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• Are electronic devices really safe on planes?
• Few options for Obama to fix cancellations problem
• Russian report stirs new confusion in Arafat death
• CBS admits error in Benghazi '60 Minutes' story
• Jury convicts husband in Ohio hospital shooting
• Height of 1 World Trade Center debated in Chicago
• New York, Chicago claim 5 of tallest US buildings
• AP source: Martin to meet with NFL investigator
• Local fight with Mexican cartel a small victory
• SAC Capital pleads guilty in NY in $1.8B deal
• Q&A: More lenient lice policies bug some parents
• Rickets making a comeback in the UK, doctors say
• One of world's strongest storms hits Philippines
• Home Depot apologizes for racist tweet
• Stop, strip, search, probe. Got a warrant?
• Rare snow leopard cubs make zoo debut
• This week's Best of Flickr: Surf, solar eclipse, Dia de los Muertos
• Santorum stumps in Iowa—for a movie
• Crude oil train derailment, explosions prompt talk of tougher regulations
• Photographers document war and its aftermath in new exhibit
• Freed after two decades in prison, innocent man says he's blessed
• Some Americans log more than 24 hours a day on gadgets
• Photographers document war and its aftermath in new exhibit
• Twitter stock slides on second trading day
• Ortiz gets Boston mayor votes but didn't place 3rd
• Snowden persuaded other NSA workers to give up passwords
• At least four die after typhoon hits Philippines
• Obama’s secret Iran détente
• U.S. jobs market dodges blow from government shutdown
• Why did Deep Throat leak? Revisiting the Watergate leaks and the garage where it all began
• Israeli PM 'utterly rejects' emerging Iran deal
• Obama apologizes to people losing health coverage
• 'Super typhoon' complete coverage

Are electronic devices really safe on planes? Posted: 08 Nov 2013 02:22 PM PST FAA ruling may have favored public opinion over safety. Yahoo News exclusive.

Few options for Obama to fix cancellations problem Posted: 08 Nov 2013 02:26 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he'll do everything he can to help people coping with health insurance cancellations, but legally and practically his options appear limited.

Russian report stirs new confusion in Arafat death Posted: 08 Nov 2013 11:41 AM PST RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Four investigations, hundreds of testimonies and stacks of medical reports on Yasser Arafat's unexplained death in 2004 have failed to produce hard evidence of what killed him — and findings presented Friday only created more confusion.

CBS admits error in Benghazi '60 Minutes' story Posted: 08 Nov 2013 04:22 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — CBS says it was misled by a "60 Minutes" source who claimed he was on the scene of a 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, when it turns out now that he was not there.

Jury convicts husband in Ohio hospital shooting Posted: 08 Nov 2013 03:57 PM PST AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man who said he fatally shot his hospitalized wife out of love because of her debilitated condition that left her unable to speak, was convicted by a jury on Friday and could face life in prison.

Height of 1 World Trade Center debated in Chicago Posted: 08 Nov 2013 04:49 PM PST CHICAGO (AP) — Rising from the ashes of 9/11, the new World Trade Center tower has punched above the New York skyline to reach its powerfully symbolic height of 1,776 feet and become the tallest building in the country. Or has it?

New York, Chicago claim 5 of tallest US buildings Posted: 08 Nov 2013 01:08 PM PST New York and Chicago are home to five of the tallest buildings in the U.S. But ranking them — and the rest of the world's tallest structures — is more mind-bending than one might think. Lists can vary depending, for example, on whether you count the broadcast antennas on top or whether you're judging them by highest usable floor. Below is a by-the-numbers rundown on five of the tallest buildings in the U.S.

AP source: Martin to meet with NFL investigator Posted: 08 Nov 2013 04:21 PM PST DAVIE, Fla. (AP) — Miami Dolphins tackle Jonathan Martin will meet late next week in Los Angeles with the NFL's special investigator to discuss allegations in the team's harassment scandal, a person familiar with the situation said Friday.

Local fight with Mexican cartel a small victory Posted: 08 Nov 2013 02:55 PM PST TEPALCATEPEC, Mexico (AP) — For lime grower Hipolito Mora, it was time to organize and pick up arms when a packing company controlled by a brutal drug cartel refused to buy his fruit. For Bishop Miguel Patino Velazquez, it was seeing civilians forced to fight back with their own guns that made him speak out. For Leticia, a lime picker too afraid of retribution to give her last name, it was the day she saw a taxi driver kidnapped in front of his two young children that convinced her to join those taking the law into their own hands.

SAC Capital pleads guilty in NY in $1.8B deal Posted: 08 Nov 2013 02:42 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — SAC Capital Advisors pleaded guilty to criminal fraud charges Friday, satisfying a deal with the government that requires the Connecticut-based hedge fund to pay a record $1.8 billion to settle charges that it allowed, if not encouraged, insider trading to occur for more than a decade.

Q&A: More lenient lice policies bug some parents Posted: 08 Nov 2013 03:02 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Some schools are letting kids with live lice in their hair back in the classroom, a less restrictive policy that has parents scratching their heads.

Rickets making a comeback in the UK, doctors say Posted: 08 Nov 2013 02:52 PM PST LONDON (AP) — Rickets, the childhood disease that once caused an epidemic of bowed legs and curved spines during the Victorian era, is making a shocking comeback in 21st-century Britain.

One of world's strongest storms hits Philippines Posted: 08 Nov 2013 01:13 PM PST MANILA, Philippines (AP) — One of the strongest storms on record slammed into the central Philippines on Friday, killing at least four people, forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes and knocking out power and communications in several provinces. But the nation appeared to avoid a major disaster because the rapidly moving typhoon blew away before wreaking more damage, officials said.

