| College revokes senator's degree Posted: 10 Oct 2014 04:14 PM PDT  Investigators conclude John Walsh plagiarized a research paper required to graduate.
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| Gay marriage obstacles fall in conservative states Posted: 10 Oct 2014 05:03 PM PDT  Weddings, court rulings and confusion are defining a week that started with the U.S. Supreme Court denying appeals from five states seeking to retain their bans on same-sex marriage. Here's a rundown of the most recent developments:
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| Beheading in Oklahoma: Was it terrorism or workplace violence? Posted: 10 Oct 2014 02:19 AM PDT  Moore, Okla., is a sleepy suburb where major crime is almost unheard of — especially something like the grisly decapitation of one person by a co-worker and the attempted decapitation of another. Local officials have described what happened at Vaughan Foods as a horrifying but random case of an angry worker lashing out. But while the FBI says it has found no links so far between the confessed killer and the Islamic State or other extremist groups, there is little doubt that he sympathized with their cause.
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| Nobel Prize-winner's crusade on child slavery Posted: 10 Oct 2014 05:52 AM PDT  Understandably overshadowed in the celebration of Malala's win was 2014's other Nobel Peace Prize winner, Kailash Satyarthi, a 60-year-old from New Delhi who has fought for decades to end child slavery. So who is he?
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| Supreme Court lifts hold on gay marriage in Idaho Posted: 10 Oct 2014 04:07 PM PDT  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for same-sex matrimony to proceed in Idaho on Friday by lifting a temporary hold imposed earlier in the week, capping a week of victories for supporters of gay marriage in America. The move came as a district court judge struck down North Carolina's prohibition on gay nuptials, and followed days of back-and-forth federal court actions that could soon see legal weddings for gay couples extended to 35 states. ...
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| Las Vegas sounds false alarm as global Ebola fears spread Posted: 10 Oct 2014 04:09 PM PDT  By Grant McCool (Reuters) - A commercial plane was briefly quarantined on a Las Vegas airport tarmac on Friday, sending airline shares down as worldwide fears increased that Ebola could spread outside West Africa, where it has killed more than 4,000 people. Airline and hospital officials said a Delta Air Lines plane was held at McCarran International Airport, but it turned out to be a false alarm and an all-clear was issued. A Delta spokesman said the concerns arose after a passenger on the flight from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport reported feeling unwell. ...
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| St. Louis braces for weekend of protests after new shooting Posted: 10 Oct 2014 04:06 PM PDT  By Kenny Bahr CLAYTON Mo. (Reuters) - Hundreds of protesters marched through the rain on Friday afternoon to the St. Louis County courthouse, kicking off a weekend of demonstrations against police violence after eight people were arrested in protests overnight. Chanting "This is what democracy looks like" and "Hey, hey, ho, ho, these killer cops have got to go," the demonstrators walked peacefully for 90 minutes through a four-block area of the city of Clayton, adjacent to St. Louis. There were none of the clashes with police that have marked protests in the St. ...
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| Kim Jong Un mystery deepens Posted: 10 Oct 2014 08:07 AM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For the first time in three years, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un didn't appear at a celebration of the anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers' Party on Friday, further increasing speculation that something is amiss with the authoritarian leader who hasn't been seen publicly in more than a month.
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| Unexpected race could upend Senate control Posted: 10 Oct 2014 11:55 AM PDT  The race for South Dakota's open Senate seat has Democrats and Republicans scrambling.
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| Civilians 'will be most likely massacred' Posted: 10 Oct 2014 11:30 AM PDT  MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) — In a dramatic appeal, a U.N. official warned that hundreds of civilians who remain trapped in the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani near the border with Turkey were likely to be "massacred" by advancing extremists and called on Ankara to help prevent a catastrophe.
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| Microsoft CEO's sexist gaffe Posted:  Microsoft CEO's sexist gaffe
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| Driking coffee is good for your liver, says study Posted: 10 Oct 2014 08:32 AM PDT  Drinking decaffeinated coffee is just as helpful as drinking regular coffee is for maintaining a healthy liver, a new study finds. Regardless of whether they drank decaf or regular, people in the study who drank large quantities of coffee on a daily basis had lower levels of abnormal liver enzymes, the researchers found. Other studies have found that drinking coffee is associated with lower risks of developing diabetes, cardiovascular disease, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, cirrhosis and liver cancer. "Prior research found that drinking coffee may have a possible protective effect on the liver," lead researcher Dr. Qian Xiao, of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, said in a statement.
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| Ebola patient had 103-degree fever Posted: 10 Oct 2014 04:07 PM PDT  Thomas Duncan's temperature spiked when he got to the ER - but he was still sent home.
