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| Romney: Obama 'dishonest' about Obamacare Sunday, Nov 03, 2013 06:09 AM PST  Mitt Romney lashed out at Barack Obama on Sunday, saying the president has been dishonest about the Affordable Care Act. Full Story | Top |
| Former Obama Administration Official: Obama Will 'Pay Price' For Healthcare Promise Reversal Sunday, Nov 03, 2013 01:21 PM PST  This morning on "This Week," Crossfire co-host Van Jones, a former Obama administration official, said the president would "pay a price," for reversing course on his now famous promise that those Americans who like their plans could keep them if them if they wished under... Full Story | Top |
| Virginia race seen as crucial election bellwether Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 10:11 PM PDT  Politicians, pollsters and analysts are eager to see if the state's dramatic demographic transformation will scrape out a win for Democrats or whether its southern traditional values boosted by Tea Party conservatism will carry the day. The election across the Potomac River from Washington is a barometer of the popularity of the two major US political parties -- as well as that of the turbulent, conservative Tea Party movement that has upended national politics in recent years. On the right, 45-year-old Ken Cuccinelli, the state's anti-abortion, pro-gun Republican attorney general and Tea Party darling who was the first in the nation to mount a legal challenge against President Barack Obama's health care reforms in 2010. On the left, Democrat Terry McAuliffe, 56, a party insider who has never held elected office but whose business savvy and political pragmatism -- and his status as close friend to the Clintons -- have helped him emerge as the pre-election favorite. Full Story | Top |
| Gunman told police he acted alone in LAX shooting Sunday, Nov 03, 2013 08:16 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The gunman charged in the deadly shooting at Los Angeles International Airport lay bloodied and handcuffed on the floor of Terminal 3 after being gunned down by police, but he replied to critical questions that helped authorities lock down the scene. Full Story | Top |
| Kerry: US won't allow attacks on Mideast partners Sunday, Nov 03, 2013 06:35 AM PST  CAIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday tried to reassure America's Arab friends that the United States will not allow them to be attacked "from outside," in an apparent warning to Iran. Full Story | Top |
| White House, lawmakers: no clemency for Snowden Sunday, Nov 03, 2013 11:35 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House and the leaders of the intelligence committee in Congress are rejecting National Security Agency-contractor Edward Snowden's plea for clemency. Full Story | Top |
| Snowden says calls for reform prove intel leaks were justified Sunday, Nov 03, 2013 04:36 AM PST  Fugitive U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden said calls for more oversight of government intelligence agencies showed he was justified in revealing the methods and targets of the U.S. secret service. Snowden's leaks about the National Security Agency (NSA), from its alleged mass scanning of emails to the tapping of world leaders' phones, have infuriated U.S. allies and placed Washington on the defensive. In "A Manifesto for the Truth" published in German news magazine Der Spiegel on Sunday, Snowden said current debates about mass surveillance in many countries showed his revelations were helping to bring about change. "Instead of causing damage, the usefulness of the new public knowledge for society is now clear because reforms to politics, supervision and laws are being suggested," the 30-year-old ex-CIA employee and NSA contractor wrote. Full Story | Top |
| Experts say nuclear power needed to slow warming Sunday, Nov 03, 2013 08:05 AM PST  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Some of the world's top climate scientists say wind and solar energy won't be enough to head off extreme global warming, and they're asking environmentalists to support the development of safer nuclear power as one way to cut fossil fuel pollution. Full Story | Top |
| Obama's health law finally gets real for America Sunday, Nov 03, 2013 06:37 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Now is when Americans start figuring out that President Barack Obama's health care law goes beyond political talk, and really does affect them and people they know. Full Story | Top |
| 'Saturday Night Live' pokes fun at diversity issue Sunday, Nov 03, 2013 02:38 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — With Kerry Washington as guest host, "Saturday Night Live" wasted no time poking fun at itself after receiving criticism for having no black women among its 16 regular cast members. Full Story | Top |
| Pa. taxpayers foot growing bill for gas subsidies Sunday, Nov 03, 2013 07:27 AM PST The discovery five years ago that the Marcellus Shale, the nation's largest natural gas reservoir, could spew big profits and cheap, homegrown energy has, in turn, spurred gas-friendly state officials ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama heads to Virginia to campaign for McAuliffe Sunday, Nov 03, 2013 02:39 AM PST  HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) — President Barack Obama is lending his political heft to Terry McAuliffe's campaign for Virginia governor while Republican Ken Cuccinelli is flying from airport to airport in search of votes. Full Story | Top |
| Paula Abdul connects to Jewish roots in Israel Sunday, Nov 03, 2013 04:50 AM PST  JERUSALEM (AP) — Paula Abdul, an award-winning singer, dancer, choreographer and TV personality, can add a new title to her resume: religious pilgrim. Full Story | Top |
