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• Obamacare architect mocks critics
• Republicans mull response to Obama on immigration
• Philae probe drills into comet, turns toward light
• Window washers describe 'panic' of dangling 69 floors above New York
• U.S. seeks to ease influx of Central American child migrants
• First Muslim prayers at National Cathedral interrupted by protester
• Parents of Sandy Hook massacre victims get scant help from state
• Same-sex couples file Supreme Court appeal
• Keystone passes the House
• Walmart gets difficult Black Friday news
• Dallas-area teacher fired over racial tweets
• Inside Myanmar’s eerily empty capital
• Bad news for Google Glass fans
• Obama's Keystone position doesn't shift
• Obama to shield many from deportation
• Loophole for Nazis finally closed
• Tough decision for comet scientists
• Surgeon with Ebola coming to US for care
• Sources: Obama executive order to affect millions of immigrants

Obamacare architect mocks critics Posted: 14 Nov 2014 01:57 PM PST Jonathan Gruber made inappropriate comments while dismissing concerns about the law.

Republicans mull response to Obama on immigration Posted: 14 Nov 2014 02:34 PM PST The House GOP are debating how to respond to the president's executive action.

Philae probe drills into comet, turns toward light Posted: 14 Nov 2014 04:17 PM PST BERLIN (AP) — The spacecraft that landed on a comet performed two tricky maneuvers Friday, by drilling into the rocky surface and rotating itself to catch more sunlight.

Window washers describe 'panic' of dangling 69 floors above New York Posted: 14 Nov 2014 10:56 AM PST By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two window washers who dangled from a broken scaffold 69 floors above the ground at One World Trade Center said on Friday their emotions ranged from terror to resolved calm while they awaited rescue and the rest of New York held its breath. Two days after the harrowing accident at the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, Juan Lopez, 33, said the scare has convinced him to end his days of high-altitude work - at least for now. "There's a lot of options for window cleaning - a lot of ground floor jobs," he said. "I will probably do that. ...

U.S. seeks to ease influx of Central American child migrants Posted: 14 Nov 2014 10:53 AM PST By Anna Yukhananov and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington will allow some children in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to apply for refugee status from their home countries, Vice President Joe Biden announced on Friday, in a bid to stem an exodus of undocumented migrants to the U.S. border through Mexico. The program only applies to children whose parents are legal residents of the United States. But Biden said it should provide an alternative for children making the "harrowing" journey alone from Central America in order to join their parents. ...

First Muslim prayers at National Cathedral interrupted by protester Posted: 14 Nov 2014 04:01 PM PST By John Clarke WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first Muslim prayer service ever hosted at the National Cathedral, a landmark Christian church in the U.S. capital, was briefly interrupted on Friday by a lone anti-Islamic protester but the religious gathering continued with a theme of tolerance. The outburst came as dozens of Muslims knelt on prayer rugs below walls of stained glass and stone archways. The protester, a woman from Michigan who declined to give her name, managed to sneak into the tightly secured, invite-only service and interrupt the introduction. ...

Parents of Sandy Hook massacre victims get scant help from state Posted: 14 Nov 2014 11:17 AM PST By Richard Weizel NEWTOWN Connecticut (Reuters) - Parents of two children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Connecticut said on Friday that state officials had failed to provide them adequate mental health care in the wake of one of America's worst mass shootings. "We didn't even know we had been assigned a case worker the day of the shootings until a few days ago," said Jeremy Richman, the father of a six-year-old girl killed in the attack. The girl's mother, Jennifer Hansel, said "to this day" it is unclear how and where to get counseling. ...

Same-sex couples file Supreme Court appeal Posted: 14 Nov 2014 10:57 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Same-sex couples seeking the right to marry are asking the Supreme Court to settle the issue of gay marriage nationwide.

Keystone passes the House Posted: 14 Nov 2014 02:48 PM PST Next up for the controversial bill: the U.S. Senate.

Walmart gets difficult Black Friday news Posted: 14 Nov 2014 08:16 AM PST 1,600 stores across the U.S. may not operate the way the company expects.

Dallas-area teacher fired over racial tweets Posted: 14 Nov 2014 12:02 PM PST DUNCANVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Dallas-area school board fired a teacher Friday who posted racially charged tweets about the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.

Inside Myanmar’s eerily empty capital Posted: Inside Myanmar's eerily empty capital

Bad news for Google Glass fans Posted: 14 Nov 2014 08:27 AM PST By Alexei Oreskovic, Sarah McBride and Malathi Nayak SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - After two years of popping up at high-profile events sporting Google Glass, the gadget that transforms eyeglasses into spy-movie worthy technology, Google co-founder Sergey Brin sauntered bare-faced into a Silicon Valley red-carpet event on Sunday. He'd left his pair in the car, Brin told a reporter. The Googler, who heads up the top-secret lab which developed Glass, has hardly given up on the product -- he recently wore his pair to the beach. ...

Obama's Keystone position doesn't shift Posted: 14 Nov 2014 06:03 AM PST The president makes his stance clear as the GOP plans a major vote on the pipeline.

Obama to shield many from deportation Posted: 14 Nov 2014 11:36 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is considering a plan that would shield possibly around 5 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally from deportation as part of a broad set of executive actions that could be announced as early as next week, people familiar with the discussions say.

Loophole for Nazis finally closed Posted: 13 Nov 2014 12:50 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation Thursday to strip suspected Nazi war criminals of their Social Security benefits, insisting American taxpayers should not be underwriting the retirement of anyone who participated in the Third Reich's atrocities.

Tough decision for comet scientists Posted: 14 Nov 2014 03:56 PM PST Before their probe's batteries run out, scientists must decide on a risky procedure .

Surgeon with Ebola coming to US for care Posted: 14 Nov 2014 01:37 PM PST FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — A surgeon working in Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola and will be flown Saturday to the United States for treatment, officials from Sierra Leone and the United States said.

Sources: Obama executive order to affect millions of immigrants Posted: 13 Nov 2014 11:16 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is poised to act soon to unveil a series of executive actions on immigration that will shield possibly around 5 million immigrants living in the country illegally from deportation, according to advocates in touch with the White House.

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