| Health care plan: Can you be 'grandfathered'? Posted: 14 Nov 2013 01:12 PM PST  President Obama: Insurance companies no longer required to kick people off coverage.
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| Feds want $400K fine for Philly building collapse that killed 6 Posted: 14 Nov 2013 01:26 PM PST  Feds propose nearly $400K in penalties for companies in fatal Philadelphia building collapse
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| Marines killed at Pendleton doing dangerous job Posted: 14 Nov 2013 04:05 PM PST  SAN DIEGO (AP) — The job is one of the most dangerous in the Marine Corps.
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| Mass burial held in Philippine city hit by typhoon Posted: 14 Nov 2013 08:38 AM PST  TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) — The air was thick with the stench of decay as sweating workers lowered the plastic coffins one by one into a grave the size of an Olympic swimming pool.
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| Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger sentenced to life Posted: 14 Nov 2013 04:07 PM PST  BOSTON (AP) — Former Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger was led off to prison Thursday for the rest of his life, accepting his punishment in stone-faced silence as a judge castigated the 84-year-old gangster for his "almost unfathomable" depravity.
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| FBI: OK for Congress to talk to Benghazi survivors Posted: 14 Nov 2013 04:06 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director James Comey told senators Thursday he is not opposed to Congress speaking with the survivors of the 2012 attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. That contradicts the Obama administration's position that such discussions would jeopardize the FBI's criminal case.
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| Boys a bit more likely than girls to be born early Posted: 14 Nov 2013 04:07 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Boys are slightly more likely to be born premature than girls, and they tend to fare worse, too, says a new report on the health of the world's newborns.
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| Where did dogs first appear? DNA points to Europe Posted: 14 Nov 2013 11:59 AM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — For years, scientists have been dogged by this evolution question: Just where did man's best friend first appear?
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| McCutchen wins NL MVP, Cabrera takes AL award Posted: 14 Nov 2013 04:47 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Pittsburgh Pirates center fielder Andrew McCutchen and Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera both coasted Thursday to Most Valuable Player awards.
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| Ending tax breaks eyed as way to ease budget cuts Posted: 14 Nov 2013 01:26 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats' new mantra in budget talks is to close tax loopholes for certain businesses, investors and professionals as a way to raise more revenue to help ease autopilot spending cuts that soon are to become more painful.
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| Tigers star Cabrera wins 2nd straight AL MVP award Posted: 14 Nov 2013 03:52 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera won his second straight American League Most Valuable Player award Thursday, once again beating Angels outfielder Mike Trout by a comfortable margin. |
| APNewsBreak: Phelps says he's keeping options open Posted: 14 Nov 2013 02:37 PM PST  Michael Phelps has rejoined the U.S. drug testing program, the strongest signal yet that he's planning a comeback for the Rio Olympics.
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| Baseball to move ahead with instant replay Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:58 PM PST  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Another baseball tradition is about to largely disappear: a manager, with a crazed look in his eyes, charging the field and getting into a face-to-face shouting match with an umpire.
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| California lawmaker says he was asked to wear wire Posted: 14 Nov 2013 02:35 PM PST  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Embattled state Sen. Ron Calderon says federal authorities wanted him to wear a wire and record conversations with the Senate leader and another lawmaker, and after he refused they tried to ruin his reputation by raiding his offices and leaking an FBI affidavit alleging he took money in return for promoting bills.
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| Yellen stands by Fed's low rate policies Posted: 14 Nov 2013 01:36 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Janet Yellen made clear Thursday that she's prepared to stand by the Federal Reserve's extraordinary efforts to pump up the economy when she's chairman, if that's what it needs.
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| Police investigate whether family of CBS source on Benghazi was threatened Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:23 PM PST  The ex-contractor, a key source for last month's '60 Minutes' report on Benghazi, has gone into hiding. British police are investigating allegations his family was threatened.
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| Former LA teacher pleads no contest in lewd cookie-tasting episode Posted: 14 Nov 2013 03:30 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Los Angeles elementary school teacher charged with blindfolding students and spoon-feeding them cookies laced with his semen has agreed to plead no contest to all charges, an attorney for some of the victims said Thursday.
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| Texas town evacuated after pipeline explosion Posted: 14 Nov 2013 01:28 PM PST  By Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Chevron Corp pipeline exploded near a tiny Texas town south of Dallas on Thursday, shooting flames high in the air and prompting evacuations from nearby homes and a school district, but no injuries were reported, the company and emergency officials said The explosion south of Milford, Texas, was caused by a construction crew that accidentally drilled into a 10-inch liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) line, Tom Hemrick, director of Hill County Emergency Management, told KTVT-TV in Dallas. He said all workers were accounted for "The fire is definitely getting smaller," Hemrick said of the conflagration in an open field near Milford, a town of 700 people some 50 miles south of Dallas. By mid-afternoon Chevron confirmed Hemrick's version of events, identifying the line as a Chevron-operated West Texas LPG system near Milford.
