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| Presidential term limits: necessary and right, or bad for democracy? Friday, Nov 29, 2013 11:26 AM PST  The time has come to end presidential term limits, because continuing the restrictions on the length of time one can serve in the country's highest office is bad for the United States, a university professor argued this week. Full Story | Top |
| Mexican drug cartels now make money exporting ore Friday, Nov 29, 2013 08:43 AM PST  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican drug cartels looking to diversify their businesses long ago moved into oil theft, pirated goods, extortion and kidnapping, consuming an ever larger swath of the country's economy. This month, federal officials confirmed the cartels have even entered the country's lucrative mining industry, exporting iron ore to Chinese mills. Full Story | Top |
| Dems, Obama, head into 2014 distant, determined Friday, Nov 29, 2013 01:21 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — A month after emerging from a government shutdown at the top of their game, many Democrats in Congress newly worried about the party's re-election prospects are for the first time distancing themselves from President Barack Obama after the disastrous rollout of his health care overhaul. Full Story | Top |
| Millennials Give Obamacare a Big Boost in Poll Friday, Nov 29, 2013 02:15 AM PST  Despite two solid months of technological disasters, significant delays, low enrollment numbers and millions of cancelled insurance policies, the group most crucial to Obamacare's success hasn't given up on it yet. Millennials, ages 18-34, overwhelmingly believe the president's signature healthcare law will work. That's according to a new CNN poll released Tuesday that shows seven in 10 young Americans are optimistic about Obamacare's future. This is good news for the White House, which is desperately counting on at least 2.7 million of these young people to sign up for health insurance through the exchanges to offset the cost of the law. Full Story | Top |
| Obama says 'nowhere to go but up' after HealthCare.gov debacle Friday, Nov 29, 2013 02:08 PM PST By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's popularity has taken a beating over the botched October 1 launch of Obamacare, but in a television interview set to air on Friday, Obama said he believes Americans eventually will appreciate his signature healthcare reform. Reflecting on his poll numbers in an interview with ABC's Barbara Walters, Obama said: "I've gone up and down pretty much consistently throughout. "But the good thing about when you're down is that usually you got nowhere to go but up," Obama added, according to excerpts released by ABC. The interview was taped last week as the Obama administration scrambled to meet a self-imposed November 30 deadline to overhaul HealthCare.gov, the website used in 36 states to shop for insurance under the Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare. Full Story | Top |
| China scrambles jets to new defense zone, eyes U.S., Japan flights Friday, Nov 29, 2013 03:30 PM PST By Ben Blanchard and Roberta Rampton BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China scrambled jets on Friday in response to two U.S. spy planes and 10 Japanese aircraft, including F-15 fighters, entering its new air defense zone over the East China Sea, state news agency Xinhua said, raising the stakes in a standoff with the United States, Japan and South Korea. The jets were scrambled for effective monitoring, Xinhua cited air force spokesman Shen Jinke as saying. Japan and South Korea flew military aircraft through the zone, which includes the skies over islands at the heart of a territorial dispute between Japan and China, the two countries said on Thursday. Full Story | Top |
| Pope ramps up charity office to be near poor, sick Friday, Nov 29, 2013 10:04 AM PST VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has ramped up the Vatican's charity work, sending his chief alms-giver and a contingent of Swiss guards onto the streets of Rome at night to do what he usually can't do: comfort the poor and the homeless. Full Story | Top |
| Helicopter crashes into Glasgow pub roof Friday, Nov 29, 2013 05:27 PM PST LONDON (AP) — A police helicopter crashed Friday night through the roof of a popular pub in Glasgow, sending injured revelers there to see a ska band fleeing through a cloud of dust in what witnesses called a scene of horror. Scotland's leader warned that fatalities are likely. Full Story | Top |
