| CIA-Senate dispute: Who's spying on whom? Posted: 11 Mar 2014 01:42 PM PDT  Complex story starts with waterboarding and ends in a secret CIA facility in northern Virginia.
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| Malaysian relative 'praying for divine intervention' Posted: 11 Mar 2014 04:44 PM PDT  Two suspect men who flew on a missing Malaysian airliner appear to have been Iranian illegal immigrants, officials said Tuesday, lessening fears of terrorism but shedding no light on the fate of the plane's 239 passengers and crew. On the fourth day of a multinational search at sea and on land, relatives desperate for news of loved ones aboard Malaysia Airlines MH370 said their hopes for a miracle were ebbing away. Authorities have doubled the search radius to 100 nautical miles (equivalent to 185 kilometres) around the point where the Boeing 777 disappeared from radar over the South China Sea early Saturday, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The 34-year-old son of Malaysian security guard Subramaniam Gurusamy was on the flight to do business in Beijing for an oil company.
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| Anti-fracking activist barred from visiting friends, grocery store Posted: 11 Mar 2014 02:32 PM PDT  By David DeKok HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - A court injunction obtained by Texas-based Cabot Oil & Gas is preventing Pennsylvania resident Vera Scroggins from going to her local grocery store, her friends' homes, schools, or even the hospital. That's because those properties sit atop the more than 200,000 acres in Susquehanna County that the energy producer owns and leases for gas extraction - land on which Scroggins, a determined anti-fracking activist, is not allowed to tread. A judge in October granted Cabot's request to bar Scroggins from the land - more than 40 percent of Susquehanna County, where she lives - after her repeated trespassing, court documents show. Her offending actions included giving a tour last year to anti-drilling celebrities Susan Sarandon, Yoko Ono, and Sean Lennon, the documents said.
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| $600K taken from safe at Osteen's Houston megachurch Posted: 11 Mar 2014 02:21 PM PDT  HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities are investigating after $600,000 in checks and cash was stolen from a safe at Pastor Joel Osteen's Houston megachurch, which has one of the largest congregations in the country.
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| Interpol tests giving airlines access to its passports database Posted: 11 Mar 2014 11:52 AM PDT  LYON, France (AP) — Interpol is allowing two airlines to check passenger passports against its vast database of lost and stolen travel documents — in a test project aimed to let private sector companies help authorities crack down on criminals who travel with fake documents, the police organization's leader said Tuesday.
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| NSA nominee defends bulk data collection Posted: 11 Mar 2014 01:19 PM PDT  Obama's pick to head agency also says he's open to third-party storage of phone records.
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| Is Japan building an irresistible terror target? Posted: 11 Mar 2014 09:08 AM PDT  Center for Public Integrity investigates Japan's new Rokkasho plutonium production plant.
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| CIA chief denies agency hacked Senate staff computers Posted: 11 Mar 2014 01:00 PM PDT  A public row erupted Tuesday between the CIA and the US lawmakers who oversee its intelligence work, with the agency's director angrily denying claims it spied on Senate staff. Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein launched an attack on the Central Intelligence Agency, accusing it of searching computers used by staffers investigating CIA interrogation methods. "I have grave concerns that the CIA's search may well have violated the separation of powers principles embodied in the United States Constitution," Feinstein declared on the Senate floor. She alleged that the CIA may have violated federal law as well as an executive order that bars it from domestic spying, but the agency's director John Brennan quickly denied the allegations.
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| Obama sits 'Between Two Ferns' with Zach Galifianakis Posted: 11 Mar 2014 07:29 AM PDT  In a bid to get young people to sign up for health care, President Barack Obama became the first sitting president in U.S. history to appear on "Between Two Ferns," Funny or Die's intentionally awkward interview show hosted by comedian Zach Galifianakis.
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| Fukushima children face invisible enemy Posted: 11 Mar 2014 07:36 AM PDT  Fear of radiation has kept kids indoors for much of their short lives.
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| Ex-Christie aides want judge revoke subpoenas Posted: 11 Mar 2014 08:47 AM PDT  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Lawyers for two key figures in a political payback scandal ensnaring Gov. Chris Christie's administration are trying to persuade a judge not to force them to turn over text messages and other private communications to New Jersey legislators investigating the matter.
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| Missing jet traced hundreds of miles off-course Posted: 11 Mar 2014 10:35 AM PDT  Radar evidence shows the Boeing 777 was last detected off Malaysia's west coast.
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| Feinstein accuses CIA of improperly searching Senate computers Posted: 11 Mar 2014 10:05 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee accused the CIA Tuesday of criminal activity in improperly searching a computer network set up for lawmakers investigating allegations that the agency used torture in terror investigations during the Bush administration.
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| Malaysia military tracks plane to west coast Posted: 11 Mar 2014 02:40 PM PDT  Radar indicates the airliner was far from where it last made contact.
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| Japan marks third anniversary of quake-tsunami disaster Posted: 11 Mar 2014 03:32 AM PDT  Namie (Japan) (AFP) - Japan observed a moment of silence Tuesday to mark the third anniversary of the quake-tsunami disaster which swept away thousands of victims, destroyed coastal communities, and sparked the nuclear emergency that forced a re-think on atomic power. Survivors bowed deeply and joined hands at remembrance ceremonies in towns and cities around the disaster zone and in Tokyo, where Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko led tributes to those who died in Japan's worst peace-time disaster. Giant waves also crashed into the Fukushima nuclear plant, sparking reactor meltdowns and explosions, and setting off the worst atomic crisis in a generation. As night fell, an event in a Fukushima park saw about 2,000 lit candles arranged to read "Fukushima 3/11".
