Cops: Remains may be those of missing U.S. student
The British-born University of Virginia student has been missing since Sept. 13.Read More ...
Hong Kong street clashes erupt despite imminent talks
By
James Pomfret and Elzio Barreto HONG KONG (Reuters) - Violent clashes
erupted in Hong Kong early on Sunday for a second night, deepening a
sense of impasse between a government with limited options and a
pro-democracy movement increasingly willing to confront police. The
worst political crisis in Hong Kong since Britain handed the
free-wheeling capitalist city back to China in 1997 entered its fourth
week with no sign of a resolution despite talks scheduled for two hours
on Tuesday between the government and student protest leaders. ...Read More ...
Street artist revisits ghosts of Ellis Island hospital
New
York (AFP) - Ellis Island was once the gateway to America for millions
of immigrants, but the cavernous hospital that treated some of those new
arrivals has been closed to the public for 60 years.Read More ...
Americans 'can't give in to hysteria or fear' over Ebola: Obama
By
Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With three cases of Ebola
diagnosed in the United States and more than 100 people being monitored
for possible infection, President Barack Obama said on Saturday that
Americans "can't give in to hysteria or fear" about the spread of the
virus. While Obama administration and world health officials remained
focused on tackling Ebola at its source in three West African countries,
Texas state authorities said 14 people had been cleared from an Ebola
watch list. ...Read More ...
Human remains found in search for missing Virginia student
By Gary Robertson RICHMOND Va. (Reuters) - Searchers looking for missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham found human remains at an abandoned property in a rural area on Saturday, five weeks after she was last seen in the university town of Charlottesville, police said. Authorities, who notified the girl's parents of the grim discovery, must conduct forensic tests on the remains to determine the person's identity, Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo told a news conference. ...
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Sick woman at Dallas train station not on Ebola watchlist: official
(Reuters)
- A Dallas bus and train station was closed on Saturday after a report
that a woman fell ill at the facility, but the transit authority denied
an earlier report that the woman had been on a watchlist for possible
exposure to Ebola. The woman exited a northbound train at the White Rock
Station and vomited, leading the Dallas Area Rapid Transit system to
close the station as a precaution. "The person being treated by Dallas
Fire Rescue at White Rock Station is NOT on any Ebola watchlist," Morgan
Lyons, a DART spokeswoman, wrote in an email. ...Read More ...
Body found in search for Va. student
Police say they've found human remains that could be those of Hannah Graham.Read More ...
Pa. ambush suspect spotted carrying gun, police say
By
Joe McDonald MOUNTAINHOME Pa. (Reuters) - The survivalist charged with
murdering a Pennsylvania trooper and wounding another was spotted near
his old high school carrying a rifle and with mud smeared on his face,
police said on Saturday, five weeks after a manhunt for the suspect
began. Eric Frein, 31, who is on the FBI's Most Wanted list, was spotted
by a woman in a "surprise encounter" while she was taking a walk, said
Lieutenant Colonel George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police. ...Read More ...
Cautious optimism over Nigeria's kidnapped girls
MAIDUGURI,
Nigeria (AP) — There's no dancing in the streets, but people in the
hometown of more than 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls are cautiously
optimistic about news of a cease-fire with the Islamic extremists who
abducted their daughters six months ago.Read More ...
Obama to seek more funds to fight Ebola
The president could make the request as early as next week, Bloomberg reports.Read More ...
In Georgia Senate bid, Nunn talks economy to women
EVANS,
Ga. (AP) — You don't hear Michelle Nunn mention gender politics or try
to rally female voters in Georgia around issues of abortion, birth
control and gay marriage as she runs for the Senate.Read More ...
Bishops scrap welcome to gays in sign of split
Catholic
bishops scrapped their landmark welcome to gays Saturday, showing deep
divisions at the end of a two-week meeting sought by Pope Francis.Read More ...
WHO won't discuss Ebola mistakes document
LONDON
(AP) — The World Health Organization said Saturday that it wouldn't
explain details contained in an internal document obtained by The
Associated Press in which the U.N. health agency said it fumbled early
attempts to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.Read More ...
Hawaii hit by winds, rain as hurricane veers west
HONOLULU (AP) — Hurricane Ana was on course Saturday to miss Hawaii by more than a hundred miles while generating strong winds and heavy rains that prompted flash-flood warnings and lured surfers with high waves.
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High court balks at last-minute voting changes
WASHINGTON
(AP) — The Supreme Court has allowed Texas to use its strict voter ID
law in the November election even after a federal judge said the law was
the equivalent of a poll tax and threatened to deprive many blacks and
Latinos of the right to vote this year.Read More ...
Bermuda clears trees, power lines hit by Gonzalo
HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) — Crews cleared away downed trees and power lines Saturday after Hurricane Gonzalo battered this tiny, wealthy British territory for several hours but caused no deaths or serious injuries.
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Mission Unaccomplished: Containing Ebola in Africa
Looking back, the mistakes are easy to see: Waiting too long, spending too little, relying on the wrong people, thinking small when they needed to think big. Many people, governments and agencies share the blame for failing to contain Ebola when it emerged in West Africa.
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Supreme Court allows Texas use of new voter ID law
The state's controversial voter identification law can be used for the November election, the justices rule.Read More ...
