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Former Citi chief Pandit gets $6.7 million bonus
NEW YORK (AP) - Citigroup has paid its former CEO Vikram Pandit, who resigned abruptly last month, a bonus of $6.7 million for work he did for the bank this year.
Petraeus news hit Feinstein like 'lightning bolt'
WASHINGTON (AP) - The career of David Petraeus, the CIA director and renowned general, was derailed by allegedly vicious emails his paramour sent to another woman. Now the CIA, FBI and White House face questions from Congress about Petraeus' love life and how his emails came under investigation.
Major hurdles remain to end veteran homelessness
CHULA VISTA, Calif. (AP) - Arthur Lute's arduous journey from his days as a U.S. Marine to his nights sleeping on the streets illustrates the challenge for the Obama administration to fulfill its promise to end homelessness among veterans by 2015.
Food labels multiply, some confuse consumers
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Want to avoid pesticides and antibiotics in your produce, meat, and dairy foods? Prefer to pay more to make sure farm animals were treated humanely, farmworkers got their lunch breaks, bees or birds were protected by the farmer and that ranchers didn't kill predators?
Young voters turned the tide for Brown's Prop 30
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Jerry Brown secured a convincing win for his tax initiative on last week's ballot, thanks partly to voters who might not seem like a natural constituency for the 74-year-old, lifelong politician - young voters.
GOP showing in Calif. worries party strategists
LOS ANGELES (AP) - If the future happens first in California, the Republican Party has a problem.
San Jose police say homicide suspect found dead
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A man San Jose police suspected of killing his wife has been found dead, apparently of a suicide, police said Saturday.
Sick, frail struggle most in storm's aftermath
NEW YORK (AP) - Some of society's most vulnerable people - the elderly, the disabled and the chronically ill - have been pushed to the brink in the powerless, flood-ravaged neighborhoods struggling to recover from Superstorm Sandy.
Face of US changing; elections to look different
WASHINGTON (AP) - It's not just the economy, stupid. It's the demographics - the changing face of America.
After attack on jeep, Israeli army kills 4 in Gaza
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Palestinian militants fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli jeep patrolling the border with Gaza and the Israelis fired back into the Palestinian territory, killing four civilians, officials and witnesses said.
Vatican digs in after gay marriage advances
VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican is digging in after gay marriage initiatives scored big wins this week in the U.S. and Europe, vowing to never stop insisting that marriage can only be between a man and a woman.
BBC chief quits after saying TV report was wrong
LONDON (AP) - The BBC's top executive resigned Saturday night after the prestigious broadcaster's marquee news magazine wrongly implicated a British politician in a child sex-abuse scandal, deepening the crisis that exploded after it decided not to air similar allegations against one of its own stars who police now say was one of the nation's worst pedophiles.
Emails from paramour led to FBI probe
WASHINGTON (AP) - The scandal that brought down CIA Director David Petraeus started with harassing emails sent by his biographer and paramour, Paula Broadwell, to another woman, and eventually led the FBI to discover the affair, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Saturday.
Across US, Veterans Day commemorations under way
Saturday marked the first of what will be three days of Veterans Day commemorations across the United States.
Dodgers bid $26 million for S. Korean lefty
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The Los Angeles Dodgers have bid nearly $26 million for a chance to sign pitcher Ryu Hyun-jin.
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Feds donate $5M toward Calif. quake alert system
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - California's prototype earthquake warning system is getting a $5 million boost from the federal government.
Frugal pope nixes bonus for Vatican employees
VATICAN CITY (AP) - The global economic crisis is hitting Vatican employees in their cassock pockets.
Settlement reached in high-speed rail lawsuit
SACRAMENTO (AP) - A group representing Central Valley farmers said Thursday it reached a settlement with the California High-Speed Rail Authority in a lawsuit that was one of the biggest obstacles to the state's $68 billion bullet train project.
California college aid scam defendant pleads guilty
SAN PABLO, Calif. (AP) - Court records show campus administrators were suspicious of the alleged ringleader of a college aid scam at Contra Costa College months before police launched an investigation.
Report: Lawsuit over Lap-Band ads is settled
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A company that promoted Lap-Band weight-loss surgery has agreed to pay $1.3 million to settle a false-advertising lawsuit, with some of the money going to billboards warning the public about the risks of weight-loss surgery, a newspaper reported Thursday.
Kerry disappointed by recent talks with Iran
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State John Kerry called for patience despite widespread frustration with the recent failure of negotiations between six world powers and Iran over its disputed nuclear program and growing fears of Tehran developing a weapon of mass destruction.
UPDATE: Rescue workers search rubble of plant
WEST, Texas (AP) - Rescue workers searched the smoldering ruins of a fertilizer plant Thursday for survivors of a monstrous explosion that leveled homes and businesses in every direction across the Texas prairie. As many as 15 people were feared dead and more than 160 others injured.
Rock Hall set to induct 2013 class at LA ceremony
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Christina Aguilera and Jennifer Hudson are among the singers set to pay tribute to this year's eclectic group of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees.
Husband describes night wife cut off penis
SANTA ANA (AP) - The estranged husband of a woman charged with severing his penis said it was as though his life ended the evening of the attack.
Downtown LA fabric company burns
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Authorities are investigating a fire that roared through a fabric company in downtown Los Angeles.
Obama attends service in Boston
BOSTON (AP) - President Barack Obama sought to soothe a nervous nation Thursday and draw attention to those killed and gravely wounded in what he called an "act of terror" at the Boston Marathon.
Assad accuses West of backing al-Qaida in Syria
BEIRUT (AP) - Syria's president accused the West on Wednesday of backing al-Qaida in his country's civil war, warning it will pay a price "in the heart" of Europe and the United States as the terror network becomes emboldened.
Media hits and misses in coverage of marathon investigation
NEW YORK (AP) - For about an hour Wednesday afternoon, people could flip through different television channels and hear completely different accounts of the investigation into the Boston Marathon explosions: Some news organizations reported the arrest of a suspect and then took those claims back.
UPDATE: Number of injured or killed unknown in explosion at Texas fertilizer plant
WEST, Texas (AP) - A massive explosion at a fertilizer plant near Waco on Wednesday night injured dozens of people and sent flames shooting into the night sky, leaving the factory a smoldering ruin following a blast that damaged buildings for blocks in every direction.
Miss. man arrested in ricin letters
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - A man in Mississippi has been arrested and accused of sending letters with suspected ricin poison to President Barack Obama and other leaders.
