Former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee dies
In a charmed life of newspapering, Bradlee seemed always to be in just the right place.Read More ...
Hospital: American video journalist free of Ebola
American video journalist Ashoka Mukpo will be released from the hospital soon, officials say.Read More ...
Bumgarner, Giants stop Royals 7-1 in Series opener
San Francisco puts a sudden end to Kansas City's perfect postseason roll.Read More ...
U.S. to funnel travelers from Ebola-hit region through five airports
By
Jeffrey Dastin NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States ratcheted up its
safeguards against Ebola on Tuesday, requiring travelers from three
countries at the center of an epidemic in West Africa to fly into one of
five major airports conducting enhanced screening for the virus.
Restrictions on passengers whose trips originated in Liberia, Sierra
Leone or Guinea were announced by the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security and due to go into effect on Wednesday. The precautions stop
well short of the travel ban sought by some U.S. lawmakers to prevent
more Ebola cases in the United States. ...Read More ...
Former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee dies at 93
By
Bill Trott WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ben Bradlee, the hard-driving editor
who reigned over the Washington Post newsroom with the style of a
well-dressed swashbuckler and the profane vocabulary of dockworker as
the newspaper helped topple President Richard Nixon in the Watergate
scandal, died on Tuesday at age 93. Bradlee's death at his Washington
home of natural causes was announced by the Post, which reported late
last month that its former editor had begun hospice care after suffering
from Alzheimer's disease for the past several years. ...Read More ...
Three Denver girls reportedly en route to Turkey detained, sent home
By Aruna Viswanatha and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three teenage girls from Denver who had been missing since last week and were reported to be traveling to Turkey were picked up in Germany and sent back home, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. Voice of America reported this week that one of the girls told German authorities they were on their way to Turkey, which has been considered a principal transit route for foreigners looking to fight with Islamist militants in Syria. U.S. officials declined to say if they suspected a link between the girls and militants in the region. ...
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Indiana man was violent long before 7 killings
GARY,
Ind. (AP) — With hindsight, there were signs years ago of increasing
violence against women by Darren Vann, who police said Tuesday has
confessed to killing seven women in northwestern Indiana.Read More ...
Eric Frein sightings: How 'wilderness ninja' has outfoxed 1,000 cops
Two fresh sightings of alleged sniper Eric Frein has resulted in more closed public schools in northern Pennsylvania.Read More ...
NATO intercepts Russian jets over Baltic Sea
NATO
scrambled fighter jets twice in two days to intercept Russian military
aircraft over the Baltic Sea, it said Tuesday amid reports that Russian
military activity in the region is increasing.Read More ...
Ebola nurse's status upgraded to good from fair
NEW
YORK (Reuters) - The medical status of nurse Nina Pham, who contracted
Ebola when she helped treat the first patient to be diagnosed with the
disease on U.S. soil, was upgraded to good from fair on Tuesday, the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced. Pham was admitted to the
NIH Clinical Center Special Clinical Studies Unit in Bethesda, Maryland,
on Oct. 16. (Reporting by Sharon Begley)Read More ...
Homeland Security orders new screening for Ebola
Everyone
coming to the U.S. from the three West African countries at the center
of the Ebola outbreak will now be screened for the deadly disease.Read More ...
Doctor gets emotional recounting Ebola patient's final days
Dallas
doctor Gary Weinstein describes Texas Health Presbyterian's efforts to
care for Thomas Eric Duncan, the country's first Ebola patient.Read More ...
Consumed by Islamic State, Iraq's Anbar province a key battleground again
In
recent weeks, the world has watched the battle to save Syria’s border
town of Kobani from Islamic State. But the radical jihadists have for
longer been engulfing another strategically more vital target - Iraq’s
western Anbar province and its road to Baghdad.Read More ...
North Korea's big move on captured American
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Man to Obama: 'Don't touch my girlfriend'
A funny thing happened when the President went to the voting booth.Read More ...
Stone in Jerusalem may answer ancient mystery
JERUSALEM
(AP) — Israeli archaeologists said Tuesday they have discovered a large
stone with Latin engravings that lends credence to the theory that the
reason Jews revolted against Roman rule nearly 2,000 ago was because of
their harsh treatment.Read More ...
