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Judge orders potential witness list trimmed in theater shooting case

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 01:21 PM PDT

James Holmes sits in court for an advisement hearing at the Arapahoe County Justice Center in CentennialA judge told prosecutors in the Aurora theater massacre case Monday to pick up the pace cutting down the staggering number of possible witnesses in the murder trial of James Holmes.

Justice Dept sues North Carolina over voter law

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 12:20 PM PDT

FILE - In a June 30, 1982 file photo, President Ronald Reagan signs an expansion of the 1965 Voting Rights Bill during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House. The Justice Department will sue the state of North Carolina for alleged racial discrimination over tough new voting rules, the latest effort by the Obama administration to fight back against a Supreme Court decision that struck down the most powerful part of the landmark Voting Rights Act and freed southern states from strict federal oversight of their elections. North Carolina has a new law scaling back the period for early voting and imposing stringent voter identification requirements. It is among at least five Southern states adopting stricter voter ID and other election laws. (AP Photo, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Monday sued North Carolina for alleged racial discrimination over a tough new voting law that shortens early voting and imposes other restrictions that heavily impact minority voters.

Judge hears claims BP lied to feds about oil spill

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 12:04 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday July 12, 2010 image from video made available by BP PLC, oil flows out of the top of the transition spool, which was placed into the gushing wellhead and will house the new containment cap, at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The federal trial over the 2010 BP oil spill resumed Monday, Sept. 30, 2013, with a focus on the company's response to the disaster, with millions of dollars at stake as the two sides argue over how much oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/BP PLC, File)NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP lied to the U.S. government and withheld information about the amount of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico after its well blew out in 2010, attorneys told a judge Monday.

Smash 'n grab: Big looting during Kenya mall siege

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 11:48 AM PDT

This photo taken Friday, Sept. 27, 2013 and made available Monday, Sept. 30, 2013, shows forensic investigators working on the ground floor of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. The four-day siege, which included the collapse of part of the mall, left 67 people dead, according to officials. (AP Photo)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Jewelry cases smashed and looted. Mobile phones ripped from displays. Cash registers emptied. Alcohol stocks plundered.

Executive, son believed dead in fiery Calif. jet crash

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 11:35 AM PDT

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — A construction company CEO and his son were believed to be aboard a jet that slammed into a hangar and burst into flames after landing at a Southern California airport, in what fire officials described as an unsurvivable accident, an official with the firm said Monday.

Knox retrial: Court approves new DNA test on murder weapon

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 11:18 AM PDT

Amanda Knox Is A No-show As Retrial For Murder Begins In ItalyFLORENCE, Italy (AP) — A court hearing Amanda Knox's second appeals trial on Monday accepted a request to run additional DNA tests on the presumed weapon in the murder of Meredith Kercher, but rejected most other defense requests for new testimony or evidence.

Barring last-minute deal, shutdown imminent

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 10:46 AM PDT

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, walks to the chamber as the House of Representatives works into the night to pass a bill to fund the government, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. Locked in a deepening struggle with President Barack Obama, House Republicans on Saturday demanded a one-year delay in major parts of the nation's new health care law and permanent repeal of a tax on medical devices as the price for preventing a partial government shutdown threatened for early Tuesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)There are only a few hours left and the prospects don't look good.

Obamacare set to go live — glitches and all

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 10:01 AM PDT

The Capitol in Washington, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013, as the government teeters on the brink of a partial shutdown at midnight unless Congress can reach an agreement on funding. Hours before a threatened government shutdown, the Senate has the next move Monday on must-do budget legislation that has fueled a bitter congressional dispute over President Barack Obama's signature health care law. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Contentious from its conception, President Barack Obama's health care law has survived the Supreme Court, a battle for the White House and rounds of budget brinkmanship. Now comes the ultimate test: the verdict of the American people.

South Africa to review security after Kenya attack

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 09:30 AM PDT

Undated image provided by Interpol shows Samantha Lewthwaite. Interpol has issued an arrest notice for Samantha Lewthwaite, the fugitive Briton whom news media have dubbed the JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African security measures are coming under scrutiny in the wake of the Westgate mall attack in Kenya and reports that Briton Samantha Lewthwaite, wanted by Interpol in connection with a 2011 plot to bomb holiday resorts in Kenya, fraudulently obtained a South African passport.

