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| Millions face food stamp cuts on Nov. 1 Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 12:43 PM PDT  Currently, 1 in 7 American families rely on the benefits. Full Story | Top |
| Google, Oracle, Red Hat to help fix HealthCare.gov Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 12:06 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Experts from top technology and Internet companies including Google Inc, Oracle Corp and Red Hat Inc have joined the Obama administration's effort to fix its troubled HealthCare.gov website, a U.S. official said on Thursday. Individuals from Oracle and Red Hat have expertise in site reliability, stability and scalability, according to a blog post by Julie Bataille, spokeswoman for the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, which is overseeing the effort. ... Full Story | Top |
| After unity, some Democrats push back on Obama Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 10:55 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Just two weeks after President Barack Obama saw his Democratic Party put up an unyielding front against Republicans, his coalition is showing signs of stress. Full Story | Top |
| Snags set back air traffic control system update Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 12:32 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — After a decade of work and billions of dollars spent, the modernization of the U.S. air traffic control system is in trouble. The ambitious and complex technology program dubbed NextGen has encountered unforeseen difficulties at almost every turn. Full Story | Top |
| Why spy on allies? Even good friends keep secrets Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 11:45 AM PDT  In geopolitics, just as on the playground, even best friends don't tell each other everything. And everybody's dying to know what the other guy knows. Full Story | Top |
| Fewer Americans seek unemployment aid for 3rd week Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 06:13 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell 10,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 340,000, a sign that employers are laying off very few workers. Full Story | Top |
| Iraqi PM: Terror 'found a second chance' in Iraq Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 12:13 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Terrorists "found a second chance" to thrive in Iraq, the nation's prime minister said Thursday in asking for new U.S. aid to beat back a bloody insurgency that has been fueled by the neighboring Syrian civil war and the departure of American troops from Iraq two years ago. Full Story | Top |
| Some Syrians lose themselves in music as war rages Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 11:47 AM PDT  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — As cannons thundered and mortar shells exploded nearby, the young Syrian woman in a slinky dark dress and stylish bob performed a song by pop star Adele, taking refuge behind a microphone from the civil war raging outside. Full Story | Top |
| Hopi High in Ariz. becomes cross-country standout Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 12:32 PM PDT  POLACCA, Ariz. (AP) — The group of boys head out toward the mesa, setting their feet upon dirt trails that are lined with scrub brush and corn fields. It's the same earth that their Hopi ancestors would tread as they ran in prayer for rain, prosperity and all of mankind. Full Story | Top |
| Dell laptop buyers make a stink over cat smell Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 11:54 AM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — A noxious feline odor has some Dell customers caterwauling. Full Story | Top |
| Iraqi PM: Terror 'got a second chance' in Iraq Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 09:23 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Terrorists "found a second chance" to thrive in Iraq, the nation's prime minister said Thursday in asking for new U.S. aid to beat back a bloody insurgency that has been fueled by the neighboring Syrian civil war and the departure of American troops from Iraq two years ago. Full Story | Top |
| UK hacking prosecutor: Brooks, Coulson had affair Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 12:44 PM PDT  LONDON (AP) — A prosecutor electrified Britain's phone hacking trial Thursday by revealing that Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson — the two most senior U.K. tabloid editors accused of illegal eavesdropping and bribery — had a secret affair lasting at least six years. Full Story | Top |
| China, other Asians angry over embassy spy reports Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 03:36 AM PDT  SYDNEY (AP) — China and Southeast Asian governments demanded an explanation from the U.S. and its allies on Thursday following media reports that American and Australian embassies in the region were being used as hubs for Washington's secret electronic data collection program. Full Story | Top |
| IOC members urge action after Sochi dump report Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 12:02 PM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Senior IOC members have urged the Olympic body and Russian authorities to investigate the dumping of construction waste that has raised concerns of possible contamination of the water supply in the Winter Games host city of Sochi. Full Story | Top |
