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| Dems, Obama, head into 2014 distant, determined Friday, Nov 29, 2013 01:21 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — A month after emerging from a government shutdown at the top of their game, many Democrats in Congress newly worried about the party's re-election prospects are for the first time distancing themselves from President Barack Obama after the disastrous rollout of his health care overhaul. Full Story | Top |
| Pizza Hut offers to rehire manager who refused to open on holiday Thursday, Nov 28, 2013 03:31 PM PST  franchise in Indiana is mulling over a rehire offer from the worldwide pizza chain after he was fired for refusing to open the restaurant on Thanksgiving Day. Tony Rohr, 28, said he was told to write a letter of resignation after deciding to give his employees at the Elkhart, Indiana, store the holiday off. He told South Bend, Indiana, station WSBT-TV that he instead wrote a letter explaining why the store, part of Yum Brands Inc, should be closed, and then he was fired. Pizza Hut's corporate office said in a statement it "strongly recommended that the local franchisee reinstate the store manager, and they have agreed." Although the choice to open on a holiday is made at the local level, most U.S. franchise locations are closed on Thanksgiving, it said. Full Story | Top |
| A Conservative Millionaire's Quest to Raise California's Minimum Wage to $12 an Hour Thursday, Nov 28, 2013 12:22 PM PST  The Conservative Argument for Raising the Minimum Wage Full Story | Top |
| Mexican drug cartels now make money exporting ore Friday, Nov 29, 2013 08:43 AM PST  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican drug cartels looking to diversify their businesses long ago moved into oil theft, pirated goods, extortion and kidnapping, consuming an ever larger swath of the country's economy. This month, federal officials confirmed the cartels have even entered the country's lucrative mining industry, exporting iron ore to Chinese mills. Full Story | Top |
| US eyes phase-out of old telephone network Thursday, Nov 28, 2013 06:37 PM PST America's plain old telephone network is rapidly being overtaken by new technology, putting US regulators in a quandary over how to manage the final stages of transformation. The Federal Communications Commission is working toward drafting rules in January to formalize the IP transition -- switching communications systems to Internet protocol. And while FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler hails the technological advance, he has also spoken of maintaining the "set of values" that was used to ensure America's universal phone service. It is a dead model walking," said Scott Cleland, of the research and consulting firm Precursor LLC, noting that three quarters of the transition is done. Full Story | Top |
| Millennials Give Obamacare a Big Boost in Poll Friday, Nov 29, 2013 02:15 AM PST  Despite two solid months of technological disasters, significant delays, low enrollment numbers and millions of cancelled insurance policies, the group most crucial to Obamacare's success hasn't given up on it yet. Millennials, ages 18-34, overwhelmingly believe the president's signature healthcare law will work. That's according to a new CNN poll released Tuesday that shows seven in 10 young Americans are optimistic about Obamacare's future. This is good news for the White House, which is desperately counting on at least 2.7 million of these young people to sign up for health insurance through the exchanges to offset the cost of the law. Full Story | Top |
| China scrambles jets after US, Japan enter air zone: Xinhua Friday, Nov 29, 2013 10:55 AM PST  China on Friday scrambled fighter jets to monitor a dozen US and Japanese military aircraft which entered its new air defence zone, state media said. Beijing's announcement last weekend of the air defence identification zone, which covers islands at the centre of a dispute between China and Japan, has raised tensions in the region. The report indicated that Japan and the US are continuing to disregard Beijing's demands that aircraft submit flight plans when traversing the zone in the East China Sea or face unspecified "defensive emergency measures". Full Story | Top |
| China scrambles jets to new defense zone, eyes U.S., Japan flights Friday, Nov 29, 2013 08:58 AM PST By Ben Blanchard and Roberta Rampton BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China scrambled jets on Friday in response to two U.S. spy planes and 10 Japanese aircraft, including F-15 fighters, entering its new air defense zone over the East China Sea, state news agency Xinhua said, raising the stakes in a standoff with the United States, Japan and South Korea. Japan and South Korea flew military aircraft through the zone, which includes the skies over islands at the heart of a territorial dispute between Japan and China, the two countries said on Thursday, while Washington sent two unarmed B-52 bombers into the airspace earlier this week in a sign of support for its ally Japan. Full Story | Top |
| China sends warplanes into air defense zone Thursday, Nov 28, 2013 08:47 PM PST  BEIJING (AP) — China said it sent warplanes into its newly declared maritime air defense zone days after the U.S., South Korea and Japan all sent flights through the airspace in broadening defiance of rules Beijing says it has imposed over the East China Sea. Full Story | Top |
| Union: Worker warned crane was on unstable ground Thursday, Nov 28, 2013 10:34 PM PST  SAO PAULO (AP) — A safety engineer at the World Cup stadium where a giant crane collapse killed two workers allegedly warned his supervisor of possible problems with the operation, only to have his concerns brushed aside, a labor union leader charged Thursday, as sniping over the accident heated up. Full Story | Top |
| Pope ramps up charity office to be near poor, sick Friday, Nov 29, 2013 10:04 AM PST VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has ramped up the Vatican's charity work, sending his chief alms-giver and a contingent of Swiss guards onto the streets of Rome at night to do what he usually can't do: comfort the poor and the homeless. Full Story | Top |
| Did Comet ISON survive? Scientists see tiny hope Friday, Nov 29, 2013 08:07 AM PST  STOCKHOLM (AP) — A comet that gained an earthly following because of its bright tail visible from space was initially declared dead after essentially grazing the sun. Now, there is a silver of hope that Comet ISON may have survived. Full Story | Top |
| Americans kick off 2-day holiday shopping marathon Friday, Nov 29, 2013 11:38 AM PST The holiday shopping season started as a marathon, not a sprint. Full Story | Top |
| Consumer behavior aggressively tracked this season Friday, Nov 29, 2013 01:13 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a big question for marketers: What kind of a buyer are you? And, as important, what are you willing to pay? Full Story | Top |
| Scientists: Sun-grazing comet likely broke up Thursday, Nov 28, 2013 02:48 PM PST STOCKHOLM (AP) — Once billed as the comet of the century, Comet ISON apparently was no match for the sun. Full Story | Top |
| Maine woman's ASL moves a hit in concert, online Friday, Nov 29, 2013 03:10 AM PST  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Holly Maniatty creates music — for the deaf. Full Story | Top |
| No sign of comet after pass around sun: scientists Thursday, Nov 28, 2013 12:34 PM PST  A comet's 5.5-million-year journey to the inner solar system apparently ended during a suicidal trip around the sun, leaving no trace of its once-bright tail or even remnants of rock and dust, scientists said on Thursday. The comet, known as ISON, was discovered last year when it was still far beyond Jupiter, raising the prospect of a spectacular naked-eye object by the time it graced Earth's skies in December. Comet ISON passed just 730,000 miles (1.2 million km) from the surface of the sun at 1:37 p.m. EST/1837 GMT on Thursday. Astronomers used a fleet of solar telescopes to look for the comet after its slingshot around the sun, but to no avail. Full Story | Top |
| Stakes are high as Obamacare website hits deadline Friday, Nov 29, 2013 04:28 AM PST This weekend, HealthCare.gov faces its own virtual cliff, as the Obama administration hits a self-imposed deadline to fix most major problems with the troubled website. But will it be enough? Full Story | Top |
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