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Report: Man who tried Sochi plane hijack detained

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 12:57 PM PST

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Ukrainian passenger on an Istanbul-bound flight claimed Friday there was a bomb on board and tried to hijack the plane to Sochi, Russia, where the Winter Olympics are kicking off, an official said.

Sochi opening ceremony: Top 8 moments

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 12:57 PM PST

Stirring tribute to Russia's history, geography, athleticism and arts doesn't escape glitch.

Missing Wisconsin infant found alive in Iowa

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 12:57 PM PST

FILE - In this undated file photo released by Town of Beloit Police Department is of Kayden Powell. Wisconsin police said Friday, Feb. 7, 2014 the missing newborn from a southern Wisconsin home has been found alive, swaddled in a tote bag outside a gas station in eastern Iowa. Authorities say the child appears to be in good condition. (AP Photo/Town of Beloit Police Department, File)BELOIT, Wis. (AP) — A missing newborn from southern Wisconsin was found alive in a bag Friday outside a gas station in eastern Iowa, law enforcement officers said.

Philip Seymour Hoffman's funeral held in NYC

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 11:34 AM PST

Writer David Bar Katz is embraced as he arrives at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola for the private funeral of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, in New York. Hoffman, 46, was found dead Sunday of an apparent heroin overdose. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)NEW YORK (AP) — Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Ethan Hawke, Amy Adams and Ellen Burstyn have paid their respects to Philip Seymour Hoffman, an actor widely considered among the best of his generation.

Evacuation begins for civilians from Syrian city

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 11:02 AM PST

In this video image released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens sit inside a bus after they evacuated the besieged rebel-held neighborhood of of Jouret el-Shayah in Homs province, Syria, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. The Syrian government on Friday began evacuating civilians trapped in rebel-held parts of a battleground city under a rare deal struck between the government and the opposition that also included a three-day cease-fire allowing humanitarian aid convoys to the besieged areas. (AP Photo/SANA)BEIRUT (AP) — Children, elderly women on wheelchairs and other civilians were evacuated Friday from besieged neighborhoods of Syria's battleground city of Homs under a deal struck between the government and the opposition that also included a three-day cease-fire allowing aid convoys to enter.

Winter Olympics 2014: Best Moments of the Opening Ceremony

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 11:02 AM PST

Winter Olympics 2014: Best Moments of the Opening CeremonySOCHI, RUSSIA - FEBRUARY 07: Olympic mascots the Polar Bear and the Leopard wave during the Opening Ceremony of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics at Fisht Olympic Stadium on February 7, 2014 in Sochi, Russia. (Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

Hoffman's funeral draws Streep, Blanchett

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 09:41 AM PST

Actor Joaquin Phoenix arrives at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola for the private funeral of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, in New York. Hoffman, 46, was found dead Sunday of an apparent heroin overdose. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)NEW YORK (AP) — The private funeral for Philip Seymour Hoffman in Manhattan on Friday attracted a somber, star-studded audience that includes Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Ethan Hawke, Louis C.K., Ellen Burstyn and Spike Lee.

Young activist fights to bring deported mom back

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 09:25 AM PST

In this Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2013 photo, Melba Soza embraces her son Jose Antonio as he arrives at the airport in Bilbao, Spain from the United States for a five-day visit with his mother. For the past three years, Jose has been on a mission: To bring his mother back to the U.S. His work has taken him to Congress, gotten him meetings with the likes of Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg, landed him on television. Along the way, he has grown into a steady force in the national immigration debate, a young but powerful voice for his family and the many others hoping to one day reunite. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)MIAMI (AP) — He remembers the moment so clearly, the last time he saw his mother on American soil.

AP PHOTOS: A look at Sochi before the games open

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 07:35 AM PST

David Moeller of Germany takes a turn during a training session for the men's singles luge at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)Athletes are getting their final training runs in before the opening ceremony at the Sochi Winter Olympics.

Rand Paul pitches libertarian ideas to social conservatives

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 03:42 AM PST

Rand Paul Responds to Obama's SpeechRand Paul takes a pragmatist approach to bringing social conservative on board with libertarian reforms.

Ice storm's wake leaves customers in dark

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 03:42 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2014, a man inspects an ice covered downed tree that took out an utility line and landed atop a minivan, after a winter storm in Philadelphia. Utility crews aren't getting much relief from the weather as they work to restore electricity to hundreds of thousands of people in Pennsylvania and Maryland, two days after an ice storm downed power lines and toppled trees. Forecasters say that the cold weather gripping the mid-Atlantic on Friday should remain in place through the weekend, and that snow is possible. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)Hundreds of thousands of people in Pennsylvania and Maryland remain without electricity.

Fake lesbian duo tATu to perform at Sochi opener

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 03:10 AM PST

Elina Suyundikova, a dancer in the 2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, watches the sunset along the Black Sea while returning from a rehearsal on the eve of the performance and the games' official opening at Fisht Olympic Stadium, seen in the background, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/David Goldman)SOCHI, Russia (AP) — The Russian pop duo tATu will perform at the opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics, with a song about two schoolgirls in love.

