Obama tells Pentagon to plan Afghan pullout
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has balked at signing a bilateral security agreement.
Associated Press17 mins agoFirst Lady watching scoreboards for kids' health
New rules take aim at marketing of unhealthy food at schools—and at their sporting facilities.
Associated Press53 mins agoColo. Girl Scouts can't sell cookies outside pot shops
In response to a California Girl Scout's ingenious strategy to sell Girl Scout cookies outside of a marijuana dispensary, the Girl Scouts of Colorado issued a statement on its Facebook page effectively barring its members from doing the same.
Report: Few Army women want combat jobs
FORT EUSTIS, Va. (AP) — Only a small fraction of Army women say they'd like to move into one of the newly opening combat jobs, but those few who do say they want a job that takes them right into the heart of battle, according to preliminary results from a survey of the service's nearly 170,000 women.
Associated PressU.S. diplomats tell Obama nominees should know their destinations
Please, presidents, stop picking big campaign donors to be ambassadors whether or not they know anything about the country where they’d be posted and are clueless about foreign affairs in general.
Uganda tabloid outs 'top' homosexuals
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A Ugandan newspaper published a list Tuesday of what it called the country's "200 top" homosexuals, outing some Ugandans who previously had not identified themselves as gay one day after the president enacted a harsh anti-gay law.
Associated Press12 mins agoCalifornia 'lifers' leaving prison at record pace
Under Gov. Jerry Brown, the state has released nearly 1,400 inmates with life sentences.
Associated Press27 mins agoBoko Haram school attack kills 43 in Nigeria
Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) - Suspected Boko Haram Islamists killed 43 people on Tuesday when they attacked secondary school students as they slept in the latest school massacre to hit Nigeria's troubled northeast. The raid at 2:00 am (0100 GMT) targeted the Federal Government College in the town of Buni Yadi in Yobe state and bore the hallmarks of a similar attack last September in which 40 died. The attackers reportedly hurled explosives into student residential buildings, sprayed gunfire into rooms and hacked a number students to death. A senior medical source at the Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital in Yobe's capital Damaturu said the gunmen only targeted male students and that female students were "spared".
AFP44 mins agoWebsite of major Bitcoin exchange vanishes
Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox is offline amid reports it suffered a debilitating theft.
Associated Press'Secrets of the Vatican' exposes church crises
Pope Francis gave hope to many Catholics, but he also inherited a litany of problems.
Ukraine: no new government before Thursday
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A former presidential aide despised by protesters has been shot and wounded, his spokesman said Tuesday, raising fears of retaliation as Ukraine charts a new tumultuous political course.
Associated PressPollution worsens in Beijing as statues don masks
BEIJING (AP) — The smog is so bad even the statues wear masks. Or at least they do in pictures of a campus stunt that circulated online Tuesday as parts of northern China suffered a sixth straight day of severe pollution.
Associated PressAriz. gov. urged to veto religious freedom bill
Critics line up against bill that would allow businesses to deny service to gay patrons.
Associated PressCongress skeptical about plan to shrink military
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration's push for a smaller, nimbler military must now face the scrutiny of a Congress that has spent years battling the Pentagon's vision for a new security strategy.
Associated PressMajor bitcoin exchange said to be insolvent
TOKYO (AP) — A major bitcoin exchange has gone bust after secretly racking up catastrophic losses, other virtual currency companies said Tuesday — a potentially fatal blow for the exotic new form of money.
Associated PressC. African Republic orphans walk to safety alone
CARNOT, Central African Republic (AP) — Ibrahim Adamou's parents had just been killed in front of him. He wasn't sure whether any of his five siblings had survived the attack by Christian militiamen who opened fire on his family of herders as they journeyed on foot.
Associated Press44 mins agoPhone makers look to emerging markets for growth
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Here's the rub for companies: A good part of the key markets they serve already own smartphones and use them to connect various Internet services. How do you grow from there?
Associated PressSunni anger in Lebanon against army grows
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — From radical preachers to irreverent taxi drivers, anger is spreading through Lebanon's Sunni community toward the country's military, adding a dangerous twist to Lebanon's instability, already shaken by relentless bombings.
Associated PressPolio-like disease appears in California children
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — An extremely rare, polio-like disease has appeared in more than a dozen California children within the past year, and each of them suffered paralysis to one or more arms or legs, Stanford University researchers say. But public health officials haven't identified any common causes connecting the cases.
Associated PressWestward shift by Ukraine would be momentous event
BRUSSELS (AP) — A firm course change in Ukraine — westward and turning away from Moscow — would have momentous consequences for the balance of power in Europe.
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