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APNewsBreak: Marines issue survey on women's role

APNewsBreak: Marines issue survey on women's role

APNewsBreak: Marines issue survey on women's role

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:42 PM PST

FILE - In this July 29, 2011 file photo, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos speaks with reporters at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md. The Marine Corps commandant said Thursday Jan. 31, 2013, the infantry side is skeptical about how women will perform in those units and some positions may end up being closed if not enough females fail to meet the rigorous standards. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Marine Corps survey found about 17 percent of male Marine respondents who planned to stay in the service or were undecided said they would likely leave if women move into combat positions.

Detroit, Toyota see big US sales gains in January

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:41 PM PST

In this Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 photo, Chevy trucks line the lot of a dealer in Murrysville, Pa. Ford, Chrysler and General Motors all reported double-digit gains for January as last year's momentum in U.S. auto sales continued into 2013, according to reports Friday, Feb. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)DETROIT (AP) — American consumers ignored tax increases and trudged through winter weather to buy new cars and trucks at an unusually strong pace last month. It was the auto industry's best January since 2008.

US construction hiring jumps as housing rebounds

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:40 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — During last year's housing recovery a question loomed: Where are all the construction jobs?

Law firm: Phoenix lawyer dies from shooting wounds

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:36 PM PST

This undated photo provided by the Osborn Maledon law firm shows Mark Hummels, who was critically wounded during a shooting at a Phoenix office building on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. Hummels is an attorney who represented the company involved in a contract dispute with the shooter, Arthur Douglas Harmon. (AP Photo/Osborn Maledon)PHOENIX (AP) — A lawyer wounded by a gunman in a Phoenix office shooting this week has become the second victim to die in the attack, authorities said Friday.

APNewsBreak: Family sues over Minn. office attack

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:35 PM PST

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The family of a man who was among six people gunned down at his Minneapolis office last year is suing the company, claiming it botched the firing of the employee who carried out the attack and should have known from his work history that he was potentially dangerous.

Google to set up $82M fund for French publishers

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:34 PM PST

PARIS (AP) — Google will help French news organizations increase their online advertising revenue and also set up a €60 million ($82 million) fund to finance digital publishing innovation, settling a dispute over whether the Internet giant should pay to display news content in its search results.

Chicago takes leading role in national gun debate

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:33 PM PST

Cleopatra Pendleton cries as she talks with Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy before a news conference seeking help from the public in solving the murder of Pendleton's daughter Hadiya Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in Chicago. Hadiya, 15, who had performed in President Barack Obama's inauguration festivities, was killed in a Chicago park as she talked with friends by a gunman who apparently was not even aiming at her. The city's 42nd slaying is part of Chicago's bloodiest January in more than a decade, following on the heels of 2012, which ended with more than 500 homicides for the first time since 2008. It also comes at a time when Obama, spurred by the Connecticut elementary school massacre in December, is actively pushing for tougher gun laws. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)CHICAGO (AP) — They are counting the dead from gunfire again in Chicago, a city awash in weapons despite having one of the strictest gun-control ordinances in the nation.

James not worried about being top-paid player

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:32 PM PST

Brooklyn Nets forward Keith Bogans (10) defends as Miami Heat forward LeBron James (6) drives toward the basket in the first half of an NBA basketball game, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in New York. The Heat won 105-85. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — LeBron James has been an NBA champion once, an Olympic gold medalist twice and the league's MVP three times.

Arabs, Tuaregs in Mali face hostility amid war

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:31 PM PST

In this photo taken Saturday Jan. 26, 2013 Bawba Mint Baba Ahmed is photographed in Mopti, Mali. Bawba Mint Baba Ahmed's sewing teacher singled her out in front of the class, telling her: "You look like a rebel." Others threatened to slit her throat, she says, drawing a finger across her neck. Now the 29-year-old has dropped out of school and spends her days hiding inside her mud-walled home with her mother and two sisters, fearing retaliation from those who accuse her of being an Islamist simply because she is Arab. (AP Photo/Baba Ahmed)MOPTI, Mali (AP) — Bawba Mint Baba Ahmed's sewing teacher singled her out in front of the class, telling her: "You look like a rebel." Others threatened to slit her throat, she says, drawing a finger across her neck.

2 children, 1 adult die in Detroit freeway pileup

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:29 PM PST

A section of multi-vehicle accident on Interstate 75 is shown in Detroit, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. Snow squalls and slippery roads led to a series of accidents that left at least three people dead and 20 injured on a mile-long stretch of southbound I-75. More than two dozen vehicles, including tractor-trailers, were involved in the pileups. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)DETROIT (AP) — DETROIT (AP) — It took only seconds for the light snow to turn into a blinding curtain of white. Drivers slammed on their brakes, others swerved to avoid tractor-trailers jackknifed across a busy Detroit freeway that quickly turned into a mile-long string of wrecks.

