| Putin calls Obama to talk Ukraine Posted: 28 Mar 2014 03:28 PM PDT  White House says president pressed Russia for written response to U.S. diplomatic plan.
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| Brother describes pulling mudslide victim's body from car Posted: 28 Mar 2014 03:59 PM PDT  By Jonathan Kaminsky DARRINGTON, Washington (Reuters) - Days after risking his own life and defying arrest by joining the search for Washington state mudslide victims in a vast, mucky debris field near Oso, Dayn Brunner retrieved the body of the No. 1 person he had been looking for - his sister. Brunner, 42, recounted the tragic coincidence in an interview with Reuters on Friday, two days after it unfolded on the enormous mound of mud and rubble left by last Saturday's disaster, which has claimed at least 26 lives and left 90 people still missing. Brunner said he was on the mud pile on Wednesday afternoon when other rescue workers found a blue object and called him over to the spot. It was the same color as the car his sister, Summer Raffo, 36, was known to have been driving through the area when the slide struck.
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| Boston bombing suspect's lawyers say FBI scouted brother Posted: 28 Mar 2014 04:28 PM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev say the FBI asked his older brother and fellow suspect to be an informant on the Chechen and Muslim community.
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| GM adds nearly 1 million more cars to ignition recall Posted: 28 Mar 2014 03:24 PM PDT  By Paul Lienert DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co is adding 971,000 cars to its global ignition switch recall, which began in February with 1.6 million vehicles and has been linked to at least a dozen deaths. Even before the expansion, the recall had sparked investigations by Congress, federal regulators, the Department of Justice and GM itself. All are asking why it took GM so long to address an issue first noted by the company in 2001. GM said the newer models made after 2007 were equipped with a redesigned ignition switch, but that some of those cars might have been repaired with older replacement parts that may be faulty.
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| Third batch of Clinton records go public Posted: 28 Mar 2014 03:04 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bill Clinton's top aides began debating how to build a presidential legacy days after he won re-election in 1996, newly released documents show.
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| Christian school pressures 'tomboy' to transfer Posted: 28 Mar 2014 01:50 PM PDT  FOREST, Va. (AP) — Eight-year-old Sunnie Kahle likes to keep her hair short, wear boys' clothes, collect hunting knives and shoot her BB gun.
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| Ebola reaches Guinea's capital; 8 cases confirmed Posted: 28 Mar 2014 12:17 PM PDT  CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Health officials in the West African nation of Guinea say they're now treating eight cases of Ebola in the capital.
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| T-O-R-T-U-R-E Posted: 28 Mar 2014 02:49 PM PDT  Jeremiah Denton, Vietnam POW, blinked out that message in enemy propaganda film. The former senator died today.
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| Syrian government denies 3.5 million people access to UN aid Posted: 28 Mar 2014 01:59 PM PDT  United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The Syrian government is denying 3.5 million civilians access to UN aid convoys in defiance of a Security Council resolution that has seen the crisis worsen, Western powers warned Friday. Britain and the United States told the United Nations that Damascus bears overwhelming responsibility for denying UN relief workers access to an escalating number of people in need. The Syrian government has allowed aid convoys to cross only one of eight border crossings identified by the United Nations as a priority, Western ambassadors said. Since February 22, 300 cases of sexual violence have been recorded in and around Damascus alone, and hundreds of thousands more Syrians had been newly displaced, Amos added.
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| Tigers' Cabrera has 292 million reasons to smile for 10 years Posted: 28 Mar 2014 09:18 AM PDT  DETROIT (AP) — Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera will earn a baseball-record $292 million over the next decade under a $248 million, eight-year deal with the Detroit Tigers through 2023.
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| Community waits to hear full toll of mudslide Posted: 28 Mar 2014 04:11 PM PDT  ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — A mountainside community waited in anguish Friday to learn the full scope of the Washington state mudslide as authorities worked to identify remains and warned that they were unlikely to find anyone alive nearly a week after the disaster.
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| Slide survivor tells of 'wave' of mud hitting home Posted: 28 Mar 2014 11:10 AM PDT  DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — The roar of the hillside collapsing was so loud that Robin Youngblood thought an airplane had crashed. But when she looked out the window of her mobile home, all she saw was a wall of mud racing across her beloved river valley toward her home.
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| Flight 370 search shifts after new look at data Posted: 28 Mar 2014 04:12 PM PDT  PERTH, Australia (AP) — Three weeks into the mystery of Flight 370, investigators relying on newly analyzed satellite data shifted the search zone yet again, focusing on a swath of Indian Ocean where better conditions could help speed a hunt that is now concentrated thousands of miles from where it began.
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| NJ Gov. Christie on major push to shed scandal Posted: 28 Mar 2014 03:45 PM PDT  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Republican Gov. Chris Christie has spent the past few days putting down traffic cones to separate himself from scandal.
