| Primaries offer 1st major test of voter ID laws Posted: 28 Feb 2014 12:32 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — In elections that begin next week, voters in 10 states will be required to present photo identification before casting ballots — the first major test of voter ID laws after years of legal challenges arguing that the measures are designed to suppress voting.
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| Chinese gov't media calls departing U.S. envoy a plague -- and worse Posted: 28 Feb 2014 11:45 AM PST  BEIJING (AP) — A major Chinese government news service used a racist slur to describe the departing American ambassador in a mean-spirited editorial on Friday that drew widespread public condemnation in China.
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| Tea party ready for fight with GOP establishment Posted: 28 Feb 2014 11:13 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Tea partyers insist they're not to blame for Republican election losses in congressional and presidential elections, faulting the GOP establishment for showing little fight.
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| From Riyadh to Beirut, fear of Syria blowback Posted: 28 Feb 2014 11:13 AM PST  BISARIYEH, Lebanon (AP) — The once-tranquil, religiously mixed village of Bisariyeh is seething: Two of its young men who fought alongside the rebels in Syria recently returned home radicalized and staged suicide bombings in Lebanon.
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| Yanukovych: I won't ask for military assistance Posted: 28 Feb 2014 11:13 AM PST  ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AP) — Making his first public appearance since fleeing Ukraine, fugitive Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych pledged Friday to fight for his country's future but said he will not ask for military assistance.
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| Ousted Yanukovych urges Russia's Putin to take firm line on Ukraine Posted: 28 Feb 2014 11:13 AM PST  By Denis Pinchuk ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (Reuters) - Viktor Yanukovich urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to take a bolder line with Ukraine's new rulers who had ousted him, telling him on Friday that Russia could not remain indifferent to what had happened in the former Soviet republic. Appearing in southern Russia where he has taken refuge since fleeing Ukraine on February 21, Yanukovich said: "I think that Russia should act and is obliged to act. "Knowing Vladimir Putin's personality, I am surprised that he is still saying nothing. Russia cannot be indifferent, cannot be a bystander watching the fate of as close a partner as Ukraine," the 63-year-old Yanukovich said.
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| Hollywood movie titles lost in translation Posted: 28 Feb 2014 09:22 AM PST  JERUSALEM (AP) — David O. Russell's crime drama "American Hustle" could be a big winner at Sunday's Academy Awards. But for the movie's many international fans, it may take a little longer to realize it. In their country, there is simply no word that captures the true essence of "Hustle."
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| Ukraine says Russian tries to seize airports, base Posted: 28 Feb 2014 09:22 AM PST  SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine accused Russia of a "military invasion and occupation" on Friday, saying Russian troops have taken up positions around a coast guard base and two airports on its strategic Crimea peninsula.
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| AP PHOTOS: Portraits from a long march in Pakistan Posted: 28 Feb 2014 08:18 AM PST  ISLAMABAD (AP) — They carried photographs of their loved ones and signs protesting their disappearance across Pakistan, a march of nearly 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles) to demonstrate against security forces they alleged are responsible.
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| Kerry Kennedy acquitted of drugged driving in New York Posted: 28 Feb 2014 08:01 AM PST  WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Kerry Kennedy was acquitted Friday of drugged driving after she accidentally took a sleeping pill and then sideswiped a truck in a wild highway drive she said she didn't remember.
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| Obama to preach unity to Democrats at winter meeting Posted: 28 Feb 2014 08:01 AM PST  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday will lay out his approach to electing fellow Democrats in congressional campaigns this year as his party tries to overcome stiff headwinds brought about at least in part due to his signature healthcare law. The president will address the winter meeting of the Democratic National Committee with the aim of maintaining a spirit of unity among party activists. Democrats are trying to face down emboldened Republicans who see a chance of capturing the Senate and building on their majority in the House of Representatives. All 435 members of the House and a third of the 100-member Senate are up for grabs in November elections.
