| Study warns of worldwide cancer surge Posted: 04 Feb 2014 01:40 PM PST  World Health Organization sees 57 percent jump in next 20 years, urges prevention, early diagnoses.
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| 'Science Guy' Bill Nye defends evolution in live public debate Posted: 04 Feb 2014 04:35 PM PST  PETERSBURG, Ky. (AP) — TV's "Science Guy" Bill Nye and the leader of a Kentucky museum who believes in creationism are debating a question that has nagged humankind: "How did we get here?"
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| Photos: Heavy winter storm marches across the U.S. Posted: 03 Feb 2014 06:08 AM PST  A bicyclist crosses Douglas Avenue in downtown Wichita, Kan., during a heavy snowstorm on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. South-central Kansas is expecting up to seven inches of snow as a winter storm passes through. (AP Photo/The Wichita Eagle, Travis Heying) LOCAL TV OUT; MAGS OUT; LOCAL RADIO OUT; LOCAL INTERNET OUT |
| Weather service: Storm to hit two-thirds of U.S. Posted: 04 Feb 2014 03:07 PM PST  Snow hits Kansas hard before expected quick march across the Midwest and into New England.
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| Video spotlights anti-gay violence in Russia Posted: 04 Feb 2014 01:17 PM PST  With the eyes of the world about to turn to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, a human rights group has released a new disturbing video highlighting violence against gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual people under Russia's anti-gay laws that went into effect last year.
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| McDonald's Canada addresses 'pink goop' claims Posted: 04 Feb 2014 10:12 AM PST  McNuggets have earned a bad rap in recent years, partially due to photos of "pink goop" purported to be the main ingredient in McDonald's product.
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| Anti-abortion groups boycotting Girl Scout cookies Posted: 04 Feb 2014 12:56 PM PST  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Anti-abortion groups angry over what they see as the Girl Scouts' support for abortion-rights advocates are organizing a cookie boycott.
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| Senate sends long-overdue farm bill to Obama Posted: 04 Feb 2014 01:40 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The sweeping farm bill that Congress sent to President Obama Tuesday has something for almost everyone, from the nation's 47 million food stamp recipients to Southern peanut growers, Midwest corn farmers and the maple syrup industry in the Northeast.
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| Olympic hosts try to shake outcry over fate of stray dogs Posted: 04 Feb 2014 10:13 AM PST  SOCHI, Russia, Feb 4 (Reuters) - An outcry over the fate of stray animals being rounded up in Sochi is the latest problem to dog Russia's preparations for the Winter Olympics. Already scrambling to get hotels ready on time, make the Games safe and convince the world Russians are not homophobic, the host nation is now trying to shake off accusations that it is killing stray dogs. It is hardly the showcase for modern Russia that President Vladimir Putin had hoped for at the Olympics. Residents say thousands of dogs have disappeared from the streets of Sochi since a local business won a contract to catch stray animals before the Games, which open on Friday.
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| Libya: Gadhafi's chemical weapons cache 100 percent gone Posted: 04 Feb 2014 12:33 PM PST  TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libya's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday the country's caches of chemical weapons, including bombs and artillery shells filled with mustard gas, have been completely destroyed.
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| Lawmakers seek redo on Endangered Species Act Posted: 04 Feb 2014 09:36 AM PST  Environmentalists have abused the law in the name of animals, its critics say.
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| An expensive tip: Gratuity leads to job loss for NYC sanitation worker Posted: 04 Feb 2014 07:31 AM PST  A New York City sanitation worker with 24 years experience was forced out of his job after he was caught accepting a $20 tip, the New York Daily News reports.
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| U.S. ambassador to Russia stepping down Posted: 04 Feb 2014 08:38 AM PST  MOSCOW (AP) — U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul, the architect of President Barack Obama's effort to reset relations with Russian, announced on Tuesday that he is stepping down after two turbulent years in Moscow.
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| Target takes steps to protect customer data Posted: 04 Feb 2014 02:19 PM PST  The retailer will implement a $100 million chip-enabled smart-card program by early 2015.
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| Blast in Pakistan kills nine near Shiite mosque Posted: 04 Feb 2014 07:53 AM PST  ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani official says a bomb blast in the northwestern city of Peshawar has killed nine people near a mosque belonging to the Shiite Muslim minority sect.
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| Kidnapping, carjacking charges filed against escaped Mich. killer Posted: 04 Feb 2014 11:52 AM PST  IONIA, Mich. (AP) — A convicted killer captured in Indiana after a daring one-day escape from a Michigan prison refused to waive extradition Tuesday and said he made a run after 20 years in custody because he "just wanted a second chance."
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| 'SNL' alum Victoria Jackson files for political office Posted: 04 Feb 2014 06:47 AM PST  THOMPSON STATION, Tenn. (AP) — Former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Victoria Jackson has filed to run as an independent candidate for a seat on a county commission outside Nashville, Tenn.
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| Budget deficit drops to $514 billion Posted: 04 Feb 2014 07:19 AM PST  It's a substantial decrease and the lowest by far since Obama took office, a new report says.
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| Microsoft hopes new, old leaders can rekindle magic Posted: 04 Feb 2014 03:34 PM PST  By Bill Rigby SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is betting a mix of old and young blood will revive the aging technology pioneer, but new Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella may find it tough to push change with co-founder Bill Gates and former CEO Steve Ballmer breathing down his neck. The 46-year-old India native and former enterprise business chief takes on the monumental task of exploring new directions - but with Gates as his consigliere, and on a strategy that Ballmer orchestrated with the board. That uphill endeavor helped sour other candidates on the job, including proven change agent Alan Mulally at Ford Motor Co, sources have said. Gates is giving up the board chairmanship to fellow director John Thompson.
