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Mad dash for health care sign-ups on deadline day

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 01:00 PM PDT

A screen shows the countdown for the deadline to sign up for health insurance during a health care enrollment event at SEIU-UHW office, Monday, March 31, 2014, in Commerce, Calif. Monday marks this year's open enrollment deadline, but consumers will get extra time to finish their applications. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)WASHINGTON (AP) — A flood of last-minute applicants rushed to sign up for health insurance on Monday, deadline day for President Barack Obama's health care law, with more than 100,000 people at a time using the fragile system despite a new spate of intermittent ills.


AP source: US talking with Israel on spy release

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 12:13 PM PDT

FILE - This May 15, 1998 file photo shows Jonathan Pollard speaking during an interview in a conference room at the Federal Correction Institution in Butner, N.C. An AP source says: the US is talking with Israel about early release of Pollard for concessions. (AP Photo/Karl DeBlaker, File)JERUSALEM (AP) — The United States is talking with Israel about the possibility of releasing convicted spy Jonathan Pollard from prison early, a person familiar with Mideast peace negotiations said Monday. That would come in exchange for Israeli concessions that would allow faltering peace talks with the Palestinians to continue beyond an end-of-April deadline.


Congress to pass bill to stop cut to Medicare docs

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 12:12 PM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 14, 2009 file photo shows Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington. Congress is poised to give doctors who treat Medicare patients an 11th hour reprieve from a cut in their government fees. Monday's Senate vote would send legislation to repair Medicare's flawed payment formula for a year to President Barack Obama for his signature. It comes just hours before a midnight deadline Wyden promises to keep pressing ahead with a long-term solution, proposing to use savings from the troop drawdown in Afghanistan to pay the cost. Republicans and most budget experts say such savings are phony and are demanding at least some of the money to come from cuts to Obama's Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is poised to give doctors who treat Medicare patients an eleventh-hour reprieve from a cut in their government fees.


Complete coverage: Obamacare deadline

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 12:12 PM PDT

Latest on enrollments and snafus, with in-depth reports on the politics of making it work.


Health care website stumbles on last day

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 10:38 AM PDT

Darryl Clairborn tries to use the HealthCare.gov web sight to sign up for health insurance at the business office of Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Monday, March 31, 2014. Monday is the deadline to sign up for private heath insurance in the online markets created by President Obama's heath care law. (AP Photo/LM Otero)A new technical problem is preventing last-minute users from creating HealthCare.gov accounts.


Kerry returns to Middle East for flailing peace talks

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 10:38 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry waves before his flight leaving ParisU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry broke from his travel schedule for the second time in a week and rushed back to the Middle East on Monday to try to salvage Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. A major stumbling block is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's demand that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas explicitly recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Sources close to the negotiations said that an Israeli spy serving a life sentence in the United States and groups of Palestinian prisoners could be freed under an emerging deal to salvage the talks. The U.S.-brokered negotiations faced a crisis at the weekend when Israel, saying it was seeking a Palestinian commitment to continue negotiations beyond an end-April deadline, failed to press ahead with a promised release of Palestinian prisoners.


Senate report: Torture didn't lead to bin Laden

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 09:36 AM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo shows al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. At the center of a hotly disputed Senate torture report is America's biggest counterterrorism success of all: the killing of Osama bin Laden. The still-classified, 6,200-page review concludes that waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods provided no key evidence in the hunt for bin Laden, according to congressional aides and outside experts familiar with the investigation. The CIA still disputes that conclusion. (AP Photo, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate investigation concludes waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods provided no key evidence in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to congressional aides and outside experts familiar with a still-secret, 6,200-page report. The finding could deepen the worst rift in years between lawmakers and the CIA.


Germany returns looted Guardi painting to Poland

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 09:22 AM PDT

A woman lifts the painting 'Palace Stairs' by 18th-century Venetian artist Francesco Guardi during a hand over ceremony at the Foreign Ministry in Berlin, Germany, Monday, March 31, 2014. The painting was taken from Poland's National Museum in 1939 and after World War II, it passed into the collection of the State Gallery of Baden-Wuerttemberg. It was given back by German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier to his counterpart from Poland, Radoslaw Sikorski on Monday. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)BERLIN (AP) — An 18th-century painting looted by the Nazis for Adolf Hitler's 'Fuehrer Museum' was handed back to Poland on Monday, a move Germany hopes will revive thorny talks over a vast trove of historical documents Berlin that wants to recover from Poland.


