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Monday, Jan 27, 2014 11:27 PM PST
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Folk singer, activist Pete Seeger dies at 94 
Monday, Jan 27, 2014 11:27 PM PST
 Activist musician Pete Seeger, 92, center, sings before a crowd of nearly a thousand demonstrators sympathetic to the Occupy Wall Street protests at a brief acoustic concert in Columbus Circle, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011, in New York. The demonstrators marched down Broadway singing "This Little Light of Mine" and other folk and gospel songs while ad-libbing lines about corporate greed and social justice. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)The banjo-picking troubadour, singer and activist passed away at a New York hospital.
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House reaches compromise on farm bill 
Monday, Jan 27, 2014 06:21 PM PST
 Maggie Barcellano prepares dinner at her father's house in Austin, Texas on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014. Barcellano, who lives with her father, enrolled in the food stamps program to help save up for paramedic training while she works as a home health aide and raises her three-year-old daughter. Working-age people now make up the majority in U.S. households that rely on food stamps, a switch from a few years ago when children and the elderly were the main recipients. (AP Photo/Tamir Kalifa)Deal would preserve food stamp benefits for most, keep generous subsidies for farmers.
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Dem senators to file amicus brief in Hobby Lobby birth control case 
Monday, Jan 27, 2014 06:51 PM PST
 FILE - This May 22, 2013 file photo shows customer at a Hobby Lobby store in Denver. The Supreme Court has agreed to referee another dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law, whether businesses can use religious objections to escape a requirement to cover birth control for employees. The justices said Tuesday they will take up an issue that has divided the lower courts in the face of roughly 40 lawsuits from for-profit companies asking to be spared from having to cover some or all forms of contraception. The court will consider two cases. One involves Hobby Lobby Inc., an Oklahoma City-based arts and crafts chain with 13,000 full-time employees. Hobby Lobby won in the lower courts. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)In a brief to be filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, 19 Democratic senators are siding with the Obama administration against evangelical Christian businessmen who argue that paying for their employees' birth control, a requirement under Obamacare, violates their company's religious freedom.
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Mexico legalizes vigilantes, nabs cartel leader 
Monday, Jan 27, 2014 07:34 PM PST
 FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2014 file photo, an armed man belonging to the Self-Defense Council of Michoacan, (CAM), stands guard at a checkpoint set up by the self-defense group at the entrance to Antunez, Mexico. Mexico essentially legalized the country's growing Mexico essentially legalized the country's growing "self-defense" groups Monday, while also announcing that security forces had captured one of the four top leaders of the Knights Templar drug cartel, which the vigilante groups have been fighting for the last year.
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Palestinians earn degrees while in Israeli jail 
Monday, Jan 27, 2014 11:45 PM PST
 In this Friday, Jan. 3, 2014 photo, Jamal Abu Muhsin, second right, who is among hundreds of Palestinians having spent their time in Israeli prisons pursuing an education and was recently released, shows his university degree earned at an Israeli prison in the West Bank town of Tubas near Jenin. Abu Muhsin spent his time in prison pursuing an education _ a program that has been praised by Palestinians but has caused a stir with Israelis who believe that murderers are being undeservedly coddled. "When I found myself in jail for life, I was faced with two options: either I make meaning for my life or waste my life and my mind behind bars," said Abu Muhsin, now 42, from his home in the West Bank city of Tubas. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)TUBAS, West Bank (AP) — Jamal Abu Muhsin was a first-year Palestinian university student when he was convicted of stabbing a 76-year-old Israeli man to death in 1991, in retaliation for the killings of five Palestinian stone-throwers by Israeli soldiers.
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US looks at ways to prevent spying on its spying 
Monday, Jan 27, 2014 04:18 PM PST
 FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2014 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The U.S. government is looking at ways to prevent anyone from spying on its own surveillance of Americans' phone records. As the Obama administration considers shifting the collection of Americans' phone records from the National Security Agency to requiring that they be stored at phone companies or elsewhere, it's quietly funding research that would allow it to search the information using encryption so that phone company employees or eavesdroppers couldn't see who the U.S. is spying on, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is looking at ways to prevent anyone from spying on its own surveillance of Americans' phone records.
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Ukraine president ready to scrap anti-protest law 
Monday, Jan 27, 2014 05:49 PM PST
 A protester guards the barricade in front of riot police in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. Ukraine's justice minister is threatening to call for a state of emergency unless protesters leave her ministry building, which they occupied during the night. The seizure of the building early Monday underlined how anti-government demonstrators are increasingly willing to take dramatic action as they push for the president's resignation and other concessions. Protesters now occupy four sizable buildings in downtown Kiev, including the city hall. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's beleaguered president on Monday agreed to scrap harsh anti-protest laws that set off a wave of clashes between protesters and police over the past week, a potentially substantial concession to the opposition that stopped short of meeting all of its demands.
