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| A look inside JFK's presidential yacht Friday, Nov 22, 2013 06:00 AM PST  The former presidential yacht, Honey Fitz, is seen docked in West Palm Beach, Florida November 21, 2013. REUTERS/Joe Skipper Full Story | Top |
| Report: Gun lobbyists thought about leaving Newtown HQ Friday, Nov 22, 2013 11:43 AM PST  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The gun industry's national trade association and lobbying organization considered moving its offices from Newtown, Conn., after last year's mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the president and CEO of the National Shooting Sports Foundation said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press. Full Story | Top |
| Note found at site where teacher slain: 'I hate you all' Friday, Nov 22, 2013 11:30 AM PST  Phillip Chism, 14, Is Charged With Murder, Rape and Robbery in Teacher's Death Full Story | Top |
| Russian FM Lavrov joins Iran nuclear talks Friday, Nov 22, 2013 09:53 AM PST  GENEVA (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov threw his weight behind nuclear talks with Iran, flying to Geneva Friday to join senior negotiators struggling to seal a deal that would see Tehran start to roll back its atomic activities in exchange for sanctions relief. Full Story | Top |
| UK police: 3 women were slaves 'in simple terms' Friday, Nov 22, 2013 10:15 AM PST  LONDON (AP) — Three women who were freed from a London home after 30 years had been allowed outside in "carefully controlled circumstances" during their ordeal but were victims of "slavery, in simple terms," a senior British police officer said Friday. Full Story | Top |
| Afghan spokesman rebuffs US troop deal deadline Friday, Nov 22, 2013 10:19 AM PST  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's president on Friday rebuffed American demands that he sign a security pact allowing U.S. forces to stay in the country for another decade, while the U.S. defense secretary warns that planning for a post-2014 military presence may be jeopardized if the deal isn't finalized by the end of the year. Full Story | Top |
| Documents: Mass. teacher's throat cut, note left Friday, Nov 22, 2013 10:55 AM PST  SALEM, Mass. (AP) — The body of a popular Massachusetts teacher who police say was killed by one of her students was found in the woods, naked from the waist down and with her throat slit and a note that read, "I hate you all," according to court documents released Friday. Full Story | Top |
| 50 dead in grocery roof collapse in Latvia Friday, Nov 22, 2013 10:36 AM PST  RIGA, Latvia (AP) — Hordes of shoppers were picking up food after work in the Latvian capital when an enormous section of the supermarket's roof caved in. Firefighters rushed in to save them, only to be crushed themselves when a second part of the roof collapsed. Full Story | Top |
| Olympic groups to monitor Brazil's polluted waters Friday, Nov 22, 2013 09:55 AM PST  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Olympic sports federations will be monitoring efforts to clean up the polluted waters around Rio de Janeiro to prevent health risks to athletes at the 2016 Games. Full Story | Top |
| 22-year-old Norwegian clinches chess world title Friday, Nov 22, 2013 11:39 AM PST  NEW DELHI (AP) — The world of chess has a new king, and it's a 22-year-old who is as much at home posing for fashion shoots as he is pushing pawns. Full Story | Top |
| Somber nation marks 50th anniversary of JFK death Friday, Nov 22, 2013 11:13 AM PST  DALLAS (AP) — From a street in downtown Dallas to the shores of Cape Cod, a somber nation paused Friday to remember John F. Kennedy 50 years after the young, handsome president was gunned down in an open-top limousine. Full Story | Top |
| In Egypt, a darkening mood as instability persists Friday, Nov 22, 2013 05:47 AM PST  CAIRO (AP) — In Egypt, misery just keeps piling on and, fittingly, the nation is officially in mourning. Full Story | Top |
| Reverent memorials mark JFK 50th anniversary Friday, Nov 22, 2013 11:08 AM PST DALLAS (AP) — The nation solemnly marked the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination Friday with subdued remembrances at Kennedy's grave and the infamous site in downtown Dallas where the young, glamorous president was gunned down in an open-top limousine. Full Story | Top |
| A-Rod, MLB await decision, expected in January Friday, Nov 22, 2013 11:28 AM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Now the waiting begins for Alex Rodriguez and Major League Baseball. Full Story | Top |
| Uranium enrichment at heart of nuclear disputes Friday, Nov 22, 2013 06:40 AM PST  For more than a decade — through standoffs and outreach — the cornerstone of Iran's nuclear disputes with the West has been uranium enrichment, which is the central process in turning concentrated uranium into nuclear fuel. Negotiators in Geneva must balance opposing interests: Demands by the U.S. and allies for limits and controls over how far Iran can take its program and Tehran's insistence to maintain its self-sufficiency over every step of the nuclear process from uranium mines to reactor cores. Enrichment also is at the forefront of criticism by Israel and its backers in the West who fear leaving Iran even with the basic technology to make reactor fuel, which is the pathway for possible weapons-grade material. Full Story | Top |
| 47 dead in grocery roof collapse in Latvia Friday, Nov 22, 2013 07:40 AM PST RIGA, Latvia (AP) — Hordes of shoppers were picking up food after work in the Latvian capital when an enormous section of the supermarket's roof caved in. Firefighters rushed in to save them, only to be crushed themselves when a second part of the roof collapsed. Full Story | Top |
| Note left at teacher's killing site: 'I hate you all' Friday, Nov 22, 2013 10:56 AM PST Documents: Slain Mass. teacher's body found with throat cut, note saying 'I hate you all' Full Story | Top |