| Dolan: Catholics 'outmarketed' on gay marriage Friday, Nov 29, 2013 11:23 AM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — New York's Cardinal Timothy Dolan says the Roman Catholic Church has been "outmarketed" on the issue of gay marriage and has been "caricatured as being anti-gay." Full Story | Top |
| Did Comet ISON survive? Scientists see tiny hope Friday, Nov 29, 2013 12:58 PM PST  STOCKHOLM (AP) — A comet that gained an earthly following because of its bright tail visible from space was initially declared dead after grazing the sun. Now, there is a sliver of hope that Comet ISON may have survived. Full Story | Top |
| China scrambles jets after US, Japan enter air zone: Xinhua Friday, Nov 29, 2013 10:55 AM PST  China on Friday scrambled fighter jets to monitor a dozen US and Japanese military aircraft which entered its new air defence zone, state media said. Beijing's announcement last weekend of the air defence identification zone, which covers islands at the centre of a dispute between China and Japan, has raised tensions in the region. The report indicated that Japan and the US are continuing to disregard Beijing's demands that aircraft submit flight plans when traversing the zone in the East China Sea or face unspecified "defensive emergency measures". Full Story | Top |
| #WalmartFights sparks a trend on Twitter Friday, Nov 29, 2013 11:36 AM PST As Black Friday sparked chaos at Walmarts across the country, a trend started on Twitter. Full Story | Top |
| Union: Worker warned crane was on unstable ground Thursday, Nov 28, 2013 10:34 PM PST  SAO PAULO (AP) — A safety engineer at the World Cup stadium where a giant crane collapse killed two workers allegedly warned his supervisor of possible problems with the operation, only to have his concerns brushed aside, a labor union leader charged Thursday, as sniping over the accident heated up. Full Story | Top |
| Obama visits immigration hunger strikers in US capital Friday, Nov 29, 2013 02:14 PM PST  US President Barack Obama paid a visit Friday to hunger strikers calling for immigration reform, who are camped out on the National Mall in Washington. Accompanied by his wife, Michelle, the president stopped by the grassy esplanade several hundred meters (yards) from the White House, in a trip that was not mentioned in his official daily agenda. The president and the first lady were visiting individuals taking part in "Fast For Families" on the National Mall to "offer their support for those who are fasting on behalf of immigration reform," the White House said. During their visit, the Obamas thanked the activists for their "sacrifice and dedication" according to a White House official. Full Story | Top |
| China sends warplanes into air defense zone Thursday, Nov 28, 2013 08:47 PM PST  BEIJING (AP) — China said it sent warplanes into its newly declared maritime air defense zone days after the U.S., South Korea and Japan all sent flights through the airspace in broadening defiance of rules Beijing says it has imposed over the East China Sea. Full Story | Top |
| Limited whiskey sells for nearly $4,000 per bottle Friday, Nov 29, 2013 09:03 AM PST  A new whiskey created in Kentucky features a blend of age and scarcity that spiked demand — and its price. As a result, whiskey fans including celebrities and corporate chiefs are angling to snatch up ... Full Story | Top |
| Americans kick off 2-day holiday shopping marathon Friday, Nov 29, 2013 06:40 PM PST The holiday shopping season started as a marathon, not a sprint. Full Story | Top |
| Dog found under rubble 9 days after Ill. tornado Friday, Nov 29, 2013 11:58 AM PST  WASHINGTON, Ill. (AP) — A six-month-old pit bull that was buried under a pile of rubble for more than a week after a tornado ripped through a central Illinois city has been coaxed to freedom with hot dogs and reunited with his owner. Full Story | Top |
| Helicopter crashes into Glasgow pub, multiple casualties - BBC Friday, Nov 29, 2013 03:37 PM PST (Reuters) - A helicopter crashed into a pub in Glasgow on Friday, causing multiple injuries, the BBC reported on its website. BBC News quoted Member of Parliament Jim Murphy as saying: "It's a well established Glasgow pub. It's a horrible, horrible scene, but well done to the folk who were here. Everyone formed a chain of people from inside the pub to outside, and the fire brigade and everyone were here very quickly." The BBC named the pub as the Clutha Vaults in Stockwell Street. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. healthcare website down overnight for extended upgrade Friday, Nov 29, 2013 04:52 PM PST  By Roberta Rampton and Sharon Begley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government said it would take down the website at the center of President Barack Obama's healthcare reforms for an extended 11-hour period overnight on Friday as technology experts push to complete upgrades by a November 30 deadline. The website, HealthCare.gov, was supposed to make it easy to shop for health insurance required by the Obamacare law when it launched on October 1, but quickly turned into a political disaster after errors and timelags prevented most people who visited the site from signing up. They had worked on software and hardware upgrades through the U.S. Thanksgiving week to double its capacity so as many as 50,000 people could shop at the same time on the site. Just ahead of that self-imposed Saturday deadline, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said the website would be down for an unusually long period, from 9 p.m. EST on Friday until 8 a.m. EST on Saturday. Full Story | Top |
| Consumer behavior aggressively tracked this season Friday, Nov 29, 2013 07:20 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a big question for marketers: What kind of a buyer are you? And, as important, what are you willing to pay? Full Story | Top |
| Obama to look to Sasha to choose where they live after White House Friday, Nov 29, 2013 11:09 AM PST  President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will take a cue from daughter Sasha on where to live after his second term ends in 2017, and that means that they might end up staying in Washington, ABC News reported on Friday. The president's older daughter, Malia, now 15, will likely be in college but Sasha, now 12, will still be in high school when Obama leaves office. "So we've got to - you know we got to make sure that she's doing well ... until she goes off to college," Obama said according to ABC News excerpts of an interview set to air at 10 p.m. on Friday (0300 GMT on Saturday). But their daughters, who both attend the private Sidwell Friends School, frequently have friends over to the White House, hosting sleepovers and pajama parties on the third floor, their parents said in the ABC interview. Full Story | Top |
| Stakes are high as Obamacare website hits deadline Friday, Nov 29, 2013 04:28 AM PST This weekend, HealthCare.gov faces its own virtual cliff, as the Obama administration hits a self-imposed deadline to fix most major problems with the troubled website. But will it be enough? Full Story | Top |
| Maine woman's ASL moves a hit in concert, online Friday, Nov 29, 2013 03:10 AM PST  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Holly Maniatty creates music — for the deaf. Full Story | Top |
| Report: Iran FM says country won't talk to Israel Friday, Nov 29, 2013 08:26 AM PST  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's foreign minister said Friday his country will not enter nuclear talks with its arch-enemy Israel, the country's official news agency reported. Full Story | Top |
| Comet ISON Gets Roasted by Sun and Vanishes, But Did It Survive? Friday, Nov 29, 2013 06:58 AM PST  The much-anticipated Comet ISON appeared to disintegrate during its Thanksgiving Day slingshot around the sun Thursday, but something — it seems — may have survived. The sungrazing Comet ISON vanished from the view of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) during an extremely close encounter with the sun on Thursday (Nov. 28), leading scientists to suspect the worst. But late Thursday night, images from another sun-watching spacecraft, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) run by NASA and the European Space Agency, picked up a blip of something rounding the sun in a camera called LASCO C3. "Now, in the latest LASCO C3 images, we are seeing something beginning to gradually brighten up again," comet expert Karl Battams, of the U.S. Navy Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., wrote in an evening blog post. "One could almost be forgiven for thinking that there's a comet in the images!" Full Story | Top |
| Fights, store evacuation mar U.S. holiday shopping rush Friday, Nov 29, 2013 12:07 PM PST  The post-Thanksgiving shopping rush sparked incidents of violence across the United States as a police officer was injured breaking up a fight, a shopper was shot in the leg over a TV and a Walmart was evacuated, according to police and media reports. In White Plains, just north of New York City, an outlet of Wal-Mart Stores Inc was evacuated on Friday, with employees and shoppers saying they had been warned of a possible bomb threat. In Romeoville, Illinois, police shot a suspected shoplifter in the shoulder late Thursday night after the car he was driving dragged an officer through the parking lot of a Kohl's department store, Romeoville Police Chief Mark Turvey said in a video posted by the Chicago Tribune newspaper. Full Story | Top |
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