| Ukraine capital bursts into battlefield Posted: 18 Feb 2014 03:50 PM PST  Protesters light barricades against police after deadliest day in struggle over nation's identity.
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| Activist nun, 84, sentenced to nearly 3 years in prison Posted: 18 Feb 2014 04:36 PM PST  KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An 84-year-old nun was sentenced Tuesday to nearly three years in prison for breaking into a nuclear weapons complex and defacing a bunker holding bomb-grade uranium, a demonstration that exposed serious security flaws at the Tennessee plant.
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| Ex-soldier convicted of killing Iraqi family dies in prison Posted: 18 Feb 2014 03:12 PM PST  LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (AP) — A former soldier convicted in 2009 of raping and killing a teenage Iraqi girl and using a shotgun to gun down her family died in an Arizona prison over the weekend in what officials suspect was a suicide.
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| Minimum wage study replenishes both sides of debate Posted: 18 Feb 2014 02:46 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Boosting the federal minimum wage as President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are proposing would increase earnings for more than 16.5 million people by 2016 but also cut employment by roughly 500,000 jobs, Congress' nonpartisan budget analyst said Tuesday.
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| Real 'Monuments Man' to join Clooney and Damon at White House Posted: 18 Feb 2014 02:03 PM PST  Harry Ettlinger was a 19-year-old Army private when he was recruited to be one of the original "Monuments Men." Now, Ettlinger will join President Obama and Hollywood stars like Matt Damon and George Clooney at a White House screening of the movie.
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| Feds get involved after shaking 'pandemonium' aboard flight Posted: 18 Feb 2014 12:51 PM PST  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal authorities are looking into severe turbulence that triggered "pandemonium" aboard a United Airlines flight into Billings, Mont., and sent five people to hospitals.
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| Cuba shares trove of Hemingway documents with U.S. Posted: 18 Feb 2014 10:52 AM PST  Cuba has released to US researchers copies of more than 2,000 documents related to Ernest Hemingway, media reported Tuesday in Havana, the American literary giant's home during the 1940s and 1950s. "More than 2,000 documents held at the Finca Vigia Museum in Havana are now available for the first time for researchers in the United States after having been digitized and sent to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum," the Cuba Contemporanea magazine wrote on its website. Now a museum, Finca Vigia, which means "lookout house" is located in the town of San Francisco de Paula just outside Havana.
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| Work-around to Iowa abortion rule draws mixed feelings Posted: 18 Feb 2014 10:38 AM PST  While many states passed sweeping abortion laws last year, the Iowa General Assembly endorsed just one — a perplexing measure befitting one of the few legislatures under divided control. The GOP-led House ...
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| NSA leaker Snowden elected student body rep at UK university Posted: 18 Feb 2014 11:33 AM PST  LONDON (AP) — Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden was elected Tuesday as the official representative of the student body at the University of Glasgow.
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| N.J. mayor rebuffs Christie lawyer's request Posted: 18 Feb 2014 08:56 AM PST  FORT LEE, N.J. (AP) — The mayor of the New Jersey town where allies of Gov. Chris Christie created traffic jams last fall has refused a request to be interviewed by a lawyer representing the governor.
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| Argh! Northeast gets more of that wintry white stuff Posted: 18 Feb 2014 10:21 AM PST  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A quick-moving storm brought several inches of snow as well as rare "thundersnow" to parts of the winter-weary East Coast, prompting speed restrictions on Pennsylvania highways on Tuesday, days after the Southeast and Northeast were paralyzed with heavy snow, ice and massive power outages.
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| Even from space, California's extreme drought looks bad Posted: 18 Feb 2014 07:09 AM PST  The historic drought that's devastated much of the American West this year is visible in NASA satellite imagery.
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| Ukraine's festering unrest turns deadly Posted: 18 Feb 2014 10:02 AM PST  Two police officers and seven civilians die in anti-government demonstrations in Kiev.
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| Iran won't scrap its nuclear facilities Posted: 18 Feb 2014 12:10 PM PST  The Islamic nation draws a red line on how far it would go at landmark talks.
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| Mass killer Breivik threatens hunger strike for bigger gym Posted: 18 Feb 2014 09:42 AM PST  STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Convicted Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has threatened to go on a hunger strike unless he gets access to better video games, a sofa and a larger gym.
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| Oliver Stone's libertarian streak Posted: 18 Feb 2014 02:58 AM PST  Oscar-winning film director knocks Obama; dishes on Hillary, hearts Ron Paul.
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| Former U.S. congressman arrested in Zimbabwe on porn charges Posted: 18 Feb 2014 10:26 AM PST  HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Just over a year ago, former U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds tried to shed past disgrace with a potent campaign slogan: "Redemption."
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| Reports: 3 protesters dead outside Ukraine parliament Posted: 18 Feb 2014 06:27 AM PST KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A lawmaker for a Ukrainian opposition party and a coordinator for the protesters' medical team say three protesters have died in clashes with police outside the parliament building in central Kiev. |
| Europe's role in chronic US execution dilemma: Won't ship drugs Posted: 18 Feb 2014 09:00 AM PST  BRUSSELS (AP) — There's one big reason the United States has a dearth of execution drugs so acute that some states are considering solutions such as firing squads and gas chambers: Europe won't allow the drugs to be exported because of its fierce hostility to capital punishment.
