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Keystone XL pipeline clears significant hurdle

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 12:56 PM PST

FILE - In this March 11, 2013, file photo, a sign reading State Dept. report raises no major environmental objections to its construction.

Powder mailed to sites near Super Bowl; 1 is inert

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 11:59 AM PST

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — White powder was mailed to businesses near the site of Sunday's Super Bowl, prompting an investigation by the FBI and other law enforcement. A federal law enforcement official said one of the envelopes contained baking soda.

Ukraine activist says he was abducted, tortured

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 10:47 AM PST

In this frame grab provided by 5 Channel, bloody Dmytro Bulatov speaks to press after he was found near Kiev, Ukraine, Jan. 31, 2014. Bulatov, an opposition protester who disappeared more than a week ago says he was kidnapped and tortured by unknown assailants, in a chilling development that is likely to further stoke anger against the embattled government of President Viktor Yanukovych. Dmytro Bulatov, is the latest in a string of disappearances and mysterious attacks on prominent opposition leaders, which left one activist dead and several badly beaten. (AP Photo/5 Channel)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Police on Friday opened an investigation into the kidnapping of an opposition activist, who said he was held captive for more than a week and tortured in the latest in a string of mysterious attacks on anti-government protesters in the two-month-long political crisis.

Stocks slide on company earnings, overseas trouble

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 09:36 AM PST

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, file photo, Trader Patrick McKeon, center, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Global stocks fell on Friday Jan. 31, 2014 after a drop in eurozone inflation showed the recovery is still weak there and concern persisted over the outlook for emerging economies. (AP Photo/FILE)NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks were lower in midday trading Friday, as investors fretted over disappointing results from retailers like Amazon.com and more trouble in overseas markets.

PHOTOS: Boulder nearly wipes out Italian farmhouse

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 09:21 AM PST

In this photo provided by Tareom.com Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, and taken on Jan. 23, 2014, a huge boulder is seen after it missed a farm house by less than a meter, destroying the barn, and stopped in the vineyard, while a second giant boulder, which detached during the same landslide on Jan. 21, 2014, stopped next to the house, in Ronchi di Termeno, in Northern Italy. According to reports, the Trebo family living there was unharmed in the landslide. (AP Photo/Markus Hell, Tareom.com, ho)ROME (AP) — A huge boulder unleashed by a landslide in northern Italy narrowly missed a farmhouse, destroyed a barn and came to a stop in vineyards.

Syria puts 2nd round of peace talks on hold

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 07:41 AM PST

A Syrian demonstrator holds up a picture of Syrian President Assad as she shouts pro-government slogans during a demonstration outside the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday Jan. 31, 2014. Arabic reading on the picture says 'we are all with you'. The first face-to-face meetings between Syria's warring sides in three years were wrapping up Friday, with a patient U.N. mediator struggling to build enough momentum for a more constructive second round to break through the deadly impasse. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)GENEVA (AP) — After more than a week of negotiations aimed at ending Syria's civil war, the country's foreign minister announced Friday that the Syrian government won't immediately commit to returning for more talks on Feb. 10.

Activists: 1,900 killed in Syria during talks

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 07:18 AM PST

In this Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center (AMC), an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian man carrying the body of a child who was killed following a Syrian government airstrike in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)BEIRUT (AP) — Fighting in Syria killed nearly 1,900 people, including at least 430 civilians, during the week of U.N.-hosted peace talks in Switzerland, activists said Friday. The death toll indicates that violence barely paused as the warring parties met but struck uncompromising stances, failing to reach any agreements that could help resolve the conflict.

Ukraine's president signs amnesty bill

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 06:26 AM PST

In this frame grab provided by 5 Channel, bloody Dmytro Bulatov speaks to press after he was found near Kiev, Ukraine, Jan. 31, 2014. Bulatov, an opposition protester who disappeared more than a week ago says he was kidnapped and tortured by unknown assailants, in a chilling development that is likely to further stoke anger against the embattled government of President Viktor Yanukovych. Dmytro Bulatov, is the latest in a string of disappearances and mysterious attacks on prominent opposition leaders, which left one activist dead and several badly beaten. (AP Photo/5 Channel)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Police on Friday opened an investigation into the kidnapping of an opposition activist, who said he was held captive for more than a week and tortured in the latest in a string of mysterious attacks on anti-government protesters in the two-month-long political crisis.

