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Obama hopes for 11th-hour deal

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 02:21 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama makes a statement to the press in the briefing room of the White HouseCongress has until midnight to pass a resolution to fund the government.

GOP's King: Ted Cruz should be blamed if gov't shuts down

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 03:37 PM PDT

King departs after a closed-door meeting of the House Republican caucus during a rare Saturday session at the U.S. Capitol in WashingtonHouse Republican moderates fight back.

Breast cancer survivor posts time-lapse video of treatment

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 01:40 PM PDT

One Year of Cancer Treatment Shown in a MinuteWhen Emily Helck began treatment for breast cancer, she decided to document each day of with photos. At the end of a year, Helck put the photos together in a time-lapse video.

Weapons experts kick off complex Syria mission

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 12:03 PM PDT

The convoy of a U.N. team of weapons inspectors, who concluded its almost week-long mission in Syria, arrive at Rafik Hariri international airport in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013. The inquiry determined that the nerve agent sarin was used in the Aug. 21 attack on a Damascus suburb in Syria, but it did not assess who was behind it. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Inspectors charged with the enormous task of overseeing the destruction of Syria's deadly chemical weapons stockpiles kicked off their mission Monday, racing to meet tight deadlines against the backdrop of civil war.

NC Republicans vow to fight US DOJ over voter laws

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 02:05 PM PDT

FILE - In a June 30, 1982 file photo, President Ronald Reagan signs an expansion of the 1965 Voting Rights Bill during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House. The Justice Department will sue the state of North Carolina for alleged racial discrimination over tough new voting rules, the latest effort by the Obama administration to fight back against a Supreme Court decision that struck down the most powerful part of the landmark Voting Rights Act and freed southern states from strict federal oversight of their elections. North Carolina has a new law scaling back the period for early voting and imposing stringent voter identification requirements. It is among at least five Southern states adopting stricter voter ID and other election laws. (AP Photo, File)RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's Republican governor is vowing to fight a lawsuit by the U.S. Justice Department challenging the state's tough new elections law on the grounds it disproportionately excludes minority voters.

Sudan leader digs in against protests

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 01:53 PM PDT

FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013 file photo, Sudanese relatives of Salah Sanhory, 26, who was killed on Friday Sept. 27, 2013 by security forces, mourn during his funeral in Khartoum. Protests over subsidy cuts on fuel and food are erupting at a time when President Omar al-Bashir's regime is facing a dangerous fraying. Opponents, some from former members of his regime, warn that if he does not carry out political reforms, the regime will collapse and with it, this country could fragment even further than it already has. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — When Sudan's longtime president Omar al-Bashir introduced drastic austerity measures, he berated the public for being ungrateful over how his regime had improved their lives, boasting that before he came to power, Sudanese never ate hot dogs, talking as if they were a strange, luxury food.

BP accused of lying to govt during Gulf oil spill

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 03:40 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday July 12, 2010 image from video made available by BP PLC, oil flows out of the top of the transition spool, which was placed into the gushing wellhead and will house the new containment cap, at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The federal trial over the 2010 BP oil spill resumed Monday, Sept. 30, 2013, with a focus on the company's response to the disaster, with millions of dollars at stake as the two sides argue over how much oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/BP PLC, File)NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP lied to the U.S. government and withheld information about the amount of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico after its well blew out in 2010, attorneys told a judge Monday.

Once infertile, woman gives birth after surgery

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 12:28 PM PDT

In this Dec. 28, 2012 photo provided by Dr. Kazuhiro Kawamura of the St. Marianna University School of Medicine in Kawasaki, Japan, Kawamura holds a newborn baby whose 30-year-old mother was treated for primary ovarian insufficiency, sometimes called premature menopause, in Tokyo. The mother was one of the five women out of 27 treated who were able to produce usable eggs for in vitro fertilization, Kawamura said. The new technique, described in a report published Monday, Sept. 30, 2013 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, raises the promise of a woman with the condition having a baby with her own eggs. (AP Photo/Kazuhiro Kawamura)NEW YORK (AP) — A 30-year-old infertile woman gave birth after surgeons removed her ovaries and re-implanted tissue they treated in a lab, researchers report.

