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Daily News: Most Popular News Headlines - NKorea orders rocket prep after US B-2 drill

Friday, Mar 29, 2013 03:31 AM PDT
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NKorea orders rocket prep after US B-2 drill 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 03:31 AM PDT
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned Friday that his rocket forces were ready "to settle accounts with the U.S.," unleashing a new round of bellicose rhetoric after U.S. nuclear-capable B-2 bombers dropped dummy munitions in joint military drills with South Korea.
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GOP lawmaker calls Hispanic workers ‘wetbacks,’ apologizes 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 05:41 AM PDT
During a discussion about ongoing challenges to the economy Thursday, Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young referred to Hispanic workers as "wetbacks," an ethnic slur used to describe migrant workers. He has since apologized. "My father had a ranch; we used to have 50-60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes," Young told Alaska public radio station KRBD. "It [...]
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Flashback: When even liberals backed ‘traditional marriage’ 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 10:32 AM PDT
Even as Democratic lawmakers rush to announce their support for gay marriage, a look back at the congressional debate over the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 shows they haven't always championed the rights of same sex couples. In historic gay marriage arguments before the Supreme Court this week, justices noted comments made by congressional [...]
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Green Meteorite May Be from Mercury, a First 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 07:54 AM PDT
Green meteoriteScientists may have discovered the first meteorite from Mercury.
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Analysis: NKorea threat may be more bark than bite 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 06:20 PM PDT
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Across North Korea, soldiers are gearing up for battle and shrouding their jeeps and vans with camouflage netting. Newly painted signboards and posters call for "death to the U.S. imperialists" and urge the people to fight with "arms, not words."
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Filipino devotees reenact crucifixion of Christ 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 03:02 AM PDT
Filipino penitent Ruben Enaje, who has portrayed as Jesus Christ for 27 times, reacts as a nail is removed from his hand after being crucified during Good Friday rituals on March 29, 2013 at Cutud, Pampanga province, northern Philippines. Several Filipino devotees had themselves nailed to crosses Friday to remember Jesus Christ's suffering and death, an annual rite rejected by church leaders in this predominantly Roman Catholic country. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)SAN PEDRO CUTUD, Philippines (AP) — Devotees in villages in the northern Philippines took part in a bloody annual ritual to mark Good Friday, a celebration that mixes Roman Catholic devotion and Filipino folk beliefs and sees some reenact the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
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U.S. Wargames North Korean Regime Collapse, Invasion to Secure Nukes 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 04:15 PM PDT
U.S. Wargames North Korean Regime Collapse, Invasion to Secure NukesInvasion Wargamed in Case of Regime Collapse and Nukes Up for Grabs
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3 dozen indicted in Atlanta cheating scandal 
Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 12:15 AM PDT
FILE - In this June 13, 2011 file photo, outgoing schools superintendent, Dr. Beverly Hall, center, arrives for her last Atlanta school board meeting at the Atlanta Public Schools headquarters in Atlanta. Hall and nearly three dozen other administrators, teachers, principals and other educators were indicted Friday, March 29, 2013, in one of the nation's largest cheating scandals. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Curtis Compton) MARIETTA DAILY OUT; GWINNETT DAILY POST OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; WXIA-TV OUT; WGCL-TV OUTATLANTA (AP) — Juwanna Guffie was sitting in her fifth-grade classroom taking a standardized test when, authorities say, the teacher came around offering information and asking the students to rewrite their answers. Juwanna rejected the help.
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Colo. massacre suspect's plea offer rejected 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 01:20 AM PDT
DENVER (AP) — Prosecutors in the Colorado theater massacre case have rejected an offer from suspect James Holmes to plead guilty in exchange for avoiding the death penalty, saying the proposal can't be considered genuine because the defense has repeatedly refused to give them information needed to evaluate it.
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Pope's foot-wash a final straw for traditionalists 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 07:35 PM PDT
Pope Francis, right, looks up to the Crucifix during the Passion of Christ Mass inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Friday, March 29, 2013. Pope Francis began the Good Friday service at the Vatican with the Passion of Christ Mass and hours later will go to the ancient Colosseum in Rome for the traditional Way of the Cross procession. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has won over many hearts and minds with his simple style and focus on serving the world's poorest, but he has devastated traditionalist Catholics who adored his predecessor, Benedict XVI, for restoring much of the traditional pomp to the papacy.