Syria says 'terrorists' eat human hearts

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 08:43 AM PDT

Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Walid al-Moualem speaks during the 68th session of the General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Syria's foreign minister claimed Monday that his government is fighting a war against al-Qaida-linked militants who eat human hearts and dismember people while they are still alive, then send their limbs to family members.

CNN scraps Hillary Clinton documentary after the director quits

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 08:13 AM PDT

Former U.S. Secretary of State and former U.S. first lady Hillary Clinton sits and watches during the Clinton Global Initiative 2013 (CGI) in New YorkDirector Charles Ferguson cited political pressure on interview subjects. "Neither political party wanted the film made," he said.

Apple unseats iconic soda as world's 'best brand'

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 07:27 AM PDT

A woman uses her mobile phone outside an Apple store in Shanghai on May 7, 2012Paris (AFP) - Coca-Cola has lost its crown as the world's best brand, a closely watched survey said on Monday, unseated by the iconic iPhone and iPad maker Apple.

Who gets blamed for a government shutdown?

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 07:12 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, President Barack Obama gestures while making a statement regarding the budget fight in Congress and foreign policy challenges, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. As Iran's diplomatic profile rises with attempts to recalibrate its dealings with Washington, the Gulf rulers will have to make adjustments, too, and that's not such an easy thing for the monarchs and sheiks to swallow. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)More Americans aren't pointing their fingers at Obama, a new poll shows.

Vatican: Benedict XVI may attend pope canonization

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 06:24 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken on April 23 1997, Pope John Paul II waves to faithful as he crosses St. Peter's square at the Vatican. Popes John Paul II and John XXIII will be declared saints on April 27, 2014. Pope Francis announced the date Monday, Sept 30, 2013, during a meeting with cardinals inside the Apostolic Palace. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Popes John Paul II and John XXIII will be declared saints on April 27 at a ceremony that might see two living popes honoring two dead ones.

Obamacare dispute sends gov't to brink of shutdown

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 06:08 AM PDT

The morning sun illuminates the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013, as the government teeters on the brink of a partial shutdown at midnight unless Congress can reach an agreement on funding. Congressional Republicans and Democrats spent Sunday trading the blame for failure to reach agreement on the stopgap funding bill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Hours before a threatened government shutdown, the Senate has the next move Monday on must-do budget legislation that has fueled a bitter congressional dispute over President Barack Obama's signature health care law.

Amanda Knox's 2nd appeals trial for murder opens

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 06:01 AM PDT

Francesco Sollecito, father of co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito, talks to reporters as he arrives for the start of U.S. student Amanda Knox's second appeals trial in her British roommate's murder, in Florence, Italy, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013. Italy's highest court ordered a new trial for Knox and her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, overturning their acquittals in the gruesome 2007 slaying of Meredith Kercher with a harsh assessment of an appeals court acquittal in 2011. The Court of Cassation said the acquittal was full of FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — U.S. student Amanda Knox's second appeals trial in the murder of her British roommate opened Monday, but the star defendant was absent.

Justice Dept to sue North Carolina over voter law

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 05:26 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will sue the state of North Carolina for alleged racial discrimination over tough new voting rules, the latest effort by the Obama administration to fight back against a Supreme Court decision that struck down the most powerful part of the landmark Voting Rights Act and freed southern states from strict federal oversight of their elections.

Justice Dept to sue N. C. over new voter law

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 04:59 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will sue the state of North Carolina for alleged racial discrimination over tough new voting rules, the latest effort by the Obama administration to fight back against a Supreme Court decision that struck down the most powerful part of the landmark Voting Rights Act and freed southern states from strict federal oversight of their elections.

South Africa: Ruling party urges tighter security

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 04:33 AM PDT

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's ruling party is calling for tighter immigration laws and other security measures in South Africa following the attack at the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya.

Red Cross: 39 still missing after mall attack

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 04:18 AM PDT

A woman, center, reacts as she observes the candles and flowers left at a memorial event organized by the Muslim community to express their condemnation of the Westgate Mall attack, and to pay their respects to those who died and those who helped others escape, outside the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. Kenya's interior minister says that another arrest has been made Sunday in connection with the deadly Westgate mall attack, which left 67 people dead in a four-day siege, but refused to give any further details. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — More than three dozen people remain unaccounted for almost a week after the end of the four-day terrorist attack on Nairobi's Westgate Mall that killed at least 67, the head of the Kenyan Red Cross said Monday.

