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Poll: Call them 'generation unaffiliated'

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 02:56 PM PST

IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY - Samantha Blinn, center, and other graduates screram and cheer as they are conferred during the Syracuse University 159th Commencement ceremony in Syracuse, N.Y., Sunday, May 12, 2013. (Kevin Rivoli / AP Images for Syracuse University)Today's 20-somethings found to be less into traditional institutions than ever before.


Standoff reported at Ukrainian military base

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 01:04 PM PST

Pro-Putin demonstrators hold posters reading "Crimea is Russian land!" as they gather towards to Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 7, 2014. Russia rallied support Friday for a Crimean bid to secede from Ukraine, with a leader of Russia's parliament assuring her Crimean counterpart that the region would be welcomed as Crimea's new leader says 11,000 Russian troops now control all access to strategic region.


'Holy grail of guitars' is hitting the auction block

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 11:31 AM PST

Courtesy Guernsey's Auction HouseNEW YORK (AP) — The "holy grail of guitars" is among the hundreds of rare and vintage acoustic guitars going on the auction block in New York next month.


Who needs speeches? Scenes from CPAC

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 12:10 PM PST

Star Wars CPAC 2014Get weird at the Conservative Political Action Conference.


Is airplane turbulence becoming more dangerous?

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 08:56 AM PST

In this Friday, May 24, 2013 photo, a passenger reacts during turbulence as her flight approaches Lukla, Nepal. Carved out of the side of a mountain, the airport was built by Sir Edmund Hillary in 1965, and at an altitude of 2,843 meters (9,325 feet) it has earned the reputation of being one of the most extreme and dangerous airports in the world. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)Despite technological advances in detecting and avoiding turbulence, it remains a threat to anything that flies, including civil, military and commercial aircraft of any size, and some experts believe we'll be encountering more such episodes, thanks to the effects of climate change.


Study ties trouble sleeping to reduced brain volume

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 01:33 PM PST

Treating Depression May Start With Treating InsomniaBy Ronnie Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who have trouble sleeping tend to have less volume in certain regions of the brain than those without sleep problems, a new study of Persian Gulf War veterans suggests. "People discount the importance of sleep. "The study suggests we shouldn't discount sleep importance," she said. In their study, sleep was associated with the amount of gray matter in the brain's frontal lobe in particular.


U.N. warns of 'lost generation' in Syria

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 11:39 AM PST

Children gather at the Atme refugee camp, that emerged due to the Syrian conflict on February 17, 2014 along the Turkish border in the northwestern Syrian province of IdlibSecurity Council revisits resolution on children in conflict first adopted 15 years ago.


Mom who drove kids into ocean charged with attempted murder

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 10:50 AM PST

In this image made from video, lifeguards and bystanders rescue children from a minivan that their mother, 31-year-old Ebony Wilkerson, drove into the Atlantic, Tuesday, March 4, 2014 in Daytona Beach, Fla. The pregnant South Carolina woman who drove the minivan carrying her three young children into the ocean surf had talked about demons before leaving the house, according to her sister who worriedly called police, officials said during a news conference Wednesday. (AP Photo/Simon Besner) NO SALESDAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A pregnant South Carolina woman who drove a minivan carrying her three young children into the ocean surf off Florida was charged Friday with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse, though she has denied trying to harm anyone, authorities said.


Witnesses: Russians take Crimea military post

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 12:15 PM PST

A uniformed man, believed to be Russian serviceman, stands guard near a Ukrainian military base outside the city of SevastopolUkrainian military official says missile defense was taken over with no shots fired.


Russia rallies support for Crimea

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 09:19 AM PST

Crimea's prime minister Sergei Aksyonov, center, enters a hall prior the talks in Russian Parliament in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 7, 2014. Valentina Matvienko, speaker for Russia's upper house of parliament says Crimea would be welcome as an "equal subject" in Russia if the region votes to leave Ukraine in an upcoming referendum. Russia's parliament is planning to review a bill as early as next week that would speed up Crimea's integration into Russia. Crimea would be the first territory to officially join Russia since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. (AP Photo/Alexander Shalgin)Across Red Square, 65,000 people waved Russian flags, chanting "Crimea is Russia!"


