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| Meteorologist vows never to fly again after seeing latest climate report Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 06:40 AM PDT  Meteorologist vows never to fly again after seeing latest climate report. Full Story | Top |
| Congress plunges nation into government shutdown Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 04:56 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law stalled a temporary funding bill, forcing about 800,000 federal workers off the job and suspending most non-essential federal programs and services. Full Story | Top |
| Hot times during the Cold War: Close calls revealed in new book on U.S. nuclear arsenal Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 04:57 AM PDT Power Players There have been a handful of instances over the years in which nuclear weapons have come close to detonating in America. Such "broken arrow" events have never leveled entire towns or led to nuclear fallout, but a new book by the author of "Fast Food Nation" says they could have. "There's been a [...] Full Story | Top |
| Republicans want to fund parts of the government, but that wouldn't end the shutdown Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 01:58 PM PDT  And the Senate rejected the plan anyway. Full Story | Top |
| Obama blasts ‘Republican shutdown,’ defends Obamacare Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 10:38 AM PDT  He compares Obamacare website to Apple. Full Story | Top |
| Ex-NBA player Tate George convicted of fraud Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 04:02 AM PDT  A former NBA player best known for his 1990 tournament buzzer-beater for the University of Connecticut was convicted Monday of four counts of federal wire fraud in a Ponzi scheme that netted him $2 million. ... Full Story | Top |
| Anthony Bourdain admits mistake on NM 'Frito pie' Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 03:51 AM PDT  Insults dished out by food critic Anthony Bourdain on an episode of CNN's "Parts Unknown" have stirred up outrage in New Mexico — and now he acknowledges that he was wrong. The sharp-tongued ... Full Story | Top |
| President Obama Urges GOP to Abandon 'Ideological Crusade,' End Shutdown Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 12:01 PM PDT Republicans and Democrats Are Far Away From a Resolution to End the Shutdown Full Story | Top |
| Slave descendants fighting tax hikes on Ga. coast Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 03:43 AM PDT Residents of one of the few remaining Gullah-Geechee communities on the Southeast coast opened new appeals Monday against soaring property values that brought them big tax hikes, fearful they could be ... Full Story | Top |
| Federal workers get shutdown instructions Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 03:47 AM PDT  Federal workers will still have to report to work for about four hours Tuesday even though the government is shutting down. With no late deal averting the midnight Monday shutdown, several federal agencies ... Full Story | Top |
| Poll: Americans reject GOP shutdown strategy Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 06:25 AM PDT  Republicans may be hurting brand one year before 2014 elections Full Story | Top |
| All in a name: Jimmy Kimmel quizzes Americans on 'Obamacare' vs. Affordable Care Act Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 02:45 PM PDT It turns out more people support the 'Affordable Care Act' than 'Obamacare' even though they are the same thing. Full Story | Top |
| Shut down? Hell no! say angry vets who storm barricades at D.C. memorial Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 10:00 AM PDT Veterans came to Washington to honor their own and refused to let the government shutdown keep them from visiting the federally managed World War II Memorial. Full Story | Top |
| Shutdown stories: How congressional quarreling is affecting us Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 12:09 PM PDT As the shutdown starts, Yahoo News is cataloging anecdotes Americans are sharing with us. Full Story | Top |
| For House Republicans, confrontation is safer than compromise Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 04:21 AM PDT  By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For most Republicans in the House of Representatives, the only greater peril than shutting down the federal government would have been fighting to keep it open. While a shutdown could hurt the Republican Party's ability to win the Senate next year or take the White House in 2016, that's not the concern of party members in the House, who led the push to pair continued government funding with measures that would delay President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law. ... Full Story | Top |
| From rapper to Raptor, Drake takes on new role Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 03:58 AM PDT  From rapper to Raptor, Drake already has one sweet perk with his new job. Go ahead, security. Just try and turn him away now from an NBA locker room. Drake no longer has to crash the party. Instead, he's ... Full Story | Top |
| Greenpeace crew in 'shock' in Russian jails Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 04:16 AM PDT Moscow (AFP) - Greenpeace crew members detained in Russian jails for two months over their open-sea protest against Arctic oil drilling are "close to shock" over their conditions, a rights activist said Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| Vaccine Refusal Contributes to Whooping Cough Outbreaks Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 04:15 AM PDT The 2010 whooping cough outbreak in California may have been fueled, at least in part, by clusters of parents who refused to vaccinate their children, a new study suggests. Full Story | Top |
| GOP demanded lawmakers pay more for health care Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 12:41 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — About 18,000 people — including members of Congress, all their aides, presidential appointees and even the president and vice president — would lose the employer-provided health insurance under a condition that Republicans proposed for averting a government shutdown. Full Story | Top |
| The best shutdown tweets on Twitter Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 09:52 AM PDT  Reaction to the government shutdown on Twitter was both bitter and biting, many users pointing to visible signs, tweeting pictures from national parks and monuments closed as a result of the halt. Full Story | Top |
| Web traffic, glitches slow Obamacare exchanges launch Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 04:18 PM PDT  By David Morgan and Caroline Humer (Reuters) - Technical glitches and heavy internet traffic slowed Tuesday's launch of new online insurance exchanges at the heart of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform, showcasing the challenge of covering millions of uninsured Americans. The opening itself represented a victory for Obama's signature domestic policy achievement after years of attack from Republican foes and delays in building the technology infrastructure to support sites in 50 U.S. states. ... Full Story | Top |
| Israel ready to tackle nuclear Iran 'alone' Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 12:26 PM PDT  New York (AFP) - Israel is ready to act alone to stop Iran making a nuclear bomb, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday, in a warning against rushing into deals with Tehran's new leaders. Full Story | Top |
| Health insurance markets open; success to be seen Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 07:16 AM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — Online insurance marketplaces at the heart of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul struggled to handle the volume of consumers on Tuesday, the first day of a six-month open enrollment period. Full Story | Top |
| Shutdown orders issued as Congress misses deadline Monday, Sep 30, 2013 10:45 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time in nearly two decades, the federal government staggered into a partial shutdown early Tuesday morning after congressional Republicans stubbornly demanded changes in the nation's health care law as the price for essential federal funding and President Barack Obama and Democrats adamantly refused. Full Story | Top |
| Government powers down; Obama to address country Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 10:03 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday, forcing some 800,000 federal workers off the job as a protracted dispute over President Barack Obama's signature health care law reached the boiling point. Obama readied a midday statement to the nation while Democrats and Republicans at the Capitol blamed each other for the first shutdown in nearly two decades. Full Story | Top |
| White House rejects latest Republican offer to end shutdown Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 03:53 PM PDT By Richard Cowan and Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House rejected a Republican plan to reopen portions of the U.S. government on Tuesday as the first shutdown in 17 years closed landmarks like the Statue of Liberty and threw hundreds of thousands of federal employees out of work. The back and forth offered no sign that President Barack Obama and Republicans can soon end a standoff over health care that has sidelined everything from trade negotiations to medical research and raised new concerns about Congress's ability to perform its most basic duties. ... Full Story | Top |
| Jellyfish wave shuts down Swedish nuke reactor Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 06:39 AM PDT It wasn't a tsunami but it had the same effect: A wave of jellyfish was huge enough to force one of the world's largest nuclear reactors to shut down — a phenomenon that marine biologists say could become ... Full Story | Top |
| Ancient Kingdom Discovered Beneath Mound in Iraq Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 04:59 AM PDT  In the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq archaeologists have discovered an ancient city called Idu, hidden beneath a mound. Full Story | Top |
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