Photos: Images from a fiery Calif. jet crash

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 04:01 AM PDT

Photos: Images from a fiery Calif. jet crashFirefighters work to extinguish fire at the site of a plane crash in Santa Monica, Calif., on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. Authorities say a twin-jet Cessna Citation went off the right side of the runway and crashed into a hangar after landing about 6:20 p.m. It was not immediately clear how many people were on the plane or whether anyone was inside the hangar, and there was no immediate word on any injuries or deaths. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Airlines promise a return to civility—for a fee

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 03:45 AM PDT

Airlines promise a return to civility, for a feeAirlines are introducing a new bevy of fees, but this time passengers might actually like them. Unlike the first generation of charges which dinged fliers for once-free services like checking a bag, these ...

Red Cross: More missing Kenyans found after attack

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 02:42 AM PDT

A woman, center, reacts as she observes the candles and flowers left at a memorial event organized by the Muslim community to express their condemnation of the Westgate Mall attack, and to pay their respects to those who died and those who helped others escape, outside the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. Kenya's interior minister says that another arrest has been made Sunday in connection with the deadly Westgate mall attack, which left 67 people dead in a four-day siege, but refused to give any further details. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A spokeswoman for Kenya's Red Cross says "progress" has been made in finding some of the 59 people who were still missing after the Westgate mall attack.

Swedish Gypsy file brings racial profiling fears

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 02:10 AM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013, Marcello Demeter stands on the balcony of his apartment in a Stockholm suburb. About a week ago, the 42-year-old Swede found out that he and his wife Susanne, their three children and at least three of their grandchildren were on a secret police register purportedly created to help fight violent crime. The reason? They are Gypsies. The list has triggered an outcry over racial profiling in this nation proud of its traditions of tolerance and social justice - and reminded many of the persecution that Gypsies, or Roma, suffered under the Nazis. Demeter says the police list reminds him of the way the Nazis drew up lists of Roma during World War II. Researchers estimate between 500,000 and 1.5 million Roma were killed alongside the Jews in the Holocaust. (AP Photo/David Mac Dougall)STOCKHOLM (AP) — In his suburban Stockholm apartment, Marcello Demeter sits at the kitchen table with his two daughters, Isabelle and Sandra — and wonders how they got on the list that has sent Sweden into an uproar.

Popes John Paul II, John XXIII canonized April 27

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 01:53 AM PDT

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Popes John Paul II and John XXIII will be declared saints on April 27, 2014.
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AP PHOTOS: A look at the career of NY's Mo Rivera

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 01:00 PM PDT

File-This Sept. 26, 2013 file photo shows New York Yankees relief pitcher Mariano Rivera, left, handing the ball to Andy Pettitte as Derek Jeter, right, watches during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays at Yankee Stadium in New York. The Rays defeated the Yankees 4-0 in Rivera's final home game with the team. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun, File)After nineteen stellar seasons and a record 652 saves, Yankees closer Mariano Rivera has pitched in his last game.

Marlins' Alvarez throws crazy no-hitter vs Tigers

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 12:44 PM PDT

MIAMI (AP) — Henderson Alvarez pitched one of baseball's most bizarre no-hitters, celebrating in the on-deck circle when the Miami Marlins scored on a two-out wild pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat the AL Central champion Detroit Tigers 1-0 Sunday.

Nairobi morgue's last Kenya mall victim ID'd

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 11:12 AM PDT

A gravedigger digs additional graves with a shovel, in anticipation of an increased number of burials both of Westgate Mall attack victims and of those deceased from other causes, at the main cemetery in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. Kenya's military caused the collapse of three floors of the Westgate Mall in the deadly terrorist siege, a top-ranking official disclosed Friday, while the government urged patience with the pace of an investigation that has left key questions unanswered. (AP Photo/David Rising)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Karen Wambui walked slowly through the Nairobi city morgue's turquoise and yellow iron gates, still trying to process what she had seen inside.

Car bomb kills 40 in northwest Pakistan

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 09:54 AM PDT

A Pakistani man carrying a child rushes away from the site of a blast shortly after a car exploded in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. A car bomb exploded on a crowded street in northwestern Pakistan Sunday, killing scores of people in the third blast to hit the troubled city of Peshawar in a week, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A car bomb ripped through a crowded street in Peshawar's oldest bazaar Sunday, killing 40 people in the third blast to hit the troubled city in a week, officials said.

