| Poll: Call them 'generation unaffiliated' Posted: 07 Mar 2014 02:56 PM PST  Today's 20-somethings found to be less into traditional institutions than ever before.
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| Standoff reported at Ukrainian military base Posted: 07 Mar 2014 01:04 PM PST  Crimea's new leader says 11,000 Russian troops now control all access to strategic region.
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| 'Holy grail of guitars' is hitting the auction block Posted: 07 Mar 2014 11:31 AM PST  NEW 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.
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| Who needs speeches? Scenes from CPAC Posted: 07 Mar 2014 12:10 PM PST  Get weird at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
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| Is airplane turbulence becoming more dangerous? Posted: 07 Mar 2014 08:56 AM PST  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.
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| Study ties trouble sleeping to reduced brain volume Posted: 07 Mar 2014 01:33 PM PST  By 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.
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| U.N. warns of 'lost generation' in Syria Posted: 07 Mar 2014 11:39 AM PST  Security Council revisits resolution on children in conflict first adopted 15 years ago.
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| Mom who drove kids into ocean charged with attempted murder Posted: 07 Mar 2014 10:50 AM PST  DAYTONA 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.
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| Witnesses: Russians take Crimea military post Posted: 07 Mar 2014 12:15 PM PST  Ukrainian military official says missile defense was taken over with no shots fired.
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| Russia rallies support for Crimea Posted: 07 Mar 2014 09:19 AM PST  Across Red Square, 65,000 people waved Russian flags, chanting "Crimea is Russia!"
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| Criminal lawyer's ad is subversive, sarcastic and pretty awesome Posted: 07 Mar 2014 07:42 AM PST  Daniel 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."
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| Mass. governor signs law banning 'upskirt' photos Posted: 07 Mar 2014 10:29 AM PST  BOSTON (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.
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| Army general coerced captain into affair, prosecutors say Posted: 07 Mar 2014 08:22 AM PST  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.
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| Ukraine Paralympic chief says will quit Games if Russia invades Posted: 07 Mar 2014 07:13 AM PST  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.
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| Fire destroys 'Party Animal' house in Detroit Posted: 07 Mar 2014 08:27 AM PST  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.
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| Not me: Calif. man denies he's bitcoin founder Posted: 07 Mar 2014 04:37 AM PST  The denial comes after a published report claims he's behind the virtual currency.
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| Pro-Crimea rally attacts 65,000 to Kremlin Posted: 07 Mar 2014 06:35 AM PST  Over 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.
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| U.S. job growth offers upbeat sign for weather-beaten economy Posted: 07 Mar 2014 01:39 PM PST  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.
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| Religious conservatives facing off at conference Posted: 07 Mar 2014 04:56 AM PST  OXON 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.
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| Officer says US general sexually assaulted her Posted: 07 Mar 2014 04:10 PM PST  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.
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| Kids rescued from surf: 'Mom tried to kill us' Posted: 07 Mar 2014 04:06 PM PST  ORLANDO, 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.
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| Militant grip transforms, terrorizes Syrian city Posted: 07 Mar 2014 08:46 AM PST  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.
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| Pistorius trial hears damaging testimony Posted: 07 Mar 2014 03:06 PM PST  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.
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| APNewsBreak: FBI investigates prison company Posted: 07 Mar 2014 03:25 PM PST  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."
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| GOP pushes social issues at conservative showcase Posted: 07 Mar 2014 12:48 PM PST  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.
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| Ukraine decides to compete in Paralympics in Sochi Posted: 07 Mar 2014 07:00 AM PST 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 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 DAYTONA 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 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  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.
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| Man said to create bitcoin denies it Posted: 07 Mar 2014 12:09 PM PST  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.
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| Opening statements to begin in general's sex trial Posted: 07 Mar 2014 05:04 AM PST 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  After an hour-long phone call, Putin says Russia and the U.S. are still far apart.
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| Sports medicine pioneer Frank Jobe dies at 88 Posted: 07 Mar 2014 02:24 PM PST  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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