Wednesday, May 7, 2014. The event was to promote Play 60, an NFL program which encourages kids to be active for a healthy life. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)NEW YORK (AP) — Jadeveon Clowney just wants it to be over already.

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