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• Mom of U.S. hostage tweets letter to IS
• Group asks for probe into shooting range that refuses to cater to Muslims
• Prosecutors want Adrian Peterson arrested again after marijuana admission
• Fears grow in United States over Ebola's spread outside West Africa
• Gay marriage foes in Nevada drop challenge; some states push back
• Divorce trial of Continental CEO ends, with billions at stake
• Ben Affleck's 'Islam' statements make him target
• 1901 time capsule finally opened. What's inside?
• Mom: Teen killed by St. Louis cop was unarmed
• Ebola victim's heartbreaking story of love and loss
• Startling effects of voter ID laws
• Arizona landscaper killed by swarm of bees
• Ebola's devastating effect on tourism
• Woman's tweets over pilot gets her booted from flight
• Activist investor Icahn urges action on Apple's undervalued stock
• Americans: Ban flights from Ebola nations
• Prolific 1990s graffiti artist 'Cost' nabbed with brushes, arrested in NYC
• Police-citizen unrest erupts St. Louis again
• Airline workers strike over Ebola concerns
• Matt Bai: Why an independent win in Kansas would matter
• Where is Kim Jong Un?
• Airport screening for Ebola: 5 things to know
• Day of legal confusion leaves gay couples in limbo
• U.S., allies chafing at Turkish inaction on Syria
• Obama claims progress in war against Islamic State

Mom of U.S. hostage tweets letter to IS Posted: 09 Oct 2014 06:31 AM PDT Paula Kassig tries to reach the Islamic State's leader, hoping he'll spare her son.

Group asks for probe into shooting range that refuses to cater to Muslims Posted: 09 Oct 2014 09:03 AM PDT A Muslim civil rights group is asking the Department of Justice to investigate an Arkansas shooting range whose owner recently declared it a "Muslim-free zone."

Prosecutors want Adrian Peterson arrested again after marijuana admission Posted:

Fears grow in United States over Ebola's spread outside West Africa Posted: 09 Oct 2014 02:13 PM PDT By Laila Kearney and Patricia Zengerle NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fears are growing in the United States about Ebola with about 200 airline cabin cleaners walking off the job in New York and some lawmakers demanding the government ban travelers from the West African countries hit hardest by the virus. "The nation is frightened, and people are frightened of this disease," the U.S. cabinet secretary for health, Sylvia Burwell, said on Thursday, a day after the death in Texas of the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States. U.S. ...

Gay marriage foes in Nevada drop challenge; some states push back Posted: 09 Oct 2014 03:44 PM PDT By Sandra Chereb and Harriet McLeod CARSON CITY Nev./CHARLESTON S.C. (Reuters) - Nevada came a step closer to issuing marriage licenses to gay couples on Thursday when a conservative group withdrew last-ditch motions that sought to block an appeals court decision allowing same-sex matrimony in the state. But even as momentum appeared to favor gay marriage in Nevada, county clerks in the state's urban centers said they were refraining from issuing licenses out of an abundance of caution until any last remaining legal questions were resolved. ...

Divorce trial of Continental CEO ends, with billions at stake Posted: 09 Oct 2014 04:46 PM PDT (Reuters) - Thursday marked the end of the epic nine-week divorce trial of Oklahoma's richest man, oil magnate and Continental Resources Chief Executive Harold Hamm. With billions of dollars of company wealth at stake, the unusually secretive trial could end with the largest divorce judgment in history.   During the proceedings, lawyers for Harold Hamm and his wife of 26 years, Sue Ann Hamm, presented starkly different views of how much wealth should be divided by the court. The money is mostly tied up in a 68 percent stake in Continental, whose shares are in Harold's name. ...

Ben Affleck's 'Islam' statements make him target Posted: Ben Affleck's 'Islam' statements make him target

1901 time capsule finally opened. What's inside? Posted: 09 Oct 2014 01:28 PM PDT WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — A 113-year-old, shoebox-sized time capsule was removed Thursday from the head of a lion statue where it had long sat, hidden in plain sight, atop one of Boston's most famous landmarks.

