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Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines


Stop, strip, search, probe. Got a warrant?

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 01:17 PM PST

Hidalgo County Sheriff and Edinburg Police advise parents to get in their cars to drive into Carmen Elementary to pick up their children after a shooting at Harwell Middle School Monday Dec. 12, 2011 in Edinburg, Texas. Authorities suspect hunters may have shot two South Texas middle school students who were wounded by gunfire Monday afternoon while trying out for a basketball team. (AP Photo/The Monitor, Delcia Lopez) MAGS OUT; TV OUT; AP MEMBERS ONLYComplaints increase of police conducting public cavity, strip searches. Liz Goodwin reports.


Kerry mounts diplomatic push on Iran nuclear talks

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 01:01 PM PST

US Secretary of State John Kerry smiles as he arrives at Geneva International airport, Switzerland Friday Nov. 8, 2013 for closed-door nuclear talks at the United Nations offices. Four world powers are dispatching their top diplomats to Geneva on Friday to add their weight to negotiations aimed at putting initial limits on Iran's ability to make atomic weapons. French, British and German foreign ministers are joining U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Geneva, who is coming GENEVA (AP) — With a boost from Russia and China, Secretary of State John Kerry mounted a major diplomatic push Friday to reach an interim nuclear deal with Iran, despite fierce opposition from Israel and uncertainty in Congress.


Home Depot apologizes for racist tweet

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 12:16 PM PST

Home DepotNEW YORK (AP) — Home improvement maker Home Depot Inc. on Thursday apologized for a tweet that showed a picture of two African-American drummers with a person in a gorilla mask in between them and asked: "Which drummer is not like the others?"


Russian report stirs new confusion in Arafat death

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 11:58 AM PST

A Palestinian child works at a shop across from a poster of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, Nov. 8, 2013. The writing on the poster, part of a quote from one of Arafat's speeches, reads, RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Four investigations, hundreds of testimonies and stacks of medical reports on Yasser Arafat's unexplained death in 2004 have failed to produce hard evidence of what killed him — and findings presented Friday only created more confusion.


Report: Russian FM to join Iran talks

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 11:26 AM PST

US Secretary of State John Kerry smiles as he arrives at Geneva International airport, Switzerland Friday Nov. 8, 2013 for closed-door nuclear talks at the United Nations offices. Four world powers are dispatching their top diplomats to Geneva on Friday to add their weight to negotiations aimed at putting initial limits on Iran's ability to make atomic weapons. French, British and German foreign ministers are joining U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Geneva, who is coming MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's RIA Novosti news agency says that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will fly to Geneva to join the Iran nuclear talks.


Santorum stumps in Iowa—for a movie

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 11:10 AM PST

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks during the family leadership summit in Ames, Iowa Saturday Aug. 10, 2013. Republican presidential hopefuls are hoping to impress conservative voters at the conference organized by an influential Christian group. The daylong event will be one of many candidate cattle calls in the grueling run-up to the 2016 presidential election. None of the potential contenders appearing Saturday has declared candidacy. Conservative voters could be key to a 2016 victory in Iowa's caucuses, the nation's first presidential nominating event. (AP Photo/Justin Hayworth)The former Pennsylvania senator has not said if he'll run for president in 2016, but his new job is helping him maintain important contacts.


Kerry: Still differences in Iran nuclear talks

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 10:54 AM PST

US Secretary of State John Kerry smiles as he arrives at Geneva International airport, Switzerland Friday Nov. 8, 2013 for closed-door nuclear talks at the United Nations offices. Four world powers are dispatching their top diplomats to Geneva on Friday to add their weight to negotiations aimed at putting initial limits on Iran's ability to make atomic weapons. French, British and German foreign ministers are joining U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Geneva, who is coming GENEVA (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Friday of significant differences between Iran and six world powers trying to fashion a nuclear agreement, as he and three European foreign ministers added their weight to try to narrow the gap.


Deadly typhoon whips across Philippines

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 10:40 AM PST

A house is engulfed by the storm surge brought about by powerful typhoon Haiyan that hit Legazpi city, Albay province Friday Nov.8, 2013 about 520 kilometers ( 325 miles) south of Manila, Philippines. Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded slammed into the Philippines on Friday, setting off landslides, knocking out power in one entire province and cutting communications in the country's central region of island provinces. (AP Photo/Nelson Salting)The nation avoids a major disaster as the rapidly moving storms blows away.


