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• No on Keystone pipeline -- but GOP vows replay
• Navy secretary's jaw-dropping travel bill
• Hong Kong protesters break into government building as tensions flare again
• Missouri Governor names panel to address inequity in Ferguson
• Keystone XL pipeline bill dies in Senate
• All 50 U.S. states feeling freezing temperatures
• Fracking to be permitted in GW National Forest
• German auction house putting Hitler watercolor on market
• Ex-billionaire goes on trial for insider trading
• Oxford's word of the year may surprise you
• Obama stakes final two years on climate change
• Pelosi remains Democratic House minority leader
• Where will Charles Manson get married?
• 3 Americans, 1 Briton killed in synagogue attack
• Silicon Valley's rise as a financial political force, in charts and graphics
• Plane crashes into Chicago home
• 'Serious military buildup' in Ukraine
• Japan's Abe calls snap election, puts off tax hike

No on Keystone pipeline -- but GOP vows replay Posted: 18 Nov 2014 04:05 PM PST Republicans say they'll resurrect the controversial issue after the first of the year.

Navy secretary's jaw-dropping travel bill Posted: 18 Nov 2014 10:45 AM PST Navy Secretary Ray Mabus's travel costs are staggering, and taxpayer-funded.

Hong Kong protesters break into government building as tensions flare again Posted: 18 Nov 2014 12:49 PM PST By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - A small group of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters broke into the city's legislature via a side door early on Wednesday, and police stopped others forcing their way in as tensions in the Chinese-controlled city escalated following a period of calm. The flare-up came just hours after court bailiffs managed to clear part of a protest camp in the heart of the city that has been occupied by pro-democracy demonstrators for nearly two months, while leaving most of the main protest site intact. ...

Missouri Governor names panel to address inequity in Ferguson Posted: 18 Nov 2014 03:35 PM PST By Scott Malone ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Missouri's governor on Tuesday named 16 members to a panel charged with making recommendations to fix social and economic inequalities in Ferguson, the St. Louis suburb hit by protests since a white policeman fatally shot an unarmed black teen in August. Governor Jay Nixon, a Democrat, took the action as the region braced for a decision by a local grand jury on whether to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. Protests are expected, particularly if Wilson does not face criminal charges. ...

Keystone XL pipeline bill dies in Senate Posted: 18 Nov 2014 04:11 PM PST By Timothy Gardner and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bill to force approval of the Keystone XL pipeline failed in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, sparing President Barack Obama from having to veto legislation that several fellow Democrats supported. The measure fell just short of the 60 votes needed for passage, despite frantic last-minute lobbying by supporters, including Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana who faces a runoff election on Dec. 6. She has staked her hopes of winning on the Keystone gambit. ...

All 50 U.S. states feeling freezing temperatures Posted: 18 Nov 2014 04:50 PM PST By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Temperatures in all 50 U.S. states dipped to freezing or below on Tuesday as an unseasonably cold blast of weather moved across the country, while heavy snow prompted a state of emergency in western New York. In the U.S. South, states were bracing for a record chill from the Arctic-born cold that swept the Rocky Mountains last week. Every U.S. state, including Hawaii, was bitten by temperatures at the freezing point of 32 degrees F (0 C) or below, the National Weather Service said. ...

Fracking to be permitted in GW National Forest Posted: 18 Nov 2014 11:18 AM PST Environmentalists and energy boosters alike welcomed a federal compromise announced Tuesday that will allow fracking in the largest national forest in the eastern United States, but make most of its woods ...

German auction house putting Hitler watercolor on market Posted: 18 Nov 2014 09:29 AM PST NUREMBERG, Germany, Nov 18 (Reuters) - A 1914 watercolour by Adolf Hitler to be auctioned on Saturday could fetch up to 50,000 euros ($62,685) given strong global interest, a German auction house chief said on Tuesday. Auctioneer Kathrin Weidler said the painting entitled "Standesamt und Altes Rathaus Muenchen" (Civil Registry Office and Old Town Hall of Munich) is one of about 2,000 works Hitler painted from about 1905 to 1920 as a struggling young artist. ...

Ex-billionaire goes on trial for insider trading Posted: 18 Nov 2014 09:26 AM PST By Marta Nogueira RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Eike Batista, once Brazil's richest man, arrived at a Rio de Janeiro courthouse on Tuesday for trial on charges of insider trading in the run up to the bankruptcy of his oil firm OGX, the largest bankruptcy in Latin American history. The flamboyant entrepreneur, who once parked his sports car in his living room and married a Playboy cover girl, remained silent as he arrived in court to take a front row seat. Dressed in a gray pinstripe suit and light blue tie, he was surrounded by four lawyers. ...

Oxford's word of the year may surprise you Posted: 18 Nov 2014 03:46 AM PST 'Bae' and 'contactless' were the runners-up.

Obama stakes final two years on climate change Posted: 18 Nov 2014 06:18 AM PST With limited time still in power, the president looks to the environment.

Pelosi remains Democratic House minority leader Posted: 18 Nov 2014 01:49 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Nancy Pelosi overcame gripes about Democrats' losing campaign messages and breezed to re-election Tuesday as House minority leader.

Where will Charles Manson get married? Posted: 18 Nov 2014 07:04 AM PST CORCORAN, Calif. (AP) — Mass murderer Charles Manson plans to marry a 26-year-old woman who left her Midwestern home and spent the past nine years trying to help exonerate him.

3 Americans, 1 Briton killed in synagogue attack Posted: 18 Nov 2014 02:42 PM PST Police say two Palestinians attacked worshippers in Jerusalem with knives, axes and guns.

Silicon Valley's rise as a financial political force, in charts and graphics Posted: 18 Nov 2014 02:01 AM PST Crowdpac compiled data on which counties have given the most money to politics and created this animated graphic.

Plane crashes into Chicago home Posted: 18 Nov 2014 05:40 AM PST By Karen Brooks (Reuters) - A small cargo plane crashed into a home in Chicago early Tuesday, moments after the pilot had reported engine problems, authorities said. The occupants of the home escaped uninjured after the crash at 2:42 a.m. CST but Chicago police said they did not have information about potential injuries sustained by the pilot, who authorities said was the only occupant of the plane. ...

'Serious military buildup' in Ukraine Posted: 18 Nov 2014 05:00 AM PST BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg denounced on Tuesday what he called a serious Russian military buildup both inside Ukraine and on the Russian side of the border and urged Moscow to pull back its troops. Stoltenberg said NATO saw movement of troops, equipment, tanks, artillery and also of advanced air defense systems in violation of a ceasefire agreement. Russia denies providing arms or troops to support a separatist pro-Russian rebellion in eastern Ukraine, which began after the removal of a Kremlin-oriented Ukrainian president by mass protests in February. ...

Japan's Abe calls snap election, puts off tax hike Posted: 18 Nov 2014 04:00 AM PST TOKYO (AP) — Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called a snap election for December and put off a sales tax hike planned for next year, seeking a renewed mandate for his all-or-nothing policies to end two decades of economic stagnation.

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