Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 2nd March 2015 at 22:46 (about 23 hours ago)
Garry Kasparov talks to Yahoo's Bianna Golodryga about the death of his close friend Boris Nemtsov. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 2nd March 2015 at 22:46 (about 23 hours ago)
By Steve Quinn JUNEAU (Reuters) - A 28-year-old Italian man on a back-country skiing vacation in the mountains of Alaska died after being crushed by falling glacier ice, officials said on Monday. Alexander Hellweger, from Sand in Taufers in northeast Italy, and a group of friends spent Sunday back-country skiing in an area of the rugged Chugach Mountains, in the southern part of the state, which they accessed by helicopter. Hellweger and friends from Italy and Belgium then decided to view Lake George Glacier before returning to Girdwood, a year-round resort community within the Municipality of Anchorage. "As the group was viewing the glacier up close, a large piece of ice calved off the glacier and crushed (Hellweger)," according to a report by Alaska State Troopers. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 2nd March 2015 at 22:46 (about 23 hours ago)
By Steve Holland and Amanda Becker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats scrambled on Tuesday to contain the fallout for Hillary Clinton, their favored 2016 presidential candidate, after allegations she inappropriately used her personal email for work while secretary of state. The Clinton camp quickly sought to discredit a New York Times report published late Monday that said her exclusive use of a personal email account from 2009 through 2013 and a lack of email preservation may have run afoul of the Federal Records Act. The report got wide play, largely because it fuels a political narrative from Republicans that Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, are obsessed with secrecy and seek to play by a different set of rules. Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill, however, said Clinton had followed both the "letter and spirit of the rules" while she was secretary of state. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 2nd March 2015 at 21:16 (about 1 day ago)
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran must commit to a verifiable freeze of at least 10 years on sensitive nuclear activity for a landmark atomic deal to be reached, but the odds are still against sealing a final agreement, U.S. President Barack Obama told Reuters on Monday. Interviewed at the White House, Obama moved to dial back tensions over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's planned speech to Congress on Tuesday opposing the Iran deal, saying it was a distraction that would not be "permanently destructive" to U.S. Israeli ties. Talks between major powers and Iran to restrict Tehran's nuclear capabilities in exchange for an easing of sanctions have reached a critical stage ahead of an end of March deadline for a framework deal and a June 30 date for a final agreement. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 2nd March 2015 at 19:46 (about 1 day ago)
Ebola survivor Nina Pham on Monday filed a lawsuit against the Dallas hospital where she contracted the deadly virus. Pham alleges that Texas Health Resources was ill prepared to treat Ebola cases and used her as a PR pawn to help heal its reputation. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 2nd March 2015 at 18:16 (about 1 day ago)
By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday said he thinks there is no "plausible legal basis" for the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a key plank of Obamacare, defending his administration's lack of a contingency plan. Obama touched on two main domestic policy issues during an interview with Reuters. On the Affordable Care Act, his signature policy achievement commonly referred to as Obamacare, the Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on Wednesday in the case known as King v. Burwell. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 2nd March 2015 at 16:46 (about 1 day ago)
NEW YORK (AP) ? The Nasdaq composite index is closing above 5,000 for the first time since the dot-com bubble peaked 15 years ago. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 2nd March 2015 at 15:16 (about 1 day ago)
A nurse filed a lawsuit on Monday against the Texas hospital where she worked, saying it did not do enough to prevent her from being infected with Ebola and invaded her privacy after she was diagnosed with the virus. In the suit Nina Pham brought against Texas Health Resources (THR) in Dallas County Court, she claims the hospital did not initially provide nurses with proper protective equipment or properly train staff on how to treat the disease. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 2nd March 2015 at 13:46 (about 1 day ago)
New revelations about the four plaintiffs fighting the Affordable Care Act may put their case on shaky ground and dramatically shift the course of the case Wednesday, when the Supreme Court will hear both sides present their arguments for the first time. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 2nd March 2015 at 13:46 (about 1 day ago)
Craig Hicks, 46, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder. #