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• Hospital: American video journalist free of Ebola
• Eric Frein sightings: How 'wilderness ninja' has outfoxed 1,000 cops
• Ebola nurse's status upgraded to good from fair
• U.S. to funnel travelers from Ebola-hit region through five airports
• Three Denver girls reportedly en route to Turkey detained, sent home
• Former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee dies at age 93
• NATO intercepts Russian jets over Baltic Sea
• Homeland Security orders new screening for Ebola
• Doctor gets emotional recounting Ebola patient's final days
• Consumed by Islamic State, Iraq's Anbar province a key battleground again
• North Korea's big move on captured American
• Man to Obama: 'Don't touch my girlfriend'
• Stone in Jerusalem may answer ancient mystery
• Islamic Front propaganda video as good as martial arts movie
• 6,000-year-old temple discovered with altars for sacrifices
• Hottest year on record?
• Americans more worried about economy than Ebola: Poll
• Soldier run over in Quebec parking lot by suspected jihadi has died
• Purple Heart medal, lost 20 years, finds way home
• Snowplow driver drunk in plane collision that killed oil CEO
• 'Harlem Kevorkian' sentenced in death of motivational speaker
• Pope's historic trip to unstable region
• Silicon Valley and politics meet
• Oscar Pistorius gets sentenced
• Cop surprised when citizen turns tables on him
• Very bad news for McDonald's
• Fashion icon dies at 82
• Police say they might have spotted ambush suspect
• Pistorius gets sentenced

Hospital: American video journalist free of Ebola Posted: 21 Oct 2014 04:28 PM PDT American video journalist Ashoka Mukpo will be released from the hospital soon, officials say.

Eric Frein sightings: How 'wilderness ninja' has outfoxed 1,000 cops Posted: 21 Oct 2014 09:44 AM PDT Two fresh sightings of alleged sniper Eric Frein has resulted in more closed public schools in northern Pennsylvania.

Ebola nurse's status upgraded to good from fair Posted: 21 Oct 2014 03:00 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - The medical status of nurse Nina Pham, who contracted Ebola when she helped treat the first patient to be diagnosed with the disease on U.S. soil, was upgraded to good from fair on Tuesday, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced. Pham was admitted to the NIH Clinical Center Special Clinical Studies Unit in Bethesda, Maryland, on Oct. 16. (Reporting by Sharon Begley)

U.S. to funnel travelers from Ebola-hit region through five airports Posted: 21 Oct 2014 04:51 PM PDT By Jeffrey Dastin NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States ratcheted up its safeguards against Ebola on Tuesday, requiring travelers from three countries at the center of an epidemic in West Africa to fly into one of five major airports conducting enhanced screening for the virus. Restrictions on passengers whose trips originated in Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea were announced by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and due to go into effect on Wednesday. The precautions stop well short of the travel ban sought by some U.S. lawmakers to prevent more Ebola cases in the United States. ...

Three Denver girls reportedly en route to Turkey detained, sent home Posted: 21 Oct 2014 03:12 PM PDT By Aruna Viswanatha and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three teenage girls from Denver who had been missing since last week and were reported to be traveling to Turkey were picked up in Germany and sent back home, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. Voice of America reported earlier this week that one of the girls told German authorities they were en route to Turkey, which has been considered a principal transit route for foreigners looking to fight with Islamic militants in Syria. U.S. officials declined to say if they suspected a link between the girls and militants in the region. ...

Former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee dies at age 93 Posted: 21 Oct 2014 05:10 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, who oversaw the paper's coverage of the Watergate scandal that toppled President Richard Nixon, died on Tuesday at age 93, the newspaper said. As executive editor from 1968 until 1991, Bradlee became one of the most important figures in Washington, as well as journalism history, while transforming the Post from a staid newspaper into one of the most dynamic and respected publications in the United States. Bradlee died at his home in Washington of natural causes, the paper said. ...

NATO intercepts Russian jets over Baltic Sea Posted: 21 Oct 2014 11:37 AM PDT NATO scrambled fighter jets twice in two days to intercept Russian military aircraft over the Baltic Sea, it said Tuesday amid reports that Russian military activity in the region is increasing.

Homeland Security orders new screening for Ebola Posted: 21 Oct 2014 10:28 AM PDT Everyone coming to the U.S. from the three West African countries at the center of the Ebola outbreak will now be screened for the deadly disease.

Doctor gets emotional recounting Ebola patient's final days Posted: 21 Oct 2014 01:15 PM PDT Dallas doctor Gary Weinstein describes Texas Health Presbyterian's efforts to care for Thomas Eric Duncan, the country's first Ebola patient.

Consumed by Islamic State, Iraq's Anbar province a key battleground again Posted: 21 Oct 2014 11:57 AM PDT In recent weeks, the world has watched the battle to save Syria's border town of Kobani from Islamic State. But the radical jihadists have for longer been engulfing another strategically more vital target - Iraq's western Anbar province and its road to Baghdad.

North Korea's big move on captured American Posted: 21 Oct 2014 11:28 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — American detainee Jeffrey Fowle has been released from North Korea, nearly six months after he was taken into custody on charges of leaving a Bible in a nightclub, the State Department said Tuesday. Two other Americans who have been tried and convicted of crimes in North Korea are still being held.