Kerry: Offers by Ukraine's president not enough

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 05:31 AM PST

US Secretary of State John Kerry briefs the media after a meeting with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the airport Tegel in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Jan. 31, 2014. Kerry is on a stopover in the German capital en route to the Munich Security Conference. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)BERLIN (AP) — U.S. Secretary John Kerry said Friday that overtures by Ukraine's embattled president to the country's political opposition have not been enough to resolve the crisis there.

AP EXCLUSIVE: Inside Pakistani anti-bomb school

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 05:08 AM PST

In this Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014, photo, a Pakistani soldier scans an area with a metal detector during a training session at the Counter IED Explosives and Munitions School, in Risalpur, Pakistan. Militants in Pakistan have become devilishly ingenious about where they plant improvised explosive devices, a type of bomb responsible for thousands of wounds and deaths in Pakistan. They've been found strapped to children's bicycles, hidden inside water jugs and even hung in tree branches. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)RISALPUR, Pakistan (AP) — Militants in Pakistan have found clever ways to hide homemade bombs. They've been strapped to children's bicycles, hidden inside water jugs and even hung in tree branches. But the most shocking place that Brig. Basim Saeed has heard of such a device being planted was inside a hollowed-out book made to look like a Quran, Islam's holy book.

Syrian negotiators meet, wrap up weeklong talks

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 04:07 AM PST

GENEVA (AP) — Syrian negotiators are wrapping up a week of peace talks in Geneva — the first round of what is expected to be prolonged negotiations stretching several weeks or even months.

Activists: Syrian troop shells kill 16 in Aleppo

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 03:42 AM PST

In this Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center (AMC), an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian man carrying the body of a child who was killed following a Syrian government airstrike in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say the latest Syrian government shelling has killed at least 16 people in a rebel-held area of the northern city of Aleppo.

Air Force brass: Culture of fear led to cheating

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 03:41 AM PST

FILE - This Jan. 9, 2014 file photo shows a mockup of a Minuteman 3 nuclear missile used for training by missile maintenance crews at F. E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo. U.S. officials say the number of Air Force service members implicated in a nuclear-force cheating scandal has roughly doubled from the 34 initially cited by the Air Force. It wasn't immediately clear whether the additional 30-plus airmen implicated in an investigation into cheating on proficiency tests are alleged to have participated in the cheating directly or were involved in some indirect way. (AP Photo/Robert Burns, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — A worrisome culture of fear that made launch officers believe they had to get perfect test scores to be promoted fueled a widening cheating scandal within the military's nuclear missile corps, according to Air Force officials.

Atlanta area slowly rebounding from winter storm

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 02:15 AM PST

Kevin Krehmeyer helps a motorist get her car started on the side of Interstate 75, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, in Atlanta. The car was one of many vehicles abandoned during Tuesday's winter storm. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)ATLANTA (AP) — Hundreds of drivers were reunited with their abandoned cars and Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal ordered state employees back to work Friday as the metro Atlanta region rebounded from a winter storm that coated the area with snow and ice.

US says Syria must comply with chemical arms deal

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 01:55 AM PST

In this citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center (AMC), an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian residents and rescue workers carry a body from a building damaged by the Syrian forces airplanes in the neighborhood of Qadi Askar in Aleppo, Syria, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. The Aleppo Media Center said the air raid killed and wounded several people. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)BEIRUT (AP) — The United States accused the Syrian government Thursday of using stalling tactics to delay efforts to remove and destroy chemical agents, an indication that the international community's patience is wearing thin over the slow pace of the operation.

Amanda Knox's murder conviction upheld on appeal

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 09:11 PM PST

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — More than two years after Amanda Knox returned home to the U.S. a free woman, an Italian court Thursday reinstated her murder conviction in the stabbing of her roommate and increased her sentence to 28½ years in prison, raising the specter of a long, drawn-out extradition fight.

Dramatic rescue of baby buried in rubble in Syria

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 08:07 PM PST

In this citizen journalism image made from Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014 video provided by Nur Media Center, an anti-government activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, men dig 14-month-old Ghina Khalil out of rubble in Aleppo, Syria. The toddler was pulled out after men pulled aside rocks, concrete rubble and dust to free her, caught under a smashed building, bombed by the government forces in the area of Masaraniyeh in Aleppo. (AP Photo/Nur Media Center)Fourteen-month-old Ghina Khalil is recovering with her family in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo after being buried in rubble.

