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Rush to verify signals in hunt for missing jet

Posted: 06 Apr 2014 06:26 AM PDT

A helicopter makes an approach to the flight deck of Australian Navy ship HMAS Toowoomba to pick up supplies as they continue to search for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370Three fleeting sounds from deep in the Indian Ocean offered new hope in the search.

Jeb Bush says he'll make decision on bid this year

Posted: 06 Apr 2014 12:01 PM PDT

This Jan. 29, 2014 photo, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush gestures as he speaks at the Inside ITFs Conference at the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa in Hollywood, Fla. Bush says he's all the speculation about whether he'll run for president in 2016 is actually getting him more attention than if he had already entered the race. The former Republican governor of Florida says that's not by design, and that he'll make his decision before year's end. He tells Fox News Channel that the state of politics is ``crazy right now.WASHINGTON (AP) — Jeb Bush says all the speculation about whether he'll run for president in 2016 is actually getting him more attention than if he had already entered the race.

Pelosi: Cheney 'proud' CIA misled

Posted: 06 Apr 2014 08:57 AM PDT

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2014, following her lunch with President Barack Obama. Pelosi was asked several questions about the Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)Ahead of the release of a Senate Intelligence Committee report that is expected to say the CIA misled the government and the American people about its interrogation techniques, Nancy Pelosi is placing the blame squarely on the former vice president.

Navy rescues family with sick baby from sailboat

Posted: 06 Apr 2014 12:17 PM PDT

This undated image provided by Sariah English shows Eric and Charlotte Kaufman with their daughters, Lyra, 1, and Cora, 3. Rescuers have stabilized the condition Lyra, with her family on a crippled sailboat hundreds of miles off the coast of Mexico, and a U.S. Navy warship was headed toward the vessel, officials said Friday night, April 4, 2014. Their boat, the 36-foot Rebel Heart, was about 900 nautical miles southwest of Cabo San Lucas when they sent a satellite call for help to the U.S. Coast Guard Thursday morning saying their 1-year-old girl aboard was ill. (AP Photo/Sariah English)SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. sailors rescued an American family with an ill 1-year-old from a sailboat that broke down hundreds of miles off the Mexican coast — boarding them Sunday onto a San Diego-bound Navy ship so the girl could get medical treatment.

Pro-Russians storm Ukraine government buildings

Posted: 06 Apr 2014 11:22 AM PDT

In this photo taken on Saturday, April 5, 2014, Oleh Lyashko, center left, leader of Ukrainian Radical Party and presidential candidate who supported the protests that ousted Russian-leaning president Viktor Yanukovych, poses with Ukrainian soldiers and officers at their camp near Ukraine-Russian border outside Chernihiv, 140km (87 miles) northeast of Kiev, Ukraine. Ukraine's security service said Saturday it has detained a 15-strong armed gang planning to seize power in an eastern province on the border with Russia. (AP Photo/Osman Karimov)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Crowds of pro-Russian demonstrators stormed government buildings Sunday in several major cities in eastern Ukraine, where secessionist sentiment has sparked frequent protests since Ukraine's Russia-friendly president was ousted in February.

Kentucky, UConn to play for national title

Posted: 05 Apr 2014 10:23 PM PDT

Kentucky guard Aaron Harrison (2) celebrates after making a three-point basket in the final seconds against Wisconsin to win the game 74-73 during their NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball semifinal game Saturday, April 5, 2014, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — No, this was not an instant replay, though it certainly is turning into a highlight loop that Aaron Harrison and his Kentucky teammates could get used to watching.

Near Fort Hood, church service honors fallen

Posted: 06 Apr 2014 04:33 PM PDT

Kathy Abad, a military wife, prays for the victims and families affected by the Fort Hood shooting during a memorial service at the Tabernacle Baptist Church on Sunday, April 6, 2014, in Killeen, Texas. On April 2, 2014, three people were killed and 16 were wounded when a gunman opened fire before taking his own life at the Fort Hood military base. (AP Photo/ Tamir Kalifa)KILLEEN, Texas (AP) — The church program pictured an empty road being enveloped by the dark clouds of a sweeping thunderstorm, and the service's lesson was from Isaiah 35:4, "Be strong, fear not." The preacher implored those gathered Sunday that they would find hope in God, but also acknowledged the question on everyone's mind: Why Fort Hood — again?

Rwanda genocide: Man and victim now friends

Posted: 06 Apr 2014 10:11 AM PDT

In this photo taken Wednesday, March 26, 2014, Emmanuel Ndayisaba, right, who during the 1994 Rwandan genocide cut off with a machete the hand of Alice Mukarurinda, left, in the swamp where she was hiding and killed her baby girl, but who are now friends, pose for a photograph outside Alice's house in Nyamata, Rwanda. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)NYAMATA, Rwanda (AP) — She lost her baby daughter and her right hand to a manic killing spree. He wielded the machete that took both.

Ex-Palestinian prisoner teaches Hebrew, tolerance

Posted: 06 Apr 2014 12:27 PM PDT

In this Thursday, April 3, 2014 photo, Palestinian Esmat Mansour, a former prisoner who was released after 20 years in Israeli jail, teaches Hebrew to students at a school in the village of Taybeh, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Mansour was 16 when, in October 1993, he helped three older teens stab to death an Israeli man. Mansour said the time in Israeli prison changed him. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)DEIR JARIR, West Bank (AP) — Facing a classroom of Palestinian 10th graders, Hebrew teacher Esmat Mansour asks his students who is for and against learning the language. A few raise their hands in favor, others against and he asks both sides to explain.

