| Former Sen. Fred Thompson, had TV and film roles, dead at 73 Posted: 01 Nov 2015 04:55 PM PST  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Fred Thompson, a folksy former Republican U.S. senator from Tennessee who appeared in feature films and television including a role on "Law & Order," died Sunday, his family said.
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| Jeb Bush: ‘I know that I got to get better at doing the debate’ Posted: 01 Nov 2015 12:41 PM PST  Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush says he knows he needs to improve his lackluster performance in the debates if he's going to have a chance at the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. "I know that I got to get better at doing the debate," Bush said in an interview that aired on NBC's "Meet The Press" Sunday. "I'm a grinder. I mean, when I see that I'm not doing something well then I reset and I get better."
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| Turkey's ruling party sweeps back to majority in parliament Posted: 01 Nov 2015 03:28 PM PST  Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has declared victory for his ruling party after preliminary election results showed it restoring its majority in parliament.
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| Paul Ryan’s first challenge as House speaker Posted: 01 Nov 2015 11:27 AM PST  Newly elected House Speaker Paul Ryan says it's time for his fellow House Republicans to "take some policy risks" on an ambitious conservative agenda that includes comprehensive tax reform, an overhaul of federal poverty programs and the replacement of the Affordable Care Act, President Obama's signature health care law better known as Obamacare.
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| Investigators probe deadly Russian plane crash in Egypt Posted: 31 Oct 2015 11:50 PM PDT  Cairo and Moscow reject a claim from an Islamist group that it downed the aircraft.
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| Prices, politics challenge Obamacare's 3rd sign-up season Posted: 01 Nov 2015 08:02 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The government's insurance website is faster and easier to use, but as a third sign-up season gets underway, President Barack Obama's health care law is approaching limits.
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| Paul Ryan: It would be 'ridiculous' to work with Obama on immigration Posted: 01 Nov 2015 09:43 AM PST  By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan on Sunday ruled out working with President Barack Obama on overhauling U.S. immigration policy, saying it would be "a ridiculous notion" to pursue legislation because Obama cannot be trusted on the issue. Republicans have fought Obama's unilateral steps that bypassed a gridlocked Congress to try to shield millions of illegal immigrants from deportation. Obama's executive orders, announced last November but put on hold by the courts, would let up to 4.7 million illegal immigrants stay without threat of deportation.
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| U.S. completes complex test of layered missile defense system Posted: 01 Nov 2015 02:55 PM PST  The U.S. military on Sunday hailed the success of a complex $230 million test of the U.S. missile defense system that it said showed the ability of the Aegis and THAAD weapons systems to identify and destroy ballistic and cruise missiles at once. The test was conducted near Wake Island in the western Pacific Ocean around 11:05 p.m. EDT by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, U.S. European Command, U.S. Pacific Command, the Ballistic Missile Defense System Operational Test Agency and the Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense.
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| Former U.S. senator, actor Fred Thompson dies: report Posted: 01 Nov 2015 03:39 PM PST  (Reuters) - Fred Thompson, a former Republican U.S. senator from Tennessee who also ran for president and was a longtime film and television actor, has died at age 73, the Nashville Tennessean reported on Sunday. Thompson died on Sunday from a recurrence of lymphoma, the newspaper said, quoting a statement by his family. "It is with a heavy heart and a deep sense of grief that we share the passing of our brother, husband, father, and grandfather who died peacefully in Nashville surrounded by his family," the statement said.
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| U.S. Navy salvage team seeks to confirm wreckage of sunken El Faro Posted: 01 Nov 2015 03:23 PM PST  By David Adams MIAMI (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy salvage team prepared on Sunday to launch a remotely operated submersible to confirm that wreckage discovered near the Bahamas was that of the cargo ship El Faro, lost in a hurricane last month along with its 33 crew members. The team's mission is to document the shipwreck and any debris field, and to retrieve the sunken vessel's voyage data recorder - similar to an airplane's black box - as part of an investigation into its loss, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). If human remains are encountered during the submersible operation the Navy will attempt to recover them, NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson said.
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| East German who announced Berlin Wall opening dies at 86 Posted: 01 Nov 2015 07:52 AM PST  BERLIN (AP) — Guenter Schabowski, the senior East German official whose cryptic announcement that the communist country was opening its fortified border precipitated the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, died Sunday at 86.
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| Police say gunman kills 3 in downtown Colorado Springs Posted: 31 Oct 2015 03:06 PM PDT  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A man marching down the street shot and killed three people on Saturday, before being fatally shot in a gunbattle with police, authorities and witnesses said.
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| S. Korea, Japan, China leaders agree to mend strained ties Posted: 01 Nov 2015 02:07 AM PST  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The biggest result of the first meeting of South Korean, Chinese and Japanese leaders in more than three years? More meetings.
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