| Rare retrial granted to Miss. death row inmate Posted: 31 Mar 2014 02:39 PM PDT  Attorneys for Michelle Byrom say they have new evidence in case of husband's 1999 murder.
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| Gov. asks for disaster declaration as mudslide toll hits 24 Posted: 31 Mar 2014 03:22 PM PDT  DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Estimated financial losses from the deadly Washington mudslide that has killed at least 24 people have reached $10 million, Gov. Jay Inslee said Monday in a letter asking the federal government for a major disaster declaration.
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| Complete coverage: Obamacare deadline day Posted:  Latest on enrollments and snafus, with in-depth reports on the politics of making it work.
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| Ocean garbage frustrates search for Flight 370 Posted: 31 Mar 2014 12:21 PM PDT  WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Sometimes the object spotted in the water is a snarled fishing line. Or a buoy. Or something that might once have been the lid to an ice box. Not once — not yet at least — has it been a clue.
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| GM recall: Why were so many victims young? Posted: 31 Mar 2014 02:33 PM PDT  Price may not be the only reason for the disproportionate number of youthful deaths.
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| Source: U.S. floats freeing convicted spy as Mideast peace incentive Posted: 31 Mar 2014 12:50 PM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — The United States is talking with Israel about the possibility of releasing convicted spy Jonathan Pollard early from his life sentence as an incentive in the troubled Mideast peace negotiations, a person familiar with the situation said Monday. Such an extraordinary step would show the urgency of U.S. efforts to keep negotiations alive.
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| For sale to qualified buyers: Leftovers from 13 years of war Posted: 31 Mar 2014 11:15 AM PDT  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United States is trying to sell or dispose of billions of dollars in military hardware, including sophisticated and highly specialized mine resistant vehicles as it packs up to leave Afghanistan after 13 years of war, officials said Monday.
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| Students hunting with BB guns cause lockdown at Maryland university Posted: 31 Mar 2014 04:54 PM PDT  Two students hunting with BB rifles in a wooded area near Maryland's Stevenson University caused the school to be put on lockdown on Monday after reports of a gunman on campus, the university's president said. Students and staff at the school, in Owings Mills outside of Baltimore, were told to shelter in place at about 2:30 p.m. local time after police and school security received calls that a gunman was spotted at the school. "It appears that the incident was caused by two students who had the poor judgment of hunting in the woods," university President Kevin Manning said in a statement. The lockdown ended at 6:45 p.m., but campus activities were canceled for the evening, according to Manning.
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| Discovery could solve 61-year-old mystery of missing N.M. woman Posted: 31 Mar 2014 07:53 AM PDT  Authorities in New Mexico say they have a new lead in a 61-year-old cold case after bone fragments were discovered at the former home of a man whose 26-year-old wife, Inez Garcia, went missing in 1952.
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| Protesters, police clash in Albuquerque Posted: 31 Mar 2014 07:44 AM PDT  People demand officials' resignations after string of police shootings.
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| Israel police recover ancient burial boxes Posted: 31 Mar 2014 01:33 PM PDT  The boxes contain bone fragments and remnants of pottery buried with the dead.
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| Kerry returns to Middle East for flailing peace talks Posted: 31 Mar 2014 03:27 PM PDT  By Lesley Wroughton and Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry rushed back to the Middle East on Monday to try to salvage stalled peace talks, possibly by releasing an Israeli spy jailed in the United States to push Israel to free Palestinian prisoners. Requesting anonymity, a U.S. official said the release of Jonathan Pollard, who is serving a life sentence in the United States for spying for Israel, was "on the table" as a possible element in a Middle East peace deal as an incentive to Israel. Kerry, who flew to Israel from Paris, held two-hour talks in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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| Russian prime minister angers Ukraine by visiting Crimea Posted: 31 Mar 2014 01:24 PM PDT  By Darya Korsunskaya SIMFEROPOL, Crimea (Reuters) - Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev flaunted Russia's grip on Crimea by flying to the region and holding a government meeting there on Monday, angering Ukraine and defying Western demands to hand the peninsula back to Kiev. But in a gesture that could ease tension in the worst East-West stand-off since the Cold War, Russia pulled some troops back from near Ukraine's eastern frontier - a move which the United States said would be a positive sign if it is confirmed as a withdrawal. President Vladimir Putin told German Chancellor Angela Merkel that he had ordered a partial drawdown in the region, Merkel's spokesman said.
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| NSA tool increased RSA security vulnerability, researchers say Posted: 31 Mar 2014 08:01 AM PDT  By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Security industry pioneer RSA adopted not just one but two encryption tools developed by the U.S. National Security Agency, greatly increasing the spy agency's ability to eavesdrop on some Internet communications, according to a team of academic researchers. Reuters reported in December that the NSA had paid RSA $10 million to make a now-discredited cryptography system the default in software used by a wide range of Internet and computer security programs. The system, called Dual Elliptic Curve, was a random number generator, but it had a deliberate flaw - or "back door" - that allowed the NSA to crack the encryption. A group of professors from Johns Hopkins, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Illinois and elsewhere now say they have discovered that a second NSA tool exacerbated the RSA software's vulnerability.
