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    Center for Public Integrity investigates Japan's new Rokkasho plutonium production plant.

  • CIA chief denies agency hacked Senate staff computers

    A rare public spat erupted Tuesday between the CIA and the US lawmakers meant to oversee its work, with the head of the agency angrily denying claims it spied on Senate staff. Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein launched a fiery public attack on the Central Intelligence Agency, accusing it of improperly searching computers used by staffers investigating CIA interrogation methods. "I have grave concerns that the CIA's search may well have violated the separation of powers principles embodied in the United States Constitution," Feinstein said on the Senate floor. She alleged the CIA may have violated federal law as well as the executive order that bars it from domestic spying, but the agency's director John Brennan quickly denied the allegations.

    AFP28 mins ago

  • Obama sits 'Between Two Ferns' with Zach Galifianakis

    In a bid to get young people to sign up for health care, President Barack Obama became the first sitting president in U.S. history to appear on "Between Two Ferns," Funny or Die's intentionally awkward interview show hosted by comedian Zach Galifianakis.

  • Fukushima children face invisible enemy

    Fear of radiation has kept kids indoors for much of their short lives.

    Reuters

  • Ex-Christie aides want judge revoke subpoenas

    TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Lawyers for two key figures in a political payback scandal ensnaring Gov. Chris Christie's administration are trying to persuade a judge not to force them to turn over text messages and other private communications to New Jersey legislators investigating the matter.

    Associated Press

  • Missing jet traced hundreds of miles off-course

    Radar evidence shows the Boeing 777 was last detected off Malaysia's west coast.

    Associated Press

  • Feinstein accuses CIA of improperly searching Senate computers

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee accused the CIA Tuesday of criminal activity in improperly searching a computer network set up for lawmakers investigating allegations that the agency used torture in terror investigations during the Bush administration.

    Associated Press

  • Malaysia military tracks plane to west coast

    Radar indicates the airliner was far from where it last made contact.

    Reuters30 mins ago

  • Japan marks third anniversary of quake-tsunami disaster

    Namie (Japan) (AFP) - Japan observed a moment of silence Tuesday to mark the third anniversary of the quake-tsunami disaster which swept away thousands of victims, destroyed coastal communities, and sparked the nuclear emergency that forced a re-think on atomic power. Survivors bowed deeply and joined hands at remembrance ceremonies in towns and cities around the disaster zone and in Tokyo, where Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko led tributes to those who died in Japan's worst peace-time disaster. Giant waves also crashed into the Fukushima nuclear plant, sparking reactor meltdowns and explosions, and setting off the worst atomic crisis in a generation. As night fell, an event in a Fukushima park saw about 2,000 lit candles arranged to read "Fukushima 3/11".

    AFP

  • Army general's defense seeks new plea deal in sex case

    FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — A military judge on Tuesday dismissed the jury in the midst of an Army general's court martial on sexual assault charges to give prosecutors and defense lawyers time to hammer out a plea deal in the closely watched case.

    Associated Press41 mins ago

  • Russia preparing counterproposals over Ukraine

    KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia said Monday it is drafting counterproposals to a U.S. plan for a negotiated solution to the Ukraine crisis, denouncing the new Western-backed government as an unacceptable "fait accompli" and claiming that Russian-leaning parts of the country have been plunged into lawlessness.

    Associated Press

  • 'Fatal Vision' author Joe McGinniss dies at age 71

    NEW YORK (AP) — Joe McGinniss wasn't one to let a story tell itself.

    Associated Press

  • Health care law gets 1st test in Florida election

    PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (AP) — President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is getting its first test ahead of the 2014 midterm elections Tuesday in a Tampa-area House district where Democrats and Republicans have spent millions of dollars trying out national strategies for the rest of the year.

    Associated Press

  • 50 years later, New York murder still fascinates

    NEW YORK (AP) — Kitty Genovese's screams for help couldn't save her on the night she was murdered outside her apartment building in 1964. Fifty years later, those screams still echo, a symbol of urban breakdown and city dwellers' seeming callousness toward their neighbors.

    Associated Press56 mins ago

  • Ex-DC teacher gets 25 years in child porn case

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Washington elementary school teacher who became one of the FBI's most-wanted criminals after taking hidden video of his students using the bathroom and then eluded law enforcement officials by assuming fake identities and escaping to Nicaragua has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

    Associated Press14 mins ago

  • UN: 5.5 million Syrian children affected by war

    BEIRUT (AP) — The number of Syrian children affected by the civil war in their homeland has doubled in the past year to at least 5.5 million — more than half the country's children — with devastating effects on the health, education and psychological well-being of an entire generation, the United Nations children's agency said Thursday.

    Associated Press24 mins ago

  • Ancient masks go on display in Jerusalem

    JERUSALEM (AP) — The oldest known masks in the world went on display in Jerusalem on Tuesday in the largest-ever exhibit of the ghoulish faces, believed to have been created in the Holy Land thousands of years before the time of the Bible.

    Associated Press

  • Peverley's heart undergoing tests after collapse

    DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Stars forward Rich Peverley is undergoing tests to determine what triggered his collapse during a game.

    Associated Press58 mins ago

  • Friend: 'Mad' Pistorius shot gun out car sunroof

    PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius' friend testified Tuesday that the Olympian twice fired guns in public in the six months before he killed his girlfriend, once without warning through the sunroof of a moving car following an angry altercation with a policeman who had handled Pistorius' pistol.

    Associated Press

  • Europe wants its Parmesan back, seeks name change

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Would Parmesan by any other name be as tasty atop your pasta? A ripening trade battle might put that to the test.

    Associated Press12 mins ago