Wednesday, October 2, 2013

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Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 09:24 AM PDT
Meeting yields no breakthrough in shutdown 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 09:24 AM PDT
 U.S. House Speaker Boehner speaks to media following his meeting with U.S. President Obama, outside West Wing of White House in WashingtonObama will not negotiate, Boehner told reporters after their talk.
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Service academy football games will go on 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 08:09 PM PDT
 FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2013, file photo, from left, Navy's Marcus Thomas (26), Evan Palelei (58) and Wave Ryder (8) head onto the field at the start of an NCAA college football game against Indiana in Bloomington, Ind. The Defense Department said Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, that it has temporarily suspended all sports competitions at the service academies as a result of the partial government shutdown. The decision jeopardizes this weekend's football games , Air Force at Navy and Army at Boston College. (AP Photo/Doug McSchooler, File)U.S. military academy football teams will play this weekend, despite the government shutdown.
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Tesla car fire involved battery pack 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 06:11 PM PDT
 APNewsBreak: Tesla says car fire began in batteryA fire that engulfed the front end of a Tesla electric car also burned in the vehicle's battery pack. In documents obtained by The Associated Press under Washington state public records law, firefighters ...
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NSA chief admits testing US cellphone tracking 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 09:03 PM PDT
 National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander pauses while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, before the Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. U.S. intelligence officials say the government shutdown is seriously damaging the intelligence community's ability to guard against threats. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)WASHINGTON (AP) — National Security Agency chief Gen. Keith Alexander revealed Wednesday that his spy agency once tested whether it could track Americans' cellphone locations, in addition to its practice of sweeping broad information about calls made.
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Berlusconi weakened by political about-face 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 01:42 PM PDT
 People of Freedom party leader Silvio Berlusconi covers his face as he speaks on a mobile phone after delivering his speech at the Senate, in Rome, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. Berlusconi acknowledged defeat Wednesday and announced he would support the government of Premier Enrico Letta, a stunning about-face on the Senate floor after defections in his party robbed him of the backing he needed to bring down the left-right coalition government. It was a major setback for Berlusconi, who had demanded his five Cabinet ministers quit the government and bring it down, incensed at a vote planned Friday that could strip him of his Senate seat following his tax fraud conviction and four-year prison sentence. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)MILAN (AP) — Silvio Berlusconi's failed attempt to topple the Italian government has left him weaker than ever, zapped of the aura of invincibility that has surrounded him for two decades as he faces the possible loss of his Senate seat and a ban from politics.
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'Red October' novelist Tom Clancy dies at 66 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 01:55 PM PDT
 This 2010 image released by G.P. Putnam Sons shows author Tom Clancy in Huntingtown, Md. Clancy, the bestselling author of "The Hunt for Red October" and other wildly successful technological thrillers, has died. He was 66. Penguin Group (USA) said Wednesday that Clancy died Tuesday in Baltimore. The publisher did not disclose a cause of death. (AP Photo/G.P. Putnam Sons, David Burnett)NEW YORK (AP) — In 1985, a year after the Cold War thriller "The Hunt for Red October" came out, author Tom Clancy was invited to lunch at the Reagan White House, where he was questioned by Navy Secretary John Lehman.
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New sanctions likely despite thaw in US-Iran ties 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 02:26 PM PDT
 FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2013, photo, President Barack Obama makes a statement in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, after he spoke with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Congress generally backs Obama's new outreach to Iran, but with tougher U.S. economic sanctions against Tehran on the way, the president's diplomatic task will only get harder if he doesn't make quick progress. Obama's phone call last week to Rouhani was the first contact in more than 30 years between the leaders of the two countries. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. lawmakers from both parties have expressed a willingness to give President Barack Obama's outreach to Iran a chance to end to Tehran's nuclear standoff with the West, but at the same time they are crafting tough new U.S. economic sanctions to further isolate the Islamic republic.
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Weapons experts start Syria mission amid clashes 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 01:28 PM PDT
 A convoy of inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons prepares to cross into Syria at the Lebanese border crossing point of Masnaa, eastern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. An advance group of 20 inspectors from a Netherlands-based chemical weapons watchdog arrived in Syria on Tuesday to begin their complex mission of finding, dismantling and ultimately destroying an estimated 1,000-ton chemical arsenal. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)BEIRUT (AP) — Deadly clashes raged on the edge of Damascus on Wednesday and rival rebel factions battled each other in northern Syria as international chemical weapons inspectors began to secure the sites will they will work.