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| Sea survivor's Salvadoran family thought he died Posted: 04 Feb 2014 03:01 PM PST  GARITA PALMERA, El Salvador (AP) — A Salvadoran fisherman's account of his survival after more than 13 months and about 6,500 miles in an open boat has proved a double miracle for his mother and father, who lost touch with him eight years ago and thought he was dead.
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| Broad coalition backs Keystone XL oil pipeline Posted: 04 Feb 2014 03:21 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — An unusual coalition of lawmakers from both parties, labor and business leaders, veterans groups and Canada's ambassador to the United States joined forces Tuesday to push for quick approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
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| Long winter brings salt shortage, steeper prices Posted: 04 Feb 2014 02:57 PM PST  CHICAGO (AP) — As piles of snow grow taller during this seemingly endless winter, the mounds of salt for spreading on the nation's icy, slushy roads are shrinking, forcing communities to ration supplies or try exotic new ice-melting substances.
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| NY police: Hoffman's heroin didn't have additive Posted: 04 Feb 2014 05:09 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Heroin recovered at Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's apartment after he was found there dead with a syringe in his arm has tested negative for the powerful additive fentanyl, a police official said Tuesday.
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| Flea: Red Hot Chili Peppers mimed Super Bowl song Posted: 04 Feb 2014 04:56 PM PST  The Red Hot Chili Peppers decided long ago they were never going to mime a live performance. The band made an exception for the NFL, it turns out.
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| More than half Americans plan to follow Olympics Posted: 04 Feb 2014 02:24 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Just over half of Americans surveyed plan to watch or follow the Winter Olympics, according to an Associated Press-GfK Poll, and one-third of respondents say they have only a little or no confidence about Russia's ability to safeguard safety at the Sochi Games that start this week.
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| Lawmakers seek Endangered Species Act overhaul Posted: 04 Feb 2014 04:42 PM PST  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Republicans in Congress on Tuesday called for an overhaul to the Endangered Species Act to curtail environmentalists' lawsuits and give more power to states, but experts say broad changes to one of the nation's cornerstone environmental laws are unlikely given the pervasive partisan divide in Washington, D.C.
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| APNewsBreak: Police say teacher acknowledged sex Posted: 04 Feb 2014 05:06 PM PST  A California educator acknowledged to police that she had a sexual relationship with a teenage student who confronted her years later over the phone and posted video of the conversation on YouTube, authorities said in a court filing released Tuesday.
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| Facebook barrels ahead on 10th anniversary Posted: 04 Feb 2014 03:10 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — It has been 10 years since a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg created a website called Thefacebook.com to let his classmates find their friends online.
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| Bill Clinton was Leno's top 'Tonight' target Posted: 04 Feb 2014 02:23 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — For Jay Leno, Bill Clinton was the comic gift who kept giving. By one exhaustive count, the outgoing "Tonight" show host made 4,607 jokes at the former president's expense during his time on the program.
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| A look back at the allegations against Woody Allen Posted: 04 Feb 2014 03:16 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — "Cries and Whispers: The Ugly Explosion of an Unconventional Family," announced the Aug. 31, 1992, cover of Time magazine, which bore Woody Allen's bespectacled face. The sordid saga involving Allen and erstwhile romantic partner Mia Farrow had indeed exploded into the public consciousness days earlier. The most sensational part: an allegation that the celebrated director had taken their adopted daughter Dylan, 7, into an attic-like space at Farrow's Connecticut home and molested her.
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| Microsoft names cloud computing chief as next CEO Posted: 04 Feb 2014 04:20 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — As longtime Microsoft insider Satya Nadella becomes the company's CEO, he is declaring a new focus on a "mobile-first, cloud-first world." So far, he only has the latter half of the formula figured out.
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| U.K. admits to role in deadly 1984 India raid Posted: 04 Feb 2014 05:45 AM PST  The Golden Temple attack was one of the most violent episodes with Sikh separatists.
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| Afghanistan's Karzai in secret talks with Taliban Posted: 04 Feb 2014 06:56 AM PST  By Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been holding secret talks with Taliban officials in the hope of persuading them to make peace with his government, his spokesman told Reuters on Tuesday, confirming a New York Times report. "I can confirm that ... Taliban are willing more than ever to join the peace process," Aimal Faizi said. "Contacts have been made and we are also in touch with them." A member of Afghanistan's High Peace Council also confirmed that talks had taken place, but was measured in his assessment of their success. "Talks took place in Dubai three weeks ago between government officials and Taliban who flew from Doha, but we are still waiting to see the result," he told Reuters.
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| Britain admits role in deadly 1984 Golden Temple attack in India Posted: 04 Feb 2014 08:55 AM PST  By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - Britain secretly helped India plan a deadly assault on Sikh separatists holed up in the Golden Temple at Amritsar in 1984, the government said on Tuesday, saying London's influence was limited and there was therefore no need for an apology. Prime Minister David Cameron ordered a review into the matter last month after the government inadvertently released official papers suggesting that Margaret Thatcher, then prime minister, had sent an officer from the elite SAS special air service to advise India on the raid. The unplanned release upset British Sikhs, whom Cameron is courting ahead of a national election in 2015, and in India it triggered nationalist criticism of the dynastic ruling Congress party, which faces an uphill struggle to be re-elected in a national vote due by May. Congress, under then-prime minister Indira Gandhi, was in power at the time of the raid on the Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine.
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