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| Is Gov. Chris Christie's brash style presidential or bullying? Posted: 30 Oct 2014 06:32 AM PDT  The "sit down and shut up" approach plays well in New Jersey, but it could be seen as phony bluster in some states.
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| Group: State Department too top-heavy with Obama picks Posted: 30 Oct 2014 11:46 AM PDT  At a time when "The world is a mess," President Barack Obama has packed too many political appointees into top jobs at the State Department, and should replace retiring Deputy Secretary of State William Burns with a career diplomat, a foreign service group warns.
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| Bike-riding nurse defies Ebola quarantine, on collision course with governor Posted: 30 Oct 2014 03:58 PM PDT  By Steve Holland CAPE ELIZABETH Maine (Reuters) - A nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone but has tested negative for the virus went for a bike ride on Thursday, defying Maine's order that she be quarantined in her home and setting up a legal collision with Governor Paul LePage. Attorneys for Kaci Hickox, 33, said they had not yet been served with a court order to enforce the 21-day quarantine - matching the virus's maximum incubation period - but remained prepared to fight such an order if necessary. ...
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| Elusive Pennsylvania ambush suspect captured, ending manhunt Posted: 30 Oct 2014 05:13 PM PDT  By Joe McDonald TANNERSVILLE Pa. (Reuters) - The survivalist suspected of killing a Pennsylvania state trooper and seriously wounding a second officer in a sniper attack in September was taken into custody after a seven-week manhunt, police said on Thursday. Eric Matthew Frein, 31, eluded capture by hundreds of law enforcement officers who had been searching for him since the Sept. 12 ambush of the troopers outside a state police barracks in Blooming Grove. The attack killed Corporal Bryon Dickson, 38, and wounded Trooper Alex Douglass, 31. ...
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| National Guard arrives in Hawaii town threatened by lava Posted: 30 Oct 2014 05:08 PM PDT  By Karin Stanton PAHOA Hawaii (Reuters) - National Guard troops arrived in a Hawaii town threatened by a slow-moving river of molten lava on Thursday, and were greeted with cheers by residents of the Big Island community where they are to provide security as the volcanic flow advances. The lava flow from the Kilauea volcano has been slithering toward the Big Island village of Pahoa for weeks, although it slowed to a turtle's pace on Thursday and at last watch had advanced only a few feet (meters) over several hours, said Darryl Oliveira, director of Hawaii County Civil Defense. ...
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| Flames, smoke after small plane crash in Kansas Posted: 30 Oct 2014 01:56 PM PDT  WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A small plane lost power after takeoff and crashed into a flight-training building while trying to return to a Kansas airport Thursday, killing four people, injuring five others and igniting a fire that sent up towering plumes of black smoke that could be seen for miles around Wichita, officials and witnesses said.
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| Israel-Sweden tension builds even more Posted: 30 Oct 2014 11:47 AM PDT  Israel responds to Sweden's recognition of a Palestinian state.
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| Halloween called off in Pennsylvania town Posted: 30 Oct 2014 11:35 AM PDT  The police manhunt for Eric Frein costs kids the fun of trick-or-treating.
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| Big change comes to 'The View' Posted:  Big change comes to 'The View'
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| NATO says watching increased Russian miiltary moves in Europe airspace Posted: 30 Oct 2014 07:08 AM PDT  NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday that the transatlantic alliance remained vigilant after an increase in Russian military manoeuvres in European airspace. "NATO is strong, it remains vigilant," he said during a visit to Athens. Russian strategic bombers, fighters and tanker aircraft have been intercepted on Tuesday and Wednesday in what NATO said earlier was "unusual" activity. "This strength is our answer" to what NATO has termed large-scale Russian military manoeuvres over the Atlantic, Baltic, North and Black seas earlier this week, when they skirted NATO airspace.
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| Tuesday's elections will be landmark for conservation Posted: 30 Oct 2014 01:59 PM PDT  GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Voters across the nation are deciding whether to set aside billions of dollars for parks and preservation in what some environmentalists are calling one of the most significant elections for land conservation in American history.
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| N. Korea imposes Ebola quarantine Posted: 30 Oct 2014 06:48 AM PDT  Foreigners will be isolated for 21 days over fears of the spread of the virus.
