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Crews end effort to find man in sinkhole 
Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 07:24 PM PST
 Police tape surrounds a home where a sinkhole opened up and swallowed a man in Seffner, FloridaTwo nearby houses have been evacuated because the sinkhole has weakened the ground under them.
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Sequester showdown threatens Obama's agenda 
Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 06:50 PM PST
 Obama speaks about the sequester in WashingtonThe 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.
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Iditarod kicks off with festive ceremony 
Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 06:17 PM PST
 The dogs of musher Hendricks charge out of the start gate at the ceremonial start to the Iditarod dog sled race in downtown Anchorage, AlaskaDogs 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.
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McConnell takes on group for criticizing wife 
Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 09:02 PM PST
 FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2007 file photo, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell talks with his wife, U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao during the Fraternal Order of Police convention in Louisville, Ky. McConnell is expected to defend his wife in the face of some tweets he didn’t much care for. The group The Progress Kentucky said McConnell’s wife, former U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao who was born in Taiwan, may be the reason why U.S. jobs are going to China. The group later removed the tweets and apologized. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell lambasted a liberal group on Saturday for criticizing the Asian heritage of his wife.
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China's Xi rides high hopes ahead of presidency 
Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 11:09 PM PST
 In this photo taken Monday Feb. 25, 2013, a framed state media photograph of new Chinese leader Xi Jinping's visit to corn farmer Tang Rongbin is displayed in Tang's home in Luotuowan village in northern China's Hebei province. Village chief Gu Runjin is seen in the reflection of the mirror behind the photograph. Xi visited Tang in December 2012 as part of efforts to style himself as a no-frills man-of-the-people. Xi has also presented himself as an economic reformer and an iron-fisted graft-buster, spurring expectations for change, but as he prepares to be appointed president, pressure will be growing on him to deliver. (AP Photo/Gillian Wong)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.
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Rove: GOP needs candidates who reflect diversity 
Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 05:38 PM PST
 Republican strategist Karl Rove speaks at a luncheon at the California Republican Party convention, in Sacramento, Calif., Saturday, March 2, 2013. Rove told California Republicans to "get off the mat", and to find candidates to reflect the party's diversity. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)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.
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Chad says it killed Algeria hostage mastermind in Mali 
Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 06:00 PM PST
 Undated still image from a video showing Mokhtar Belmokhtar speaking at an unknown locationChadian 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. ... ...
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Ceremony for Monitor sailors stirs familial ties 
Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 06:08 PM PST
 FILE This Monday Aug. 5, 2002 file photo shows the turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor is lifted out of the ocean off the coast of Hatteras NC. A century and a half after the USS Monitor sank, the interment of remains of two unknown sailors found in the Civil War ironclad’s turret is bringing together nearly 100 people from Maine to California who have a distant familial tie to the 16 Union sailors who died when the ship went down. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)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.
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Kerry presses Egypt president, military on reform 
Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 11:52 PM PST
 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, waves while ending a statement to the media, next to Mohammed Kassem, of World Trading Company, during a meeting with business leaders in Cairo, Egypt on Saturday, March 2, 2013. Cairo is the sixth leg of Kerry's first official overseas trip and begins the Middle East portion of his nine-day journey. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)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.
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Mexico's ruling party opens door to tax, energy changes 
Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 08:30 PM PST
 Mexico's President Pena Nieto looks on during Flag Day celebrations in at Campo Marte in Mexico CityMexico'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. ...
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American Suhr sets indoor pole vault record 
Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 08:46 PM PST
 Jenn Suhr of the U.S. reacts after clearing the bar as she competes in the women's pole vault during the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix track meet in BostonOlympic 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. ...
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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.
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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. ...
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Netanyahu gets 14 more days to form new Israeli government 
Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 04:37 PM PST
 Israeli President Peres walks with Israeli PM Netanyahu before a brief ceremony at the president's residence in JerusalemIsraeli President Shimon Peres on Saturday gave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more time.
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Astronomers spy possible baby planet in stellar womb 
Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 04:40 PM PST
 An image from the NACO system on ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows a candidate protoplanet in the disc of gas and dust around the young star HD100546.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.
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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. ...
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Puerto Rico slowly warms to more gay rights 
Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 10:38 AM PST
 In this Feb. 18, 2013 photo, demonstrators stand outside the capitol building during a "Puerto Rico Rises" rally to protest any move to legalize same-sex marriage in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The governing Popular Democratic Party is pushing a bill through the legislature that would outlaw discrimination based on gender or sexual orientation, a step taken by about half of U.S. states. Another bill would extend a domestic violence law to gay couples. However, many Puerto Ricans remain uncomfortable with the changes. Church groups in February rallied an estimated 200,000 people against a move to include gay couples under domestic violence laws. (AP Photo/El Vocero, Sebastian Marquez Velez)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.
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Iraq monthly death toll down in February 
Saturday, Mar 02, 2013 06:46 AM PST
 Iraqi residents gather at the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad's Shuala districtBAGHDAD (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. ...
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