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NYC doctor being tested for Ebola virus

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 12:40 PM PDT

Ebola Fight: Hopes Are High in Liberia's CapitalThe 33-year-old physician recently returned to the U.S. from West Africa.


Inside the Islamic State’s million-dollar money stream

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 02:41 PM PDT

How can US officials track ISIS sympathizers?The Islamic State militants got rich off smuggled oil, kidnappings for ransom, and extortion. Here is how the United States is responding.


Police: Plane, helicopter collide in Maryland

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 04:32 PM PDT

Official: 3 dead, 2 hurt in Maryland midair crashFREDERICK, Md. (AP) — Police say an airplane and helicopter have collided in mid-air at the Frederick Municipal Airport in Maryland.


New York tests doctor who was in West Africa for Ebola

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 04:16 PM PDT

By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Reuters) - A physician with Doctors without Borders who returned from West Africa recently and developed potential symptoms was being tested for Ebola at a New York City hospital, health officials said on Thursday, setting off fresh fears about the spread of the virus. The doctor was identified as Craig Spencer, who was working for the humanitarian organization in Guinea, one of three West African nations hardest hit by Ebola. ...

U.S. weighs passport, border changes in wake of Ottawa attack

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 03:40 PM PDT

Armed RCMP officers head in to Centre Block on Parliament Hilll following a shooting incident in OttawaBy Mark Hosenball and Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials are debating whether to tighten controls on the border with Canada and make it easier to revoke the passports of suspected militants, steps that could gain traction following two attacks in Canada this week. The officials cautioned on Thursday that the discussions are in preliminary stages and that no immediate action appeared likely by either U.S. President Barack Obama's administration or Congress. ...


New York police officer critically wounded in hatchet attack

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 04:55 PM PDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A hatchet-wielding attacker charged a group of New York City police officers posing for a photograph on Thursday, wounded two, one critically, before the assailant was shot dead, police said. The officers had been asked by a freelance photographer to pose for a picture and were gathered on a Queens street at 2 p.m., a New York Police Department spokesman said. Suddenly a man carrying a hatchet charged the officers, swinging it and striking one officer in the right arm and then swinging it again and striking a second officer in the head, the spokesman said. ...

Pat Robertson calls gay rights activists 'terrorists'

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 09:12 AM PDT

Pat Robertson claims gays wear `special rings` to spread aidsA day after his controversial comments about AIDS were obliterated by Anderson Cooper, the conservative televangelist called gay rights activists "terrorists."


Clinton hits campaign trail

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 01:27 PM PDT

Report: Clinton State Department Played Favorites In Sex InquiriesThe potential 2016 hopeful lends her support to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.


NFL discusses plans to add new team

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 10:49 AM PDT

NFL logo and set are seen at New York's Radio City Music Hall before the start of the 2013 NFL DraftThe National Football League anticipates a franchise across the pond.


White House announces new healthcare intiiative

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 10:20 AM PDT

The White House as seen from behind the North Lawn fence in WashingtonThe Obama administration announced a program budgeted at $840 million.


Continuing revelations in UNC cheating scandal

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 09:02 AM PDT

Kenneth Wainstein, lead investigator into academic irregularities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, holds a copy of his findings following a special joint meeting of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors and the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees in Chapel Hill, N.C., Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014. The findings revealed academic fraud involving more than 3,100 students. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Bogus classes and automatic A's and B's are at the heart of a cheating scandal at the University of North Carolina that lasted nearly two decades, encompassing about 3,100 students — nearly half of them athletes.


Who was the Ottawa gunman?

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 05:38 AM PDT

Evidence markers are placed around Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial in Ottawa on Thursday Oct. 23, 2014. Michael Zehaf Bibeau fatally shot reservist Cpl. Nathan Cirillo at the National War Memorial before setting his sights on Parliament Hill. Bibeau was killed just feet from where hundreds of MPs were meeting for their weekly caucus meetings. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Adrian Wyld)Here's what we know about Michael Zehaf-Bibeau.