Criminal lawyer's ad is subversive, sarcastic and pretty awesome

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 07:42 AM PST

Thanks Dan!!!! (412) 454-5582 @ThanksDanEsqDaniel 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."


Mass. governor signs law banning 'upskirt' photos

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 10:29 AM PST

Massachusetts High Court Rules 'Upskirting' is LegalBOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick signed a bill on Friday updating the state's voyeurism laws, just two days after the state's highest court ruled that a man who took cellphone photos up the skirts of female subway passengers in Boston wasn't violating the law as written.


Army general coerced captain into affair, prosecutors say

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 08:22 AM PST

Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair leaves the courthouse following a day of motions, Tuesday, March 4, 2014, at Fort Bragg, N.C. Less than a month before Sinclair's trial on sexual assault charges, the lead prosecutor broke down in tears Tuesday as he told a superior he believed the primary accuser in the case had lied under oath. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, James Robinson)FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — With the Pentagon under increased scrutiny over revelations of rampant rape and sexual misconduct within the ranks, opening statements began Friday in a rare court-martial of an Army general — believed to be the most senior member of the U.S. military to face trial on sex assault charges.


Ukraine Paralympic chief says will quit Games if Russia invades

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 07:13 AM PST

FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, a skier passes by the Olympic rings at the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Overshadowed by the international crisis over Ukraine, Russia welcomes the sporting world back to Sochi this week for the Winter Paralympics that will be snubbed by some politicians and will struggle to match the successful Winter Olympics that ended less than two weeks ago in the Russian Black Sea resort. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, FILE)By Alexei Anishchuk SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Ukraine's Paralympic chief, Valeriy Sushkevich, said on Friday his team would quit the Winter Paralympic Games if Russia invaded his home country, and that he hoped the competition would be able to spread peace instead. Russia is holding the Games in the Black Sea resort of Sochi at a time when it is being criticised for its actions in Ukraine's southern region of Crimea, where the West accuses Russia of seizing military and government institutions. While Putin says he has the right to send in troops to defend Russian compatriots there but that so far he sees no need to do so. "If there is an escalation of the conflict, intervention on the territory of our country, God forbid the worst, we would not be able to stay here, we would go," Sushkevich told a news conference.


Fire destroys 'Party Animal' house in Detroit

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 08:27 AM PST

In this Nov. 21, 2013 photo, stuffed animals are seen attached to "The Party Animal House" in the Heidelberg Art Project in Detroit. Another fire has burned a house that's part of the outdoor art installation. WDIV-TV reports that the fire department responded early Friday, March 7, 2014 to the fire on the city's east side that destroyed the building. "The Heidelberg Project has been the target of at least eight earlier suspicious fires. There have been no arrests related to the fires that started in May 2013, but local and federal officials are investigating. Tyree Guyton founded the east-side project in 1986 as a response to urban decay. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)DETROIT (AP) — A house covered in stuffed animals and dolls that was a key part of the Heidelberg Project in Detroit became the latest casualty Friday in a 10-month string of suspicious fires that has devastated much of the long-running interactive outdoor art installation.


Not me: Calif. man denies he's bitcoin founder

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 04:37 AM PST

Dorian S. Nakamoto listens during an interview with the Associated Press, Thursday, March 6, 2014 in Los Angeles. Nakamoto, the man that Newsweek claims is the founder of Bitcoin, denies he had anything to do with it and says he had never even heard of the digital currency until his son told him he had been contacted by a reporter three weeks ago. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)The denial comes after a published report claims he's behind the virtual currency.


Pro-Crimea rally attacts 65,000 to Kremlin

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 06:35 AM PST

File photo shows a cordon of interior ministry troops in in front of the Kremlin (L) and St. Basil's Cathedral (R) in Moscow's Red Square on December 10, 2011Over 65,000 people waving Russian flags and banners attended a rally in central Moscow on Friday, in a show of solidarity with pro-Russian authorities in the Ukrainian region of Crimea, police said. The rally, entitled "We are together", which began with Russian pop star Oleg Gazmanov singing patriotic songs, took place just outside the walls of the Kremlin. Crimean parliament speaker Vladimir Konstantinov, who earlier met top lawmakers in Moscow, offered greetings "from Crimea" as he took to the stage amid cheers. "Yesterday we took a historic decision," he said, referring to a request by the autonomous republic's parliament to join Russia, a move they want voters to ratify in a March 16 referendum.