Syria says it fighting rebels who eat human hearts

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 01:52 PM PDT

Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Walid al-Moualem speaks during the 68th session of the General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Syria's foreign minister claimed Monday that his government is fighting a war against al-Qaida-linked militants who eat human hearts and dismember people while they are still alive, then send their limbs to family members.

Obama: Shutdown will 'throw wrench' into economy

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 04:30 PM PDT

President Barack Obama answers a question about the looming federal government shutdown from a reporter during his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama ramped up pressure on Republicans Monday to avoid a post-midnight government shutdown, saying that failure to pass a short-term spending measure to keep agencies operating would "throw a wrench into the gears" of a recovering economy.

Judge hears claims BP lied to feds about oil spill

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 11:11 AM PDT

FILE - In this Monday July 12, 2010 image from video made available by BP PLC, oil flows out of the top of the transition spool, which was placed into the gushing wellhead and will house the new containment cap, at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The federal trial over the 2010 BP oil spill resumed Monday, Sept. 30, 2013, with a focus on the company's response to the disaster, with millions of dollars at stake as the two sides argue over how much oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/BP PLC, File)NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP lied to the U.S. government and withheld information about the amount of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico after its well blew out in 2010, attorneys told a judge Monday.

Chemical arms inspectors gird for risky, dirty job

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 10:57 AM PDT

FILE - In this citizen journalism image provided by the Media Office of Douma City, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a Syrian man mourns over a dead body after an alleged poisonous gas attack fired by regime forces, according to activists, in Douma town, Damascus, Syria on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. The inspectors for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons tasked with helping Syria destroy its chemical weapons have about nine months to find and dismantle an estimated 1,000-ton chemical arsenal that took years to build. It is the shortest deadline they have ever faced in any nation, and their first mission in a country at war. (AP Photo/Media Office of Douma City, File)AMSTERDAM (AP) — They left in secrecy on a private jet, bound for one of the world's most dangerous places, to destroy substances so deadly that the smallest particle can kill within minutes. The inspectors for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons tasked with helping Syria destroy its chemical weapons have about nine months to find and dismantle an estimated 1,000-ton chemical arsenal that took years to build. It is the shortest deadline they have ever faced in any nation, and their first mission in a country at war.

Obama: 'Not at all' resigned to a shutdown

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 01:27 PM PDT

President Barack Obama answers a question about the looming federal government shutdown from a reporter during his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he's "not at all" resigned to a government shutdown. He says he expects to speak to congressional leaders during the day and in ensuing days to address budget and debt impasses.

Greek PM vows to eradicate far-right Golden Dawn

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 01:58 PM PDT

Antonis Samaras, Greek Prime Minister, addresses a breakfast meeting with leadership of the American Jewish Committee in New York, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/David Karp)NEW YORK (AP) — Greece's prime minister said Monday his government will do "whatever it takes" to completely eradicate the extreme-right Golden Dawn party, whose neo-Nazi leaders have just been arrested.

Court in Amanda Knox trial allows new DNA test

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 12:36 PM PDT

Francesco Sollecito, father of co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito, talks to reporters as he arrives for the start of U.S. student Amanda Knox's second appeals trial in her British roommate's murder, in Florence, Italy, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013. Italy's highest court ordered a new trial for Knox and her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, overturning their acquittals in the gruesome 2007 slaying of Meredith Kercher with a harsh assessment of an appeals court acquittal in 2011. The Court of Cassation said the acquittal was full of "deficiencies, contradictions and illogical" conclusions. (AP Photo/Francesco Bellini)FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — The Florence appellate court hearing U.S. student Amanda Knox's third trial in her roommate's murder agreed Monday to run additional DNA tests on the presumed weapon, but rejected more than a dozen other defense requests for new testimony or evidence.

