| GOP pushes social issues at conservative showcase Posted: 07 Mar 2014 01:00 PM PST  OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Some of the GOP's most prominent conservatives insisted Friday that Republicans should emphasize hot-button social issues like abortion and gay marriage in this year's midterm elections, exposing an ideological divide within a party trying to capture the Senate and then the White House.
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| Pistorius trial hears damaging testimony Posted: 07 Mar 2014 12:45 PM PST  PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — In a day of damaging testimony, a former girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius said at his murder trial Friday that he once shot his gun out of a car sunroof and later cheated on her with the woman he killed last year, and a security guard recalled the athlete telling him everything was "fine" after neighbors reported gunshots coming from Pistorius' house on the night of her death.
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| US employers add 175K jobs despite harsh weather Posted: 07 Mar 2014 12:14 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers stepped up hiring in February despite a blast of harsh winter weather, renewing hopes that the economy could accelerate this year.
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| Mom who drove kids into ocean charged with attempted murder Posted: 07 Mar 2014 11:58 AM PST  DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A pregnant South Carolina woman who drove a minivan carrying her three young children into the ocean surf off Florida faces attempted murder and other charges Friday, with authorities saying the children were screaming to bystanders that she was trying to kill them.
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| Mom who drove kids into ocean charged with attempted murder Posted: 07 Mar 2014 11:28 AM PST DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A pregnant South Carolina woman who drove a minivan carrying her three young children into the ocean surf off Florida is being charged with attempted murder and aggravated child abuse. |
| Criminal lawyer's ad is subversive, sarcastic and pretty awesome Posted: 07 Mar 2014 10:09 AM PST  Daniel Muessig is a criminal defense attorney not a judge. In an over-the-top online video that's making the rounds, Muessig says, "I'm the Pittsburgh criminal defense attorney Pittsburgh criminals hire when they commit crimes."
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| Tool to compare health plans tested with consumers Posted: 07 Mar 2014 10:09 AM PST  CHICAGO (AP) — A website that offers Illinois consumers more information about insurance costs could help address widespread confusion about choosing a plan on the government sites that are a cornerstone of President Barack Obama's health care law.
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| Militant grip transforms, terrorizes Syrian city Posted: 07 Mar 2014 09:34 AM PST  BEIRUT (AP) — Once a vibrant, religiously mixed community, Syria's eastern city of Raqqa is now a shell of its former self, terrorized by hard-line militants who have turned it into the nucleus of their vision for the Islamic caliphate they hope one day to establish in Syria and Iraq.
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| Russia rallies support for Crimea Posted: 07 Mar 2014 09:34 AM PST  Across Red Square, 65,000 people waved Russian flags, chanting "Crimea is Russia!"
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| Man said to create bitcoin denies it Posted: 07 Mar 2014 08:02 AM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto said Thursday that he is not the creator of bitcoin, adding further mystery to the story of how the world's most popular digital currency came to be.
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| Ukraine decides to compete in Paralympics in Sochi Posted: 07 Mar 2014 07:11 AM PST  SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Ukraine will compete in the Winter Paralympics in Sochi despite Russia's military moves in Crimea.
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| U.S. job growth accelerates, weather cuts into hours worked Posted: 07 Mar 2014 06:22 AM PST  By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job growth rose more than expected in February, which could ease fears of an abrupt slowdown in economic growth and keep the Federal Reserve on track in reducing its monetary stimulus. Employers added 175,000 jobs to their payrolls last month after creating 129,000 new positions in January, the Labor Department said on Friday. The unemployment rate, however, rose to 6.7 percent from a five-year low of 6.6 percent. Economists polled by Reuters had expected nonfarm payrolls to rise 149,000 and the unemployment rate to hold steady at 6.6 percent.
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| Guard: Pistorius told me 'everything is fine' Posted: 07 Mar 2014 06:06 AM PST  PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A security guard working in Oscar Pistorius' gated community says the athlete told him everything was "fine" when he called to investigate neighbors' reports of gunshots on the night Reeva Steenkamp was killed.
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| AP Exclusive: Man said to create bitcoin denies it Posted: 07 Mar 2014 06:05 AM PST LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto said Thursday that he is not the creator of bitcoin, adding further mystery to the story of how the world's most popular digital currency came to be. |
| As US states allow pot sales, Dutch reverse course Posted: 07 Mar 2014 06:05 AM PST  MAASTRICHT, Netherlands (AP) — A young man at a bus stop hisses at a passer-by: "What you looking for ... marijuana?" It's a scene of street peddling that the Netherlands hoped to stamp out in the 1970s when it launched a policy of tolerating "coffee shops" where people could buy and smoke pot freely.
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| Pistorius: former girlfriend testifies on gunplay Posted: 07 Mar 2014 03:59 AM PST  PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A former girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius testified Friday at the double-amputee runner's murder trial that he always carried a firearm and that their relationship ended when he cheated on her with Reeva Steenkamp, the woman he fatally shot last year.
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| Pistorius: former girlfriend testifies Posted: 07 Mar 2014 03:15 AM PST PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A former girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius has testified at the double-amputee runner's murder trial that their relationship ended when he cheated on her with Reeva Steenkamp, the woman he fatally shot last year. |
| Crimea to vote to split from Ukraine, join Russia Posted: 07 Mar 2014 01:25 AM PST  SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine lurched toward breakup Thursday as lawmakers in Crimea unanimously declared they wanted to join Russia and would put the decision to voters in 10 days. President Barack Obama condemned the move and the West answered with the first real sanctions against Russia.
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| Half of millennials more likely to lean Democratic Posted: 07 Mar 2014 01:25 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Young adults like to think of themselves as independent, but when it comes to politics, they're more likely than not to lean to the left. |
| AP PHOTOS: Women brick-makers in debt in Pakistan Posted: 07 Mar 2014 12:24 AM PST  MANDRA, Pakistan (AP) — Amna Bhatti has spent half a century shaping mud into bricks in a huge kiln south of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. She started by paying off her parents' debt and now she's on to her late husband's. She'll probably spend the rest of her life here.
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| Doctor testifies in Pistorius trial Posted: 07 Mar 2014 12:24 AM PST  PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A doctor who said he saw Oscar Pistorius weeping over his dead or dying girlfriend after he shot her has resumed testimony in the murder trial of the double-amputee runner.
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| Chevron pizza 'scandal' isn't one in small town Posted: 06 Mar 2014 10:51 PM PST  BOBTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Critics are raging after an energy giant offered pizza coupons to a community near a natural gas well that exploded last month, killing a worker.
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| Colombian paramilitaries set for release Posted: 06 Mar 2014 09:19 PM PST  BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — One veteran of Colombia's disbanded far-right militias admitted to ordering or taking part in at least 3,000 killings, mostly targeting leftists, and incinerating many of the corpses to destroy evidence.
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| AP Exclusive: Man denies he's bitcoin creator Posted: 06 Mar 2014 09:19 PM PST LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto denied Thursday that he is the creator of bitcoin. |
| Sports medicine pioneer Frank Jobe dies at 88 Posted: 06 Mar 2014 08:33 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dr. Frank Jobe, a pioneering orthopedic surgeon who was the first to perform an elbow procedure that became known as Tommy John surgery and saved the careers of countless major league pitchers, died Thursday. He was 88.
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