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| This White House report is giant listicle, full of emojis. Why? Posted: 10 Oct 2014 08:41 AM PDT  On Wednesday, the White House Council of Economic Advisors released a report about the status of Millennials across the nation, touching on education, debt, and healthcare rates.
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| Flash floods swamp Italian port of Genoa; one feared dead Posted: 10 Oct 2014 06:31 AM PDT  Flash floods hit Genoa on October 9 after torrential rains. Early reports said at least one person had died. This video, from Genoa resident Gabriele Carretta, shows flooding near the city's Piazza Caricamento. Credit: YouTube/Benedetto Arlia
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| 21 dead, including 8 children, from Assad regime bombing in Syria Posted: 10 Oct 2014 09:31 AM PDT  Beirut (AFP) - Syrian regime bombardment and air strikes killed at least 21 civilians, eight of them children, in the south and northeast of the country Friday, a monitoring group said.
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| U.S. Navy plans missile shield at southern Romania base Posted: 10 Oct 2014 07:29 AM PDT  BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The U.S. Navy has taken control of a new missile defense base in southern Romania, one of two European land-based interceptor sites for a NATO missile shield that Russia strongly opposes.
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| U.S. senator lifts objections to $750 million Ebola funding shift Posted: 10 Oct 2014 10:40 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Defense Department won permission to shift $750 million in war funds to fight Ebola in West Africa as a Republican senator on Friday lifted his remaining objections to the transfer. The action by Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma will give the Pentagon enough funding for about six months of operations in West Africa, including the deployment of up to 4,000 troops and the establishment some 17 Ebola treatment facilities with 100 beds each. ...
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| UN fears massacre in Kobani, urges Turkey to intervene Posted: 10 Oct 2014 06:46 AM PDT  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.N. envoy called on Turkey on Friday to help prevent a slaughter in the Syrian border town of Kobani at the hands of Islamic State fighters, saying he feared a repeat of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre when thousands died. Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations' envoy to Syria, appealed to Ankara to let "volunteers" cross the frontier so that they can reinforce Kurdish militias defending the town that lies within sight of Turkish territory. ...
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| Online path lured two French girls to jihad Posted: 10 Oct 2014 10:30 AM PDT  LEZIGNAN-CORBIERES, France (AP) — On the day she left for Syria, Sahra strode along the train platform with two bulky schoolbags slung over her shoulder. In a grainy image caught on security camera, the French teen tucks her hair into a headscarf.
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| In Europe, Ebola fears escalate Posted: 10 Oct 2014 07:18 AM PDT  Though only one confirmed case on European soil, dozens more with signs of disease being closely watched.
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| Malala's Nobel Posted: 10 Oct 2014 11:46 AM PDT  Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan, Kailash Satyarthi of India win Peace Prize; at 17, Malala is youngest-ever winner.
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| Arkansas Republican, 'Evel Knievel' of Congress, jumps bikes on days off Posted: 10 Oct 2014 03:32 AM PDT  Yahoo News spends a day at the racetrack with dirtbike rider and Congressman Tim Griffin of Arkansas.
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| Jan Hooks, former SNL comedienne, dead at 57 Posted: 10 Oct 2014 08:39 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Jan Hooks, whose impressions ranged from Nancy Reagan to Sinead O'Connor to Tammy Faye Bakker during a five-year stint on the show, has died.
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| Ebola crisis reveals massive disparities at U.S. hospitals Posted: 10 Oct 2014 02:28 AM PDT  A few days before the Ebola-infected Thomas Eric Duncan arrived in Dallas-Fort Worth Airport to reunite with his fiancee, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a sternly worded alert to the nation's hospitals.
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| From 'Maleficent' to honorary dame: Queen honors Jolie Posted: 10 Oct 2014 05:55 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has honored campaigning actress Angelina Jolie in a Buckingham Palace ceremony.
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| In the abortion wars, a new ground zero Posted: 10 Oct 2014 02:41 AM PDT  This summer the Supreme Court declared a "buffer zone" separating protesters from patients at an abortion site to be unconstitutional. In Portland, Maine, as in other cities that once had buffer zone laws and now do not, the players in the ongoing abortion drama are trying to figure out what that means.
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| Courts block voter ID laws in Texas, Wisconsin Posted: 10 Oct 2014 09:26 AM PDT  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge likened Texas' strict voter ID requirement to a poll tax deliberately meant to suppress minority voter turnout and struck it down less than a month before Election Day, and mere hours after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked a similar Wisconsin measure.
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| Tesla reveals its most powerful model yet Posted:  Tesla reveals AWD, 691-hp Model S, its most powerful model yet.
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