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Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines


White House denies Obama ad-libbed Syria ‘red line’

Posted: 06 May 2013 12:30 PM PDT

Obama uses commencement address to take shots at opponentsThe president's use of the term was deliberate and based on U.S. policy, a spokesman says.


Prosecutor weighs charges in death of Utah soccer ref

Posted: 06 May 2013 11:56 AM PDT

Johana Portillo-Lopez, daughter of Ricardo Portillo, who passed away after injuries he sustained after an assault by a soccer player at a soccer game he was refereeing on April 27, is comforted by Antonio Lopez, left, brother-in-law of Ricardo, as she speaks about her father's death during a press conference in Salt Lake City on Sunday, May 5, 2013. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Kim Raff)Officials say a 17-year-old player struck the man after he called a penalty.


The curious thing about one state's politics

Posted: 06 May 2013 11:36 AM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 28, 2012 file photo Democratic Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Records show Harkin's campaign fundraiser gave Iowa State University a list of possible donors to The Harkin Institute of Public Policy, his namesake research institute, though university officials have promised he would have no influence over the center that would house the papers. The Harkin Institute of Public Policy would house the papers of the senator, who recently announced he would not seek a sixth term in 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)Iowa was among the first states to legalize gay marriage, but it is way behind in one aspect.


At least 20 dead in Bangladesh protests

Posted: 06 May 2013 11:36 AM PDT

Activists of Hefajat-e Islam vandalize a mini bus during a clash with the police in NarayanganjHardline Islamists, demanding religious reforms, clash with police.


FBI thwarts 'localized terror attack'

Posted: 06 May 2013 10:47 AM PDT

A 24-year-old Minn. man is arrested after agents find Molotov cocktails, suspected pipe bombs, and firearms.

93-year-old U.S. deportee arrested as alleged Auschwitz death camp

Posted: 06 May 2013 09:57 AM PDT

BERLIN (AP) — A 93-year-old man who was deported from the U.S. for lying about his Nazi past was arrested by German authorities Monday on allegations he served as an Auschwitz death camp guard, Stuttgart prosecutors said.

FBI: Raid of Minn. home disrupted 'terror attack'

Posted: 06 May 2013 09:06 AM PDT

The house contained Molotov cocktails, suspected pipe bombs and firearms, the agency said.

CNN anchor reports being robbed of her iPhone

Posted: 06 May 2013 08:45 AM PDT

FILE - This Sept. 27, 2011 file photo originally released by Starpix shows CNN anchor Carol Costello, at a party launching her colleague, Erin Burnett's show Two teenagers ran up from behind and grabbed Carol Costello's phone.


Bill Clinton tried to broker Led Zeppelin reunion

Posted: 06 May 2013 08:27 AM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 9, 2012 file photo shows musicians, from left, John Paul Jones, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and Jason Bonham at theNEW YORK (AP) — It's a diplomatic failure at the highest level: Bill Clinton couldn't get Led Zeppelin to reunite.


Boycott appears to hit Rush Limbaugh's mega-deal

Posted: 06 May 2013 07:33 AM PDT

The Ghost of Sandra Fluke Is Haunting Rush Limbaugh's Mega-DealRush Limbaugh denied that the advertiser boycott of his show after he called Sandra Fluke a slut would cost him anything, but a year later, it's clear that prediction wasn't true. It has, at the very least, cost him his relationship with the radio network giant Cumulus Media. Limbaugh's show is thinking of ending its contract with Cumulus at the end of the year, Politico's Dylan Byers reports. Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey has blamed Limbaugh for advertising losses, while Limbaugh thinks he's just making excuses. Either way, the Fluke controversy has clearly cost the radio host.


Italy's Andreotti, politician accused of murder and mafia ties, dead at 94

Posted: 06 May 2013 07:15 AM PDT

Italian senator for life Andreotti arrives for the fourth round of votes to elect the new Senate speaker in RomeGiulio Andreotti was in government from the age of 28 on, and was made Senator for life.


Daimler recalls 3,500 Mercedes Citan vans over faulty airbags

Posted: 06 May 2013 06:41 AM PDT

French carmaker Renault employees stand next to a Mercedes Benz Citan based on a Renault Kangoo van at the Renault factory in MaubeugeGerman automaker Daimler is recalling 3,500 Mercedes-Benz Citan vans in Europe because of faulty airbags. A company spokesman said on Monday that window airbags will be replaced in the box-type Citan, ...


Four easy cuts to save the U.S. $27.5 billion

Posted: 06 May 2013 05:27 AM PDT

Four Cuts to Save $27.5 BillionFrom empty buildings to empty flights, a non-profit suggest government cuts.


