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| Delta jet lands at remote AK airport as precaution Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 04:46 PM PDT  A 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 ... Full Story | Top |
| HealthCare.gov suffers outage as Sebelius testifies that it's never crashed Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 11:16 AM PDT  Healthcare.gov suffers outage as Sebelius testifies that it's never crashed. Full Story | Top |
| Obama blames 'bad apple' insurers for canceled coverage Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 04:43 PM PDT  By 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. Full Story | Top |
| Captain Kirk to command new Navy destroyer Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 08:38 AM PDT  The commander of the sleek new USS Zumwalt, which launched late last week in Maine, has a name to match its space-age look. Full Story | Top |
| Sebelius on health care law rollout: 'No one indicated it could possibly go this wrong' Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 09:54 AM PDT  "You deserve better. I apologize," Sebelius said. "I'm accountable to you for fixing these problems." Full Story | Top |
| 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. Full Story | Top |
| Flying Without Ever Leaving The Ground Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 07:53 AM PDT  With 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. Full Story | Top |
| 3 New Species Discovered in Australia's 'Lost World' Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 10:22 AM PDT  During 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. Full Story | Top |
| All these congressmen made terrible Wizard of Oz jokes about Sebelius Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 12:51 PM PDT  Sebelius was once the governor of Kansas, so there's only one joke you can make, obviously. Full Story | Top |
| City: Odor from Sriracha chili plant a nuisance Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 10:03 AM PDT  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 ... Full Story | Top |
| 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. Full Story | Top |
| 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. Full Story | Top |
| No immediate decision on Texas abortion law appeal Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 03:53 AM PDT  A 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 ... Full Story | Top |
| Louisiana parish provides extreme example of inequality Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 10:58 AM PDT  But few of its 7,500 residents are complaining. Full Story | Top |
| 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. Full Story | Top |
| 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. Full Story | Top |
| Report: NSA broke into Yahoo, Google data centers Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 03:55 PM PDT  The 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 ... Full Story | Top |
| 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 & 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. Full Story | Top |
| Obama to cite Mass. health care law's slow start Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 12:40 PM PDT  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. Full Story | Top |
| The last word on...the Apple iPad Air Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 09:23 AM PDT  This is our roundup of the best reviews of Apple's newest 9.7" iPad. Full Story | Top |
| 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." Full Story | Top |
| 'Minicomputers' Live Inside the Human Brain Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 04:32 AM PDT  The 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. Full Story | Top |
| Sebelius apologizes for health law 'debacle' Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 07:31 AM PDT 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. Full Story | Top |
| 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. Full Story | Top |
| Exorcism of 1949 continues to fascinate St. Louis Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 11:01 AM PDT  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. Full Story | Top |
| Concerns raised about security of health website Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 11:46 AM PDT 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. Full Story | Top |
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