| Police: Suspect in Capitol chase is dead Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:14 PM PDT  Two officers were injured 'just doing their job,' officials say.
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| Can immigration reform survive the shutdown? Posted: 03 Oct 2013 01:31 PM PDT  Advocates of immigration reform just can't catch a break. First it was Syria. Now the entire federal government is shut down. And an all but inevitable fight over the debt ceiling in two weeks is likely to push reforms even further out of the spotlight.
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| TWTR makes IPO filing public, looks to raise $1B Posted: 03 Oct 2013 02:10 PM PDT  In line with earlier reports, Twitter on Thursday made its IPO filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission public. Twitter filed an S-1 confidentially earlier this year, and it was able to do so because its annual revenue was less than $1 billion in 2012. The company's S-1 is now public, shedding light on Twitter's financials for the first time ahead of its upcoming initial public offering. The company will look to raise $1 billion with its IPO, and it will be underwritten by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and several other banks. Twitter shares will trade under the ticker TWTR. The company's S-1 states that Twitter pulled in $316 million in revenue in 2012, and it posted a
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| Her shoes were made for running; Wendy Davis bids for governor Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:28 PM PDT  HALTOM CITY, Texas (AP) — Democrat Wendy Davis promised a more populist and bipartisan state government in Texas as she declared her long-anticipated candidacy for governor Thursday, but she didn't mention abortion rights, the subject that brought her to national attention.
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| Ship capsizes off Italy; 114 African migrants die Posted: 03 Oct 2013 02:03 PM PDT  ROME (AP) — The rickety fishing boat was the third of the night to head toward the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, overloaded with African migrants seeking a better life in Europe. Most never reached shore.
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| Twitter unseals IPO papers, hopes to raise $1B Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:43 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter has unsealed the documents for its planned initial public offering of stock and says it hopes to raise up to $1 billion in one of the year's most eagerly awaited stock market debuts.
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| Ex-official pleads no contest to Bell corruption Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:09 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A disgraced former city manager accused of masterminding a brazen municipal corruption scandal that drove a modest Los Angeles suburb to the brink of bankruptcy pleaded no contest Thursday to 69 counts of fraud, misappropriation of public funds and other charges.
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| NY mom who killed 3 kids wants cut of their estate Posted: 03 Oct 2013 02:45 PM PDT  MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A mentally disturbed woman who drowned her three young children in a bathtub is going to court to ask a judge for a cut of their $350,000 estate.
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| Chicago burger garnished with communion wafer Posted: 03 Oct 2013 02:44 PM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago restaurant has cooked up a controversial burger of the month for October, garnishing it with an unconsecrated communion wafer and a red wine reduction sauce.
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| Pills made from poop cure serious gut infections Posted: 03 Oct 2013 08:32 AM PDT  Hold your nose and don't spit out your coffee: Doctors have found a way to put healthy people's poop into pills that can cure serious gut infections — a less yucky way to do "fecal transplants." Canadian researchers tried this on 27 patients and cured them all after strong antibiotics failed to help.
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| 60 possible new species found in Suriname forest Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:04 PM PDT  KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Braving perilous river rapids in Suriname's rainforest, international scientists found six frogs and 11 fish that are among 60 creatures that may be new species, a tropical ecologist with a U.S.-based conservation group said Thursday.
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| California gives immigrants driver's licenses Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:33 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — California on Thursday joined the growing list of states that allow immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally to obtain driver's licenses — a measure supported not only by Latino activists but by police chiefs and insurance authorities.
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| NBC show will send someone into space Posted: 03 Oct 2013 01:31 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — NBC is planning a competition show with a grand prize that's out of this world: a ride into space.
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| Police: Suspect killed in Capitol Hill chase Posted: 03 Oct 2013 03:24 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The District of Columbia's police chief says the suspect who led police on a chase from the White House to the Capitol is dead.
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| Police shoot driver outside Capitol after chase Posted: 03 Oct 2013 03:06 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A woman driving a black Infiniti with a young child inside tried to ram through a White House barricade Thursday, then led police on a chase toward the Capitol, where police shot and killed her, witnesses and officials said. |
| Gulf Coast braces for Tropical Storm Karen Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:00 PM PDT  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — From a tiny, vulnerable island off the Louisiana coast to the beaches of the Florida Panhandle, Gulf Coast residents prepared Thursday for a possible hit from Tropical Storm Karen, which threatened to become the first named tropical system to menace the United States this year.
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| Ex-MLB player Chad Curtis sentenced to 7-15 years Posted: 03 Oct 2013 02:23 PM PDT  HASTINGS, Mich. (AP) — Former major league outfielder Chad Curtis was sentenced Thursday to seven to 15 years in prison for inappropriately touching teenage girls.
