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Delta jet lands at remote AK airport as precaution
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 04:46 PM PDT
 A Delta Air Lines flight made an emergency landing in a remote Alaska community near the Aleutian Islands Wednesday morning after a warning message flashed on an engine control panel. San Francisco-bound ... Full Story | Top |
FACT CHECK: A Sebelius dodge at hearing
Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 07:31 AM PDT
 Here's what some Republicans want to know: If Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius thinks the new health insurance marketplace is going to be so great, why doesn't she get her own coverage ... Full Story | Top |
How Presidents age in office
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 03:50 PM PDT
According to one expert, a president ages two years for every year they are in office. Full Story | Top |
Obama blames 'bad apple' insurers for canceled coverage
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 04:43 PM PDT
 By Roberta Rampton and David Morgan BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that "bad apple" insurance companies, not his signature healthcare law, are to blame for hundreds of thousands of people losing their coverage in the past few weeks. As administration officials scrambled to fix technical problems on an online insurance marketplace that is central to the success of the Affordable Care Act, Obama blamed private insurers for a separate problem that has critics questioning his honesty. But the termination of individual policies has given his Republican opponents additional ammunition to criticize the program they have tried to stop since its inception in Obama's first term. Republicans' assertion that Obama had broken a major promise to the electorate is potentially more damaging than the glitch-ridden website rollout on October 1. Full Story | Top |
After unity, Obama faces Democratic pushback
Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 12:57 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 |
Russian lawyer says Snowden to start website job
Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 12:40 PM PDT
 By Steve Gutterman MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden has found a job working for a website in Russia, where he was granted asylum after fleeing the United States, a Russian lawyer helping him said on Thursday. "Edward starts work in November," lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said, according to state-run news agency RIA. Snowden, 30, a former National Security Agency contractor who disclosed secret U.S. internet and phone surveillance programs, fled to Hong Kong and then to Russia in June. President Vladimir Putin rejected U.S. pleas to send Snowden home to face charges including espionage, and the temporary asylum he was granted in early August can be extended annually. Full Story | Top |
India's Modi aims at history and Gandhis with world's tallest statue
Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 02:04 AM PDT
 By Frank Jack Daniel and Sruthi Gottipati NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian opposition leader Narendra Modi launched the construction of the world's tallest statue on Thursday, a $338 million project in honor of one of the country's founding fathers, that he is using to undermine the ruling Nehru-Gandhi political family. The statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, who was first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's deputy and his interior minister, but often at odds with him, is to be built on a river island in Gujarat, the home state of both Patel and Modi. "The world will be forced to look at India when this statue stands tall," said Modi, who rules Gujarat as chief minister and is the leading opposition candidate for prime minister in general elections due by next May. His main rival in the election is the ruling Congress party's Rahul Gandhi, Nehru's great-grandson. Thursday marked the 138th birth anniversary of Patel, and Modi said earlier this week: "Every Indian regrets Sardar Patel did not become the first prime minister. Full Story | Top |
House Republican backs Dem immigration bill
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 03:24 PM PDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats pushing a comprehensive approach to overhauling the nation's immigration system picked up the support of a third Republican on Wednesday. Full Story | Top |
Texas club auctions right to hunt endangered rhino
Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 07:36 AM PDT
 Plans to auction a rare permit that will allow a hunter to take down an endangered black rhino are drawing criticism from some conservationists, but the organizer says the fundraiser could bring in more ... Full Story | Top |
Red Sox win WS title, beat Cards 6-1 in Game 6
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 10:48 PM PDT
 BOSTON (AP) — There hasn't been a party like this in New England for nearly a century. Full Story | Top |
U.S. F-35 fighter drops first guided bomb against ground target
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 04:16 PM PDT
 By Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jet dropped a 500-pound bomb this week, hitting a tank at Edwards Air Force Base in California and marking the first time the new warplane has fired a laser-guided weapon, the Pentagon said Wednesday. An F-35 B-model jet released the Guided Bomb Unit-12 (GBU-12) Paveway II bomb from its internal weapons bay while flying at around 25,000 feet, successfully smashing into a tank parked on the ground, the Pentagon's F-35 program office said in a statement. It took 35 seconds to hit the target. "This guided weapons delivery test of a GBU-12 marks the first time the F-35 truly became a weapon system," said Marine Corps Major Richard Rusnok, the pilot who flew the plane during the weapons test Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
