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Former Sen. Fred Thompson, had TV and film roles, dead at 73

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 04:55 PM PST

File photo of former US Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee speaking at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. PaulNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Fred Thompson, a folksy former Republican U.S. senator from Tennessee who appeared in feature films and television including a role on "Law & Order," died Sunday, his family said.


Jeb Bush: ‘I know that I got to get better at doing the debate’

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 12:41 PM PST

Jeb Bush: 'I know that I got to get better at doing the debate'Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush says he knows he needs to improve his lackluster performance in the debates if he's going to have a chance at the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. "I know that I got to get better at doing the debate," Bush said in an interview that aired on NBC's "Meet The Press" Sunday. "I'm a grinder. I mean, when I see that I'm not doing something well then I reset and I get better."


Turkey's ruling party sweeps back to majority in parliament

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 03:28 PM PST

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu salutes supporters gathered outside ruling Justice and Development Party headquarters in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015. Turkey's ruling party appeared to sweep back into single-party rule after a stunning victory in Sunday's parliamentary election, and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu declared victory.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has declared victory for his ruling party after preliminary election results showed it restoring its majority in parliament.


Paul Ryan’s first challenge as House speaker

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 11:27 AM PST

Newly-elected House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., is escorted to the House chamber following the resignation of John Boehner, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015. With a new speaker in the House and a major budget-and-debt deal completed, lawmakers hope they are entering a welcome period of calm _ even boredom _ on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Newly elected House Speaker Paul Ryan says it's time for his fellow House Republicans to "take some policy risks" on an ambitious conservative agenda that includes comprehensive tax reform, an overhaul of federal poverty programs and the replacement of the Affordable Care Act, President Obama's signature health care law better known as Obamacare.


Investigators probe deadly Russian plane crash in Egypt

Posted: 31 Oct 2015 11:50 PM PDT

The bodies of victims of the Russian airliner that crashed in Hassana a mountainous area of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, arrive at the Zeinhom Morgue in Cairo on October 31, 2015Cairo and Moscow reject a claim from an Islamist group that it downed the aircraft.


Prices, politics challenge Obamacare's 3rd sign-up season

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 08:02 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2015 file photo, the HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, is displayed on a laptop screen in Washington. The government's insurance website is faster and easier to use, but as a third sign-up season gets underway, President Barack Obama's health care law is approaching limits. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The government's insurance website is faster and easier to use, but as a third sign-up season gets underway, President Barack Obama's health care law is approaching limits.


Paul Ryan: It would be 'ridiculous' to work with Obama on immigration

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 09:43 AM PST

Newly elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Ryan wields the speaker's gavel for the first time on Capitol Hill in WashingtonBy Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan on Sunday ruled out working with President Barack Obama on overhauling U.S. immigration policy, saying it would be "a ridiculous notion" to pursue legislation because Obama cannot be trusted on the issue. Republicans have fought Obama's unilateral steps that bypassed a gridlocked Congress to try to shield millions of illegal immigrants from deportation. Obama's executive orders, announced last November but put on hold by the courts, would let up to 4.7 million illegal immigrants stay without threat of deportation.


U.S. completes complex test of layered missile defense system

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 02:55 PM PST

A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor is launched during a successful intercept testThe U.S. military on Sunday hailed the success of a complex $230 million test of the U.S. missile defense system that it said showed the ability of the Aegis and THAAD weapons systems to identify and destroy ballistic and cruise missiles at once. The test was conducted near Wake Island in the western Pacific Ocean around 11:05 p.m. EDT by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, U.S. European Command, U.S. Pacific Command, the Ballistic Missile Defense System Operational Test Agency and the Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense.


Former U.S. senator, actor Fred Thompson dies: report

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 03:39 PM PST

Former U.S. Republican party presidential candidate Thompson leaves a debate in Johnston(Reuters) - Fred Thompson, a former Republican U.S. senator from Tennessee who also ran for president and was a longtime film and television actor, has died at age 73, the Nashville Tennessean reported on Sunday. Thompson died on Sunday from a recurrence of lymphoma, the newspaper said, quoting a statement by his family. "It is with a heavy heart and a deep sense of grief that we share the passing of our brother, husband, father, and grandfather who died peacefully in Nashville surrounded by his family," the statement said.


U.S. Navy salvage team seeks to confirm wreckage of sunken El Faro

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 03:23 PM PST

Handout of the cargo ship El Faro in JacksonvilleBy David Adams MIAMI (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy salvage team prepared on Sunday to launch a remotely operated submersible to confirm that wreckage discovered near the Bahamas was that of the cargo ship El Faro, lost in a hurricane last month along with its 33 crew members. The team's mission is to document the shipwreck and any debris field, and to retrieve the sunken vessel's voyage data recorder - similar to an airplane's black box - as part of an investigation into its loss, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). If human remains are encountered during the submersible operation the Navy will attempt to recover them, NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson said.


East German who announced Berlin Wall opening dies at 86

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 07:52 AM PST

FILE - The Nov. 8, 1989 file photo shows the chairman of DDR privy council Egon Krenz and Guenther Schabowski, member of politburo, as they talk to demonstrators in front of the SED headquarters in East Berlin. Schabowski, whose cryptic announcement that the communist country was opening its fortified border precipitated the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, has died, his widow Irina Schabowski tells the German news agency dpa. He was 86 and died in a Berlin nursing home on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Klostermeier, file)BERLIN (AP) — Guenter Schabowski, the senior East German official whose cryptic announcement that the communist country was opening its fortified border precipitated the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, died Sunday at 86.


Police say gunman kills 3 in downtown Colorado Springs

Posted: 31 Oct 2015 03:06 PM PDT

Police investigate the scene after a shooting Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015, in Colorado Springs, Colo. Multiple are dead, including a suspected gunman, following a shooting spree according to authorities. Lt. Catherine Buckley said the crime scene covers several major downtown streets. (Christian Murdock/The Gazette via AP) MAGS OUT; MANDATORY CREDITCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A man marching down the street shot and killed three people on Saturday, before being fatally shot in a gunbattle with police, authorities and witnesses said.


S. Korea, Japan, China leaders agree to mend strained ties

Posted: 01 Nov 2015 02:07 AM PST

South Korean President Park Geun-hye, center, shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang as they meet to hold a trilateral summit at the presidential house in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015. The leaders of South Korea, China and Japan met Sunday in their first summit talks in more than three years, as the Northeast Asian powers struggle to find common ground amid bickering over history and territorial disputes. (Lee Jong-hoon/Yonhap via AP) KOREA OUTSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The biggest result of the first meeting of South Korean, Chinese and Japanese leaders in more than three years? More meetings.


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