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• Wash. state shooting suspect identified
• Remains belong to missing Virginia student
• Obama meets Ebola survivor Nina Pham at White House
• Two killed, four wounded in Washington state school shooting
• Two U.S. states to quarantine health workers returning from Ebola zones
• Virginia remains identified as those of missing college student
• Tracking Dr. Spencer's contacts isn't easy
• US general: NKorea may have nuke missile knowhow
• 7 hurt when car smashes into California restaurant
• Deadly violence in the West Bank
• Man in NYC hatchet attack said to have Islamic 'extremist leanings'
• Islamic State used chlorine gas in fight north of Baghdad, say Iraq officials
• Nurse Nina Pham Ebola-free, meets Obama
• Why NYC Ebola case won’t be rerun of Dallas
• Canada tries to come to terms with capital shootings
• How N.C. Senate race became ground zero for what's wrong with 2014
• Suspicious yellow powder sent to U.S., other consulates in Istanbul
• Doctor becomes NYC's first Ebola patient
• Hunt for missing MH370 flight to take many more months
• Britain's Queen Elizabeth sends her first tweet
• Police: Hatchet-wielding suspect shot by officers
• China launches first mission to moon and back
• New York officials: Doctor has Ebola, 1st in city

Wash. state shooting suspect identified Posted: 24 Oct 2014 03:09 PM PDT Social media posts penned by the shooter portray a head-over-heels teenager.

Remains belong to missing Virginia student Posted: 24 Oct 2014 04:31 PM PDT CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Remains found nearly a week ago in a rural area of Virginia are those of a missing university student, authorities said Friday, as they turned their attention to filing possible additional charges against the suspect accused of abducting her.

Obama meets Ebola survivor Nina Pham at White House Posted: 24 Oct 2014 01:06 PM PDT President Barack Obama gives Ebola survivor Nina Pham a bear hug, part of his personal hands-on approach to persuade jittery Americans to trust elite doctors and scientists to keep them safe.

Two killed, four wounded in Washington state school shooting Posted: 24 Oct 2014 03:58 PM PDT By Eric M. Johnson and Victoria Cavaliere MARYSVILLE Wash. (Reuters) - A student fatally shot one classmate and wounded four others when he opened fire in the cafeteria of his Washington state high school on Friday, following a fight with fellow students, authorities said. The shooter took his own life as Marysville-Pilchuck High School students scrambled to safety in the latest outburst of deadly violence at an American school. ...

Two U.S. states to quarantine health workers returning from Ebola zones Posted: 24 Oct 2014 04:01 PM PDT By Ellen Wulfhorst and David Morgan NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York and New Jersey will automatically quarantine medical workers returning from Ebola-hit West African countries and the U.S. government is considering the same step after a doctor who treated patients in Guinea came back infected, officials said on Friday. The steps announced by the two states, which go beyond the current restrictions being imposed by President Barack Obama's administration on travelers from Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea, came as medical detectives tried to retrace the steps in New York City of Dr. ...

Virginia remains identified as those of missing college student Posted: 24 Oct 2014 03:34 PM PDT By Ian Simpson (Reuters) - Human remains found in Virginia were identified on Friday as those of missing university student Hannah Graham, and prosecutors are focusing on more charges against the suspect in her disappearance, authorities said. Graham, a University of Virginia sophomore, was last seen on Sept. 13 in Charlottesville, site of the university. Searchers discovered the remains on Oct. 18 on abandoned property near the town, and Jesse Matthew Jr., 32, of Charlottesville, has been charged in her disappearance. ...

Tracking Dr. Spencer's contacts isn't easy Posted: 23 Oct 2014 08:08 PM PDT As a New York City doctor tests positive for Ebola, officials face a difficult challenge.

US general: NKorea may have nuke missile knowhow Posted: 24 Oct 2014 11:44 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea may be capable of fielding a nuclear-armed missile that could reach U.S. soil, but because it has not tested such a weapon the odds of it being effective are "pretty darn low," the commander of U.S. forces in South Korea said Friday.

7 hurt when car smashes into California restaurant Posted: 24 Oct 2014 03:16 PM PDT DUBLIN, Calif. (AP) — Police say all seven people injured when a car crashed into a Northern California restaurant have now been released from hospitals.