Emmert: Unionization "grossly inappropriate"

Posted: 06 Apr 2014 02:54 PM PDT

NCAA President Mark Emmert answers a question at a news conference Sunday, April 6, 2014, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The NCAA president called an effort to unionize players a "grossly inappropriate" way to solve problems in college sports while insisting the association has plans to change the school-athlete relationship.

Community taking a dive for young cancer patient

Posted: 06 Apr 2014 04:50 PM PDT

Kansas City Chiefs fan Ty Rowton, known as XFactor, takes a Plunge for Landon in a farm pond near Bonner Springs, Kan., Friday, April 4, 2014. A 5-month-old boy's battle with cancer has inspired hundreds to jump into cold bodies of water, from a local golf course pond to the Gulf of Mexico and even the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) — An effort to help the family of a 5-month-old Missouri boy with cancer has inspired thousands of people across the U.S. and even abroad to take a plunge into cold bodies of water.

Will fans give George Strait ACM's top honor?

Posted: 06 Apr 2014 10:12 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 7, 2013 file photo, singer George Strait performs at the 48th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The 2014 Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas will air live Sunday night, April 6, 2014, from 8-11 p.m. EDT on CBS. Several awards, including top honor entertainer of the year, will be announced during the broadcast, to be hosted by Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan. Shelton, Bryan, George Strait, Miranda Lambert, Jason Aldean, Keith Urban, Tim McGraw, Shakira and Stevie Nicks are scheduled to perform. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, file)There's no question George Strait is the sure bet in the entertainer category of the year at the Academy of Country Music Awards, right?

UN alarmed by deadly Syrian protest in Jordan camp

Posted: 06 Apr 2014 09:00 AM PDT

FILE - This Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013 file photo, shows a general view of Zaatari refugee camp near the Syrian border in Jordan. The United Nations says it is alarmed at "violent nature" of a demonstration in a massive Syrian refugee camp in Jordan that killed one person and wounded dozens. The U.N. refugee agency says a "heated demonstration" in Jordan's sprawling Zaatari refugee camp Saturday turned to "a violent one" after hundreds, possibly thousands of refugees started throwing rocks at a police post. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The United Nations said Sunday it is alarmed at the "violent nature" of a demonstration in a massive Syrian refugee camp in Jordan that killed one person and wounded dozens.

Kentucky freshmen against UConn comeback players

Posted: 06 Apr 2014 08:50 AM PDT

Kentucky head coach John Calipari works from the sideline against Wisconsin during the second half of the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball semifinal game Saturday, April 5, 2014, in Arlington, Texas. Kentucky won 74-73. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — All those Kentucky freshmen against a Connecticut team already with a few championship rings.

Ships race to probe signals detected in jet search

Posted: 06 Apr 2014 08:46 AM PDT

Retired Australian Air Chief Marshall Angus Houston speaks to the media during a press conference about the ongoing search operations for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in Perth, Australia, Sunday, April 6, 2014. Houston, the head of the multinational search, confirmed that a Chinese ship had picked up electronic pulsing signals twice in a small patch of the search zone, once on Friday and again on Saturday, but he stressed the signals had not been verified as linked to the missing plane. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)PERTH, Australia (AP) — Searchers hunting for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet were racing to a patch of the southern Indian Ocean on Sunday to determine whether a few brief sounds picked up by underwater equipment came from the plane's black boxes, whose battery-operated beacons are on the verge of dying out.

US sending 2 warships to Japan to counter NKorea

Posted: 06 Apr 2014 09:10 AM PDT

SENDING WARSHIPS TO JAPANTOKYO (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel delivered a two-pronged warning to Asia Pacific nations Sunday, announcing that the U.S. will send two additional ballistic missile destroyers to Japan to counter the North Korean threat, and saying China must better respect its neighbors.

Sick baby transferred from sailboat to warship

Posted: 06 Apr 2014 09:04 AM PDT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Navy sailors have rescued a family with a 1-year-old girl who fell ill on a disabled sailboat hundreds of miles off the Mexican coast and are now en route to San Diego.

Afghan candidates promise to respect results

Posted: 06 Apr 2014 11:21 AM PDT

Afghan workers of the election commission office unload ballot boxes from a truck after votes in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, April 6, 2014. Across Afghanistan, voters turned out in droves Saturday to cast ballots in a crucial presidential election. The vote will decide who will replace President Hamid Karzai, who is barred constitutionally from seeking a third term. Partial results are expected as soon as Sunday. (AP photo/Rahmat Gul)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Trucks and donkeys loaded with ballot boxes made their way to counting centers on Sunday as Afghans and the international community sighed with relief that national elections were held without major violence despite a Taliban threat.

Kansas lawmakers OK bill to void local gun rules

Posted: 05 Apr 2014 06:22 PM PDT

Kansas House Minority Leader Paul Davis, a Lawrence Democrat, reviews an explanation of a bill stripping cities and counties of their power to regulate guns, Saturday, April 5, 2014, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The House approved the legislation, 102-19, on Saturday, a day after the Senate passed it, 37-2. The measure goes next to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. (AP Photo/John Hanna)TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators gave final approval Saturday to a bill that would nullify city and county gun restrictions and ensure that it's legal across the state to openly carry firearms, a measure the National Rifle Association sees as a nationwide model for stripping local officials of their gun-regulating power.

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