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Body found in search for Va. student

Posted: 18 Oct 2014 04:29 PM PDT

Police block the road leading to the scene of a death investigation in connection with the disappearance of University of Virginia student Hanna Graham in Albermarle County, Va., Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)Police say they've found human remains that could be those of Hannah Graham.

Obama to seek more funds to fight Ebola

Posted: 18 Oct 2014 01:05 PM PDT

Obama answers a question from the press after meeting with his team coordinating the government's Ebola response in the Oval Office of the White House in WashingtonThe president could make the request as early as next week, Bloomberg reports.

Cautious optimism over Nigeria's kidnapped girls

Posted: 18 Oct 2014 03:18 PM PDT

FILE - This Monday May 12, 2014 file image taken from video by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network, shows the alleged missing girls abducted from the northeastern town of Chibok. Nigeria's government and Islamic extremists from Boko Haram have agreed to an immediate cease-fire, officials said Friday Oct. 17, 2014. The fate of more than 200 missing schoolgirls abducted by the insurgents six months ago remains unclear. Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade said their release is still being negotiated. (AP Photo/File)MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — There's no dancing in the streets, but people in the hometown of more than 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls are cautiously optimistic about news of a cease-fire with the Islamic extremists who abducted their daughters six months ago.

Americans 'can't give in to hysteria or fear' over Ebola: Obama

Posted: 18 Oct 2014 04:02 PM PDT

Obama pauses as he talks next to U.S. Secretary of HHS Burwell and Director of the CDC Frieden after meeting with his team coordinating the government's Ebola response in the Oval Office of the White House in WashingtonBy Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With three cases of Ebola diagnosed in the United States but more than 100 people being monitored in case they contract the disease, President Barack Obama urged Americans on Saturday not to give in to "hysteria" about the spread of the virus. As though to illustrate his point, a Dallas bus and train station was closed on Saturday afternoon over concern about a woman who fell ill. The woman was first reported to be on the checklist for possible Ebola exposure, but then turned out not to be on any such list. ...

Sick woman at Dallas train station not on Ebola watchlist: official

Posted: 18 Oct 2014 01:35 PM PDT

Health workers in protection suits wait in the corridor near a quarantine ward during a drill to demonstrate the procedures of handling Ebola victims, at a hospital in Guangzhou(Reuters) - A Dallas bus and train station was closed on Saturday after a report that a woman fell ill at the facility, but the transit authority denied an earlier report that the woman had been on a watchlist for possible exposure to Ebola. The woman exited a northbound train at the White Rock Station and vomited, leading the Dallas Area Rapid Transit system to close the station as a precaution. "The person being treated by Dallas Fire Rescue at White Rock Station is NOT on any Ebola watchlist," Morgan Lyons, a DART spokeswoman, wrote in an email. ...

Missouri officer says he feared for life before shooting unarmed teen: report

Posted: 18 Oct 2014 11:27 AM PDT

A pamphlet for the " Ferguson October" demonstrations is seen on the a makeshift memorial for Michael Brown in Ferguson, MissouriBy Victoria Cavaliere (Reuters) - A white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager in Missouri in August told investigators he was in fear for his life after the young man grabbed at his gun, which was discharged twice in his patrol car, the New York Times reported. Government officials briefed on a federal civil rights probe into the Aug. 9 killing of Michael Brown by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson told the New York Times that Wilson had said he was pinned in his car and punched and scratched by Brown in the moments before the shooting. ...

In Georgia Senate bid, Nunn talks economy to women

Posted: 18 Oct 2014 01:19 PM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 15, 2014 file photo shows Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Michelle Nunn, right, at a rally before casting her own ballot in early voting at the Adamsville Recreation Center in Fulton County in Atlanta. You won't hear Democrat Michelle Nunn refer to a "war on women" when talking about her Republican opponent, David Perdue, in the upcoming Georgia Senate race. But the idea, and the hope it will motivate the state's female voters, is at the core of her campaign strategy. (AP Photo/David Tulis, File)EVANS, Ga. (AP) — You don't hear Michelle Nunn mention gender politics or try to rally female voters in Georgia around issues of abortion, birth control and gay marriage as she runs for the Senate.