FAA OKs air passengers using gadgets on planes
Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 12:41 PM PDT
 WASHINGTON (AP) — Airline passengers will be able to use their electronic devices gate-to-gate to read, work, play games, watch movies and listen to music — but not talk on their cellphones — under much-anticipated guidelines issued Thursday by the Federal Aviation Administration. Full Story | Top |
Oneida Nation requests meeting with all NFL owners
Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 04:09 AM PDT
 Characterizing their meeting with the NFL about their disapproval of the use of Redskins by the Washington franchise as disappointing, representatives of the Oneida Indian Nation requested a meeting with ... Full Story | Top |
Report: NSA broke into Yahoo, Google data centers
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 03:55 PM PDT
 The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, The Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing documents ... Full Story | Top |
Hawaii Senate passes bill to legalize gay marriage
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 09:04 PM PDT
By Treena Shapiro HONOLULU (Reuters) - Hawaii's state Senate approved legislation on Wednesday to legalize same-sex marriage in a state long popular as a wedding and honeymoon destination, voting overwhelmingly to repeal a voter-approved constitutional amendment banning gay matrimony. The 20-4 vote in favor of the bill, with three Democrats joining the state Senate's lone Republican to oppose the measure, came two days after the start of a special session called by Democratic Governor Neil Abercrombie to take up the legislation. If the bill is approved, as expected, by the state House of Representatives - where Democrats outnumber Republicans 44-7 - Hawaii would become the 15th vote to make it legal for gay and lesbian couples to wed. Abercrombie has said the proposal was crafted to address opponents' concerns that legalizing gay marriage would infringe on religious freedom. Full Story | Top |
'Idol' judges have glowing reviews for each other
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 07:48 PM PDT
 ATLANTA (AP) — Well, one thing about season 13 of "American Idol" is that unlike last season, the judges seem to be getting along. Full Story | Top |
Obamacare court challenge: Do corporations have religious freedom rights?
Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 02:41 AM PDT
A major legal challenge to Obamacare making its way to the Supreme Court could allow for-profit corporations to opt out of a key piece of the law by asserting freedom of religion. Full Story | Top |
FACT CHECK: GOP asks Sebelius for the impossible
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 03:53 PM PDT
 WASHINGTON (AP) — Here's what some Republicans want to know: If Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius thinks the new health insurance marketplace is going to be so great, why doesn't she get her own coverage from it? Full Story | Top |
Food stamp cuts kick in as Congress debates more
Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 12:43 PM PDT
 WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 47 million Americans who receive food stamps will see their benefits go down starting Friday, just as Congress has begun negotiations on further cuts to the program. Full Story | Top |
Iraq seeking new US aid after pushing out troops
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 07:41 PM PDT
 WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly two years after pushing out the U.S. military, Iraq is asking for more American weapons, training and manpower to help fight a bloody resurgence of al-Qaida that has unleashed a level of violence comparable to the darkest days of the nation's sectarian conflict. Full Story | Top |
Spirit Airlines mulls tying fees to flight demand
Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 06:52 AM PDT
NEW YORK (AP) — The complex world of airlines fees might soon get even more confusing. Full Story | Top |
A Bewitching History: Why Witches Ride Broomsticks
Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 04:30 AM PDT
 But few likely know the murky tale of how witches came to be associated with those familiar household objects. According to legend, witches used herbs with psychoactive properties like henbane in their potions, or "flying ointments." Some historical accounts suggest witches applied these ointments to their nether regions. Lady Alice Kyteler, Ireland's earliest known accused witch, was condemned to death for using sorcery to kill her husband in 1324. In his "Quaestio de Strigis" of 1470, Bergamo writes of witches who on "certain days or nights they anoint a staff and ride on it to the appointed place or anoint themselves under the arms and in other hairy places." [13 Halloween Superstitions & Traditions Explained] Full Story | Top |
EU spying backlash threatens billions in US trade
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 04:57 PM PDT
 The backlash in Europe over U.S. spying is threatening an agreement that generates tens of billions of dollars in trans-Atlantic business every year — and negotiations on another pact worth many times ... Full Story | Top |
Mich. recipients to see cut in food assistance
Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 06:34 AM PDT
Michigan's nearly 1.8 million recipients of government food assistance are going to have to get by with less aid starting Friday. That is when extra benefits that were part of the 2009 federal stimulus ... Full Story | Top |
Exxon Mobil's 3Q profit falls 18 percent
Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 06:14 AM PDT
 Exxon Mobil Corp.'s quarterly profit fell 18 percent from last year, but the oil and gas giant still made nearly $8 billion in three months. Production increased slightly, but Exxon made significantly ... Full Story | Top |
