| Latest House GOP proposal hits another snag Posted: 15 Oct 2013 04:42 PM PDT  The plan to end the shutdown may not have enought votes.
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| ‘Full Vitter’ lights up the Beltway's social media circles Posted: 15 Oct 2013 02:17 PM PDT  In the throes of an oftentimes seemingly hopeless debate over the government shutdown and the national debt limit, Beltway insiders have found a bit of levity on Tuesday by going "Full Vitter."
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| ATF raids Ariz. home, arrest alleged white supremacists Posted: 15 Oct 2013 04:24 PM PDT  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Two members of a notorious family that authorities say once tried to set up a whites-only nation in America were arrested this week in Arizona on federal firearms charges after a raid on a sprawling ranch netted dozens of weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
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| Sandy Hook school demolition crews sign confidentiality agreements Posted: 15 Oct 2013 11:35 AM PDT  By Richard Valdmanis BOSTON (Reuters) - Workers tearing down Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, site of one of Americas worst school shootings, have been required by the town to sign confidentiality agreements barring them from discussing or photographing the site. The move is aimed at protecting families of the victims from further airing of details of the incident in which a gunman entered the school last December and opened fire, killing 20 young children and six faculty and staff before turning his gun on himself, Selectman William Rodgers said. ...
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| Medal of Honor recipient asks to rejoin Army Posted: 15 Oct 2013 03:12 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Four years after risking his life in Afghanistan, William D. Swenson solemnly received the Medal of Honor on Tuesday in a case of battlefield bravery with some odd twists: The young Army captain questioned the judgment of his superiors, and the paperwork nominating him for the award was lost. He left the military two years ago but wants to return to active duty, a rare move for a medal recipient.
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| Uneven enforcement suspected at nuclear plants Posted: 15 Oct 2013 02:04 PM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — The number of safety violations at U.S. nuclear power plants varies dramatically from region to region, pointing to inconsistent enforcement in an industry now operating mostly beyond its original 40-year licenses, according to a congressional study awaiting release.
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| Fla. bullying case: girls aged 12 and 14 charged Posted: 15 Oct 2013 03:20 PM PDT  WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) — After 12-year-old Rebecca Sedwick committed suicide last month, one of her tormenters continued to make comments about her online, even bragging about the bullying, a sheriff said Tuesday.
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| Booker's campaign path bumpier than anticipated Posted: 15 Oct 2013 04:38 PM PDT  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Cory Booker's path to Wednesday's U.S. Senate election has been bumpier than anticipated.
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| Newtown, Conn., to keep school razing under wraps Posted: 15 Oct 2013 11:27 AM PDT  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — When the old Sandy Hook Elementary School is demolished, building materials will be pulverized on site and metal will be taken away and melted down in an effort to eliminate nearly every trace of the building where a gunman killed 26 people last December.
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| Boston holds off Tigers 1-0 behind Lackey, bullpen Posted: 15 Oct 2013 04:48 PM PDT  DETROIT (AP) — John Lackey edged Justin Verlander in the latest duel of these pitching-rich playoffs, and Boston's bullpen shut down Detroit's big boppers with the game on the line to lift the Red Sox over the Tigers 1-0 Tuesday for a 2-1 lead in the AL championship series.
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| Hernandez girlfriend said to throw out evidence Posted: 15 Oct 2013 02:47 PM PDT  FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — The girlfriend of former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a perjury charge for allegedly lying to a Massachusetts grand jury, including about disposing of evidence in the murder case against him.
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| Ex-San Diego Mayor pleads guilty to 3 crimes Posted: 15 Oct 2013 02:33 PM PDT  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, driven from office by sexual harassment allegations, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony for putting a woman in a headlock and to lesser counts for kissing one woman and grabbing the buttocks of another.
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| Fitch puts US credit rating on negative watch Posted: 15 Oct 2013 04:08 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Fitch credit rating agency has warned that it is reviewing the U.S. government's AAA credit rating for a possible downgrade, citing the impasse in Washington that has raised the threat of a default on the nation's debt. |
| New House GOP plan as debt-limit deadline nears Posted: 15 Oct 2013 02:34 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Time growing desperately short, House Republicans pushed for passage of legislation late Tuesday to prevent a threatened Treasury default, end a 15-day partial government shutdown and extricate divided government from its latest brush with a full political meltdown. |
| 2 arrested in Fla. bullying case after online post Posted: 15 Oct 2013 02:15 PM PDT WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) — After 12-year-old Rebecca Sedwick committed suicide last month, one of her tormenters continued to make comments about her online, even bragging about the bullying, a sheriff said Tuesday. |
| Safety violations by site at US nuclear plants Posted: 15 Oct 2013 02:12 PM PDT  The number of lower-level safety violations per reactor at U.S. commercial nuclear power plants shows extraordinary differences among U.S. regions, pointing to inconsistent enforcement, according to an unreleased Government Accountability Office report obtained by The Associated Press. Higher-level violations are more uniform across the regions.
