| Obama takes in mudslide's brutal aftermath Posted: 22 Apr 2014 02:36 PM PDT  President meets grieving families and workers still searching site where dozens died.
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| IRS workers who owe back taxes awarded $1 million in bonuses Posted: 22 Apr 2014 02:31 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service has paid more than $2.8 million in bonuses to employees with recent disciplinary problems, including $1 million to workers who owed back taxes, a government investigator said Tuesday.
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| Oregon police: Man stalked women with 'moveable dungeon' Posted: 22 Apr 2014 02:21 PM PDT  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a man fatally shot by a Portland officer last month had been stalking young women in a van that he converted into a "moveable dungeon" with chains and handcuffs after one of his victims managed to escape from it in January.
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| JetBlue pilots overwhelmingly vote 'yes' to join union Posted: 22 Apr 2014 02:37 PM PDT  (Reuters) - JetBlue Airways Corp pilots voted by a wide margin on Tuesday to join the Air Line Pilots Association union, sending the budget carrier's stock price down on concerns the move would raise the airline's costs. About 71 percent of the pilots eligible to vote in the month-long election backed ALPA. JetBlue has about 2,600 pilots and 96 percent were eligible to vote. The vote marked the first successful union drive by a group of workers at JetBlue.
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| Family has unpublished Gabriel Garcia Marquez manuscript Posted: 22 Apr 2014 12:44 PM PDT  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez left behind an unpublished manuscript that he chose not to print while he was alive, an editor told The Associated Press on Tuesday as the writer's compatriots held a musical tribute to him in his native Colombia.
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| Kerry: Cold War diplomacy was ‘easier’ Posted: 22 Apr 2014 12:26 PM PDT  Secretary of State feels "bipolar world" made American diplomacy a less high-wire affair.
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| Opposition: South Africa's ruling ANC giving away mattresses for votes Posted: 22 Apr 2014 11:58 AM PDT  South Africa's government corruption watchdog is looking into an allegation that the ruling ANC party handed out state-paid mattresses in election campaigns ahead of general polls on May 7, a spokesman said Tuesday. Public Protector Thuli Madonsela is planning a meeting with the country's social security agency after a complaint from new opposition party AgangSA. "AgangSA complained that mattresses were distributed in Valhalla in Cape Town allegedly as part of the ruling party's election campaign," her spokesman Oupa Segalwe told AFP.
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| Life in solitary: The prison within the prison Posted: 22 Apr 2014 11:49 AM PDT  Filmmaker Dan Edge takes a look inside the brutal isolation unit at Maine State Prison for PBS' "Frontline."
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| Justices appear conflicted over Aereo TV copyright fight Posted: 22 Apr 2014 02:32 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared unsure on Tuesday whether to rule against online TV startup Aereo Inc in a major copyright case, with several raising concerns about how a ruling in favor of broadcast networks could affect increasingly popular cloud computing services. Aereo, backed by media mogul Barry Diller, could be forced to shut down if the high court rules for the four major television broadcasters, who say the service violates copyright law. (Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Editing by Will Dunham)
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| Five things you (probably) don't know about Earth Day Posted: 22 Apr 2014 07:19 AM PDT  Earth Day turns 44 on Tuesday, and it's more popular than ever. One might suspect the holiday was created by eco-warriors in tie-dyed shirts and leather-fringe vests. Not so. Read on for a collection of facts you (probably) didn't know about Earth Day.
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| Violent death of Ukraine politician tests accord Posted: 22 Apr 2014 10:23 AM PDT  Ukraine's acting president calls for an anti-terrorist operation to be relaunched in the east of the country.
