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| For Obama, health care woes may have staying power Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 07:35 AM PDT  For nearly five years, Republicans have struggled to make a scandal stick to President Barack Obama's White House. One by one, the controversies — with shorthand names such as Solyndra, Benghazi, and Fast ... Full Story | Top |
| Sharpton threatens store boycott over profile suit Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 12:46 PM PDT  The Rev. Al Sharpton threatened Saturday to boycott luxury retailer Barneys if the department store doesn't respond adequately to allegations by black shoppers that they were racially profiled there. "We've ... Full Story | Top |
| Mysterious floating barge in San Francisco Bay could be secret new Google Glass facility Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 10:11 AM PDT A 250-foot long barge with four stories of shipping containers floating in the waters of the San Francisco Bay may actually be the home of Google's next big marketing push Full Story | Top |
| JPMorgan's $5B settlement doesn't end its troubles Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 12:42 AM PDT  The $5.1 billion that JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay hardly ends its legal troubles over mortgage securities it sold. It's merely a down payment. JPMorgan still faces heavy financial burdens. The bank ... Full Story | Top |
| Ted Cruz Blames Senate Republicans For Obamacare Loss Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 11:44 AM PDT  DES MOINES — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tx., gave the keynote address at a state Republican party fundraiser here this evening and told the crowd the country is "facing a new paradigm in politics and it is the paradigm of the rise of the grassroots" and... Full Story | Top |
| Cruz in Iowa claims shutdown got people talking Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 01:23 AM PDT  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz says this month's partial government shutdown and his key role in it were a success: They got people talking. Full Story | Top |
| Spring on Saturn's Moon Titan Reveals Amazing Views of Otherworldly Lakes (Photos) Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 05:43 AM PDT  NASA's Cassini space probe is getting an exceptional look at the vast liquid lakes of Titan's north pole, where dense winter clouds are finally retreating thanks to a change in seasons on Saturn's largest moon. Full Story | Top |
| Quincy Jones sues Michael Jackson's estate Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 07:15 AM PDT  Quincy Jones sued Michael Jackson's estate claiming he is owed millions in royalties and production fees on some of the superstar's greatest hits. Jones' lawsuit Friday seeks at least $10 million from ... Full Story | Top |
| Macy's joins Barneys in brewing NYC 'shop-and-frisk' scandal Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 02:15 PM PDT  NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's civil rights leaders on Saturday angrily decried the city's brewing "shop-and-frisk" scandal, in which two major retailers stand accused of profiling black shoppers who say they were detained by police after buying luxury items. "We've gone from stop-and-frisk to shop-and-frisk," said Reverend Al Sharpton, president of National Action Network, alluding to a police crime-fighting tactic that critics say amounts to racial profiling. ... Full Story | Top |
| Analysis: GOP aims at website, hopes to hit law Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 12:19 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans are waging war against a hapless website and hoping it leads to the destruction of "Obamacare," the health care program they loathe so fervently. Full Story | Top |
| Protesters march in Washington against NSA spying Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 03:51 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Protesters marched on Capitol Hill in Washington on Saturday to protest the U.S. government's online surveillance programs, whose vast scope was revealed this year by former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden. People carried signs reading: "Stop Mass Spying," "Thank you, Edward Snowden" and "Unplug Big Brother" as they gathered at the foot of the Capitol to demonstrate against the online surveillance by the National Security Agency. Estimates varied on the size of the march, with organizers saying more than 2,000 attended. U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Fla.'s Crist plots political comeback as Democrat Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 12:53 AM PDT  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Charlie Crist had barely entered the room before a throng of teachers swarmed him. Full Story | Top |
| NJ second-home owners in limbo a year after Sandy Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 07:24 AM PDT  The Jersey shore's vacation bungalows and cottages have for decades staked out little plots of paradise where families who scrimped and saved could while away summer evenings, parents having drinks on ... Full Story | Top |
| Police: Tenn. man had loaded rifle in bag at JFK Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 02:38 PM PDT  Police say a Tennessee man has checked luggage containing a loaded, defaced rifle at New York's Kennedy International Airport. Keenan Draughon (DRAW'-guhn) was arrested Saturday morning trying to board ... Full Story | Top |
| FBI to investigate shooting of Calif. 13-year-old Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 09:03 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting an independent investigation of the fatal shooting of a popular 13-year-old boy by a sheriff's deputy in Northern California. Full Story | Top |
| Sebelius finds a silver lining in Obamacare 'data hub' Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 12:40 PM PDT  By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, besieged by bad news about the new government health care website, sought on Saturday to highlight a portion of the complex system that she said is working well. The website, designed to let millions of uninsured Americans shop and enroll in health insurance, has been plagued by delays and error messages since it rolled out on October 1, embarrassing President Barack Obama as his administration scrambles to fix the problems. ... Full Story | Top |
| Police chase gunman, hostages across Mojave Desert Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 09:34 AM PDT  RIDGECREST, Calif. (AP) — Police were investigating a deadly shooting in this Mojave Desert city when they got a chilling call — from the killer. Full Story | Top |
| After tough week, White House buys time for Obamacare website fix Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 03:01 AM PDT  By Steve Holland and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama promised on Saturday that his troubled healthcare website was just weeks away from a cure as he struggled to convince Americans he is on top of what has become a self-inflicted wound to his signature first-term achievement. His administration unveiled a plan on Friday to make Obamacare insurance marketplaces on healthcare.gov - a website riddled with error messages, long delays and bugs - work better by the end of November. It was the end to an embarrassing week where Obama discovered he had overshot on an Oct ... Full Story | Top |
| Administration: Personal info for health care only Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 01:16 PM PDT The Obama administration is stressing that information submitted while signing up for coverage under the new health care law will not be used to enforce immigration law. That's always been the practice, ... Full Story | Top |
| Israel dismisses reports Iran halting higher-grade enrichment Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 11:41 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel on Saturday dismissed as "irrelevant" reports that Iran had halted its most sensitive uranium enrichment activity, and said Tehran's nuclear program must be dismantled. A senior member of Iran's parliamentary national security commission was quoted as saying Iran had stopped refining uranium above the 5 percent required for civilian power stations, as it already had all the 20-percent enriched fuel it needed for a medical research reactor in Tehran. But diplomats accredited to the U.N. ... Full Story | Top |
| VOTER ID LAWS HAVE BUT ONE INTENT: TO LIMIT THE FRANCHISE Friday, Oct 25, 2013 10:00 PM PDT Belatedly, federal Judge Richard Posner has arrived at the obvious conclusion about voter identification laws: They are enacted as a barrier to the franchise, an un-American tactic hatched by conservatives to prevent certain people from voting. It's too bad that his epiphany came so late.Posner is one of the nation's most respected conservative jurists. As a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, he might have led the nation's highest court to reject new restrictions around voting. ... Full Story | Top |
| US military's airship programs lose altitude Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 11:49 AM PDT  Washington (AFP) - The US military has invested billions in blimp-like aircraft to track militants planting roadside bombs but the spyship experiment is losing altitude because of technical failures and changing priorities. Full Story | Top |
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