Photographers document war and its aftermath in new exhibit

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 10:22 AM PST

'WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath' comes to the Brooklyn MuseumAn expansive new photography exhibit looks at war through images from the battlefield and beyond.


Seriously? The Onion says no more print editions

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 10:06 AM PST

the onionCHICAGO (AP) — In poking fun at current events, satirical newspaper The Onion often finds a way to heap ridicule on the newspaper industry.


Protesters call for justice after porch killing

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 09:18 AM PST

In this Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013 photo, Charles Hannah lights Theresa Walker's candle, left, at a candlelight vigil for Renisha McBride in the front of the home where she was shot in Dearborn Heights, Mich. No charges have been filed after authorities said McBride, of Detroit, was killed by a shotgun blast to the face early Saturday in Dearborn Heights. According to police, the homeowner told investigators that he thought someone was trying to break into his home and accidentally discharged the gun. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Ricardo Thomas) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT; HUFFINGTON POST OUTDEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — Protesters and civil rights groups are calling for justice after a suburban Detroit homeowner fatally shot a 19-year-old woman on the porch of his home.


World's top diplomats join Iran nuclear talks

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 09:03 AM PST

US Secretary of State John Kerry smiles as he arrives at Geneva International airport, Switzerland Friday Nov. 8, 2013 for closed-door nuclear talks at the United Nations offices. Four world powers are dispatching their top diplomats to Geneva on Friday to add their weight to negotiations aimed at putting initial limits on Iran's ability to make atomic weapons. French, British and German foreign ministers are joining U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Geneva, who is coming GENEVA (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Friday of significant differences between Iran and six world powers trying to fashion a nuclear agreement, as he and three European foreign ministers added their weight to try to narrow the gap.


Snowden persuaded other NSA workers to give up passwords

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 08:44 AM PST

File photo of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, an analyst with a U.S. defence contractor, being interviewed by The Guardian in his hotel room in Hong KongBy Mark Hosenball and Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden used login credentials and passwords provided unwittingly by colleagues at a spy base in Hawaii to access some of the classified material he leaked to the media, sources said. A handful of agency employees who gave their login details to Snowden were identified, questioned and removed from their assignments, said a source close to several U.S. government investigations into the damage caused by the leaks. Snowden may have persuaded between 20 and 25 fellow workers at the NSA regional operations center in Hawaii to give him their logins and passwords by telling them they were needed for him to do his job as a computer systems administrator, a second source said. The revelation is the latest to indicate that inadequate security measures at the NSA played a significant role in the worst breach of classified data in the super-secret eavesdropping agency's 61-year history.


Height of 1 World Trade Center debated in Chicago

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 08:29 AM PST

This combination made from file photos shows Willis Tower, formerly known as the Sears Tower, in Chicago on March 12, 2008, left, and One World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 5, 2013. Soaring above the city at 1,776 feet, 104-story One World Trade Center is in contention with Willis Tower for the title of America's tallest building. A committee of architects recognized as the arbiters on world building heights is meeting Friday Nov. 8, 2013 in Chicago to decide whether a design change affecting One World Trade Center's needle disqualifies its hundreds of feet from being counted, which would deny the building the title of nation's tallest giving the title to the 110 story Willis Tower at 1,450 feet. (AP Photo)CHICAGO (AP) — Rising from the ashes of 9/11, the new World Trade Center tower has punched above the New York skyline to reach its powerfully symbolic height of 1,776 feet and become the tallest building in the country. Or has it?


CBS says it was 'misled' in Benghazi report

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 08:13 AM PST

A vehicle and the surrounding area are engulfed in flames after it was set on fire inside the US consulate compound in Benghazi late on September 11, 2012A source who claimed to be on the scene told the F.B.I. he wasn't.