| Rare Hybrid Solar Eclipse Occurs Today: Watch It Live Online Sunday, Nov 03, 2013 03:14 AM PST  Editor's Note: See the first photos and accounts of Sunday's solar eclipse by eclipse chasers here: Rare Solar Eclipse Wows Skywatchers Across Atlantic, Africa (Photos) The moon and sun will team up to create a rare event Sunday (Nov. 3): a hybrid solar eclipse that could amaze eclipse chasers across eastern North America, the Atlantic Ocean and Africa. The online Slooh community observatory will provide a free webcast of Sunday's hybrid solar eclipse beginning at 6:45 a.m. EDT (1145 GMT). Slooh host Paul Cox will provide live views of the eclipse from the Kenya countryside in Africa, with other feeds expected from Gabon, Africa, and the Canary Islands off Africa's western coast. Full Story | Top |
| JFK holds complex place in black history Sunday, Nov 03, 2013 06:35 AM PST  Not that many years ago, three portraits hung in thousands of African-American homes, a visual tribute to men who had helped black people navigate the long journey to equality. Full Story | Top |
| Sen. Rand Paul Wishes He Could Challenge Plagiarism Critics to a 'Duel'; Calls Them 'Hacks and Haters' Sunday, Nov 03, 2013 10:17 AM PST  On "This Week" Sunday, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., dismissed charges of plagiarism in his speeches and writing made in the last week, saying he was being "unfairly targeted by a bunch of hacks and haters" who he wishes he could challenge to a "duel." "The... Full Story | Top |
| Schumer gives Hillary Clinton an early endorsement Sunday, Nov 03, 2013 04:09 PM PST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton says she isn't in a hurry to make a decision about running for president again. Her former Senate colleague, Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, isn't waiting for her to make up her mind. Full Story | Top |
| Parasite depletes wild shrimp haul off southeast Atlantic coast Sunday, Nov 03, 2013 07:37 AM PST  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Wild shrimp hauls off the southern Atlantic coast have plunged in recent months as a parasite has made it harder for the creatures to breathe, according to state wildlife officials in Georgia and South Carolina. Experts said they believe black gill disease, caused by a tiny parasite, contributed to a die-off of white shrimp between August and October, typically the prime catch season. "It's like the shrimp are smoking three packs of cigarettes a day, and now they're having to go run a marathon," said Mel Bell, director of South Carolina's Office of Fisheries Management. "Shrimpers are reporting to us that they dump the bag on the deck, and the shrimp are just dead." South Carolina shrimpers hauled in 44,000 pounds of shrimp in September, less than 6 percent of the September, 2012 catch of more than 750,000 pounds, Bell said. Full Story | Top |
| Germany finds 1,500 masterpieces looted by Nazis Sunday, Nov 03, 2013 03:20 PM PST  Nearly 1,500 priceless paintings including works by Picasso and Matisse that were stolen by the Nazis have been discovered in a flat in Munich, a news report said Sunday. The German weekly Focus said police came upon the paintings during a 2011 search in an apartment belonging to the octogenarian son of art collector Hildebrand Gurlitt, who had bought them during the 1930s and 1940s. The search was carried out because the son, Cornelius Gurlitt, was under suspicion for tax evasion, Focus said. Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels put Gurlitt in charge of exporting the art, which the Nazi party considered "degenerate". Full Story | Top |
| Ouster of 'Bishop of Bling' puts heat on wealthy German Catholic Church Sunday, Nov 03, 2013 05:00 AM PST As a scandal-ridden bishop withdrew to a monastery in deep Bavaria for a "spiritual time of recovery" this past week, Germany continues to debate how symptomatic Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, the so-called "Bishop of Bling," is of the German Catholic Church. "The wealth of the German Catholic Church is not a new problem, as the vow of poverty is an integral part of the faith," says Markus Thurau, a theology professor at the Free University of Berlin. Pope Francis is also putting theory into practice. Straight after his election in March, he symbolically shunned the red velvet mozetta preferred by his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, in favor of a more modest white vestment, and can currently be spotted driving around the Vatican in a gifted second-hand, decades-old jalopy. Full Story | Top |
| Boat carrying 70 Muslim Rohingya sinks off Myanmar Sunday, Nov 03, 2013 07:08 AM PST YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A boat carrying at least 70 Muslim Rohingya capsized and sank Sunday off the western coast of Myanmar, an aid worker said. Only eight survivors have been found. Full Story | Top |
| Israel issues 1,859 settlement tenders ahead of Kerry visit Sunday, Nov 03, 2013 12:52 PM PST  Israel issued tenders to build 1,859 settler homes Sunday, angering Palestinians ahead of a visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry aimed at pushing the peace process forward. Documents published on the website of the government-run Israel Land Authority showed that 1,031 plots were offered by Israel's housing and construction ministry in the occupied West Bank and 828 in annexed east Jerusalem. The Palestinians, who have long viewed settlements as a major obstacle to resolving the decades-old conflict, threatened to go to the UN Security Council over the latest Israeli move. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that he never promised to freeze settlement construction during talks. Full Story | Top |
| Poll: Older Americans nix Social Security changes Sunday, Nov 03, 2013 05:21 PM PST  CHICAGO (AP) — Raise the age at which you can begin collecting full Social Security benefits? Older Americans say no. They also veto reductions in the cost-of-living increase. Full Story | Top |
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