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White House edges away from short-term fix

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 02:33 PM PDT

White House spokesman Jay Carney briefs reporters at the White House in Washington"It's a fairly fluid situation," spokesman Jay Carney said.

Activists chain themselves to 'deportation buses'

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:47 PM PDT

Immigration Reform Activists Block Tucson CourtMore than 20 protesters were arrested in Tucson.

Shapiro: Why Republicans should be very, very afraid

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 12:29 PM PDT

U.S. federal workers protest against the government shutdown in GuaynaboRarely has a political party lost so much so rapidly from a series of strategic blunders.

AP Source: Dead 2-year-old Peterson's son

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 04:30 PM PDT

Minnesota Vikings' Adrian Peterson, right, receives a hug from an unidentified person during an NFL football practice field at Winter Park in Eden Prairie, Minn., Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. Peterson said he is certain he will play Sunday despite a serious personal matter that caused him to miss practice earlier this week. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Elizabeth Flores) ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; SOFT OUT MINNEAPOLIS-AREA TV NOT TV OUT; MAGAZINES OUTEDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson mourned the death of his young son Friday, while words of support poured in from all corners of the sports world.

Another migrant ship capsizes off Italy; 27 dead

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 02:21 PM PDT

Map locates shipwreck near Malta; 1c x 3 inches; 46.5 mm x 76 mm;VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — For the second time in a week, a smugglers' boat overloaded with migrants capsized in the Canal of Sicily on Friday as it made the perilous crossing from Africa to Europe. At least 27 people drowned, but 221 people were rescued in a joint Italian-Maltese operation, officials said.

Obamacare a success so far? It's hard to say

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 12:56 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2013, file photo, clinical applications counselor Rachael Richardson, left, works with Louis Peters at the Henry J. Austin Health Center, in Trenton, N.J., as he and others fill out papers to sign up for new plans through a health insurance exchange. Despite anecdotal evidence of high interest and the political stakes attached to President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, a nation obsessed with keeping score of winners and losers lacks the data to pass early judgment on the success of a law that will in large part define the president's legacy. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — After more than a week in action, is a key feature of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul a success or a bust? Judging by the dearth of data, it's virtually impossible to say.

Truck, train collide in WVa.; 1 dead, 2 dozen hurt

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 04:43 PM PDT

In this photo provided by the Pocahontas Times, crews work at the site where a truck carrying logs down Cheat Mountain on U.S. Route 250 crashed into the side of the train taking passengers on a scenic tour in rural Randolph County, W.Va., on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. The crash killed one person and injured more than 60 others, according to emergency services officials. (AP Photo/The Pocahontas Times, Geoff Hamill)CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A logging truck collided Friday with a train carrying passengers on a scenic tour amid peak fall foliage season in the West Virginia mountains, killing one person and injuring 24 people Friday, authorities said. Two of the rail cars turned on their sides.

Mass. parents charged in baby girl's heroin death

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 02:20 PM PDT

QUINCY, Mass. (AP) — A couple accused of killing their 5-month-old daughter by giving her a bottle of formula with heroin in it were charged with manslaughter on Friday.

Remains of Ala. woman must be removed from yard

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 04:08 PM PDT

FILE - In this photo taken Aug. 10, 2012, James Davis, 73, stands over the grave of his wife, Patsy, in the front yard of the home they shared in Stevenson, Ala. A closely divided Alabama Supreme Court rejected the appeal of Davis on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013 who fought to keep his wife's grave in his front yard. In a 5-3 decision the state's high court rejected a request by Davis to take up his case after the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals ruled against him in April and in favor of the City of Stevenson. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File)BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday rejected an elderly north Alabama man's appeal to keep the grave of his late wife in the front yard of the home they shared for decades.

'Bionic man' walks, breathes with artificial parts

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 12:04 PM PDT

In this Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013 photo provided by Showtime, Bertolt Meyer, a social psychologist for the University of Zurich, poses for a photo in New York. Meyer is the face of the the Bionic Man and is featured in the Smithsonian Channel original documentary, "The Incredible Bionic Man." (AP Photo/Showtime, Joe Schram)NEW YORK (AP) — Gentlemen, we can rebuild him, after all. We have the technology.