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| VW hit with massive vehicle global recall Posted: 14 Nov 2013 09:13 AM PST  is recalling over 2.6 million cars, about a third of them in China, to fix a variety of problems, a blow to a group striving to overtake Toyota and General Motors The recall involves vehicles from the German group's five largest brands by volume, including luxury Audis and core VW passenger cars, and is one of the largest in its history. "Carmakers riding on strong growth like VW must be terribly careful that they don't pay dearly for that growth by conceding losses on quality," said Stefan Bratzel, head of the Center of Automotive Management, a private think-tank near Cologne. VW, which has twelve brands and has boosted deliveries by half over the past six years to 9.3 million cars, said on Thursday it was recalling 800,000 of its Tiguan compact sport-utility vehicle due to the risk of a partial malfunctioning of lights at models assembled between early 2008 and mid-2011.
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| 60 Minutes' Benghazi 'witness' goes into hiding Posted: 14 Nov 2013 10:40 AM PST  Dylan Davies, the disgraced contractor at the center of 60 Minutes' retreat on its story about the terror attack in Benghazi last year, has gone into hiding. 60 Minutes's October 27 report, since withdrawn, centered on Davies' tale of his actions that night: his sneaking into an Al Qaeda-controlled hospital, his striking a terrorist in the head with the butt of his rifle.
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| 'It's my new heart, not someone else's old heart' Posted: 14 Nov 2013 10:22 AM PST  Dick Cheney doesn't spend much time thinking about the person who donated the vital organ.
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| Donald Rumsfeld tries to shape his legacy in new documentary Posted: 14 Nov 2013 07:47 AM PST  The former defense secretary stars in "The Unknown Known," a film about his handling of the Iraq War.
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| Who gets rich off Obamacare? Posted:  Entrepreneurs scramble to cash in on the biggest insurance upheaval in decades.
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| Obama: 'We fumbled the rollout' of health law Posted: 14 Nov 2013 10:52 AM PST  The president announces plan to allow insurers to continue offering old plans.
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| Actress convicted of stalking Alec Baldwin Posted: 14 Nov 2013 01:42 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — A Canadian actress has been convicted of stalking Alec Baldwin in New York City.
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| Whitey Bulger gets life for racketeering, killings Posted: 14 Nov 2013 09:44 AM PST The Boston mob boss was convicted of 11 murders. |
| To help typhoon victims, send money, not stuff Posted: 14 Nov 2013 07:20 AM PST  Faced with heartbreaking images of the typhoon-ravaged Philippines — the sea of corpses, communities reduced to rubble, mothers clutching their hungry children — the world is watching an epic tragedy unfold ...
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| Watch live: Fed chair nominee Yellen stands by low interest rates Posted: 14 Nov 2013 09:28 AM PST  Janet Yellen said Thursday that the U.S. economy has regained ground lost to Great Recession but still needs the Federal Reserve's support because unemployment remains too high at 7.3 percent. Yellen made ...
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| Watch live: Yellen faces senators to run the Fed Posted: 13 Nov 2013 09:04 PM PST Republicans are skeptical of Fed's policies and says they may be swelling asset bubbles. |
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| Obama secret service agents removed over misconduct Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:05 PM PST  Two US Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Barack Obama have been relieved of their duties following allegations of misconduct, the Washington Post reported. The move comes a year after Secret Service agents were involved in a prostitution scandal in Colombia. The Post reported late Wednesday that Ignacio Zamora Jr., who was in charge of about two dozen agents in the president's security detail, was allegedly found last spring trying to re-enter a woman's room at a luxury hotel near the White House after leaving behind a bullet from his service weapon. In a subsequent probe, the service found that Zamora and another supervisor, Timothy Barraclough, sent sexually suggestive e-mails to a female subordinate.
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| U.S. carrier group arrives in typhoon zone Posted: 14 Nov 2013 02:36 PM PST  Philippine President Aquino faced pressure to speed up aid efforts as U.S. forces arrived.
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| Possible sinkhole reported in yard in Florida Posted: 14 Nov 2013 01:23 PM PST  DUNEDIN, Fla. (AP) — Residents of several Florida homes have been evacuated due to a possible sinkhole that opened in a backyard in Pinellas County on Thursday.
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| Businesses cut full-time workers to meet Obamacare mandate, study says Posted: 14 Nov 2013 04:42 AM PST  First, President Obama had to backtrack from his promise that if you like your health insurance plan, under Obamacare "you can keep it." Now, a new study is suggesting that, under Obamacare, "If you like your workweek, you can't necessarily keep it, either." About 30 percent of small franchises and 12 percent of other small businesses say they are cutting work hours – or swapping full-time for part-time workers – because of the law, according to a poll sponsored by business groups. The moves are part of a bid to control health-care expenses, and they are a sign of how the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was designed to greatly expand the number of Americans who have health insurance, could be having some unintended consequences in the job market. A key Obamacare incentive is an "employer mandate" that asks businesses to sponsor health insurance (or pay a penalty) if they have more than 50 full-time employees.
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| Boston gangster faces life in prison in killings Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:42 AM PST BOSTON (AP) — Gangster James "Whitey" Bulger has heard from the families of some of the people he was convicted of killing. Now, he will finally hear his punishment. |
| Obamacare enrollment low; Democrats unhappy Posted: 14 Nov 2013 07:18 AM PST  Add simmering Democratic discontent to the president's problems.
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