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| Army general's defense seeks new plea deal in sex case Posted: 11 Mar 2014 11:09 AM PDT  FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — A military judge on Tuesday dismissed the jury in the midst of an Army general's court martial on sexual assault charges to give prosecutors and defense lawyers time to hammer out a plea deal in the closely watched case.
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| Russia preparing counterproposals over Ukraine Posted: 10 Mar 2014 07:49 PM PDT  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia said Monday it is drafting counterproposals to a U.S. plan for a negotiated solution to the Ukraine crisis, denouncing the new Western-backed government as an unacceptable "fait accompli" and claiming that Russian-leaning parts of the country have been plunged into lawlessness.
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| 'Fatal Vision' author Joe McGinniss dies at age 71 Posted: 11 Mar 2014 08:01 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Joe McGinniss wasn't one to let a story tell itself.
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| Crimea's parliament pushes for independence Posted: 11 Mar 2014 01:17 PM PDT  SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — As the campaign increased for tension-filled Crimea to split off from Ukraine in a weekend referendum and join Russia, the region's parliament said Tuesday that if voters approve the move it would first declare itself an independent state, a maneuver that could de-escalate the standoff between Moscow and the West.
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| Judge's decision is latest twist in Army sex case Posted: 11 Mar 2014 02:34 PM PDT FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — The trial of an Army general accused of sexual assault moved into uncharted legal territory Tuesday when the judge dismissed the jury to allow the defense time to hammer out a new plea deal with the military. |
| Friend: Pistorius fired guns in public Posted: 11 Mar 2014 01:56 PM PDT  PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius fired guns in public in the months before he killed his girlfriend — once out of a car sunroof on a road and once in a crowded restaurant, a onetime friend said at the athlete's murder trial Tuesday, drawing an aggressive effort from the chief defense lawyer to pick holes in his testimony.
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| UN: 5.5 million Syrian children affected by war Posted: 11 Mar 2014 02:49 PM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — The number of Syrian children affected by the civil war in their homeland has doubled in the past year to at least 5.5 million — more than half the country's children — with devastating effects on the health, education and psychological well-being of an entire generation, the United Nations children's agency said Tuesday.
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| Obama pitches his health care plan on Funny or Die Posted: 11 Mar 2014 04:12 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Zach Galifianakis brought the ferns, and President Barack Obama opened a new avenue of presidential communication.
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| Ware, Peppers released as NFL free agency opens Posted: 11 Mar 2014 04:53 PM PDT  A couple of accomplished NFL pass rushers suddenly became available when DeMarcus Ware and Julius Peppers were released to create room under the salary cap in two of the biggest moves at Tuesday's start of the free-agency signing period.
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| Peverley hospitalized, teammates try to regroup Posted: 11 Mar 2014 03:51 PM PDT  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Stars forward Rich Peverley remained hospitalized Tuesday in Dallas, undergoing heart tests after collapsing on the bench during a game that was postponed.
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| Republican takes lead in Fla. congressional race Posted: 11 Mar 2014 04:39 PM PDT  CLEARWATER BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Republican David Jolly has taken the lead in the Florida congressional race to replace the late Republican Rep. Bill Young.
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| Ware's Dallas exit biggest early free agency move Posted: 11 Mar 2014 04:35 PM PDT The biggest move at Tuesday's start of the NFL free-agency signing period was a departure: Franchise sack leader DeMarcus Ware was released by the Dallas Cowboys to create room under the salary cap. |
| Dallas Seavey wins his second Iditarod dog race Posted: 11 Mar 2014 11:56 AM PDT  NOME, Alaska (AP) — Two hours, 38 minutes.
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| Democrat takes lead in Fla. congressional race Posted: 11 Mar 2014 04:17 PM PDT LARGO, Fla. (AP) — Democrat Alex Sink has taken an early lead in the Florida congressional race to replace the late Republican Rep. Bill Young. |
| 50 years later, New York murder still fascinates Posted: 11 Mar 2014 12:17 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Kitty Genovese's screams for help couldn't save her on the night she was murdered outside her apartment in 1964. Fifty years later, those screams still echo, a symbol of urban breakdown and city dwellers' seeming callousness toward their neighbors.
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| Health care law gets 1st test in Florida election Posted: 11 Mar 2014 03:32 PM PDT LARGO, Fla. (AP) — President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is getting its first test ahead of the 2014 midterm elections Tuesday in a Tampa-area House district where Democrats and Republicans have spent millions of dollars trying out national strategies for the rest of the year. |
| Passenger with stolen passport had no terror links Posted: 11 Mar 2014 01:02 AM PDT  Police identify one of two men on the missing Malaysian jet using a stolen passport.
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| Attorney general urges first responders to carry heroin overdose drug Posted: 10 Mar 2014 05:19 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday called the increase in heroin-related deaths an "urgent and growing public health crisis" and said first responders should carry with them a drug that can reverse the effects of an overdose.
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