| Washington slide death toll 14; search continues Posted: 24 Mar 2014 05:04 PM PDT  The search has grown to include scores of people who are still unaccounted for.
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| Plane's final destination determined through 19th century physics Posted: 24 Mar 2014 04:10 PM PDT  By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Inmarsat used a wave phenomenon discovered in the 19th century to analyze the seven pings its satellite picked up from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 to determine its final destination. The new findings led Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to conclude on Monday that the Boeing 777, which disappeared more than two weeks ago, crashed thousands of miles away in the southern Indian Ocean, killing all 239 people on board. The pings, automatically transmitted every hour from the aircraft after the rest of its communications systems had stopped, indicated it continued flying for hours after it disappeared from its flight path from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. From the time the signals took to reach the satellite and the angle of elevation, Inmarsat was able to provide two arcs, one north and one south that the aircraft could have taken.
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| Latinos appear sidelined in health care overhaul Posted: 24 Mar 2014 12:44 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's largest minority group risks being left behind by President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
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| Race is on to find lost airliner's black boxes Posted: 24 Mar 2014 01:48 PM PDT  Time is running out to find crucial keys to mystery of how and why Flight 370 went down.
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| Oklahoma Girl Scout breaks cookie sales record held since 1980s Posted: 24 Mar 2014 05:03 PM PDT  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma City girl who says she asks everyone she meets to buy Girl Scout cookies has broken the organization's decades-old sales record by a margin about the size of a Thin Mint.
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| 1990s laptop comes loaded with first-ever presidential email Posted: 24 Mar 2014 01:40 PM PDT  A more than 15-year old laptop doesn't go for much on eBay -- unless it's the one Bill Clinton used to send the first ever US presidential email. The still-functional laptop -- with Clinton's cheerful exchange with Space Shuttle astronaut John Glenn in November 1998 still on the hard drive -- is the featured item in an online sale by Massachusetts-based RR Auction. Just the content of it is awesome," Bobby Livingston, a spokesman for the auction house that specializes in rare and unusual collectibles, told AFP on Monday. Glenn, a US senator who in 1962 had been the first US astronaut to orbit Earth, was on a nine-day mission aboard the space shuttle Discovery when he told NASA he wanted to email Clinton, who was in Arkansas visiting friends.
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| Wash. mudslide: Racing to find loved ones Posted: 24 Mar 2014 04:24 PM PDT  Updated list of more than 100 missing adds to anxieties after deadly disaster.
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| U.S. 'shocked' by death sentences for 529 Egyptians after 2-day trial Posted: 24 Mar 2014 12:39 PM PDT  The United States expressed shock Monday after an Egyptian court handed down death sentences against 529 supporters of Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi after a two-day trial. "We are deeply concerned -- and, I would say, actually pretty shocked -- by the sentencing to death of 529 Egyptians related to the death of one policeman," said Marie Harf, deputy US State Department spokeswoman. Harf questioned whether the defendants could have received a trial in accordance with international norms. "Obviously the defendants can appeal, but it simply does not seem possible that a fair review of evidence and testimony consistent with international standards could be accomplished with over 529 defendants in a two-day trial," Harf said.
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| Toddler wakes up after losing family in Kabul hotel rampage Posted: 24 Mar 2014 11:54 AM PDT  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan toddler shot five times by Taliban militants in an attack at a Kabul hotel that killed his journalist father and the rest of his family has regained consciousness and asked for his mother, relatives said Monday, calling the survival of the nearly 2-year-old boy a miracle.
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| Former Bernie Madoff workers convicted for roles in Ponzi scheme Posted: 24 Mar 2014 03:24 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Five former employees of imprisoned financier Bernard Madoff were convicted Monday at the end of a six-month trial that cast them as the long arms of their boss, telling an elaborate web of lies to hide a fraud that enriched them and cheated investors out of billions of dollars.
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| News of plane met with grief, disbelief in Beijing Posted: 24 Mar 2014 11:02 AM PDT  Relatives of Flight 370 passengers struggle to accept Malaysia's final determination.
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| 108 names on list of missing in Wash. state mudslide Posted: 24 Mar 2014 09:57 AM PDT  ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — There are 108 names on the list of people who've been reported missing or unaccounted for in the weekend mudslide in Washington state, authorities said Monday.
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| Man who lost both legs in Boston bombing shares baby news Posted: 24 Mar 2014 06:55 AM PDT  Jeff Bauman, the 28-year-old Boston Marathon bombing survivor who lost both legs in the attack last April, is expecting a child with fiancee Erin Hurley, 27.
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| Ukraine pulls troops from Crimea, acknowledges defeat Posted: 24 Mar 2014 08:15 AM PDT  By Aleksandar Vasovic and Gabriela Baczynska FEODOSIA/SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukrainian troops and their families began evacuating from Crimea on Monday, as Kiev effectively acknowledged defeat by Russian forces who stormed one of the last of their remaining bases on the peninsula. Thousands of Ukrainian troops have been besieged on bases in Crimea, offering no armed resistance but refusing to surrender, since President Vladimir Putin declared Moscow's right to intervene at the start of the month. On Monday, bowing to the reality on the ground, Kiev's leadership announced Ukrainian forces were being pulled out to spare them and their families further Russian threats.