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| Friend of accused Boston Marathon bomber seeks trial venue change Posted: 22 Apr 2014 12:26 PM PDT  A friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber on Tuesday asked a judge to move his trial on charges of interfering with the investigation, arguing that pretrial publicity has made it impossible for him to get a fair hearing in Massachusetts. Kazakh exchange student Dias Kadyrbayev filed papers in U.S. District Court in Boston, joining earlier motions by two other defendants, Azamat Tazhayakov, also of Kazakhstan, and Robel Phillipos, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prosecutors accused ethnic Chechen brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of killing three people and injuring 264 others in the April 15, 2013 bombing at the marathon finish line and shooting dead a university police officer three days later. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died after a gunbattle with police and Dzhokhar was arrested and is awaiting trial on charges that carry the possibility of execution if he is convicted.
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| Deadly Texas blast could have been prevented Posted: 22 Apr 2014 11:51 AM PDT  The flammable fertilizers were in a wood building without sprinklers, investigators said.
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| Lawsuit challenging Georgia gay marriage ban filed Posted: 22 Apr 2014 01:34 PM PDT  A gay rights group on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit in Atlanta challenging the state of Georgia's constitutional ban on same-sex marriages.
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| High court upholds Mich. affirmative action ban Posted: 22 Apr 2014 11:30 AM PDT  The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Michigan's ban on using race as a factor in college admissions.
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| Death toll in S. Korea ferry disaster passes 120 Posted: 22 Apr 2014 06:46 AM PDT  Nearly 200 of the 476 people who were aboard the ship are still unaccounted for.
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| Biden: Russia must 'stop talking and start acting' Posted: 22 Apr 2014 01:21 PM PDT  The vice president warns on Ukraine as Russia dismisses sanctions threat.
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| The face of hemp in Washington Posted: 22 Apr 2014 04:21 AM PDT Yahoo News spends a day with Ben Droz, Capitol Hill's hemp lobbyist. |
| A look into the lives of S. Korea ferry's dead, missing Posted: 22 Apr 2014 05:58 AM PDT  A bicycle, never ridden. A lipstick prank pulled off by old friends. Mother-daughter conversations that now burn in the memory, laden with regret.
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| Death toll in ferry disaster tops 100 Posted: 22 Apr 2014 05:11 AM PDT  Nearly one week after the South Korea ferry disaster, nearly 200 people are still unaccounted for.
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| Lawsuit accuses entertainment figures of sex abuse Posted: 22 Apr 2014 05:09 AM PDT  A man who has accused "X-Men" director Bryan Singer of sexually abusing him when he was a teen sued three more entertainment industry figures Monday, claiming they also molested him. The allegations ...
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| Cyclone curtails aerial search for MH370 Posted: 22 Apr 2014 03:12 AM PDT  Perth (Australia) (AFP) - The aerial search for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 was suspended Tuesday due to a tropical cyclone, but not before several aircraft had departed on the mission, Australian officials said. Up to 10 military aircraft had been scheduled to fly over the Indian Ocean in hopes of spotting clues as to the fate of the Boeing 777, which vanished on March 8 carrying 239 people. "Planned air search activities have been suspended for today due to poor weather conditions in the search area as a result of Tropical Cyclone Jack," Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Centre said, adding that 10 ships in the search zone would continue their work.
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| Michigan affirmative ban is OK, Supreme Court says Posted: 22 Apr 2014 12:47 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A state's voters are free to outlaw the use of race as a factor in college admissions, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a blow to affirmative action that also laid bare tensions among the justices about a continuing need for programs that address racial inequality in America.
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| Internet TV case: Justices skeptical, concerned Posted: 22 Apr 2014 03:13 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Grappling with fast-changing technology, Supreme Court justices debated Tuesday whether they can protect the copyrights of TV broadcasters to the shows they send out without strangling innovations in the use of the internet.
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| Analysis: Putin likely to ignore West on Ukraine Posted: 22 Apr 2014 03:39 PM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Since he took over Crimea, President Vladimir Putin has seen his popularity soar and his opposition fall silent. So when the U.S. vice president told Russia to defuse tensions in Ukraine, Putin had few reasons to listen.