Mount Rushmore to reopen amid fed shutdown

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 04:38 PM PDT

Rassie Erasmus, left, and his wife Yolanda Erasmus, of Cape Town, South Africa, look at a map to plan their next drive in an attempt to see the Grand Canyon, as the main entrance to Grand Canyon National Park remains closed to visitors due to the continued federal government shutdown on Friday Oct. 11, 2013, in Grand Canyon, Ariz.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Obama administration's willingness to reopen national parks shuttered by the government shutdown came with a big caveat: States must foot the bill with money they likely won't see again.

Truck, train collide in W.Va.; 1 dead, dozens hurt

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 03:26 PM PDT

In this photo provided by the Pocahontas Times, crews work at the site where a truck carrying logs down Cheat Mountain on U.S. Route 250 crashed into the side of the train taking passengers on a scenic tour in rural Randolph County, W.Va., on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. The crash killed one person and injured more than 60 others, according to emergency services officials. (AP Photo/The Pocahontas Times, Geoff Hamill)CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A logging truck collided with a train taking passengers on a scenic tour amid fall foliage in eastern West Virginia, killing one person and injuring more than 60 others Friday, emergency services officials said.

Peace Prize goes to chemical-weapons watchdog

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 12:47 PM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, citizen journalism file image provided by the United Media office of Arbeen, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, investigators take samples from sand near a part of a missile that was suspected of carrying chemical agents, according to activists, in the countryside of Ain Terma, Syria. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, a watchdog group, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/United Media Office of Arbeen, File)BEIRUT (AP) — The watchdog agency working to eliminate the world's chemical weapons won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a powerful endorsement of the inspectors now on the ground in Syria on a perilous mission to destroy the regime's stockpile of poison gas.

31 in Fla. infected by bacteria in salt water

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 03:44 PM PDT

This photo provided by Patty Konietzky shows her husband's foot of what they thought was a bug bite on Sept. 22, 2013, in Ormond Beach, Fla. Patty and her husband, Henry "Butch" Konietzky, went crabbing in the Halifax River near Ormond Beach in September. Butch developed a sore which was later confirmed to be vibrio vulnificus. The bacteria spread quickly in his body and he died 60 hours later. (AP Photo/Patty Konietsky)ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Patty Konietzky thought the small purple lesion on her husband's ankle was a spider bite. But when the lesion quickly spread across his body like a constellation, she knew something wasn't right.

Rights group accuses Syrian rebels of war crimes

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 12:55 PM PDT

FILE - In this file image taken from Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013, video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a rebel fighter fires a gun in a valley in an unidentified location in Latakia province, Syria. Jihadi-led rebel fighters in Syria killed at least 190 civilians and abducted more than 200 during an offensive against pro-regime villages, committing a war crime, an international human rights group said Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP Video, File)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian villagers described watching rebels advance on their homes, as mortars thudded around them. By the end of the August attack, 190 civilians had been killed, including children, the elderly and the handicapped, a human rights group said Friday in its most detailed account of alleged war crimes committed by those fighting the Damascus regime.

New GOP shutdown/debt plan, but no agreement yet

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:21 PM PDT

Republican senators, from left, Ted Cruz of Texas, John McCain of Arizona, David Vitter of Louisiana, and Richard Shelby of Alabama, walk in the rain back to their bus at the North Portico of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, after they met with President Barack Obama regarding the government shutdown and debt ceiling. After weeks of ultimatums, President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans are exploring whether they can end a budget standoff that has triggered a partial government shutdown and edged Washington to the verge of a historic, economy-jarring federal default. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — Efforts accelerated in Congress on Friday to keep the U.S. Treasury from defaulting as early as next week and to end the partial government shutdown that stretched through an 11th day. At the White House and Capitol, President Barack Obama and top aides consulted repeatedly with both House and Senate Republicans.