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| Internal review clears New Jersey Gov. Christie in bridge scandal Posted: 24 Mar 2014 10:06 AM PDT  By Victoria Cavaliere NEW YORK (Reuters) - A review commissioned by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie into a traffic scandal apparently orchestrated by top staffers in his administration has found the possible Republican presidential contender had nothing to do with the scheme, the New York Times reported Monday. After two months, 70 interviews and more than $1 million in legal fees paid by New Jersey taxpayers, the internal review is complete and has found no evidence Christie was involved with planning or directing the lane closures which snarled traffic in the borough of Fort Lee, New Jersey, according to a report published in The New York Times. Christie found himself engulfed in controversy earlier this year after emails revealed that two of his senior aides had called for lane closures leading to the busy George Washington Bridge last September, apparently as political retribution against a Democratic mayor who didn't endorse the governor's re-election. New Jersey lawmakers and the U.S. Attorney's office in New Jersey announced parallel investigations into the closures, and Christie, who has maintained that he was "blindsided" by his staff's involvement, hired a private law firm to conduct his own review of what had occurred.
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| Police: Commuter train derails at Chicago airport, at least 30 hurt Posted: 24 Mar 2014 05:29 AM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — An eight-car Chicago commuter train plowed across a platform and scaled an escalator at an underground station at one of the nation's busiest airports early Monday, injuring 32 people on board, officials said.
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| Malaysia: Missing flight crashed in Indian Ocean Posted: 24 Mar 2014 12:21 PM PDT  New satellite data indicates Flight 370 went down in a remote corner of the ocean.
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| Malaysia PM: Missing plane plunged into ocean Posted: 24 Mar 2014 07:08 AM PDT  An analysis of satellite data shows provides a breakthrough in the mystery of Flight 370.
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| No 'signs of life' after huge Washington landslide Posted: 24 Mar 2014 04:53 AM PDT ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Hopes of finding any more survivors from a massive mudslide that killed at least eight people waned as searchers pulled more bodies from the tangled debris field in rural Washington state and crews worked through the night into Monday. |
| Search ships rush toward spotted debris Posted: 24 Mar 2014 06:30 AM PDT Airplanes and satellites spot possible remains of the lost Malaysian airliner. |
| Obama: US, Europe united behind Ukraine government Posted: 24 Mar 2014 03:03 AM PDT  AMSTERDAM (AP) — President Barack Obama says Europe and America are united in support of the Ukrainian government and its people.
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| West seeks to isolate Russia over Ukraine dispute Posted: 24 Mar 2014 05:05 PM PDT  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Seeking to isolate Russia, the U.S. and Western allies declared Monday they are indefinitely cutting Moscow out of a major international coalition and warned they stand ready to order tougher economic penalties if Vladimir Putin presses further into Ukraine.
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| Egyptian court sentences nearly 530 to death Posted: 24 Mar 2014 01:43 PM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court Monday sentenced to death nearly 530 suspected backers of ousted President Mohammed Morsi over a deadly attack on a police station, capping a swift, two-day mass trial in which defense attorneys were not allowed to present their case.
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| Union: Train operator in Chicago crash 'tired' Posted: 24 Mar 2014 04:13 PM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — An operator of a Chicago public-transit train that jumped the tracks and scaled an escalator at one of nation's busiest airports Monday may have dozed off, the president of a Chicago transit union said.
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| Whispers, secrets and lies? Anonymity apps rise Posted: 24 Mar 2014 02:49 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — At a time when Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are pushing people to put forward their most polished, put-together selves, a new class of mobile applications aims for a bit more honesty.
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| Sheriff: Death toll from Washington slide now 14 Posted: 24 Mar 2014 04:54 PM PDT OSO, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say the death toll from a massive landslide in Washington state has risen to 14. |
| Union: Chicago train operator 'extremely tired' Posted: 24 Mar 2014 02:47 PM PDT CHICAGO (AP) — The president of a Chicago transit union said Monday there are indications that the operator dozed off before the train jumped the tracks and scaled an escalator at one of nation's busiest airports, injuring 32 people. |
| Train kills teen who pushed girlfriend from tracks Posted: 24 Mar 2014 01:19 PM PDT MARYSVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Witnesses and family members say a Northern California teen pushed his girlfriend away from the path of an oncoming train before he was struck and killed. |
| UN: 2013 extreme events due to warming Earth Posted: 24 Mar 2014 12:42 PM PDT  GENEVA (AP) — The head of the U.N. weather agency said Monday that recent extreme weather patterns are "consistent" with human-induced climate change, citing key events that wreaked havoc in Asia, Europe, the U.S. and Pacific region last year.
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| Kimmel-Clinton selfie takes on Ellen's Oscar shot Posted: 23 Mar 2014 10:46 AM PDT  Jimmy Kimmel is taking a stab at matching Degeneres' record-breaking Oscars selfie — sort of.
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