| Obama warns North Korea over fourth nuke test Posted: 25 Apr 2014 03:02 PM PDT  President speaks in South Korea amid signs North could be prepping underground explosion.
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| Tech founder apologizes for wife who stole marathon bib number Posted: 25 Apr 2014 04:27 PM PDT  Boston Marathon Runner Complained That Someone Used Her Bib Number, Had Photos Taken
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| Tax refund thieves believed to be targeting doctors Posted: 25 Apr 2014 03:42 PM PDT  By Jim Finkle and Mark Hosenball BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Secret Service and Internal Revenue Service are investigating widespread reports that identity thieves are stealing the tax refunds of physicians, a U.S. senator said on Friday, as doctors fear a database containing their personal information has been breached. Senator Jean Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire, contacted the agencies this week after more than 100 physicians and other healthcare workers in her state became victims of tax fraud. The American Medical Association has received reports of tax fraud from state medical groups in Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.
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| Stowaway's mom says teen had been told she was dead Posted: 25 Apr 2014 11:38 AM PDT  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The mother of a California teen who stowed away on a flight to Hawaii tells Voice of America that her son had recently learned that she was alive after being told by his father she had died.
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| Significant tornado threat seen this weekend Posted: 25 Apr 2014 11:47 AM PDT  Strong storm system is expected to develop in north central Texas and move through Plains states.
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| Russian jets make repeated crossings into Ukraine airspace Posted: 25 Apr 2014 12:32 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials said Friday that Russian fighter jets flew into Ukrainian airspace a handful of times over the last 24 hours, in what one called a continued provocation of the heightened tensions in the region.
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| North Korea detains 24-year-old American Posted: 25 Apr 2014 11:22 AM PDT  State media claims the man tore up tourist visa and shouted that he wanted to seek asylum.
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| Ukraine rebels holding observers claim group was traveling with spy Posted: 25 Apr 2014 01:27 PM PDT  By Thomas Grove SLAVIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Armed pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slaviansk were holding a group of international observers on Friday, saying they had found a Ukrainian spy travelling with them. "They are with us in Slaviansk," the de facto mayor of the city, Vyacheslav Ponomaryov, told Reuters in front of the seized security service building where, according to the Ukrainian government, the observers were being held. "It was reported to me that among them (the observers) was an employee of Kiev's secret military staff." "People who come here as observers bringing with them a real spy: it's not appropriate." Later, a man in a mask and camouflage fatigues said there would be no more comments on Friday evening. The detention of the observers, who are working for the Vienna-based Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will heighten Western concerns about lawlessness and arbitrary rule in separatist-held parts of eastern Ukraine.
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| Totally parched: 100% of California in drought Posted: 25 Apr 2014 10:29 AM PDT  This week is first time in history of monitoring that entire state faces moderate drought.
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| Prom rejection investigated in deadly Connecticut school stabbing Posted: 25 Apr 2014 11:10 AM PDT  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A 16-year-old girl was stabbed to death inside a Connecticut high school Friday, and police were investigating whether a boy attacked her because she turned down an invitation to be his prom date.
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| Forensic computer experts discover digital Warhol works Posted: 25 Apr 2014 09:51 AM PDT  By Elizabeth Daley PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - Previously unknown digital work made by pop artist Andy Warhol was resurrected from aging floppy disks by forensic computer experts from Carnegie Mellon University, the school announced on Thursday. They depict common Warhol subjects including Campbell's Soup cans, self portraits, bananas and Marilyn Monroe as well as doodles and camera shots of a desktop. Carnegie Mellon art professor Golan Levin said the work was recovered thanks in part to someone posting on YouTube a 1985 infomercial showing Warhol using an Amiga computer to create a digital portrait of singer Debbie Harry. A Warhol fan, artist Cory Arcangel, saw the YouTube video and in 2011 began investigating whether there was more computer art from Warhol to be found.
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| Possible GOP presidential candidates to court NRA Posted: 25 Apr 2014 07:07 AM PDT  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Several potential Republican contenders for president will court gun-rights supporters at the NRA's annual convention Friday.
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| Merkel to visit Obama next week Posted: 25 Apr 2014 07:09 AM PDT  The two leaders are to discuss international security, trade and other issues.
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| U.S. troops land in Latvia amid Ukraine crisis Posted: 25 Apr 2014 06:55 AM PDT  Latvia on Friday welcomed American troops on its soil, part of a US force of 600 sent to the region to reassure the Baltic states amid concern over Russia's actions in Ukraine. "Today is a special day because this morning I met the heads of the armed forces at the Adazi military base and greeted the US military unit that arrived this morning for military training," Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma told reporters. Some 150 troops from the 173rd Airborne Brigade will be based at the Adazi base near capital Riga until at least the end of the year, according to the Latvian defence ministry.
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| Retired justice says marijuana should be legalized Posted: 24 Apr 2014 08:15 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens says he thinks the federal government should legalize marijuana. |
| Search for MH370 likely to take years: U.S. official Posted: 25 Apr 2014 06:26 AM PDT  Angry relatives of people missing on Malaysian Airline flight MH370 held some members of the carrier's staff for more than 10 hours in a hotel in Beijing, the airline said on Friday. The jetliner vanished on March 8 with 239 people on board while on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. More than 200 family members held 10 Malaysian Airline staff after a briefing at a Beijing hotel, only releasing them early on Friday, the airline said. "Malaysia Airlines confirms that its staff were held at the Lido Hotel ballroom in Beijing by the family members of MH370 as the families expressed dissatisfaction in obtaining details of the missing aircraft," the airline said.
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| Obama departs Japan, but without trade deal Posted: 25 Apr 2014 07:26 AM PDT  The leaders of the two nations sought to display a strong alliance as China's influence grows.
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| Obama: North Korea facing further isolation Posted: 25 Apr 2014 02:48 AM PDT  The president says the U.S. stands "shoulder to shoulder" with its ally South Korea.
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| Russian foreign minister: West plotting to seize Ukraine Posted: 25 Apr 2014 02:22 AM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused the West of plotting to control Ukraine and said the pro-Russian insurgents in the southeast would lay down their arms only if the Ukrainian government clears out the Maidan protest camp in the capital Kiev.
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