Man to Obama: 'Don't touch my girlfriend' Posted: A funny thing happened when the President went to the voting booth.

Stone in Jerusalem may answer ancient mystery Posted: 21 Oct 2014 09:59 AM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli archaeologists said Tuesday they have discovered a large stone with Latin engravings that lends credence to the theory that the reason Jews revolted against Roman rule nearly 2,000 ago was because of their harsh treatment.

Islamic Front propaganda video as good as martial arts movie Posted: 21 Oct 2014 01:28 AM PDT The Islamic Front, an alliance of militant groups in Syria, released a video on October 20, described as showing "special operations" unit training camp. The unit, dubbed War Lions, are filmed undergoing vigorous exercises. A fighter being interviewed in 1'00" says that main reason they come to the training camp is to defeat militias from different countries that have recently entered Syria. The video states that a number of unit leaders were killed in battle in Aleppo. Credit: YouTube/Islamic Front

6,000-year-old temple discovered with altars for sacrifices Posted: 21 Oct 2014 05:24 AM PDT A 6,000-year-old temple holding humanlike figurines and sacrificed animal remains has been discovered within a massive prehistoric settlement in Ukraine. It was a "two-story building made of wood and clay surrounded by a galleried courtyard," the upper floor divided into five rooms, write archaeologists Nataliya Burdo and Mykhailo Videiko in a copy of a presentation they gave recently at the European Association of Archaeologists' annual meeting in Istanbul, Turkey. A platform on the upper floor contains "numerous burnt bones of lamb, associated with sacrifice," write Burdo and Videiko, of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The floors and walls of all five rooms on the upper floor were "decorated by red paint, which created [a] ceremonial atmosphere." [See Photos of the Prehistoric Temple & Animal Remains]

Hottest year on record? Posted: 20 Oct 2014 11:48 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth is on pace to tie or even break the mark for the hottest year on record, federal meteorologists say.

Americans more worried about economy than Ebola: Poll Posted: 21 Oct 2014 08:23 AM PDT Virus made Gallup poll's top 10 concerns, but remained behind economy, dissatisfaction with government, jobs, healthcare, immigration.

Soldier run over in Quebec parking lot by suspected jihadi has died Posted: 21 Oct 2014 03:52 PM PDT Ottawa (AFP) - Canada was faced with the spectre of Islamist violence Tuesday after a soldier run over by a suspected jihadist died in hospital, as its warplanes headed to bomb Islamic State militants in Iraq.

Purple Heart medal, lost 20 years, finds way home Posted: 21 Oct 2014 08:45 AM PDT MANLIUS, N.Y. (AP) — A Purple Heart medal posthumously awarded to a New York soldier killed in Vietnam is being returned to his family about two decades after it was found on a school playground.

Snowplow driver drunk in plane collision that killed oil CEO Posted: 21 Oct 2014 03:03 PM PDT Moscow (AFP) - Russian investigators on Tuesday accused senior airport officials of criminal negligence over a plane crash at a Moscow airport that killed the head of French oil giant Total, Christophe de Margerie, whose private jet hit a snowplough on takeoff.

'Harlem Kevorkian' sentenced in death of motivational speaker Posted: 20 Oct 2014 12:04 PM PDT By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York man convicted of helping a debt-ridden motivational speaker commit suicide to make the death look like a robbery was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Monday, prosecutors said. Kenneth Minor, 42, pleaded guilty to manslaughter last month in the stabbing death of Jeffrey Locker in 2009, a spokeswoman with the Manhattan District Attorney's office said. Locker, a 52-year-old motivational speaker, hired Minor to help him kill himself and make it look like a robbery so his family could collect life insurance payouts, prosecutors said. ...

Pope's historic trip to unstable region Posted: 21 Oct 2014 05:16 AM PDT Pope Francis will make his first visit to the predominantly Muslim nation of Turkey.

Silicon Valley and politics meet Posted: 21 Oct 2014 01:24 AM PDT A database of all political giving for the last 30 years, which ranks the intensity of donors' liberalism or conservatism, shows Democrats get the lion's share of donations from tech company employees.

Oscar Pistorius gets sentenced Posted: 21 Oct 2014 04:27 AM PDT Olympic, Paralympic sprinter was convicted of culpable homicide in girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp's death.

Cop surprised when citizen turns tables on him Posted: 20 Oct 2014 12:38 PM PDT In an attempt to bring attention to the issue of unlawful traffic stops by police impersonators, Gavin Seim of Washington state flagged down a police officer on the side of the road.

Very bad news for McDonald's Posted: 21 Oct 2014 03:55 PM PDT The fast food giant posted huge disappointments that should have stockholders reeling.

Fashion icon dies at 82 Posted: 20 Oct 2014 09:59 PM PDT Oscar de la Renta, the worldly gentleman designer who shaped the wardrobe of socialites and Hollywood stars for more than four decades, has died. He was 82.

Police say they might have spotted ambush suspect Posted: 20 Oct 2014 08:16 PM PDT Police shifted their search and a northeastern Pennsylvania school district tightened security amid another reported sighting Monday of the suspect in a deadly state police ambush.

Pistorius gets sentenced Posted: 21 Oct 2014 12:31 PM PDT A South African judge sentences the runner for the killing of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

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