NSA tool increased RSA security vulnerability, researchers say

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 09:22 AM PDT

A sign marks the entrance to RAS's facility in BedfordBy Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Security industry pioneer RSA adopted not just one but two encryption tools developed by the U.S. National Security Agency, greatly increasing the spy agency's ability to eavesdrop on some Internet communications, according to a team of academic researchers. Reuters reported in December that the NSA had paid RSA $10 million to make a now-discredited cryptography system the default in software used by a wide range of Internet and computer security programs. The system, called Dual Elliptic Curve, was a random number generator, but it had a deliberate flaw - or "back door" - that allowed the NSA to crack the encryption. A group of professors from Johns Hopkins, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Illinois and elsewhere now say they have discovered that a second NSA tool exacerbated the RSA software's vulnerability.


Weight loss surgery helps reverse type 2 diabetes, study shows

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 07:01 AM PDT

Bariatric surgeon Dr. Michael Snyder prepares a blue cord that will be inserted in the inflated abdomen of Carolyn Dawson in DenverBy Bill Berkrot and Ransdell Pierson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bariatric weight loss surgery on obese patients with type 2 diabetes helped many to get their blood sugar to healthy levels and to no longer require any diabetes medicines, including insulin, three years after the procedure, according to data presented at a major medical meeting on Monday. The study called Stampede, which involved 150 obese patients who had poorly controlled type 2 diabetes for at least eight years, was conducted by Cleveland Clinic researchers. It compared two types of weight loss surgery against weight loss attained by diet and exercise along with nutrition counseling and, for some, additional diabetes medicines that can help promote weight loss, such as Victoza from Novo Nordisk.


Engaged Johnny Depp shows off 'chick's ring'

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 06:17 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 19, 2013 file photo, U.S. actor Johnny Depp arrives for the German premiere of the movie BEIJING (AP) — Johnny Depp showed off a diamond engagement ring that he called a "chick's ring" on Monday — indirectly confirming rumors of his engagement to actress Amber Heard.


Engaged Johnny Depp shows off 'chick ring'

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 06:17 AM PDT

BEIJING (AP) — Johnny Depp has shown off a diamond engagement ring that he calls a "chick's ring" — indirectly confirming rumors of his engagement to actress Amber Heard.

Russian PM Medvedev makes surprise visit to Crimea

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 06:17 AM PDT

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, second left, speaks to school-children while visiting Crimea in Simferopol, Crimea, Monday, March 31, 2014. Russia's prime minister is visiting Crimea to consider priorities for its economic development following the Russian takeover. Dmitry Medvedev is leading a delegation of Cabinet ministers and is chairing a meeting Monday to discuss priorities for federal assistance to the region, which Russia annexed from Ukraine earlier this month. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexander Astafyev, Government Press Service)SIMFEROPOL, Crimea (AP) — On a surprise visit Monday to Crimea, Russia's prime minister promised to quickly pour funds into the newly annexed peninsula so residents see positive changes after the Russian takeover.


World court: Japanese whaling not scientific

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 03:25 AM PDT

Judge Peter Tomka, center, president of the International Court of Justice, delivers its verdict in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday March 31, 2014. The International Court of Justice is ruling Monday on Australia's challenge against Japan for whaling in Antarctic waters. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Court of Justice says that Japan's Antarctic whaling program is not for scientific purposes and has ordered a temporary stay on the program.


UN panel: Warming worsens food, hunger problems

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 01:05 AM PDT

YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — A United Nations scientific panel says global warming makes feeding the world harder and more expensive.

Australian PM vows search for jetliner will go on

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 01:05 AM PDT

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, center, addresses the media with former Defense Force Chief Angus Houston, left, and Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss at RAAF base Pearce on Monday, March 31, 2014, in Bullsbrook, near Perth, Australia. Abbott said the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is PERTH, Australia (AP) — The weekslong search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is "an extraordinarily difficult exercise" but it will go on as long as possible, Australia's prime minister said Monday.


Senate torture report examines hunt for bin Laden

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 01:05 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A hotly disputed Senate torture report concludes that waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods provided no key evidence in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to congressional aides and outside experts familiar with the investigation.