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| 2 ex-Pussy Riot women: 'Shoved' in Sochi arrests Posted: 18 Feb 2014 06:03 AM PST  Activists Say They Were Harassed by Officers
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| Report: U.S. wants to negotiate with Taliban for captive soldier Posted: 17 Feb 2014 10:20 PM PST  Washington will attempt to resume talks with the Taliban on exchanging a US soldier held captive by insurgents since 2009 for Guantanamo Bay prisoners, The Washington Post reported. The move is an attempt to free Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl before the majority of US forces leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014, the report said, citing current and former officials. The swap would trade Bergdahl for five Taliban members who would be released from Guantanamo Bay into protective custody in Qatar, the Post reported. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told AFP that she could not discuss details of US efforts but that "there should be no doubt that we work every day -- using our military, intelligence and diplomatic tools -- to try to see Sergeant Bergdahl returned home safely."
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| Russian punk band members detained by police in Sochi Posted: 18 Feb 2014 06:21 AM PST  By Mike Collett-White SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Pussy Riot protest band members Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were detained on Tuesday in connection with a theft in the Winter Olympics host city of Sochi, less than two months after their release from prison under an amnesty. The pair were held for around three hours at a police station in the Adler district of Sochi, before appearing with other women on the steps outside wearing summer dresses, colored leggings and their trademark balaclava masks. The women were in Sochi with other members of Pussy Riot to record a musical film called "Putin will teach you to love the motherland". Russian President Vladimir Putin has staked his reputation on the Sochi Games, hoping they would show the world Russia's modern face more than two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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| Latest storm to bring more snow to East Coast Posted: 17 Feb 2014 11:29 PM PST  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A quick storm was expected drop several inches of snow on the East Coast before rain and warmer temperatures give worn out residents a reprieve from shoveling and shivering, days after storms paralyzed the Southeast and Northeast with heavy snow, ice and massive power outages.
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| Okla. pharmacy won't give drug for Mo. execution Posted: 18 Feb 2014 10:33 AM PST  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma pharmacy has agreed not to provide a drug for a scheduled execution next week in Missouri as part of a settlement with the death row inmate's attorneys. But it's unclear whether the deal will prevent or delay the lethal injection.
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| Venezuela tense ahead of dueling demonstrations Posted: 17 Feb 2014 07:13 PM PST  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A crowd of anti-government activists wrested free an opposition politician as he was being hauled away in handcuffs by security forces following a raid on the party headquarters of President Nicolas Maduro's biggest foe.
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| Loud music trial shooter: 'I was the victim' Posted: 17 Feb 2014 07:09 PM PST  Prosecutors release jailhouse phone calls by Florida man who fatally shot teenager.
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| AP sources: DOE to OK $6.5B for Georgia nuke plant Posted: 18 Feb 2014 03:27 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Energy Department is poised to approve $6.5 billion in federal loan guarantees for the first nuclear power plants built from scratch in this country in more than three decades.
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| Obama struggling to find winning formula in Syria Posted: 18 Feb 2014 02:56 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — With peace talks failing, Syria's government on the offensive and moderate rebels pushed aside by al-Qaida-linked militants, the Obama administration is struggling for new ideas to halt a savage civil war.
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| Music death suspect compared self to rape victim Posted: 18 Feb 2014 01:57 PM PST  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida software designer accused of killing a black teenager during an argument over loud music compared himself to a rape victim, telling his fiancee in a recorded jailhouse phone call that the police were trying to blame him for the shooting when he was only defending himself.
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| Soldiers mugging around empty casket sparks furor Posted: 18 Feb 2014 03:37 PM PST  MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Wisconsin National Guard announced Tuesday that it had suspended a member from honor guard duties after she apparently posted to social media a photograph of soldiers mugging around an empty, flag-draped casket.
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| Wise wins on halfpipe for another American gold Posted: 18 Feb 2014 02:02 PM PST  KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — David Wise won the gold medal in the Olympic debut of halfpipe skiing Tuesday, cutting through heavy snow to easily outclass the field.
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| With kids grown, Washington wants more stage roles Posted: 18 Feb 2014 03:37 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Now that his children are grown, you can expect to see a lot more of Denzel Washington on Broadway.
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| Shortage of execution drugs becomes more acute Posted: 18 Feb 2014 03:30 PM PST ST. LOUIS (AP) — The nation's shortage of execution drugs is becoming increasingly acute as more pharmacies conclude that supplying the lethal chemicals is not worth the bad publicity and the legal and ethical risks. |
| Lottery winners urged to avoid big purchases Posted: 18 Feb 2014 03:08 PM PST  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jackpots like Wednesday's anticipated $400 million-plus Powerball can grant a lot of wishes. But what if you were the only winner, and you had but one chance to blow all that money on a single purchase?
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| Utah mom says shirts are 'indecent,' buys them all Posted: 18 Feb 2014 03:16 PM PST SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A mother upset about "indecent" T-shirts on display at a Utah mall found a quick if not especially convenient way to remove them: She bought every last one. |
| Fallon's 'Tonight' debut gets 11.3 million viewers Posted: 18 Feb 2014 12:40 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jimmy Fallon's start as host of "The Tonight Show" is a ratings winner for NBC.
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