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Stocks edge higher; Dow reaches another record

Stocks edge higher; Dow reaches another record

Stocks edge higher; Dow reaches another record

Posted: 09 May 2014 01:13 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 28, 2014 file photo, trader Michael Zicchinolfi, foreground left, and specialist Anthony Rinaldi, right, work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stocks are drifting lower in early trading Friday, May 9, 2014, as U.S. corporate earnings wind down. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are closing slightly higher, enough to send the Dow Jones industrial average to another all-time high.

S.Sudan president and rebel chief meet, shake hands: AFP

Posted: 09 May 2014 01:12 PM PDT

Riek Machar (C), South Sudanese rebel leader, is greeted by a South Sudanese delegation upon his arrival at Addis Ababa airport on May 8, 2014Addis Ababa (AFP) - South Sudan's president and rival rebel chief met Friday for the first time since brutal civil war broke out nearly five months ago, amid international pressure to stem bloodshed and avert famine and genocide.

NBA picks Dick Parsons as interim Clippers CEO

Posted: 09 May 2014 01:11 PM PDT

Richard ParsonsNEW YORK (AP) — The NBA has chosen Dick Parsons, a former Citigroup chairman and former Time Warner chairman and CEO, as interim CEO of the Los Angeles Clippers.

U.N. Security Council threatens action over girls abduction in Nigeria

Posted: 09 May 2014 01:10 PM PDT

The U.N. Security Council on Friday expressed outrage at the abduction of hundreds of Nigerian school girls in two attacks by Islamist militants, demanding their immediate release and threatening to take action against the insurgents. Boko Haram kidnapped more than 250 girls from a secondary school in Chibok in remote northeastern Nigeria on April 14 and has threatened to sell them into slavery, prompting a U.N. warning that the perpetrators would be liable for war crimes. Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped eight more girls from a village near one of the Islamists' strongholds in northeastern Nigeria, police and residents said on Tuesday. \"The members of the Security Council expressed their intention to actively follow the situation of the abducted girls and to consider appropriate measures against Boko Haram,\" the 15-member council, which includes Nigeria, said in a statement.

Nigerian president says believes kidnapped girls still in the country

Posted: 09 May 2014 01:10 PM PDT

Protesters march in support of the girls kidnapped by members of Boko Haram in front of the Nigerian Embassy in WashingtonBy Matthew Mpoke Bigg ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on Friday he believed 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militants last month in an attack that has stirred global outrage are still in his country and have not been moved to neighboring Cameroon. As condemnation of the abductions spread, Saudi Arabia's grand mufti, the top religious authority in the birthplace of Islam, said Boko Haram rebels who conducted the abductions had \"set up to smear the image of Islam\". But if they move that number of girls to Cameroon, people will see, so I believe they are still in Nigeria,\" Jonathan told journalists. So that basically says they are within the Sambisa area,\" Jonathan said, referring to a forest that is a known Boko Haram hideout near the school from where the girls were abducted.

Sanctions against Venezuela advance in House

Posted: 09 May 2014 01:08 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Legislation to punish Venezuela's government for human rights abuses is advancing in Congress over objections from the Obama administration.

Ed Dept: VMI engaged in sex discrimination

Posted: 09 May 2014 01:08 PM PDT

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Military Institute and the Obama administration announced an agreement Friday to address what the government called a sexually hostile environment for female cadets on the Lexington campus.

Buffalo Bills trade WR Johnson to 49ers

Posted: 09 May 2014 01:03 PM PDT

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills have traded receiver Stevie Johnson to the San Francisco 49ers.