Low-cost Dominican surgeries spark warnings by US

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 10:57 PM PDT

This undated photo, courtesy of the Brignoni family and posted to the instagram account belonging to Beverly Brignoni, shows a selfie she took at an unknown location. Brignoni was a young New Yorker seeking a less expensive way to enhance her appearance and she did what many other people are now doing: travel to the Dominican Republic for cosmetic surgery. It went horribly wrong. The 28-year-old died Feb. 20, 2014 from what the doctor told her family was a massive pulmonary embolism while getting a tummy tuck and liposuction at a clinic in the Dominican capital recommended by friends. Family members have serious questions about her death and want local authorities to investigate. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Brignoni Family)SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Beverly Brignoni was a young New Yorker seeking a less expensive way to enhance her appearance and she did what many other people are now doing: travel to the Dominican Republic for cosmetic surgery.


SKorea fires shells at NKorean waters after drills

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 09:54 PM PDT

Map showing the seven designated areas for live-fire drill announced by North Korea near the disputed maritime border with South KoreaSouth Korea has fired artillery shells in response to North Korean shells from a live-fire drill that fell in waters south of the rivals' disputed western sea boundary.


Two Koreas trade fire across maritime border

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 09:54 PM PDT

Map showing the seven designated areas for live-fire drill announced by North Korea near the disputed maritime border with South KoreaNorth and South Korea traded fire across their disputed maritime border on Monday, with the South's military saying it had responded to shells landing in its waters from a North live-fire drill. "Some of the shells fired by North Korea dropped in our area and our side responded with fire," a spokesman for the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff told AFP.


Australia PM: No time limit on Malaysia jet search

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 09:07 PM PDT

Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott is briefed on the search for MH370 by Royal Australian Air Force Group Commander Craig Heap at RAAF Base Pearce near PerthPrime Minister Tony Abbott said there was no time limit on the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.


Smith, Denorfia lift Padres to 3-1 win over LA

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 09:07 PM PDT

Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu works against the San Diego Padres in the first inning of the opening game of Major League baseball in the United States, Sunday, March 30, 2014, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)SAN DIEGO (AP) — Seth Smith hit a tying homer leading off the eighth and Chris Denorfia singled home two runs to give the San Diego Padres a 3-1 victory against the rival Los Angeles Dodgers in baseball's North American opener Sunday night.


Mudslide death toll rises; search dogs take break

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 08:04 PM PDT

Rescue dog Tryon, muddied from the day's work, stands with his handler near the west side of the mudslide on Highway 530 near mile marker 37 in Arlington, Wash., on Sunday, March 30, 2014. Periods of rain and wind have hampered efforts the past two days, with some rain showers continuing today. Last night, the confirmed fatalities list was updated to 18, with the number of those missing falling from 90 to 30. (AP Photo/Rick Wilking, Pool)DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Many of the dogs essential in the search for victims of the deadly mudslide that buried a mountainside community will take a two-day break, rescue crews said Sunday, as the official death toll rose and more bodies were recovered.


Mudslide death toll rises, search dogs take break

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 07:32 PM PDT

Rescue dog Tryon, muddied from the day's work, stands with his handler near the west side of the mudslide on Highway 530 near mile marker 37 in Arlington, Wash., on Sunday, March 30, 2014. Periods of rain and wind have hampered efforts the past two days, with some rain showers continuing today. Last night, the confirmed fatalities list was updated to 18, with the number of those missing falling from 90 to 30. (AP Photo/Rick Wilking, Pool)DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Many of the dogs that have been essential in the search for victims of the deadly mudslide that buried the mountainside community of Oso will take a two-day break after long hours in the cold and rain, rescue crews said Sunday.


Harrison lifts Wildcats to 75-72 win over Michigan

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 04:54 PM PDT

Kentucky's Marcus Lee (00) and Michigan's Jordan Morgan (52) go after a rebound during the first half of an NCAA Midwest Regional final college basketball tournament game Sunday, March 30, 2014, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Aaron Harrison made a 3-pointer from NBA range with 2.3 seconds left Sunday to lift Kentucky to a 75-72 win over Michigan and a trip to the Final Four.


