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| Obamacare website shuts down for maintenance Friday, Oct 04, 2013 03:07 PM PDT  The site for to sign up for health insurance is going down to correct some glitches. Full Story | Top |
| Officials: Undercover cop watched driver get beaten Friday, Oct 04, 2013 03:29 PM PDT  NYPD Cop Was with Motorcyclists Who Beat SUV Driver in NYC Full Story | Top |
| Coded message from National Weather Service on gov't shutdown? Friday, Oct 04, 2013 05:20 PM PDT  Someone at the Anchorage, Alaska branch of the National Weather Service seems to have a very important message regarding the federal government shutdown: "PLEASE PAY US." Full Story | Top |
| Analysis: US reliability questioned overseas Friday, Oct 04, 2013 09:06 PM PDT  An unmistakable sense of unease has been growing in capitals around the world as the U.S. government from afar looks increasingly befuddled — shirking from a military confrontation in Syria, stymied at home by a gridlocked Congress and in danger of defaulting on sovereign debt, which could plunge the world's financial system into chaos. Full Story | Top |
| House hard-liners stand united in budget showdown Friday, Oct 04, 2013 12:01 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Freshman Rep. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma is one of the hard-line House conservatives demanding concessions from President Barack Obama on his health care law in exchange for ending the federal government shutdown. Full Story | Top |
| Fisherman: migrants too weak to grab lifesaver Friday, Oct 04, 2013 02:21 PM PDT  LAMPEDUSA, Italy (AP) — The friends were heading out on a fishing trip, when one heard voices from the sea. Full Story | Top |
| Man sets himself on fire on the National Mall Friday, Oct 04, 2013 08:08 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A man set himself on fire on the National Mall in the nation's capital as passers-by rushed over to help put out the flames, officials and witnesses said Friday afternoon. Full Story | Top |
| Legendary Vietnam Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap dies at 102 Friday, Oct 04, 2013 05:12 PM PDT  HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, the brilliant and ruthless commander who led the outgunned Vietnamese to victory first over the French and then the Americans, died Friday. The last of the country's old-guard revolutionaries was 102. Full Story | Top |
| Karen weakens as it approaches Gulf Coast Friday, Oct 04, 2013 08:35 PM PDT  BRAITHWAITE, La. (AP) — Pickups hauling boat trailers and flatbed trucks laden with crab traps exited vulnerable, low-lying areas of southeast Louisiana on Friday as Tropical Storm Karen headed toward the northern Gulf Coast, a late-arriving worry in what had been a slow hurricane season in the U.S. Full Story | Top |
| Twitter dishes tantalizing tidbits in IPO treatise Friday, Oct 04, 2013 03:45 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter, a privately held company built on blurbs, has finally laid itself bare in documents that read more like a treatise than a tweet. Full Story | Top |
| Egyptian riot police fire tear gas at protesters Friday, Oct 04, 2013 12:08 PM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian riot police fired volleys of tear gas and locked down Cairo's Tahrir Square Friday as clashes broke out in a rare push by Islamist supporters of the ousted president to take control of the iconic square, leaving at least four dead. Full Story | Top |
| Karen threatens US during quiet hurricane season Friday, Oct 04, 2013 04:55 PM PDT BRAITHWAITE, La. (AP) — Pickups hauling boat trailers and flatbed trucks laden with crab traps exited vulnerable, low-lying areas of southeast Louisiana on Friday as Tropical Storm Karen headed toward the northern Gulf Coast, a late-arriving worry in what had been a slow hurricane season in the U.S. Full Story | Top |
| Rodriguez sues MLB and Selig, citing 'witch hunt' Friday, Oct 04, 2013 12:35 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Rodriguez sued Major League Baseball and Commissioner Bud Selig, accusing them of pursuing "vigilante justice" as part of a "witch hunt" designed to smear the character of the Yankees star and cost him tens of millions of dollars. Full Story | Top |
| Riots in Kenya after cleric, 3 others, killed Friday, Oct 04, 2013 09:37 AM PDT  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Gunmen killed a Muslim cleric and three others in a hail of bullets in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, a year after the imam's predecessor was killed in the same manner and on the same road and nearly the same spot. Full Story | Top |
| Migrants used empty water bottles to stay afloat Friday, Oct 04, 2013 10:47 AM PDT  LAMPEDUSA, Italy (AP) — Survivors of a fiery shipwreck that killed more than 110 African migrants clung for hours to empty water bottles in the dark, trying desperately to keep themselves from drowning in the sea, an Italian fisherman said Friday. Full Story | Top |
| Dems say it's time for GOP to unite, end shutdown Friday, Oct 04, 2013 10:24 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama decided to stay home from economic summits in Asia as Democrats stepped up pressure on congressional Republicans to rein in their tea party faction and reopen the government with no strings attached. Full Story | Top |
| Man sets himself on fire on National Mall in DC Friday, Oct 04, 2013 03:12 PM PDT  The man was "conscious and breathing" police said. Full Story | Top |
| Photographer describes viral image from Capitol shooting Friday, Oct 04, 2013 10:48 AM PDT  With sirens blaring and people scrambling for safety all around him, an unidentified man in a suit and tie seems to be buried in his BlackBerry as he strolls by a Capitol Hill Police officer taking position with an assault rifle. "That's D.C., right? People are so wrapped up in that little device in their hands that nothing else matters," said Doug Mills, a New York Times photographer who captured the surreal moment during Thursday's lockdown at the U.S. Capitol. Full Story | Top |