Bieber vs. Ford: Canada's favorite bad boys

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 07:53 PM PST

File-This Oct. 31, 2013, file photo shows Toronto Mayor Rob Ford telling the media to get off his property as he leaves his home in Toronto. Pop star Justin Bieber is giving Ford a brief respite as Canada's favorite bad boy and butt of all jokes. But the comparison may not be a fair one. The 19-year-old teen idol is facing the equivalent of a misdemeanor assault charge. Ford has admitted smoking crack while in a drunken stupor and is being sued for supposedly orchestrating the jailhouse beating of his sister's ex-boyfriend. (AP Photo/, Nathan Denette, File)TORONTO (AP) — Pop star Justin Bieber is giving Toronto Mayor Rob Ford a brief respite as Canada's favorite bad boy and butt of all jokes.

After snow, mayor and gov play delicate blame game

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 07:53 PM PST

Karen Hurst, left, carries a gas can as she helps Ann Batsun, recover her car on Interstate 75 Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, in Atlanta. Police and the National Guard helped people reunite with their abandoned cars Thursday as the logjam on Atlanta highways eased and the roads thawed, two days after a winter storm hit the Deep South. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)When the snow started falling Tuesday and cars lined up on the highways, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed were at an awards luncheon, smiling and back-slapping each other as the Republican governor introduced the Democratic mayor, who was named a local magazine's "Georgian of the Year."

Experts: U.S. will likely extradite Amanda Knox if Italy asks

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 04:57 PM PST

Amanda Knox appears on NBC News' The United States will have little legal argument for turning down an extradition request should Italy seek the return of Amanda Knox for the 2007 murder of her British housemate. In the latest dramatic twist in the high-profile case, a court in Florence on Thursday sentenced Knox to 28 years and six months in prison for killing Meredith Kercher in the university town of Perugia. Her lawyers now plan to appeal this latest conviction in turn to the Italian Supreme Court, but if they fail Knox could find herself flying back to a country where she has already spent four years in jail. "As popular as she is here and as pretty as she is here -- because that's what this is all about, if she was not an attractive woman we wouldn't have the group love-in -- she will be extradited if it's upheld," said Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz.

U.S.: Syria 'dragging its feet' on weapons

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 04:11 PM PST

A costal ranger from the Norwegian Naval Special Warfare Group conducts a protection mission of Norwegian cargo vessel Ark Futura that is transferring Syria's chemical agents out of the country for destruction, the harbour of Latakia, SyriaTop officials urge Damascus to immediately hand over chemical weapons cache as promised.

Fatal Ky. fire began with material against heater

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 02:57 PM PST

Members of the Kentucky State Fire Marshall's office look over the remains of a house fire in Depoy, Ky. Thursday Jan. 30, 2014. As many as nine people were killed early Thursday in a house fire in rural western Kentucky and two people were taken to a hospital for treatment, officials said. Eleven people lived in the home in the Depoy community of Muhlenberg County, Greenville Assistant Fire Chief Roger Chandler said. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)GREENVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky State Police say a fire that killed 9 people started accidentally with combustible material against an electric baseboard heater in a bedroom.

Solid growth brightens economic outlook for 2014

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 02:25 PM PST

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, file photo, employees at Sheffield Platers Inc. work on the factory floor in San Diego. The Commerce Department releases fourth-quarter gross domestic product on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014 (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumers will spend more. Government will cut less. Businesses will invest more. And more companies will hire.

Italy appeals court upholds murder conviction against Amanda Knox, sets 28.6-year sentence

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 01:41 PM PST

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Italy appeals court upholds murder conviction against Amanda Knox, sets 28.6-year sentence.
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In Ukraine, president takes sick leave amid crisis

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 01:05 PM PST

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013 file photo Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych speaks during a press conference in Kiev, Ukraine. Ukraine's embattled president Viktor Yanukovych is taking sick leave on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, as the country's political crisis continues without signs of resolution. A statement on the presidential website Thursday said Yanukovych has an acute respiratory illness and high fever. There was no indication of how long he might be on leave or whether he would be able to do any work. (AP Photo/Mykhailo Markiv, Pool)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — In the midst of Ukraine's endless political crisis, its embattled president went on sick leave Thursday, setting off a wave of conspiracy theories since protesters have been demanding his ouster for months.

Oxfam accepts Scarlett Johansson's resignation

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 12:09 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2013 file photo, actress Scarlett Johansson poses for photographers on the red carpet for the screening of the film LONDON (AP) — Oxfam International said Thursday that American actress Scarlett Johansson's support of an Israeli company operating in a West Bank settlement was incompatible with her role as an Oxfam Global Ambassador.