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Suspected Boko Haram militants make horrifying move

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 08:59 AM PDT

Nigerian soldiers patrol in the north of Borno state close to Islamist extremist group Boko Haram's former camp near Maiduguri on June 5, 2013YOLA Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram militants kidnapped at least 25 girls in an attack on a remote town in northeastern Nigeria, witnesses to the attack said, despite talks aimed at freeing more than 200 other female hostages the militants seized in April. John Kwaghe, who witnessed the attack and lost three daughters to the abductors, and Dorathy Tizhe, who lost two, said the attackers came late in the night, forcing all the women to go with them, then later releasing the older ones.


Canada's PM makes big pledge after attack

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 04:01 PM PDT

Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks during a nationally televised address on CBC in this still image taken from video courtesy of CBC in Ottawa,Prime Minister Stephen Harper lays out response to yesterday's tragedy in Ottawa.


Homecoming for U.S. cameraman recovered from Ebola

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 12:43 PM PDT

In this image released by Nebraska Medical Center, Ashoka Mukpo, left, an American video journalist who has recovered from Ebola, looks toward Dr. Phil Smith, medical director of the biocontainment unit, as he was released from Nebraska Medical Center's biocontainment unit, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014, in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Nebraska Medical Center, Taylor Wilson)PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An American video journalist who recovered from Ebola is home in Rhode Island.


Second White House fence jumper faces mental evaluation

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 01:31 PM PDT

A United States uniformed Secret Service officer is seen at a post in front of the White House in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The man arrested after jumping the White House fence on Wednesday night was charged in court with two federal offenses on Thursday, including harming a dog the Secret Service used to stop him from entering the presidential mansion. Federal Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson ordered a mental screening for the man, Dominic Adesanya, 23, of Bel Air, Maryland. Adesanya was also charged with unlawfully entering the restricted grounds of the White House. Both charges are misdemeanors that carry up to one year in prison. ...


Canadian security laws to get beefed up

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 07:42 AM PDT

Canadian PM on Attacks: 'We Will Not Run Scared'After Ottawa attacks, Canadian PM Stephen Harper said government will accelerate giving more powers to security agencies.


Islamic State now world's richest terrorist group

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 04:53 PM PDT

An image taken from a propaganda video released in March by the Islamic State group's al-Furqan Media allegedly shows IS fighters in the Syrian City of HomsThe Islamic State has fast become one of the world's wealthiest terror groups, generating tens of millions of dollars a month from black market oil sales, ransoms and extortion, officials said Thursday. It earns $1 million a day alone by selling crude oil from fields captured when the group swept across Iraq and Syria earlier this year, said David Cohen, Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence. Because the group, also known as ISIL, has "amassed wealth at an unprecedented pace" from different sources than most terror groups, it presents a particular challenge to the US working to choke off money flows. IS is now "considered the world's wealthiest and most financially sophisticated terrorist organization," said Marwan Muasher, vice president at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.


Court: Olympian Jim Thorpe's remains can't be removed to tribal land

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 08:34 AM PDT

The Jim Thorpe Memorial in Jim ThorpeBy Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Jim Thorpe's remains will stay in the Pennsylvania hamlet named for the legendary Native American athlete and Olympics champion, after a federal appeals court on Thursday rejected an effort by two sons to move them to tribal lands in his native Oklahoma. Addressing an unusual dispute between two generations of descendants, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia said a lower court judge was wrong to order that Thorpe's remains be turned over to the Sac and Fox Nation. ...


WHO: Ebola still of grave concern; number with disease approaches 10,000

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 10:15 AM PDT

A Liberian health worker holds a baby infected with the Ebola virus at the NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) Ebola treatment center in Monrovia on October 18, 2014Top Ebola experts raised grave concerns Thursday about the worsening epidemic in west Africa as the number of infections soared to almost 10,000 and the death toll edged closer to 4,900. The World Heath Organization said after an emergency meeting on the deadly haemorrhagic fever that the situation in the worst-hit countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone "remains of great concern" as cases increase exponentially. It formally declared a global emergency in August, sparking outside criticism and internal soul-searching over claims that it was too slow, as the first case was in Guinea in December. WHO's deputy chief, Keiji Fukuda, said the international community had for months been ramping up the fight, with 600 international experts deployed in the embattled region over recent weeks.


