| Obama makes historic call to Iranian president Posted: 27 Sep 2013 01:08 PM PDT  He also scolded GOP demands in a deal to avoid a gov't shutdown.
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| Iranian President Rouhani takes to Twitter after chat Posted: 27 Sep 2013 02:45 PM PDT  Describing his phone conversation with President Obama as "historic," Iranian President Hassan Rouhani took to Twitter on Friday with a series of a fascinating messages that stunned and encouraged many foreign policy observers.
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| Pop quiz: What’s wrong with the tea party? Posted: 27 Sep 2013 11:31 AM PDT  Twenty-two percent of Americans, Gallup says, back the tea party. That's down from 32 percent shortly after the 2010 midterm elections, when the GOP captured the U.S. House. Half of respondents said they neither support nor oppose the tea party, or simply have no opinion.
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| Senate passes bill to avert shutdown Posted: 27 Sep 2013 11:03 AM PDT  With a shutdown looming, House Republicans must respond before Tuesday.
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| Kenyan hero's harrowing tale of rescues in mall massacre Posted: |
| Car bomb kills 30 in town north of Syrian capital Posted: 27 Sep 2013 10:16 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — A car bomb exploded near a mosque north of the Syrian capital as worshippers emerged from Friday prayers, killing at least 30 people, causing part of the building's roof to collapse and littering the street with smoldering debris, activists said.
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| Climate panel: warming 'extremely likely' man-made Posted: 27 Sep 2013 08:47 AM PDT  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Scientists now believe it's "extremely likely" that human activity is the dominant cause of global warming, a long-term trend that is clear despite a recent plateau in the temperatures, an international climate panel said Friday.
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| Clinton meeting showcases a political family Posted: 27 Sep 2013 09:13 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — On its face, the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting provides a platform for Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton to announce a series of financial commitments from corporations, nongovernmental organizations and philanthropists to address intractable problems around the globe.
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| 8 dead, dozens missing in India building cave-in Posted: 27 Sep 2013 07:54 AM PDT  MUMBAI, India (AP) — Rescuers pulled a small girl alive from a collapsed apartment building in India's financial capital nearly 12 hours after the structure caved in Friday, killing at least eight people and leaving dozens trapped under the rubble.
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| Colo. immigrants face uncertainty after floods Posted: 27 Sep 2013 10:48 AM PDT  EVANS, Colo. (AP) — Immigrants living in the U.S. illegally returned to their mobile home parks in flood-ravaged Colorado to find that there was little left to salvage — not the water-damaged cars, not the old family pictures and not the sheds carried away by the rushing waters.
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| NSA watchdog details surveillance misuse Posted: 27 Sep 2013 10:53 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Some workers at the National Security Agency intentionally misused the government's secret surveillance systems at least 12 times over the past decade, including instances when they spied on spouses, boyfriends or girlfriends, according to embarrassing new details disclosed by the agency's inspector general. In nearly every case, the workers were allowed to retire before they could be punished.
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| In heart of the Rim Fire, regeneration has begun Posted: 27 Sep 2013 10:00 AM PDT  TUOLUMNE CITY, Calif. (AP) — In the midst of a foreboding canyon scorched bare by the Sierra Nevada's most destructive fire in centuries, tiny ferns unfurl along a spring, black oaks push through charred soil normally blanketed with pine needles and a hawk soars above towering dead and denuded trees.
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| Watchdog hopes Syrian inspections begin by Tuesday Posted: 27 Sep 2013 09:26 AM PDT  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The inspectors responsible for tracking down Syria's chemical arms stockpile and verifying its destruction plan to start in Syria by Tuesday. They will face their tightest deadlines ever and work right in the heart of a war zone, according to a draft decision obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
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| Miss World drama fueled by host country Indonesia Posted: 27 Sep 2013 08:49 AM PDT  JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Beauty queens and backstage drama may seem inevitable, but at this year's Miss World competition, something more serious than hair-pulling and name-calling has come from host country Indonesia: Muslim hardliners have threatened to hijack the competition despite major concessions from the government and organizers.
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| Cuba lets athletes compete in foreign leagues Posted: 27 Sep 2013 07:15 AM PDT  HAVANA (AP) — Cuba announced Friday that its athletes will be allowed to sign contracts to compete in foreign leagues, a shift from decades of policy that held professional sports to be anathema to socialist ideals.
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| Iran, UN agency nuclear probe talks positive Posted: 27 Sep 2013 10:33 AM PDT  VIENNA (AP) — Iranian and U.N. officials held a "constructive" meeting on resuming a probe of allegations that Tehran has worked on atomic arms, officials said Friday after talks seen as an encouraging test of pledges by Iran's new president to reduce nuclear tensions.
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| Syrian arsenal inspections to begin by Tuesday Posted: 27 Sep 2013 06:47 AM PDT  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The inspectors responsible for tracking down Syria's chemical arms stockpile and verifying its destruction plan to start in Syria by Tuesday. They will face their tightest deadlines ever and work right in the heart of a war zone, according to a draft decision obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
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| FAA to weigh easing limits on electronic devices Posted: 27 Sep 2013 08:47 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — With the blessing of an influential advisory panel, federal regulators are closer to letting airline passengers use their smartphones, tablets, e-readers and other electronic gadgets during takeoffs and landings.