Dow ends above 14,000 for 1st time since Oct. 2007

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:29 PM PST

A screen on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, on Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, shows the Dow Jones industrial average above 14,000 for the first time since October 2007. Evidence that the U.S. economic recovery is firmly on track drove markets higher on Friday, adding to the cheer from good economic indicators out of Europe. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)NEW YORK (AP) — The Dow closed above 14,000 on Friday for the first time in more than five years.

Games likely to follow Pentagon on women in combat

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:25 PM PST

This undated publicity photo released by Zipper Interactive/Sony Computer Entertainment America shows a scene from the video game, "SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs." (AP Photo/Zipper Interactive/Sony Computer Entertainment America )LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lara Croft. Samus Aran. Jill Valentine. Chell.

Mexico blast kills at least 33, flagging Pemex safety woes

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:24 PM PST

Paramedics wheel an injured person to a helicopter at the parking lot of the state-run oil company Pemex after an explosion in Mexico CityMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Rescue workers pulled out more bodies from debris at the headquarters of Mexican state oil giant Pemex on Friday after a powerful explosion killed at least 33 people and threw a spotlight onto the state-run company's poor safety record. Scenes of confusion and chaos outside the downtown tower block in Mexico City have dealt another blow to Pemex's image, just as Mexico's new president is seeking to court outside investment for the 75-year-old monopoly. ...

Suicide bomber kills guard at U.S. embassy in Turkey

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:24 PM PST

ANKARA (Reuters) - A far-leftist suicide bomber killed a Turkish security guard at the U.S. embassy in Ankara on Friday, officials said, blowing open an entrance and sending debris flying through the air. The attacker detonated explosives strapped to his body after entering an embassy gatehouse. The blast could be heard a mile away. A lower leg and other human remains lay on the street. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said the bomber was a member of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), a far-left group which is virulently anti-U.S. ...

Sylvester Stallone supports assault weapon ban

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:21 PM PST

Actor Sylvester Stallone attends the "Bullet To The Head" premiere at AMC Lincoln Square on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Sylvester Stallone says that despite his "Rambo" image and new shoot-em-up film "Bullet to the Head," he's in favor of new national gun control legislation.

Mali jihadists in custody say tortured by military

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:16 PM PST

A man suspected of being a Jihadist, arrested by Malian forces in Lere, sits at the police station where he is being held in Timbuktu, Mali, Friday Feb. 1, 2013. French President Francois Hollande is scheduled to visit the fabled city Saturday. (AP Photo/Harouna Traore)TIMBUKTU, Mali (AP) — Three suspected jihadists arrested in the days since the liberation of Timbuktu said Friday that Malian soldiers were torturing them with a method similar to waterboarding.

Hiring at construction sites shifts into higher gear

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:15 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The outlook for U.S. construction workers brightened on Friday with a report that showed growing momentum in hiring at building sites. The U.S. Labor Department said 82,000 construction jobs were created between November and January, the biggest three-month gain since the three months ended April 2006. That suggests the recovery underway in the U.S. housing market, seen in appreciating home prices and more housing starts, may be leading to a stronger pace of hiring. ...

Looters steal $200K in coins after hoarder's death

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:14 PM PST

In this booking photo released by Vermont State Police, 35year-old Ricky Benjamin of Alburgh, Vt. is seen. Police say more than $200,000 in gold coins were stolen from a vacant home after its eccentric owner died in a farm accident last year. Authorities say four suspects also stole a vehicle, antiques and other items from the home in Alburgh in the months after its owner's death. Benjamin, Mark Mumley, 52, and 41-year-old Shawn Farrell, of Swanton, were arraigned and held on $75,000 bail. (AP Photo/Vermont State Police)ALBURGH, Vt. (AP) — It took months for anyone to discover that an eccentric man known simply as Radkin had died, crushed under a tractor-pulled horse trailer on his property on the shores of Lake Champlain in northern Vermont. But it didn't take long for looters to ransack the hoarder's dilapidated house, police say, hauling off antiques, a vehicle, scrap metal and more than $200,000 in gold coins.

One dead, dozens hurt as police clash with Egypt protesters

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:13 PM PST

Protesters throw stones and molotov cocktails at security forces inside the presidential palace during clashes between protesters and police in front of the palace, in CairoCAIRO/PORT SAID, Egypt (Reuters) - At least one protester was shot dead and dozens wounded on Friday when riot police clashed with demonstrators demanding the overthrow of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, witnesses said. Youths threw petrol bombs and shot fireworks at the outer wall of Mursi's Cairo presidential compound as night fell. Police responded by firing water cannon and tear gas leading to skirmishes in the surrounding streets. Two witnesses said they had seen a protester shot dead in Cairo with live ammunition in front of them. "It's verified. I am at the morgue. ...

