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| TSA agent killed in LAX shooting Friday, Nov 01, 2013 12:26 PM PDT  'We believe, at this point, that there was a lone shooter.' Full Story | Top |
| Replace Biden with Hillary Clinton? No way, White House says Friday, Nov 01, 2013 12:25 PM PDT  Jay Carney laughs off new book's claims. Full Story | Top |
| $5 billion in cuts to food stamp program go into effect Friday, Nov 01, 2013 10:26 AM PDT  Millions of Americans will be expected to make do with less as of Friday, as $5 billion in cuts to the US food stamp program takes effect. The cuts to the program, formally called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), will pinch almost 48 million people and could be followed by an even bigger slash. The cuts come as a four-year increase in funding to the food stamp program reaches its expiration date. The food stamp cuts, scheduled to take effect on Nov. 1, are distinct from possible additional slashes to the program included in the farm bill – broad legislation covering America's agriculture and nutrition policies, including the food stamp program. Full Story | Top |
| Snowden seeks the world's help against US charges Friday, Nov 01, 2013 11:48 AM PDT  BERLIN (AP) — Edward Snowden is calling for international help to persuade the U.S. to drop its espionage charges against him, according to a letter a German lawmaker released Friday after he met the American in Moscow. Full Story | Top |
| Reinstatement of abortion law closes Texas clinics Friday, Nov 01, 2013 12:43 PM PDT  HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) — In a Texas abortion clinic, about a dozen women waited Friday to see the doctor, already aware that they would not be able to end their pregnancies there. Full Story | Top |
| AP Exclusive: Honduras chief denies death squads Friday, Nov 01, 2013 12:28 PM PDT  TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — In a capital accustomed to daily bloodshed, the man in charge of law enforcement is as feared as the criminals. Few dare speak his name above a whisper. Full Story | Top |
| Syria peace envoy: No talks without opposition Friday, Nov 01, 2013 11:40 AM PDT  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The international envoy to Syria called on the divided opposition Friday to overcome differences and agree to attend peace talks with President Bashar Assad's government, warning the negotiations cannot go forward without them. 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 |
| AP PHOTOS: A city rises from Syrian refugee camp Friday, Nov 01, 2013 11:49 AM PDT  A plan to turn a sprawling Syrian refugee shantytown into a functional temporary city has no shortage of difficulties. Zaatari, a desert camp near Jordan's border with Syria, is the largest camp of its kind in the region. It is home to more than 100,000 people who have fled the bloody Syrian civil war that continues to rage. Zaatari is currently far from the vision that some people have for it: a temporary city with local councils, paved streets, parks, an electricity grid and sewage pipes. Life is tough here. The strong often take from the weak, women fear going to communal bathrooms after dark, sewage runs between pre-fab trailers and boys hustle for pennies carting goods in wheelbarrows instead of going to school. This camp, the size of a modern city, is far from modern. Full Story | Top |
| UConn unanimous No. 1 in preseason women's hoops Friday, Nov 01, 2013 10:02 AM PDT  Geno Auriemma and his UConn Huskies are back in a familiar place — No. 1 in the poll. Full Story | Top |
| Falling inflation another headache for ECB Friday, Nov 01, 2013 09:14 AM PDT  FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — On top of high unemployment and sluggish growth, the European Central Bank has a new headache: an unexpected drop in inflation. Full Story | Top |
| Largest camp for Syrian refugees becoming a city Friday, Nov 01, 2013 07:31 AM PDT  ZAATARI CAMP, Jordan (AP) — The manager of the region's largest camp for Syrian refugees arranges toy figures, trucks and houses on a map in his office trailer to illustrate his ambitious vision. In a year, he wants to turn the chaotic shantytown of more than 100,000 people into a temporary city with local councils, paved streets, parks, an electricity grid and sewage pipes. Full Story | Top |
| In-flight phones: Others likely to follow FAA lead Friday, Nov 01, 2013 11:24 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration says it is relaxing restrictions on the use of smartphones and other electronics inside flights by American carriers. Passengers are still barred from making calls or downloading data off a cellular network, but the OK on using laptops, consoles, e-readers, and other electronics at the beginning and end of each flight will come as a relief to many travelers. Here's a look at what may be in store for air travelers in the rest of the world. Full Story | Top |
| Union official: TSA agent killed in LAX shooting Friday, Nov 01, 2013 12:02 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A gunman armed with a semi-automatic rifle opened fire at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday, killing a Transportation Security Administration employee and wounding two other people in an attack that frightened passengers and disrupted flights nationwide. Full Story | Top |
| Suspected gunman in custody after LAX shooting Friday, Nov 01, 2013 11:44 AM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — A gunman armed with a semi-automatic rifle opened fire at the Los Angeles International Airport on Friday, wounding a Transportation Security Administration employee and two others in an attack that frightened passengers and disrupted flights nationwide. Full Story | Top |
| Kenya Muslim leader: I could be killed next Friday, Nov 01, 2013 09:00 AM PDT  MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — In August 2012, a leader of a Kenyan mosque that has attracted extremist followers was shot dead as he drove through the streets of Mombasa. Fourteen months later, another leader of the same mosque met the same fate. There have been no arrests in either case. Full Story | Top |
| What NYC might look like under de Blasio Friday, Nov 01, 2013 07:28 AM PDT  His Republican mayoral rival warns Gotham could return to its darker days. Full Story | Top |