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Egyptians to elect new president in late May

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 12:24 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014 file photo, Egypt's military chief Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi smiles as he speaks to Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during their talks along with Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in Moscow, Russia. Former military chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, if he wins Egypt's presidency as is widely expected, will have an overwhelming presence over a shattered political scene. Egypt's once dominant political force, the Muslim Brotherhood, is exhausted under a relentless crackdown. Non-Islamist parties are weak and largely acquiescent to his power. But the political vacuum is hardly a stable one. The Brotherhood is betting that with time the public will turn against el-Sissi. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's presidential election will be held in late May, the electoral commission announced on Sunday, finally setting dates for the crucial vote widely expected to be won by the country's former military chief who ousted an elected president last year.


Police fire pepper spray at Arizona students

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 12:24 PM PDT

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Tucson police shot pepper spray at several hundred fans who took to the streets and threw beer bottles and firecrackers at officers Saturday night after the University of Arizona basketball team's overtime loss to Wisconsin in the NCAA tournament.

Kerry, Russian counterpart meet on Ukraine crisis

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 11:21 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and his French counterpart Laurent Fabius arrive for a meeting at the Quai d'Orsay, in Paris, Sunday, March 30, 2014. After a week of travel in the Mideast, Kerry changed course and arrived in Paris Saturday for talks with his Russian counterpart on the Ukraine crisis. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)Russia on Sunday set out demands for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis in Ukraine, saying the former Soviet republic should be unified in a federation allowing wide autonomy to its various regions as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met in Paris in another bid to calm tensions.


Kerry, Lavrov hold talks in scramble for Ukraine solution

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 05:53 AM PDT

A woman wrapped in a Russian flag plays with a dog decorated with Pro-Russian symbols during a rally in Donetsk on March 29, 2014US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Sunday for suddenly arranged talks in Paris as diplomatic efforts to resolve Cold War-style tensions over Ukraine's crisis gained momentum. The diplomatic push comes amid alarm over Russia's military buildup on Ukraine's borders, fanning fears it plans to seize more territory following its lightning annexation of Crimea. In a first effort to temper the worst East-West impasse in decades, Russian leader Vladimir Putin phoned US President Barack Obama on Friday to discuss either sides' proposals in what has become a tug-of-war over Ukraine's future. Lavrov later sought to ease diplomatic tensions by vowing his country had no intention of sending in what Kiev estimates are 100,000 troops gathered on Ukraine's borders.


Conflict with Russia galvanizes Ukraine's identity

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 04:51 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, March 9, 2014 file photo a young Ukrainian woman holds a Ukrainian flag during celebrations of the 200th birthday anniversary of Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko in the Black Sea port of Odessa, Ukraine. The monument to the poet is in the background. Ukraine, a land the size of France with a population of 46 million, has historically been a massive prize in the heart of Europe. The site of the ancient Slavic state, the Kievan Rus, it was the regional cradle of Orthodox Christianity. Over centuries, parts of Ukraine have belonged to Poland, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Russia and the Soviet Union. (AP Photo/ Sergei Poliakov, File)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — He's one of Russia's favorite doctors, the author of books read by parents from Moscow to Siberia. And he lives in eastern Ukraine where the Russian language is dominant and ties to Russia strong.


Flight 370: Stories of that final day

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 02:12 AM PDT

A man, one of the relatives of Chinese passengers onboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, rests near a board covered with written wishes at a hotel in Beijing, China, Saturday, March 29, 2014. Some of the wishes are KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — One morning, many stories.


Australia hopeful as more items pulled from sea

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 12:06 AM PDT

An object floats in the southern Indian Ocean in this picture taken from a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion aircraft searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Saturday, March 29, 2014. A warship with an aircraft black box detector was set to depart Australia on Sunday to join the search for the missing Malaysian jetliner, a day after ships plucked objects from the Indian Ocean to determine whether they were related to the missing plane. None were confirmed to be from the plane, leaving searchers with no sign of the jet more than three weeks after it disappeared. (AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool)More objects are pulled from the southern Indian Ocean and checked to see if they are part of the plane that went missing more than three weeks ago.


Photos found at slide site; missing number drops

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 11:20 PM PDT

Searchers pause for a moment of silence at the scene of a deadly mudslide Saturday, March 29, 2014, in Oso, Wash. Besides the more than two dozen bodies already found, many more people could be buried in the debris pile left from the mudslide one week ago. Ninety people are listed as missing. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, Pool)DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of family photographs and albums are among the personal belongings being recovered by crews searching for victims at a massive debris site left by the deadly mudslide in Washington state.