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| Syrian-Armenian town's fate murky after rebel grab Posted: 28 Mar 2014 03:15 PM PDT  BADROUSIEH, Syria (AP) — When hundreds of residents of the postcard-pretty coastal Syrian village of Kassab fled this week, it bore historic weight: it was the third time since 1900 that ethnic Armenians there felt compelled to run for their lives.
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| Obama meets with Saudi king, weighs new Syria aid Posted: 28 Mar 2014 02:23 PM PDT  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The United States is considering allowing shipments of portable air defense systems to Syrian rebels, a U.S. official said Friday, as President Barack Obama sought to reassure Saudi Arabia's king that the U.S. is not taking too soft a stance in Syria and other Mideast conflicts.
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| Nuke test cheating linked to flawed leadership Posted: 28 Mar 2014 03:11 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A basic contradiction lies at the root of an exam-cheating scandal that decimated the ranks of an Air Force nuclear missile group, investigators say: Commanders were demanding perfection in testing and ethics but also tacitly condoned rule-bending or even willfully ignored cheating.
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| Ousted Ukrainian leader urges referendum Posted: 28 Mar 2014 03:00 PM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine's fugitive leader pushed Friday for a vote to determine the status of each of the country's regions — a call serving the Kremlin's purpose of turning Ukraine into a loosely knit federation.
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| 5 Things Miguel Cabrera's big deal can buy Posted: 28 Mar 2014 03:41 PM PDT Miguel Cabrera scored the richest contract in U.S. sports history, reaching a $292 million deal over 10 years with the Tigers. |
| Tigers' Cabrera gets record $292M, 10-year deal Posted: 28 Mar 2014 03:49 PM PDT  LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — This is one number put up by Miguel Cabrera that is not subject to debate.
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| GM adding 824,000 vehicles to ignition recall Posted: 28 Mar 2014 03:00 PM PDT DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is adding 824,000 small cars to its ongoing recall tied to defective ignition switches. |
| Rogers, GOP hawk, quitting Congress for radio show Posted: 28 Mar 2014 03:06 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Mike Rogers, the brash-talking Republican security hawk who has criticized the Obama administration yet commanded uncommon bipartisan support as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Friday he was retiring from Congress next year.
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| Family plays key role in Colter's union push Posted: 28 Mar 2014 04:51 PM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — Kain Colter's grandmother often spoke about rights and equality, values she brought home from her job managing an office of a Colorado law firm.
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| 25 tons of unwanted peanut butter to be dumped in landfill Posted: 28 Mar 2014 10:04 AM PDT  Nearly a million jars of peanut butter are being dumped at a New Mexico landfill to expedite the sale of a bankrupt peanut-processing plant that was at the heart of a 2012 salmonella outbreak and nationwide ...
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| Crews find objects in new Malaysia plane search area Posted: 28 Mar 2014 06:52 AM PDT  PERTH, Australia (AP) — The search area for the lost Malaysian jetliner moved 1,100 kilometers (680 miles) to the northeast on Friday, as Australian officials said a new analysis of radar data suggests the plane had flown faster and therefore ran out of fuel more quickly than previously estimated.
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| A good reason to (heart) marriage Posted: 28 Mar 2014 04:48 PM PDT  Married folks are less likely to suffer heart problems, a study shows.
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| Alleged sex abuse victim seeks justice 30 years later Posted: 28 Mar 2014 04:00 AM PDT  For years he masked the pain with drugs. Then came the countless hours of therapy. But now John Delaney says he's finally strong enough to deliver a message to the Catholic priest he says raped him as a young boy: "You tell him John Delaney's coming for him," he said in a thick Philly accent. "I'm not a little kid anymore. You can't do this to me. I'm going to fight back now."
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| Planes race to new MH370 search zone Posted: 28 Mar 2014 12:49 PM PDT  The search area was moved nearly 700 miles to the northeast based on new radar analysis.
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| Mudslide death toll expected to soar Posted: 28 Mar 2014 02:22 PM PDT  By Eric M. Johnson ARLINGTON, Washington (Reuters) - The death toll from a catastrophic mudslide in Washington state appeared poised to climb dramatically as rescue teams drenched by steady rains on Friday clawed through thick muck searching for more victims nearly a week after a disaster that has left 90 people missing. Authorities already have said that some of those killed might never be found, and on Thursday braced the public for news - still yet to come - that the number of dead would "increase substantially" in the next 24 to 28 hours.
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| Latinos wary of Obamacare as deadline looms Posted: 28 Mar 2014 04:07 AM PDT  The deportation surge has made enrollment much harder than expected.
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| Florida, Dayton advance to Elite Eight Posted: 28 Mar 2014 12:38 AM PDT  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Scottie "McBuckets" has Florida deep in the NCAA tournament once again. The Dayton Flyers are the latest mid-major upstart still in the bracket.
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