| 'We made it. No more fear... No more Taliban' Posted: 30 Oct 2013 11:27 AM PDT  Afghan War ally Janis Shinwari finally finds safety in America.
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| No brainer: Congressmen knock Sebelius with 'Wizard of Oz' jokes Posted: 30 Oct 2013 12:51 PM PDT  Sebelius was once the governor of Kansas, so there's only one joke you can make, obviously.
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| Britain approves new rules to regulate its press Posted: 30 Oct 2013 01:33 PM PDT  By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - Britain approved a new system of regulating its press on Wednesday, a move newspapers said was draconian and threatened freedom of speech but which former victims of press excess described as long overdue. "It'll protect freedom of press and offer redress when mistakes are made," Britain's ministry of culture said on its official Twitter feed. All three main political parties, including Prime Minister David Cameron's ruling Conservatives, back the new rules. Britain's press has tried and failed to block the new system via the courts, arguing it would expose the industry to possible political interference since the British parliament will be able to change the system if it wants to.
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| Fed keeps interest-rate policies in place, cites moderate growth Posted: 30 Oct 2013 01:51 PM PDT  The Federal Reserve says its low interest-rate policies are still needed to invigorate a subpar U.S. economy. In a statement Wednesday after a policy meeting, the Fed said it would keep buying $85 billion ...
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| Iraq seeking new US aid after pushing out troops Posted: 30 Oct 2013 03:18 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 civil war.
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| For Obama, risks and rewards in knowing too much Posted: 30 Oct 2013 04:04 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Confronted with missteps in his own administration, President Barack Obama has frequently pleaded ignorance — suggesting he could not be at fault about things he did not know.
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| Israel plans more than 1,500 new settlement homes Posted: 30 Oct 2013 12:30 PM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel announced plans Wednesday to build more than 1,500 homes in Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, dealing a setback to newly relaunched peace efforts hours after it had freed a group of long-serving Palestinian prisoners.
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| Report: NSA broke into Yahoo, Google data centers Posted: 30 Oct 2013 03:56 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
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| NY bus driver saves woman from jumping off bridge Posted: 30 Oct 2013 02:44 PM PDT  BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A bus driver is being hailed as a hero for preventing a woman from jumping off a Buffalo highway overpass.
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| 2nd mistress testifies in murder trial of Utah doc Posted: 30 Oct 2013 04:31 PM PDT  PROVO, Utah (AP) — Another mistress of a former Utah doctor accused of killing his wife testified Wednesday that he had once described how he could induce a heart attack in someone that would appear natural.
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| Search for dark matter comes up empty so far Posted: 30 Oct 2013 01:47 PM PDT  LEAD, S.D. (AP) — Nearly a mile underground in an abandoned gold mine, one of the most important quests in physics has so far come up empty in the search for the elusive substance known as dark matter, scientists announced Wednesday.
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| Earth-size planet found with rocky core like ours Posted: 30 Oct 2013 01:17 PM PDT  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have found a planet way out in the cosmos that's close in size and content to Earth — an astronomical first.
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| Facebook 3Q results fly past expectations Posted: 30 Oct 2013 03:58 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook's latest quarterly results showed continued strength in mobile advertising, which spurred a 60 percent revenue increase in the July-September quarter.
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| Obama cites early setbacks of Mass. health law Posted: 30 Oct 2013 03:46 PM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — President Barack Obama chose the site where Massachusetts' health care system became law to promote his signature health insurance program, arguing that the state plan also faced initial setbacks and low enrollment but in time gained popularity and became a success.
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| US budget deficit down to $680B, lowest in 5 years Posted: 30 Oct 2013 02:17 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time in five years, the U.S. government has run a budget deficit below $1 trillion.
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| New security issues surface as Sebelius testifies Posted: 30 Oct 2013 01:35 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's embattled top health official declared herself accountable Wednesday for failures of the much-maligned health insurance website as a newly surfaced government memo pointed to security concerns that were laid out just days before its launch.
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| Obama says he's 'not happy' with health care woes Posted: 30 Oct 2013 02:40 PM PDT BOSTON (AP) — Declaring himself "not happy" with health care enrollment problems, President Barack Obama said Wednesday he takes "full responsibility" for resolving the computer problems that have bedeviled the administration and undermined a key step in the health care law. "We're going to see this through," he said. |
| Watch live: Obama touts Massachusetts health care plan Posted:  The President is speaking in Boston
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| Learning to fly without leaving the ground Posted: 30 Oct 2013 07:53 AM PDT  Graduates from one major flight school aim to take control of drones.
