| Oshie's 4 shootout goals lead US past Russia 3-2 Posted: 15 Feb 2014 09:11 AM PST  SOCHI, Russia (AP) — T.J. Oshie brainstormed while he skated to center ice, desperately trying to come up with one last move to end an epic shootout. He had already taken five shots at Sergei Bobrovsky, and the Russians were still even.
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| UAW drive falls short amid culture clash in Tenn. Posted: 15 Feb 2014 12:54 PM PST  CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — The failure of the United Auto Workers to unionize employees at the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee underscores a cultural disconnect between a labor-friendly German company and anti-union sentiment in the South.
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| Olympics: Earth's most political apolitical event Posted: 15 Feb 2014 11:19 AM PST  SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Each time an Olympics approaches, the ideal is articulated once more: The true spirit of the games, those who oversee them say, brings humanity together to promote amity and athletic excellence. It is most certainly not a place for the affairs of nations and vested interests to play out on a global stage.
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| UK taxi driver crushed to death in windstorm Posted: 15 Feb 2014 11:46 AM PST  LONDON (AP) — Strong winds that pummeled Britain killed a taxi driver, whose car was crushed by falling chunks of masonry from a building, and an elderly man who died after a "freak wave" struck a cruise ship in the English Channel, officials said Saturday. Another 15 cruise ship passengers were injured.
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| Gay-marriage foes scrambling after court setbacks Posted: 15 Feb 2014 11:21 AM PST  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Opponents of same-sex marriage are scrambling to find effective responses, in Congress and state legislatures, to a rash of court rulings that would force some of America's most conservative states to accept gay nuptials.
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| Agent: Player A in NFL report is Andrew McDonald Posted: 15 Feb 2014 02:23 PM PST  A former Miami Dolphins lineman identified as one of the targets of harassment in the racially charged bullying scandal, has no has no problem with the team, his agent said in a statement Saturday.
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| Mob attacks alleged gays in Nigerian capital Posted: 15 Feb 2014 10:54 AM PST ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A mob armed with wooden clubs and iron bars, screaming that they were going to "cleanse" their neighborhood of gay people, dragged 14 young men from their beds and assaulted them, human rights activists said Saturday. |
| 'Juno' actress Ellen Page comes out as gay Posted: 15 Feb 2014 04:32 AM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ellen Page, who won the hearts of moviegoers as the pregnant teenager in the 2007 film "Juno," has come out as gay.
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| Federal guidance on pot business leaves banks wary Posted: 15 Feb 2014 12:08 AM PST  SEATTLE (AP) — For marijuana dispensaries around the country, the days of doing business in cash — driving around with bill-stuffed envelopes to pay the rent, or showing up at a state revenue office with $20,000 in paper bags for the tax man — can't end soon enough.
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| Ariz. inmate makes Valentine's escape Posted: 15 Feb 2014 06:15 AM PST  PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona jail inmate who escaped by climbing two walls and crawling through razor wire and was reportedly meeting his sweetheart on Valentine's Day is back in custody.
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| 5 things to know about the Sochi Olympics Posted: 15 Feb 2014 07:45 AM PST  SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Fast Five, Saturday edition: Five things you'll want to know about the 2014 Winter Olympics.
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| UAW falls 87 votes short of major victory in South Posted: 15 Feb 2014 12:07 AM PST  CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Just 87 votes at the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee separated the United Auto Workers union from what would have been its first successful organization of workers at a foreign automaker in the South.
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| Oshie's shootout goals lead US past Russia 3-2 Posted: 15 Feb 2014 08:37 AM PST  SOCHI, Russia (AP) — T.J. Oshie brainstormed while he skated to center ice, desperately trying to come up with one last move to end an epic shootout. He had already taken five shots at Sergei Bobrovsky, and the Russians were still even.
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| Merkel, Hollande to discuss European communication network avoiding U.S. Posted: 15 Feb 2014 10:11 AM PST  German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday she would talk to French President Francois Hollande about building up a European communication network to avoid emails and other data passing through the United States. Merkel, who visits France on Wednesday, has been pushing for greater data protection in Europe following reports last year about mass surveillance in Germany and elsewhere by the U.S. National Security Agency. Merkel said in her weekly podcast that she disapproved of companies such as Google and Facebook basing their operations in countries with low levels of data protection while being active in countries such as Germany with high data protection.
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| UN envoy 'very sorry' as Syria talks break off in failure Posted: 15 Feb 2014 10:45 AM PST  The UN's Syria envoy said he was "very, very sorry" Saturday as peace talks in Geneva broke off with no progress made and no date set for a third round. Just weeks after the warring parties sat down for the first time to seek a political settlement to the three-year conflict, a second round ended in acrimony. "I'm very, very sorry," UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi told reporters in Geneva as he announced the break-off in talks. With no guarantee the parties will return to the negotiating table, the death toll continued to mount in Syria where more than 136,000 have died and millions have been driven from their homes.
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| AP Exclusive: Misconduct forces more soldiers out Posted: 15 Feb 2014 02:51 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of U.S. soldiers forced out of the Army because of crimes or misconduct has soared in the past several years as the military emerges from a decade of war that put a greater focus on battle competence than on character.
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| Obama: Calif. drought is everyone's concern Posted: 14 Feb 2014 04:51 PM PST  President warns of difficult choices ahead as to how America uses and conserves water.
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| U.S., China agree to work on climate change Posted: 14 Feb 2014 10:16 PM PST  China and the United States, the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases, pledged on Saturday to work together to attenuate the effects of global climate change. "China and the United States will work together ... to collaborate through enhanced policy dialogue, including the sharing of information regarding their respective post-2020 plans to limit greenhouse gas emissions," according to a U.S.-China joint statement issued at the end of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's whirlwind Beijing visit. International talks to try to agree on a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the first and only international agreement to tackle climate change, are due to be held in Paris next year. The United States never ratified the Kyoto deal.
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