Beats buy could broaden Apple's reach

Posted: 09 May 2014 01:02 PM PDT

Beats headphones made by Beats Electronics are seen on display in Los Angeles, on May 9, 2014An Apple buy-out of hip headphone maker Beats Electronics could expand the iPhone maker's lucrative domain and play into plans for its next big thing, analysts said Friday. Apple's reported multi-billion-dollar acquisition of Beats, seemingly confirmed by Beats founder Dr. Dre in a video clip posted to YouTube, could make Apple's coveted gadgets more enticing and broaden its \"eco-system\" for selling music and other digital content. Apple and Beats both declined to comment on the reports of a $3.2 billion take-over deal but rapper and business mogul Dre boasted in the clip of becoming \"the first billionaire from hip-hop.\" Apple likely sees mobile audio as a growing opportunity and wants to not only Beats' music streaming service also to cash-in on delivering premium listening experiences from earphones or wireless speakers to in-car sound systems, according to analysts.

Martin Kaymer stretches lead at Sawgrass

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:59 PM PDT

Martin Kaymer of Germany, hits from a sand trap on the 14th fairway during the second round of The Players championship golf tournament at TPC Sawgrass, Friday, May 9, 2014, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Martin Kaymer treated Friday as if it were a new day. He wound up in a familiar spot with a 3-under 69 that stretched his lead in The Players Championship.

Advanced prosthetic arm is approved for US market

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:56 PM PDT

US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (L) greets a man who lost an arm in a landmine explosion and now wears a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA) mechanical hand, at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on April 22, 2014US regulators on Friday approved for market a new kind of prosthetic arm that allows a person to flex certain muscles in order to perform complex tasks. The development of the DEKA Arm System -- nicknamed the \"Luke\" arm after Luke Skywalker in Star Wars -- was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). \"This innovative prosthesis provides a new option for people with certain kinds of arm amputations,\" said Christy Foreman, director of the Office of Device Evaluation at the Food and Drug Administration. The DEKA Arm System is controlled by electrical signals from electromyogram (EMG) electrodes, which detect muscle contraction close to the area where the prosthesis is attached.

Fla. mom lashes out during trial for killing teens

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:55 PM PDT

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Tampa woman on trial in the slaying of her two teenage children yelled, "Liar!" at a psychiatrist who was testifying Friday that he had told her not to drink while taking drugs to control her bipolar disorder.

New Benghazi probe inspires partisan animosity

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:54 PM PDT

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks at her weekly news briefing Friday, May 9, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Democrats stand deeply divided over whether to participate in a Republican-led investigation of the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, with party leader Nancy Pelosi calling the newest probe a "political stunt." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite Democratic complaints, Republicans jumped into a new election-season investigation of the deadly Benghazi assault on Friday, naming majority members of a special House committee. Democrats mulled a boycott of the panel, which is inspiring bitter partisanship before even starting its work.

Bar cars make last run on NYC-area commuter trains

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:53 PM PDT

Nan Buziak Lexow, left, Srikanth Reddy, center, and Mark DeMonte, right, raise a toast while riding the bar car on the 7:07 p.m. train from Grand Central Terminal in New York to New Haven, Conn., Thursday, May 8, 2014. The trio toasted the bar car, being retired from Metro-North's New Haven Line after Friday's afternoon rush hour. The cars were a fixture on Metro-North Railroad trains for at least a half century. The cars, decked out with orange walls and faux wood paneling, are being retired Friday, because they cannot be coupled to the new fleet of train cars on the New Haven line. (AP Photo/Michael R. Sisak)STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — Last call came Friday for the bar cars on commuter trains between Manhattan and Connecticut, a final run for rolling taverns where city workers gathered for decades to play dice, find jobs and hold annual Christmas parties with a jazz band.

British, U.S. experts join Nigeria search for girls

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:52 PM PDT

South Africans protest in solidarity against the abduction three weeks ago of hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria by the Muslim extremist group Boko Haram and what protesters said was the failure of the Nigerian government and international community to rescue them, during a march to the Nigerian Consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa Thursday, May 8, 2014. The kidnapping has ignited a viral social media campaign that has brought renewed attention to Boko Haram's campaign of violence, and protests around the world. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)The international effort to rescue the 276 schoolgirls being held captive by Islamic extremists in northeastern Nigeria was boosted Friday when British security experts joined the Nigerian and American forces trying to rescue the missing students.

