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| Obamacare got six enrollees on Day 1: report Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 04:38 PM PDT  The White House predicted 500,000 enrollees by the end of October. Full Story | Top |
| Drug Tunnel From Tijuana to San Diego Held Tons of Drugs Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 01:50 PM PDT  Drug Tunnel Had Electricity and a Railroad Full Story | Top |
| TSA agent reportedly killed in LAX shooting, multiple injuries reported Friday, Nov 01, 2013 12:26 PM PDT At least two people were shot Friday morning after a reported shooting at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Full Story | Top |
| Hallmark's ugly sweater ornament stirs controversy Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 02:45 PM PDT  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Greeting card giant Hallmark said Thursday that it shouldn't have changed the lyrics to "Deck the Halls" on a new holiday ornament that stirred a backlash from customers online. Full Story | Top |
| Culture war: Film links U.S. Evangelicals to intolerance against gays in Uganda Friday, Nov 01, 2013 04:28 AM PDT Documentary filmmaker Roger Ross Williams is sparking conversation about gay rights in Africa. Full Story | Top |
| After unity, some Democrats push back on Obama Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 02:04 PM 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 |
| Ruling halts abortions at third of Texas' clinics Friday, Nov 01, 2013 05:32 AM PDT  A third of the abortion clinics in Texas can no longer perform the procedure starting Friday after a federal appeals court allowed most of the state's new abortion restrictions to take effect. A panel ... Full Story | Top |
| Court reinstates most of Texas' new abortion rules Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 08:34 PM PDT AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that most of Texas' tough new abortion restrictions can take effect immediately — a decision that means a third of the state's clinics that perform the procedure won't be able to do so starting as soon as Friday. Full Story | Top |
| Cross-border drug tunnel equipped with rail system Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 06:53 PM PDT  SAN DIEGO (AP) — A tunnel designed to smuggle drugs from Tijuana, Mexico, to San Diego was equipped with lighting, ventilation and an electric rail system, U.S. authorities said Thursday, making it one of the most sophisticated secret passages discovered along the U.S.-Mexico border. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. Navy cancels notice on possible F/A-18 fighter jet order Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 06:06 PM PDT  By Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy on Thursday canceled a notice about a possible order of up to 36 more Boeing Co F/A-18 fighter jets or EA-18G electronic warfare planes after the posting on a federal procurement website sparked confusion this week. Boeing has sought for years to sell the Navy more of its F/A-18E/F Super Hornets for use on aircraft carriers, as a hedge in case the more capable carrier variant of the F-35 fighter jet runs into further delays or technical challenges. Navy officials this week said they had no plans to buy more Super Hornets or EA-18G Growlers in fiscal 2015 despite the notice on a federal procurement website. Full Story | Top |
| Pa. residents living above mine fire free to stay Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 01:03 PM PDT  All they ever wanted was to be left alone, free to live out their lives in the central Pennsylvania coal town whose population had fled an underground mine fire. After 20 years, the residents of Centralia ... Full Story | Top |
| Germany: Prepared to speak with Snowden Friday, Nov 01, 2013 06:36 AM PDT  BERLIN (AP) — Germany's top security official said Friday he will try to find a way for Edward Snowden to speak to German officials if the former National Security Agency contractor is willing to provide details about the NSA's activities including the alleged surveillance of Chancellor Angela Merkel's cellphone. Full Story | Top |
| US unearths new drug 'supertunnel' under Mexican border Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 04:47 PM PDT  Zig-zagging for a third of a mile beneath the border between San Diego and Tijuana, the newly-constructed tunnel was equipped with an electric-powered rail system to carry the drugs, as well as ventilation. For the first time, agents seized cocaine intended to be smuggled through the tunnel as well as more than eight tons of marijuana, indicating that Mexican drug cartels are getting increasingly "desperate," they said. "These cartels are foolish to think they're shoveling under the radar," said US Attorney for Southern California Laura Duffy at a press conference outside the San Diego warehouse where the US end of the tunnel was found Wednesday. They'll do anything they can to get into the US," said Bill Sherman, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)'s San Diego office. Full Story | Top |
