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| Study: One's 'weight fate' may be set by age 5 Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 04:24 PM PST  Researchers eye window of opportunity from knowing which kids will develop obesity, when. Full Story | Top |
| Defense team hails ruling on secret spy court documents Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 05:34 PM PST  CHICAGO (AP) — The government can't keep secret its request to conduct clandestine surveillance of an accused attempted terrorist, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday in a potentially far-reaching decision that gives defense attorneys unprecedented access to records filed with a secret intelligence court. Full Story | Top |
| Inside Josef Stalin's summer villa in Sochi Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 12:58 PM PST  A general view of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's Villa in Sochi, January 28, 2014. (REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk) Full Story | Top |
| Crisis continues: Ukraine opposition says no to amnesty bill Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 09:45 PM PST  Ukrainians demanding the president's resignation dug their heels in at protest sites across the country Thursday, despite a third major concession in two days by the regime. President Viktor Yanukovych has granted several concessions to protesters who have packed the centre of Kiev for the last two months, but there was no end in sight to Ukraine's worst crisis since independence. Underlining the gravity of the crisis, Ukraine's first post-independence president Leonid Kravchuk on Wednesday warned that the country was "on the brink of civil war." Protesters, some from right-wing radical groups, remain camped out in much of the city centre of Kiev and have now erected wooden watchtowers at their barricades. Full Story | Top |
| Firefighters honor N.Y. boy who died saving six others Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 02:37 PM PST  FAIRPORT, N.Y. (AP) — Local firefighters have adopted as one of their own a 9-year-old boy who died saving six relatives from a fire that destroyed his grandfather's upstate New York home. Full Story | Top |
| Obama signs order for 'myRA' savings plan Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 06:57 PM PST  President touts actions aimed at boosting personal finances of working class Americans. Full Story | Top |
| Cruise ship passengers recall days of misery Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 03:11 PM PST  BAYONNE, N.J. (AP) — Passengers aboard a cruise ship on which hundreds fell ill recalled days of misery holed up in their rooms as it returned to its home port Wednesday from a Caribbean trip cut short by what is suspected to be among the largest such norovirus outbreaks in the last 20 years. Full Story | Top |
| Iraqi gov't: Have you seen this man? Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 09:10 AM PST  The Iraqi interior ministry Wednesday published a photograph purportedly of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, an Al-Qaeda-linked group fighting in Iraq and Syria. The photograph, the first of its kind published by an official source, provides a rare glimpse of the man leading a militant group blamed for killing countless Iraqis, as well as fighting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. "Intelligence forces have obtained a recent portrait of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and they also got three handwritten letters," said the statement accompanying the photograph, published on the ministry's website. Baghdadi's group has been blamed for a litany of attacks across Iraq in recent months, and ISIL has been involved in a deadly standoff with government forces in western Iraq's Anbar province. Full Story | Top |
| Cruise ship pulls into N.J. port with hundreds of sick passengers Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 02:51 PM PST  BAYONNE, N.J. (AP) — Passengers aboard a cruise ship on which hundreds fell ill recalled days of misery holed up in their rooms as it returned to its home port Wednesday from a Caribbean trip cut short by what is suspected to be among the largest such norovirus outbreaks in the last 20 years. Full Story | Top |
| Monarch butterflies hit lowest migration level since 1993 Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 02:02 PM PST  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The stunning and little-understood annual migration of millions of Monarch butterflies to spend the winter in Mexico is in danger of disappearing, experts said Wednesday, after numbers dropped to their lowest level since record-keeping began in 1993. Full Story | Top |
| Southerners share tales of epic gridlock Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 01:30 PM PST  Helicopters search for stranded drivers after deadly storm paralyzes the Deep South. Full Story | Top |
| Petition to deport Justin Bieber passes White House threshold Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 01:12 PM PST  As if Barack Obama didn't have enough problems to deal with already, his administration now is being asked to weigh in on the grave matter of Justin Bieber's bad behavior. By midday Wednesday (1700 GMT), a petition on the White House website calling for the deportation of the Canadian-born teen idol had garnered 103,000 names -- easily surpassing the threshold of 100,000 signatures required for presidential consideration. "We the people of the United States feel that we are being wrongly represented in the world of pop culture," says the petition, created by one "J.A." in Detroit on January 23, the day Bieber was busted in Miami Beach for impaired driving and illegal drag racing in a flashy Italian sports car. "We would like to see the dangerous, reckless, destructive and drug-abusing Justin Bieber deported and his green card revoked. Full Story | Top |
| At least six die after winter storm in South Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 03:45 PM PST  Rare winter storm also stranded children in schools overnight and paralyzed travel. Full Story | Top |
| Congressman apologizes for threatening reporter Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 08:38 AM PST  It started out like dozens of other interviews after Tuesday night's State of the Union address. But when a reporter decided to press Rep. Michael Grimm on his personal campaign finances, the Republican congressman abruptly ended the interview with a violent threat. Full Story | Top |