World's top diplomats to join Iran nuclear talks

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 07:38 AM PST

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif waits for the start of two days of closed-door nuclear talks at the United Nations offices in Geneva Switzerland, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013. Six world powers are dangling the prospect of easing some sanctions against Iran if Tehran agrees to curb work that could be used to make nuclear weapons. Talks resume Thursday between Iran and the six _ The United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)GENEVA (AP) — Four world powers are dispatching their top diplomats to Geneva on Friday to add their weight to negotiations aimed at putting initial limits on Iran's ability to make atomic weapons.


CBS admits error in Benghazi '60 Minutes' story

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 07:05 AM PST

NEW YORK (AP) — CBS says it was misled by a "60 Minutes" source who claimed he was on the scene of a 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, when it turns out now that he was not there.

US added surprisingly strong 204,000 jobs in Oct.

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 06:49 AM PST

FILE -In this Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, file photo, job applicants arrives for an internship job fair held by the Miami Marlins, at Marlins Park in Miami. The government issues the October jobs report, on Friday, Nov. 8, 2013, which had been delayed a week because of the government shutdown. ( AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy added 204,000 jobs in October, an unexpected burst of hiring in a month when the government was partly shut down for 16 days, and far more jobs in August and September than previously thought.


One of world's strongest storms blasts Philippines

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 06:32 AM PST

A house is engulfed by the storm surge brought about by powerful typhoon Haiyan that hit Legazpi city, Albay province Friday Nov.8, 2013 about 520 kilometers ( 325 miles) south of Manila, Philippines. Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded slammed into the Philippines on Friday, setting off landslides, knocking out power in one entire province and cutting communications in the country's central region of island provinces. (AP Photo/Nelson Salting)MANILA, Philippines (AP) — One of the strongest storms on record slammed into the central Philippines on Friday, killing at least four people, forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes and knocking out power and communications in several provinces. But the nation appeared to avoid a major disaster because the rapidly moving typhoon blew away before wreaking more damage, officials said.


U.S. jobs market dodges blow from government shutdown

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 06:14 AM PST

Job seeker fills out forms at career fair in New York CityThe department said there had been no "discernible" impact on payrolls.


Why did Deep Throat leak? Revisiting the Watergate leaks and the garage where it all began

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 05:40 AM PST

Why Did Deep Throat leak? Revisiting the Watergate LeaksWatergate expert Max Holland says Deep Throat was leaking as part of a plot to become FBI Director


Rickets making a comeback in the UK, doctors say

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 03:16 AM PST

FILE - In this June 3, 1943 file photo, physical therapist Estrid Dane carefully supports two-year-old Anthony Bull, seen here walking up a corrugated ladder during exercises which are designed to strengthen his legs in East London. Rickets, the childhood disease that once caused an epidemic of bowed legs and curved spines during the Victorian era, is making a shocking comeback in 21st-century Britain. Derived from the Old English word LONDON (AP) — Rickets, the childhood disease that once caused an epidemic of bowed legs and curved spines during the Victorian era, is making a shocking comeback in 21st-century Britain.


More lenient school lice policies bug some parents

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 03:00 AM PST

Over the counter products for controlling head lice are photographed in Washington, Monday, Nov. 4, 2013. Some parents are scratching their heads over less restrictive head lice policies that allow children with live bugs in their hair to return to the classroom for the rest of the day. Some school nurses are no longer sending home WASHINGTON (AP) — Some parents are scratching their heads over less restrictive head lice policies that allow children with live bugs in their hair to return to the classroom.


US, Israel lose UNESCO voting right in dispute

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 02:27 AM PST

FILE- This Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013, file photo shows a general view of the UNESCO prior to the opening of General Conference in Paris, France. American influence in culture, science and education around the world will take a high-profile blow on Friday as the US is stripped of its vote at the world's premier cultural agency, UNESCO. The U.S. loses its vote at the Paris-based U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization following Washington's decision in 2011 to cut all funding to the U.N. agency over the vote giving Palestine member-state status. (AP Photo/Benjamin Girette, file)PARIS (AP) — American influence in culture, science and education around the world took a high-profile blow Friday after the U.S. automatically lost voting rights at UNESCO, after missing a crucial deadline to repay its debt to the world's cultural agency.


Syrian opposition refuses Moscow talks

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 02:12 AM PST

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's Foreign Ministry says Syria's main Western-backed opposition group is refusing to participate in talks in Moscow.

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