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Jailed 23 years, NY man is freed, has heart attack

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 12:21 PM PDT

David Ranta kisses a family member after Judge Miriam Cyrulnik freed him, in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn, New York, Thursday, March 21, 2013. Ranta, 58, who spent more than two decades behind bars was freed by a New York City judge on Thursday after a reinvestigation of his case cast serious doubt on evidence used to convict him in the Feb. 8, 1990 shooting of Rabbi Chaskel Werzberger. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, Pool)A New York City man whose murder conviction was overturned after 23 years in prison has suffered a heart attack on his second day of freedom.

Rebels enter Central African Republic capital

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 12:06 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2013 file photo, government security forces in a pickup truck drive past a demonstration calling for peace as negotiators prepare for talks with rebels from the north, in downtown Bangui, Central African Republic Saturday. On Friday, March 22, rebels took the town of Damara, beginning a new march to take the capital, Bangui, said a rebel spokesman. Panic spread throughout the capital, with the neighborhoods closest to the northern gate of the city emptying out, as frightened residents locked up their shops, packed their bags and yanked their children out of school. Banks and government offices closed early.(AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)Witnesses say rebels have entered the northern side of the Central African Republic capital days after they threatened to again take up arms against the government.

Slumbering sun should wake up this year

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 11:50 AM PDT

Slumbering Sun Should Wake Up This YearThe sun should roar back to life sometime in 2013, producing its second activity peak in the last two years, scientists say.

W.Va. delegate fighting to reinstate death penalty

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 10:18 AM PDT

This image provided by West Virginia Legislative Services shows Del. John Overington, R-Berkley, In Charleston, W. Va. The 2013 legislative session marks the 27th consecutive year that Overington has introduced a bill to reinstate capital punishment in West Virginia. (AP Photo/West Virginia Legislative Services)With neighboring Maryland about to become the sixth state in as many years to abolish the death penalty, one West Virginia delegate is on a quixotic quest to resume executions in his state for the first time in a half-century.

Egypt officials negotiating to free 2 tourists

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 08:45 AM PDT

In this Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013 photo an Egyptian guide takes a break after climbing to the summit of Mount St. Catherine in south Sinai, Egypt. Egyptian intelligence officials say they are negotiating with Bedouin gunmen to free two tourists, an Israeli man and Norwegian woman, kidnapped Friday, March 22, 2013 along a main road in Egypt's southern Sinai Peninsula. (AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa )Egyptian intelligence officials say they are negotiating with Bedouin gunmen to free two tourists kidnapped along a main road in the south of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

Pope Francis tells Benedict: "We're brothers"

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 07:43 AM PDT

In this photo provided by the Vatican paper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis meets Pope emeritus Benedict XVI in Castel Gandolfo Saturday, March 23, 2013. Pope Francis has traveled to Castel Gandolfo to have lunch with his predecessor Benedict XVI in a historic and potentially problematic melding of the papacies that has never before confronted the Catholic Church. The Vatican said the two popes embraced on the helipad. In the chapel where they prayed together, Benedict offered Francis the traditional kneeler used by the pope. Francis refused to take it alone, saying Pope Francis traveled Saturday south of Rome to have lunch with his "brother" and predecessor Benedict XVI, a historic and potentially problematic melding of the papacies that has never before confronted the Catholic Church.

In Moscow, new Chinese leader Xi warns against meddling

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 06:10 AM PDT

Chinese President Xi claps during his address to students at the Moscow State Institute of International RelationsChinese President Xi Jinping warned against foreign interference in the affairs of other nations during a speech in Moscow on Saturday ...

MLB sues Fla. clinic over banned player drugs

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 05:55 AM PDT

MLB sues Fla. clinic over banned player drugsMajor League Baseball on Friday sued a now-shuttered South Florida clinic and its operators, accusing them of scheming to provide banned performance-enhancing drugs to players in violation of their contracts.

Cyprus races to complete alternative rescue plan

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 05:09 AM PDT

Protestors hold Cyprus' flags during a rally outside the parliament in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday, March 22, 2013. Cypriot authorities were putting the final touches Friday to a plan they hope will convince international lenders to provide the money the country urgently needed to avoid bankruptcy within days. Politicians in Cyprus were racing Saturday to complete an alternative plan raising funds necessary for the country to qualify for an international bailout, with a potential bankruptcy just three days away.

Obama: Assault weapons ban deserves a vote

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 04:09 AM PDT

Chris and Lynn McDonnell, left, whose daughter Grace was killed in Newtown, Conn., and Neil Heslin, third left, whose son Jesse Lewis also died at the school shootings in Newtown, listen as Vice President Biden speaks in New York's City Hall Blue Room, Thursday, March 21, 2013. Relatives of shooting victims from Newtown, Conn., stood with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, foreground right, and Biden as they spoke in favor of an assault weapons ban. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)Obama says Americans have spoken on gun control, urges Congress to vote on assault weapons ban

Senate narrowly passes first budget in four years

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 03:53 AM PDT

The U.S. Capitol Building is pictured in WashingtonThe Senate on Saturday narrowly passed its first federal budget in four years, a move that will usher in a relative lull in Washington's fiscal wars until an anticipated summer showdown over raising the debt ceiling.

What happens if Cyprus collapses?

