GOP to try to impeach Attorney General Holder
House Republicans say Holder lied to Congress and failed to uphold federal law.Read More ...
Rice, water distributed in typhoon-struck city
TACLOBAN,
Philippines (AP) — Soldiers sat atop trucks distributing rice and water
on Thursday in this typhoon-devastated city and chainsaw-wielding teams
cut debris from blocked roads, small signs that a promised aid effort
is beginning to pick up pace even as thousands flocked the airport,
desperate to leave.Read More ...
4 Marines killed in accident at California base
SAN
DIEGO (AP) — Four Marines were killed Wednesday during an operation to
clear a range of unexploded ordnance at Camp Pendleton in San Diego
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Federal probe questions TSA behavior profiling
WASHINGTON
(AP) — A federal probe of a Transportation Security Administration
program to screen suspicious behavior of passengers at airports suggests
the effort, which has cost almost $1 billion since 2007, has not been
proven effective, according to a report released Wednesday.Read More ...
Next generation of biofuels is still years away
NEW
YORK (AP) — The first trickle of fuels made from agricultural waste is
finally winding its way into the nation's energy supply, after years of
broken promises and hype promoting a next-generation fuel source cleaner
than oil.Read More ...
Boehner: No formal talks on immigration bill
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday that the House will not hold
formal, compromise talks on the Senate-passed comprehensive immigration
bill, a fresh signal from the Republican leadership that the issue is
dead for the year.Read More ...
Doctors are told to get serious about obesity
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Swift shares catwalk with Victoria's Secret angels
NEW
YORK (AP) — The Victoria's Secret Angels worked their magic on the
catwalk Wednesday, weaving between chart-toppers Taylor Swift and Fall
Out Boy, and some fancy sets and stage tricks, yet somehow keeping the
spotlight mostly on themselves.Read More ...
Scherzer, Kershaw easily win Cy Young Awards
NEW
YORK (AP) — Max Scherzer did most everything on the mound this season —
led the majors in wins, started the All-Star game, helped put his team
in the playoffs.Read More ...
Victims' families call Bulger 'Satan,' 'terrorist'
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Former NFL WR Hurd gets 15 years in drug case
DALLAS
(AP) — Former NFL wide receiver Sam Hurd was sentenced Wednesday to 15
years in prison for his role in starting a drug-distribution scheme
while playing for the Chicago Bears, completing a steep downfall that
ended his football career and left his future in tatters.Read More ...
Florida State QB investigated in sexual assault
TALLAHASSEE,
Fla. (AP) — Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston is under
investigation in an alleged sexual assault reported nearly a nearly a
year ago.Read More ...
Clinic in typhoon-hit city overrun with patients
TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) — A run-down, single-story building with filthy floors at Tacloban's ruined airport has become the area's main medical center for victims of last week's powerful typhoon. It has little medicine, virtually no facilities and very few doctors.
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Health care enrollment numbers below target
Fewer than 27,000 Americans signed up for insurance on healthcare.gov in October.Read More ...
Chevron balks at Ecuador's $9 billion fine for Amazon damage
US
oil giant Chevron Wednesday rejected as "illegitimate and
unenforceable" an Ecuadoran court ruling upholding an order for it to
pay billions of dollars for environmental damages to the Amazon.
Ecuador's Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court decision against
Chevron but dramatically reduced the amount to be paid in damages from
$19 billion to $9.51 billion. Chevron has never worked directly in
Ecuador but inherited the pollution lawsuit when it acquired former
rival Texaco in 2001. The original ruling against Chevron was made in
2011, with a fine of $9 billion imposed.Read More ...
Toronto mayor admits buying illegal drugs
TORONTO
(AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted during a heated City Council
debate Wednesday that he bought illegal drugs while in office, but
adamantly refused to step down despite calls from nearly every councilor
to take a leave of absence and get help.Read More ...
Pentagon calls off $345M deal to buy Russian-made helicopters
WASHINGTON
(AP) — The Defense Department said Wednesday it is canceling plans to
buy additional cargo helicopters from the Russian arms export agency
that has supplied Syrian President Bashar Assad's military forces with
arms and ammunition.Read More ...
Another Tesla fire, this time at Calif. factory; 3 workers injured
By
Deepa Seetharaman DETROIT (Reuters) - Three people were injured at
Tesla Motors Inc's factory in California on Wednesday after a
low-pressure aluminum casting press failed, the company said in a
statement. Local fire officials said there was no fire at the company's
Fremont, California factory, describing the incident as an "industrial
accident." "There was a failure in a low-pressure aluminum casting
press," Tesla said in a statement on Wednesday. Shares in Tesla fell
after early news reports of the incident but later rebounded. The
company also faced some bad publicity after actor George Clooney made
critical comments of his Roadster, a sports car that Tesla no longer
produces, and complained about being stuck on the side of the road.Read More ...
Four in custody after Pittsburgh high school shooting wounds 3
Three
students were wounded in a shooting outside a Pittsburgh high school,
and police said they have several "persons of interest" in custody.Read More ...
Slow start for health insurance signups
White House says fewer than 27,000 people enrolled on web site; just over 100K in all, says HHS.Read More ...
New Iran sanctions could hurt diplomacy efforts, Kerry says
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry warned Congress Wednesday against
scuttling a historic opportunity for a nuclear pact with Iran by
pressing ahead with new sanctions while international negotiators seek
to prevent Tehran from being able to assemble an atomic weapons arsenal.Read More ...
