| Hang up and fly, FCC chairman says Posted: 22 Nov 2013 03:03 PM PST  Tom Wheeler's agency only advises on the safety of cell phone calls on planes. But the FCC boss doesn't want them either.
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| Obama: JFK legacy transformed Secret Service Posted: 22 Nov 2013 01:12 PM PST  Personal safety "not something I think about" now presidents are better protected.
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| Four San Jose State students charged, hate crimes alleged Posted: 22 Nov 2013 02:42 PM PST  Four white students at San José State University in California have been suspended and charged with misdemeanor battery and hate crimes against an African-American student who shared their dorm suite. Police say the harassment ranged from displaying a Confederate flag and white-supremacist symbols to putting a bicycle lock around his neck. A university police report says the white students referred to their behavior as "pranks" and "jokes." The students reportedly referred to their suite-mate as "Three-fifths" and "Fraction," a reference to how the US government historically counted slaves. The accusations came to light after the African-American student's parents reported seeing the flag and a racial epithet in the suite.
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| Kerry, Russian FM join Iran nuclear talks Posted: 22 Nov 2013 03:14 PM PST  GENEVA (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry and foreign ministers of other major powers lent their weight to the Iran nuclear talks after envoys reported progress Friday in marathon negotiations to curb the Iranian program in return for limited sanctions relief.
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| Wind energy company pleads guilty to eagle deaths Posted: 22 Nov 2013 04:02 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The government for the first time has enforced environmental laws protecting birds against wind energy facilities, winning a $1 million settlement Friday from a power company that pleaded guilty to killing 14 eagles and 149 other birds at two Wyoming wind farms.
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| APNewsBreak: Navy Yard gunman had access pulled Posted: 22 Nov 2013 12:42 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The company that employed the Washington Navy Yard shooter pulled his access to classified material for two days in August when mental health problems became evident, but restored it quickly and never told Navy officials about the withdrawal, The Associated Press has learned.
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| State Dept: NKorea confirms it's holding American Posted: 22 Nov 2013 11:36 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Friday that North Korea acknowledges it is holding an American citizen but hasn't granted diplomats consular access so the person's identity is not yet confirmed. |
| Afghan spokesman rebuffs US troop deal deadline Posted: 22 Nov 2013 01:37 PM PST  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's president on Friday rebuffed American demands that he sign a security pact allowing U.S. forces to stay in the country for another decade, while the U.S. defense secretary warned that planning for a post-2014 military presence may be jeopardized if the deal isn't finalized by the end of the year.
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| Actor Hugh Jackman treated for skin cancer on nose Posted: 22 Nov 2013 04:36 PM PST  CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — "The Wolverine" star Hugh Jackman revealed he has been treated for skin cancer and shared a selfie showing his bandaged nose.
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| 51 dead in grocery roof collapse in Latvia Posted: 22 Nov 2013 03:07 PM PST  RIGA, Latvia (AP) — As Latvian rescue workers searched Friday for bodies in the rubble of a supermarket collapse that killed dozens, speculation about the cause focused on a garden and a playground being installed on the grass- and gravel-covered roof.
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| Couric's next move appears to be show for Yahoo! Posted: 22 Nov 2013 03:58 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — Katie Couric's next move appears to be online. |
| Thousands rally in Ukraine capital over EU deal Posted: 22 Nov 2013 04:17 PM PST  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Thousands of protesters poured into Kiev's Independence Square, the center of Ukraine's pro-Western Orange Revolution, to demand Friday that the government reverse course and sign a landmark agreement with the EU — a day after leaders stunned the nation by saying they were pulling out of the deal.
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| Federations say they will monitor water pollution Posted: 22 Nov 2013 01:46 PM PST  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Olympic sports federations will be monitoring efforts to clean up the polluted waters around Rio de Janeiro to prevent health risks to athletes at the 2016 Games.
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| Somber nation marks 50th anniversary of JFK death Posted: 22 Nov 2013 02:24 PM PST  DALLAS (AP) — A half-century after rifle bullets cut through a presidential motorcade, the city that has long struggled with its own wounds from the Kennedy assassination paused Friday to honor the fallen leader, remembering a young, handsome president with whom Dallas will always be "linked in tragedy."