Ex-Time Warner boss Parsons takes over NBA Clippers

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:51 PM PDT

Richard Parsons is pictured at The Apollo Theater on November 22, 2009 in New York CityRichard Parsons, the former chairman of media giant Time Warner and Citigroup, was named Friday as the interim chief executive of the Los Angeles Clippers following a racism firestorm. The move by the NBA came in the wake of the life ban imposed upon Clippers owner Donald Sterling for racist remarks revealed two weeks ago by celebrity watchdog website TMZ. \"I believe the hiring of Dick Parsons will bring extraordinary leadership and immediate stability to the Clippers organization,\" NBA commissioner Adam Silver said. Sterling, who told his girlfriend he did not want her to bring black people to Clippers games or post photos of herself with black people on social media, was banned for life by Silver, who has started the process of having other club owners remove Sterling as owner of the Clippers.

NATO, facing assertive Russia, ponders what to do

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:50 PM PDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin, on a boat, inspects the missile cruiser Moskva during a navy parade marking the Victory Day in Sevastopol, Crimea, Friday, May 9, 2014. Putin extolled the return of Crimea to Russia before tens of thousands Friday during his first trip to Black Sea peninsula since its annexation. The triumphant visit was quickly condemned by Ukraine and NATO. (AP Photo / Ivan Sekretarev)BRUSSELS (AP) — Russia's ongoing confrontation with the West has ignited debate inside and outside the U.S.-led NATO alliance about what its responsibilities are, and how much of its time and effort should be spent to prepare for and if necessary counter Russian President Vladimir Putin's military ambitions.

At Wal-Mart, Obama praises steps on solar power

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:49 PM PDT

President Barack Obama poses for a selfie photo after speaking at a Walmart store in Mountain View, Calif., Friday, May 9, 2014. Obama announced new steps by companies, local governments and his own administration to deploy solar technology, showcasing steps to combat climate change that don't require consent from a disinclined Congress. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Flanked by bargain-priced displays of women's wear and patio lighting, President Barack Obama came to a Wal-Mart store in Silicon Valley on Friday to praise new steps by businesses and communities to deploy solar energy, showcasing efforts to combat climate change that don't rely on a disinclined Congress.

At least 7 dead in southeastern Ukraine port city

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:48 PM PDT

A police station is ablaze in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, Friday May 9, 2014. Fighting between government forces and insurgents in Mariupol has left several people dead. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Fierce fighting between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russia protesters Friday in Mariupol killed seven people, turned police headquarters into a smoldering ruin and left the city center blocked off after residents built barricades of tires.

Indiana asks judge to stay gay marriage ruling

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:48 PM PDT

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana has asked a federal judge to stay his order requiring it to recognize the out-of-state marriage of a lesbian couple in which one woman is terminally ill, saying that the ruling could raise false hopes for other same-sex couples.

Two French citizens among militants arrested in Yemen

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:47 PM PDT

Yemeni security forces have arrested two French citizens believed to be members of an al Qaeda cell in Yemen, an official security source told Reuters on Friday. The men - identified as Mourad Abdulla Abad and Taha al-Issawi, both French citizens of Tunisian origin - were arrested on Thursday while trying to leave through one of the Yemen's airports, the source said. \"France is cooperating closely with the Yemeni authorities in the fight against terrorist activities on its soil,\" the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Western countries fear that further destabilization in Yemen, which faces separatists in the south and unrest in the north, could give more space to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the local branch of the global Islamist movement, to plot attacks on international targets.

Congressman requests hearing on Redskins name

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:45 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A member of Congress is requesting a hearing on the Washington Redskins name, calling it "another example of racial insensitivity in sports" in the wake of Donald Sterling's lifetime ban from the NBA.

4 dead in Southern California murder-suicide

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:45 PM PDT

POMONA, Calif. (AP) — A 28-year-old man shot and killed three members of a Southern California family at the home where they all lived before turning the gun on himself, authorities said Friday.

