Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Daily News: Most Popular News Headlines - Delta jet lands at remote AK airport as precaution

Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 04:46 PM PDT
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Delta jet lands at remote AK airport as precaution 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 04:46 PM PDT
Passengers in emergency landing leave AK airportA Delta Air Lines flight made an emergency landing in a remote Alaska community near the Aleutian Islands Wednesday morning after a warning message flashed on an engine control panel. San Francisco-bound ...
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HealthCare.gov suffers outage as Sebelius testifies that it's never crashed 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 11:16 AM PDT
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius gestures while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the difficulties plaguing the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The Obama Administration claims the botched rollout was the result of contractors failing to live up to expectations – not bad management at HHS. As the public face of President Barack Obama's signature health care program, Sec. Sebelius has become the target for attacks over its botched rollout with Republicans, and even some Democrats, calling for her to resign. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Healthcare.gov suffers outage as Sebelius testifies that it's never crashed.
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Obama blames 'bad apple' insurers for canceled coverage 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 04:43 PM PDT
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Sebelius is sworn in to testify before a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing about issues and complications with the Affordable Care Act enrollment website, on Capitol HillBy Roberta Rampton and David Morgan BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that "bad apple" insurance companies, not his signature healthcare law, are to blame for hundreds of thousands of people losing their coverage in the past few weeks. As administration officials scrambled to fix technical problems on an online insurance marketplace that is central to the success of the Affordable Care Act, Obama blamed private insurers for a separate problem that has critics questioning his honesty. But the termination of individual policies has given his Republican opponents additional ammunition to criticize the program they have tried to stop since its inception in Obama's first term. Republicans' assertion that Obama had broken a major promise to the electorate is potentially more damaging than the glitch-ridden website rollout on October 1.
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Captain Kirk to command new Navy destroyer 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 08:38 AM PDT
Captain KirkThe commander of the sleek new USS Zumwalt, which launched late last week in Maine, has a name to match its space-age look.
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Sebelius on health care law rollout: 'No one indicated it could possibly go this wrong' 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 09:54 AM PDT
Sebelius apologizes for HealthCare.gov problems"You deserve better. I apologize," Sebelius said. "I'm accountable to you for fixing these problems."
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Bus driver saves the life of woman on Buffalo bridge 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 11:38 AM PDT
A school bus driver in Buffalo saved the life of a woman standing on the edge of a bridge, earning praise and thanks from his students and the community.
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Flying Without Ever Leaving The Ground 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 07:53 AM PDT
ScanEagle LaunchWith thousands of commercial drones expected to fly in U.S. airspace within a few years, "The Future Is Now" visited the University of North Dakota to meet students who are majoring in unmanned aviation systems: flying drones.
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3 New Species Discovered in Australia's 'Lost World' 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 10:22 AM PDT
Image provided by Conrad Hoskin of James Cook University Queensland on October 28, 2013 shows the Cape Melville boulder-dwelling frog discovered in Australia's Cape York PeninsulaDuring an expedition last March to a remote part of northeastern Australia, where few humans have tread, scientists discovered three unique species of vertebrates: an impressively camouflaged leaf-tail gecko, a golden-colored skink and a rock-loving frog. The researchers were exploring the rain forests on top of the Cape Melville Range, a 9-mile-long (15 kilometers) mountain range located on Australia's Cape York Peninsula, which juts out just south of Papua New Guinea. "Finding three new, obviously distinct vertebrates would be surprising enough in somewhere poorly explored like New Guinea, let alone in Australia, a country we think we've explored pretty well," biologist Conrad Hoskin of James Cook University in Queensland said in a statement.
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All these congressmen made terrible Wizard of Oz jokes about Sebelius 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 12:51 PM PDT
Wizard of Oz and PoliticsSebelius was once the governor of Kansas, so there's only one joke you can make, obviously.
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City: Odor from Sriracha chili plant a nuisance 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 10:03 AM PDT
Bottles of Sriracha hot sauce (The Verge)It looked like things were really starting to heat up for this little Southern California factory town when the maker of the Sriracha chili sauce known the world over decided to open a sprawling 650,000-square-foot ...
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House Republican backs Dem immigration bill 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 03:24 PM PDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats pushing a comprehensive approach to overhauling the nation's immigration system picked up the support of a third Republican on Wednesday.
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War without borders: The growing threat of commando-style raids across the world 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 04:40 AM PDT
Author David Kilcullen discusses new book about the changing nature of warfare.
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No immediate decision on Texas abortion law appeal 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 03:53 AM PDT
No immediate decision on Texas abortion law appealA federal appeals court didn't act on an emergency motion Tuesday that would've allowed some new abortion restrictions to take effect in Texas, the latest step in a lengthy battle activists on both sides ...
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Louisiana parish provides extreme example of inequality 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 10:58 AM PDT
Lake Providence,But few of its 7,500 residents are complaining.
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NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly booed offstage at Brown over 'stop and frisk' 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 05:22 AM PDT
Top cop's lecture was halted on Tuesday after audience members disrupted the talk in protest of his controversial "stop and frisk" policy.