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Assad future blocks progress in Syria peace talks 
Monday, Jan 27, 2014 09:47 PM PST
 Monzer Akbik, center, a Syrian opposition spokesman, leaves after a short press briefing at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. Akbik said the coalition was still determined to stay for the political talks set to begin Monday despite accusing the government of stalling. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)GENEVA (AP) — The key issue of a transitional government to replace President Bashar Assad blocked any progress Monday in Syrian peace talks, described by one delegate as "a dialogue of the deaf."
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Scientists find ancient plague DNA in teeth 
Monday, Jan 27, 2014 04:29 PM PST
 In this Jan. 17, 2014 photo provided by McMaster University, graduate biology student Jennifer Klunk examines a bone sample at McMaster University's Ancient DNA Centre in Hamilton, Canada. Scientists say two of the deadliest pandemics in history were caused by strains of the same plague and warn new versions of the bacteria could spark future outbreaks. Researchers found tiny bits of DNA in the teeth of two German victims killed by the Justinian plague about 1,500 years ago. With those fragments, they reconstructed the genome of the oldest bacteria known. They concluded the Justinian plague was caused by a strain of Yersinia pestis, the same pathogen responsible for the Black Death that struck medieval Europe. The study was published online Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014 in the journal, Lancet Infectious Diseases.(AP Photo/McMaster University)LONDON (AP) — Scientists say two of the deadliest pandemics in history were caused by strains of the same plague and warn that new versions of the bacteria could spark future outbreaks.
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Mexico vigilantes agree to join government forces 
Monday, Jan 27, 2014 09:05 PM PST
 FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2014 file photo, an armed man belonging to the Self-Defense Council of Michoacan, (CAM), stands guard at a checkpoint set up by the self-defense group at the entrance to Antunez, Mexico. Mexico essentially legalized the country's growing MEXICO CITY (AP) — "Self-defense" groups confronting a drug cartel in the western state of Michoacan have agreed to join government law enforcement forces after months of firefights with gang members, many times as federal police and troops stood by.
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APNewsBreak: Arias defense costs top $2 million 
Monday, Jan 27, 2014 05:16 PM PST
 File-This May 15, 2013, file pool photo shows Jodi Arias looking at the family of Travis Alexander as the jury arrives during the sentencing phase of her trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Arias' legal bills have topped $2 million, a tab being footed by Arizona taxpayers that will only continue to climb with a new penalty phase set for March, officials said Monday Jan. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, File)PHOENIX (AP) — Jodi Arias' legal bills have topped $2 million, a tab being footed by Arizona taxpayers that will only continue to climb with a new penalty phase set for March, officials said Monday.
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GOP tries to school candidates to avoid disaster 
Monday, Jan 27, 2014 01:41 PM PST
 FILE - In this combination of file photos are U.S. Senate candidates, from left: Shane Osborn, Nebraska; Matt Whitaker, Iowa, and Terri Lynn Land, Michigan. Having watched several promising campaigns collapse in 2012 after candidates made catastrophic mistakes, Osborn, Whitaker and Land are three contenders summoned by national Republican leaders to a first-of-a-kind training at the GOP's Senate campaign headquarters in Washington, to learn in part, what not to say and how not to say it. (AP Photo/File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Having watched several promising campaigns collapse in 2012 after candidates made catastrophic mistakes, national Republican leaders are leaving nothing to chance as they prepare for this year's midterm elections.
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Police: Student fire apparent suicide attempt 
Monday, Jan 27, 2014 04:45 PM PST
 A police cruiser blocks the entrance to Standley Lake HIgh School, where classes were cancelled after an apparent suicide attempt by a student, in Westminster, Colo., Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. Police say a 16-year-old boy was critically injured after setting himself on fire at the suburban Denver high school. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)WESTMINSTER, Colo. (AP) — A 16-year-old boy set himself on fire at a suburban Denver high school on Monday in an apparent suicide attempt that left him critically injured, authorities said.