UN science report: Warming worsens security woes

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 11:20 PM PDT

YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — In an authoritative report due out Monday a United Nations climate panel for the first time is connecting hotter global temperatures to hotter global tempers. Top scientists are saying that climate change will complicate and worsen existing global security problems, such as civil wars, strife between nations and refugees.

Armed pro-govt militias roil Venezuela protests

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 10:18 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Saturday, March 15, 2014. Carabobo's State police officers stand next to graffiti that reads in Spanish VALENCIA, Venezuela (AP) — The masked gunmen emerged from a group of several dozen motorcycle-mounted government loyalists who were attempting to dismantle a barricade in La Isabelica, a working-class district of Valencia that has been a center of unrest since nationwide protests broke out last month.


Number of missing from Washington slide plummets

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 08:58 PM PDT

Searchers pause for a moment of silence at the scene of a deadly mudslide Saturday, March 29, 2014, in Oso, Wash. Besides the more than two dozen bodies already found, many more people could be buried in the debris pile left from the mudslide one week ago. Ninety people are listed as missing. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, Pool)DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — As crews using heavy equipment, dogs and their bare hands searched in heavy rain for more victims from a deadly Washington landslide, authorities said Saturday that the number of people believed missing had dropped substantially.


Number of missing from mudslide drops to 30

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 06:54 PM PDT

Searchers pause for a moment of silence at the scene of a deadly mudslide Saturday, March 29, 2014, in Oso, Wash. Besides the more than two dozen bodies already found, many more people could be buried in the debris pile left from the mudslide one week ago. Ninety people are listed as missing. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, Pool)DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — The number of those believed missing following a deadly Washington state landslide has plummeted to 30 after many people were found safe, authorities said late Saturday.


Florida 1st to Final Four, beating Dayton 62-52

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 05:52 PM PDT

Florida guard Scottie Wilbekin (5) celebrates his basket against Dayton's Vee Sanford during the first half in a regional final game at the NCAA college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 29, 2014, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Florida Gators are first yet again this season.


Utah boy finds American Indian remains in backyard

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 04:33 PM PDT

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A 14-year-old boy digging a trout pond in the backyard of his father's Salt Lake City home stumbled across a surprise: the remains of an American Indian who lived about 1,000 years ago.

Studies find new drugs greatly lower cholesterol

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 04:33 PM PDT

People attend the American College of Cardiology's conference in Washington, Saturday, March 29, 2014. A new class of experimental medicines can dramatically lower cholesterol, raising hopes of a fresh option for people who can't tolerate or don't get enough help from Lipitor and other statin drugs that have been used for this for decades. The first large studies of these drugs were presented Saturday at an American College of Cardiology conference in Washington, and more will follow on Sunday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)WASHINGTON (AP) — A new class of experimental medicines can dramatically lower cholesterol, raising hopes of a fresh option for people who can't tolerate or don't get enough help from Lipitor and other statin drugs that have been used for this for decades.


Christie, Walker court GOP donors in Las Vegas

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 04:33 PM PDT

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition, Saturday, March 29, 2014, in Las Vegas. Several possible GOP presidential candidates gathered in Las Vegas as Sheldon Adelson, a billionaire casino magnate, looks for a new favorite to help on the 2016 race for the White House. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two of the nation's highest-profile Republican governors on Saturday called for more aggressive leadership on America's challenges abroad, emphasizing their support for Israel as they courted powerful Jewish donors.


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Despite new law, Ugandan cleric ministers to gays

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 12:54 PM PDT

In this photo taken Sunday, March 16, 2014, Rev. Christopher Senyonjo, 82, gives a sermon on human sexuality at his makeshift church, the size of a small office, in Kampala, Uganda. Dressed in a purple shirt and white collar that highlight his Anglican faith, Bishop Senyonjo doesn't organize his Sunday evening prayers for homosexuals only, but his sermons attract many gays who are familiar with his sympathetic views in a country where other Christian preachers have led Uganda's anti-gay crusade. (AP Photo)KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Young men sing hymns and recite the Bible before the Rev. Christopher Senyonjo gives a sermon on human sexuality. When the service is over some go to his desk, one by one, for counselling no other Ugandan religious leader is known to offer gays.