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| Longtime Boston Mayor Thomas Menino dies at 71 Posted: 30 Oct 2014 01:20 PM PDT  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Thomas Menino, the longest-serving mayor in Boston history who led the city after the 2013 marathon bombing, died on Thursday at age 71 from cancer, his family said in a statement. Menino, a Democrat, ran New England's largest city for two decades before he stepped down in early 2014 at the end of his fifth term, saying he could no longer keep up the intense schedule. Months after ending his final term, Menino disclosed he had been diagnosed with cancer. Last week, he said he would halt cancer treatments to spend more time with his family. ...
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| NC courthouse shooting: One suspect in jail, one pursued Posted: 30 Oct 2014 07:34 AM PDT  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — One suspect has been arrested and another is being sought on an assault charges in the shooting at a North Carolina courthouse that wounded two men.
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| Hawaii's Big Island watches lava slowly reshape community Posted: 30 Oct 2014 04:19 PM PDT  PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) — The Hawaii National Guard is deploying troops to a rural Hawaii town as lava makes a slow crawl toward a major road and threatens to further isolate the community that got its start during the lumber and sugar-plantation heyday.
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| World must do more to fight Ebola: UN envoy Power Posted: 30 Oct 2014 06:48 AM PDT  Returning from W. Africa, ambassador to UN says world must confront "greatest public health crisis ever."
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| On Politics: Obama, Christie and Ebola Posted: 30 Oct 2014 01:34 AM PDT  Somehow, Chris Christie has again managed to make himself the most talked-about Republican in the country on the eve of an election in which he isn't on the ballot.
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| 150 found in Iraq mass grave Posted: 30 Oct 2014 06:01 AM PDT  Militants from Islamic State said to have rounded up Sunni men from villages and executed them Wednesday.
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| Nurse defies Maine's Ebola quarantine, goes for bike ride Posted: 30 Oct 2014 04:05 PM PDT  FORT KENT, Maine (AP) — Insisting she is perfectly healthy, nurse Kaci Hickox again defied the state's Ebola quarantine Thursday by taking a bike ride with her boyfriend, and Maine health authorities struggled to reach a compromise that would limit her contact with others.
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| 'I'm proud to be gay,' says Apple CEO Tim Cook Posted: 30 Oct 2014 04:40 AM PDT  Apple CEO Tim Cook on Thursday made a surprising announcement in an opinion piece on Bloomberg Businessweek, which is very much in line with his many public notes in the recent past about diversity at the workplace. "While I have never denied my sexuality, I haven't publicly acknowledged it either, until now. So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me," Cook said in the essay. FROM EARLIER: Tim Cook offers a heartfelt tribute to Steve Jobs on the 3rd anniversary of his passing The executive admitted that he never hid his sexual orientation while working at Apple, even though he had not publicly declared it until now. "For
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| Apple's chief exec Tim Cook: 'I'm proud to be gay' Posted: 30 Oct 2014 03:23 PM PDT  By Christina Farr and Sarah McBride (Reuters) - Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook on Thursday became the most prominent American corporate leader to come out as gay, saying he was trading his closely guarded privacy for the chance to help move civil rights forward. The 53-year-old Alabama native and self-described "son of the South", who has spoken out against discrimination of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, declared his sexual orientation in a magazine editorial, confirming a fact widely known in the close-knit Silicon Valley tech community but rarely discussed. ...
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| Giants win 3rd Series title in 5 years Posted:  Madison Bumgarner comes out of the bullpen to shut down the Royals in a classic Game 7.
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| Lava 100 feet from Hawaii home, nearing main road Posted: 29 Oct 2014 10:15 PM PDT PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) — Rain fell Wednesday on a red-hot river of lava as it threatened to consume its first home on its slow advance into a rural Hawaii town. |
| China fears Hong Kong protests now national security issue Posted: 30 Oct 2014 04:39 AM PDT  Month-old pro-democracy demonstrations a threat to China's rule; time for neutrality is over, political operative says.
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| Russia's $25 billion plan for North Korea Posted: 30 Oct 2014 04:03 AM PDT  Russia is eyeing a 'mammoth' and lucrative project for the hermit state.
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