| Shutdown likely to drag on into next week Friday, Oct 04, 2013 09:36 AM PDT  House Majority Leader Eric Cantor predicts Democrats will cave. Full Story | Top |
| Autumn storms slam the Midwest Friday, Oct 04, 2013 12:48 PM PDT  Sweetie Pie, a poodle, romps through the slushy snow in Rapid City, South Dakota, October 4, 2013. A rare fierce October snow storm rolled out over the central Rocky Mountains on Friday, downing trees and forcing closures of state offices and more than 200 miles of Interstate 90 across parts of Wyoming and South Dakota, state highway officials said. Up to 30 inches (76 cm) of snow was forecast to drop in parts of the Black Hills region of western South Dakota from the storm, the National Weather Service said. REUTERS/Kristina Barker/Rapid City Journal Full Story | Top |
| Evacuations ordered as TS Karen nears U.S. coastline Friday, Oct 04, 2013 03:22 PM PDT  By Kathy Finn NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Authorities issued mandatory evacuation orders for low-lying areas south of New Orleans on Friday as a weakened Tropical Storm Karen closed in on the Louisiana coast after disrupting U.S. energy output in the Gulf of Mexico. Karen's top winds were holding at 50 mph, down from 65 mph a day earlier, and National Hurricane Center forecasters in Miami said the storm was expected to strengthen somewhat but remain a tropical storm. Oil output in the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Tweeter Home shares explode, as traders confuse it for Twitter Friday, Oct 04, 2013 09:59 AM PDT  By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) - Excitement for Twitter's coming IPO is running pretty high - so much so that some investors on Friday mistook the nearly worthless stock of long-dead electronics retailer Tweeter for the "tweeting" site, sending shares up more than 1,000 percent. Tweeter Home Entertainment Group, a specialty consumer electronics company that went bankrupt in 2007, saw a its most active day of trading in more than six years even though it has nothing to do with the social media site. ... Full Story | Top |
| 6 lessons of the government shutdown Friday, Oct 04, 2013 09:57 AM PDT  These days, D.C. has come to stand for Dysfunction Central. Full Story | Top |
| What can I help you with? Meet the voice behind Siri Friday, Oct 04, 2013 08:31 AM PDT  Meet the voice behind Apple's Siri, Susan Bennett. Full Story | Top |
| Boehner demands two-party negotiations Friday, Oct 04, 2013 08:57 AM PDT  'This isn't some damn game,' the House Speaker said on Friday. Full Story | Top |
| Legendary Vietnam Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap dies Friday, Oct 04, 2013 09:04 AM PDT  HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vo Nguyen Giap, the brilliant and ruthless self-taught general who drove the French out of Vietnam to free it from colonial rule and later forced the Americans to abandon their grueling effort to save the country from communism, has died. At age 102, he was the last of Vietnam's old-guard revolutionaries. Full Story | Top |
| Egyptians demand end to army-backed rule Friday, Oct 04, 2013 12:36 PM PDT  Police fired tear gas, live ammo to disperse crowds, a witness said. Full Story | Top |
| Shutdown, Day 4: 'This place is a mad house' Friday, Oct 04, 2013 03:49 AM PDT  "This place is a mad house," one Congressman said. It would be funny if it weren't true. Full Story | Top |
| Already? Heavy snow, thunderstorms hit Midwest Friday, Oct 04, 2013 11:44 AM PDT  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Blizzards rolled into parts of Wyoming and South Dakota on Friday, bringing the snow-savvy states to an unseasonably early wintery standstill by closing highways and schools, and even forcing a tourist town to cancel its annual Octoberfest's polka-dancing bar crawl. Full Story | Top |
| Police identify prime suspect in biker road rage incident Friday, Oct 04, 2013 05:01 AM PDT  Police search for the man who smashed the window of an SUV driver, who was then beaten after an accident. Full Story | Top |
| Mother: Suspect in Capitol chase 'depressed' Friday, Oct 04, 2013 12:26 AM PDT  A Connecticut woman was killed by police after trying to breach a White House barrier. Full Story | Top |
| Pope, in Assisi, calls on Church to shun vanity Friday, Oct 04, 2013 05:09 AM PDT  By Philip Pullella ASSISI, Italy (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Church, from the lowliest priest to the pontiff himself, must strip itself of all "vanity, arrogance and pride" and humbly serve the poorest members of society, Pope Francis said on Friday. The pope's appeal, made in the central Italian hill town of Assisi where his namesake Saint Francis lived in the 12th century, comes amid a drive by Francis to turn around a Church plagued by financial and sexual abuse scandals. Saint Francis is revered by Catholics and many other Christians for his simplicity, poverty and love of nature. ... Full Story | Top |
| Could Oswald have been stopped? Friday, Oct 04, 2013 04:24 AM PDT  Top Line Half a century after President John F. Kennedy was shot, the new movie "Parkland" relives history from the perspective of those who were most intimately connected to the president's assassination in the chaotic hours and days that followed that fateful motorcade ride through downtown Dallas. "Parkland" writer and director Peter Landesman told "Top [...] Full Story | Top |
| Teachers’ unions to politicians: Invest in education Friday, Oct 04, 2013 02:40 AM PDT  Leaders of America's largest teachers' unions are joining teachers in 170 countries to urge political leaders to invest more in K-12 education around the world. Full Story | Top |
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