Birthday boy Tuft shines in Giro's opening stage

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:45 PM PDT

Canadian rider Svein Tuft leads the team Orica Green Edge during the time trial first stage of the 97th Giro d'Italia, in Belfast on May 9, 2014Belfast (United Kingdom) (AFP) - Canadian Svein Tuft, riding for Australian team Orica-GreenEdge, enjoyed a birthday to remember as the Giro d'Italia got underway in Belfast on Friday. While Tuft was on a high, there was a disaster for home favourite Dan Martin. The Irishman, a stage winner in last year's Tour de France, crashed heavily when his wheel appeared to slide on a wet manhole cover, bringing down four of his Garmin-Sharp team-mates. His fall in Belfast saw him taken to hospital with a suspected broken collar-bone, ending his Giro just fifteen minutes after it started.

Here's Johnny! Manzelmania arrives in Cleveland

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:43 PM PDT

Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel, from Texas A&M, laughs during his introductory news conference at the NFL football team's facility in Berea, Ohio Friday, May 9, 2014. The Browns selected Manziel with the 22nd overall pick in Thursday's draft. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Johnny Manziel expects life in the NFL to be even crazier than college.

Lebanese cardinal criticized over Jerusalem visit

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:40 PM PDT

FILE - This Tuesday, March 15, 2011 file photo shows the newly elected Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai shortly after his election at the church's seat in Bkirki, northeast of Beirut, Lebanon. A planned visit by the leader of Lebanon's largest church to Jerusalem later this month has led to a controversy in this tiny Arab country that Israel invaded in the past and occupied parts of it for more than a decade. Rai, head of the Maronite Catholic church throughout the region, will be the first leader of the Middle Eastern church to visit the Holy Land since Israel was created in 1948. Rai says he is going to welcome Pope Francis who is scheduled to visit Jordan, the West Bank and Israel from May 24 to 26, 2014. Lebanon bans its citizens from visiting Israel or having contact with Israelis. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)BEIRUT (AP) — A visit planned by the leader of Lebanon's largest Christian sect to Jerusalem to meet Pope Francis has unleashed a barrage of criticism in the Arab country, which remains at war with Israel.

Nigeria president says believes kidnapped girls are still in Nigeria

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:39 PM PDT

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on Friday he believes 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist insurgents last month are still in his country and have not been moved to Cameroon. But if they move that number of girls to Cameroon, people will see, so I believe they are still in Nigeria,\" Jonathan told journalists on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in the Nigerian capital.

Interpol offers help in hunt for Nigeria girls

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:39 PM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - International police agency Interpol said on Friday it stood ready to provide whatever support might be required in the hunt for more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamist militant Boko Haram group in Nigeria last month. Secretary General Ronald K. Noble has written to Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan offering assistance, an Interpol statement said. Support offered includes the immediate publication of so-called Yellow Notices for the girls. These are circulated to all 190 Interpol member countries to assist police worldwide to locate and identify the victims. ...

Tops in tags: Noah, Sophia are favorite baby names

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:36 PM PDT

Chart lists top baby names in 2013 and their ranks the previous year; 2c x 3 inches; 96.3 mm x 76 mm;WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to baby names, blending in is out, and standing out is in.

Bosnia reopens once-destroyed Sarajevo Library

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:33 PM PDT

Bosnian people protest in front of a police cordon during a protest in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo on Friday, May 9, 2014. A few hundred people from different parts of Bosnia have been protesting in Sarajevo over the high unemployment rate in the country and alleged government corruption. Protesters walked to the Sarajevo Library - a landmark destroyed during the Bosnian war - which is to be officially reopened today after reconstruction that has taken 18 years at the cost of over 16 million euros. They said they will continue the protest during the official ceremony to reopen the 19th century pseudo-Moorish construction that is expected to be attended by all top government officials as well as numerous international dignitaries. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Sarajevo reopened Friday its reconstructed National Library building 22 years after the city landmark was destroyed during the Bosnian war along with its almost 2 million books and manuscripts.

Source confirms Bills trade WR Johnson to 49ers

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:30 PM PDT

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — A person familiar with the trade has confirmed to The Associated Press that Buffalo Bills have dealt receiver Stevie Johnson to the San Francisco 49ers.