Maryland man sentenced for role in child porn ring

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:11 PM PST

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A Maryland man who helped run an online bulletin board where hundreds of child pornographers from around the world shared images and videos was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison following a trial in Indiana.

Harkin campaign aide gave Iowa State a donor list

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:10 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 28, 2012 file photo Democratic Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Records show Harkin's campaign fundraiser gave Iowa State University a list of possible donors to The Harkin Institute of Public Policy, his namesake research institute, though university officials have promised he would have no influence over the center that would house the papers. The Harkin Institute of Public Policy would house the papers of the senator, who recently announced he would not seek a sixth term in 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin's campaign fundraiser gave Iowa State University a list of possible donors to his namesake research institute, records show, though university officials have promised the powerful Democrat would have no influence over the center.

Generic competition, charges cut Merck Q4 profit

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:09 PM PST

Merck & Co.'s fourth-quarter profit fell 7 percent because of hits from generic competition and one-time charges, and the company pushed back plans for seeking approval of a key experimental osteoporosis drug.

Report: Nation's cattle herd smallest since 1952

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:07 PM PST

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A much anticipated government count shows the nation's cattle herd has shrunk to its smallest size in more than six decades amid a widespread drought that has forced ranchers to sell off their animals.

Oil up on US jobs report; gas jumps most in 2 yrs

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:07 PM PST

NEW YORK (AP) — Commuters and day-trippers may do a double-take at the gas station after the biggest one-day pop in pump prices in nearly two years.

Ed Koch, New York's feisty mayor, dies at 88

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:05 PM PST

FILE - In this April 18, 2007, file photo, former New York Mayor Ed Koch listens during the 9th annual National Action Network convention in New York. Koch, the combative politician who rescued the city from near-financial ruin during three City Hall terms, has died at age 88. Spokesman George Arzt says Koch died Friday morning Feb. 1, 2013 of congestive heart failure. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)NEW YORK (AP) — When Ed Koch was mayor, it seemed as if all of New York was being run by a deli counterman. Koch was funny, irritable, opinionated, often rude and prone to yelling.

Pfizer's animal health unit, Zoetis, soars in IPO

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:03 PM PST

Shares of Pfizer's animal health business, Zoetis, surged in their trading debut Friday after the company's IPO raised $2.2 billion — the largest IPO by a U.S. company since Facebook Inc. raised $16 billion last May.

Critics skeptical of US 'compassion' for mustangs

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:00 PM PST

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is issuing new policy directives emphasizing "compassion and concern" for wild horses on federal lands in the West, in response to a growing public outcry over alleged abuse during roundups of thousands of mustangs in recent years.

Obama offers faith groups new birth control rule

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 12:57 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a wave of lawsuits over what government can tell religious groups to do, the Obama administration on Friday proposed a compromise for faith-based nonprofits that object to covering birth control in their employee health plans.

Puerto Rico teeters on fiscal edge over pensions

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 12:54 PM PST

A retiree carries a sign that reads in Spanish SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Office clerk Lillian Marti hopes to retire one day with a decent pension. Now, like many other employees of Puerto Rico's government, she's beginning to fear she might not get that chance.

Shot Armenia presidential hopeful seeks vote delay

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 12:53 PM PST

In this photo taken on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2013, Paruir Airikian, candidate for the Armenian presidency, attends a news conference in Yerevan, Armenia. The longshot candidate for the Armenian presidency was shot in the chest by an unidentified gunman late Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013 officials said. He was hospitalized in stable condition as police searched for the shooter, while the speaker of parliament suggested the election could be delayed. (AP Photo/News.am, Arsen Sarkisyan)YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — The shooting of a presidential candidate threw Armenia's election into disarray Friday, with the wounded victim saying he will call for a delay of the vote.

Dramatists liken Venezuela saga to telenovela

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 12:52 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2013 file photo, supporters of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez carry a life-size cut out image of him during a symbolic inauguration ceremony for Chavez, who was in Cuba for cancer treatment at the time, in Caracas, Venezuela. The long and at times surreal saga surrounding the cancer treatment of President Hugo Chavez has many Venezuelan writers and intellectuals likening the nation's drama to a telenovela. Venezuela has long produced soap operas, and some say no one could have imagined a more bizarre plot than the one unfolding in the more than seven weeks since Chavez traveled to Cuba for his operation and disappeared from public view. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A president who vanishes for weeks in a mysterious battle with cancer. Supporters who chant their allegiance in the streets. And in the midst of it all, an announcement by the government that it detected a plot to kill his chosen successor.