Three shot, five in custody after shooting near Pittsburgh school
By
Elizabeth Daley PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Three teenage boys
were wounded on Wednesday and five people have been taken into custody
after shots were fired outside a Pittsburgh high school in an incident
that police said could be related to a fight that took place at the
school a month ago. Pittsburgh's EMS chief, Mark Bocian, said their
injuries were not life-threatening. "This whole incident ... may have
been related over something that happened a month ago," said Pittsburgh
police spokeswoman Diane Richard after speaking with officials at
Brashear High School, near which the shooting took place. Richard said a
fight at the school on October 18th "quite possibly could be
drug-related." Police took five people into custody late Wednesday
afternoon, said Pittsburgh Police Acting Chief Regina McDonald.Read More ...
Deforestation continues to threaten Amazon rainforest
An
aerial view of the construction site of a hydroelectric dam along the
Teles Pires river, a tributary of the Amazon, near the city of Alta
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Obama, France’s Hollande paper over Iran rifts
The U.S. and France seek unity after first round fails to secure interim agreement.Read More ...
TSA's screening program falls short
Despite costing nearly $1 billion, there's no evidence “behavior detection” efforts work.Read More ...
Homemade fire bomb detonated outside Oregon courthouse
A
propane gas tank rigged up as a homemade bomb exploded in flames
outside a courthouse before dawn on Wednesday in the southwestern Oregon
town of Medford. Details of the blast were sketchy, but Medford police
Lieutenant Mike Budreau said officers were called to the Jackson County
courthouse at about 4:30 a.m. local time (7:30 a.m. EST) to investigate
reports of an explosion. They found a damaged seven-gallon propane tank
ablaze, as well as broken glass from shattered windows. "We believe the
suspect tried to detonate the propane tank with an improvised explosive
device (that) damaged the propane tank," he said, adding that the tank
caught fire but remained mostly intact.Read More ...
Out of office for four years, Sarah Palin remains (arguably) relevant
She
hasn't held public office in four years. She hasn't run for public
office in five. Yet here she is again, plugging a new book about the
"war on Christmas" while weighing in on, well, just about anything.Read More ...
Prosecutors want life in prison for gangster 'Whitey' Bulger
By
Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Mobster James "Whitey" Bulger heard a
range of emotions on Wednesday from families of the people he was
convicted of killing, with the son of one of his victims addressing
Bulger as "Satan" and another warning him "hell must be too much to
bear." But the 12 people who spoke at the U.S. District Court in Boston
on the first day of a sentencing hearing for the 84-year-old former
leader of the city's Winter Hill gang heard little in return as Bulger
uttered only one word, "no," when asked by a judge if he had anything to
say. After a two-month trial that brought back memories of a dark time
in Boston's history, when machine-gun-toting gangsters assassinated
rivals in broad daylight, shook down businessmen and buried bodies in
shallow graves, Bulger in August was convicted in a sweeping
racketeering trial of committing 11 murders during the 1970s and 1980s.
She is widely expected to send Bulger, whose story inspired the 2006
Academy Award-winning film "The Departed," to prison for the rest of his
life.Read More ...
Babies born amid a monster typhoon struggle to survive
By
Stuart Grudgings TACLOBAN, Philippines (Reuters) - In the chapel of the
only functioning public hospital in typhoon-ravaged Tacloban, seven
tiny, premature babies lie sweltering in intense heat, looked over by
anxious mothers and a wooden statue of Christ. An eighth, born two days
after Friday's monster storm hit the central Philippines, is kept alive
only by his exhausted grandmother who pumps air by hand into his sick
lungs. It remains the only medical option in the city of Tacloban for
most survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, which may have killed thousands of
people. "Our immediate problems are immense," said Dr. Alberto de Leon,
the 62-year-old director of the hospital, the Eastern Visayas Regional
Medical Center, adding he nearly lost his own life in the surge of ocean
water that accompanied Haiyan.Read More ...
HealthCare.gov won't be fixed by end of the month: report
Despite President Obama' promises that the online hub will be ready, one official says it won't be.Read More ...
White House gets interim NSA report
The nation's security brass gets a preview of what's expected in a report due next month.Read More ...
Gunfire, looting and chaos break out in Tacloban
TACLOBAN,
Philippines (AP) — Mobs overran a rice warehouse on the island worst
hit by the Philippine typhoon, setting off a wall collapse that killed
eight people and carting off thousands of sacks of the grain, while
security forces Wednesday exchanged gunfire with an armed gang.Read More ...
Congressional approval sinks to 9 percent, poll says
Amid
weeks of reports about slumping polling data, the last major polling
group that didn’t say Congress was at an all-time low in popularity
confirms what we all know: Congress is in a slump.Read More ...
Last call for JFK's ‘New Frontier’: A celebration of endurance and recollection
It's
easy to overlook this stark fact: Of the 43 men who have served as
president, only four served fewer days in office than John Fitzgerald
Kennedy.Read More ...
Dems Seek Cover From Obamacare's Promise of Keeping Health Plan
Democrats
are beginning to show signs of division as the House of Representatives
prepares to vote this week to ensure that the millions of Americans who
have received cancellation notices of their health care plans can keep
their preferred coverage. The Keep Your Health Plan...Read More ...
White House: 'Making progress' fixing website
"We have much work still to do," the tech chief for the health care website said.Read More ...
Obamacare's mystery woman speaks
Adriana said she's faced cyberbullying since her photo was used.Read More ...
Rice looted in Philippines amid aid shortage
There is an urgent for water, food and medical supplies, officials say.Read More ...
Francis Bacon painting sells for $142.4 million in NYC
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