N.Y. governor loosens Ebola rules
Gov. Cuomo will allow health workers returning from Ebola zone to stay home for 21 days.Read More ...
Cardinals slugger Oscar Taveras killed in auto crash in Dominican
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Brazil's Rousseff narrowly wins second term
RIO
DE JANEIRO (AP) — Left-leaning President Dilma Rousseff was re-elected
Sunday in the tightest race Brazil has seen since its return to
democracy three decades ago, giving the juggernaut Workers' Party its
fourth-straight presidential victory and the chance to extend its social
transformation of the globe's fifth-largest country.Read More ...
Washington state rampage baffles Native American community
By
Victoria Cavaliere and Eric M. Johnson MARYSVILLE Wash. (Reuters) -
Members of a tight-knit Native American community in Washington state
were struggling on Sunday to comprehend how a life-long friendship among
cousins ended with one of them gunning down the other two, along with
three friends, in a high school cafeteria. The shooter and one girl,
identified by a family friend as Zoe Galasso, were killed, while the
other freshmen students were gravely wounded in the Friday morning
shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, an hour's drive north of
Seattle. ...Read More ...
State governors stand firm on Ebola quarantines despite White House pressure
By
Joseph Ax and Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Reuters) - The governors of New
York and New Jersey on Sunday stuck to new plans to quarantine health
workers returning to their hometowns from countries with Ebola
epidemics, despite pressure from the White House, but emphasized that
people could stay at home while in isolation. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo
struck a more conciliatory tone on Sunday about the new quarantine
policy after the White House said that mandatory isolation could impede
the Ebola fight. ...Read More ...
Eight firefighters injured in Los Angeles storage 'death trap'
(Reuters) - Eight firefighters were injured battling a massive fire at a Los Angeles storage facility filled with combustibles like furniture, artwork, and vinyl records but with no sprinkler system, city and fire officials said on Sunday. More than 300 firefighters battled overnight to extinguish the blaze that erupted late on Saturday evening at a two-story Extra Space Storage in the beachside neighborhood Venice, the Los Angeles Fire Department said in a statement. ...
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Pro-Europe parties secure big election win in Ukraine: exit poll
Pro-Europe
parties led by a group backing President Petro Poroshenko swept a
parliamentary election in Ukraine on Sunday, an exit poll showed, giving
him a mandate to end a separatist conflict and pursue democratic
reforms. The survey, issued after voting stations closed in the ex-
Soviet republic, gave Poroshenko's bloc 23 percent of the votes cast for
the 29 competing parties, ahead of the party of his ally, Prime
Minister Arseny Yatseniuk, on 21.3 percent. ...Read More ...
Florida to monitor health of travelers from Ebola-hit countries
Florida
will require 21-day health monitoring of people returning to the state
from Ebola-affected countries in Africa, Governor Rick Scott said.Read More ...
Tribe reels from Washington state school shooting
A
close-knit community on the Tulalip Indian Reservation has struggled to
find answers following the shooting at a high school on Washington's
Puget Sound in which a young gunman from a prominent family opened fire,
killing one person and injuring four others — including two of his
cousins.Read More ...
George P. Bush says dad 'moving forward' on 2016
Jeb
Bush is "moving forward" on a potential 2016 White House run and it
appears more likely he'll enter the Republican race. That's the opinion
of his son, who's running for office in Texas.Read More ...
Thirty adolescents abducted in northeast Nigeria: local chief
Around
30 adolescents -- some of them girls aged as young as 11 -- have been
abducted in northeast Nigeria over the weekend by suspected Boko Haram
rebels, a local village chief said.Read More ...
U.N. climate change draft sees risks of irreversible damage
Climate
change may have "serious, pervasive and irreversible" impacts on human
society and nature, according to a draft U.N. report due for approval
this week.Read More ...
Cuomo outlines NY policy for Ebola quarantine
Mandatory
21-day quarantines on health care workers returning from Ebola-ravaged
West Africa can have the unintended consequence of discouraging them
from volunteering, a top federal health official said.Read More ...
Steenkamp was about to leave Pistorius, says mother
The
mother of Oscar Pistorius's girlfriend believes that her daughter was
about to leave the disgraced athlete when he shot her dead in what a
South African judge ruled to be culpable homicide. June Steenkamp --
mother of 29-year-old model Reeva Steenkamp -- also told Britain's
newspaper The Times that she and her husband Barry were haunted by
images of the shooting, for which Pistorius was sentenced to a five-year
jail term. Pistorius, the first double amputee Paralympian to compete
against able-bodied athletes at the 2012 London Olympics, said he shot
Steenkamp four times through a locked door to the bathroom in his
Pretoria home because he mistakenly believed there was an intruder
inside. In "Reeva: a Mother's Story", June Steenkamp wrote that she was
"shocked" that the athlete was found guilty only of culpable homicide,
or manslaughter.Read More ...
