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As cohabitation gains favor, shotgun weddings fade

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 12:35 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — No longer taboo, living together has become a more common arrangement for America's dating couples who become parents. It's a cultural shift since the days of so-called shotgun weddings to avoid family embarrassment over an unplanned pregnancy.

Workers seize 2 bosses at French Goodyear site

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 12:17 PM PST

Workers of the Goodyear tire factory gather at the plant in Amiens, northern France, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014. Two Goodyear managers, production manager Michel Dheilly and Human Resources director Bernard Glesser, were blocked from leaving the plant on Monday, with angry workers demanding more money in exchange for the inevitable loss of their jobs. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)PARIS (AP) — Monday's meeting in northern French city of Amiens was not going well.

'Jihad Jane' gets 10 years in plot to kill artist

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 12:17 PM PST

FILE - This June 26, 1997 file booking photo provided by the Tom Green County Jail in San Angelo, Texas, shows Colleen R. LaRose, also known as Jihad Jane. LaRose's sentencing hearing starts Monday, Jan. 6, 2014, in Philadelphia. LaRose admits she plotted to kill a Swedish artist over a cartoon that offended Muslims. Prosecutors will seek a long sentence Monday, despite her extensive cooperation. (AP Photo/Tom Green County Jail, File)PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A troubled Pennsylvania woman who called herself "Jihad Jane" online and plotted to kill a Swedish artist was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison after telling a judge she had been consumed by thoughts of a Muslim holy war.

National Zoo prepares panda cub for debut in DC

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 10:15 AM PST

Bao Bao, the four and a half month old giant panda, makes her public debut at an indoor habitat at the National Zoo in Washington, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014. Bao Bao, who now weighs 16.9 pounds (7.65 kilograms), was born to the zoo's female giant panda Mei Xiang and male giant panda Tian Tian. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — Bao Bao, the giant panda cub at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, is getting used to seeing fans outside her panda house enclosure as she prepares for her public debut this month.

Restive staff seize bosses at French Goodyear site

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 08:36 AM PST

PARIS (AP) — Farm tires filled the doorway, and the two Goodyear managers were trapped in the conference room with angry workers demanding more money in exchange for the inevitable loss of their jobs. Monday's meeting was not going well.

1 serious, 1 critical after Colorado plane crash

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 08:20 AM PST

Emergency crews work near a passenger plane that crashed upon landing at the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport in Aspen, Colo., Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/The Aspen Times, Leigh Vogel)DENVER (AP) — Two men from Mexico who survived a fiery plane crash in Colorado are being treated for serious injuries.

Liz Cheney quitting bid to unseat Wyoming's Enzi

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 05:47 AM PST

FILE - In this July 17, 2013 file photo, Liz Cheney speaks during a campaign appearance in Casper, Wyo. Published reports citing anonymous GOP insiders say Liz Cheney, the daughter of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, plans to quit the Republican Wyoming Senate primary and abandon her effort to unseat incumbent Sen. Mike Enzi. Cheney moved her family from Virginia to Wyoming to run for the seat. Her effort to replace Enzi, a Senate veteran, angered and upset many Republicans and her campaign has faced a number of problems. (AP Photo/Matt Young, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, said Monday she is abandoning her effort to unseat Republican incumbent Sen. Mike Enzi.

Czech FM condemns arms at Palestinian embassy

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 05:46 AM PST

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Foreign Ministry has used strong words to condemn the discovery of illegal weapons at the Palestinian embassy complex where a possible booby-trapped safe killed the ambassador.

AP source: Liz Cheney to quit Senate bid

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 05:46 AM PST

FILE - In this July 17, 2013 file photo, Liz Cheney speaks during a campaign appearance in Casper, Wyo. Published reports citing anonymous GOP insiders say Liz Cheney, the daughter of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, plans to quit the Republican Wyoming Senate primary and abandon her effort to unseat incumbent Sen. Mike Enzi. Cheney moved her family from Virginia to Wyoming to run for the seat. Her effort to replace Enzi, a Senate veteran, angered and upset many Republicans and her campaign has faced a number of problems. (AP Photo/Matt Young, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, is quitting the Wyoming's Republican Senate primary, abandoning her effort to unseat incumbent Sen. Mike Enzi, according to a Republican congressional official.

Death threats delay Tunisian constitution vote

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 05:46 AM PST

Parliament members gather, Friday, Jan. 3, 2014 at the National assembly in Tunis. Tunisia's assembly began to vote Friday for the new constitution that its members have spent the last two years writing, a crucial step in the North African nation's transition to democracy. The assembly's 217 members need to approve each of the new document's 150 articles with a simple majority vote before passing the entire document with a two-thirds majority. (AP Photo/Aimen Zine)TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia's Constitutional Assembly on Monday prepared to select a new commission to oversee upcoming elections after its work was delayed over the weekend due to death threats.

