| Gates to White House: 'Go look in the mirror' Posted: 13 Jan 2014 12:42 PM PST !["You can't go out there and tell [the troops] I want you to risk your lives for a tie."](http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Ia67Nf4ml25aUa6Ho8AqCg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/video/video.pd2upload.com/video.us.news.yahoo.com@a780b439-afc3-35d6-93f3-077fb3358bd2_FULL.jpg "\"You can't go out there and tell [the troops] I want you to risk your lives for a tie.\"") In an interview with Katie Couric, ex-defense secretary pushes back against critics.
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| Ex-officers acquitted in rare trial over homeless man's death Posted: 13 Jan 2014 04:15 PM PST  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Two former California police officers were acquitted Monday in the death of a homeless man after a violent struggle with officers that was captured on surveillance video.
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| Mexico urges masked vigilantes to stand down Posted: 13 Jan 2014 04:29 PM PST  Mexico's government on Monday pledged to take control of a violent western state after days of fighting between masked vigilantes and members of one of the country's most powerful drug cartels. Since late last year, vigilante groups in the state of Michoacan have moved deeper into territory controlled by the Knights Templar cartel and they now are converging on Apatzingan, considered one of gang's main strongholds. The vigilantes' advance has raised the risk of a bloody urban battle in Apatzingan.
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| Calif. chicken plant closes again after cockroach cleanup Posted: 13 Jan 2014 01:11 PM PST  LIVINGSTON, Calif. (AP) — A California chicken farm that reopened over the weekend after it was shut because of a cockroach infestation says it's "voluntarily and temporarily" suspending operations again.
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| Suspicious backpack leads to student's arrest outside Houston Posted: 13 Jan 2014 11:39 AM PST  A student was taken into custody after a possible explosive device was found near the premises of a Houston-area school on Monday, local TV broadcaster KHOU reported school officials as saying. There have been no explosions and no injuries in the incident at Seven Lakes High School in Katy, a western suburb of Houston. Further details about the student taken into custody were not immediately available. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Harris County Sheriff's Office and the Houston Police bomb squad were looking into a suspicious backpack found just outside the school, the broadcaster reported.
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| Southwest pilots grounded after airport mix-up Posted: 13 Jan 2014 11:51 AM PST  Still no word on why flight to Branson, Mo., landed at wrong airport with shorter runway.
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| Target apologizes for data breach, but vague with details Posted: 13 Jan 2014 09:26 AM PST  By Ross Kerber, Phil Wahba and Jim Finkle BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Target Corp began a major public relations effort on Monday to apologize to customers for an unprecedented cyber attack on its network, but the No. 3 U.S. retailer was vague in providing details about what it knew and when. The company has so far disclosed that the breach started in late November and lasted 19 days over the peak holiday shopping season, resulting in the theft of about 40 million credit card records and 70 million other records containing customer data. Target is trying to woo back customers after sales dropped off at the end of the holiday season. Its campaign included full-page newspaper advertisements on Monday apologizing for the attack and the first interview since the breach by chief executive Gregg Steinhafel.
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| Book reveals big names in 'special circle of Clinton hell' Posted: 13 Jan 2014 08:15 AM PST  During her 2008 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton's aides kept a meticulous "political hit list" containing the names of members of Congress who had "burned her" by endorsing Barack Obama, an upcoming book on Clinton's political "rebirth" reveals.
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| Water ban lifted for part of W. Va. after spill Posted: 13 Jan 2014 10:57 AM PST  Officials want to ensure the water system is not overwhelmed by excessive demand.
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| Supreme Court casts skeptical eye on Obama's appointment power Posted: 13 Jan 2014 03:07 PM PST  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court signaled a willingness on Monday to rein in President Barack Obama's power to temporarily fill senior government posts without the Senate's approval, a move that would curb his ability to bypass a gridlocked Congress. Most of the nine justices expressed skepticism, during 90 minutes of oral arguments, about so-called recess appointments Obama made to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in 2012. The court is expected to issue a ruling in the case by June that has the potential to shift the balance of power between the White House and the Senate. While both are now controlled by Democrats, Republicans hope to win control of the Senate in congressional mid-term elections in November.
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| Feds probe Christie's use of Sandy relief funds Posted: 13 Jan 2014 06:24 AM PST  The possible 2016 GOP presidential hopeful finds himself in another political controversy.