| Scientists discover a killer dinosaur Friday, Nov 22, 2013 06:35 AM PST  Palaeontologists on Friday announced they had uncovered the remains of one of the greatest land predators ever -- a nine-metre (30-foot) four-tonne dinosaur that stalked the planet 100 million years ago. The newly-discovered species has been called Siats meekerorum, whose first name honours a cannibalistic monster in the mythology of the Native American Ute people. A giant meat-eater, the dino lorded it even over the tyrannosaurs of the time, the scientists said. It would take another 30 million years or so before the eight-tonne Tyrannosaurus rex emerged to take the title of apex killer in present-day North America. Full Story | Top |
| Newtown investigation report to be released Friday, Nov 22, 2013 11:39 AM PST  NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — A summary of the investigation into the shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School will be released Monday, Connecticut prosecutors said. Full Story | Top |
| Not business as usual, but the bar's open in storm-ravaged Tacloban Friday, Nov 22, 2013 07:55 AM PST Once he had got hold of 20 cases of San Miguel beer, Gerry Ruiz knew he had enough supplies to start serving customers again. The Calle Zaragosa Cafe appears to be the first standalone restaurant or bar to have opened in Tacloban since one of the world's most powerful typhoons reduced much of the central Philippine city to rubble two weeks ago. The storm killed 5,209 people, the National Disaster Agency said on Friday, as it barreled across the central Philippines from east to west, making it the most deadly natural disaster ever to hit the country. Full Story | Top |
| China warns North Korea, blames Japan for tension Friday, Nov 22, 2013 04:39 AM PST  China warned North Korea on Friday it would not tolerate chaos on its doorstep, while blaming Japan for the tension between Asia's two largest economies. Ties between Beijing and Pyongyang have deteriorated since North Korea conducted its third nuclear test in February. China signed on to U.N. sanctions in March, but remains the North's largest trading partner. "China will never allow (anyone) to cause chaos and incidents on our home's doorstep and will never accept China's process of development from being disturbed and interrupted again," Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on the foreign ministry's website. Full Story | Top |
| Evolution debate again engulfs Texas board Friday, Nov 22, 2013 01:19 AM PST  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The long-simmering battle over teaching evolution in Texas boiled over at a late-night meeting, as the Board of Education extended preliminary approval of new science books for use in classrooms across the state but held up one biology text because of alleged factual errors. Full Story | Top |
| Philippine typhoon death toll rises above 5,000 Friday, Nov 22, 2013 05:17 AM PST  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The death toll from one of the strongest typhoons on record has risen above 5,000 and is likely to climb further, although recovery efforts are beginning to take hold, Philippine officials said Friday. Full Story | Top |
| China tests first stealth combat drone: media Friday, Nov 22, 2013 03:43 AM PST  China has tested its first stealth combat drone, state media said Friday, citing online photos of an aircraft resembling a shrunken US B2 bomber and hailing the advance toward Western-level technology. The test flight of the "Sharp Sword" unmanned aircraft is another step in China's years-long military build-up, with its defence spending now the second highest in the world and growing by double-digit percentages each year. It comes weeks after Tokyo said a drone had flown near East China Sea islands claimed by both it and Beijing, ratcheting tensions between the rivals up another notch. "The successful flight shows the nation has again narrowed the air-power disparity between itself and Western nations," the China Daily newspaper said, adding the flight made China the "fourth power... capable of putting a stealth drone into the sky". Full Story | Top |
| 32 dead in grocery roof collapse in Latvia Friday, Nov 22, 2013 03:23 AM PST  RIGA, Latvia (AP) — At least 32 people died, including three firefighters, after an enormous section of roof collapsed at a Latvian supermarket in the country's capital, emergency medical officials said Friday. Full Story | Top |
| Days before launch, Obamacare website failed to handle even 500 users Thursday, Nov 21, 2013 06:54 PM PST  By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the last days before the botched October 1 launch of President Barack Obama's healthcare website, the team in charge was seeing alarming results from performance tests, according to internal emails released by Republican lawmakers investigating the rollout. HealthCare.gov was unable to consistently handle 500 users at once in the testing, and tests failed with 2,000 users over a three-day period, according to a series of emails between members of the information technology team at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS. "I do not want a repeat of what happened near the end of December 2005 where Medicare.Gov had a meltdown," Henry Chao, the website's project manager at CMS, wrote in capital letters in an urgent message on September 26 to his team and contractors. The emails, released by the Republican-led House Energy and Commerce Committee, are the latest to illustrate the depths of problems with the Obamacare website, which has frustrated millions of Americans with error messages and slow responses as they try to shop for health insurance. Full Story | Top |
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