| Health care enrollment numbers below target Posted: 13 Nov 2013 01:27 PM PST  Fewer than 27,000 Americans signed up for insurance on healthcare.gov in October.
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| Training accident kills four Marines at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Posted: 13 Nov 2013 03:19 PM PST  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Four Marines were killed Wednesday in a training accident at Camp Pendleton in Southern California, base officials said.
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| Chevron balks at Ecuador's $9 billion fine for Amazon damage Posted: 13 Nov 2013 02:09 PM PST  US oil giant Chevron Wednesday rejected as "illegitimate and unenforceable" an Ecuadoran court ruling upholding an order for it to pay billions of dollars for environmental damages to the Amazon. Ecuador's Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court decision against Chevron but dramatically reduced the amount to be paid in damages from $19 billion to $9.51 billion. Chevron has never worked directly in Ecuador but inherited the pollution lawsuit when it acquired former rival Texaco in 2001. The original ruling against Chevron was made in 2011, with a fine of $9 billion imposed.
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| Boehner: No formal talks on immigration bill Posted: 13 Nov 2013 02:53 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday that the House will not hold formal, compromise talks on the Senate-passed comprehensive immigration bill, a fresh signal from the Republican leadership that the issue is dead for the year.
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| 4 Marines killed in accident at California base Posted: 13 Nov 2013 04:44 PM PST  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Four Marines were killed Wednesday during an operation to clear a range of unexploded ordnance at Camp Pendleton in Southern California, a Marine official said.
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| Victims' families call Bulger 'Satan,' 'terrorist' Posted: 13 Nov 2013 01:45 PM PST  BOSTON (AP) — The families of people killed by South Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger and his gang finally got the chance Wednesday to tell Bulger how his long reign of terror damaged their lives, calling him a "terrorist," a "punk" and even "Satan."
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| Doctors are told to get serious about obesity Posted: 13 Nov 2013 01:02 PM PST  ATLANTA (AP) — Next time you go for a checkup, don't be surprised if your doctor gets on your case about your weight.
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| Former NFL WR Hurd gets 15 years in drug case Posted: 13 Nov 2013 05:01 PM PST  DALLAS (AP) — Former NFL wide receiver Sam Hurd was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison for his role in starting a drug-distribution scheme while playing for the Chicago Bears, completing a steep downfall that ended his football career and left his future in tatters.
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| Warhol painting fetches record $105M at NY auction Posted: 13 Nov 2013 05:02 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — A prized 1963 Andy Warhol painting that captures the immediate aftermath of a car crash sold for $105 million Wednesday at a New York City auction, setting a record for the famed pop artist, Sotheby's said.
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| Kershaw, Scherzer easily win Cy Young Awards Posted: 13 Nov 2013 04:42 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Max Scherzer of the Detroit Tigers breezed Wednesday to baseball's Cy Young Awards.
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| Kerry: New Iran sanctions could scuttle diplomacy Posted: 13 Nov 2013 04:51 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry warned Congress Wednesday against scuttling a historic opportunity for a nuclear pact with Iran by pressing ahead with new sanctions while international negotiators seek to prevent Tehran from being able to assemble an atomic weapons arsenal.
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| Toronto mayor admits he has bought illegal drugs Posted: 13 Nov 2013 03:23 PM PST  TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted during a heated City Council debate Wednesday that he bought illegal drugs while in office, but adamantly refused to step down despite calls from nearly every councilor to take a leave of absence and get help.
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| 3 shot outside Pittsburgh school; drug link probed Posted: 13 Nov 2013 02:57 PM PST  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Three Pittsburgh high school students heading to their vehicle after classes ended were shot Wednesday afternoon, and police investigating whether the shooting stemmed from a drug-related dispute had six people in custody for questioning, school and police officials said.
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| Man agrees to remove wife's grave from front yard Posted: 13 Nov 2013 02:15 PM PST  SCOTTSBORO, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man has agreed to remove his wife's remains from his front yard after a four-year fight to keep her grave next to the house where they lived together.
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| Police open to new leads in Mo. editor's slaying Posted: 13 Nov 2013 02:22 PM PST  COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Police said Wednesday that they will look into any new leads into the 2001 slaying of a Missouri newspaper sports editor after one of the two men originally convicted of murder had his case overturned and was freed.