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Kim Kardashian Reveals Possible Baby Names, Responds To Weight Criticism: It's 'Bully-ish' 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 08:25 AM PDT
Kim Kardashian is seen on the streets of Manhattan on March 26, 2013 in New York City -- Getty PremiumKim Kardashian stopped by "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on Thursday, where she put the kybosh on rumors she's considering naming her first child North. "We have a list, and some of them are K names some of them aren't," Kim said, of names she and beau Kanye West are considering for their soon-to-arrive baby. "[North] is not on our list."
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Man accused of smuggling more than 10 percent of an entire species 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 11:29 AM PDT
A man was arrested at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok after authorities discovered he was attempting to claim a piece of luggage full of extremely rare tortoises. Traffic.org, a self-described wildlife trade monitoring network, reports that the man was trying to pick up 54 ploughshare tortoises. "The wild population of Ploughshare Tortoises, considered among the [...]
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Judge rejects divorce for transgender pregnant man 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 11:35 AM PDT
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona judge on Friday refused to grant a divorce for a transgender Arizona man who gave birth to three children after beginning to change his sex from female.
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Father’s Facebook Post About Bullied Son Goes Viral 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 10:58 AM PDT
Matthew Bent of Kaukauna, Wisconsin, is being hailed as a hero for standing up for his son against three bullies at his school. Bent says that his son has been repeatedly harassed by classmates at River View Middle School, even suffering physical harm. His son says that even after reporting the incident to teachers, nothing [...]
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Mystery elf door in park sparks attention on the Web 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 11:23 AM PDT
A tiny addition in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park is getting big attention on the Web. A photo on the neighborhood site Richmondsfblog.com first published a photo of a teeny wooden door that mysteriously appeared at the bottom of a tree with a small, gnome-sized gap. The door has opened up plenty of interest on [...]
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EPA taking aim at auto emissions, sulfur in gas 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 04:06 AM PDT
FILE - In this July 10, 2012 file photo, Suzanne Meredith, of Walpole, Mass., gases up her car at a Gulf station in Brookline, Mass. Reducing sulfur in gasoline and tightening emissions standards on cars beginning in 2017, as the Obama administration is proposing, would come with costs as well as rewards. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Reducing sulfur in gasoline and tightening emissions standards on cars beginning in 2017, as the Obama administration is proposing, would come with costs as well as rewards. The cost at the pump for cleaner air across the country could be less than a penny or as high as 9 cents a gallon, depending on who is providing the estimate.
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Republicans Blast Don Young, Demand an Apology 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 05:38 PM PDT
Republicans Blast Don Young, Demand an ApologyAlaska Congressman Don Young's use of racial slurs in reference to Latinos prompted a strong backlash from his fellow Republican Party members today as both House and Senate leaders demanded an apology from Young. Young used the derogatory term "wetbacks" to refer to Latino workers on...
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Woman Who Contracted Encephalitis on School Trip Awarded $41.7M 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 11:42 AM PDT
Woman Who Contracted Encephalitis on School Trip Awarded $41.7MA New York woman left brain-damaged after contracting a tick-borne illness
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Republican Congressman Refers to Latinos as "Wetbacks" 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 03:50 AM PDT
Rep. Don Young's Comments Won't Help GOP Re-Branding Effort.
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Kansas couple: Indoor gardening prompted pot raid 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 06:32 PM PDT
Bob Harte stands next to his now shut down indoor garden in the basement of his home in Leawood, Kan., Friday, March 29, 2013. Harte and his wife Adlynn, who are former CIA employees, sued this week to get more information about why sheriff's deputies searched their home in the upscale Kansas City suburb last April 20 as part of Operation Constant Gardener — a sweep conducted by agencies in Kansas and Missouri that netted marijuana plants, processed marijuana, guns, growing paraphernalia and cash from several other locations. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)LEAWOOD, Kan. (AP) — Two former CIA employees whose Kansas home was fruitlessly searched for marijuana during a two-state drug sweep claim they were illegally targeted, possibly because they had bought indoor growing supplies to raise vegetables.
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Slow cooker lamb dinner that needs no slow cooker 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 06:10 AM PDT
In this image taken on March 18, 2013, rosemary lamb tagine with chickpeas and tomatoes is shown served on a plate in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)I have two issues with slow cookers, and both are deal breakers.
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Monroe, Eisenhower letters to be auctioned 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 10:50 AM PDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Marilyn Monroe's letter of despair to mentor Lee Strasberg and Dwight D. Eisenhower's heartfelt missives to his wife during World War II are among hundreds of historical documents being offered in an online auction.