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| Calif. city official pleads no contest in high-profile corruption case Posted: 03 Oct 2013 01:38 PM PDT By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The former city manager of the California city of Bell, who became an emblem of local government corruption when it was revealed in 2010 that he was earning a salary of nearly $800,000, abruptly pleaded no contest on Thursday to charges ranging from perjury to misappropriating public funds. Robert Rizzo, 56, entered his pleas less than a week before jury selection was scheduled to begin in his high-profile public corruption trial and without cutting a deal with prosecutors, Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey said. ... |
| Tropical Storm Karen headed for Gulf Coast states Posted: 03 Oct 2013 03:45 PM PDT  By Jane Sutton MIAMI (Reuters) - The first cyclone to threaten the U.S. coast this year formed over the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday and was forecast to sweep through offshore oil installations before hitting the mainland between Louisiana and the Florida Panhandle, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Some oil industry workers in the Gulf were evacuated from offshore platforms as Tropical Storm Karen approached a region that produces nearly a fifth of daily U.S. oil output. Three days after much of the U.S. ...
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| Obama: Boehner keeping government shut Posted: 03 Oct 2013 09:26 AM PDT  He also issued dire warnings on the upcoming debt-ceiling deadline.
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| NY SUV driver's wife: We were in 'grave danger' Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:24 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The driver of an SUV involved in a bloody weekend confrontation with a throng of motorcyclists was put in "grave danger" and feared for the life of his family when he drove through the crowd, striking a biker on the street, his wife said Thursday.
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| All clear after shots fired at U.S. Capitol Posted:  A police car was seen chasing a vehicle when the shots rang out.
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| 'We need only caskets': More than 100 dead in shipwreck off Italy Posted: 03 Oct 2013 09:14 AM PDT  ROME (AP) — A ship carrying African migrants to Europe caught fire and capsized Thursday off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, killing at least 114 people as hundreds were dumped into the sea, officials said. Over 150 people were rescued but about the same number were still unaccounted for.
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| 'You're beautiful but you have to be honest' Posted: 03 Oct 2013 07:44 AM PDT  Rep. Todd Rokita prefaced a response to CNN's Carol Costello during a debate over shutdown pay by praising her beauty.
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| Officials scramble to provide access to Obamacare sites Posted: 03 Oct 2013 03:50 PM PDT  By David Morgan and Curtis Skinner WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Americans trying to find out how much health coverage will cost under Obamacare endured a third day of limited access to new online health insurance exchanges on Thursday, leading to a growing backlog of people waiting to enter the system. Health clinics and other nonprofit groups that offer in-person assistance reported unexpectedly high numbers of walk-in visits and phone calls from potential enrollees, who were unable to enter federal and state marketplace websites that were overwhelmed by millions of online hits. ...
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| Shutdown, Day 3: No signs of a way out Posted: 03 Oct 2013 08:43 AM PDT  Meanwhile, a bigger problem looms -- the debt ceiling.
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| Over 100 dead, 200 missing as migrant boat sinks off Italy Posted: 03 Oct 2013 09:33 AM PDT  "It's horrific, like a cemetery, they are still bringing them out," Lampedusa's mayor said.
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| Overflowing tank cause of new leak at Fukushima Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:46 AM PDT  TOKYO (AP) — Another day, another radioactive-water spill. The operator of the meltdown-plagued Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant says at least 430 liters (110 gallons) spilled when workers overfilled a storage tank without a gauge that could have warned them of the danger.
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| 'Killer hornets' kill 42 in China Posted: 03 Oct 2013 03:03 AM PDT  Beijing (AFP) - Swarms of hornets have killed 42 people in northwestern China in recent months, state media said Thursday, as temperatures rise and development drives the stinging insects into cities.
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| Army ranger remembers ‘Black Hawk Down’ 20 years later Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:23 AM PDT  Power Players Twenty years after retired U.S. Army Ranger Jeff Struecker led a squad of elite forces into Mogadishu on a failed rescue mission that inspired the film "Black Hawk Down," he returned to the site of the battle in Somalia and said the memories of the 17-hour-long firefight came rushing back. "When I went [...]
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| No end in sight as shutdown enters day three Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:14 AM PDT  White House talks between President Obama and top lawmakers yield no signs of progress.
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| NSA reveals more about its spying efforts at home Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:14 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Top U.S. intelligence officials are revealing more about their spying in an effort to defend the National Security Agency from charges that it has invaded the privacy of Americans on a mass scale. Yet the latest disclosure — the NSA tried to track Americans' cellphone locations — has only added to the concerns of lawmakers.
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| Kerry: 'Diplomatic malpractice' not to engage Iran Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:42 AM PDT  TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday it would be "diplomatic malpractice of the worst order" not to test Iran's willingness to comply with international demands over its nuclear program.
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