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| Evolution debate again engulfs Texas Board of Ed Posted: 22 Nov 2013 01:29 PM PST  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Long-simmering ideological objections to teaching evolution in Texas boiled over at a late-night meeting, as the Board of Education extended preliminary approval of new science textbooks but held up one biology tome because of alleged factual errors.
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| Kerry heading for Iran nuclear talks Posted: 22 Nov 2013 12:31 PM PST  GENEVA (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry is heading to Geneva to join negotiations about Iran's nuclear program, the State Department announced Friday, raising expectations that a deal to curb Tehran's nuclear program could be in the works.
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| Complete JFK anniversary coverage Posted:  America remembers a painful day, 50 years ago.
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| A family's home destroyed by tornado--and caught on video Posted: 22 Nov 2013 12:19 PM PST  The EF-4 tornado that ripped through Illinois on November 17th left behind a path of destruction that can be seen from images and videos of the area. In cases like these, you rarely see videos of the tornado actually hitting, especially shot by residents inside of their home.
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| Chance seems more likely for Iran nuclear agreement Posted: 22 Nov 2013 03:16 PM PST  Secretary of State John Kerry and foreign ministers of other major powers lent their weight to the Iran nuclear talks after envoys reported progress Friday in marathon negotiations to curb the Iranian ...
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| 'Band of brothers' rallies to protect bullied classmate Posted: 21 Nov 2013 03:34 PM PST  Some young boys from Bridgewater show they are truly wise beyond their years when they rally around a boy who was being teased.
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| Half century later, a pause for loss Posted: 22 Nov 2013 12:04 PM PST  John F. Kennedy's death mourned in Dallas, Arlington, and Ireland.
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| Iraqi Sunnis close mosques after 200 deaths in one week Posted: 22 Nov 2013 12:15 PM PST  Attacks mostly targeting Sunni-majority areas of Iraq killed 20 people on Friday as the minority community shuttered countless mosques nationwide, complaining that security forces were failing to provide adequate protection. The move follows a months-long surge in bloodshed, with the latest wave of violence leaving around 200 people dead in the past week alone, that has forced Baghdad to appeal for international help in combatting militancy just months before its first general election in four years. Officials have also voiced concern over a resurgent Al-Qaeda emboldened by the civil war in neighbouring Syria which has provided the jihadist network's front groups with increased room to plan operations in Iraq. Attacks on Friday struck Sunni-majority areas in and around Baghdad, the restive province of Diyala, and the main northern city of Mosul, leaving at least 20 dead and dozens of others wounded, security and medical officials said.
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| Deaths rise to 50 in Latvia supermarket collapse Posted: 22 Nov 2013 01:31 PM PST  As Latvian rescue workers searched Friday for bodies in the rubble of a supermarket collapse that killed dozens, speculation about the cause turned to possible construction flaws in the award-winning complex ...
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| Report: Gun lobbyists thought about leaving Newtown HQ Posted: 22 Nov 2013 02:15 PM PST  NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — The gun industry's national trade association and lobbying organization considered moving its offices from Newtown after last year's mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the president and CEO of the National Shooting Sports Foundation said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press.
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| Note found at site where teacher slain: 'I hate you all' Posted: 22 Nov 2013 11:30 AM PST  Phillip Chism, 14, Is Charged With Murder, Rape and Robbery in Teacher's Death
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| A look inside JFK's presidential yacht Posted: 22 Nov 2013 06:00 AM PST  The former presidential yacht, Honey Fitz, is seen docked in West Palm Beach, Florida November 21, 2013. REUTERS/Joe Skipper |
| Note left at teacher's killing site: 'I hate you all' Posted: 22 Nov 2013 10:56 AM PST Documents: Slain Mass. teacher's body found with throat cut, note saying 'I hate you all' |
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| Scientists discover a killer dinosaur Posted: 22 Nov 2013 06:35 AM PST  Palaeontologists on Friday announced they had uncovered the remains of one of the greatest land predators ever -- a nine-metre (30-foot) four-tonne dinosaur that stalked the planet 100 million years ago. The newly-discovered species has been called Siats meekerorum, whose first name honours a cannibalistic monster in the mythology of the Native American Ute people. A giant meat-eater, the dino lorded it even over the tyrannosaurs of the time, the scientists said. It would take another 30 million years or so before the eight-tonne Tyrannosaurus rex emerged to take the title of apex killer in present-day North America.