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| After spill, water ban lifted for part of W.Va. Posted: 13 Jan 2014 01:06 PM PST CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Safe tap water gushed from faucets and shower heads in West Virginia on Monday, a welcome sight and sound for a small fraction of the 300,000 people who have not been able to use running water since a chemical spill five days ago. |
| Facility in W.Va spill flew under regulatory radar Posted: 13 Jan 2014 04:45 PM PST CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The facility whose chemical spill contaminated the water supply for 300,000 West Virginia residents was barely scrutinized, flying largely under the radar of government regulators who viewed it as a low-risk operation — but in reality, a problem at a key holding wall went undetected and unreported at Freedom Industries Inc. |
| Court could limit president's recess appointments Posted: 13 Jan 2014 12:04 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Just back from their own long break, Supreme Court justices set out Monday to resolve a politically charged fight over when the Senate's absence gives the president the power to make temporary appointments to high-level positions without senators' approval.
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| Iranians welcome nuclear deal, hard-liners oppose Posted: 13 Jan 2014 12:19 PM PST  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's reformers and moderate conservatives welcomed an agreement Monday between Iran and six world powers on how to implement a nuclear deal struck in November, saying it will shore up Iran's sanctions-hit economy. Hard-liners however inside the Islamic Republic remain opposed.
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| Swedish doctors transplant wombs into 9 women Posted: 13 Jan 2014 09:24 AM PST  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Nine women in Sweden have successfully received transplanted wombs donated from relatives in an experimental procedure that has raised some ethical concerns. The women will soon try to become pregnant with their new wombs, the doctor in charge of the pioneering project has revealed.
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| Golden Globes viewership highest in a decade Posted: 13 Jan 2014 11:22 AM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — The Nielsen ratings company says Golden Globes awards ceremony hit a 10-year high in viewership.
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| Go Omaha! Manning gives Neb. city game shoutouts Posted: 13 Jan 2014 04:45 PM PST  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Peyton Manning can't stop shouting about Nebraska's largest city.
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| Bodies litter South Sudan oil town; talks resume Posted: 13 Jan 2014 11:04 AM PST  BENTIU, South Sudan (AP) — Dozens of dead, mangled and bloated bodies line the roadside from the airport into this state capital of one of South Sudan's oil-producing regions. Houses, buildings and shops have been looted, burned or destroyed, as blackened cars and buses smolder.
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| Judge: Decision in A-Rod suit must be public Posted: 13 Jan 2014 11:13 AM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge said Monday that Alex Rodriguez cannot file portions of arbitrator Fredric Horowitz's decision under seal as part of a lawsuit seeking to overturn the one-year suspension from baseball given to the New York Yankees third baseman.
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| High court skeptical of Obama recess appointments Posted: 13 Jan 2014 10:36 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court cast doubt Monday on President Barack Obama's use of a provision of the Constitution to make temporary appointments to high-level positions over the objection of Senate Republicans. |
| Nigerian leader signs law banning marriage Posted: 13 Jan 2014 10:19 AM PST ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's president has signed a law that bans same-sex marriage and criminalizes homosexual associations, societies and meetings, with penalties of up to 14 years in jail. |
| Southwest flight lands at wrong Missouri airport Posted: 13 Jan 2014 11:03 AM PST  A Southwest Airlines flight bound for the main airport in Branson, Mo., instead touched down at a much smaller nearby airfield that gave the pilots only half as much room to stop.
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| Pope condemns abortion as sign of 'throwaway culture' Posted: 13 Jan 2014 07:58 AM PST  Pope Francis on Monday issued his strongest condemnation yet of abortion, calling it a symptom of a "throwaway culture" that placed too little value on human life. The pope, who has focused more on social issues such as poverty than on abortion since becoming pontiff in March, said it was "frightful" to think about the early termination of pregnancy. Francis made the remarks in a wide-ranging speech to the Vatican diplomatic corps in which he condemned violence in Syria and other flashpoints around the world, saying peace was threatened by "every denial of human dignity". "We cannot be indifferent to those suffering from hunger, especially children, when we think of how much food is wasted every day in many parts of the world immersed in what I have often termed 'the throwaway culture'," the pope said.
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| Want a piece of 'Whitey' Bulger? His stuff is headed for auction Posted: 13 Jan 2014 03:53 PM PST  When authorities searched the apartment of Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger, they found $822,000 in cash and a large collection of guns hidden in holes cut into the walls. Other than the ...
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| Water crisis in W. Virginia nears end after five days Posted: 13 Jan 2014 05:40 AM PST  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — For the fifth straight day, hundreds of thousands of people in West Virginia had to wash, cook and brush their teeth with bottled water, but officials promised the ban on tap water that was tainted by a chemical spill would soon be lifted.
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