Feds to seek death for Boston bombing suspect

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 12:05 PM PST

Attorney general makes final decision to seek death penalty against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Police: 9 bodies recovered in Ky. house fire

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 11:09 AM PST

Members of the Kentucky State Fire Marshall's office look over the remains of a house fire in Depoy, Ky. Thursday Jan. 30, 2014. As many as nine people were killed early Thursday in a house fire in rural western Kentucky and two people were taken to a hospital for treatment, officials said. Eleven people lived in the home in the Depoy community of Muhlenberg County, Greenville Assistant Fire Chief Roger Chandler said. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)Relative says a couple in their 30s lived in the house with their nine children.

Super Bowl sex, drug arrests underway in NYC

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 10:29 AM PST

NEW YORK (AP) — Police were rounding up 18 people in New York City on Thursday on allegations they sold "party packs" of cocaine and sex to high-end clients and texted their customers to advertise ahead of this week's Super Bowl festivities.

New NYC mayor to drop stop-and-frisk appeal

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 09:55 AM PST

People attend a news conference against the Stop-and-Frisk program, outside the Federal Court in New YorkJudge had ordered major reforms to NYPD's implementation of policy.

Doctors trying to bring Schumacher out of coma

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 08:33 AM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 23, 2012 file photo, Grand Prix driver Michael Schumacher, of Germany, sits in his car during a free practice at the Interlagos race track in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Michael Schumacher's doctors have started the process of bringing the former Formula One champion out of the coma he has been in since a skiing accident a month ago, his manager said Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. The 45-year-old Schumacher suffered serious head injuries when he fell and hit the right side of his head on a rock in the French resort of Meribel on Dec. 29. (AP Photo/Victor Caivano, File)LONDON (AP) — Michael Schumacher's doctors have started trying to wake up the former Formula Champion from the medically induced coma he's been in since a skiing accident last month, his manager said Thursday.

ACLU promotes in ‘My Big Gay Illegal Wedding’ contest

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 06:53 AM PST

'Big Gay Legal Wedding'Brian Jensen and Jeromy Manke, a same-sex engaged couple in Nevada, are in the running to win a free trip to New York City, $5,000, and help from a wedding planner to fund their spring nuptials in California.

Report: Syria government levelled civilian neighborhoods

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 06:15 AM PST

A boy reacts at a site hit by what activists said was an air raid by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in the Kadi Askar neighbourhood of AleppoBEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government used controlled explosives and bulldozers to raze thousands of residential buildings, in some cases entire neighborhoods, in a campaign that appeared designed to punish civilians sympathetic to the opposition or to cause disproportionate harm to them, an international human rights group said Thursday.

What Obama still hasn't figured out about being president

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 03:08 AM PST

President Barack Obama speaks about raising the minimum wage, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, at a Costco store in Lanham, Md., the morning after his State of the Union address. The president was promoting his newly unveiled plans to boost wages for some workers and help Americans save for retirement _ no action from Congress necessary. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)For a week leading up to the president's Tuesday address, White House advisers were trying out yet another new catchphrase, telling any reporter they could find that President Barack Obama had discovered he had "a phone and a pen," and he intended to use them in the year ahead.

Ukrainian president takes sick leave amid crisis

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 02:11 AM PST

Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych, left, greets United Nations Special Coordinator Robert Serry prior their talks in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014. Ukraine's parliament discussed an amnesty Wednesday for those arrested during weeks of protests in the crisis-torn country — but some of the possible conditions attached to it would be unacceptable to the opposition. (AP Photo/Mykhailo Markiv, Pool)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's embattled president Viktor Yanukovych is taking sick leave as the country's political crisis continues without signs of resolution.

Thai government forced to beg access to offices

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 01:53 AM PST

Anti-government protesters with national flags gather for a rally Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand's government announced Tuesday it will go ahead with an election this weekend despite an opposition boycott, months of street protests and the likelihood of more violence in the country's political crisis.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)BANGKOK (AP) — The protest leader, a monk in flowing orange robes, sat sternly at the head of a long hardwood table, his newfound authority in this patch of Bangkok plain for all to see.

AP PHOTOS: South struggles out of deep freeze

Posted: 30 Jan 2014 12:50 AM PST

The Deep South is still digging out of the not-so-deep snow that nonetheless paralyzed the region, forcing schoolchildren to spend the night at schools, stranding motorists, and extending commutes normally counted in minutes to hours.