Mom: Teen killed by St. Louis cop was unarmed Posted: 09 Oct 2014 02:17 PM PDT Authorities allege the teen shot three times before the officer returned fire.

Ebola victim's heartbreaking story of love and loss Posted: 09 Oct 2014 08:54 AM PDT DALLAS — Love, not Ebola, drove Thomas Eric Duncan from his native Liberia.

Startling effects of voter ID laws Posted: 08 Oct 2014 08:38 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — States that toughened their voter identification laws saw steeper drops in election turnout than those that did not, with disproportionate falloffs among black and younger voters, a nonpartisan congressional study released Wednesday concluded.

Arizona landscaper killed by swarm of bees Posted: 09 Oct 2014 07:16 AM PDT DOUGLAS, Ariz. (AP) — Thousands of swarming bees have left one landscaper dead and another critically injured after the men were stung in southern Arizona.

Ebola's devastating effect on tourism Posted: Just as Africa's travel industry had picked up, the deadly virus has cast a gloomy shadow.

Woman's tweets over pilot gets her booted from flight Posted: 09 Oct 2014 09:20 AM PDT MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire woman says she was removed from a JetBlue flight after tweeting about the flight's delays, which included a pilot having to take a sobriety test.

Activist investor Icahn urges action on Apple's undervalued stock Posted: 09 Oct 2014 04:51 AM PDT In a new letter to the Apple CEO, Carl Icahn lays out an aggressively bullish case for Apple's new iPhone models and the company's growth prospects. He says he won't sell any of his stock in any future tender offer Apple might undertake.

Americans: Ban flights from Ebola nations Posted: 09 Oct 2014 05:19 AM PDT But health experts say such a move would be counterproductive.

Prolific 1990s graffiti artist 'Cost' nabbed with brushes, arrested in NYC Posted: 09 Oct 2014 06:47 AM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police say they have arrested a high-profile graffiti artist.

Police-citizen unrest erupts St. Louis again Posted: Police say an off-duty officer shot and killed a teen who opened fire during a chase.

Airline workers strike over Ebola concerns Posted:

Matt Bai: Why an independent win in Kansas would matter Posted: 09 Oct 2014 12:56 AM PDT A month out from the midterm elections, Kansas is the most interesting state on the map. Greg Orman, who is running for Senate as an independent against the state's powerful Republican incumbent, Pat Roberts, has opened up a surprising lead; according to one analysis, Orman is the only Senate candidate in the country who keeps getting more popular, rather than less.

Where is Kim Jong Un? Posted: 09 Oct 2014 04:41 AM PDT TOKYO (AP) — As North Korea's ruling party prepares to mark its 69th anniversary on Friday, the world will be watching to see if leader Kim Jong Un will make his first public appearance in more than a month.

Airport screening for Ebola: 5 things to know Posted: 09 Oct 2014 12:32 PM PDT The Obama administration announced Wednesday that airline passengers arriving from the three West African countries experiencing an unprecedented Ebola outbreak will now be screened for potential exposure ...

Day of legal confusion leaves gay couples in limbo Posted: 08 Oct 2014 06:14 PM PDT LAS VEGAS (AP) — County clerks in Nevada turned away gay couples eager to marry Wednesday amid a flurry of conflicting court decisions, including a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that blocked partners in Idaho moments before they would have picked up marriage licenses.

U.S., allies chafing at Turkish inaction on Syria Posted: 08 Oct 2014 07:35 PM PDT ISTANBUL (AP) — As U.S. generals and Secretary of State John Kerry warn that a strategic Syrian border town could fall to Islamic State militants, the Turkish military has deployed its tanks on its side of the frontier but only watched the slaughter.

Obama claims progress in war against Islamic State Posted: 08 Oct 2014 04:45 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a stubborn enemy, President Barack Obama professed confidence Wednesday that the U.S. will keep making progress against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, as the reality set in of a lengthy military conflict with limited prospects for success.

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