Netanyahu urges US to keep Iran sanctions in place

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 10:36 AM PDT

President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wait for reporters and cameramen to get in place before they make statements in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013. The White House said the two leaders would discuss negotiations with the Palestinians, developments in Syria and Iran. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday urged President Barack Obama to keep tough economic sanctions on Iran in place, even as the U.S. weighs a potential warming of relations and a restart of nuclear negotiations with Tehran's new government.

Executive, son believed dead in fiery Calif. jet crash

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 10:51 AM PDT

"Unsurvivable": Deadly Plane Crash At Santa Monica AirportSANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — A construction company official says it's believed the firm's CEO and his son were killed in the fiery crash of a jet that slammed into a hangar after landing at a Southern California airport.

Judge orders potential witness list trimmed in theater shooting case

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 09:13 AM PDT

James Holmes sits in court for an advisement hearing at the Arapahoe County Justice Center in CentennialA judge told prosecutors in the Aurora theater massacre case Monday to pick up the pace cutting down the staggering number of possible witnesses in the murder trial of James Holmes.

House unveils yet another proposal to tie Obamacare delay to budget bill

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 04:31 PM PDT

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, walks to the chamber as the House of Representatives works into the night to pass a bill to fund the government, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. Locked in a deepening struggle with President Barack Obama, House Republicans on Saturday demanded a one-year delay in major parts of the nation's new health care law and permanent repeal of a tax on medical devices as the price for preventing a partial government shutdown threatened for early Tuesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Obama phones Congressional leaders. But a government shutdown still appears likely.

Watch live: Obama speaking as gov't shutdown looms

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The president comments ahead of a midnight deadline for Congress to fund the goverment.

Knox retrial: Court approves new DNA test on murder weapon

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 10:38 AM PDT

Amanda Knox Is A No-show As Retrial For Murder Begins In ItalyFLORENCE, Italy (AP) — A court hearing Amanda Knox's second appeals trial on Monday accepted a request to run additional DNA tests on the presumed weapon in the murder of Meredith Kercher, but rejected most other defense requests for new testimony or evidence.

Obamacare set to go live — glitches and all

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 11:57 AM PDT

The Capitol in Washington, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013, as the government teeters on the brink of a partial shutdown at midnight unless Congress can reach an agreement on funding. Hours before a threatened government shutdown, the Senate has the next move Monday on must-do budget legislation that has fueled a bitter congressional dispute over President Barack Obama's signature health care law. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Contentious from its conception, President Barack Obama's health care law has survived the Supreme Court, a battle for the White House and rounds of budget brinkmanship. Now comes the ultimate test: the verdict of the American people.

U.K. couple welcomes rare identical triplets

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Who gets blamed for a government shutdown?

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 06:40 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, President Barack Obama gestures while making a statement regarding the budget fight in Congress and foreign policy challenges, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. As Iran's diplomatic profile rises with attempts to recalibrate its dealings with Washington, the Gulf rulers will have to make adjustments, too, and that's not such an easy thing for the monarchs and sheiks to swallow. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)More Americans aren't pointing their fingers at Obama, a new poll shows.

CNN scraps Clinton documentary after director quits

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 07:40 AM PDT

Hillary Clinton Cites 'Unfinished Business' in Empowering WomenCNN documentary director cited political pressure on interview subjects. "Neither political party wanted the film made," he said. NBC followed suit hours later.

Red Cross: 39 still missing after Kenya mall attack

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 06:44 AM PDT

This photo taken Friday, Sept. 27, 2013 and made available Monday, Sept. 30, 2013, shows forensic investigators working on the ground floor of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. The four-day siege, which included the collapse of part of the mall, left 67 people dead, according to officials. (AP Photo)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — More than three dozen people remain unaccounted for almost a week after the end of the four-day terrorist attack on Nairobi's Westgate Mall that killed at least 67, the head of the Kenyan Red Cross said Monday.

Justice Dept. to sue North Carolina over voter law

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 09:12 AM PDT

Department of Justice to sue North Carolina over voter ID lawWASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder says the Justice Department will sue the state of North Carolina for alleged racial discrimination over tough new voting rules.