Home Depot apologizes for racist tweet Posted: 08 Nov 2013 01:18 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — Home improvement retailer Home Depot Inc. on Thursday apologized for a tweet that showed a picture of two African-American drummers with a person in a gorilla mask in between them and asked: "Which drummer is not like the others?"

Stop, strip, search, probe. Got a warrant? Posted: 08 Nov 2013 12:14 PM PST Complaints increase of police conducting invasive searches. Liz Goodwin reports.

Rare snow leopard cubs make zoo debut Posted: 08 Nov 2013 01:14 PM PST Snow leopard cub Little Boy tackles a pumpkin while playing in the Central Park Zoo on Thursday. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

This week's Best of Flickr: Surf, solar eclipse, Dia de los Muertos Posted: 08 Nov 2013 07:28 AM PST (Photo © Butch Cordero) 12-year-old surfer Noah Hill rides a wave in the National Scholastic Surfing Association competition on Nov. 3 in Newport Beach, Calif.

Santorum stumps in Iowa—for a movie Posted: 08 Nov 2013 10:38 AM PST The former Pennsylvania senator has not said if he'll run for president in 2016, but his new job is helping him maintain important contacts.

Crude oil train derailment, explosions prompt talk of tougher regulations Posted: 08 Nov 2013 03:32 PM PST A 90-car train carrying North Dakota crude derailed and exploded in a rural area of western Alabama early on Friday, leaving 11 cars burning and potentially bolstering the push for tougher regulation of a boom in moving oil by rail. Those cars, which threw flames 300 feet into the night sky, are being left to burn out, which could take up to 24 hours, according to the train owner, Genesee & Wyoming. A local official said the crude oil had originated in North Dakota, home of the booming Bakken shale patch. If so, it may have been carrying the same type of light crude oil that was on a Canadian train that derailed in the Quebec town of Lac-Megantic this summer, killing 47 people.

Photographers document war and its aftermath in new exhibit Posted: 08 Nov 2013 09:07 AM PST An expansive new photography exhibit looks at war through images from the battlefield and beyond.

Freed after two decades in prison, innocent man says he's blessed Posted:

Some Americans log more than 24 hours a day on gadgets Posted: 08 Nov 2013 10:05 AM PST Much of that increase is due to the rise of multitasking and the use of multiple media devices at once, said James Short, study co-author and the director of the Information Storage Industry Center at the University of California San Diego. "From the point of view of Nielsen, their data says that the television is on, but I'm not paying attention to it."

Photographers document war and its aftermath in new exhibit Posted: 08 Nov 2013 09:01 AM PST An expansive new photography exhibit looks at war through images from the battlefield and beyond.

Twitter stock slides on second trading day Posted: 08 Nov 2013 02:15 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter's stock slid more than 7 percent on its second trading day Friday, after the popular short messaging service saw a huge first-day pop in what turned out to be a smooth public debut.

Ortiz gets Boston mayor votes but didn't place 3rd Posted: 08 Nov 2013 10:29 AM PST BOSTON (AP) — Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz is apparently so popular in the city that some residents think he should be mayor.

Snowden persuaded other NSA workers to give up passwords Posted: 08 Nov 2013 06:10 AM PST By Mark Hosenball and Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden used login credentials and passwords provided unwittingly by colleagues at a spy base in Hawaii to access some of the classified material he leaked to the media, sources said. A handful of agency employees who gave their login details to Snowden were identified, questioned and removed from their assignments, said a source close to several U.S. government investigations into the damage caused by the leaks. Snowden may have persuaded between 20 and 25 fellow workers at the NSA regional operations center in Hawaii to give him their logins and passwords by telling them they were needed for him to do his job as a computer systems administrator, a second source said. The revelation is the latest to indicate that inadequate security measures at the NSA played a significant role in the worst breach of classified data in the super-secret eavesdropping agency's 61-year history.

At least four die after typhoon hits Philippines Posted: 08 Nov 2013 07:47 AM PST MANILA, Philippines (AP) — One of the strongest storms on record slammed into the central Philippines on Friday, killing at least four people, forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes and knocking out power and communications in several provinces. But the nation appeared to avoid a major disaster because the rapidly moving typhoon blew away before wreaking more damage, officials said.

Obama’s secret Iran détente Posted: 08 Nov 2013 06:33 AM PST Long before a nuclear deal was in reach, the U.S. was quietly lifting some of the financial pressure on Iran, according to a Daily Beast investigation. How the sanctions were softened.

U.S. jobs market dodges blow from government shutdown Posted: 08 Nov 2013 02:06 PM PST The department said there had been no "discernible" impact on payrolls.

Why did Deep Throat leak? Revisiting the Watergate leaks and the garage where it all began Posted: 08 Nov 2013 04:16 AM PST Watergate expert Max Holland says Deep Throat was leaking as part of a plot to become FBI Director

Israeli PM 'utterly rejects' emerging Iran deal Posted: 08 Nov 2013 07:43 AM PST JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that he "utterly rejects" the emerging nuclear deal between western powers and Iran, calling it a "bad deal" and promising that Israel will do everything it needs to do to defend itself.

Obama apologizes to people losing health coverage Posted: 08 Nov 2013 08:01 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Bowing to intense criticism, President Barack Obama apologized to Americans who are losing health insurance plans he had repeatedly said they could keep and pledged to find fixes that might allow people to keep their coverage.

'Super typhoon' complete coverage Posted: Historically severe storm pummels Philippines. Photos and more.

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