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Shutdown likely to drag on into next week

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 09:36 AM PDT

Cantor is trailed by reporters after a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in WashingtonHouse Majority Leader Eric Cantor predicts Democrats will cave.

Man sets himself on fire on National Mall in DC

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 03:12 PM PDT

man on fire national mallThe man was "conscious and breathing" police said.

Evacuations ordered as TS Karen nears U.S. coastline

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 03:22 PM PDT

Tropical Storm Karen is seen in this NOAA GOES East satellite image taken over the Gulf of MexicoBy 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. ...

Photographer describes viral image from Capitol shooting

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 10:48 AM PDT

Capitol Hill lockdownWith 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.

Autumn storms slam the Midwest

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 12:48 PM PDT

Autumn storms slam the MidwestSweetie 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

House hard-liners stand united in budget showdown

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 12:01 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2012 file photo, then-Republican House candidate, now, Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., speaks in Claremore, Okla. Hard-line House conservatives are demanding concessions from President Barack Obama on his health care law in exchange for re-opening the federal government. Arguments to relent have not persuaded these Republican newcomers _ 71 from the tea party class of 2010 and 37 who arrived in Washington earlier this year. Many are too young to remember the last shutdown in 1995 and the political woes it created for the GOP. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)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.

Fisherman: migrants too weak to grab lifesaver

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 02:20 PM PDT

In this image made from video provided by the Italian Coast Guard and recorded on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, survivors of a ship transporting hundreds of migrants which caught fire and sank wear thermal rescue blankets after being rescued by the Italian Coast Guard off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, Italy. Authorities on Friday, Oct. 4 are contending with choppy waters in the search for dozens of migrants believed to have drowned after their rickety boat caught fire and sank off the coast of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa. (AP Photo/Italian Coast Guard)LAMPEDUSA, Italy (AP) — The friends were heading out on a fishing trip, when one heard voices from the sea.

Man sets himself on fire on the National Mall

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 04:57 PM PDT

Law enforcement officers are near the scene on the National Mall in Washington, where, according to a fire official, a man set himself on fire Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. The official said the man was flown by helicopter to a hospital. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — A man set himself on fire on the National Mall in the nation's capital as passers-by rushed over to help douse the flames, officials and witnesses said Friday afternoon.

Legendary Vietnam Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap dies at 102

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 10:02 AM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, June 23, 1997, file photo, former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, left, speaks to his onetime foe Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap in Hanoi, Vietnam. Officials say Giap, the military mastermind who drove the French and the Americans out of Vietnam, died at a Hanoi hospital Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, at age 102. He was the country's last famous communist revolutionary, and used ingenious guerrilla tactics to overcome enormous odds against superior forces. (AP Photo/Tri Hieu, File)HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, the brilliant and ruthless commander who led a ragtag army of guerrillas to victory in Vietnam over first the French and then the Americans, died Friday. The last of the country's old-guard revolutionaries was 102.

Karen threatens US during quiet hurricane season

Posted: 04 Oct 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.

Twitter dishes tantalizing tidbits in IPO treatise

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 02:02 PM PDT

Chart shows Twitter's growth; 2c x 4 inches; 96.3 mm x 101 mm;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.

Egyptian riot police fire tear gas at protesters

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 12:08 PM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans against Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and hold placards showing an open palm with four raised fingers, which has become a symbol of the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where Morsi supporters had held a sit-in for weeks that was violently dispersed in August during a protest in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. The traffic sign on the bridge reads, "The allowable height 6.5 Meters." (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)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.

Rodriguez sues MLB and Selig, citing 'witch hunt'

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 12:35 PM PDT

New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez arrives at the offices of Major League Baseball, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013 in New York. The grievance to overturn Rodriguez's 211-game suspension began Monday before arbitrator Fredric Horowitz. (AP Photo/David Karp)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.

Riots in Kenya after cleric, 3 others, killed

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 09:37 AM PDT

Kenyan security forces patrol in their vehicle past a burning tyre following rioting after Friday Muslim prayers in Mombasa, Kenya Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. A religious leader on Kenya's coast says that the Muslim cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Ismael who preached at Mombasa's Masjid Musa Mosque, whose previous imam Aboud Rogo Mohammed was mysteriously shot dead in August 2012, has died in a barrage of bullets late Thursday near the coastal city of Mombasa. (AP Photo)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.

Migrants used empty water bottles to stay afloat

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 10:47 AM PDT

In this image made from video provided by the Italian Coast Guard and recorded on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, survivors of a ship transporting hundreds of migrants which caught fire and sank wear thermal rescue blankets after being rescued by the Italian Coast Guard off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, Italy. Authorities on Friday, Oct. 4 are contending with choppy waters in the search for dozens of migrants believed to have drowned after their rickety boat caught fire and sank off the coast of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa. (AP Photo/Italian Coast Guard)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.