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10 Things to Know for Tuesday 
Monday, Jan 27, 2014 06:12 PM PST
 A protester guards the barricades in front of riot police in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. Ukraine's justice minister is threatening to call for a state of emergency unless protesters leave her ministry building, which they occupied during the night. The seizure of the building early Monday underlined how anti-government demonstrators are increasingly willing to take dramatic action as they push for the president's resignation and other concessions. Protesters now occupy four sizable buildings in downtown Kiev, including the city hall. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Tuesday:
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Avalanches cut off only road to Alaska city 
Monday, Jan 27, 2014 06:37 PM PST
 This Jan. 24, 2014 photo provided by the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities shows multiple avalanches that crossed the Richardson Highway in the Thompson Pass region of Valdez, Alaska on Friday Jan. 24, 2014. Alaska highway officials say the only highway into the city of 4,100 people will be closed until further notice, for at least a week, if not much longer. (AP Photo/Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities)ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Highway access to the city at the end of the trans-Alaska pipeline has been cut off indefinitely by avalanches, including one that dammed a river and created a lake up to a half-mile long across the roadway in a 300-foot wide mountain canyon.
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U.S. frees tech companies to disclose more spying data 
Monday, Jan 27, 2014 03:59 PM PST
 Illustration file picture shows a man typing on a computer keyboard in WarsawBy David Ingram WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. technology companies may give the public and their customers more detail about the court orders they receive related to surveillance under an agreement they reached on Monday with the Obama administration. Companies such as Google Inc and Microsoft Corp have been prohibited from disclosing even an approximate number of orders they received from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. They could give only an aggregate number of U.S. demands that combined surveillance court orders, letters from the FBI, subpoenas in run-of-the-mill criminal cases and other requests. The deal frees the companies to say, for example, approximately how many orders they received in a six-month period from the surveillance court.
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Notorious Nazi's letters home are chillingly mundane 
Monday, Jan 27, 2014 09:58 AM PST
 1935 photo provided by German newspaper 'Die Welt' shows a family photo of Heinrich Himmler in Valepp, Bavaria. The picture shows Himmler with his daughter Gudrun, front, his son Gerhard, right, and a friend of Gudrun, left. The photo is part of a trove of letters, notes and photos that were in possession of an Israeli family. The letters are believed to be written by Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler and had not been shown to the public. The newspaper said the material is contained in an eight-part series it plans to publish. Himmler is considered one of the Nazis most responsible for the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Realworks Ltd./DIE WELT, HO) MANDATORY CREDIT Realworks Ltd./DIE WELT - http://www.welt.de/geschichte/himmler/article124223862/Insight-into-the-orderly-world-of-a-mass-murderer.htmlHeinrich Himmler was one of the most notorious leaders of Hitler's Nazi Party, responsible for the deaths of millions of men, women and children. Excerpts from chilling letters he wrote his family were recently published on the German news site Die Welt.
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Ukrainian gov't claims to make key concession 
Monday, Jan 27, 2014 01:46 PM PST
 Anti-government protesters look out from barricades in Independence Square in KievDeal to scrap harsh anti-protest laws that sparked clashes reported in online statement.
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NSA leak reveals gov't spies eyed data from smartphone apps 
Monday, Jan 27, 2014 04:38 PM PST
 Kim Jong-un stole Angry BirdsReports outline how data could be harvested from apps such as Angry Birds or Google maps.
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U.S.: Afghanistan to free 'dangerous' prisoners 
Monday, Jan 27, 2014 12:08 PM PST
 FILE - In this March 23, 2011 file photograph, Afghan detainees, seen through a mesh wire fence, prepare for noon prayers inside the Parwan detention facility near Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. The Afghan government has begun the process of releasing three dozen prisoners, officials said Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, despite U.S. protests that they are highly dangerous, the latest sign of deteriorating relations between the two countries ahead of the year-end withdrawal of most international combat troops. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)Move stretches relations already strained over plans for U.S. troop presence past 2014.
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Looted art saved by WWII 'Monuments Men' up for auction 
Monday, Jan 27, 2014 10:42 AM PST
 decades/1714/057By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Paintings looted by the Nazis during World War Two and retrieved by the Monuments Men, the Allied group tasked with returning masterpieces to their rightful owners, will be sold at auction on Thursday in New York. The works, which will go under the hammer during Sotheby's sale of Important Old Master Paintings and Sculpture, were among the tens of thousands of works recovered by the art experts whose story is told in the George Clooney film "The Monuments Men," which opens in U.S. theaters on February 7. "The scale of looting was absolutely extraordinary," said Lucian Simmons, Sotheby's head of restitution. The Monuments Men managed to recover and return the majority of those," he said in an interview.
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Egypt's miiltary puts commander forward for president 
Monday, Jan 27, 2014 06:03 PM PST
 Egyptians wave the national flag and hold up pictures of army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the edges of Cairo's Tahrir square on January 25, 2014Army says its commander, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, can run for the presidency; dozens dead in weekend strife.
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