Islamic Front propaganda video as good as martial arts movie
The
Islamic Front, an alliance of militant groups in Syria, released a
video on October 20, described as showing “special operations” unit
training camp. The unit, dubbed War Lions, are filmed undergoing
vigorous exercises. A fighter being interviewed in 1’00" says that main
reason they come to the training camp is to defeat militias from
different countries that have recently entered Syria. The video states
that a number of unit leaders were killed in battle in Aleppo. Credit:
YouTube/Islamic FrontRead More ...
6,000-year-old temple discovered with altars for sacrifices
A
6,000-year-old temple holding humanlike figurines and sacrificed animal
remains has been discovered within a massive prehistoric settlement in
Ukraine. It was a "two-story building made of wood and clay surrounded
by a galleried courtyard," the upper floor divided into five rooms,
write archaeologists Nataliya Burdo and Mykhailo Videiko in a copy of a
presentation they gave recently at the European Association of
Archaeologists' annual meeting in Istanbul, Turkey. A platform on the
upper floor contains "numerous burnt bones of lamb, associated with
sacrifice," write Burdo and Videiko, of the Institute of Archaeology of
the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The floors and walls of all
five rooms on the upper floor were "decorated by red paint, which
created [a] ceremonial atmosphere." [See Photos of the Prehistoric
Temple & Animal Remains]Read More ...
Hottest year on record?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth is on pace to tie or even break the mark for the hottest year on record, federal meteorologists say.Read More ...
Americans more worried about economy than Ebola: Poll
Virus
made Gallup poll's top 10 concerns, but remained behind economy,
dissatisfaction with government, jobs, healthcare, immigration.Read More ...
Soldier run over in Quebec parking lot by suspected jihadi has died
Ottawa
(AFP) - Canada has raised its national "terrorism" alert, officials
said, after a soldier run over by a suspected jihadist died in hospital.Read More ...
Purple Heart medal, lost 20 years, finds way home
MANLIUS,
N.Y. (AP) — A Purple Heart medal posthumously awarded to a New York
soldier killed in Vietnam is being returned to his family about two
decades after it was found on a school playground.Read More ...
Snowplow driver drunk in plane collision that killed oil CEO
Moscow
(AFP) - Russian investigators on Tuesday accused senior airport
officials of criminal negligence over a plane crash at a Moscow airport
that killed the head of French oil giant Total, Christophe de Margerie,
whose private jet hit a snowplough on takeoff.Read More ...
'Harlem Kevorkian' sentenced in death of motivational speaker
By
Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York man convicted of helping a
debt-ridden motivational speaker commit suicide to make the death look
like a robbery was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Monday,
prosecutors said. Kenneth Minor, 42, pleaded guilty to manslaughter last
month in the stabbing death of Jeffrey Locker in 2009, a spokeswoman
with the Manhattan District Attorney's office said. Locker, a
52-year-old motivational speaker, hired Minor to help him kill himself
and make it look like a robbery so his family could collect life
insurance payouts, prosecutors said. ...Read More ...
Pope's historic trip to unstable region
Pope Francis will make his first visit to the predominantly Muslim nation of Turkey.Read More ...
Silicon Valley and politics meet
A
database of all political giving for the last 30 years, which ranks the
intensity of donors' liberalism or conservatism, shows Democrats get
the lion's share of donations from tech company employees.Read More ...
Oscar Pistorius gets sentenced
Olympic, Paralympic sprinter was convicted of culpable homicide in girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp's death.Read More ...
Cop surprised when citizen turns tables on him
In an attempt to bring attention to the issue of unlawful traffic stops by police impersonators, Gavin Seim of Washington state flagged down a police officer on the side of the road.
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Very bad news for McDonald's
The fast food giant posted huge disappointments that should have stockholders reeling.Read More ...
Fashion icon dies at 82
Oscar
de la Renta, the worldly gentleman designer who shaped the wardrobe of
socialites and Hollywood stars for more than four decades, has died. He
was 82.Read More ...
Pistorius gets sentenced
A South African judge sentences the runner for the killing of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.Read More ...
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