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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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