Apple unseats iconic soda as world's 'best brand'

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 06:30 AM PDT

A woman uses her mobile phone outside an Apple store in Shanghai on May 7, 2012Paris (AFP) - Coca-Cola has lost its crown as the world's best brand, a closely watched survey said on Monday, unseated by the iconic iPhone and iPad maker Apple.

Militants attack Nigeria college dorm, 40 students die

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 02:28 AM PDT

A screengrab taken on September 25, 2013 from a video distributed through an intermediary shows a man claiming to be the leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar ShekauDamaturu (Nigeria) (AFP) - Boko Haram gunmen on Sunday opened fire in a college dormitory in northeast Nigeria as the students slept, killing 40, in the latest massacre blamed on the Islamist insurgents.

Photos: Images from a fiery Calif. jet crash

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 01:29 PM PDT

Photos: Images from a fiery Calif. jet crashInvestigators and firefighters stand next to the tail section of a small jet that crash landed and ran into a hangar at Santa Monica Airport in Santa Monica, California September 30, 2013. The fiery crash-landing of the small jet killed all aboard, though the number of victims has yet to be determined, airport and federal safety officials said on Monday. The twin-engine Cessna Citation swerved off the right side of the runway on landing at Santa Monica Municipal Airport at about 6:20 p.m. local time on Sunday, slammed into a hangar and burst into flames, airport manager Stelios Makrides said. REUTERS/Kevork Djamsezian (UNITED STATES - Tags: TRANSPORT DISASTER)

Airlines promise a return to civility—for a fee

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 08:40 AM PDT

Airlines promise a return to civility, for a feeAirlines are introducing a new bevy of fees, but this time passengers might actually like them. Unlike the first generation of charges which dinged fliers for once-free services like checking a bag, these ...

Pope Francis wants sainthood for two papal predecessors

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 02:19 PM PDT

Pope Francis prays in front of the tomb of John XXIII in St Peter's Basilica on June 3, 2013 at The VaticanVatican City (AFP) - The Vatican on Monday said late popes John Paul II and John XXIII would be made saints at an unprecedented joint ceremony on April 27, 2014 in a bid to unite Catholic conservatives and liberals.

Government shutdown: Who's going to feel it?

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 01:27 PM PDT

The sun rises behind the White House in Washington, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. Locked in a deepening struggle with President Barack Obama, the Republican-controlled House approved legislation early Sunday imposing a one-year delay in key parts of the nation's health care law and repealing a tax on medical devices as the price for avoiding a partial government shutdown in a few days' time. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Buying a home will be tougher—and skip the visit to the Statue of Liberty.

Calif. plane crash was 'unsurvivable'

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 09:57 AM PDT

Firefighters work to extinguish fire at the site of a plane crash in Santa Monica, Calif., on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. Authorities say a twin-jet Cessna Citation went off the right side of the runway and crashed into a hangar after landing about 6:20 p.m. It was not immediately clear how many people were on the plane or whether anyone was inside the hangar, and there was no immediate word on any injuries or deaths. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)Investigators so far are unable to determine how many people were aboard the private jet.

Amanda Knox retrial begins without her

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 10:15 AM PDT

The retrial of Amanda Knox, seen here in Seattle after her release from an Italian prison, and her former lover for the murder of a British student begins in Florence on Monday, reanimating debate over who lies behind the notorious killingsFlorence (Italy) (AFP) - Judges at the retrial of Amanda Knox for the murder of a British student on Monday ordered new DNA testing on the alleged murder weapon, a kitchen knife, on the first day of hearings.

Who'll blink? Dems, GOP in shutdown stare down

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 08:16 PM PDT

An empty hallway in the U.S. Capitol Sunday morning, Sept. 29, 2013, as a government shutdown looms, in Washington. The political and economic stakes mounting with each tick of the clock, the White House and congressional Democrats say a House-approved delay in President Barack Obama's health care law does nothing but push Washington to the brink of the first government shutdown in 17 years. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)With the government on the brink of a shutdown, both sides are holding their ground.

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