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| Newtown investigation report to be released Posted: 22 Nov 2013 11:39 AM PST  NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — A summary of the investigation into the shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School will be released Monday, Connecticut prosecutors said.
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| Not business as usual, but the bar's open in storm-ravaged Tacloban Posted: 22 Nov 2013 07:55 AM PST Once he had got hold of 20 cases of San Miguel beer, Gerry Ruiz knew he had enough supplies to start serving customers again. The Calle Zaragosa Cafe appears to be the first standalone restaurant or bar to have opened in Tacloban since one of the world's most powerful typhoons reduced much of the central Philippine city to rubble two weeks ago. The storm killed 5,209 people, the National Disaster Agency said on Friday, as it barreled across the central Philippines from east to west, making it the most deadly natural disaster ever to hit the country. |
| China warns North Korea, blames Japan for tension Posted: 22 Nov 2013 04:39 AM PST  China warned North Korea on Friday it would not tolerate chaos on its doorstep, while blaming Japan for the tension between Asia's two largest economies. Ties between Beijing and Pyongyang have deteriorated since North Korea conducted its third nuclear test in February. China signed on to U.N. sanctions in March, but remains the North's largest trading partner. "China will never allow (anyone) to cause chaos and incidents on our home's doorstep and will never accept China's process of development from being disturbed and interrupted again," Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on the foreign ministry's website.
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| Evolution debate again engulfs Texas board Posted: 22 Nov 2013 01:19 AM PST AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The long-simmering battle over teaching evolution in Texas boiled over at a late-night meeting, as the Board of Education extended preliminary approval of new science books for use in classrooms across the state but held up one biology text because of alleged factual errors. |
| Philippine typhoon death toll rises above 5,000 Posted: 22 Nov 2013 04:01 PM PST  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The death toll from one of the strongest typhoons on record has risen above 5,000 and is likely to climb further, although recovery efforts are beginning to take hold, Philippine officials said Friday.
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| China tests first stealth combat drone: media Posted: 22 Nov 2013 03:43 AM PST  China has tested its first stealth combat drone, state media said Friday, citing online photos of an aircraft resembling a shrunken US B2 bomber and hailing the advance toward Western-level technology. The test flight of the "Sharp Sword" unmanned aircraft is another step in China's years-long military build-up, with its defence spending now the second highest in the world and growing by double-digit percentages each year. It comes weeks after Tokyo said a drone had flown near East China Sea islands claimed by both it and Beijing, ratcheting tensions between the rivals up another notch. "The successful flight shows the nation has again narrowed the air-power disparity between itself and Western nations," the China Daily newspaper said, adding the flight made China the "fourth power... capable of putting a stealth drone into the sky".
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| 32 dead in grocery roof collapse in Latvia Posted: 22 Nov 2013 03:23 AM PST  RIGA, Latvia (AP) — At least 32 people died, including three firefighters, after an enormous section of roof collapsed at a Latvian supermarket in the country's capital, emergency medical officials said Friday.
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| Days before launch, Obamacare website failed to handle even 500 users Posted: 21 Nov 2013 06:54 PM PST  By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the last days before the botched October 1 launch of President Barack Obama's healthcare website, the team in charge was seeing alarming results from performance tests, according to internal emails released by Republican lawmakers investigating the rollout. HealthCare.gov was unable to consistently handle 500 users at once in the testing, and tests failed with 2,000 users over a three-day period, according to a series of emails between members of the information technology team at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS. "I do not want a repeat of what happened near the end of December 2005 where Medicare.Gov had a meltdown," Henry Chao, the website's project manager at CMS, wrote in capital letters in an urgent message on September 26 to his team and contractors. The emails, released by the Republican-led House Energy and Commerce Committee, are the latest to illustrate the depths of problems with the Obamacare website, which has frustrated millions of Americans with error messages and slow responses as they try to shop for health insurance.
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