| Toronto police say they have Ford drug video Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 10:12 AM PDT  TORONTO (AP) — Toronto police said Thursday they have recovered a video deleted from a computer that appears to show Mayor Rob Ford smoking from a crack pipe. Full Story | Top |
| Justices reverse wrongful death Virginia Tech verdict Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 07:56 AM PDT  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The state Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a jury's wrongful death verdict against the state stemming from the April 16, 2007, killing of 32 students and faculty at Virginia Tech in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. Full Story | Top |
| Prosecutor reviewing facts in Georgia gym mat death Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 12:48 PM PDT  MACON, Ga. (AP) — A federal prosecutor said Thursday that he is conducting a formal review of facts and evidence in the death of a teenager whose body was found inside a rolled-up wrestling mat in his high school gym. Full Story | Top |
| Cory Booker sworn in as U.S. senator Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 11:46 AM PDT  Minutes after his swearing-in, Senator Booker cast his first vote. Full Story | Top |
| Boy falls from Disneyland Paris pirate ride Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 06:17 AM PDT  PARIS (AP) — A popular boat ride at Disneyland Paris is closed and under police examination after a 5-year-old boy suffered serious injuries in an accident. Full Story | Top |
| Drink it while you can, as study points to looming wine shortage Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 04:45 AM PDT  Attention wine lovers: savor every last sip, as researchers say there may be a global shortage looming. Wine prices could shoot up because of a fall in production and growing thirst for wine among Chinese and Americans, Morgan Stanley research said in a report Wednesday. But since then supply has fallen because of lower production capacity, slipping in 2012 to the lowest level in 40 years, the US bank said. Production capacity has dropped particularly in Europe, where today it is 10 percent lower than in 2005, especially in France, the world's top producer, followed by Italy and Spain. Full Story | Top |
| Businessweek mocks Obamacare glitches Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 07:31 AM PDT  Bloomberg Businessweek poked fun in its new issue at the tech problems that have plagued HealthCare.gov since it opened for business Oct. 1. Full Story | Top |
| FAA tells air travelers to rock on Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 11:28 AM PDT  Listeners won't have to power down during takeoffs and landings. Full Story | Top |
| Court testimony reveals affair between two Murdoch editors Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 07:49 AM PDT  Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, two former editors of Rupert Murdoch's now defunct News of the World tabloid, were having an affair at the time their reporters are accused of hacking into phones, a court heard on Thursday. Prosecutor Andrew Edis said the closeness of their relationship showed that both knew as much as each other how staff at the tabloid were operating. "What Mr Coulson knew, Mrs Brooks knew too. What Mrs Brooks knew, Mr Coulson knew too," Edis told the court. Full Story | Top |
| FAA allows passengers' gadget use Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 12:41 PM PDT  Travelers will be able to use most electronics from gate-to-gate. Full Story | Top |
| 'This call may be monitored': Snowden gets tech support job in Russia, report says Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 04:11 AM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Anatoly Kucherena, a lawyer for former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden, says his client has found a technical support job at a Russian website. Full Story | Top |
| Obamacare court challenge: Do corporations have religious freedom rights? Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 02:41 AM PDT  For-profit corporations could opt out of the law by asserting freedom of religion. Full Story | Top |
| Watchdog: Syria has destroyed chemical production facilities Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 10:31 AM PDT  By Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria has destroyed or rendered inoperable all of its declared chemical weapons production and mixing facilities, meeting a major deadline in an ambitious disarmament program, the international chemical weapons watchdog said Thursday. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which won the Nobel Peace prize this month, said its teams had inspected 21 out of 23 chemical weapons sites across the country. Syria "has completed the functional destruction of critical equipment for all of its declared chemical weapons production facilities and mixing/filling plants, rendering them inoperable," it said, meeting a November 1 deadline for the work. The next target date is November 15, by when the OPCW and Syria must agree to a detailed plan of destruction, including how and where to destroy more than 1,000 metric tons of toxic agents and munitions. Full Story | Top |
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