Bill Clinton: GOP 'begging for America to fail'

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 09:39 AM PDT

Bill Clinton: When It Comes to Obamacare, GOP 'Begging for America to Fail'The Republican Party is "begging for America to fail" by rooting for President Obama's signature health care law to fail, former President Bill Clinton said during an interview for "This Week" with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, "I've never seen a time — can you remember a...

5 questions in government shutdown showdown

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 08:21 AM PDT

What's Next? 5 Questions in Government Shutdown ShowdownThe federal government is careening ever closer to the first shutdown in 17 years.

Syria's Assad vows to comply with UN resolution

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 07:49 AM PDT

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's president says his government will abide by last week's U.N. resolution calling for the country's chemical weapons program to be dismantled and destroyed.

AP PHOTOS: Syrians seek safety in ancient ruins

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 07:34 AM PDT

In this Friday, Sept. 27, 2013 photo, a displaced Syrian woman comforts her one-month old grandchild Fatima inside a stone house near Kafer Rouma, in ancient ruins used as temporary shelter by those families who have fled from the heavy fighting and shelling in the Idlib province countryside of Syria. Fatima was born just a month ago amid the ancient ruins outside Kafer Rouma, a village in northern Syria that has come under shelling by President Bashar Assad's forces during the country's civil war. Her family fled their home in the village to the giant stone blocks and centuries-old walls so that Fatima's mother could give birth in relative safety.(AP Photo)KAFER ROUMA, Syria (AP) — Looking weary and malnourished, the baby girl could hardly open her eyes.

AP PHOTOS: 'Breaking Bad' kept its audience hooked

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 06:15 AM PDT

This image released by AMC shows Walter White, played by Bryan Cranston, teaching chemistry class in a scene from the pilot episode of For five seasons AMC has kept audiences hooked on the evolution of Walter White and the dark world he embraced in "Breaking Bad." As the chemistry-teacher-turned-drug-lord, Bryan Cranston and the rest of the show's cast have earned their share of Emmys while the show has logged record ratings. As the show's finale airs tonight, here are some images from past episodes:

Shutdown showdown intensifies over Obamacare delay

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 04:57 AM PDT

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., center, walks to the floor of the House for the final series of votes on a bill to fund the government, in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. Locked in a deepening struggle with President Barack Obama, the Republican-controlled House approved legislation early Sunday imposing a one-year delay in key parts of the nation's health care law and repealing a tax on medical devices as the price for avoiding a partial government shutdown in a few days' time. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — The political and economic stakes mounting with each tick of the clock, the White House and congressional Democrats say a House-approved delay in President Barack Obama's health care law does nothing but push Washington to the brink of the first government shutdown in 17 years.

Iran: More needed than Obama call for full ties

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 04:11 AM PDT

Un manifestante (izquierda) se acerca al vehículo del presidente iraní Hasán Ruhani al salir del aeropuerto Mehrabad procedente de Estados Unidos, en Teherán, Irán, el sábado 28 de septiembre de 2013. (Foto AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran sought Sunday to calm hard-line worries over groundbreaking exchanges with Washington, saying a single phone conversation between the American and Iran presidents is not a sign that relations with will be quickly restored.

Nigeria: Militants kill students in college attack

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 03:55 AM PDT

A grab made on July 13, 2013 from a video obtained by AFP shows the leader of the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram Abubakar ShekauA college provost says suspected Islamic militants gunned down students as they slept and killed as many as 50 in an early-morning attack in northeast Nigeria.

Israel announces arrest of Iranian 'spy'

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 03:40 AM PDT

The US embassy in Tel Aviv on November 20, 2012Israel's Shin Bet security service on Sunday announced the arrest on September 11 of an Iranian "spy" carrying photographs of the US embassy in Tel Aviv.

Hagel in South Korea for security talks

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 02:38 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel pauses while speaking to the traveling press aboard a U.S. military aircraft plane en route to Seoul, South Korea, for celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the Korean War armistice agreement on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. Hagel remarked on the budget battle in Congress saying, SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Amid escalating threats from North Korea, U.S. and South Korean defense officials will meet over the next few days and discuss whether to extend America's wartime control over the South's armed forces, 60 years after a truce ended the Korean War.