US Speedskating vows major chances heading to 2018

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:27 PM PDT

FILE- In this Feb. 21, 2014, file photo, The United States' team, from left, Shani Davis, Brian Hansen and Jonathan Kuck, follows team Russia during a warm-up prior to the start of the men's speedskating team pursuit quarterfinals at the Adler Arena Skating Center at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. After failing to win a long-track medal at the Sochi Olympics, the U.S. speedskating program did a painful self-assessment. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)Coming off one of its worst performances at the Olympics, U.S. Speedskating conducted a self-assessment and vowed major changes looking toward the 2018 Winter Games.

RNC changes debate rules for 2016

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:23 PM PDT

Speaker of the House Rep. John BoehnerMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Lunging for control of the GOP ahead of high-stakes elections, the Republican National Committee on Friday took steps to end free-for-all presidential debates and vowed to punish potential contenders who participate in rogue forums.

USDA: US corn yields to offset lesser acreage

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:21 PM PDT

In this Saturday, May 3, 2014 photo, central Illinois corn and soybean farmer Michael Mahoney races against a setting sun to plant seed corn in Ashland, Ill. A U.S. government report says the nation's corn growers should have banner production this year despite lesser acreage devoted to the grain. But corn prices later in the year may suffer a bit. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)ST. LOUIS (AP) — U.S. corn growers may surpass last year's record production despite lesser acreage devoted to the grain, but corn prices later in the year could edge lower, a federal report forecast Friday well ahead of an unpredictable summer.

NFL draft shatters viewership record

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:19 PM PDT

Johnny Manziel, from Texas A&M, celebrates as he walks onstage after being selected 22nd overall by the Cleveland Browns during the first round of the NFL football draft, Thursday, May 8, 2014, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)NEW YORK (AP) — Johnny Football may not have appreciated the excruciating wait until he was drafted by the Cleveland Browns with the 22nd pick, but ESPN sure did.

Stocks mostly higher on mixed earnings reports

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:15 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 28, 2014 file photo, trader Michael Zicchinolfi, foreground left, and specialist Anthony Rinaldi, right, work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stocks are drifting lower in early trading Friday, May 9, 2014, as U.S. corporate earnings wind down. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are mostly higher late Friday afternoon as indexes drift between small gains and losses at the end of the first-quarter corporate earnings season. CBS dropped 3 percent on disappointing revenue.

Letterman, Stewart mock NY Senate's yogurt debate

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:08 PM PDT

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The New York Senate's debate about declaring yogurt the state's official snack was intended to teach a fourth-grade class about government. But it became a lesson on legislative silliness from David Lettermen and Jon Stewart.

Basketball players won't play for Ducks again

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:06 PM PDT

Three Oregon basketball players who were investigated but not charged in an alleged sexual assault have been dismissed from the team.

Analysis: How Syria's Assad seized momentum in war

Posted: 09 May 2014 11:56 AM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 5, 2013 file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian army troops hold up national flags in the town of Qusair, near the Lebanon border, Homs province, Syria. Two years ago, it seemed almost inevitable that President Bashar Assad would be toppled. Almost no one thinks that now. As he prepares for elections through which he is set to claim another seven-year mandate for himself, the momentum in the civil war is clearly in Assad's favor. (AP Photo/SANA, File)BEIRUT (AP) — Two years ago, it seemed almost inevitable that Syrian President Bashar Assad would be toppled. Despite a fierce military crackdown, people were still taking to the streets in exuberant anti-government protests and rebels were pressing their fight deeper into the capital, even placing a bomb inside a high-level security meeting that killed top regime officials including Assad's brother-in-law.

Witnesses: Mom was depressed before killing teens

Posted: 09 May 2014 11:53 AM PDT

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A house cleaner and a psychiatrist testified Friday that a Tampa woman accused of fatally shooting her two teenagers was prescribed a cocktail of psychiatric drugs and other medications and showed increasingly depressive and unusual behavior.
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