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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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