| NYC doctor being tested for Ebola virus Posted: 23 Oct 2014 12:40 PM PDT  The 33-year-old physician recently returned to the U.S. from West Africa.
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| Inside the Islamic State’s million-dollar money stream Posted: 23 Oct 2014 02:41 PM PDT  The Islamic State militants got rich off smuggled oil, kidnappings for ransom, and extortion. Here is how the United States is responding.
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| Police: Plane, helicopter collide in Maryland Posted: 23 Oct 2014 04:32 PM PDT  FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — Police say an airplane and helicopter have collided in mid-air at the Frederick Municipal Airport in Maryland.
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| New York tests doctor who was in West Africa for Ebola Posted: 23 Oct 2014 04:16 PM PDT By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Reuters) - A physician with Doctors without Borders who returned from West Africa recently and developed potential symptoms was being tested for Ebola at a New York City hospital, health officials said on Thursday, setting off fresh fears about the spread of the virus. The doctor was identified as Craig Spencer, who was working for the humanitarian organization in Guinea, one of three West African nations hardest hit by Ebola. ... |
| U.S. weighs passport, border changes in wake of Ottawa attack Posted: 23 Oct 2014 03:40 PM PDT  By Mark Hosenball and Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials are debating whether to tighten controls on the border with Canada and make it easier to revoke the passports of suspected militants, steps that could gain traction following two attacks in Canada this week. The officials cautioned on Thursday that the discussions are in preliminary stages and that no immediate action appeared likely by either U.S. President Barack Obama's administration or Congress. ...
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| Pennsylvania high school's football season canceled over hazing Posted: 23 Oct 2014 04:08 PM PDT By Daniel Kelley PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A school district in suburban Philadelphia canceled a high school football team's season and suspended its coaching staff after investigating reports of hazing. Central Bucks School District Superintendent David Weitzel said in a statement to district parents that an investigation turned up multiple "humiliating and inappropriate acts" during pre-season team building exercises at Central Bucks West High School. ... |
| Pat Robertson calls gay rights activists 'terrorists' Posted: 23 Oct 2014 09:12 AM PDT  A day after his controversial comments about AIDS were obliterated by Anderson Cooper, the conservative televangelist called gay rights activists "terrorists."
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| Clinton hits campaign trail Posted: 23 Oct 2014 01:27 PM PDT  The potential 2016 hopeful lends her support to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
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| NFL discusses plans to add new team Posted: 23 Oct 2014 10:49 AM PDT  The National Football League anticipates a franchise across the pond.
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| White House announces new healthcare intiiative Posted: 23 Oct 2014 10:20 AM PDT  The Obama administration announced a program budgeted at $840 million.
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| Continuing revelations in UNC cheating scandal Posted: 23 Oct 2014 09:02 AM PDT  CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Bogus classes and automatic A's and B's are at the heart of a cheating scandal at the University of North Carolina that lasted nearly two decades, encompassing about 3,100 students — nearly half of them athletes.
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| Who was the Ottawa gunman? Posted: 23 Oct 2014 05:38 AM PDT  Here's what we know about Michael Zehaf-Bibeau.
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| Suspected Boko Haram militants make horrifying move Posted: 23 Oct 2014 08:59 AM PDT  YOLA Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram militants kidnapped at least 25 girls in an attack on a remote town in northeastern Nigeria, witnesses to the attack said, despite talks aimed at freeing more than 200 other female hostages the militants seized in April. John Kwaghe, who witnessed the attack and lost three daughters to the abductors, and Dorathy Tizhe, who lost two, said the attackers came late in the night, forcing all the women to go with them, then later releasing the older ones.
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| Canada's PM makes big pledge after attack Posted: 23 Oct 2014 04:01 PM PDT  Prime Minister Stephen Harper lays out response to yesterday's tragedy in Ottawa.
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| Homecoming for U.S. cameraman recovered from Ebola Posted: 23 Oct 2014 12:43 PM PDT  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An American video journalist who recovered from Ebola is home in Rhode Island.
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| Second White House fence jumper faces mental evaluation Posted: 23 Oct 2014 01:31 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The man arrested after jumping the White House fence on Wednesday night was charged in court with two federal offenses on Thursday, including harming a dog the Secret Service used to stop him from entering the presidential mansion. Federal Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson ordered a mental screening for the man, Dominic Adesanya, 23, of Bel Air, Maryland. Adesanya was also charged with unlawfully entering the restricted grounds of the White House. Both charges are misdemeanors that carry up to one year in prison. ...
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| Canadian security laws to get beefed up Posted: 23 Oct 2014 07:42 AM PDT  After Ottawa attacks, Canadian PM Stephen Harper said government will accelerate giving more powers to security agencies.
