| Christie, Huckabee relegated to undercard at next GOP debate Posted: 05 Nov 2015 04:51 PM PST  Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee have been bumped from the main stage at next week's GOP presidential debate, while George Pataki and Lindsey Graham have been cut from the lineup altogether.
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| Martin O’Malley gets his opening, at last Posted:  The Democratic candidate's moment has arrived, if only he can figure out what to do with it.
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| Democratic senator: Obama still has no strategy for Syria Posted:  Sen. Tim Kaine says the president does not have a clear plan for confronting Islamic State in Syria.
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| Number of confirmed E. coli cases linked to Chipotle rises to 40 Posted: 05 Nov 2015 02:16 PM PST  The number of confirmed E. coli food poisoning cases linked to Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc restaurants in Washington state and Oregon rose to 40 on Thursday, as health safety officials continued searching for the source of the contamination. Washington lowered its count to 28 after additional testing ruled out one case that was suspected to be linked to the outbreak. Eight Chipotle restaurants in the greater Seattle and Portland areas are linked to the outbreak.
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| Obama praises Adidas move to help schools eliminate Native American mascots Posted: 05 Nov 2015 03:19 PM PST  President Barack Obama criticized sports teams' continued use of Native American mascots on Thursday and commended popular German sportswear company Adidas for its offer to help teams eliminate them. Adidas announced earlier on Thursday that it would partner with any high school across the U.S. that wanted to change its Native American-themed mascot or logo. At the seventh annual White House Tribal Nations Conference in Washington, Obama praised the initiative as a step toward breaking stereotypes.
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| Kidnapped Arizona baby goat reunited with his mother Posted: 05 Nov 2015 02:55 PM PST  A weeks-old pygmy baby goat that was believed stolen from a petting zoo at the Arizona State Fair was found safe and sound on Thursday and has been reunited with his crying mother, officials said. GusGus, who had been missing for some 20 hours, was reunited with his mom at the state fairgrounds in Phoenix after an unidentified man dropped him off at a pet store in the west of the city, officials said. "GusGus is fine.
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| Russia, Egypt dismiss US, UK claims bomb brought down jet Posted: 05 Nov 2015 04:19 AM PST  Russia and Egypt on Thursday dismissed suggestions by Britain and the United States that a bomb was likely to have brought down a Metrojet flight packed with Russian vacationers leaving an Egyptian resort, ...
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| Carson: Egypt's pyramids were for grain, not tombs Posted: 04 Nov 2015 06:49 PM PST  The GOP presidential front-runner made the controversial remarks in a 1998 speech.
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| Ex-President George H.W. Bush blasts Cheney, Rumsfeld Posted: 04 Nov 2015 05:38 PM PST  Former President George H.W. Bush takes some unexpected swipes at Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, key members of his son's administration, over their reaction to the Sept. 11 attacks, in a new biography of the 41st president, Fox News reported on Wednesday. In "Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey Of George Herbert Walker Bush," author Jon Meacham quotes Bush as saying that Cheney and Rumsfeld were too hawkish and that their harsh stance damaged the reputation of the United States, the cable news network said.
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