Bishops scrap welcome to gays in sign of split

Posted: 18 Oct 2014 03:50 PM PDT

Pope Francis talks to prelates as he arrives at the morning session of a two-week synod on family issues at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)Catholic bishops scrapped their landmark welcome to gays Saturday, showing deep divisions at the end of a two-week meeting sought by Pope Francis.

WHO won't discuss Ebola mistakes document

Posted: 18 Oct 2014 11:32 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2014, file photo a MSF (Medecins Sans Frontieres) nurse gets prepared with Personal Protection Equipment before entering a high risk zone of MSF's Ebola isolation and treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization said Saturday that it wouldn't explain details contained in an internal document obtained by The Associated Press in which the U.N. health agency said it fumbled early attempts to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

Hawaii hit by winds, rain as hurricane veers west

Posted: 18 Oct 2014 03:53 PM PDT

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — Hurricane Ana was on course Saturday to miss Hawaii by more than a hundred miles but was generating high waves, strong winds and heavy rains that prompted flash-flood warnings throughout the islands.

High court balks at last-minute voting changes

Posted: 18 Oct 2014 01:04 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2014 file photo, an election official checks a voter's photo identification at an early voting polling site in Austin, Texas. A majority of the nation's highest court on Saturday Oct. 18, 2014 rejected an emergency request from the Justice Department and civil rights groups to prohibit the state from requiring voters to produce certain forms of photo identification in order to cast ballots. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has allowed Texas to use its strict voter ID law in the November election even after a federal judge said the law was the equivalent of a poll tax and threatened to deprive many blacks and Latinos of the right to vote this year.

Bermuda clears trees, power lines hit by Gonzalo

Posted: 18 Oct 2014 02:33 PM PDT

HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) — Crews cleared away downed trees and power lines Saturday after Hurricane Gonzalo battered this tiny, wealthy British territory for several hours but caused no deaths or serious injuries.

Mission Unaccomplished: Containing Ebola in Africa

Posted: 18 Oct 2014 11:33 AM PDT

Looking back, the mistakes are easy to see: Waiting too long, spending too little, relying on the wrong people, thinking small when they needed to think big. Many people, governments and agencies share the blame for failing to contain Ebola when it emerged in West Africa.

Supreme Court allows Texas use of new voter ID law

Posted: 18 Oct 2014 06:18 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2010 file phoro, a lone voter takes part in early voting in Milwaukee. The Supreme Court deals with churning election rules in several states less than a month from November's voting, blocking voter ID laws in Wisconsin while siding with Republicans for stricter rules in North Carolina and Ohio. In Texas, a federal court strikes down a voter ID law, but the state may still appeal that ruling. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)The state's controversial voter identification law can be used for the November election, the justices rule.

Ebola is 'disaster of our generation' says aid agency

Posted: 18 Oct 2014 04:45 PM PDT

Liberian health workers at the Medecins Sans Frontieres Ebola treatment center in Monrovia, on October 18, 2014London (AFP) - Aid agency Oxfam on Saturday said Ebola could become the "definitive humanitarian disaster of our generation", as US President Barack Obama urged against "hysteria" in the face of the growing crisis.

Report: Ferguson officer says he feared for life

Posted: 18 Oct 2014 10:41 AM PDT

A police officer looks back for help as he tries to keep protesters from advancing farther into the parking lot at the Ferguson, Mo., police station Monday, Oct. 13, 2014. Activists have planed a day of civil disobedience to protest the shooting of Michael Brown and a second police shooting in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)Darren Wilson has told investigators that he was pinned in his vehicle as he and Michael Brown struggled over his gun, The New York Times reported.

Hurricane Gonzalo scores bull's eye hit on Bermuda

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 10:03 PM PDT

Shoppers stock up on groceries as they prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Gonzalo in HamiltonBy Sam Strangeways HAMILTON Bermuda (Reuters) - Hurricane Gonzalo slammed into Bermuda on Friday, knocking out most of the electricity as it lashed the tiny Atlantic island chain with pounding surf, torrential rain and howling wind, but there were no immediate reports of injuries. The strongest storm to sweep the subtropical British territory in a decade made full landfall at about 8:30 p.m. as the 35-mile-wide (56 km) eye of the storm crossed the south-central coast of Bermuda, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami reported. ...

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