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| Doctors Without Borders expelled from Myanmar Posted: 28 Feb 2014 06:57 AM PST YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Doctors Without Borders says it has been expelled from Myanmar and the decision leaves tens of thousands of lives at risk. |
| German police launch manhunt after 2 women killed Posted: 28 Feb 2014 06:25 AM PST BERLIN (AP) — Police in Germany have launched a manhunt after two people were killed in separate attacks at lawyers' offices in the west of the country. |
| Ukraine prosecutors to seek Yanukovych extradition Posted: 28 Feb 2014 04:19 AM PST  SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's Prosecutor General says it is preparing to seek extradition of fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych, who is believed to be in Russia.
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| Ukraine says Russian forces control Crimea airport Posted: 28 Feb 2014 04:19 AM PST SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops took control of the two main airports in the strategic peninsula of Crimea, Ukraine's interior minister charged Friday, as the country asked the U.N. Security Council to intervene in the escalating conflict. Russian state media said Russian forces in Crimea denied involvement. |
| Senate blocks Dems' bill boosting vets' benefits Posted: 28 Feb 2014 04:19 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Senate on Thursday derailed Democratic legislation that would have provided $21 billion for medical, education and job-training benefits for the nation's veterans. The bill fell victim to election-year disputes over spending and fresh penalties against Iran.
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| Ukraine says Russian forces block airport Posted: 28 Feb 2014 04:19 AM PST KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian military were blocking a Ukrainian military airport in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in Crimea near the Russian naval base while unidentified armed men were patrolling another airport serving the regional capital, Ukraine's new Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said on Friday. |
| Armed men seize airports in Ukraine's Crimea Posted: 28 Feb 2014 01:28 AM PST  Ukraine's government calls it an invasion by Russian forces, but Moscow denies involvement.
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| Collins meets with Shepard's parents Posted: 28 Feb 2014 01:27 AM PST  DENVER (AP) — Jason Collins had plenty of gifts for Matthew Shepard's parents: a basket, a blowout, an autographed No. 98 jersey that he wears in honor of their son.
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| Report: Armed men take airport in Ukraine's Crimea Posted: 27 Feb 2014 09:52 PM PST  SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Dozens of armed men in Russian-marked military uniforms occupied an airport in the capital of Ukraine's strategic Crimea region early Friday, a report said, but a later report cited an airport official as saying the men apologized and left after finding no Ukrainian troops had landed.
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| Critics blast Rio's World Cup, Olympic evictions Posted: 27 Feb 2014 09:52 PM PST  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — With her family of six living in five different houses scattered across the city, Dalvaneide Pequeno do Nascimento longs for the days when her whole clan shared the same roof.
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| S. Korea calls North missile tests calculated provocation Posted: 27 Feb 2014 08:35 PM PST  South Korea on Friday labelled North Korea's test firing of four short-range missiles a calculated, provocative act timed to coincide with South-US joint military exercises. North Korea test-fired the missiles into the Sea of Japan on Thursday, three days after the joint drills kicked off in the face of vocal opposition from Pyongyang. "With the exercises underway, we see the firings as a calculated, provocative act," defence ministry spokesman Kim Min-Seok told journalists.
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| Lawsuit alleges 'sadistic violence' at sprawling Chicago jail Posted: 27 Feb 2014 05:26 PM PST  CHICAGO (AP) — Guards at one of the nation's largest jails systematically engage in "sadistic violence and brutality" against inmates, according to a federal class-action lawsuit filed on Thursday.
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| Moncrief becomes household name with kitchen catch Posted: 27 Feb 2014 05:26 PM PST  GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) — A catch in the kitchen has made Carlos Moncrief a household name.
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| Mormon church pushes back on planet misconceptions Posted: 27 Feb 2014 04:39 PM PST  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon Church is pushing back against the notion that members of the faith are taught they'll get their own planet in the afterlife, a misconception popularized in pop culture most recently by the Broadway show "The Book of Mormon."
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