Deadly violence in the West Bank Posted: 24 Oct 2014 01:00 PM PDT RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian-American teenager was killed during clashes with the Israeli military on Friday amid heightened tensions in Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Man in NYC hatchet attack said to have Islamic 'extremist leanings' Posted: 24 Oct 2014 02:42 PM PDT A hatchet attack on New York police officers was a "terrorist act" carried out by a self-radicalized Muslim convert who had been in the military and browsed Al-Qaeda websites, police said Friday. "This was a terrorist act," police commissioner Bill Bratton told a news conference on Friday, one day after the attack, saying he was "very comfortable" describing it as a "terrorist attack." Police said Zale Thompson, who was 32, unmarried and unemployed, appeared to have acted alone and was not affiliated to a particular group, but that the investigation was ongoing. A loner who spent hours locked away in his bedroom, he had looked at websites about groups such as Al-Qaeda and Islamic State, and watched beheadings and Wednesday's deadly attack in Canada.

Islamic State used chlorine gas in fight north of Baghdad, say Iraq officials Posted: 24 Oct 2014 09:02 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Islamic State militants used chlorine gas during fighting with security forces and Shiite militiamen last month north of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said Friday.

Nurse Nina Pham Ebola-free, meets Obama Posted: 24 Oct 2014 08:12 AM PDT DALLAS — After nearly two weeks in isolation, Ebola patient Nina Pham walked out of a Maryland hospital on Friday free of the deadly disease that has seized the nation's attention.

Why NYC Ebola case won’t be rerun of Dallas Posted: 24 Oct 2014 07:38 AM PDT City designated single hospital as go-to place for Ebola patients, gave specialized training to health workers.

Canada tries to come to terms with capital shootings Posted: 24 Oct 2014 04:27 PM PDT VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The gunman who shot and killed a soldier in plain daylight then stormed Canada's Parliament once complained that a Vancouver mosque he attended was too liberal and inclusive, and was kicked out after he repeatedly spent the night there even though officials told him to stop, Muslim leaders said Friday.

How N.C. Senate race became ground zero for what's wrong with 2014 Posted: 24 Oct 2014 02:57 AM PDT But with less than two weeks left until the midterm elections, it's clear the Tar Heel State has indeed emerged as a ground zero — though not in the way the GOP chairman meant. The highly competitive Senate race in North Carolina is the multimillion-dollar epicenter of the negative campaigning that has come to define this election and that parties are using to try to win tight races nationwide.

Suspicious yellow powder sent to U.S., other consulates in Istanbul Posted: 24 Oct 2014 10:24 AM PDT By Jonny Hogg ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Packets of an unidentified yellow powder were sent to five western consulates in Istanbul on Friday, officials said, prompting security alerts following two militant attacks in Canada this week. Consulates of the United States, Canada, France, Germany and Belgium received suspicious packages, the officials said. It was not immediately clear what the powder was and Turkish officials said results of tests on them were due on Monday. ...

Doctor becomes NYC's first Ebola patient Posted: 24 Oct 2014 04:11 PM PDT Three others are quarantined after a doctor who worked in Africa tests positive.

Hunt for missing MH370 flight to take many more months Posted: 24 Oct 2014 06:03 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in a remote patch of the Indian Ocean is progressing well but will likely take many months because of the huge area involved, an Australian official said Friday.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth sends her first tweet Posted: 24 Oct 2014 05:16 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth made her first foray into the world of social media on Friday when she sent out her inaugural message on Twitter. "It is a pleasure to open the Information Age exhibition today at the @sciencemuseum and I hope people will enjoy visiting. Elizabeth R," the 88-year-old monarch tweeted at the opening of a new gallery at London's Science Museum. The message, sent at 10.35 GMT (6.35 a.m. EDT), had already been re-tweeted more than 4,000 times less than 45 minutes later. ...

Police: Hatchet-wielding suspect shot by officers Posted: 23 Oct 2014 07:24 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police shot and killed a hatchet-wielding man on Thursday after he suddenly attacked a group of patrol officers without warning in broad daylight on a busy commercial district in Queens.

China launches first mission to moon and back Posted: 23 Oct 2014 10:17 PM PDT China launched its first space mission to the moon and back early Friday, authorities said, the latest step forward for Beijing's ambitious programme to one day land a Chinese citizen on the Earth's only natural satellite. The unnamed, unmanned probe will travel to the moon, fly around it and head back to Earth, re-entering the atmosphere and landing, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND) said in a statement. "The first stage of the first return journey test in China's moon probe programme has been successful," it said after the launch, from the Xichang space base in the southwestern province of Sichuan. The module will be 413,000 kilometres from Earth at its furthest point on the eight-day mission, it added.

New York officials: Doctor has Ebola, 1st in city Posted: 23 Oct 2014 10:13 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — A Doctors Without Borders physician who recently returned to the city after treating Ebola patients in West Africa has tested positive for the virus, according to preliminary test results, city officials said Thursday.

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