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| Crews end effort to find man in sinkhole Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 07:24 PM PST  Two nearby houses have been evacuated because the sinkhole has weakened the ground under them. Full Story | Top |
| Sequester showdown threatens Obama's agenda Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 06:50 PM PST  The failure by Obama and Republicans to agree to halt the $85 billion "sequester" cuts virtually guaranteed that fiscal issues would remain center stage in Washington for weeks. Full Story | Top |
| Iditarod kicks off with festive ceremony Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 06:17 PM PST  Dogs barked and spectators cheered as 66 mushers and their teams in the 1,000-mile Iditarod race set out from downtown Anchorage on Saturday after religious blessings, singing and glad-handing with fans. Full Story | Top |
| McConnell takes on group for criticizing wife Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 09:02 PM PST  Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell lambasted a liberal group on Saturday for criticizing the Asian heritage of his wife. Full Story | Top |
| China's Xi rides high hopes ahead of presidency Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 11:09 PM PST  China's fawning state media, jaded social media commentators and even poor farmers agree: new Communist Party chief Xi Jinping is off to a good start. Full Story | Top |
| Rove: GOP needs candidates who reflect diversity Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 05:38 PM PST  GOP strategist Karl Rove said Saturday that rebuilding the Republican brand in California will be a tough task that will require them to diversify and create a strategy to spread their message to a wider audience. Full Story | Top |
| Chad says it killed Algeria hostage mastermind in Mali Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 06:00 PM PST  Chadian soldiers in Mali have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the al Qaeda commander who masterminded a bloody hostage-taking at an Algerian gas plant in January, Chad's military said on Saturday. The death of one of the world's most wanted jihadists would be a major blow to al Qaeda in the region and to Islamist rebels already forced to flee towns they had seized in northern Mali by an offensive by French and African troops. "On Saturday, March 2, at noon, Chadian armed forces operating in northern Mali completely destroyed a terrorist base. ... ... Full Story | Top |
| Ceremony for Monitor sailors stirs familial ties Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 06:08 PM PST  A century and a half after USS Monitor sank, the interment of two unknown crewmen found in the Civil War ironclad's turret is bringing together people from across the country. Full Story | Top |
| Kerry presses Egypt president, military on reform Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 11:52 PM PST  CAIRO (AP) â€" U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was wrapping up a visit to deeply divided Egypt on Sunday with an appeal for unity and reform to the country's president and military chief. Full Story | Top |
| Mexico's ruling party opens door to tax, energy changes Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 08:30 PM PST  Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party paved the way on Saturday for possible tax hikes and an overhaul of state oil giant Pemex as it seeks to spur growth in Latin America's second-biggest economy. PRI delegates at a congress in Mexico City voted to change the party's position on refusing to consider the imposition of a value-added tax on food and medicine, and giving the party scope to open up Pemex to more private capital. ... Full Story | Top |
| American Suhr sets indoor pole vault record Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 08:46 PM PST  Olympic champion Jenn Suhr lit up the U.S. indoor athletics championships on Saturday by leaping 5.02 meters to set a new women's pole vault world record, while throwing down the gauntlet to Russian great Yelena Isinbayeva. The 31-year-old American's stunning vault in Albuquerque, New Mexico, eclipsed Isinbayeva's indoor mark of 5.01m set in 2012 and is sure to heat up their rivalry ahead of August's outdoor world championships in Moscow. "I was in a groove tonight," Suhr, who set the mark on her first attempt at the height, told reporters. ... Full Story | Top |
| Pair of Ky. highway crashes kills 6, injures 5 Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 10:46 PM PST Kentucky State Police were investigating whether distracted driving caused a tractor-trailer to plow into an SUV carrying eight people on Saturday, killing six and possibly triggering a serious crash on the opposite side of the highway. Full Story | Top |
| Southern California wildfire fully contained Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 07:50 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fire officials on Saturday said they had fully contained a wildfire that scorched the hills east of Los Angeles as record-setting dry weather parched Southern California. The fire has burned about 310 acres in Riverside County, said Daniel Berlant, spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. It was fully contained by 6 p.m. local time, the Riverside County Fire Department said on its website. The blaze broke out on Thursday afternoon in Jurupa Valley near the city of Riverside, about 55 miles east of Los Angeles. ... Full Story | Top |
| Netanyahu gets 14 more days to form new Israeli government Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 04:37 PM PST  Israeli President Shimon Peres on Saturday gave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more time. Full Story | Top |
| Astronomers spy possible baby planet in stellar womb Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 04:40 PM PST  Scientists have found what they believe to be a planet-in-the-making that is still gathering material left over from the formation of its parent star. Full Story | Top |
| Evernote note-sharing service says hackers stole some user data Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 06:26 PM PST (Reuters) - Evernote, a Web-based note-sharing service, said it was resetting the passwords of its 50 million users because hackers managed to breach its computer network and access some usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords. Evernote spokeswoman Ronda Scott said via email on Saturday that the attack "follows a similar pattern" to other cyber attacks on Internet-based companies in recent weeks, but she did not elaborate. ... Full Story | Top |
| Puerto Rico slowly warms to more gay rights Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 10:38 AM PST  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) â€" The advance of gay rights across the United States is spreading into Puerto Rico, making the island a relatively gay-friendly outpost in a Caribbean region where sodomy laws and harassment of gays are still common. Full Story | Top |
| Iraq monthly death toll down in February Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 06:46 AM PST  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Militants killed 136 Iraqis in February, fewer than the previous month, as the country continues to grapple with insurgents just over a year after U.S. troops withdrew, health ministry figures showed on Saturday. The country's precarious sectarian and ethnic balance has come under growing strain from the conflict in neighboring Syria, which is whipping up tensions between Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims in Iraq and the wider Middle East. The figures showed 88 civilians, 22 soldiers and 26 policemen were killed last month. A further 228 people were wounded. ... Full Story | Top |
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