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WASHINGTON (AP) — A dispute between Congress and the CIA is intensifying. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein (FYN'-styn) of California says the CIA may have violated the principle of separation of powers, when it searched a computer network that had been set up for Congress to use in its investigation of possible abuses in a detention and interrogation program. On the Senate floor, she said the CIA's inspector general has referred the matter to the Justice Department, because of a possible "criminal violation by CIA personnel."
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The search for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane is widening. The airline says authorities have expanded the search to the Malacca Strait, which is far from the plane's last confirmed location. No trace of the plane has been found in waters between Malaysia and Vietnam that have been scoured by dozens of planes and ships.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia Airlines says it is investigating an Australia television report that the co-pilot on its missing flight had invited two women to stay in the cockpit for a flight two years ago. One of the women described the encounter on the program "A Current Affair." It aired multiple still photographs from her that showed the women inside the cockpit and the pilots apparently working the plane's controls.
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers advertised slightly more jobs in January than in December, a sign that hiring should remain steady in coming months. The Labor Department says employers posted 3.9 million job openings, up 1.5 percent from December. That is still below November's nearly six-year high of 4.1 million, the first month that openings topped 4 million since March 2008.
NOME ALASKA (AP) — Dallas Seavey has captured his second Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska. A sudden storm had knocked the front-runner, Jeff King, out of the competition near the last checkpoint, where his dogs decided they'd had enough and wouldn't run. Seavey says he didn't even realize he had won the race until about 90 seconds after he crossed the finish line early today in Nome.
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