| Holder: Justice Department investigating Target data breach Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 02:59 PM PST  By Lawrence Hurley and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. spy agency chiefs on Wednesday called on Congress to draft stricter requirements for how retailers and other private businesses should inform government agencies and customers about big breaches of personal and financial data. The intervention by intelligence chiefs came as Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed that the Justice Department was investigating the massive hacking of consumer data from No. 3 U.S. retailer Target Corp during the holiday shopping season late last year. Also on Wednesday, several congressional committees signaled growing interest in recent data breaches, with the powerful House Oversight Committee scheduling a telephone briefing on Thursday with Target representatives. Separately, at Wednesday's threat hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, where the National Security Agency is headquartered, asked intelligence chiefs if media leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden had affected U.S. cybersecurity efforts. Full Story | Top |
| Sochi chief: city is world's 'most secure venue' Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 10:25 AM PST LONDON (AP) — After all the talk of terror threats, corruption, overspending and anti-gay legislation, the head of the Sochi Olympics is determined to show the world the games will be a huge success. Full Story | Top |
| Georgia National Guard heads out to help stranded school kids Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 03:24 AM PST  ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal says the National Guard is sending military Humvees onto Atlanta's winter weather-snarled freeway system in an attempt to move stranded school buses and get food and water to people. Full Story | Top |
| Syria weeks behind on weapons shipments Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 03:37 PM PST  The nation has given up less than 5 percent of its arsenal and will miss a deadline. Full Story | Top |
| Hero's welcome: Wounded veteran gets ovation Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 12:07 AM PST  Army Ranger Cory Remsburg inspires emotional high point for State of the Union address. Full Story | Top |
| Bush speechwriter: Obama plagiarized State of the Union address Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 06:38 AM PST  A former speechwriter for President George W. Bush accused President Barack Obama of plagiarizing one of Bush's speeches during Tuesday evening's State of the Union. Full Story | Top |
| Justin Bieber charged with assault in Canada Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 10:26 PM PST  TORONTO (AP) — Justin Bieber was charged with assault for allegedly hitting a Toronto limousine driver several times in the back of the head last month, just hours after his attorney entered a separate not guilty plea in Florida to drunken-driving and other charges. Full Story | Top |
| Missouri executes man after appeals denied Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 11:39 PM PST  BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — In 1991, Herbert Smulls called jeweler Stephen Honickman and set up an appointment to meet at his store in suburban St. Louis. He said he wanted to buy a diamond for his fiancee. Full Story | Top |
| Assad adviser rejects call for transitional govt Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 11:45 AM PST  GENEVA (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad's adviser on Wednesday rejected the opposition's call for a transitional governing body and suggested for the first time that a presidential election scheduled to be held later this year may not take place amid the raging violence. Full Story | Top |
| Feds urged to better track sex abuse in schools Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 09:20 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agencies aren't doing enough to track incidents of sexual abuse committed by school personnel and should better educate districts and states about how to handle such cases, congressional investigators say Full Story | Top |
| Gaza's 2nd feature film revisits resistance theme Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 11:13 PM PST  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza's tiny movie industry may struggle with amateur actors and power outages, but at least it has a winning formula of which the producers never seem to tire: the heroics, from a Palestinian perspective, of those fighting Israeli occupation. Full Story | Top |
| Thunder erase early 18-point hole, top Heat 112-95 Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 07:57 PM PST  MIAMI (AP) — Down by 18 points midway through the opening quarter, Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder looked well on their way to witnessing a rout. Full Story | Top |
| Obama executive omissions leave some allies angry Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 01:44 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — For some White House allies, the long list of executive actions President Barack Obama announced in his State of the Union address was marred by a few glaring omissions. Full Story | Top |
| Big impact on income gap is health law's new angle Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 04:18 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Maybe the health care law was about wealth transfer, after all. Full Story | Top |
| Popular wave could lift Egypt army chief to office Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 09:53 PM PST  CAIRO (AP) — Unknown only two years ago, the head of Egypt's military, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, is riding on a wave of popular fervor that is almost certain to carry him to election as president. Many Egyptians now hail him as the nation's savior after he ousted the Islamists from power and as the only figure strong enough to lead. Full Story | Top |
| Missouri executes man for jeweler's 1991 death Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 09:48 PM PST BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man who killed a jeweler during a 1991 robbery was executed for the crime late Wednesday, marking the state's third lethal injection in as many months. Full Story | Top |
| 10 Things to Know for Thursday Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 06:08 PM PST Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Thursday: Full Story | Top |
| Super Bowl ads show signs of maturity Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 06:29 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Forget slapstick humor, corny gimmicks and skimpy bikinis. This year's Super Bowl ads promise something surprising: Maturity. Full Story | Top |
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