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| Islamic State now world's richest terrorist group Posted: 23 Oct 2014 04:53 PM PDT  The Islamic State has fast become one of the world's wealthiest terror groups, generating tens of millions of dollars a month from black market oil sales, ransoms and extortion, officials said Thursday. It earns $1 million a day alone by selling crude oil from fields captured when the group swept across Iraq and Syria earlier this year, said David Cohen, Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence. Because the group, also known as ISIL, has "amassed wealth at an unprecedented pace" from different sources than most terror groups, it presents a particular challenge to the US working to choke off money flows. IS is now "considered the world's wealthiest and most financially sophisticated terrorist organization," said Marwan Muasher, vice president at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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| Court: Olympian Jim Thorpe's remains can't be removed to tribal land Posted: 23 Oct 2014 08:34 AM PDT  By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Jim Thorpe's remains will stay in the Pennsylvania hamlet named for the legendary Native American athlete and Olympics champion, after a federal appeals court on Thursday rejected an effort by two sons to move them to tribal lands in his native Oklahoma. Addressing an unusual dispute between two generations of descendants, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia said a lower court judge was wrong to order that Thorpe's remains be turned over to the Sac and Fox Nation. ...
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| WHO: Ebola still of grave concern; number with disease approaches 10,000 Posted: 23 Oct 2014 10:15 AM PDT  Top Ebola experts raised grave concerns Thursday about the worsening epidemic in west Africa as the number of infections soared to almost 10,000 and the death toll edged closer to 4,900. The World Heath Organization said after an emergency meeting on the deadly haemorrhagic fever that the situation in the worst-hit countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone "remains of great concern" as cases increase exponentially. It formally declared a global emergency in August, sparking outside criticism and internal soul-searching over claims that it was too slow, as the first case was in Guinea in December. WHO's deputy chief, Keiji Fukuda, said the international community had for months been ramping up the fight, with 600 international experts deployed in the embattled region over recent weeks.
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| Using drones to fight infectious diseases Posted: 23 Oct 2014 07:57 AM PDT  In a remote area of Southeast Asia, drones are fighting a battle — not against terrorists or insurgents, but against infectious disease. In recent years, public health officials in the Malaysian state of Sabah have seen a rise in the number of cases of humans infected with this deadly parasite, which is spread, via mosquitos, from macaques to people. By mapping the communities where these cases occur, researchers hope to figure out why the parasite is spreading from monkeys to people with greater frequency, said Chris Drakeley, a professor of infection and immunity at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom, and one of the researchers involved in the project. "What we're doing is creating a detailed map, which we can then superimpose or overlay with the human and the macaque movement," Drakeley told Live Science.
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| Islamic State raking in millions on black market oil Posted: 23 Oct 2014 10:46 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Islamic State militants are amassing wealth at an unprecedented pace, earning about $1 million a day from black market oil sales alone, a U.S. Treasury Department official said Thursday.
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| Dancing priests go viral Posted: 23 Oct 2014 08:23 AM PDT  ROME (AP) — A video of a pair of dueling, dancing American priests studying in Rome has gone viral, following in the footsteps of a now-famous Italian nun whose Alicia Keys-esque voice won her a singing contest and a record contract.
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| U.S., allies stage 15 air strikes on Islamic State positions Posted: 23 Oct 2014 06:23 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. military forces again focused air strikes on the area near the Syrian city of Kobani in their campaign to turn back Islamic State forces and also hit oil facilities held by the militant group, the U.S. Central Command said on Thursday. A total of 15 strikes were staged against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Wednesday and Thursday, according to a statement from Central Command. The statement said U.S. ...
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| Ottawa shootings stir terror fears Posted: 23 Oct 2014 04:06 PM PDT  Two deadly attacks in three days stun Canadians, raising fears of reprisals for joining U.S.-led coalition.
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| Matt Bai: The silliest emails of the week Posted: 23 Oct 2014 03:06 AM PDT  I've been traveling around the country plugging my book on the collision of politics and celebrity in 1987 (see, I just did it again), so I haven't had a lot of time to check in on the latest election polls and midterm controversies. I did spend a half-hour watching TV in a Denver hotel, during which I saw a total of three 30-second ads that did not feature one candidate slandering another. Colorado, I feel for you.
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| Police on alert following 'terror attack' on Jerusalem train station Posted: 23 Oct 2014 02:43 PM PDT  Israel pledged Thursday a tough response to any further attacks in Jerusalem as police flooded flashpoint Arab neighbourhoods after a Palestinian rammed his car into a group of pedestrians and killed a baby. The second deadly incident involving a Palestinian vehicle in three months, Wednesday's attack prompted a sharp warning from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "Jerusalem is united and was, and always will be, the eternal capital of Israel. Police dubbed as a "hit-and-run terror attack" Wednesday's incident in which Abdelrahman Shaludi, 21, drove at high speed into a crowd of Israelis, killing the baby and injuring another six people.
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| Royals even World Series as benches clear in 7-2 victory Posted:  Tempers flared. The benches cleared. A fight nearly broke out. And a World Series with little verve finally got the jolt it needed Wednesday.
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| Nurse Amber Vinson free of Ebola virus, family says Posted: 22 Oct 2014 05:16 PM PDT  Barely a week after being diagnosed with Ebola, Texas nurse Amber Vinson is free of the deadly virus, her family said on Wednesday night.
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