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Authorities: 8 killed in Tennessee bus crash 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 01:43 PM PDT
 DANDRIDGE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a tire on a church bus blew out and the bus hit a tractor-trailer and sport utility vehicle in northeastern Tennessee, killing eight people.
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Mia Farrow: 'Possible' son is Sinatra's 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 01:34 PM PDT
 FILE - In this Sept. 22, 2011 file photo released by the United Nations Foundation, Ronan Farrow, Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Global Youth Issues, speaks during the Social Good Summit in New York. Farrow's mother, actress and activist Mia Farrow says in an interview with Vanity Fair that it's possible her son with Woody Allen is instead Frank Sinatra's. Farrow told the magazine that she and Sinatra NEW YORK (AP) — Mia Farrow says in an interview with Vanity Fair that it's possible her son with Woody Allen is instead Frank Sinatra's.
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Unanswered questions surround Kenya mall attack 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 09:55 AM PDT
 FILE - In this Saturday Sept. 21 2013 file photo, armed police leave after entering the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013 after gunmen threw grenades and opened fire in a terrorist attack. The Sept. 21 terrorist attack on Nairobi's Westgate Mall produced a raft of questions that haven't always had clear, complete answers and the answers to some questions have changed over time - The Associated Press attempts to define what is known and not known about the deadly mall attack. (AP Photo/Jonathan Kalan, File)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Sept. 21 terrorist attack on Nairobi's Westgate Mall produced a raft of questions that haven't always had clear, complete answers. The answers to some questions about the attack have changed over time. Other questions haven't yet been fully answered.
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Multiple fatalities reported in Tenn. bus crash 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 12:38 PM PDT
 DANDRIDGE, Tenn. (AP) — A spokeswoman for Tennessee's Safety Department says there are multiple fatalities and injuries in an interstate bus crash between a passenger bus, a tractor-trailer and another vehicle.
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Pa. police: No charge in fight involving Reds wife 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 12:06 PM PDT
 CORRECTS FIRST NAME TO MAT, NOT MATT - In this photo taken Jan. 26, 2012, Cincinnati Reds pitcher Mat Latos, center, and his wife Dallas, right, touring the Reds museum in Cincinnati. Pittsburgh police are investigating claims by Dallas Latos that she was attacked and had her hair pulled by a fan during National League wild card baseball game on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/The Cincinnati Enquirer, Michael E. Keating) NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDITPITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh police didn't dispute Twitter claims by the wife of Cincinnati Reds pitcher Mat Latos that she was punched and had her hair pulled by a fan during the National League wild-card game, but said they consider the matter "closed" and won't file criminal charges.
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Neither side softening before White House meeting 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 11:54 AM PDT
 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., right, accompanied by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., announces to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, that President Barack Obama has invited the top leaders in Congress to meet with him at the White House to seek a solution to the government shutdown crisis. A funding cutoff for much of the government began Tuesday as a Republican effort to kill or delay the nation's health care law stalled action on a short-term, traditionally routine spending bill. Lawmakers in both parties have ominously suggested the partial shutdown might last for weeks. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama summoned congressional leaders to the White House on the second day of a partial government shutdown that has furloughed hundreds of thousands of workers and closed military cemeteries as far away as France. Republican and Democratic leaders agreed to meet Wednesday afternoon but showed no signs of yielding.
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Outside US, ripple effects of budget battle feared 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 08:59 AM PDT
 President of the European Central Bank (ECB) Mario Draghi attends a news conference of the European Central Bank at the French National Bank in Paris, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. The governing council of the European Central Bank met in Paris to set the benchmark interest rate for the eurozone; economists and investors look to the meeting to see where the bank thinks the European economy is headed. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)PARIS (AP) — Top European officials are keeping a worried eye on the U.S. government shutdown, saying it could pose a risk for the continent's fledgling recovery.
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Glitches persist as gov't blames high demand 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 10:38 AM PDT
 Doug Carmichael, worksite coordinator for Marketplace Nebraska, a health insurance broker under the new Affordable Care Act, explains to citizens the health insurance enrollment process and the options available to them at a seminar at the Willa Cather Omaha Public Library in Omaha, Neb., Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)CHICAGO (AP) — Computer glitches frustrated more Americans checking out their options under President Barack Obama's health care law, and administration officials said Wednesday the problems are mainly due to high consumer interest, not hidden flaws.
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