Dems want Hillary over Biden in 2016
Meanwhile, Republicans like Jeb Bush and Rand Paul over Christie, a poll shows.
Army general: Talk of Afghan impasse threatens security
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) — America's top military officer said Wednesday that the impasse over a security agreement between the U.S. and Afghanistan is encouraging the enemy to take bold actions and could lead some Afghan forces to cooperate with the Taliban to "hedge their bets."
Associated Press34 mins agoSupreme Court: Ponzi scheme victims can sue lawyers, brokers
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that lawyers, insurance brokers and others who worked with convicted swindler Allen Stanford cannot avoid lawsuits by investors seeking to recoup losses incurred in his $7 billion Ponzi scheme. New York-based law firms Chadbourne & Parke and Proskauer Rose and insurance brokerage Willis Group Holdings Plc were all sued by former Stanford investors. Writing for the majority, Justice Stephen Breyer said the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act did not prevent the state lawsuits from proceeding. The law says that state lawsuits are barred when the alleged misrepresentations are "in connection with" the purchase or sale of a covered security.
ReutersNASA photo shows N. Korea is—literally—in the dark
A recent image taken from the International Space Station shows the mysterious, dictator-ruled country almost completely in the dark.
Ex-NFL player Hernandez involved in jail house scuffle
Former National Football League star Aaron Hernandez, charged with shooting a friend to death last year, was involved in a Massachusetts jailhouse scuffle with another inmate that left neither man seriously injured, law enforcement officials said on Wednesday. "There was an altercation between two inmates in our special management unit, and one of them was Aaron Hernandez," said Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson. "It was stopped very quickly by my staff." Neither inmate involved in the incident on Tuesday required medical attention, and officials are investigating whether Hernandez or the other man, who was not identified, will face internal disciplinary measures or criminal charges, Hodgson said. Hernandez, 24, is jailed in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, about 60 miles south of Boston.
ReutersRival factions clash in Ukraine's Crimea
Fistfights break out among demonstrators as Russia's Putin orders military exercises.
Associated PressIrony strikes: Baldwin to play meddling newsman on TV cops drama
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alec Baldwin is putting a twist on his rocky relationship with the media: He's playing a meddling newspaperman on a NBC drama.
Associated PressData-breach hits Target's bottom line
Revenue takes a dive as shoppers are scared away from the Minneapolis-based retailer.
Associated PressKingpin's high-tech gadgetry helped him stay free
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mexico's most powerful drug cartel leader employed high-tech communications gadgetry and sophisticated counterespionage practices to elude an international manhunt for 13 years, The Associated Press has learned. In the end, however, life on the run unraveled for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in a decidedly low-tech way.
Associated PressKentucky snake handler death doesn't shake belief
Three days after pastor Jamie Coots died from a rattlesnake bite at church, mourners leaving the funeral went to the church to handle snakes.
Associated PressSentence due for 2 guilty of UK soldier murder
LONDON (AP) — Sentencing is underway for two al-Qaida-inspired extremists convicted of murdering an off-duty British soldier who was stabbed to death in a frenzied attack on a London street.
Associated Press52 mins agoTiny houses help address nation's homeless problem
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — While tiny houses have been attractive for those wanting to downsize or simplify their lives for financial or environmental reasons, there's another population benefiting from the small-dwelling movement: the homeless.
Associated PressIncentives are coming for payments by phones
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Many people use their smartphones to watch video, play games and wake them up in the morning. Some even use them to generate digital boarding passes to fly. So why not use phones to buy stuff at retail stores as well?
Associated PressUkraine's Maidan protest unites different beliefs
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — For the past three months, tens of thousands of Ukrainians have been singing the Ukrainian national anthem on Kiev's central square, the Maidan, united in their dreams of change. In fact, the protest movement is a mixed bag of pro-Western intelligentsia and well-off businessmen, white-collar office clerks and student romantics, radical far-rightists, pop singers, poets and even priests. The one thing holding them together: anger against now fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych and his government.
Associated Press40 mins agoDempsey: Military has job despite withdrawal talk
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) — America's top military officer said Wednesday that the impasse over a security agreement between the U.S. and Afghanistan is encouraging the enemy to take bold actions and could lead some Afghan forces to align with the Taliban to "hedge their bets."
Associated PressMissouri executes man in '89 rape, killing of teen
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri inmate was executed early Wednesday for abducting, raping and killing a Kansas City teenager as she waited for her school bus in 1989, marking the state's fourth lethal injection in as many months.
Associated PressWith 'Broken Circle,' Belgium vies for first Oscar
BRUSSELS (AP) — When Belgian film producer Dirk Impens lost out in the Oscars 21 years ago, he remembers swearing to himself never to put on a tuxedo again unless he had another shot at the golden statuette.
Associated PressArmy study gives women taste of combat tasks
FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) — Standing just over 5 feet, Army Spc. Karen Arvizu is barely a foot taller than the anti-tank missile she carries in both arms and loads into an armored vehicle. She stands on her tip-toes to wrestle open the 300-pound top hatch.
Associated PressFingerprint security convenient, but not flawless
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S5 smartphone will be at least the third to have a fingerprint sensor for security but it's alone in letting you use that for general shopping, thanks to a partnership with PayPal.
Associated PressCouple stumbles upon $10 million in rare coins
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Northern California couple out walking their dog on their property stumbled across a modern-day bonanza: $10 million in rare, mint-condition gold coins buried in the shadow of an old tree.
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