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Fire destroys Newtown home of shooting survivors 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 08:40 AM PDT
This Thursday, March 28, 2013 photo shows a house belonging to the Barth family on Berkshire Road in Newtown, Conn., the day after it was destroyed by fire. The fire left Hans and Audra Barth and their three children homeless. Two of the children attended Sandy Hook Elementary School, including a first-grader in teacher Kaitlin Roig's classroom. Roig barricaded her students in a bathroom as Adam Lanza shot 26 people dead in the school in December. (AP Photo/The News-Times, Tyler Sizemore) MANDATORY CREDIT: THE NEWS-TIMES, TYLER SIZEMORENEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — A Newtown home destroyed by a fire this week was owned by a couple whose children survived the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December.
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North Korea readies rockets after U.S. show of force 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 03:54 AM PDT
North Koreans attend a rally in support of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's order to put its missile units on standby in preparation for a possible war against the U.S. and South Korea, in PyongyangBy David Chance and Phil Stewart SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea put its missile units on standby on Friday to attack U.S. military bases in South Korea and the Pacific, after the United States flew two nuclear-capable stealth bombers over the Korean peninsula in a rare show of force. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un signed off on the order at a midnight meeting of top generals and "judged the time has come to settle accounts with the U.S. imperialists in view of the prevailing situation", the official KCNA news agency said. ...
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Exhibit of Jews in Germany raises interest, ire 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 07:40 AM PDT
FILE - In this March 22, 2013 file photo, Israeli Ido Porat prepares to be the first person acting as the 'Jew in a glass box', on the first day of the exhibition "The Whole Truth … everything you always wanted to know about Jews" at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Nearly 70 years after the Holocaust, there is no more sensitive an issue in German life as the role of Jews. With fewer than 200,000 Jews among Germany's 82 million people, few Germans born after World War II know any Jews or much about them. To help educate postwar generations, the Jewish Museum in Berlin offers a Jewish man or woman to sit inside a glass box for two hours a day through August to answer visitors' questions about Jews and Jewish life. The base of the box asks: BERLIN (AP) — "Are there still Jews in Germany?" ''Are the Jews a chosen people?"
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Los Angeles Archbishop: Undocumented immigrants should be given access to the American dream 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 04:10 AM PDT
Power Players When the Catholic Church takes a political position, it typically falls on the conservative side of the spectrum, ranging from issues such as abortion to same-sex marriage. But that's not the case on immigration. As the Archbishop of Los Angeles, José Gomez represents the largest archdiocese in the United States--a significant percentage of [...]
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Philadelphian jumps on tracks to help fallen man 
Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 12:16 AM PDT
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The recovering drug addict with a long rap sheet who had just sat down on the bench at a north Philadelphia train station often wondered if he was a good person, and perhaps never considered that anyone thought he was a hero to anybody.
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House Speaker admonishes fellow Republican for immigrant slur 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 03:12 PM PDT
House Speaker Boehner holds a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Friday condemned a reference to migrant workers made by fellow Republican Representative Don Young, calling the comments "offensive and beneath the dignity of the office." Young referred to migrant workers as "wetbacks" in a radio interview aired in his home state of Alaska on Thursday, but issued an apology late in the day after criticism. The term is considered a slur against illegal immigrants who crossed into the United States from Mexico. "My father had a ranch. We used to hire 50-60 wetbacks ... ...
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Obama pitches public works spending to create jobs 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 01:31 PM PDT
Obama pitches public works spending to create jobsTrying to show that the economy remains a top priority, President Barack Obama promoted a plan Friday to create construction and other jobs by attracting private money to help rebuild roads, bridges and ...
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Texas school backs off teaching 9/11 was America’s fault 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 02:34 AM PDT
Fifth graders in a public school in Corpus Christi, Texas will no longer be learning that the United States deserved the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks because of its foreign policy.
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China: Landslide buries 83 in Tibet gold mine area 
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 08:01 PM PDT
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, earthmovers remove rocks and mud on the scene where a landslide hit a mining area in Maizhokunggar County of Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, on Friday, March 29, 2013. The large landslide trapped dozens of workers in the gold mining area, state media reported. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Chogo) NO SALESBEIJING (AP) — No signs of life have been detected at a gold mining site in a mountainous area of Tibet more than 24 hours after a massive landslide buried 83 workers, Chinese state media said Saturday.
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