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Sebelius heads to Hill to defend health law, job 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 04:07 AM PDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eager to cast blame, lawmakers are preparing to grill President Barack Obama's top health official over problems with the rollout of the government's health care website.
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Report: NSA broke into Yahoo, Google data centers 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 03:55 PM PDT
Report: NSA broke into Yahoo, Google data centersThe National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, The Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing documents ...
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Pricewaterhouse to buy consulting firm Booz 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 09:24 AM PDT
Accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers said Wednesday it has reached a deal to buy business consultancy Booz & CompanyAccounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers said Wednesday it has reached a deal to buy business consultancy Booz & Company. PwC did not reveal the financial terms of the acquisition, which will boost its advisory business. Dennis Nally, chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers International, said the merger would give chief executives around the world "the opportunity to work with a global consulting team that could provide services from strategy development right through to execution." PwC, headquartered in London, focuses on audit and assurance, tax and consulting services.
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Obama to cite Mass. health care law's slow start 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 12:40 PM PDT
President Barack Obama is greeted by well-wishers as he arrives at Boston Logan Airport, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, before going to Faneuil Hall to speak about the federal health care law. Faneuil Hall is where former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Obama's rival in the 2012 presidential election, signed the state's landmark health care law in 2006, with top Democrats standing by his side. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)BOSTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is citing the Massachusetts health care system's slow start to keep expectations low for early sign-ups for his own overhaul. And he's pointing to the bipartisan effort to get the program launched in Massachusetts to encourage his opponents to stop rooting for his law's failure.
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The last word on...the Apple iPad Air 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 09:23 AM PDT
iPad Air Last WordThis is our roundup of the best reviews of Apple's newest 9.7" iPad.
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Paralyzed teen walks down aisle at sister's wedding 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 10:24 AM PDT
Sixteen months ago a car accident forever changed Mackenzie Gorden's life. Doctors told her parents their 18-year-old daughter would never walk again. But Mackenzie was determined to prove them wrong, especially since she was asked to be the maid of honor at her sister Brittany's wedding. Her story is featured in a special report for the Denver Post: "Stepping Toward Hope: My Sister's Wedding."
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'Minicomputers' Live Inside the Human Brain 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 04:32 AM PDT
'Minicomputers' Live Inside the Human BrainThe heart of each neuron is called the soma — a single thin cablelike fiber known as the axon that sticks out of the soma carries nerve signals away from the neuron, while many shorter branches called dendrites that project from the other end of the soma carry nerve signals to the neuron. Now scientists find dendrites may be more than passive wiring; "Suddenly, it's as if the processing power of the brain is much greater than we had originally thought," study lead author Spencer Smith, a neuroscientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,said in a statement. However, prior research discovered many of the same molecules that support electrical spikes are also present in the dendrites, and experiments with brain tissue showed dendrites can use these molecules to generate these spikes themselves.
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Sebelius apologizes for health law 'debacle' 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 07:31 AM PDT
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius gestures while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the difficulties plaguing the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The Obama Administration claims the botched rollout was the result of contractors failing to live up to expectations – not bad management at HHS. As the public face of President Barack Obama's signature health care program, Sec. Sebelius has become the target for attacks over its botched rollout with Republicans, and even some Democrats, calling for her to resign. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's top health care official told Congress on Wednesday that she's responsible for the "debacle" of cascading technical problems that overwhelmed a government website intended to make shopping for health insurance clear and simple.
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How Presidents age in office 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 03:50 PM PDT
According to one expert, a president ages two years for every year they are in office.
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Exorcism of 1949 continues to fascinate St. Louis 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 11:01 AM PDT
In this photo provided by St. Louis University, Thomas B. Allen, author of Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism, speaks during a panel discussion at St. Louis University in St. Louis, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, about the month-long 1949 demon-purging ritual at the school's former Alexian Brothers Hospital. The treatment of an unidentified suburban Washington, D.C., boy formed the basis for the 1971 novel by William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist, and the film of the same name two years later. (AP Photo/St. Louis University, Michelle Peltier)ST. LOUIS (AP) — Saint Louis University junior Zach Grummer-Strawn has never seen "The Exorcist," the 1973 horror film considered one of the finest examples of unadulterated cinematic terror. He's only vaguely familiar with the monthlong 1949 demon-purging ritual at his school that inspired William Peter Blatty's novel and later the movie.
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Concerns raised about security of health website 
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 11:46 AM PDT
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius gestures while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the difficulties plaguing the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The Obama Administration claims the botched rollout was the result of contractors failing to live up to expectations – not bad management at HHS. As the public face of President Barack Obama's signature health care program, Sec. Sebelius has become the target for attacks over its botched rollout with Republicans, and even some Democrats, calling for her to resign. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Defending President Barack Obama's much-maligned health care overhaul in Congress, his top health official was confronted Wednesday with a government memo raising new security concerns about the trouble-prone website that consumers are using to enroll.
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