| Italy bishops say they don't have to report abuse Posted: 28 Mar 2014 11:02 AM PDT ROME (AP) — Italy's bishops have adopted a Vatican-backed sex abuse policy that says they have no obligation to inform police if they suspect a child has been molested. |
| FBI sting shows San Francisco Chinatown underworld Posted: 28 Mar 2014 11:02 AM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Beneath the strings of red paper lanterns and narrow alleyways of the nation's oldest Chinatown lies a sinister underworld, according to an FBI criminal complaint that has stunned even those familiar with the neighborhood's history of gambling houses, opium dens and occasional gangland-style murders.
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| Tigers' Cabrera to earn record $292M over 10 years Posted: 28 Mar 2014 09:28 AM PDT DETROIT (AP) — Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera will earn a baseball-record $292 million over the next decade under a $248 million, eight-year deal with the Detroit Tigers through 2023. |
| 25 tons of unwanted peanut butter to be dumped in landfill Posted: 28 Mar 2014 09:27 AM PDT  Nearly a million jars of peanut butter are being dumped at a New Mexico landfill to expedite the sale of a bankrupt peanut-processing plant that was at the heart of a 2012 salmonella outbreak and nationwide ...
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| Slide survivor tells of 'wave' of mud hitting home Posted: 28 Mar 2014 09:27 AM PDT  DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — The roar of the hillside collapsing was so loud that Robin Youngblood thought an airplane had crashed. But when she looked out the window of her mobile home, all she saw was a wall of mud racing across her beloved river valley toward her home.
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| Norway's Stoltenberg appointed as new NATO chief Posted: 28 Mar 2014 08:40 AM PDT  BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO's next leader was announced Friday: former Norwegian Premier Jens Stoltenberg will lead the military alliance starting in October.
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| Obama in Saudi Arabia to reassure key Gulf ally Posted: 28 Mar 2014 08:08 AM PDT  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — President Barack Obama opened a fence-mending visit to Saudi Arabia Friday, arriving in the oil-rich Gulf nation for meetings to reassure its elderly monarch of the U.S. commitment to the Arab world.
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| Crews find objects in new Malaysia plane search area Posted: 28 Mar 2014 07:35 AM PDT  PERTH, Australia (AP) — The search area for the lost Malaysian jetliner moved 1,100 kilometers (680 miles) to the northeast on Friday, as Australian officials said a new analysis of radar data suggests the plane had flown faster and therefore ran out of fuel more quickly than previously estimated.
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| Alleged sex abuse victim seeks justice 30 years later Posted: 28 Mar 2014 07:35 AM PDT  For years he masked the pain with drugs. Then came the countless hours of therapy. But now John Delaney says he's finally strong enough to deliver a message to the Catholic priest he says raped him as a young boy: "You tell him John Delaney's coming for him," he said in a thick Philly accent. "I'm not a little kid anymore. You can't do this to me. I'm going to fight back now."
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| US Rep. Rogers of Michigan won't seek re-election Posted: 28 Mar 2014 05:59 AM PDT  DETROIT (AP) — U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan, who has taken on an increasingly sharp profile in Washington as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee in a time of widening global security crises, has decided to give up Congress for a full-time career in broadcasting.
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| Australia says planes checking new search area Posted: 28 Mar 2014 04:56 AM PDT  PERTH, Australia (AP) — A New Zealand military plane has found objects in the Indian Ocean of the first day of searching for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in a new location, but officials say it will take until Saturday to determine whether they are related to the lost plane.
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| At core of nuke cheating ring: 4 'librarians' Posted: 28 Mar 2014 03:22 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Investigators dubbed them "the librarians," four Air Force nuclear missile launch officers at the center of a still-unfolding scandal over cheating on proficiency tests.
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| Poll: Obama health law fails to gain support Posted: 28 Mar 2014 01:46 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Public support for President Barack Obama's health care law is languishing at its lowest level since passage of the landmark legislation four years ago, according to a new poll.
