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| Publicist: 'Fast & Furious' star dies in car crash Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 07:43 PM PST  Actor Paul Walker died Saturday in a car crash that killed two people, reps confirm. Full Story | Top |
| Thanksgiving takes more Black Friday sales Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 04:23 PM PST  Thanksgiving Day is no longer all about turkey: It's eating away at Black Friday shopping. Full Story | Top |
| Unclear yet if crucial overhaul of Obamacare website a success Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 12:40 PM PST  Americans got their first look on Saturday at an overhaul of the troubled enrollment website at the heart of President Barack Obama's healthcare law, but it was unclear yet if the White House had made good on its pledge to fix the glitches. The Obama administration promised five weeks ago that by this weekend it would fix HealthCare.gov, the site designed to help people sign up for medical coverage but which has been plagued by errors, outages, and slow speeds since a disastrous October 1 launch. HealthCare.gov is a key portal for Obama's signature domestic achievement, the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, which aims to extend coverage to millions of people and reduce healthcare costs. Making Obamacare work has enormous political stakes for the administration and its Democratic allies who are heading into congressional elections next year. Full Story | Top |
| Police say more gunshots fired in Bangkok Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 07:20 PM PST  BANGKOK (AP) — Gunshots were fired Sunday morning in the Thai capital as authorities braced for more violence a day after aggressive political protests erupted in street fighting between supporters and opponents of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. Full Story | Top |
| Mother on crashed plane led searchers to wreckage Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 04:21 PM PST  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A mother on board a plane that crashed in remote southwest Alaska made a frantic phone call for help resuscitating her 5-month-old baby, then left the fatally injured boy to lead searchers hampered by cold and fog to the crash site. Full Story | Top |
| Montana appeals teacher's rape sentence Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 06:25 PM PST HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Montana attorney general's office on Friday asked the state Supreme Court to throw out a 30-day sentence given to a teacher who raped a 14-year-old girl, saying the punishment was illegally lenient. Full Story | Top |
| NKorea says American apologizes for 'hostile acts' Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 01:39 PM PST  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea state media claimed Saturday that an elderly U.S. tourist detained for more than a month has apologized for alleged crimes during the Korean War and for "hostile acts" against the state during a recent trip. Full Story | Top |
| Davis' return lifts Auburn past Bama, 34-28 Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 07:52 PM PST  AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — That crazy tipped pass for a long game-winning touchdown is now the second-most stunning and improbable play of Auburn's wild season. Full Story | Top |
| US: American fighters in Syria a security risk Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 10:32 AM PST  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Federal officials say Americans are joining the bloody civil war in Syria, raising the chances they could become radicalized by al-Qaida-linked militant groups and return to the U.S. as battle-hardened security risks. Full Story | Top |
| Egypt panel begins voting on draft constitution Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 01:03 PM PST  CAIRO (AP) — The panel amending Egypt's suspended constitution began voting Saturday on some 250 changes, the first step toward democratic rule following the July military coup that ousted the country's president. Full Story | Top |
| Thai political protesters clash violently, 1 dead Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 06:16 PM PST BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's capital braced for more violence Sunday after a week of aggressive political protests erupted in street fighting between supporters and opponents of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, leaving at least one man dead and wounding several others. Full Story | Top |
| US to destroy Syrian chemical weapons Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 12:30 PM PST  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's government will try to move the most lethal components of its chemical weapons program to a port city by the end of the year, and the U.S. has offered to pick up and destroy the hazardous material at an offshore facility, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and Syrian officials said Saturday. Full Story | Top |
| Bulger belongings could land on auction block Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 03:35 PM PST  BOSTON (AP) — Former Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger could soon see some of his jewelry, clothes and other belongings on the auction block. Full Story | Top |
| Villagers rush to aid rural Alaska crash survivors Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 03:46 PM PST ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A passenger on a crashed airplane in rural Alaska unsuccessfully tried to revive her baby and then walked nearly a mile to lead searchers to the wreckage near the village of Saint Marys. Full Story | Top |
| Ukrainian demonstrators converge outside monastery Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 12:46 PM PST  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — About 10,000 anti-government demonstrators angry about Ukraine's refusal to sign a pro-European Union agreement converged Saturday on a square outside a monastery where protesters driven away in a pre-dawn clash with police were taking shelter. Full Story | Top |
| Scottish holiday marred by police helicopter crash Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 12:47 PM PST GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Scotland's official holiday was transformed into a grim day of mourning Saturday as emergency crews searched the wreckage of a riverside pub smashed by a falling police helicopter. At least eight people died and more than a dozen remained hospitalized with serious injuries. Full Story | Top |
| Chemical watchdog says US to destroy Syria stockpile at sea Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 10:31 AM PST  The United States will destroy the most dangerous of Syria's chemical weapon stockpile on a ship at sea, the world's chemical watchdog said on Saturday. "The neutralisation operations will be conducted on a US vessel at sea using hydrolysis," the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said in a statement. "Currently a suitable naval vessel is undergoing modifications to support the operations and to accommodate verification activities by the OPCW," The Hague-based watchdog added. The ship operation will destroy what is known as "priority chemical weapons", the most dangerous of Syria's total arsenal and ones that have to be out of the country by December 31 under an international deal agreed to avert military strikes on Damascus. Full Story | Top |
| China claims victory in scrubbing Internet clean Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 01:35 AM PST  BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government has declared victory in cleaning up what it considers rumors, negativity and unruliness from online discourse, while critics say the moves have suppressed criticism of the government and ruling Communist Party. Full Story | Top |
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