Feds urged to better track sex abuse in schools

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 10:22 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2013, photo, former Los Angeles teacher Mark Berndt, 62, pleads no contest during his change-of-plea hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court. Federal agencies aren't doing enough to track incidents of sexual abuse committed by school personnel and should better educate districts and states about how to handle such cases, congressional investigators say. One of the most high-profile sexual abuse cases was in Los Angeles, where the once-respected teacher was sentenced in November to 25 years in prison after entering the legal equivalent of guilty pleas to 23 counts of committing lewd acts on children. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agencies aren't doing enough to track incidents of sexual abuse committed by school personnel and should better educate districts and states about how to handle such cases, congressional investigators say

Court fight stalling Mo. execution in final hours

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 06:25 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2011 file photo released by the Missouri Department of Corrections is death-row inmate Herbert Smulls who is scheduled to die by injection one minute after midnight Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 for killing St. Louis County jeweler Stephen Honickman in 1991. The U.S. Supreme Court has granted a stay of execution for Missouri death row inmate Herbert Smulls, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. Justice Samuel Alito signed the order that was sent out Tuesday night after President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech. (AP Photo/Missouri Department of Corrections)BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — The execution of a death-row inmate in Missouri was still on hold Wednesday night pending a court fight, with the deadline for the state to complete the lethal injection fast approaching.

Bieber turns self in on expected charge in Canada

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 05:05 PM PST

TORONTO (AP) — Justin Bieber has turned himself in to Toronto police for an expected assault charge.

Snow, ice send South's flagship city reeling

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 04:27 PM PST

Richard Uzoma returns to his car after he lost control and abandoned it overnight along with other vehicles which couldn't traverse the ice build up on Peachtree Industrial Blvd. Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Norcross, Ga. Uzoma said it took him 12 hours to travel 10 miles last night then lost control less than a mile from his house. (AP Photo/John Amis)ATLANTA (AP) — Thousands of Atlanta schoolchildren stranded all night long in their classrooms were reunited with their parents Wednesday, while rescuers rushed to deliver blankets, food, gas and a ride home to countless shivering motorists stopped cold by a storm that paralyzed the South's flagship city with less than 3 inches of snow.

Obama executive omissions leave some allies angry

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 02:25 PM PST

President Barack Obama signs a memorandum directing the Treasury Department to create a new retirement saving account after speaking at the U.S. Steel Irvin Plant, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in West Mifflin, Pa., about retirement policies he highlighted in the State of the Union address. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)WASHINGTON (AP) — For some White House allies, the long list of executive actions President Barack Obama announced in his State of the Union address was marred by a few glaring omissions.

Missouri execution stayed by US Supreme Court

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 02:04 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2011 file photo released by the Missouri Department of Corrections is death-row inmate Herbert Smulls who is scheduled to die by injection one minute after midnight Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 for killing St. Louis County jeweler Stephen Honickman in 1991. The U.S. Supreme Court has granted a stay of execution for Missouri death row inmate Herbert Smulls, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. Justice Samuel Alito signed the order that was sent out Tuesday night after President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech. (AP Photo/Missouri Department of Corrections)BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to decide whether Missouri can go through with the scheduled Wednesday execution of a death-row inmate whose attorneys are challenging the state's refusal to disclose where it obtains its lethal injection drug.

Ukraine lawmakers offer protester amnesty

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 01:45 PM PST

Protesters chant slogans at the barricade in central Kiev, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014. Ukraine's parliament is considering measures to grant amnesty to those arrested during weeks of protests in the crisis-torn country, but possibly with conditions attached that would be unacceptable to the opposition. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's parliament has passed a measure offering amnesty to arrested protesters, but only if demonstrators vacate most of the buildings they occupy.

Egypt to put 20 Al-Jazeera journalists on trial

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 01:24 PM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013 file photo, Mohammed Badr, a cameraman for Al-Jazeera Mubasher Misr, appears at a court in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's chief prosecutor has referred 20 journalists who work for the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera network, including four foreigners, to a criminal trial on charges of joining or assisting a terrorist group and spreading false news that endangers national security. Egypt's interim-backed military government accuses the Qatar-based broadcaster of being biased in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood, which authorities have branded a terrorist organization. Only eight are currently in detention.(AP Photo/Ahmed Omar, File)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt said 20 journalists, including four foreigners, working for Al-Jazeera will face trial on charges of joining or aiding a terrorist group and endangering national security — an escalation that raised fears of a crackdown on freedom of the press.

After threat, NY rep. faces temperament questions

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 01:15 PM PST

FILE- This May 9, 2012 file photo shows Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y. speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington. Grimm is defending his actions after he physically threatened a reporter at the Capitol after President Barack Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday Jan. 28, 2014. After cutting the interview short, Grimm told New York cable news station NY1's Michael Scotto, NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm has never been shy about promoting himself as a tough-guy.
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