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| Obama to Congress: end 'manufactured crises' Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 03:57 AM PDT  President Barack Obama on Saturday called for an end to "manufactured crises and self-inflicted wounds" as he urged Republicans and Democrats in Congress to approve a new federal budget. Obama spoke a little more than two weeks after the United States scraped through a bitter budget and debt ceiling battle that threatened to send the country into default and forced the 16-day partial federal government shutdown, but only by using stop-gap measures that pushed the battle deadlines forward. Obama said Congress should "pass a budget that cuts things we don't need, and closes wasteful tax loopholes that don't help create jobs, so that we can free up resources for the things that actually do create jobs and growth." In the absence of a budget agreement between Republicans and Democrats, federal spending has been slashed in blunt, massive cuts since March. Full Story | Top |
| NJ police: LAX shooting suspect sent suicidal text Friday, Nov 01, 2013 11:57 PM PDT  PENNSVILLE, N.J. (AP) — The father of the young man suspected of carrying out a fatal shooting at Los Angeles International Airport called his local police chief around the time of the shooting to report that his son had sent a suicidal text message to a sibling and he needed to find him, a New Jersey police chief said. Full Story | Top |
| Gay rights legislation gains bipartisan support Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 09:33 AM PDT  Gay rights advocates from both parties are newly upbeat about the prospects for Senate passage of legislation that would bar employers from discriminating against workers on the basis of sexual orientation ... Full Story | Top |
| Sticker shock often follows insurance cancellation Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 05:52 PM PDT  Dean Griffin liked the health insurance he purchased for himself and his wife three years ago and thought he'd be able to keep the plan even after the federal Affordable Care Act took effect. But the 64-year-old ... Full Story | Top |
| Wisconsin Community Rallies Around Boy Born With No Eyes Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 10:36 AM PDT  The family of a Wisconsin toddler born deaf and without eyes is turning to their local community for help raising funds to cover medical costs. Calvin Brezgel was born with SOX2 Anopthalmia, a rare genetic disorder that in Calvin resulted in his undeveloped eyes and... Full Story | Top |
| Warming report sees violent, sicker, poorer future Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 02:38 PM PDT Starvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, war and disease already lead to human tragedies. They're likely to worsen as the world warms from man-made climate change, a leaked draft of an international ... Full Story | Top |
| GOP internal divide plays out in Alabama campaign Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 01:45 PM PDT  MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — To get a sense of the Republicans' internal struggle, take a look at a congressional runoff Tuesday in south Alabama. Full Story | Top |
| New book details how Obama questioned his own ability to win re-election Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 12:10 PM PDT After President Obama's mediocre first debate performance against Mitt Romney in 2012, he reportedly told advisors "I just don't know if I can do this," when they urged him to turn around his re-election campaign. Full Story | Top |
| TSA agent killed in LAX shooting, suspect ID'd Friday, Nov 01, 2013 10:38 PM PDT  A Transportation Security Administration agent was killed and several more people wounded when a gunman opened fire on Friday morning at Los Angeles International Airport. Full Story | Top |
| DC on fast track to decriminalizing pot possession Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 08:21 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — It took nearly 15 years after voters approved medical marijuana for it to become available in the District of Columbia, but the next major change to pot laws in the nation's capital is on the fast track. Full Story | Top |
| In midst of Syrian war, giant Jesus statue arises Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 12:56 PM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — In the midst of a conflict rife with sectarianism, a giant bronze statue of Jesus has gone up on a Syrian mountain, apparently under cover of a truce among three factions in the country's civil war. Full Story | Top |
| Myanmar 'God's Army' twins reunite, seek comrades Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 09:15 AM PDT SANGKHLABURI, Thailand (AP) — When they were kids, Johnny and Luther Htoo were bulletproof and invulnerable to land mines — or so went the story that briefly made them famous as hundreds of guerrillas followed and even worshipped them in the southeastern jungles of Myanmar. Today, well over a decade later, their "God's Army" is no more, and the twins' greatest accomplishment may be that both are still alive. Full Story | Top |
| Japan, Russia agree to expand defense ties Friday, Nov 01, 2013 10:25 PM PDT  Japan and Russia held their first high-level defense and diplomatic talks Saturday and agreed to step up cooperation between their militaries amid regional security concerns such as North Korea and China. ... Full Story | Top |
| Growing number of part-time professors join unions Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 12:40 AM PDT  Thousands of part-time college professors are joining labor unions, a growing trend in higher education that's boosting the ranks of organized labor and giving voice to teachers who complain about low ... Full Story | Top |