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| Pentagon calls off $345M deal to buy Russian-made helicopters Posted: 13 Nov 2013 02:49 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department said Wednesday it is canceling plans to buy additional cargo helicopters from the Russian arms export agency that has supplied Syrian President Bashar Assad's military forces with arms and ammunition.
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| Another Tesla fire, this time at Calif. factory; 3 workers injured Posted: 13 Nov 2013 01:47 PM PST  By Deepa Seetharaman DETROIT (Reuters) - Three people were injured at Tesla Motors Inc's factory in California on Wednesday after a low-pressure aluminum casting press failed, the company said in a statement. Local fire officials said there was no fire at the company's Fremont, California factory, describing the incident as an "industrial accident." "There was a failure in a low-pressure aluminum casting press," Tesla said in a statement on Wednesday. Shares in Tesla fell after early news reports of the incident but later rebounded. The company also faced some bad publicity after actor George Clooney made critical comments of his Roadster, a sports car that Tesla no longer produces, and complained about being stuck on the side of the road.
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| Four in custody after Pittsburgh high school shooting wounds 3 Posted: 13 Nov 2013 02:16 PM PST  Three students were wounded in a shooting outside a Pittsburgh high school, and police said they have several "persons of interest" in custody.
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| Slow start for health insurance signups Posted: 13 Nov 2013 03:16 PM PST  White House says fewer than 27,000 people enrolled on web site; just over 100K in all, says HHS.
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| Three shot, five in custody after shooting near Pittsburgh school Posted: 13 Nov 2013 02:53 PM PST By Elizabeth Daley PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Three teenage boys were wounded on Wednesday and five people have been taken into custody after shots were fired outside a Pittsburgh high school in an incident that police said could be related to a fight that took place at the school a month ago. Pittsburgh's EMS chief, Mark Bocian, said their injuries were not life-threatening. "This whole incident ... may have been related over something that happened a month ago," said Pittsburgh police spokeswoman Diane Richard after speaking with officials at Brashear High School, near which the shooting took place. Richard said a fight at the school on October 18th "quite possibly could be drug-related." Police took five people into custody late Wednesday afternoon, said Pittsburgh Police Acting Chief Regina McDonald. |
| Makeshift clinic serves Philippine city's patients Posted: 13 Nov 2013 02:09 PM PST  A single-story building at a ruined airport has become Tacloban's medical center.
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| Deforestation continues to threaten Amazon rainforest Posted: 13 Nov 2013 05:00 AM PST  An aerial view of the construction site of a hydroelectric dam along the Teles Pires river, a tributary of the Amazon, near the city of Alta Floresta, Para state, June 19, 2013. REUTERS/Nacho Doce |
| Obama, France’s Hollande paper over Iran rifts Posted: 13 Nov 2013 10:32 AM PST  The U.S. and France seek unity after first round fails to secure interim agreement.
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| TSA's screening program falls short Posted: 13 Nov 2013 10:14 AM PST  Despite costing nearly $1 billion, there's no evidence "behavior detection" efforts work.
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| Homemade fire bomb detonated outside Oregon courthouse Posted: 13 Nov 2013 09:48 AM PST  A propane gas tank rigged up as a homemade bomb exploded in flames outside a courthouse before dawn on Wednesday in the southwestern Oregon town of Medford. Details of the blast were sketchy, but Medford police Lieutenant Mike Budreau said officers were called to the Jackson County courthouse at about 4:30 a.m. local time (7:30 a.m. EST) to investigate reports of an explosion. They found a damaged seven-gallon propane tank ablaze, as well as broken glass from shattered windows. "We believe the suspect tried to detonate the propane tank with an improvised explosive device (that) damaged the propane tank," he said, adding that the tank caught fire but remained mostly intact.
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| Out of office for four years, Sarah Palin remains (arguably) relevant Posted: 13 Nov 2013 08:24 AM PST  She hasn't held public office in four years. She hasn't run for public office in five. Yet here she is again, plugging a new book about the "war on Christmas" while weighing in on, well, just about anything.
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| Prosecutors want life in prison for gangster 'Whitey' Bulger Posted: 13 Nov 2013 01:36 PM PST  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Mobster James "Whitey" Bulger heard a range of emotions on Wednesday from families of the people he was convicted of killing, with the son of one of his victims addressing Bulger as "Satan" and another warning him "hell must be too much to bear." But the 12 people who spoke at the U.S. District Court in Boston on the first day of a sentencing hearing for the 84-year-old former leader of the city's Winter Hill gang heard little in return as Bulger uttered only one word, "no," when asked by a judge if he had anything to say. After a two-month trial that brought back memories of a dark time in Boston's history, when machine-gun-toting gangsters assassinated rivals in broad daylight, shook down businessmen and buried bodies in shallow graves, Bulger in August was convicted in a sweeping racketeering trial of committing 11 murders during the 1970s and 1980s. She is widely expected to send Bulger, whose story inspired the 2006 Academy Award-winning film "The Departed," to prison for the rest of his life.