U.S. job growth offers upbeat sign for weather-beaten economy

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 01:39 PM PST

Hiring Picks Up in February: But Is It Good News?By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job growth accelerated sharply in February despite the icy weather that gripped much of the nation, easing fears of an abrupt economic slowdown and keeping the Federal Reserve on track to continue 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 as Americans flooded into the labor market to search for work. "It reinforces the case for the economy being stronger than it's looked for the last couple of months," said Bill Cheney, chief economist at John Hancock Financial Services in Boston.


Religious conservatives facing off at conference

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 04:56 AM PST

Sen Ted Cruz attends Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon HillOXON HILL, Md. (AP) — The early auditions for the Republican Party's next presidential contest are in full swing at the nation's largest annual gathering of conservative activists, where some of the GOP's most prominent religious conservatives are facing off.


Officer says US general sexually assaulted her

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 04:10 PM PST

Brig. Gen. Paul Wilson leaves the courthouse after testifying in pretrial motions in the case of Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, Tuesday, March 4, 2014, at Fort Bragg, N.C. Less than a month before Sinclair's trial on sexual assault charges, the lead prosecutor broke down in tears Tuesday as he told a superior he believed the primary accuser in the case had lied under oath. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, James Robinson)FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — An Army captain at the center of a sexual assault case that has scandalized the U.S. military testified Friday that a general twice forced her to perform oral sex on him during their three-year, illicit affair.


Kids rescued from surf: 'Mom tried to kill us'

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 04:06 PM PST

FILE - In this March 4, 2014 file image made from video, a lifeguard carries one of the three children rescued from a minivan that their mother, Ebony Wilkerson, drove into the Atlantic in Daytona Beach, Fla. Wilkerson as charged Friday with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse, though she has denied trying to harm anyone, authorities said. (AP Photo/Simon Besner, File) NO SALESORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — After she drove her minivan into the crashing waves of the Atlantic Ocean, authorities say a pregnant South Carolina woman tried to call off bystanders hustling to rescue her three screaming children from the water that was rushing in through the windows.


Militant grip transforms, terrorizes Syrian city

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 08:46 AM PST

FILE - This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. Once a vibrant, mixed city considered a bastion of support for President Bashar Assad, the eastern city of Raqqa is now a shell of its former life, transformed by al-Qaida militants into the nucleus of the terror group's version of an Islamic caliphate they hope one day to establish in Syria and Iraq. In rare interviews with The Associated Press, residents and activists in Raqqa describe a city where fear prevails, music has been banned, Christians have to pay religious tax in return for protection and face-veiled women and pistol-wielding men in jihadi uniforms patrol the streets. (AP Photo/militant website, File)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.


Pistorius trial hears damaging testimony

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 03:06 PM PST

Oscar Pistorius puts his hand to his face as he listens to cross questioning about the events surrounding the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, in court during his trial in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, March 7, 2014. Pistorius is charged with murder for the death Steenkamp, on Valentines Day in 2013. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, Pool)PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — In a day of potentially 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.


APNewsBreak: FBI investigates prison company

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 03:25 PM PST

FILE - This June 15, 2010, file photo, shows the Idaho Correctional Center south of Boise, Idaho. The FBI has launched a criminal investigation into private prison company Corrections Corporation of America, which ran what Idaho inmates called "Gladiator School" because of a violent reputation they say understaffing helped create. The Nashville, Tenn.-based CCA has operated Idaho's largest prison for more than a decade, but last year, CCA officials acknowledged it had understaffed the Idaho Correctional Center by thousands of hours in violation of the state contract. (AP Photo/Charlie Litchfield, File)BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The FBI has launched an investigation of the Corrections Corporation of America over the company's running of an Idaho prison with a reputation so violent that inmates dubbed it "Gladiator School."


GOP pushes social issues at conservative showcase

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 12:48 PM PST

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference in National Harbor, Md., Friday, March 7, 2014. Friday marks the second day of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, which brings together prospective presidential candidates, conservative opinion leaders and tea party activists from coast to coast. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)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.