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 02:21 AM PDT

Protesters hold an EU flag during a protest outside the Cypriot parliament, Friday, March 22, 2013. Cypriot authorities were putting the final touches Friday to a plan they hope will convince international lenders to provide the money the country urgently needs to avoid bankruptcy within days. What happens if Cyprus' banks collapse? If its government goes broke? If it leaves the euro?

Pakistan Taliban threaten to send Musharraf to 'hell' when he returns

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 01:36 AM PDT

A security man stands guard at the entrance of former president Pervez Musharraf's campaign office, decorated with posters in KarachiPakistan's Taliban have threatened, in a video released on Saturday, to use suicide bombers and snipers to kill former President Pervez Musharraf when he returns home from exile.

Senate nears pre-dawn OK of Democratic budget

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 01:20 AM PDT

U.S. President Obama's motorcade is pictured as he moves from the White House to Capitol Hill in WashingtonAn exhausted Senate neared approval early Saturday of a $3.7 trillion budget for next year that will let majority Democrats highlight their fiscal priorities, but won't resolve the deep differences the two parties have over deficits and the size of government.

Boyle: Queen volunteered for Olympics Bond spoof

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 12:50 AM PDT

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is shown round the carriage of a parked train at Baker Street underground station in London, for a visit to mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, Wednesday, March 20, 2013. The Queen made her first public engagement in more than a week Wednesday after cancellations following her hospitalization for a stomach bug. The British head of state joined her husband Prince Philip and their granddaughter-in-law, Kate, for the event marking the 150th anniversary of London's sprawling subway system, affectionately known as the Tube. (AP Photo/Chris Radburn, Pool)LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II needed no convincing to appear in a James Bond-themed skit during the opening ceremony of the London Olympics — in fact, she volunteered, according to the show's director.

ND lawmakers define life as starting at conception

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 11:19 PM PDT

Rep. Gail Mooney, D-Cummings, speaks against division A of SB2303 during floor debate, Friday, March 22, 2013 at the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D. Long dismissed as cold and inconsequential, North Dakota is now trying to enact the toughest abortion restrictions in the nation. The newly oil-rich red state may soon find itself in a costly battle over legislation foes describe as blatantly unconstitutional. (AP Photo/The Bismarck Tribune, Mike McCleary)North Dakota didn't set out to become the abortion debate's new epicenter.

Brotherhood supporters, opponents clash in Egypt, 40 hurt

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 11:04 PM PDT

Anti-Mursi protester holds an Egyptian flag during clashes with Muslim Brotherhood members near the Brotherhood's headquarters in CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - Several thousand opponents of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood clashed with supporters of the Islamist group near its headquarters in Cairo on Friday, and at least 40 people were wounded, authorities said. Columns of riot police fired tear gas as the rival groups tussled in the streets around the Brotherhood headquarters. Protesters hurled Molotov cocktails and stones, a witness said. Earlier in the day, Brotherhood supporters had arrived in the vicinity on buses, were showered with stones from the protesters and threw stones back. ...

Minn. charges tossed against right-to-die ex-head

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 09:48 PM PDT

A Minnesota judge on Friday dismissed charges against the former head of a national right-to-die group accused in the death of an Apple Valley woman, saying Minnesota's law against advising suicide is unconstitutionally overbroad.

Lawyer: Accused defense contractor, woman in love

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 09:33 PM PDT

U.S. Defense Contractor Charged in Spy CaseAn attorney said there was no evidence that classified information was given to China or to any other country.

Officials: Miner dead, 1 rescued in Utah cave-in

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 09:03 PM PDT

A miner died Friday and another was injured after they became trapped in a cave-in at a central Utah coal mine, authorities said.

More people have access to cellphones than toilets

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 07:01 PM PDT

A new United Nations study has found that more people around the world have access to a cellphone than to a working toilet. The study's numbers claim that of the world's estimated 7 billion people, 6 billion have access to mobile phones. However, only 4.5 billion have access to a toilet. At a press conference [...]

Shell casings may link shootout in Texas to Colo. death

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 06:31 PM PDT

This undated photo released by the Colorado Department of Corrections shows paroled inmate Evan Spencer Ebel. Ebel, 28, is the man who led Texas authorities on a 100 mph car chase that ended in a shootout Thursday, March 21, 2013, and may be linked to the slaying of Colorado's state prison chief. (AP Photo/Colorado Department of Corrections)Casings from a Texas shootout with a white supremacist Colorado parolee are the same make and caliber as those found at the home of Colorado's prison chief after he was killed, according to legal papers.

Highly illogical: IRS says 'Star Trek' parody a mistake

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 06:00 PM PDT

A training video made by the federal agency that parodies 'Star Trek' apparently lacks training value

North Dakota closer to amendment outlawing abortions

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 02:57 PM PDT

Their House of Representatives on passed an amendment granting legal rights to embryos from the time of fertilization, a measure that could ban all abortions in the state.

Police arrest 2 teens in Ga. baby killing

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 01:56 PM PDT

Luis Santiago tries to comfort Sherry West at her apartment Friday, March 22, 2013, in Brunswick, Ga., the day after their 13-month-old son, Antonio Santiago, was shot and killed. West says she was walking her baby in his stroller when a teenage gunman demanding money shot the baby in the face and shot her in the leg. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum)BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Police arrested two teenagers Friday who are suspected in the shooting death of a baby in a stroller and the wounding of the baby's mother during an attempted robbery.
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