Harbaugh brothers could envision working together

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 12:47 PM PST

San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh and Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh participate in a news conference for the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Working separately, John and Jim Harbaugh each guided their team to the Super Bowl. They will be on opposite sidelines Sunday, John as head coach of the Baltimore Ravens and Jim with the San Francisco 49ers.

APNewsBreak: Feds: Warming imperils wolverines

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 12:46 PM PST

This undated image provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a wolverine. Add the tenacious wolverine, a snow-loving predator sometimes called the "mountain devil," to the list of species the government says is threatened by climate change. Federal wildlife officials on Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, will propose Endangered Species Act protections for the rare animal in the lower 48 states, a step twice denied under the Bush administration. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The tenacious wolverine, a snow-loving carnivore sometimes called the "mountain devil," could soon join the list of species threatened by climate change — a dubious distinction putting it in the ranks of the polar bear and several other animals that could see their habitats shrink drastically due to warming temperatures.

Clinton formally resigns as secretary of state

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 12:46 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton formally resigned Friday as America's 67th secretary of state, capping a four-year tenure that saw her shatter records for the number of countries visited.

Healthy schools: Goodbye candy and greasy snacks

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 12:45 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2012 file photo, side salads, apple sauce and plums await the students of Eastside Elementary School in Clinton, Miss. The government for the first time is proposing broad new standards to make school snacks healthier, a move that would ban the sale of almost all candy, high-calorie sports drinks and greasy foods on campus. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Goodbye candy bars and sugary cookies. Hello baked chips and diet sodas.

Scott Brown says he won't seek Kerry's Senate seat

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 12:45 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2012 file photo, Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., speaks during a media availability, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Brown, who was defeated in his re-election bid, said Friday, Feb. 1, 2013 that he will not run for the Senate seat vacated by John Kerry, who was named secretary of state. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)BOSTON (AP) — Former Sen. Scott Brown has confirmed he won't run in a Senate special election, dealing a blow to Republicans who hoped to steal the seat being vacated by Democrat John Kerry.

Mont. man made up sob story that got him pizza

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 12:42 PM PST

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man whose tearful reluctance to rob a pizza restaurant earned him free food apparently made up the sob story that gained him the clerk's sympathy.

Outside palace, Egypt protesters, police clash

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 12:37 PM PST

Anti-government protesters gather outside Egypt's presidential palace in Cairo, Friday, Feb. 1, 2013. Thousands of protesters denouncing Egypt's Islamist president marched on his palace in Cairo on Friday, clashing with security forces firing tear gas and water cannons in the eighth day of the country's wave of political violence. (AP Photo/Mostafa El Shemy)CAIRO (AP) — Protesters denouncing Egypt's Islamist president hurled stones and firebombs through the gates of his palace gates on Friday, clashing with security forces who fired tear gas and water cannons, as more than a week of political violence came to Mohammed Morsi's symbolic doorstep for the first time.

Bolivia mining town erects huge statue of Virgin

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 12:35 PM PST

A nun takes pictures of a newly unveiled statue of the Virgin Mary holding a baby Jesus on Santa Barbara hill in the mining city of Oruro, Bolivia, Friday, Feb. 1, 2013. The 45 meter (147 feet) statue that took four years to build, known in Spanish as "Virgen del Socavón," or the Virgin of the Tunnel, is Oruro's patron, venerated in particular by miners and folkloric Carnival dancers. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)ORURO, Bolivia (AP) — The Carnival celebrations in this Andean mining city already rival Brazil's Rio de Janeiro for color and culture, if not for size. Now Oruro has erected a huge statue of the Virgin Mary that's a little taller than Rio's famed Christ the Redeemer.

33 die in Mexico oil company office building blast

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 12:34 PM PST

An emergency responder carries a piece of concrete as emergency workers and firefighter dig for survivor at the site on an explosion at an adjacent building to the executive tower of Mexico's state-owned oil company PEMEX, in Mexico City, Thursday Jan. 31, 2013. The explosion killed more than 10 people and injured some 80 as it heavily damaged three floors of the building, sending hundreds into the streets and a large plume of smoke over the skyline. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)MEXICO CITY (AP) — A blast that collapsed the lower floors of a building in the headquarters of Mexico's state-owned oil company, crushing at least 33 people beneath tons of rubble and injuring 121, is being looked at as an accident although all lines of investigation remain open, the head of Petroleos Mexicanos said Friday.
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