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| International court orders stay on Japanese whaling Posted: 31 Mar 2014 04:52 AM PDT  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Court of Justice on Monday ordered a temporary halt to Japan's Antarctic whaling program, ruling that it is not for scientific purposes as the Japanese government had claimed.
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| Russia pulls back a battalion from Ukraine border Posted: 31 Mar 2014 02:45 PM PDT  SIMFEROPOL, Crimea (AP) — Russia said Monday it was pulling a battalion of several hundred troops away from the Ukrainian border but kept tens of thousands in place, prompting a worried response from the Kiev government about what the U.S. warned was still a "tremendous buildup."
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| Congress passes bill to stop cut to Medicare docs Posted: 31 Mar 2014 05:15 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — With just hours to spare, Congress stepped Monday to finalize legislation to prevent doctors who treat Medicare patients from being hit with a 24 percent cut in their payments from the government.
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| Koreas trade fire; island residents in shelters Posted: 31 Mar 2014 12:33 PM PDT SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea fired hundreds of artillery shells into each other's waters Monday in a flare-up of animosity that forced residents of five front-line South Korean islands to evacuate to shelters for several hours, South Korean officials said. |
| Ump's call overturned, 1st time by expanded replay Posted: 31 Mar 2014 04:35 PM PDT  MILWAUKEE (AP) — An umpire's call was overturned Monday for the first time under Major League Baseball's expanded replay system, with Milwaukee Brewers star Ryan Braun ruled out instead of safe.
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| Congress to pass bill to stop cut to Medicare docs Posted: 31 Mar 2014 02:26 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is poised to give doctors who treat Medicare patients an eleventh-hour reprieve from a cut in their government fees. |
| Official number of mudslide victims rises to 24 Posted: 31 Mar 2014 03:02 PM PDT DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say the official death toll from the deadly Washington state mudslide has increased to 24. |
| Deadline dash: Health care sign-ups amid glitches Posted: 31 Mar 2014 01:45 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a flood of last-minute sign-ups, hundreds of thousands of Americans rushed to apply for health insurance Monday, as deadline day for President Barack Obama's overhaul brought long waits and a new spate of website ills.
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| More victims found on east side of mudslide Posted: 31 Mar 2014 02:21 PM PDT  DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Crews searching through the muck and devastation wrought by Washington's deadly mudslide are finding more human remains on the east side of the slide, near the town of Darrington.
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| Engaged Johnny Depp shows off 'chick's ring' Posted: 31 Mar 2014 10:25 AM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — Johnny Depp showed off a diamond engagement ring that he called a "chick's ring" on Monday — indirectly confirming rumors of his engagement to actress Amber Heard.
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| In Kentucky, Obamacare's success did nothing to change the politics of the law Posted: 31 Mar 2014 03:56 AM PDT  Although Gov. Steve Beshear embraced the law, a Republican says it's "unsustainable."
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| Weight loss surgery helps reverse type 2 diabetes, study shows Posted: 31 Mar 2014 10:31 AM PDT  By Bill Berkrot and Ransdell Pierson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bariatric weight loss surgery on obese patients with type 2 diabetes helped many get their blood sugar to healthy levels and to no longer require any diabetes medicines, including insulin, three years after the procedure, according to data presented at a major medical meeting on Monday. The study called Stampede, which involved 150 obese patients who had poorly controlled type 2 diabetes for at least eight years, was conducted by Cleveland Clinic researchers. It compared two types of weight loss surgery against weight loss attained by diet and exercise along with nutrition counseling and, for some, additional diabetes medicines that can help promote weight loss, such as Victoza from Novo Nordisk.
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| Mudslide death toll rises; rains expected to ease Posted: 31 Mar 2014 06:08 AM PDT  DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — The rains that have bedeviled crews searching for victims in the debris field from the deadly Washington state mudslide are expected to ease this week, but searchers faced other challenges at the site like household chemicals and sewage.
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| UN panel: Warming worsens food, hunger problems Posted: 31 Mar 2014 02:26 AM PDT  Climate change makes feeding the world harder and more expensive, a United Nations scientific panel said.
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| US, Russia offer differing solutions on Ukraine Posted: 31 Mar 2014 05:02 AM PDT PARIS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov are advancing far different proposals on how to calm tensions and de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine as Russia continues to mass troops along its border with the former Soviet republic. |
| U.S., Russia talks fail to end Ukraine deadlock Posted: 30 Mar 2014 10:39 PM PDT  Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian diplomat Sergey Lavrov disagreed on crucial issues.
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| SKorea fires shells at NKorean waters after drills Posted: 30 Mar 2014 10:07 PM PDT  South Korea has fired artillery shells in response to North Korean shells from a live-fire drill that fell in waters south of the rivals' disputed western sea boundary.
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| Australia PM: No time limit on Malaysia jet search Posted: 31 Mar 2014 02:58 PM PDT  Prime Minister Tony Abbott said there was no time limit on the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
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| NKorea conducts live-fire drills near sea boundary Posted: 30 Mar 2014 09:08 PM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Monday conducted live-fire drills near the rival Koreas' disputed western sea boundary, South Korean officials said, in a move seen as an expression of Pyongyang's frustration at making little progress in its recent push to win outside aid.
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