Sochi Olympics: The good and the bad

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 03:56 AM PST

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, takes part in a friendly hockey match between the Stars of the NHL 1 and the Stars of the NHL 2 teams at The Bolshoy Ice Dome, the part of the complex of facilities operated by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) at the Black Sea resort of Sochi, southern Russia, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)LONDON (AP) — Tuesday marks the 1-month countdown to the start of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, a defining moment on the world stage for Russia and Vladimir Putin.

Rodman and ex-NBA All Stars arrive in North Korea

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 03:56 AM PST

Former NBA basketball star Dennis Rodman, right, and fellow U.S. basketball players arrive at a hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea Monday, Jan. 6, 2014. Rodman arrived in the North Korean capital with a squad of former basketball stars in what he calls PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Dennis Rodman and a team of former National Basketball Association players arrived in North Korea on Monday for a game he says will be a "birthday present" for one of their most unlikely fans: leader Kim Jong Un.

Dangerous cold spreads across U.S.

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 03:26 AM PST

A man wears a face mask and heavy clothes while walking through downtown Springfield, Ill., in blowing and falling snow as a strong winter storm moves through the Midwest Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014. Temperatures not seen in years are likely to set records in the coming days across the Midwest, Northeast and South, creating dangerous travel conditions and prompting church and school closures. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)It hasn't been this cold for almost two decades in many parts of the country.

Reports: Liz Cheney to quit Senate bid

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 01:20 AM PST

FILE - In this July 17, 2013 file photo, Liz Cheney speaks during a campaign appearance in Casper, Wyo. Published reports citing anonymous GOP insiders say Liz Cheney, the daughter of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, plans to quit the Republican Wyoming Senate primary and abandon her effort to unseat incumbent Sen. Mike Enzi. Cheney moved her family from Virginia to Wyoming to run for the seat. Her effort to replace Enzi, a Senate veteran, angered and upset many Republicans and her campaign has faced a number of problems. (AP Photo/Matt Young, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Published reports citing anonymous GOP insiders say Liz Cheney plans to quit the Republican Wyoming Senate primary and abandon her effort to unseat incumbent Sen. Mike Enzi.

Brain-dead girl moved from Calif. hospital

Posted: 05 Jan 2014 10:18 PM PST

File - This undated file photo provided by the McMath family and Omari Sealey shows Jahi McMath. The family attorney of the California girl declared brain dead after a tonsillectomy says she has been taken out of Children's Hospital of Oakland. Christopher Dolan tells The Associated Press that McMath left the hospital in a private ambulance shortly before 8 p.m. Sunday Jan. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Courtesy of McMath Family and Omari Sealey, File)A family lawyer says Jahi McMath has been released into the custody of her parents.

Fighting between Iraqi troops, al-Qaida kills 34

Posted: 05 Jan 2014 09:48 PM PST

Gunmen patrol after clashes with Iraqi security forces in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014. Lt. Gen. Rasheed Fleih, who leads the Anbar Military Command, told the state television Sunday that BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqi military tried to dislodge al-Qaida militants in Sunni-dominated Anbar province Sunday, unleashing airstrikes and besieging the regional capital in fighting that killed at least 34 people, officials said. A series of bombs in Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad, meanwhile, killed at least 20 people.

'Life-threatening' cold bites Midwest, heads east

Posted: 05 Jan 2014 07:46 PM PST

A woman and her son make their way up a snow covered sidewalk in the South Bronx section of New York CityA frigid, dense air known as a "polar vortex" is expected to suppress temperatures.

Chargers rally for 27-10 win over Bengals

Posted: 05 Jan 2014 04:11 PM PST

Fans congratulate San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers (17) after a 27-10 win over the Cincinnati Bengals in an NFL wild-card playoff football game on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Tom Uhlman)CINCINNATI (AP) — Dump it off to the running back, hand it off, let the field goal kicker take it from there.

1 killed, 2 injured in Aspen, Colo., plane crash

Posted: 05 Jan 2014 02:41 PM PST

Emergency crews work near a passenger plane that crashed upon landing at the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport in Aspen, Colo., Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/The Aspen Times, Leigh Vogel)ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — One person died and two people were injured when a plane crashed at the Aspen airport Sunday afternoon, Colorado authorities said.

Plane crashes in Aspen, Colo., crews respond

Posted: 05 Jan 2014 02:11 PM PST

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Emergency crews responded to a fiery plane crash Sunday afternoon at the airport in Aspen, Colo., authorities said.

Syrian rebels clash with al-Qaida-linked fighters

Posted: 05 Jan 2014 01:25 PM PST

This image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrians inspecting a burnt bus after a missile fired by Syrian government aircraft hit the vehicle in the rebel-held neighborhood of al-Bab in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013. The bus was full of people when it was struck, setting it on fire and killing several people, activists said.. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition fighters battled rival rebels from an al-Qaida-linked faction across parts of northern Syria on Sunday, as deep fissures within the insurgency erupted into some of the most serious and sustained violence between groups opposed to President Bashar Assad since the country's conflict began.
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