| Pakistan Taliban secretly bury leader, vow bombs in revenge Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 08:34 AM PDT  By Saud Mehsud and Hafiz Wazir DERA ISMAIL KHAN/WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban fighters secretly buried their leader on Saturday after he was killed by a U.S. drone aircraft and quickly moved to replace him while vowing a wave of revenge suicide bombings. The Pakistani government denounced the killing of Hakimullah Mehsud as a U.S. bid to derail planned peace talks and summoned the U.S. ambassador to protest. Some lawmakers demanded the blocking of U.S. supply lines into Afghanistan in retaliation. Full Story | Top |
| Obamacare woes frustrating Democrats' 2014 prospects Friday, Nov 01, 2013 10:04 PM PDT  By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chaotic launch of President Barack Obama's healthcare law has Democrats in Congress increasingly anxious about its potential impact on them in the 2014 elections and scrambling to protect themselves if the program's problems persist. Particularly nervous is a group of 16 Senate Democrats who are defending their seats next year, as Republicans will seek a net gain of six seats to try to take over the 100-seat chamber. Some of the Democrats, such as New Hampshire's Jeanne Shaheen, represent states where enthusiasm has been high for the Affordable Care Act. Among other things, the law aims to provide inexpensive health insurance to many of the estimated 15 million Americans with little or no coverage. Full Story | Top |
| Militants: Pakistani Taliban to choose new leader Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 01:13 AM PDT  DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — The Pakistani Taliban's top council met Saturday to choose a new leader to replace the militant movement's chief, killed in a U.S. drone strike the day before, intelligence officials and commanders in the movement said. Full Story | Top |
| Suspected LAX gunman charged Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 06:20 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal prosecutors have filed murder charges against the suspected gunman in the deadly shooting at Los Angeles International Airport. Full Story | Top |
| Young Wife Expecting First Child Faces Adult Decisions Friday, Nov 01, 2013 10:00 PM PDT DEAR ABBY: I am 19 and a new bride. My husband is in the Army. We're very happy, but I just found out that I'm pregnant -- I'm not sure how far along yet -- and I feel torn about what to do.My husband wants a child very badly, but he did say he would support whatever decision I make. While I have no objection to having a child, I know my family will make me feel guilty if I do by saying they are disappointed, that I should have waited and that I'm "throwing my life away."Abby, I am so confused. I don't know what to do. I want my family to support me and be there when I have our first child. ... Full Story | Top |
| Egypt to look beyond U.S. for arms: foreign minister Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 05:46 PM PDT  By Samia Nakhoul and Michael Georgy CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy said on Saturday that Egypt would look beyond the United States to meet its security needs and warned Washington that it could no longer ignore popular demands in a changed Arab world. Speaking ahead of a visit by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Fahmy said the United States must take a long-term view of its relations with Egypt and understand that in the wake of the Arab Spring, "it would have to deal now with the Arab peoples, not only with Arab governments". Emphasizing the "turbulent" state of Washington's ties with its longtime Arab ally after U.S. military aid curbs in response to the army's overthrow in July of President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, Fahmy said Egypt would have to develop "multiple choices, multiple options" to chart its way forward - including military relationships. Full Story | Top |
| Snowden 'free to talk' to Germans: Kremlin Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 10:19 AM PDT  Intelligence leaker Edward Snowden is free to speak with whoever he chooses, including foreign authorities, a Kremlin spokesman said on Saturday, after the US fugitive said he was ready to help a German probe into US spying. That status does not foresee any restrictions on his moving around the country or speaking to anyone," President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told AFP. The former National Security Agency contractor spent more than a month in the transit zone of a Moscow airport before receiving temporary asylum in Russia in August to the fury of the United States where he faces trial on charges under the Espionage Act. Putin has said Snowden was welcome to stay in Russia as long as he did not harm US interests. Full Story | Top |
| China says will stamp out Dalai Lama's voice in Tibet Friday, Nov 01, 2013 10:27 PM PDT  By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - China aims to stamp out the voice of exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in his restive and remote homeland by ensuring that his "propaganda" is not received by anyone on the internet, television or other means, a top official said. China has tried, with varying degrees of success, to prevent Tibetans listening to or watching programs broadcast from outside the country, or accessing any information about the Dalai Lama and the exiled government on the internet. The Dalai Lama's picture and his teachings are also smuggled into Tibet, at great personal risk. Writing in the ruling Communist Party's influential journal Qiushi, the latest issue of which was received by subscribers on Saturday, Tibet's party chief Chen Quanguo said that the government would ensure only its voice is heard. Full Story | Top |
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