Shutdown nearing, GOP seeks health care delay

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 02:22 AM PDT

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, walks to the House Floor at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. Lawmakers from both parties urged one another in a rare weekend session to give ground in their fight over preventing a federal shutdown, with the midnight Monday deadline fast approaching. But there was no sign of yielding Saturday in a down-to-the-wire struggle that tea party lawmakers are using to try derailing President Barack Obama's health care law. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)WASHINGTON (AP) — Locked in a deepening struggle with President Barack Obama, the Republican-controlled House approved legislation early Sunday imposing a one-year delay in key parts of the nation's health care law and repealing a tax on medical devices as the price for avoiding a partial government shutdown in a few days' time.

Amid Putin's crackdown, Sochi gay scene thrives

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 12:28 AM PDT

Visitors take to the floor during a cabaret show at Mayak, one of the two gay clubs in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Monday, Sept. 23, 2013. Sochi, a southern Russian town, will host the Winter Olympics amid President Vladimir Putin's harsh crackdown on gays. The morality campaign, centered on a law banning homosexual SOCHI, Russia (AP) — A man named Ravil catapults onto the dance floor and starts stomping out the lezginka, the arrogant rooster strut of the Chechen national dance.

House votes to avoid shutdown, delay Obamacare

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 09:40 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-run House has voted to avoid a partial government shutdown next week but also delay President Barack Obama's health care law.

60 dead in India building collapse as search ends

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 09:24 PM PDT

Rescue workers carry a girl out from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Mumbai, India, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. The apartment building collapsed in India's financial capital of Mumbai early Friday, killing people and sending rescuers racing to reach dozens of people trapped in the rubble. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)The search for survivors at the site of a collapsed apartment building has ended in India's financial capital of Mumbai. An emergency response official says the final death toll is 60 people.

Life in Puerto Rico becomes costlier amid crisis

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 09:08 PM PDT

In this Sept. 25, 2013 photo, Gilberto Olivo talks with a representative at a job fair in Catano, Puerto Rico. Olivo is a chemical engineer who held managerial positions in the U.S. and Puerto Rico before losing his job five years ago. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Sweat gathered on the back of Gilberto Olivo's shirt as he tried to divert attention from his resume at a recent job fair in the working-class town of Catano.

Pettitte completes career in fitting fashion

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 08:54 PM PDT

New York Yankees starting pitcher Andy Pettitte acknowledges the fans and players after earning a win over the Houston Astros in his final Major League baseball game in a baseball game Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013, in Houston. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)HOUSTON (AP) — Andy Pettitte completed his career in a most fitting fashion.

Wonder headlines NYC concert highlighting poverty

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 07:52 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Bono served as an opening act for Stevie Wonder.

Radio blackout cited in deaths of 19 firefighters

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 07:38 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, June 30, 2013, file photo, the Yarnell Hill Fire burns in Glenn Ilah near Yarnell, Ariz. Investigators are set to release a report Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013, on the deaths of 19 elite firefighters in Arizona, nearly three months after the crew became trapped by flames in a brush-choked canyon north of Phoenix. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Kadlubowski, File)PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — Shortly before 19 elite firefighters perished in a raging Arizona wildfire, commanders thought the crew was in a safe place. No one had heard from the Granite Mountain Hotshots for 33 minutes. The crew didn't contact commanders, and commanders didn't radio them.

Deadline nearing, GOP seeks health care delay

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 06:21 PM PDT

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, arrives at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. Heat is building on balkanized Republicans, who are convening the House this weekend in hopes of preventing a government shutdown but remain under tea party pressure to battle on and use a must-do funding bill to derail all or part of President Barack Obama's health care law. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)WASHINGTON (AP) — Locked in a deepening struggle with President Barack Obama, House Republicans on Saturday demanded a one-year delay in major parts of the nation's new health care law and permanent repeal of a tax on medical devices as the price for preventing a partial government shutdown threatened for early Tuesday.

House OKs bill aimed at improving drug safety

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 06:06 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House easily approved bipartisan legislation Saturday aimed at improving the safety of drugs produced by compounding pharmacies that mix customized pharmaceuticals.

Stabbed fan's dad to make public plea for witnesses

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 05:35 PM PDT

This 2013 photo released by the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office shows Jonathan Denver. Denver, who was fatally stabbed during a confrontation after a Los Angeles Dodgers-San Francisco Giants baseball game in San Francisco, was the son of one of a Dodgers security guard, the team said Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013. San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr said two people were in custody, and one of them will face homicide charges. (AP Photo/Mendocino County Sheriff's Office)The father of a Dodgers fan fatality stabbed during a melee with Giants fans is planning to make a public plea for witnesses to the incident after San Francisco's district attorney said he lacks evidence to charge the man suspected of the killing.
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