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Obama doubles U.S. troop levels in Iraq

Posted: 07 Nov 2014 01:27 PM PST

President Barack Obama speaks to the media before a meeting with his cabinet members in the White House Cabinet Room in Washington, Friday, Nov. 7, 2014. A senior military official says that American military advisory teams will now go to Iraq's western Anbar province where Islamic State militants have been gaining ground and slaying men, women and children. The teams are part of President Barack Obama's new directive to expand the U.S. mission in Iraq by deploying another 1,500 U.S. troops to serve as advisers, trainers and security personnel. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The U.S. military will send 1,500 more soldiers to train and assist Kurdish forces.


Obama chooses NY prosecutor as attorney general

Posted: 07 Nov 2014 04:27 PM PST

Attorney General- LynchWASHINGTON (AP) — In a second trail-blazing pick for the nation's top law enforcement officer, President Barack Obama intends to nominate a federal prosecutor in New York to become the next attorney general and the first black woman to lead the Justice Department.


Mexico: Burned remains probably are 43 missing

Posted: 07 Nov 2014 03:24 PM PST

Mexico's Attorney General, Jesus Murillo Karam, third from left wearing a vest, leaves a hangar after meeting with relatives of the 43 missing students, at the airport in the state capital city of Chilpancingo, Mexico, Friday Nov. 7, 2014. Relatives of the missing students say Karam told them of finding six bags of unidentified human remains in the southern state of Guerrero near where their 43 sons disappeared Sept. 26. Karam could not say yet whether the remains were of the students, but the find opened a new avenue of investigation. (AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzalez)MEXICO CITY (AP) — Suspects in the disappearance of 43 college students have described a macabre and complicated mass murder and incineration of the victims carried out over an entire day and ending with their ashen remains being dumped into a river, Mexican authorities said Friday.


Obama to send 1,500 more troops to Iraq as campaign expands

Posted: 07 Nov 2014 03:44 PM PST

U.S. President Obama speaks as Secretary of Defense Hagel listens before the start of a Cabinet Meeting in the Cabinet Room at the White House in WashingtonBy Phil Stewart and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has approved sending up to 1,500 more troops to Iraq, roughly doubling the number of U.S. forces on the ground to advise and retrain Iraqis in their battle against the militant group Islamic State, U.S. officials said on Friday. Obama's decision greatly expands the scope of the U.S. campaign and the geographic distribution of American forces, some of whom will head into Iraq's fiercely contested western Anbar province for the first time to act as advisors. ...


Detroit wins court approval for plan to exit bankruptcy

Posted: 07 Nov 2014 03:06 PM PST

Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr addresses the media about the ruling on the Detroit municipal bankruptcy during a news conference in the Theodore J. Levin U.S. Courthouse in Detroit,By Lisa Lambert DETROIT (Reuters) - Detroit won U.S. Bankruptcy Court approval on Friday for a road map to end its fiscal free fall and revitalize a city sinking under a huge debt load and dysfunctional government. Judge Steven Rhodes confirmed the city's plan to shed about $7 billion of its $18 billion of debt and obligations and plow $1.7 billion into improvements, finding it both fair to creditors and feasible to implement. ...


Man charged with killing California couple, young sons

Posted: 07 Nov 2014 04:54 PM PST

San Bernardino Sheriff Deputy escorts Charles "Chase" Merritt into the courtroom for arraignment proceedings for the murder of the McStay family in Victorville, CaliforniaBy Pat Maio VICTORVILLE Calif. (Reuters) - An ex-convict was charged on Friday with four counts of murder in the slayings of a couple and their two young sons whose skeletal remains were found buried last year in the California desert, police and prosecutors said. The suspect, Charles "Chase" Merritt, 57, was described by police as a former business associate of the father, Joseph McStay, who was reported missing with his wife and two boys in February 2010 from the family's Southern California home. ...


Supreme Court to hear Obamacare subsidies case

Posted: 07 Nov 2014 01:43 PM PST

A man looks over the Affordable Care Act signup page on the HealthCare.gov website in New York in this photo illustrationBy Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a legal challenge to a key part of the Obamacare health law which, if successful, would deprive millions of Americans of tax-credit subsidies to help them afford health insurance coverage. In a one-sentence order, the court said it would take up a case brought by conservative challengers of the law, the most sweeping overhaul of U.S. healthcare in decades and President Barack Obama's signature domestic policy accomplishment. ...