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| Libyan pleads not guilty to terrorism charges in NYC courtroom Posted: 15 Oct 2013 03:46 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — An alleged al-Qaida member who was snatched off the streets in Libya and interrogated for a week aboard an American warship pleaded not guilty to bombing-related charges Tuesday in a case that has renewed the debate over how quickly terrorism suspects should be turned over to the U.S. courts.
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| House to vote Tuesday night on budget bill Posted: 15 Oct 2013 01:57 PM PDT  A Boehner spokesman said the legislation has enough votes to pass.
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| Newtown to keep school demolition under wraps Posted: 15 Oct 2013 11:14 AM PDT  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Officials in Newtown, Conn., say materials from the old Sandy Hook Elementary School will be pulverized and metal will be melted down in an effort to eliminate nearly every trace of the building where a gunman killed 26 people.
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| Rielle Hunter apologizes for affair with John Edwards Posted: 15 Oct 2013 08:23 AM PDT  The former campaign videographer's mea culpa comes along with the rerelease of her book about the affair.
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| Al-Qaida suspect's fast brings halt to U.S. interrogation Posted: 15 Oct 2013 09:21 AM PDT  By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An elite U.S. interrogation team abandoned its questioning of an al-Qaeda militant who was snatched in Libya after he stopped eating and drinking regularly on board a U.S. Navy ship where he was being held, a U.S. official familiar with the matter said. As his health deteriorated, U.S. authorities decided to fly the suspect known as Abu Anas al-Liby to New York last weekend, where he was taken to a hospital for treatment. ...
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| Biggest Loser: Portly Taft helped usher in modern obesity care Posted: 15 Oct 2013 04:05 AM PDT  Way before Weight Watchers or "The Biggest Loser," a president known for his girth was helping to usher in a modern approach to treating obesity. Got a nagging doctor? The 27th president, William ...
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| U.S. justices to hear challenge to Obama on climate change Posted: 15 Oct 2013 04:01 PM PDT  By Valerie Volcovici and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear a challenge to part of the Obama administration's first wave of regulations aimed at tackling climate change, accepting its biggest environmental case in six years. The court said it would not review the underlying determination that greenhouse gases are a public health concern or a separate regulation that limits greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles. The single question the court will consider is whether the U.S. ...
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| House GOP unveils bill to counter Senate debt plan Posted: 15 Oct 2013 08:33 AM PDT  The bill would make some changes to Obamacare.
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| Once-in-a-decade typhoon threatens Tokyo Posted: 15 Oct 2013 08:03 AM PDT  By Aaron Sheldrick TOKYO (Reuters) - A once-in-a-decade typhoon threatened Japan on Tuesday, disrupting travel and shipping and forcing precautions to be taken at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant. Typhoon Wipha is moving across the Pacific straight towards the capital, Tokyo, and is expected to make landfall during the morning rush hour on Wednesday, bringing hurricane-force winds to the metropolitan area of 30 million people. The center of the storm was 860 km (535 miles) southwest of Tokyo at 0800 GMT, the Japan Meteorological Agency said on its website. ...
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| Report: Iran makes proposal in nuclear standoff Posted: 15 Oct 2013 03:11 PM PDT  By Justyna Pawlak and Fredrik Dahl GENEVA (Reuters) - World powers will press Iran on Wednesday for details of its proposal on resolving their decade-old nuclear dispute during a second day of talks in Geneva. Western diplomats stress they want Tehran to back up its newly conciliatory language with concrete actions by scaling back its nuclear program and allaying their suspicions it is seeking the capability to make atomic bombs. ...
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| Death toll in Philippines quake jumps to 85 Posted: 15 Oct 2013 03:28 AM PDT  CEBU, Philippines (AP) — The death toll from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck the central Philippines rose to 85, police said Tuesday, as more reports trickled in about toppled buildings and historic churches near the epicenter.
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| Report: NSA collecting millions of contact lists Posted: 14 Oct 2013 07:41 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency has been sifting through millions of contact lists from personal email and instant messaging accounts around the world — including those of Americans — in its effort to find possible links to terrorism or other criminal activity, according to a published report.
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| Senators closing in on deal to end shutdown Posted: 15 Oct 2013 06:16 AM PDT  There's hope that Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell could seal an agreement today.
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| Iran nuke talks begin amid hopes of progress Posted: 15 Oct 2013 02:01 AM PDT  GENEVA (AP) — The United States and five other world powers sat down Tuesday for the first talks on Tehran's nuclear program since the election of reformist Iranian President Hassan Rouhani four months ago.
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| Major quake shakes central Philippines, kills 32 Posted: 15 Oct 2013 02:25 AM PDT CEBU, Philippines (AP) — A 7.2-magnitude earthquake killed at least 32 people across the central Philippines on Tuesday, toppling buildings and historic churches and sending terrified residents into deadly stampedes. |