Study backs nonsurgical way to fix heart valves

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 12:38 PM PDT

Medtronic Inc.'s CoreValve is photographed at an American College of Cardiology Conference in Washington, on Saturday, March 29, 2014. A new study gives a big boost to fixing a bad aortic valve, the heart's main gate, without open-heart surgery. Survival rates were better one year later for people who had a new valve placed through a tube into an artery instead. Earlier this year, the CoreValve was also approved for treating people at too high risk to have surgery. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)WASHINGTON (AP) — A new study gives a big boost to fixing a bad aortic valve, the heart's main gate, without open-heart surgery. Survival rates were better one year later for people who had a new valve placed through a tube into an artery instead.


Attacks threaten to undermine Afghan vote

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 11:51 AM PDT

An Afghan policeman rides on top of his armored vehicle as he rushes to the scene as Taliban militants attacked the main Afghan election commission's headquarters on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, firing on the compound with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns from a house outside its perimeter wall, Saturday, March 29, 2014. Dozens of employees and other people who had been inside the Independent Election Commission compound took cover in the basement, and no casualties were reported. But two warehouses were hit and set on fire, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban militants attacked the main Afghan election commission's headquarters in Kabul on Saturday, the latest in a series of audacious assaults threatening to scare voters away just a week before Afghans go to the polls.


Ebola spread to Guinea capital raises fears

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 10:00 AM PDT

In this photo provide by MSF, Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders), taken on Friday, March 28, 2014, healthcare workers from the organisation, react, as they prepare isolation and treatment areas for their Ebola, hemorrhagic fever operations, in Gueckedou, Guinea. Health officials in the West African nation of Guinea say they're now treating eight cases of Ebola in the capital. Dr. Sakoba Keita, a spokesman for the health ministry, announced on national television the virus had reached the city of 3 million. Keita said Friday, March 28, 2014, at least 70 people have died in the country's south since the Ebola outbreak began last week. (AP Photo/Kjell Gunnar Beraas, MSF)CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Ebola, one of the world's most deadly viruses, has spread from a remote forested corner of southern Guinea to the country's seaside capital, raising fears that the disease, which causes severe bleeding and almost always death, could spread far beyond this tiny West African nation's borders.


National soil collection may unlock mysteries

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 10:00 AM PDT

In this photo taken April 16, 2008, and provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, geologist Jim Kilburn, now retired from the U.S. Geological Survey, collects soil from Kansas. The federal government sent students and scientists to more than 4,800 places across the nation to collect soil that was analyzed for its composition. The results are now highly sought after by researchers in a wide variety of fields. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey)FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The government has been collecting dirt — lots of it.


New objects seen but none recovered in jet search

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 06:38 AM PDT

A photo taken off a computer monitor onboard a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion, shows an object floating in an area within the search zone of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the Southern Indian Ocean off the coast of Western Australia, Friday, March 28, 2014. Australian Maritime Safety Authority has not confirmed any information about this object. Australian officials said that objects spotted floating in the search area need to be recovered and inspected before they can be linked to the plane. The objects, first spotted Friday, include two rectangular items that were blue and gray, and ships on the scene will attempt to recover them, the AMSA said. (AP Photo/Tony Cheng, Pool)PERTH, Australia (AP) — A Chinese aircraft flying over the search zone for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on Saturday spotted several objects floating in the sea, including two bearing colors of the missing plane, but it was not immediately clear whether they were related to the investigation, officials said.


Police: Man, 86, kills grandson's girlfriend, self

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 05:52 AM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say an 86-year-old man shot his grandson in the head and then killed the man's girlfriend inside a home on Staten Island before fatally shooting himself.

Turkish court backs Twitter but site still blocked

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 03:32 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 17, 2014 file photo, a huge poster of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan seen in the city center in Istanbu, Turkey. Erdogan has been ensnared in a corruption scandal that has toppled four Cabinet ministers. He has provoked outrage at home and abroad with an attempt to block Twitter and YouTube. His incessant us-against-them rhetoric and conspiracy theories have alienated allies. Meanwhile, the Turkish Lira has fallen, interest rates are up and the Turkish economy has fallen off a cliff. It all might be enough to oust any leader. But as Turks prepare to vote in local elections Sunday, it's all about Erdogan.(AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, File)ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — In a second ruling against Turkey's ban on Twitter, a Turkish court has overturned an order for the social media network to remove an account that accuses a former minister of corruption.