Dems say it's time for GOP to unite, end shutdown

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 10:24 AM PDT

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio walks to a Republican strategy session on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. Boehner is struggling between Democrats that control the Senate and GOP conservatives in his caucus who insist any funding legislation must also kill or delay the nation's new health care law. Added pressure came from President Barack Obama who pointedly blamed Boehner on Thursday for keeping federal agencies closed. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)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.

In Vegas, clubbing almost as popular as gambling

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 12:05 PM PDT

This Jan. 20, 2013 file photo, revelers are led by professional dancers as DJ Afrojack plays his mixes at the XS nightclub in Las Vegas. A poll conducted this year by the national gambling lobby found that 26 percent of casino-goers now eschew wagering, and the city's growing mega-clubs are threatening to become the most lucrative draw for a town built on betting. Las Vegas now boasts 21 of the country's 100 most profitable nightclubs, according to the trade publication Nightclub & Bar. The town also dominates the top 10 spots, with seven clubs bringing in more than $25 million a year. The other three clubs with earnings in the same range are LIV and Mango's Tropical Cafe in Miami Beach, and LAVO in New York City. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)LAS VEGAS (AP) — The cannon at the Flutter Fetti booth near the front of the gambling trade show in Las Vegas last week delivered regular bursts of metallic and crepe paper cutouts, shooting them to the ceiling in big booms and carpeting the floor with shimmering hearts, stars and circles. The glittery mess outshone the slot machines and online poker touchscreens in more ways than one.

Egypt: 4 killed in clashes during Islamist protest

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 11:48 AM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans against Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and hold placards showing an open palm with four raised fingers, which has become a symbol of the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where Morsi supporters had held a sit-in for weeks that was violently dispersed in August during a protest in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. The traffic sign on the bridge reads, "The allowable height 6.5 Meters." (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian Health Ministry official says four people have been killed in clashes between Islamist supporters of the ousted president and security forces.

Capitol suspect believed she was being watched

Posted:


Tweeter Home shares explode, as traders confuse it for Twitter

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 09:59 AM PDT

The BunkBy 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. ...

6 lessons of the government shutdown

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 09:57 AM PDT

Congressman caught snoozing during shutdown debateThese days, D.C. has come to stand for Dysfunction Central.

What can I help you with? Meet the voice behind Siri

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 08:31 AM PDT

Luke Peters demonstrates Siri, an application which uses voice recognition and detection on the iPhone 4S, outside the Apple store in Covent Garden, LondonMeet the voice behind Apple's Siri, Susan Bennett.

Boehner demands two-party negotiations

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 08:57 AM PDT

Obama Pins Government Shutdown on Boehner'This isn't some damn game,' the House Speaker said on Friday.

Legendary Vietnam Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap dies

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 09:04 AM PDT

Vietnamese Gen. Vo Nguyen GiapHANOI, 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.

Egyptians demand end to army-backed rule

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 12:36 PM PDT

Egyptian supporters of ousted President Mohamed MorsPolice fired tear gas, live ammo to disperse crowds, a witness said.

Shutdown, Day 4: 'This place is a mad house'

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 03:49 AM PDT

A sign on the National Mall tells visitors of the closures do to the federal government shutdown in Washington"This place is a mad house," one Congressman said. It would be funny if it weren't true.

Already? Heavy snow, thunderstorms hit Midwest

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 11:44 AM PDT

This NOAA satellite image taken Thursday, October 03, 2013 at 11:00 AM EDT shows a developing storm in the Northern Rockies is generating clouds with rain showers and snow across the Upper Mississippi Valley and Northern and Central Plains into the Northern Rockies and Intermountain West. Fair conditions exist across the remaining regions. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)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.

Police identify prime suspect in biker road rage incident

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 05:01 AM PDT

Police identify prime suspect in biker road rage incidentPolice search for the man who smashed the window of an SUV driver, who was then beaten after an accident.

Mother: Suspect in Capitol chase 'depressed'

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 12:26 AM PDT

A damaged Capitol Hill police care is surrounded by crime scene tape after a car chase and shooting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. A woman driving a black Infiniti with a young child inside tried to ram through a White House barricade Thursday, then led police on a chase that ended in gunfire outside the Capitol, witnesses and officials said. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)A Connecticut woman was killed by police after trying to breach a White House barrier.

Pope, in Assisi, calls on Church to shun vanity

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 05:09 AM PDT

Pope Francis arrives at St. Francis Basilica during his pastoral visit in AssisiBy 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. ...

Could Oswald have been stopped?

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 04:24 AM PDT

Could Oswald Have Been Stopped? Untold Stories of JFK Assassination, 50 Years LaterTop 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 [...]

Teachers’ unions to politicians: Invest in education

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 02:40 AM PDT

Teacher Patty Westcott pickets outside Clissold Elementary School in Chicago, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012, as a strike by the Chicago Teachers Union continues into its second week. CTU members in the nation's third-largest city will pore over the details of a contract settlement Tuesday as the clock ticks down to an afternoon meeting in which they are expected to vote on ending a seven-day strike that has kept 350,000 students out of class. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)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.

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