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| Sebelius: No one indicated healthcare rollout could 'go this wrong' Posted: 30 Oct 2013 09:54 AM PDT Health and Human Service secretary takes responsibility of Obamacare website troubles. |
| Scientists 'watch' dinosaur take its first steps in 94 million years Posted: 30 Oct 2013 09:14 AM PDT  The Argentinosaurus is one of the largest known dinosaurs, but scientists were unsure how exactly the massive creature plodded across the Cretaceous Earth, until now. Using sophisticated computer models, researchers have digitally reconstructed the Argentinosaurus, enabling them to "watch" the dinosaur take its first steps in over 94 million years. A team of researchers led by Bill Sellers, a professor of computational and evolutionary biology at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, used lasers to scan a 131-foot-long (40 meters) skeleton of the Argentinosaurus huinculensis. The scientists then created advanced computer models to digitally recreate how the dinosaur walked and ran.
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| Saudi police hold writer who opposed ban on women driving Posted: 30 Oct 2013 08:50 AM PDT  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi authorities have detained a columnist who supported ending his country's ban on women driving, activists said Wednesday.
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| Murdoch editors must have known of phone hacking, court hears Posted: 30 Oct 2013 04:38 PM PDT  By Michael Holden and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Rebekah Brooks, a former top editor, and Andy Coulson, Prime Minister David Cameron's ex-media chief, oversaw a system of phone-hacking and illegal payments when they ran Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids, a London court heard at the start of their trial on Wednesday. Setting out the prosecution case, Andrew Edis said Brooks was linked to both phone-hacking that ruined the tabloid News of the World and the practice of paying public officials for stories at its sister newspaper, the Sun. Brooks, 45, later ran Murdoch's British newspaper division from 2009 to 2011.
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| U.N.: 7.3 million teen births in developing world Posted: 30 Oct 2013 07:29 AM PDT  Teen pregnancies in the developing world are declining, but more than 7 million girls under the age of 18 are still giving birth each year, according to a United Nations report released Wednesday. The ...
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| With just hours to spare, Virginia woman cashes $100K lottery ticket Posted: 30 Oct 2013 06:25 AM PDT  With just hours before a deadline on a $100,000 lottery ticket was about to expire, a Virginia woman made a very profitable discovery.
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| NYC Police Commissioner Kelly booed offstage over 'stop-and-frisk' Posted: 30 Oct 2013 05:22 AM PDT  Top cop's lecture was halted on Tuesday after audience members disrupted the talk in protest of his controversial "stop and frisk" policy.
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| Will U.S. stop spying on allies? Not likely Posted: 30 Oct 2013 03:49 AM PDT  It all depends on if the spymasters really want change—and your definition of "friend."
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| Russia denies Italian reports it spied on G20 leaders Posted: 30 Oct 2013 03:56 AM PDT  ROME/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has denied reports that its intelligence services spied on hundreds of foreign delegates at a Group of 20 summit in St Petersburg in September using gifts such as teddy bears, diaries and free USB keys. Quoting a report from the European Council's security office to Italian intelligence services, Italy's Corriere della Sera daily has reported this week that at least 300 such devices were issued at the September 5-6 summit and were revealed to be spy gear during security debriefing sessions last month. The report fuels controversy over international espionage after reports that U.S. intelligence services had conducted telephone surveillance of allied countries and leaders. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he did not know what the source of the latest allegations was.
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| China police hold five over Tiananmen 'terror attack' Posted: 30 Oct 2013 09:50 AM PDT  Chinese authorities capture suspects in a fatal car crash on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
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| Sebelius apologizes for health law 'debacle' Posted: 30 Oct 2013 07:31 AM PDT The president's top health care official takes responsibility for web site problems. |
| Intel chief: Spying on allies is two-way street Posted: 30 Oct 2013 12:17 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nations spying on each other's leaders is a two-way street and a longtime practice in the intelligence world, according to the U.S. intelligence chief. But a surveillance sweep on phone records overseas that has prompted an anti-American backlash was carried out by European governments, not the U.S., another intelligence official said.
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| Live: Sebelius takes responsibility for Obamacare site trouble Posted: 30 Oct 2013 04:43 PM PDT  "Hold me accountable for the debacle," says the U.S. health secretary.
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| Live: Sebelius apologizes for health law rollout fiasco Posted: 30 Oct 2013 06:39 AM PDT  The Health and Human Services Secretary says she's sorry consumers have wasted time.
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| 6 people dead in SC in apparent domestic dispute Posted: 30 Oct 2013 09:23 AM PDT  GREENWOOD COUNTY, S.C. (AP) — Police found the bodies of six people ranging in age from 9 to the early 50s when they responded to a call from a man who said he was thinking about hurting himself.
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