Ebola is 'disaster of our generation' says aid agency
London
(AFP) - Aid agency Oxfam said Ebola could become the "definitive
humanitarian disaster of our generation", as US President Barack Obama
urged against "hysteria" in the face of the growing crisis.Read More ...
Report: Ferguson officer says he feared for life
Darren
Wilson has told investigators that he was pinned in his vehicle as he
and Michael Brown struggled over his gun, The New York Times reported.Read More ...
2nd Ebola nurse 'felt funny' while in Ohio
Officials try to identify anyone who may have come into contact with Amber Joy Vinson.Read More ...
Hurricane Gonzalo scores bull's eye hit on Bermuda
By
Sam Strangeways HAMILTON Bermuda (Reuters) - Hurricane Gonzalo slammed
into Bermuda on Friday, knocking out most of the electricity as it
lashed the tiny Atlantic island chain with pounding surf, torrential
rain and howling wind, but there were no immediate reports of injuries.
The strongest storm to sweep the subtropical British territory in a
decade made full landfall at about 8:30 p.m. as the 35-mile-wide (56 km)
eye of the storm crossed the south-central coast of Bermuda, the U.S.
National Hurricane Center in Miami reported. ...Read More ...
Arizona joins other states in allowing gay unions
PHOENIX
(AP) — Karen Bailey and Nelda Majors were a couple for 50 years before
they told friends and family about their relationship.Read More ...
Courts knock down gay marriage bans in Arizona, Alaska, Wyoming
By
David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - Barriers to gay marriage fell in
Arizona, Alaska and Wyoming on Friday following a series of federal
court actions in the latest in a series of legal victories for
supporters of same-sex matrimony in America. In Arizona, U.S. District
Judge John Sedwick wrote in a ruling made public on Friday that the
state's restrictions on gay marriage were "unconstitutional by virtue of
the fact that they deny same-sex couples the equal protection of the
law." Same-sex couples in the state began getting married right away.
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Good news for Hunter Biden after cocaine controversy
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Hunter Biden, the youngest son of Vice President Joe Biden,
faces no automatic review of his law license in Connecticut following
his discharge from the U.S. Navy Reserve after testing positive for
cocaine use, Connecticut legal authorities said Friday.Read More ...
Mysterious 'space plane' lands in California
VANDENBERG
AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A top-secret space plane landed Friday at
an Air Force base on the Southern California coast.Read More ...
White House comments on travel ban
The president responds to calls to impose a travel ban as part of efforts to fight Ebola.Read More ...
Pushback against Islamic State showing results
WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - The head of U.S. troops in the Middle East said on Friday
Iraqi forces are "incrementally" recapturing ground from Islamic State
militants who seized much of the country's northwest this year, but he
added that major Iraq advances will take time. "They are doing some
things now to incrementally recapture ground that's been lost," General
Lloyd Austin, head of U.S. Central Command, said in his first news
conference about the conflict. He cited the Kurdish operation around
Mosul Dam and their recapture of the border post of Rabia. Austin said
U.S. ...Read More ...
Sentence given in 'loud music' murder
A Florida man who killed a teen playing high-volume music learned his fate.Read More ...
Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks out about Ebola
DALLAS (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry has joined calls for an air travel ban from countries hit the hardest by Ebola.Read More ...
Girls are going home
Nigeria says it's reached a deal with Boko Haram.Read More ...
Mysterious gun attacks against police in Washington state
MARYSVILLE,
Wash. (AP) — A day after dozens of gunshots were directed at police in
three Washington state towns, law enforcement officials said little
about what prompted the shootings.Read More ...
U.S. Navy discharges VP Biden's son for cocaine use
Washington
(AFP) - Vice President Joe Biden's son was discharged this year from
the US Navy reserve after testing positive for cocaine, a US official
confirmed to AFP.Read More ...
UK police charge 4 in IS-linked terror plot
London
(AFP) - Four men appeared in a British court on Friday charged with an
alleged terror plot to shoot to kill police officers or soldiers on the
streets of London, and with allegedly pledging allegiance to the Islamic
State organisation.Read More ...
Former Biden aide named ‘Ebola czar’
President Obama picked lawyer, Beltway vet Ron Klain, VP's former chief of staff, for outbreak response.Read More ...
Nigerian military claims Boko Haram cease-fire, release of schoolgirls
Abuja
(AFP) - Officials and campaigners on Saturday anxiously awaited further
news about the fate of more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls after
Nigeria claimed to have reached a deal with Boko Haram militants to
secure their release.Read More ...
Is Islamic State about to go airborne?
Jihadists said being trained by Saddam Hussein's pilots to fly 3 jets captured from Syrian military.Read More ...
16 dead in accident at South Korean concert
SEOUL,
South Korea (AP) — Sixteen people watching an outdoor pop concert in
South Korea fell 20 meters (60 feet) to their deaths Friday when a
ventilation grate they were standing on collapsed, officials said.Read More ...
UN admits it botched response to Ebola
World Health Organization blamed factors including incompetent staff and lack of information.Read More ...
Walk-off homer sends Giants back to World Series
The
San Francisco Giants are headed to their third World Series in five
seasons thanks to an exhilarating 6-3 victory over the St. Louis
Cardinals.Read More ...
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