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| Babies born amid a monster typhoon struggle to survive Posted: 13 Nov 2013 02:22 AM PST  By Stuart Grudgings TACLOBAN, Philippines (Reuters) - In the chapel of the only functioning public hospital in typhoon-ravaged Tacloban, seven tiny, premature babies lie sweltering in intense heat, looked over by anxious mothers and a wooden statue of Christ. An eighth, born two days after Friday's monster storm hit the central Philippines, is kept alive only by his exhausted grandmother who pumps air by hand into his sick lungs. It remains the only medical option in the city of Tacloban for most survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, which may have killed thousands of people. "Our immediate problems are immense," said Dr. Alberto de Leon, the 62-year-old director of the hospital, the Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center, adding he nearly lost his own life in the surge of ocean water that accompanied Haiyan.
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| HealthCare.gov won't be fixed by end of the month: report Posted: 13 Nov 2013 07:02 AM PST  Despite President Obama' promises that the online hub will be ready, one official says it won't be.
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| White House gets interim NSA report Posted: 13 Nov 2013 08:03 AM PST  The nation's security brass gets a preview of what's expected in a report due next month.
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| Gunfire, looting and chaos break out in Tacloban Posted: 13 Nov 2013 05:12 AM PST  TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) — Mobs overran a rice warehouse on the island worst hit by the Philippine typhoon, setting off a wall collapse that killed eight people and carting off thousands of sacks of the grain, while security forces Wednesday exchanged gunfire with an armed gang.
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| Congressional approval sinks to 9 percent, poll says Posted: 13 Nov 2013 08:00 AM PST  Amid weeks of reports about slumping polling data, the last major polling group that didn't say Congress was at an all-time low in popularity confirms what we all know: Congress is in a slump.
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| Last call for JFK's ‘New Frontier’: A celebration of endurance and recollection Posted: 13 Nov 2013 08:54 AM PST  It's easy to overlook this stark fact: Of the 43 men who have served as president, only four served fewer days in office than John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
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| Dems Seek Cover From Obamacare's Promise of Keeping Health Plan Posted: 12 Nov 2013 06:07 PM PST  Democrats are beginning to show signs of division as the House of Representatives prepares to vote this week to ensure that the millions of Americans who have received cancellation notices of their health care plans can keep their preferred coverage. The Keep Your Health Plan...
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| White House: 'Making progress' fixing website Posted: 13 Nov 2013 01:09 PM PST  "We have much work still to do," the tech chief for the health care website said.
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| Obamacare's mystery woman speaks Posted:  Adriana said she's faced cyberbullying since her photo was used.
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| Rice looted in Philippines amid aid shortage Posted: 13 Nov 2013 01:33 AM PST  There is an urgent for water, food and medical supplies, officials say.
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| Francis Bacon painting sells for $142.4 million in NYC Posted: 13 Nov 2013 02:29 AM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — A 1969 painting by Francis Bacon set a world record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction and a sculpture by Jeff Koons broke a world auction record for a living artist at a Manhattan sale on Tuesday.
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| Rare mammal sighted for first time in 15 years Posted: 12 Nov 2013 11:52 PM PST  HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — One of the rarest and most threatened mammals on earth has been caught on camera in Vietnam for the first time in 15 years, renewing hope for the recovery of the species, an international conservation group said Wednesday.
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| Obama tech chief to testify in Congress about healthcare website Posted: 12 Nov 2013 05:37 PM PST  By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top White House technology adviser will testify at a congressional hearing on Wednesday about the troubled launch of the website at the heart of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare reform despite the administration's assertions that he was too busy. The White House confirmed late on Tuesday that Todd Park, its chief technology officer, would comply with a subpoena to testify at a hearing of the Republican-controlled House of Representatives Oversight Committee. The White House had asked to delay the hearing until December, saying that Park was too busy helping to fix the HealthCare.gov website, which Obama has vowed will be working smoothly for most people by the end of the month.
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