| Pakistani Taliban chief killed in drone strike Friday, Nov 01, 2013 12:14 PM PDT  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik and Saud Mehsud ISLAMABAD/DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - The chief of the Pakistani Taliban was killed by a U.S. drone strike on Friday, security sources and a senior Taliban commander said. Hakimullah Mehsud was one of Pakistan's most wanted men with a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head. He led an insurgency from a secret hideout in North Waziristan, the Taliban's mountainous stronghold on the Afghan border. "We confirm with great sorrow that our esteemed leader was martyred in a drone attack," a senior Taliban commander told Reuters. Full Story | Top |
| German official: Snowden willing to testify before Congress Friday, Nov 01, 2013 09:16 AM PDT  The former NSA contractor wants to shed light on "possibly serious offenses." Full Story | Top |
| Fan injured by hot dog suing Kansas City Royals Friday, Nov 01, 2013 08:52 AM PDT  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — If it had been a foul ball or broken bat that struck John Coomer in the eye as he watched a Kansas City Royals game, it's unlikely the courts would have forced the team to pay for the surgeries and suffering he's endured Full Story | Top |
| Drone strike kills four, possibly a senior Taliban commander, in Pakistan Friday, Nov 01, 2013 08:21 AM PDT  By Saud Mehsud DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - A drone strike killed four people in Pakistan's lawless North Waziristan region on Friday, possibly including a senior Pakistani Taliban commander, intelligence sources said. North Waziristan is the stronghold of the Taliban insurgency and shares a border with Afghanistan. One Pakistan army source told Reuters separately the military were checking reports that a top Taliban commander might have been killed in the attack. There was no official comment from neither the government nor the Taliban. Full Story | Top |
| Children rescued after bus topples into Kansas creek Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 08:25 PM PDT  DOUGLASS, Kan. (AP) — Ten Kansas children and a school bus driver were pulled to safety from a fast-moving creek Thursday after the bus toppled into the water and landed half-submerged on its side. Full Story | Top |
| U.K. prosecutor: Tabloid editor directed hacking Friday, Nov 01, 2013 07:01 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson sent an email telling a news editor to "do his phone" in relation to an alleged target of phone hacking, a British prosecutor said Friday. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. evangelicals stoke anti-gay intolerance in Uganda, film shows Friday, Nov 01, 2013 04:28 AM PDT  A documentary looks at the prominent ministry known as the International House of Prayer. Full Story | Top |
| Jerk or genius? NYC says cheerio to street artist Banksy Friday, Nov 01, 2013 07:10 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The secretive British street artist Banksy ended his self-announced monthlong residency in New York City with a final piece of graffiti, a $615,000 painting donated to charity and a debate: Is he a jerk or a genius? Full Story | Top |
| Snowden seeks world's help against U.S. espionage charges Friday, Nov 01, 2013 09:06 AM PDT BERLIN (AP) — Edward Snowden is calling for international help to persuade the U.S. to drop its espionage charges against him, according to a letter a German lawmaker released Friday after meeting the American in Moscow. Full Story | Top |
| Gaza runs out of power Friday, Nov 01, 2013 04:27 AM PDT  Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - A shortage of fuel halted the production of electricity across the Gaza Strip on Friday, said the energy authority of the Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the Palestinian enclave. "We have completely stopped the operation of (Gaza's sole) power plant this morning at 6:00 am (0400 GMT) because we don't have a single litre of fuel," Fathi el-Sheikh Khalil, the authority's deputy chairman, told AFP. An AFP correspondent in the Gaza Strip said the electricity supply had been cut off across most of the territory. Khalil blamed the power outage on Egypt's destruction of tunnels used for bringing fuel to Gaza and accused the Western-backed Palestinian Authority of charging Hamas too much for its fuel. 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 |
| Murdoch journalist ordered 'do his phone,' court hears Friday, Nov 01, 2013 09:48 AM PDT  Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson emailed a senior journalist at the disgraced tabloid ordering him to "do" a celebrity's phone, the trial over Britain's phone hacking scandal heard Friday. Coulson, who later became Prime Minister David Cameron's media chief, denies conspiring to illegally access celebrities' voicemail messages in a scandal that forced tycoon Rupert Murdoch to shut the paper in 2011. The trial heard Thursday that Coulson had been having an affair with fellow defendant Rebekah Brooks, his predecessor as editor and a close Murdoch confidante, for much of the time the pair are accused of involvement in hacking. On day three of his opening statement, prosecutor Andrew Edis said Coulson, as editor between 2003 and 2007, must have known his journalists were routinely hacking phones to glean stories for a tabloid that prided itself on its celebrity scoops. Full Story | Top |
| Court reinstates most Texas abortion limits Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 08:34 PM PDT  Ruling means a third of the clinics that perform the procedure won't be able to do so. Full Story | Top |
| Did Obama consider dumping Biden for Clinton? 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 |
| Kerry: U.S. spying 'reached too far' in some cases Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 11:40 PM PDT  The United States has said in some cases its surveillance program has gone too far, an unprecedented admission in its tense row with Europe over US spying against allies. After 10 days of scandal with key European allies, a statement Thursday by Secretary of State John Kerry was the first to explicitly acknowledge overstepping by US intelligence. Kerry justified the surveillance in broad terms, citing the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the United States, as well as attacks in London, Madrid and elsewhere to argue that the US and other countries have had to come together to fight "extremism in the world that is hell-bent and determined to try to kill people and blow people up and attack governments." Full Story | Top |
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