Militants attack Afghan election office in Kabul

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 03:17 AM PDT

Commandos with Afghanistan's intelligence agency arrive after four suicide bombers armed with assault rifles and hand grenades attacked an KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban militants attacked the main Afghan election commission's headquarters Saturday in Kabul, opening fire on the compound with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns from a house outside its perimeter wall, according to police.


Sharp shooter: Kerr talks defense

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 02:14 AM PDT

Welcome back to latest edition of BracketRacket, the one-stop shopping place for all offbeat NCAA tournament needs. Today's rundown kicks off with a shooter talking about defense, and includes a jolting experience in the West, the most-tweeted team and celebrities at Madison Square Garden.

Trip at an end, Obama has issues waiting at home

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 01:44 AM PDT

U.S. President Obama presents executive director of Saudi Arabia's National Family Safety Program Al Muneef with U.S. Secretary of State's International Woman of Courage Award in RiyadhRIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A week of international prodding, outreach and reassurance behind him, U.S. President Barack Obama is returning to Washington amid looming domestic and foreign challenges, from a fast-approaching deadline for health care enrollment to renewed worries about Russia's intentions in Eastern Europe.


No debris recovered in new search for missing jet

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 01:44 AM PDT

In this Friday, March 28, 2014 photo released by the Australian Defence, a Royal Australian Air Force C-17 Globemaster arrives to help with the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 at RAAF Pearce Base in Perth, Australia. Objects spotted floating in a new search area for debris from the missing Malaysian jetliner need to be recovered and inspected before they can be linked to the plane, Australian officials said Saturday. Eight planes were ready to comb the newly targeted area off the west coast of Australia after several objects were spotted Friday, including two rectangular items that were blue and gray, and ships on the scene will attempt to recover them, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said. (AP Photo/Australian Defence, Justin Brown)PERTH, Australia (AP) — No debris spotted in an area off the west coast of Australia has been recovered, a Malaysian minister involved in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 said Saturday, adding he hoped for some news soon.


Marathon bombing suspect seeks records on brother

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 12:56 AM PDT

FILE - This combination of file photos shows brothers Tamerlan, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15, 2013. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died after a gunfight with police several days later, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was captured and is held in a federal prison on charges of using a weapon of mass destruction. The FBI has denied a claim made by lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev that his brother and fellow suspect was asked by the FBI to be an informant. The Boston FBI office declined to comment on claims made in a court filing Friday, March 28, 2014. But the agency cited a statement it released in October in which it said the Tsarnaev brothers were never sources for the FBI, BOSTON (AP) — The defense team for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is looking for ways to show his deceased older brother was mostly responsible for the tragedy — a move that, if successful, could save their client's life.


UN panel: 8 reasons to worry about global warming

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 10:51 PM PDT

FILE - This Nov. 13, 2013 file photo, shows typhoon damaged fuel tanks along the coast in Tanawan, central Philippines. A United Nations panel of scientists has drafted a list of eight ``key risksYOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — If you have already read "12 Pieces of Practical Advice from Housecats," now you can move on to "8 Reasons to Worry about Global Warming."


Officials abandoning hope of finding survivors

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 08:14 PM PDT

A search and rescue worker carrying a probe wades through water covering Washington Highway 530 Thursday, March 27, 2014, on the eastern edge of the massive mudslide that struck Saturday near Darrington, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, Pool)ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Washington authorities say they have all but abandoned hope of finding mudslide survivors, but are keeping the official death toll at 17.


At midnight hour, UK holds first same-sex weddings

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 06:55 PM PDT

The rainbow flag, bottom right, a symbol of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, flies alongside the British, left, and the Scottish flag over the British government's Scotland Office building, in central London, Friday, March 28, 2014, to mark the start of same-sex weddings in the UK from Saturday March 29, 2014. The British government has ordered rainbow flags to be flown over two prominent government buildings to mark the country's first same-sex weddings, ahead of the law taking effect on Saturday. It marks a profound shift in attitudes in a country that little more than a decade ago had a law on the books banning the LONDON (AP) — Gay couples in Britain waited decades for the right to get married. When the opportunity came, it took just a few minutes to make history.