Republican Ed Gillespie concedes Va. Senate race

Posted: 07 Nov 2014 12:45 PM PST

Virginia Republican Senate candidate Ed Gillespie tells his supporters that the race is too close to call at his election night party in Springfield, Va., Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014. Gillespie is running against Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Mark Warner. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)SPRINGFIELD, Va. (AP) — Republican Ed Gillespie on Friday conceded Virginia's Senate race to Democratic incumbent Mark Warner.


Grisly findings at MH17 crash site

Posted: 07 Nov 2014 09:43 AM PST

Parts of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 lie at the crash site in the village of Hrabove, Ukraine, on November 7, 2014Dutch investigators continue their difficult work at the MH17 crash site in Ukraine.


U.N. women's rights panel harsh accusation of China

Posted: 07 Nov 2014 09:37 AM PST

A Chinese national flag flies in front of Beijing Telegraph Building on a hazy morning in central BeijingBy Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - A United Nations women's rights watchdog has accused China of trying to silence activists and said some who had come to Geneva to testify about the country's record "fear reprisals" upon return. At least one female activist was prevented from going to the Swiss city under "travel restrictions" imposed by China, and others alleged their reports had been censored by "state agents", the panel said, calling for a halt to such practices. The U.N. ...


Democratic Senator leaves controversial group

Posted: 07 Nov 2014 07:00 AM PST

74664861Sen. Joe Manchin resigned a leadership position that raised many eyebrows in his party.


How McCain will soon take on Obama

Posted: 07 Nov 2014 01:44 AM PST

President Barack Obama and Sen. John McCainThe GOP Senate takeover has given McCain new means of facing off with his 2008 rival.


FBI defends 'ruse' it enacted 7 years ago

Posted: 07 Nov 2014 04:21 PM PST

FBI Director James B. ComeySEATTLE (AP) — The FBI's creation of a fake news story and impersonation of an Associated Press reporter during a criminal investigation undermine media credibility, blur the lines between law enforcement and the press and raise questions about whether the agency followed its own guidelines, free press advocates say.


Ukraine braces for more Russian artillery

Posted: 07 Nov 2014 07:22 AM PST

Pro-Russian separatists stand in formation in front of a Soviet World War Two T-34 tank, as they take an oath of loyalty to the separatist Interior ministry in DonetskBy Natalia Zinets and Vladimir Soldatkin KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ukraine's military accused Russia on Friday of sending a column of 32 tanks and truckloads of troops into the country's east to support pro-Russian separatists fighting government forces. Thursday's cross-border incursion, if confirmed, is a significant escalation of a conflict that has killed more than 4,000 people since the separatists rose up in mid-April and would call into question Russia's commitment to a two-month-old ceasefire deal. ...


Huge storm could bring big chill to US

Posted: 07 Nov 2014 10:26 AM PST

This Nov. 5, 2014 photo provided by NASA shows a picture captured by NASA's Aqua satellite of Typhoon Nuri. Weather forecasters say an explosive storm, a remnant of Typhoon Nuri, surpassing the intensity of 2012's Superstorm Sandy is heading toward the northern Pacific Ocean and expected to pass Alaska's Aleutian Islands over the weekend. (AP Photo/NASA)ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An explosive storm surpassing the intensity of 2012's Superstorm Sandy is expected to reach Alaska's western Aleutian Islands over the weekend and bring unseasonably frigid temperatures to much of the U.S. next week, weather forecasters said Thursday.


Why did Kim Jong-Un disappear?

Posted: 28 Oct 2014 03:32 AM PDT

Kim Jong-Un in PyongyangSouth Korea's spy agency believes North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, who recently dropped out of public view for nearly six weeks, had surgery to remove a cyst from his ankle, Yonhap news agency reported Tuesday. In a briefing for legislators, the National Intelligence Service (NIS) said it also had information that Kim had demoted around 200 military officers and that 50 executions had been carried out in the North so far this year. Citing ruling and opposition party MPs present at the briefing, Yonhap said the intelligence shared by NIS suggested a cyst had been found in Kim's ankle joint back in May. Foreign medical experts were flown to Pyongyang to carry out an operation to remove the cyst sometime in September or October, the agency said.


Gay marriage fight heats up

Posted: 06 Nov 2014 11:07 PM PST

Sean Lewrence, of Philadelphia, holds up a flag during a rally for gay marriageA month after the court declined to rule on gay marriage, the issue is headed back its way.


National Guard names 2 killed in copter crash

Posted: 07 Nov 2014 11:36 AM PST

A coroners van drives toward the crash siteBOISE, Idaho (AP) — Two chief warrant officers were killed when their Apache attack helicopter crashed during a training mission near the Boise airport, the Idaho Army National Guard said Friday.


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