Martin Luther King's children battling over estate

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 03:07 AM PST

Bernice King, right, gets a kiss from Albert Brinson as Rev. C.T. Vivian looks on at left during a news conference Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, in Atlanta, at the Ebenezer Baptist Church where her father Martin Luther King Jr. preached. King is in a legal battle with her brothers over her father's Bible and Nobel Peace Prize medal. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)ATLANTA (AP) — Facing the latest in a string of legal battles with her brothers, the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. is seeking to portray herself as the true heir to her father's legacy.

Weavers' villages in India suffer TB epidemic

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 01:48 AM PST

In this Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014 photo, tuberculosis patient Ramzan, 18, shows his X-ray at his house in Kotawa village, Varanasi, India. India has the highest incidence of TB in the world, according to the World Health Organization's Global Tuberculosis Report 2013, with as many as 2.4 million cases. India saw the greatest increase in multidrug-resistant TB between 2011 and 2012. The disease kills about 300,000 people every year in the country. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)LOHATA, India (AP) — This cluster of poor villages, long known for its colorful silk saris, now is known for something else: tuberculosis. Nearly half of Lohata's population has it — some 100,000 people — and the community's weaving tradition is part of the reason it is on the front line of a major Indian health crisis.

After 22 years, Leno gave 'Tonight' his farewell

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 12:58 AM PST

Jay Leno appears during the final taping of NBC's NEW YORK (AP) — Make way for Jimmy Fallon,

Ice storm's wake leaves power customers in dark

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 12:13 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2014, a man inspects an ice covered downed tree that took out an utility line and landed atop a minivan, after a winter storm in Philadelphia. Utility crews aren't getting much relief from the weather as they work to restore electricity to hundreds of thousands of people in Pennsylvania and Maryland, two days after an ice storm downed power lines and toppled trees. Forecasters say that the cold weather gripping the mid-Atlantic on Friday should remain in place through the weekend, and that snow is possible. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Utility crews aren't getting much relief from the weather as they work to restore electricity to hundreds of thousands of people in Pennsylvania and Maryland, two days after an ice storm downed power lines and trees.

Obama launching program to boost rural exports

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 12:13 AM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is launching a new program to help American farmers and rural businesses boost their exports.

For many, Puerto Rico retirement far from idyllic

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 09:29 PM PST

In this Nov. 14, 2013 photo, Mariano Perez Morales, 75, walks a sidewalk in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico. Retirees are struggling with rising water, power and other utility prices, which the government hiked to trim a budget deficit projected to hit $820 million this year. The weak economy also has reduced pensions for retired Puerto Rican public workers. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)SAN GERMAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Maxi Fajardo smiles as she recalls moving to New York City from Puerto Rico in her late teens, falling in love, finding a job at the Chiclets factory and raising four children.

Pentagon aims to boost missile defense spending

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 08:34 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2014, file photo, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks at the Pentagon in Washington. Hagel is ordering military leaders to put a renewed emphasis on moral behavior across the force following a series of ethical lapses that have included cheating scandals among the Navy and Air Force's nuclear missions. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)The U.S. Defense Department will reportedly ask Congress for $4.5 billion in extra funding.

Police: Art thief among 2 held in violin heist

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 07:00 PM PST

A $5 million Stradivarius violin is displayed at the Milwaukee Police Department Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, in Milwaukee, a day after police recovered the instrument stolen on Jan. 27 from a concertmaster in a parking lot by a person wielding a stun gun. Police say the violin appears to be in good condition, and a Milwaukee County prosecutor said he planned to charge at least one suspect with felony robbery. (AP Photo/Dinesh Ramde)MILWAUKEE (AP) — The mystery of what happened to a multimillion-dollar Stradivarius violin stolen in a stun gun attack was answered Thursday when Milwaukee police recovered the instrument and blamed the heist at least in part on an art thief who once stole a statue from a gallery and then tried to sell it back.

CDC: New norovirus strain caused cruise ship outbreak

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 04:59 PM PST

Rick O'Shea answers a question as he waits to board the Explorer of the Seas cruise ship after it docked at a berth in Bayonne, N.J., Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014. O'Shea says his company BYOPlanet services is preparing to disinfect the ship. The number of passengers and crew reported stricken ill on the cruise ship has risen to nearly 700. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)ATLANTA (AP) — A new strain of stomach bug was the virus responsible for almost 700 recent illnesses on a Caribbean cruise ship.

Biden says NYC airport is 'third-world'

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 02:18 PM PST

Vice President Joe Biden is seen during an Amtrak Siemens ACS-64 Cities Sprinter electric locomotive unveiling event, on Thursday, Feb., 6, 2014 in Philadelphia. Seventy new locomotives enter revenue service along the Northeast and Keystone corridors. (Michael Perez/AP Images for Siemens)VP dings LaGuardia airport while speaking about need to invest in U.S. infrastructure.

First guidelines issued to prevent stroke in women

Posted: 06 Feb 2014 02:18 PM PST

Denise Miller poses on her front porch Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, in Southington, Ohio. Miller suffered a stroke last year that fooled doctors at two Northeast Ohio hospitals before it was finally diagnosed at the Cleveland Clinic. She was 36 and had no traditional risk factors.The American Heart Association on Thursday issued its first guidelines for preventing strokes in women, focusing on birth control, pregnancy, depression and other risk factors that women face uniquely or more frequently than men do. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)Just as heart attack symptoms may differ between men and women, so do stroke risks.
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