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| In Ukraine's east, mayor held hostage by insurgent Posted: 22 Apr 2014 11:18 AM PDT  SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — When armed men seized the police station in this eastern Ukrainian city, mayor Nelya Shtepa declared she was on their side. She changed her story a few days later. Then she disappeared — the victim of an apparent abduction by the man who now lays claim to her job.
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| Most Sherpas decide to leave Everest for season Posted: 22 Apr 2014 03:29 PM PDT  KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Most Sherpa mountain climbers have decided to leave Mount Everest, a guide said Tuesday, confirming a walkout certain to disrupt a climbing season that was already marked by grief over the 16 lives lost in Everest's deadliest disaster.
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| Ukraine orders new military operation in the east Posted: 22 Apr 2014 03:28 PM PDT  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's acting president ordered security forces to resume operations in the country's east on Tuesday after the bodies of two people allegedly abducted by pro-Russia insurgents were found and a military aircraft was reportedly hit by gunfire.
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| 'Piles and piles' of bodies in S. Sudan slaughter Posted: 22 Apr 2014 02:30 PM PDT  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The townsfolk believed the mosque was safe. They crammed inside as rebel forces in South Sudan took control of the town from government troops. But it wasn't safe. Robbers grabbed their cash and mobile phones. Then gunmen came and opened fire on everyone, young and old.
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| Obama views mudslide scene, mourns with survivors Posted: 22 Apr 2014 03:29 PM PDT  OSO, Wash. (AP) — Swooping over a terrain of great sadness and death, President Barack Obama took an aerial tour Tuesday of the place where more than three dozen people perished in a mudslide last month, then mourned privately with those who lost loved ones in the destruction.
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| Cries of anguish as SKorea ferry toll tops 100 Posted: 22 Apr 2014 12:36 PM PDT  JINDO, South Korea (AP) — For a moment there is silence in the tent where bodies from the ferry disaster are brought for identification. Then the anguished cries begin.
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| Govt must turn over info on CIA prisons to defense Posted: 22 Apr 2014 02:03 PM PDT FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Prosecutors must turn over never-revealed details about the time a Guantanamo Bay detainee spent in secret CIA prisons after his arrest in connection with the deadly attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, according to a military judge's order released Tuesday. |
| Teen stowaway shows holes in vast airport security Posted: 22 Apr 2014 07:20 AM PDT  Surveillance cameras at San Jose International Airport successfully captured the teenager on the tarmac, climbing up the landing gear of a jet. But in the end, the cameras failed because no one noticed the security breach until the plane — and the boy — landed in Hawaii.
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| South Korea says North may be close to nuclear test Posted: 22 Apr 2014 12:41 PM PDT  North Korea could well be preparing to carry out a fourth nuclear test, South Korea said Tuesday, citing increased activity at its main test site, just days ahead of a visit to Seoul by US President Barack Obama. "Our military is currently detecting a lot of activity in and around the Punggye-ri nuclear test site," defence ministry spokesman Kim Min-Seok told a press briefing. Kim stressed that North Korea's nuclear weapons programme was at a stage where it could conduct a test "at any moment". The United States said Tuesday it was watching North Korea "very closely" following the warnings.
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| 'No response' as ferry crew asked for orders to abandon ship Posted: 22 Apr 2014 02:46 AM PDT  The crew of a South Korean ferry that sank with hundreds of people on board repeatedly asked officers on the bridge whether or not to give the order to abandon ship, but there was no response, a crew member has said. The captain of the ship, Lee Joon-seok, 69, and other crew members have been arrested on negligence charges. Several crew members, including the captain, left the ferry as it was sinking before many of the passengers, witnesses have said, after passengers were told to stay in their cabins. President Park Geun-hye said on Monday that instruction was tantamount to an "act of murder".
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| Seabed hunt for Malaysia jet stretches beyond week Posted: 22 Apr 2014 12:07 AM PDT  SYDNEY (AP) — An air search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was suspended for a day due to stormy weather on Tuesday as the painstakingly slow sonar scanning of a targeted patch of seabed continued.
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