Dozens killed in new migrant shipwreck south of Sicily

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:44 PM PDT

Migrant boat sinks off SicilyBy Wladimir Pantaleone PALERMO, Sicily (Reuters) - Dozens of people including women and children died on Friday when a boat carrying around 250 migrants capsized and spilled them into the sea between Sicily and Tunisia, the second such tragedy in a little over a week, the Italian coastguard said. The Italian news agency ANSA reported that around 50 corpses had so far been sighted, including around 10 children, following the accident about 60 miles south of the island of Lampedusa. ...

U.S. Olympic Committee adds sexual orientation to non-discrimination policy

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 04:31 PM PDT

USOC At The Today Show Announcing One Year Out To Sochi 2014 Winter OlympicsCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The U.S. Olympic Committee board revised its non-discrimination policy to include sexual orientation, a nod to its disapproval of the Russian anti-gay law recently passed by the Olympic host country.

A more pragmatic Paul Ryan emerges

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 09:32 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 15, 2013 file photo, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. waves before speaking in National Harbor, Md. Get your face on TV and write a book: Check. Start meeting the big money people: Check. Visit Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina _ Israel, too: Check. Deny any of this has to do with running for president: Check. For politicians planning or tempted to run for the presidency in 2016, the to-do list is formidable. What's striking is how methodically most of them are plowing through it while they pretend nothing of the sort is going on. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)The conservative former VP candidate has played the quiet diplomat in a budget deal.

Syria rebels accused of 'execution' war crimes

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:03 PM PDT

Syrian rebels take position with a Soviet-made T-55 tank on the Jabal al-Turkman mountain in Syria's northern Latakia province on February 5, 2013Damascus (AFP) - Jihadist fighters were accused Friday of war crimes over the killing of 190 civilians from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority, in the largest atrocity ever attributed to rebels.

$30,000 went missing amid rescue of Capt. Phillips

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 10:41 AM PDT

In this Oct. 2, 2013, photo, Captain Richard Phillips, walks the red carpet at a screening for the movie "Captain Phillips" at the Newseum in Washington. Dramatic accounts of the Navy SEALs rescuing the captain of an American cargo ship made headlines around the world in 2009. The military said SEAL snipers killed a trio of pirates in a tense standoff. Three shots, three kills. It was the lethal, coordinated precision that has made SEALs famous and feared. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)WASHINGTON (AP) — Dramatic accounts of the Navy SEALs rescuing the captain of an American cargo ship made headlines around the world in 2009. The military said SEAL snipers killed a trio of pirates in a tense standoff. Three shots, three kills. It was the lethal, coordinated precision that has made SEALs famous and feared.

Death toll at 275 in immigrant boat sinking

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:22 PM PDT

Italian Coast Guard personnel recover a body bag on their patrol boat in Lampedusa island, Italy, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013. Italian divers have recovered more bodies from the wreck of a smuggler's ship that sank off the tiny island of Lampedusa, raising the death toll to 250. Coast Guard Commander Filippo Marini said 18 bodies were recovered Tuesday from within the ship's hold, while one was spotted by a helicopter floating nearby the wreck. Marini said the search would continue as long as weather allows. Just 155 migrants, most if not all from Eritrea, survived last Thursday's shipwreck. Survivors said there were some 500 people on board when the ship capsized and sank in sight of land. A disproportionate number of the dead are women: So far the bodies of 75 women have been recovered, while only six of the survivors were female. Seven of the dead are children. (AP Photo/Francesco Malavolta)LAMPEDUSA, Italy (AP) — Italy on Tuesday detained a 35-year-old Tunisian man suspected of being the captain of a boat carrying African migrants that sank off the tiny island of Lampedusa. Divers, meanwhile, recovered dozens of additional bodies from the wreckage, raising the death toll to 275.

Utah to reopen national parks

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 06:03 AM PDT

Tourists gather at the Arches National Park in Moab, Utah in this file photoThe state, which depends on tourism, will pay $1.67M so visitors can return.

