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Rubio: 'No' on funding resolution unless health care funding is nixed
Wrestling officials hope a change in attire will help Olympic cause
Ex-FBI agent still missing after six years
Squatter in $3 million Memphis mansion arrested
Royal Caribbean cruise pulls into port with 108 sick passengers
No cowboy hat for Obama's next interior secretary
U.S. revokes award for Egyptian woman due to 'anti-American' tweets
Killer of five in Tenn. confesses to murder in Alabama
NY nanny accused of killing kids makes first court appearance
Nursing and work: A Yahoo! chat about pumping and privacy
Conclave to elect pope expected to start early next week: Vatican
Interactive: Mapping the White House petition site
Pentagon chief Hagel makes 1st trip to Afghanistan
How to make a sandwich in space
Bin Laden spokesman pleads not guilty in New York
Child marriage a reality for world's women
Gift-wrapped skulls baffle Brazilian police
Canada's Arctic glaciers headed for unstoppable thaw: Study
GOP at odds with itself
Maker of ACORN videos has to pay $100,000: Report
'Sequester' claims another victim: The White House tour
New bacteria found in sealed in underground Antarctic lake
White House reporter balances working and breastfeeding
Coroner: Lion killed woman after escaping cage
World leaders gather for Chavez funeral

Rubio: 'No' on funding resolution unless health care funding is nixed

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 12:54 PM PST

The senator joins a minority of conservatives who refuse to fund the insurance overhaul.

Wrestling officials hope a change in attire will help Olympic cause

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 12:22 PM PST

A modern outfit will make the sport "much more watchable and understandable."

Ex-FBI agent still missing after six years

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 12:05 PM PST

The first sign of life from Robert Levinson was a video posted a year ago.

Squatter in $3 million Memphis mansion arrested

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 11:48 AM PST

A strange drama came to an end in Memphis early Friday morning when a woman accused of squatting in a $3 million mansion was arrested after being pulled over in a white Jaguar. Tabitha Gentry, aka Abka Re Bey, was taken into custody along with her 13-year-old daughter, who was also in the car, according [...]

Royal Caribbean cruise pulls into port with 108 sick passengers

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 11:33 AM PST

(Reuters) - Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd said on Friday that its Vision of the Seas cruise ship arrived in Port Everglades, Florida after 108 people, including guests and crew, fell sick with an illness thought to be norovirus. The ship and the cruise terminal have been thoroughly sanitized and it will depart later on Friday as scheduled, the company said. (Reporting By Martinne Geller in New York; editing by John Wallace and Leslie Gevirtz)

No cowboy hat for Obama's next interior secretary

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 11:16 AM PST

Sally Jewell is a different sort of candidate for a job often associated with ranching, oil, or mining.

U.S. revokes award for Egyptian woman due to 'anti-American' tweets

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 11:00 AM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has revoked the award it planned to give an Egyptian activist who fought against "virginity tests" on female protesters but whose Twitter account included anti-American and anti-Semitic comments.

Killer of five in Tenn. confesses to murder in Alabama

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 10:44 AM PST

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A man who killed his estranged wife and four other people in Tennessee in 2009 admitted Friday to killing a sixth person in north Alabama at the start of the rampage.

NY nanny accused of killing kids makes first court appearance

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 10:28 AM PST

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York nanny charged with murder in the stabbing deaths of two small children under her care has appeared in court for the first time.

Nursing and work: A Yahoo! chat about pumping and privacy

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 09:54 AM PST

Join Yahoo! News this Friday at 12:30 p.m. ET for a conversation with Amy Sullivan, director of the Next Economy project at National Journal; Betsy Reed, the executive editor of The Nation magazine; and Rachel Rose Hartman, Yahoo! News political reporter, as we discuss the obstacles mothers continue to face when trying to balance breastfeeding and office life.

Conclave to elect pope expected to start early next week: Vatican

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 09:02 AM PST

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Roman Catholic cardinals will decide later on Friday when to start their conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict and the secret gathering will most likely begin early next week, the Vatican said. Benedict's surprise abdication last month has drawn most of the world's cardinals to Vatican City for discussions on the problems facing the 1.2 billion-member Church, and to decide on the profile of the man they want to take charge. ...

Interactive: Mapping the White House petition site

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 08:45 AM PST

Do gun-lovers want to impeach the president and does marijuana bring us all together?

Pentagon chief Hagel makes 1st trip to Afghanistan

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 08:29 AM PST

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in Afghanistan Friday for his first visit as Pentagon chief, saying that there are plenty of challenges ahead as NATO hands over the country's security to the Afghans.

How to make a sandwich in space

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 08:12 AM PST

Most of us can handle assembling a simple sandwich. But most of us are not in space. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield posted a detailed video on what it's like to make and eat a peanut butter and honey sandwich in a zero-gravity environment. Normally, watching somebody make a sandwich should be low on your to-do [...]

Bin Laden spokesman pleads not guilty in New York

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 07:38 AM PST

A son-in-law of Osama bin Laden pleaded not guilty to plotting against Americans.

Child marriage a reality for world's women

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 07:22 AM PST

Half of girls in South Sudan are forced to marry.

Gift-wrapped skulls baffle Brazilian police

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 06:49 AM PST

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo are baffled by a macabre puzzle: someone has been leaving gift-wrapped human skulls around town.

Canada's Arctic glaciers headed for unstoppable thaw: Study

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 06:15 AM PST

OSLO (Reuters) - Canadian glaciers that are the world's third biggest store of ice after Antarctica and Greenland seem headed for an irreversible melt that will push up sea levels, scientists said on Thursday. About 20 percent of the ice in glaciers, on islands such as Ellesmere or Devon off northern Canada, could vanish by the end of the 21st century in a melt that would add 3.5 cm (1.4 inch) to global sea levels, they said. ...