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| Mudslide death toll expected to soar Posted: 28 Mar 2014 01:46 AM PDT  By Jonathan Kaminsky DARRINGTON, Washington (Reuters) - Rescuers searching for 90 people still missing five days after a massive mudslide in Washington state braced the public on Thursday for an impending steep rise in the death toll even as they sought to deflect criticism about the early disaster response. Snohomish County officials said that 17 casualties had been sent to the medical examiner's office as of Thursday evening, including an infant whose body was recovered earlier in the day. But fire district chief Travis Hots said that figure would soon climb sharply higher. Snohomish County officials said on Wednesday about 90 people remained missing, down from 176, and Hots said on Thursday the revised figure was holding.
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| Florida, Dayton advance to Elite Eight Posted: 28 Mar 2014 12:58 AM PDT  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Scottie "McBuckets" has Florida deep in the NCAA tournament once again. The Dayton Flyers are the latest mid-major upstart still in the bracket.
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| AP PHOTOS: Afghan women lawmakers fight for rights Posted: 28 Mar 2014 12:27 AM PDT  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, women rarely left their home.
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| Search for mudslide missing comes down to shovels Posted: 28 Mar 2014 12:27 AM PDT  DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — There is only one way searchers are narrowing the list of 90 people still missing seven days after a landslide obliterated the mountain community of Oso: by digging.
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| Judge cites lack of remorse, gives bride 30 years Posted: 27 Mar 2014 11:27 PM PDT  MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — The defendant's tears notwithstanding, a federal judge cited a lack of remorse as he sentenced a Montana woman to more than three decades in prison for pushing her newlywed husband to his death in Glacier National Park.
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| Australia: 'Credible lead' shifts jet search area Posted: 27 Mar 2014 09:05 PM PDT PERTH, Australia (AP) — The search zone for the Malaysian airliner that crashed in the Indian Ocean nearly three weeks ago has shifted 1,100 kilometers (680 miles) to the northeast after new analysis of radar data suggested the plane flew faster than thought and used more fuel, which may have reduced the distance it traveled, Australia said Friday. |
| Washington state mudslide death toll to increase 'substantially' Posted: 27 Mar 2014 09:05 PM PDT  Darrington (United States) (AFP) - Emergency managers said they were close to announcing a "substantially" higher death toll from the monster US landslide that killed at least 16 and left 90 missing. The confirmed number of dead stands at 16 with at least eight more bodies believed located after the massive mudslide crashed onto the town of Oso in the northwestern US state of Washington. But Snohomish County District 21 Fire Chief Travis Hots said Thursday bodies were not being included in the official death toll until they had been recovered and "medical officers have done their difficult work." "That number is going to be likely change very very much tomorrow morning," Hots said late Thursday, after warning that the death toll would rise "substantially."
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| ‘Credible lead’ shifts Malaysia jet search area Posted: 27 Mar 2014 08:34 PM PDT  The revised plan is based on new data provided by Malaysia investigators, Australia says.
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| US appeals court upholds new Texas abortion rules Posted: 27 Mar 2014 08:01 PM PDT  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld Texas' tough abortion restrictions that have forced the closure of about 20 clinics around the state, saying the new rules don't jeopardize women's health.
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| U.S. and Mexico celebrate one-time flooding of barren delta Posted: 27 Mar 2014 04:38 PM PDT  LOS ALGODONES, Mexico (AP) — Colorado River water has begun pouring over a barren delta near the U.S.-Mexico border, the result of a landmark bi-national agreement being celebrated Thursday.
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| Christie: Motive for bridge closing 'defies credulity to me' Posted: 27 Mar 2014 04:38 PM PDT  Christie Says 'Inexplicably Stupid' Bridge Closure Wasn't Done for Him
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| Ga. soldier gets life, no parole in wife's death Posted: 27 Mar 2014 03:50 PM PDT  FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) — An Army soldier accused of strangling his pregnant wife so he could pocket $500,000 in benefit money was convicted Thursday by a military judge in a case that hinged on dueling medical experts who couldn't agree on how the woman died.
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