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• Angry police shun New York City mayor at funeral for slain officer
• Yes-We-Can president faces twilight of maybes
• School bans 'I Can't Breathe' T-shirts at tournament
• Syria 'ready to participate' in Moscow peace talks
• Former President Bush, 90, to spend weekend in Houston hospital
• Two snowmobilers die, one rescued after plunging into Montana lake
• Death penalty states unmoved by botched execution
• AP-Times Square poll: Most feeling good about 2015
• N. Korea blames U.S. for Internet outages, insults Obama

Angry police shun New York City mayor at funeral for slain officer Posted: 27 Dec 2014 02:32 PM PST Hundreds of cops outside services for Rafael Ramos take a dramatic stance.

Yes-We-Can president faces twilight of maybes Posted: 27 Dec 2014 01:24 PM PST It was supposed to be a joke. "Are you still president?" comedian Stephen Colbert asked Barack Obama earlier this month.

School bans 'I Can't Breathe' T-shirts at tournament Posted: 27 Dec 2014 04:48 PM PST A high school basketball tournament on the Northern California coast has become the latest flashpoint in the ongoing protests over police killings of unarmed black men after a school was disinvited because of concerns its players would wear T-shirts printed with the words "I Can't Breathe" during warmups.

Syria 'ready to participate' in Moscow peace talks Posted: 27 Dec 2014 09:21 AM PST DAMASCUS (AP) — Syrian state-run TV said Saturday that the government is prepared to take part in peace talks hosted by Russia next month, but the unnamed foreign ministry official it cited suggested the scope of the negotiations would be limited to "preliminary" talks meant to pave the way for a conference in Syria itself.

Former President Bush, 90, to spend weekend in Houston hospital Posted: 27 Dec 2014 04:04 PM PST (Reuters) - Doctors in Houston will keep former U.S. President George H.W. Bush in the hospital through the weekend since his bout with shortness of breath, though doctors "have begun discussing dates for his discharge," his office said Saturday. Bush, 90, was taken by ambulance to Houston Methodist Hospital on Tuesday night and admitted for observation after experiencing breathing difficulties earlier that evening, according to his spokesman, Jim McGrath. There has been no word on whether the nation's 41st president is suffering from any particular ailment. ...

Two snowmobilers die, one rescued after plunging into Montana lake Posted: 27 Dec 2014 10:37 AM PST (Reuters) - Two men died and a third was rescued from a Montana lake when their snowmobiles plunged into the ice-covered body of water as they attempted to cross to the other side, local officials said Saturday. A group of five male snowmobilers were traversing a frozen patch of Seeley Lake, in western Montana, on Friday evening, but only two of them made it across, the Missoula County Sheriff's Office said. One man was "was saved by a friend in his group that belly-crawled on ice to recover him from the water," the sheriff's office said. ...

Death penalty states unmoved by botched execution Posted: 27 Dec 2014 08:09 AM PST Oklahoma's last execution went so badly that the state tried to cancel it before it was over. With the inmate writhing while the lethal drugs seeped into his body, his executioners drew the viewing gallery curtains, concealing what the warden later described as "a bloody mess."

AP-Times Square poll: Most feeling good about 2015 Posted: 27 Dec 2014 12:26 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are closing out 2014 on an optimistic note, according to a new Associated Press-Times Square Alliance poll. Nearly half predict that 2015 will be a better year for them than 2014 was, while only 1 in 10 think it will be worse. There's room for improvement: Americans give the year gone by a resounding 'meh.'

N. Korea blames U.S. for Internet outages, insults Obama Posted: 26 Dec 2014 08:46 PM PST SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea called President Barack Obama "a monkey" and blamed the U.S. on Saturday for shutting down its Internet amid the hacking row over the comedy "The Interview."

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