U.S. envoy Power arrives in West Africa
By
Michelle Nichols CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea plans to fight its deadly
Ebola outbreak by drafting graduating medical students for national
service and enlisting retired doctors and nurses, said Samantha Power,
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, during a visit to West Africa to
see how the global response is failing to stop the deadly disease.
Power, who will also visit Sierra Leone and Liberia, said she had a
"very robust" discussion with Guinea's President Alpha Conde on Sunday
about the way forward and that Conde has "tremendous impatience ...
wholly appropriate to the cause. ...Read More ...
Four in five eurozone banks pass ECB health test
A
large majority of eurozone banks were given a clean bill of health
Sunday by the European Central Bank, fuelling hopes that a major cause
of economic uncertainty could soon be eliminated, analysts said. In the
most in-depth and stringent audit of eurozone banks ever undertaken --
aimed at preventing a repeat of the crisis that nearly led to the euro's
collapse -- the ECB found that 25 out of a total 130 banks had a
combined capital shortfall of 25 billion euros ($31 billion) at the end
of 2013. "A period of stress and uncertainty ends for eurozone banks
with the end of the exercise," said Berenberg Bank economist Christian
Schulz. "You can say the banking sector is in good health, generally,"
said Damien Leurent of the Deloitte financial consultancy.Read More ...
Hawaii officials warn of possible lava evacuation
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii authorities on Saturday told several dozen residents near an active lava flow to prepare for a possible evacuation in the next three to five days as molten rock oozed across a country road and edged closer to homes.
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U.S. nurse quarantined over Ebola criticizes her treatment
The
first person quarantined under strict new rules in the New York City
area for people with a high risk of Ebola tested negative, New Jersey
officials said on Saturday, as President Barack Obama said the response
to domestic cases of the deadly disease needs to be based on "facts, not
fear." Under the new policy, anyone arriving at the two international
airports serving New York City after having contact with Ebola patients
in Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea must submit to a mandatory 21-day
quarantine. The requirement exceeds current federal ...Read More ...
US to recognize same-sex marriage in 6 more states
WASHINGTON
(AP) — The federal government is recognizing gay marriage in six more
states and extending federal benefits to those couples, Attorney General
Eric Holder announced Saturday.Read More ...
Teacher tried to stop Washington state shooting
TULALIP,
Wash. (AP) — A newly hired teacher confronted a gunman and was being
hailed as a hero on Saturday after a deadly shooting rampage in the
cafeteria of a Washington state high school.Read More ...
Egypt leader: 'Foreign hands' behind Sinai attack
CAIRO
(AP) — Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said Saturday that an
assault on an army checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula that killed 31
troops was a "foreign-funded operation" and vowed to take drastic action
against militants.Read More ...
2 dead in Washington state school shooting
A student opened fire in Marysville, fatally wounding one before he was killed.Read More ...
Obama: Science, not fear, key to Ebola response
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the U.S. must be guided by science — not fear — as it responds to Ebola.Read More ...
Tracking Dr. Spencer's contacts isn't easy
As a New York City doctor tests positive for Ebola, officials face a difficult challenge.Read More ...
US general: NKorea may have nuke missile knowhow
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.Read More ...
7 hurt when car smashes into California restaurant
DUBLIN,
Calif. (AP) — Police say all seven people injured when a car crashed
into a Northern California restaurant have now been released from
hospitals.Read More ...
Deadly violence in the West Bank
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.Read More ...
Man in NYC hatchet attack said to have Islamic 'extremist leanings'
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.Read More ...
Islamic State used chlorine gas in fight north of Baghdad, say Iraq officials
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.Read More ...
Nurse Nina Pham Ebola-free, meets Obama
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.
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Why NYC Ebola case won’t be rerun of Dallas
City designated single hospital as go-to place for Ebola patients, gave specialized training to health workers.Read More ...
Canada tries to come to terms with capital shootings
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.Read More ...
How N.C. Senate race became ground zero for what's wrong with 2014
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.Read More ...
Suspicious yellow powder sent to U.S., other consulates in Istanbul
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. ...Read More ...
Doctor becomes NYC's first Ebola patient
Three others are quarantined after a doctor who worked in Africa tests positive.Read More ...
Hunt for missing MH370 flight to take many more months
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.Read More ...
Britain's Queen Elizabeth sends her first tweet
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. ...Read More ...
Police: Hatchet-wielding suspect shot by officers
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.Read More ...
China launches first mission to moon and back
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.
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Inside the Islamic State’s million-dollar money stream
The
Islamic State militants got rich off smuggled oil, kidnappings for
ransom, and extortion. Here is how the United States is responding.Read More ...
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