Ukraine decides to compete in Paralympics in Sochi

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 07:00 AM PST

FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, a skier passes by the Olympic rings at the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Overshadowed by the international crisis over Ukraine, Russia welcomes the sporting world back to Sochi this week for the Winter Paralympics that will be snubbed by some politicians and will struggle to match the successful Winter Olympics that ended less than two weeks ago in the Russian Black Sea resort. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, FILE)SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Ukraine will compete in the Winter Paralympics in Sochi despite Russia's military moves in Crimea.


Accuser recounts general's alleged sex assault

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 03:30 PM PST

Brig. Gen. Paul Wilson leaves the courthouse after testifying in pretrial motions in the case of Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, Tuesday, March 4, 2014, at Fort Bragg, N.C. Less than a month before Sinclair's trial on sexual assault charges, the lead prosecutor broke down in tears Tuesday as he told a superior he believed the primary accuser in the case had lied under oath. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, James Robinson)FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — An Army captain at the center of one of the military's most closely watched sexual-assault cases testified Friday that a general twice forced her to perform oral sex on him during their three-year, illicit affair.


Mom who drove kids into ocean faces charges

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 02:01 PM PST

FILE - In this March 4, 2014 file image made from video, a lifeguard carries one of the three children rescued from a minivan that their mother, Ebony Wilkerson, drove into the Atlantic in Daytona Beach, Fla. Wilkerson as charged Friday with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse, though she has denied trying to harm anyone, authorities said. (AP Photo/Simon Besner, File) NO SALESDAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A pregnant South Carolina woman who drove a minivan carrying her three young children into the ocean surf off Florida was charged Friday with attempted murder and child abuse, with authorities saying the children were screaming to bystanders that she was trying to kill them.


Accuser takes stand in general's sex assault case

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 01:21 PM PST

Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair leaves the courthouse following a day of motions, Tuesday, March 4, 2014, at Fort Bragg, N.C. Less than a month before Sinclair's trial on sexual assault charges, the lead prosecutor broke down in tears Tuesday as he told a superior he believed the primary accuser in the case had lied under oath. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, James Robinson)FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — An Army captain who says she was sexually assaulted by a general sobbed Friday as she testified that they had a three-year affair and that he threatened to kill her and her family — and "do it in a way no one would ever know" — if she ever told anyone.


Job gain despite winter blast lifts economic hopes

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 12:39 PM PST

In this Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014, photo, job seekers line up to sign in before meeting prospective employers at a career fair at a hotel in Dallas. The Labor Department releases employment data for February, on Friday, March, 7, 2014. (AP Photo/LM Otero)WASHINGTON (AP) — Brutal winter weather snarled traffic, canceled flights and cut power to homes and factories in February. Yet it didn't faze U.S. employers, who added 175,000 jobs, far more than the two previous months.


Man said to create bitcoin denies it

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 12:09 PM PST

Dorian S. Nakamoto listens during an interview with the Associated Press, Thursday, March 6, 2014 in Los Angeles. Nakamoto, the man that Newsweek claims is the founder of Bitcoin, denies he had anything to do with it and says he had never even heard of the digital currency until his son told him he had been contacted by a reporter three weeks ago. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)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.


Opening statements to begin in general's sex trial

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 05:04 AM PST

Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair leaves the courthouse following a day of motions, Tuesday, March 4, 2014, at Fort Bragg, N.C. Less than a month before Sinclair's trial on sexual assault charges, the lead prosecutor broke down in tears Tuesday as he told a superior he believed the primary accuser in the case had lied under oath. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, James Robinson)FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — With the Pentagon under increased scrutiny over revelations of rampant rape and sexual misconduct within the ranks, opening statements were set to begin Friday in a rare court-martial of an Army general — believed to be the most senior member of the U.S. military to face trial on sex assault charges.


Putin rebuffs Obama's warning on Ukraine

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 02:01 PM PST

Russia's President Putin attends a ceremony to raise the Russian flag as he visits the mountain village on the eve of the opening of the 2014 Sochi Paralympic Winter Games in Krasnaya PolyanaAfter an hour-long phone call, Putin says Russia and the U.S. are still far apart.


Sports medicine pioneer Frank Jobe dies at 88

Posted: 07 Mar 2014 02:24 PM PST

FILE - In a Saturday, July 27, 2013 file photo, Dr. Frank Jobe, known for the development of the historic elbow procedure known as 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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