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| 'If you build it, they will come'? Posted: 27 Sep 2013 09:32 AM PDT  A poll shows nearly half of Americans have never heard of health care exchanges.
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| Watch live: Obama statement on gov't shutdown fight Posted:  The president comments after the Senate rolled back Obamacare funding cuts.
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| 10 things to waste your time with this weekend Posted: 27 Sep 2013 10:41 AM PDT  The Procrastinaut is back, with a level-headed chicken and nine decades of Bigfoot sightings!
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| 'Faces of Facebook' displays all 1.2 billion profile pics in one screen Posted: 27 Sep 2013 07:55 AM PDT  Find out what your FACE # is with this Facebook web project.
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| Countdown to the shutdown Posted: 27 Sep 2013 09:12 AM PDT  The Senate is set to OK a budget bill, but the fight is just beginning in the House.
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| Eight held over Nairobi mall attack, al Shabaab issues new threat Posted: 27 Sep 2013 03:55 PM PDT  By James Macharia and Matthew Mpoke Bigg NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan authorities are holding eight people in connection with an attack by Islamist militants on a Nairobi shopping mall and have released three others after the assault that killed 67 civilians and soldiers, the interior minister said on Friday. Somali Islamist group al Shabaab said Saturday's attack, which ended after a four-day siege by soldiers and police, was "just the premiere of Act 1" and suggested it would be followed by other actions by its "warriors". ...
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| Why 'lap kids' deserve a seat of their own Posted: 17 Sep 2013 06:21 PM PDT  An airline safety advocate makes a case to end the practice.
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| NSA workers spied on significant others, says watchdog Posted: 27 Sep 2013 07:06 AM PDT  By Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least a dozen U.S. National Security Agency employees have abused secret surveillance programs in the past decade, most often to spy on their significant others, according to the latest findings of the agency's internal watchdog. In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee's top Republican, Charles Grassley, NSA Inspector General George Ellard outlined 12 instances of "intentional misuse" of the agency's intelligence gathering programs since January 1, 2003. ...
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| In the Bronx, Rivera steps from the mound for the last time Posted: |
| Rights groups say 50 dead after Sudanese protests Posted: 27 Sep 2013 06:12 AM PDT  By Khalid Abdelaziz and Ulf Laessing KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of Sudanese demanding the resignation of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir after rights groups accused security forces of shooting dead at least 50 people in the worst unrest in Sudan's central region for years. Around 3,000 people, angered by a police crackdown on protests against the lifting of fuel subsidies, took to the streets after Friday prayers in Khartoum's twin-city Omdurman across the Nile, shouting "freedom, freedom" and "the people want the fall of the regime". ...
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| Obama knocks his 'desperate' fat-cat critics Posted: 27 Sep 2013 04:04 AM PDT  The president also says they watch too much Fox News.
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| Get 'em some coffee Posted: 27 Sep 2013 05:33 AM PDT  A disturbing number of British pilots admit to falling asleep in the cockpit.
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| Kenyan forces caused mall collapse, official says Posted: 27 Sep 2013 10:20 AM PDT  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's military caused the massive collapse of three floors of Nairobi's Westgate Mall during the terrorist siege in which at least 67 people died, a top-ranking government official said Wednesday.
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| Baby rescued hours after Mumbai building collapse Posted: 27 Sep 2013 04:54 AM PDT  MUMBAI, India (AP) — Rescuers have pulled a baby alive from the rubble of a building 11 hours after it collapsed in Mumbai, India's financial capital.
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| Iran, U.N. nuclear agency to meet again after "constructive" talks Posted: 27 Sep 2013 09:47 AM PDT  By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran and the U.N. nuclear agency held "constructive" talks on Friday and made plans to meet again in one month, adding to momentum for a negotiated end to a standoff that could otherwise potentially flare into war. The discussions in Vienna, home of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), took place as new President Hassan Rouhani was telling world powers in New York he wanted a deal within months to end the long-running dispute. ...
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| Building collapse kills four in India's Mumbai, scores trapped Posted: 27 Sep 2013 04:16 AM PDT By Rajendra Jadhav MUMBAI (Reuters) - A five-storey apartment block collapsed on Friday in the Indian financial centre of Mumbai, killing at least four people and trapping scores in the latest accident to underscore shoddy building standards in Asia's third-largest economy. The building collapsed at about 5:45 a.m. (0015 GMT) and more than 110 people were still trapped by early afternoon, said Ram Barot, a official of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai. The corporation's employees were housed in the building. ... |
| Ahead of talks, feds find $100M for broke Detroit Posted: 27 Sep 2013 04:34 AM PDT  DETROIT (AP) — The federal fingerprint in efforts to fix Detroit is growing larger as the Obama administration has found millions of dollars in grant money to help the bankrupt city hire more police and firefighters, and clear out blighted neighborhoods.
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