Warren Buffett: 'Tough to watch' Washington gridlock

Posted: 06 May 2013 05:27 AM PDT

Warren Buffett: 'Tough to Watch' Washington GridlockThe famed investor says the economy is doing better but made no predictions on stocks.


Bangladesh building collapse toll tops 640

Posted: 06 May 2013 05:27 AM PDT

Bangladesh building collapse toll tops 640Bangladeshi police are investigating possible murder charges against the owner of a shoddily built factory that collapsed nearly two weeks ago after the wife of a garment worker crushed in the accident ...


Singer Lauryn Hill faces tax evasion sentencing

Posted: 06 May 2013 04:25 AM PDT

Grammy-winning singer Hill leaves the Federal Court in NewarkThe Grammy-winning singer pleaded guilty to not paying taxes from 2005 to 2007.


Justin Bieber attacked on stage in Dubai

Posted: 06 May 2013 03:55 AM PDT

Justin Bieber's Dubai Trip Is Not Going Very WellA 19-year-old fan was able to attack the singer but didn't injure him.


Mark Sanford’s long road to redemption tour leads to Tuesday polls

Posted: 06 May 2013 03:55 AM PDT

IIn this photo taken April 29, 2013, former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford talks during the 1st Congressional District debate in Charleston, S.C. Sanford and former Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., are running on redemption. Based on the comebacks attempted by plenty of other politicians, athletes and celebrities felled by scandal, the strategy just may work. To a certain degree, it already has: Both men are back in the national political spotlight just a few short years after their dalliances led many observers to declare their careers over. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)With a saga like Mark Sanford's it is difficult to determine where to begin.


Germany riveted at start of neo-Nazi murder trial

Posted: 06 May 2013 02:53 AM PDT

Zschaepe, a member of the neo-Nazi group National Socialist Underground (NSU) stands in the court before the start of her trial in MunichThe surviving member of a neo-Nazi cell went on trial for a series of racist murders.


Israel: Syria strikes not aimed at helping rebels

Posted: 06 May 2013 02:53 AM PDT

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows a general view of damaged buildings wrecked by an Israeli airstrike, in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, May 5, 2013. Israeli warplanes struck areas in and around the Syrian capital early Sunday, setting off a series of explosions as they targeted a shipment of highly accurate, Iranian-made guided missiles believed to be on their way to Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group, officials and activists said. The attack, the second in three days, signaled a sharp escalation of Israel's involvement in Syria's bloody civil war. Syria's state media reported that Israeli missiles struck a military and scientific research center near the Syrian capital and caused casualties. (AP Photo/SANA)Israel sought to persuade Syria's leader that its actions were not aimed at weakening him.


New jobs and energy gains helping lift US economy

Posted: 06 May 2013 01:51 AM PDT

A specialist wears a April job growth and recent oil and gas discoveries give the economy a boost.


Iran: Quake rattles region near nuke reactor

Posted: 06 May 2013 01:35 AM PDT

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran says a moderate earthquake rattled a region near the country's main nuclear reactor, but there were no reports of damage or deaths in the surrounding area.

Finding burial plot for bomb suspect a struggle

Posted: 06 May 2013 12:31 AM PDT

Ruslan Tsarni, right, uncle of killed Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, approaches members of the media, not shown, in front of the Graham, Putnam, and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, in Worcester, Mass., as funeral director and owner Peter Stefan, center, walks with him Sunday, May 5, 2013. Stefan has pleaded for government officials to use their influence to convince a cemetery to bury Tsarnaev, but so far no state or federal authorities have stepped forward. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)An official in the town where the deceased Boston Marathon suspect lived is urging his family to bury him elsewhere.


Utah cabin swarmed with 60,000 honeybees

Posted: 05 May 2013 08:28 PM PDT

In this early April 2013 photo provided by Ogden beekeeper Vic Bachman, Bachman, left, and partner Nate Hall prepare to remove a 12-foot-long beehive from an A-frame cabin in Eden, Utah. It was the biggest beehive the Utah beekeepers have ever removed, containing about 60,000 honeybees. (AP Photo/Courtesy Vic Bachman)It was the biggest beehive that that Ogden beekeeper Vic Bachman has ever removed — a dozen feet long, packed inside the eaves of a cabin in Ogden Valley.


Family of Utah soccer referee who died holds vigil

Posted: 05 May 2013 08:12 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, May 2, 2013 file photo, Jose Lopez points to an undated photo of Ricardo Portillo, center, his brother-in-law, following a news conference, at Intermountain Medical Center, in Murray, Utah. Portillo, a 46-year-old soccer referee who was punched by a teenage player during a game and later slipped into a coma died Saturday night, May 4, 2013, police said. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)The family of a Utah soccer referee who died after being punched by a teenager player called on soccer players worldwide to respect referees to prevent the same thing happening to somebody else.


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