Using drones to fight infectious diseases

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 07:57 AM PDT

How Drones Are Fighting Infectious DiseaseIn a remote area of Southeast Asia, drones are fighting a battle — not against terrorists or insurgents, but against infectious disease. In recent years, public health officials in the Malaysian state of Sabah have seen a rise in the number of cases of humans infected with this deadly parasite, which is spread, via mosquitos, from macaques to people. By mapping the communities where these cases occur, researchers hope to figure out why the parasite is spreading from monkeys to people with greater frequency, said Chris Drakeley, a professor of infection and immunity at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom, and one of the researchers involved in the project. "What we're doing is creating a detailed map, which we can then superimpose or overlay with the human and the macaque movement," Drakeley told Live Science.


Islamic State raking in millions on black market oil

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 10:46 AM PDT

In this Dec. 1, 2011 file photo, Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David S. Cohen testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Treasury Department says Islamic State militants are amassing wealth at an unprecedented pace, earning about $1 million a month from black market oil sales alone. Cohen said Thursday that the militant group also has taken in at least $20 million in ransom payments this year from kidnappings. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Islamic State militants are amassing wealth at an unprecedented pace, earning about $1 million a day from black market oil sales alone, a U.S. Treasury Department official said Thursday.


Dancing priests go viral

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 08:23 AM PDT

Italy Tap Dancing PriestsROME (AP) — A video of a pair of dueling, dancing American priests studying in Rome has gone viral, following in the footsteps of a now-famous Italian nun whose Alicia Keys-esque voice won her a singing contest and a record contract.


U.S., allies stage 15 air strikes on Islamic State positions

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 06:23 AM PDT

Thick smoke from an airstrike by the US-led coalition rises in Kobani, Syria, as seen from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters. (AP Photo/Levend Ali)WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. military forces again focused air strikes on the area near the Syrian city of Kobani in their campaign to turn back Islamic State forces and also hit oil facilities held by the militant group, the U.S. Central Command said on Thursday. A total of 15 strikes were staged against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Wednesday and Thursday, according to a statement from Central Command. The statement said U.S. ...


Ottawa shootings stir terror fears

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 04:06 PM PDT

A Royal Canadian Mounted Police intervention team walks past a gate on Parliament hill in Ottawa Wednesday Oct. 22, 2014. A soldier standing guard at the National War Memorial has been shot by an unknown gunman and there have been reports of gunfire inside the halls of Parliament. Emergency responders are still on the scene as paramedics performed CPR on the soldier before he was taken away by ambulance. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Adrian Wyld)Two deadly attacks in three days stun Canadians, raising fears of reprisals for joining U.S.-led coalition.


Matt Bai: The silliest emails of the week

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 03:06 AM PDT

Matt BaiI've been traveling around the country plugging my book on the collision of politics and celebrity in 1987 (see, I just did it again), so I haven't had a lot of time to check in on the latest election polls and midterm controversies. I did spend a half-hour watching TV in a Denver hotel, during which I saw a total of three 30-second ads that did not feature one candidate slandering another. Colorado, I feel for you.


Police on alert following 'terror attack' on Jerusalem train station

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 02:43 PM PDT

the scene after a car rammed a group of pedestriansIsrael pledged Thursday a tough response to any further attacks in Jerusalem as police flooded flashpoint Arab neighbourhoods after a Palestinian rammed his car into a group of pedestrians and killed a baby. The second deadly incident involving a Palestinian vehicle in three months, Wednesday's attack prompted a sharp warning from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "Jerusalem is united and was, and always will be, the eternal capital of Israel. Police dubbed as a "hit-and-run terror attack" Wednesday's incident in which Abdelrahman Shaludi, 21, drove at high speed into a crowd of Israelis, killing the baby and injuring another six people.


Royals even World Series as benches clear in 7-2 victory

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Tempers flared. The benches cleared. A fight nearly broke out. And a World Series with little verve finally got the jolt it needed Wednesday.


Nurse Amber Vinson free of Ebola virus, family says

Posted: 22 Oct 2014 05:16 PM PDT

In this Oct. 21, 2014 photo provided by Amber Vinson, shows Vinson at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. Officials at Emory University Hospital and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention couldn't detect Ebola in Amber Vinson as of Tuesday evening, her family said in a statement released through a media consultant. (AP Photo/Amber Vinson)Barely a week after being diagnosed with Ebola, Texas nurse Amber Vinson is free of the deadly virus, her family said on Wednesday night.


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