Vatican open to facilitator role for Venez crisis

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 05:51 PM PDT

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks at a meeting with a South American delegation of foreign ministers at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. The foreign ministers representing the Union of South American Nations or UNASUR arrived Tuesday aiming to ease political tensions and facilitate dialogue between Venezuela's government and opponents who are urging Maduro's resignation. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Vatican says it's willing to help facilitate talks between Venezuela's government and its opponents aimed at ending weeks of deadly unrest that have paralyzed much of the country.


Brother describes pulling mudslide victim's body from car

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 04:32 PM PDT

By Jonathan Kaminsky DARRINGTON, Washington (Reuters) - Days after risking his own life and defying arrest by joining the search for Washington state mudslide victims in a vast, mucky debris field near Oso, Dayn Brunner retrieved the body of the No. 1 person he had been looking for - his sister. Brunner, 42, recounted the tragic coincidence in an interview with Reuters on Friday, two days after it unfolded on the enormous mound of mud and rubble left by last Saturday's disaster, which has claimed at least 26 lives and left 90 people still missing. Brunner said he was on the mud pile on Wednesday afternoon when other rescue workers found a blue object and called him over to the spot. It was the same color as the car his sister, Summer Raffo, 36, was known to have been driving through the area when the slide struck.

5 Things Miguel Cabrera's big deal can buy

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 04:01 PM PDT

Miguel Cabrera scored the richest contract in U.S. sports history, reaching a $292 million deal over 10 years with the Tigers.

Community waits to hear full toll of mudslide

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 04:01 PM PDT

A search and rescue worker carrying a probe wades through water covering Washington Highway 530 Thursday, March 27, 2014, on the eastern edge of the massive mudslide that struck Saturday near Darrington, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, Pool)ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — A mountainside community waited in anguish Friday to learn the full scope of the Washington state mudslide as authorities worked to identify remains and warned that they were unlikely to find anyone alive nearly a week after the disaster.


GM adds nearly 1 million more cars to ignition recall

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 04:01 PM PDT

File photo of General Motors logo outside its headquarters at the Renaissance Center in DetroitBy Paul Lienert DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co is adding 971,000 cars to its global ignition switch recall, which began in February with 1.6 million vehicles and has been linked to a dozen deaths. GM said the recall is being expanded to include versions of the Chevrolet Cobalt, Chevrolet HHR, Pontiac G5, Pontiac Solstice and Pontiac Sky made during model years 2008-2011. GM said the newer models were equipped with a redesigned ignition switch, but that some of those cars might have been repaired with older replacement parts that may be faulty. GM also is recalling all the replacement ignition switches that have been sent to U.S. aftermarket distributors, the spare parts market.


Putin calls Obama to talk Ukraine

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 04:01 PM PDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a Security Council meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 28, 2014. Russia's president says Ukraine could regain some arms and equipment of military units in Crimea that did not switch their loyalty to Russia. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)White House says president pressed Russia for written response to U.S. diplomatic plan.


Flight 370 search shifts after new look at data

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 04:01 PM PDT

Royal Australia Air Force C-17 lands at RAAF Base Pearce to deliver a Sea Hawk helicopter to help with the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, in Perth, Australia, Friday, March 28, 2014. Australian officials moved the search area for the lost Malaysian jetliner 1,100 kilometers (680 miles) to the northeast Friday, following a new analysis of radar data, and a plane quickly found objects that a ship set out to investigate. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)PERTH, Australia (AP) — Three weeks into the mystery of Flight 370, investigators relying on newly analyzed satellite data shifted the search zone yet again, focusing on a swath of Indian Ocean where better conditions could help speed a hunt that is now concentrated thousands of miles from where it began.


Family plays key role in Colter's union push

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 01:23 PM PDT

Kain Colter, a former quarterback for Northwestern University, sits during an interview with The Associated Press in Bradenton, Fla., Thursday, March 27, 2014. A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board decided in favor of the Northwestern players to unionize following a decision on Wednesday, March 26. (AP Photo/Tamara Lush)CHICAGO (AP) — Kain Colter's grandmother often spoke about rights and equality, values she brought home from her job managing an office of a Colorado law firm.