General in charge of nuclear missiles to be fired

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 09:52 AM PDT

In this image released by the U.S. Air Force, a Malmstrom Air Force Base missile maintenance team removes the upper section of an ICBM at a Montana missile site. An Air Force unit that operates one-third of the nation's land-based nuclear missiles at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont., has failed a safety and security inspection, marking the second major setback this year for a force charged with the military's most sensitive mission, Lt. Gen. James M. Kowalski, who is in charge of the nuclear air force told The Associated Press on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013. He said a team of "relatively low ranking" airmen failed one exercise as part of a broader inspection, which began last week and ended Tuesday. He said that for security reasons he could not be specific about the team or the exercise. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, John Parie)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force said Friday it fired the two-star general from command of its nuclear missiles in response to an investigation into alleged personal misbehavior. It was the second sacking this week of a senior commander of nuclear forces.

Eastern India braces for impact of major cyclone

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 05:43 AM PDT

Eastern India braces for impact of major cycloneOfficials ordered tens of thousands of coastal villagers to flee their homes Friday as a massive cyclone — so large it filled nearly the entire Bay of Bengal — gathered strength and headed toward India's ...

Establishment GOPers assail tea party on shutdown

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 05:52 AM PDT

Establishment GOPers assail tea party on shutdownFrom county chairmen to national party luminaries, veteran Republicans across the country are accusing tea party lawmakers of staining the GOP with their refusal to bend in the budget impasse in Washington. ...

Teachers blame Tea Party for shutdown

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 06:54 AM PDT

Georgetown students using phones, tablets in classThe nation's largest teachers union buys ads to share its views.

Syrian official lauds Nobel prize for inspectors

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 06:25 AM PDT

The chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Thorbjorn Jagland, centre, announces, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, at the Nobel Institute, in Oslo, Friday Oct. 11, 2013. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, it was announced on Friday. The Norwegian Nobel Committee honored the Hague, Netherlands-based global chemical watchdog "for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons."(AP Photo/ NTB Scanpix, Heiko Junge) NORWAY OUTBEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian lawmaker said Friday that awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the global chemical watchdog underscores "the credibility" of the Damascus government and its intentions to destroy its deadly arsenal.

Kerry makes unannounced visit to Kabul for security talks

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:58 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry waves as he leaves, after completing his trip to Malaysia, from Subang TUDM outside of Kuala LumpurThe secretary of state is working to determine the presence of U.S. forces.

Snowden father in 'emotional' meeting with son

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 06:58 AM PDT

Lon Snowden speaks to The Associated Press in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013. Edward Snowden's father Lon Snowden told Russian television outside the Moscow airport Thursday morning that his son, who provided the news media with information on global surveillance activities conducted by the U.S. special services. is not planning to return to the United States. Lon Snowden thanked Russia and President Vladimir Putin for sheltering his son. He would not say when or where he will be meeting his son.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)Moscow (AFP) - The father of US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has held an "emotional" meeting with his son for the first time since the fugitive took refuge in Russia to escape US justice, a report said Friday.

Weapons watchdog wins Nobel Peace Prize

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 05:52 AM PDT

OPCW Director General Ahmet Uzumcu speaks during a news conference in The HagueThe group overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical cache wins the prestigious prize.

House GOP, White House seeking end to budget fight

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 08:43 AM PDT

The Ohio Clock shown outside the Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013 in Washington. The Ohio Clock has stood watch over the Senate for 196 years. It stopped running shortly after noon Wednesday. Employees in the Office of the Senate Curator ordinarily wind the clock weekly. But they are among the thousands of federal employees furloughed under the partial shutdown. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)After weeks of ultimatums, President Obama and House Republicans may be closer to ending a budget standoff.

Poll: Americans find little to like in Washington

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 10:33 AM PDT

In this Oct. 7, 2013, photo. the U.S. Capitol is reflected during rain in Washington. Americans are finding little they like about President Barack Obama or either political party, according to a new poll that suggests the possibility of a "throw the bums out" mentality in next year's midterm elections. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)An AP poll suggests a "throw the bums out" mentality may dominate next year's elections.

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