| Shooter acted alone at LA airport: police Friday, Nov 01, 2013 12:27 PM PDT  Police believe a gunman who opened fire at Los Angeles airport Friday acted alone, a police chief said, while not confirming reports that the shooter and one victim were killed. "We believe at this point that there was a lone shooter, that he acted," said Patrick Gannon, head of the LAX police force, saying he "was the only person who was armed in this incident." Neither officer nor LA mayor Eric Garcetti would confirm reports that two people died the shooting, including the gunman and a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employee. Full Story | Top |
| New book says Obama team considered Hillary Clinton as replacement for Biden on 2012 ticket Friday, Nov 01, 2013 09:26 AM PDT  A new book claims that President Barack Obama's advisers explored the possibility of replacing Joe Biden with Hillary Clinton on the president's re-election ticket. Full Story | Top |
| Threat diverts United Express flight to Phoenix Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 11:25 PM PDT A United Express flight from San Francisco to San Antonio was diverted to Phoenix on Thursday because of a threat that authorities said came from aboard the plane. Officials at Phoenix Sky Harbor International ... Full Story | Top |
| Conservative groups driving GOP agenda Friday, Nov 01, 2013 10:15 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Virtually unknown outside Washington, a coalition of hardline conservative groups is fighting to seize control of the Republican agenda. Full Story | Top |
| Wal-Mart kicks off holiday shopping season online Friday, Nov 01, 2013 04:16 AM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is upping the ante on holiday shopping. Full Story | Top |
| Congress governs self under 'Obamacare' Friday, Nov 01, 2013 10:37 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Think you're confused by "Obamacare"? It's roiling Capitol Hill behind the scenes, too. Full Story | Top |
| Kardashian and West sue over leaked proposal vid Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 06:03 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kim Kardashian and Kanye West sued a co-founder of YouTube on Thursday claiming he violated a confidentiality agreement by posting a video of the couple's marriage proposal to his new video-sharing website. Full Story | Top |
| Canceled U.S. health plans are disruptive part of reform: Cigna CEO Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 09:14 PM PDT  The hundreds of thousands of Americans whose individual insurance policies will be canceled as Obamacare takes full effect next year are experiencing a disruptive element of healthcare reform, the head of health insurer Cigna said on Thursday. In the past week, reports of pending plan cancellations have become a political problem for President Barack Obama, who promised years ago as he was pushing to pass the healthcare law that Americans who liked their health plans could keep them. Nearly half of U.S. consumers with individual health plans are also expected to qualify for tax credits to buy insurance on new state exchanges under Obamacare. Full Story | Top |
| Court blocks ruling on NY police stop-frisk policy Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 07:03 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked a judge's ruling that found the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy discriminated against minorities, and it took the unusual step of removing her from the case, saying interviews she gave during the trial called her impartiality into question. Full Story | Top |
| Growing number of part-time professors join unions Friday, Nov 01, 2013 09:33 AM PDT  Thousands of part-time college professors are joining labor unions, a growing trend in higher education that's boosting the ranks of organized labor and giving voice to teachers who complain about low ... Full Story | Top |
| Teens Are Leaving Facebook And This is Where They Are Going Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 01:46 PM PDT  If the Teens Are Leaving Facebook Where Are They Going? Full Story | Top |
| Congress announces it will be in session fewer days in 2014 Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 02:23 PM PDT  Say somebody asked you to name the one group of people who've earned the right to work less next year. We're guessing "The United States Congress" wouldn't be at the top of your list. Full Story | Top |
| Israel 'bombs' Syria as envoy presses peace talks bid Friday, Nov 01, 2013 11:36 AM PDT  Israel has reportedly bombed a Syrian base to halt an arms shipment to Hezbollah, while the UN-Arab League envoy said Friday there could be no peace talks without the opposition. The reported air strike on a military base in regime stronghold Latakia on Wednesday would be the first Israeli strike on Syria since a US-Russian accord on chemical weapons averted punitive US military action last month. Israel did not comment on the reports, but has struck Syria in the past and warned it will continue to take action to prevent weapons from falling into the hands of Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah. Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya television said Israel hit a shipment of surface-to-surface missiles destined for Hezbollah, which is fighting alongside the regime. Full Story | Top |
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