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Photo shows where walruses go when there are no ice floes

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 12:36 PM PDT

This Sept. 27, 2013 image provided by NOAA Fisheries shows thousands of walruses hauling out on a remote barrier island in the Chukchi Sea near Point Lay, Alaska. An estimated 10,000 Pacific walrus have gone ashore on Alaska's northwest coast and are bunched along a beach near the village of Point Lay. The National Marine Fisheries Service says 1,500 to 4,000 walrus were counted Sept. 12 and numbers had swollen to 10,000 on Friday. (AP Photo/NOAA Fisheries, Stan Churches)The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently released this stunning photo of an estimated 10,000 walruses crammed onto a tiny Alaskan beach.

Silk Road website shut down, owner 'Dread Pirate Roberts' arrested

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 11:58 AM PDT

An illustration picture shows a projection of binary code around the shadow of a man holding a laptop computer in an office in Warsaw June 24, 2013. REUTERS/Kacper PempelBy Emily Flitter NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. law enforcement authorities have shut down "Silk Road," an anonymous Internet marketplace for illegal drugs like heroin and cocaine and criminal activities ...

Fearing blind spots, spy agencies recalling some furloughed workers

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 11:58 AM PDT

The Times said the Americans were CIA employees sent to Mexico as part of an interagency US task forceBy Mark Hosenball and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fearing they could miss important intelligence, U.S. spy agencies are planning to call back to work some of the thousands of civilian workers who have been temporarily laid off as a result of this week's federal government shutdown. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has already authorized chiefs of the 16 U.S. spy agencies he supervises to make revisions in their furlough arrangements, Clapper's spokesman Shawn Turner said. ...

Lawmakers feeling heat from government shutdown

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 11:23 AM PDT

Visitors to Independence National Historical Park are reflected in the window of the closed building housing the Liberty Bell, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, in Philadelphia. Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law stalled a temporary funding bill, forcing about 800, 000 federal workers off the job and suspending most non-essential federal programs and services. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers locked in a political stare-down Wednesday were buffeted by rising anger from across the nation about a partial government shutdown that ruined vacations, sapped businesses and closed military cemeteries as far away as France. Some on Capitol Hill ominously suggested the impasse might last for weeks, but a few Republicans seemed ready to blink.

Tale of two patients: Barriers for poor women with breast cancer

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 11:23 AM PDT

Tale of Two Patients: Survival Barriers for Poor Women with Breast CancerDee Dee Ricks was only 38 when she found out she had Stage 2 breast cancer. A divorced mother of two young sons, she had pulled herself out of poverty and made a fortune on Wall Street. "I was told my chances are better by having a double mastectomy," said Ricks. "I'm like you do [...]

Obama to meet with top lawmakers today

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 09:54 AM PDT

A US Park Police officer watches at left as a National Park Service employee posts a sign on a barricade closing access to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law stalled a temporary funding bill, forcing about 800, 000 federal workers off the job and suspending most non-essential federal programs and services. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)The president will urge the House GOP to pass a clean spending bill.

Obama, lawmakers to meet on shutdown

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 09:54 AM PDT

A US Park Police officer watches at left as a National Park Service employee posts a sign on a barricade closing access to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law stalled a temporary funding bill, forcing about 800, 000 federal workers off the job and suspending most non-essential federal programs and services. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)An adviser says Obama will urge the House GOP to pass a clean spending bill.

Shutdown puts food program for low-income mothers at risk

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 09:54 AM PDT

WIC program at riskNearly 9 million low-income mothers and children receive benefits under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Congress' inability to pass a funding bill forced the USDA, which oversees the $7 billion program, to shutter support for WIC's clinical services, food and administrative costs.

Author Tom Clancy dies at 66

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 08:36 AM PDT

File of Novelist Tom Clancy(Reuters) - Best-selling U.S. author Tom Clancy, whose military thrillers inspired movies and video games, has died at the age of 66, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons. Representatives for G.P. Putnam's Sons were not immediately available to comment. Clancy's 20 books - starting with 1984's "The Hunt for Red October" and continuing through "The Sum of All Fears," "Rainbow Six" and the upcoming "Command Authority" - painted detailed stories of the world of spies, soldiers and politicians. ...

A soldier’s-eye view of the shutdown

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 08:36 AM PDT

Troops in AfghanistanThe president protected military pay, but the impasse is impacting operations.

Graffiti art from Banksy shows up in NYC

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 07:47 AM PDT

Graffiti art from Banksy shows up in NYCBanksy launches New York City street art show, starting with this image, with satirical cellphone audio tour. (banksy.co.uk via Yahoo News)

Man in custody after device found at Fla. airport

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 07:47 AM PDT

Police block the road to the Jacksonville International Airport terminal as a shuttle used to move people out of the airport drives by Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, in Jacksonville, Fla. The airport was evacuated after authorities found two suspicious packages. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Bruce Lipsky)JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities arrested a suspect after finding two suspicious packages — including one they described as destructive — at the Jacksonville International Airport.

Republicans attack Obamacare, defend shutdown

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 07:12 AM PDT

A few pedestrians wait to cross the street to the U.S. Capitol in Washington"Delay of Obamacare's the right thing for America," said Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho.

House's 2 Kings personify GOP split

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 06:21 AM PDT

In this Sept. 28, 2013, photo, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, arrives for a closed-door meeting with fellow Republicans as the House of Representatives works into the night to pass a bill to fund the government, at the Capitol in Washington. The Republican Party's two Kings in Congress both voted against GOP leaders' latest effort to prevent President Barack Obama's health care overhaul from becoming entrenched, but for opposite reasons. New York congressman Peter King says it was a mistake to link curbing Peter King accused tea party-backed conservatives of trying to "hijack the party."

Berlusconi defeated, decides to back Italy gov't

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 05:59 AM PDT

Italian premier Enrico Letta speaks during a video appearance at the Italian State RAI TV program ROME (AP) — Silvio Berlusconi acknowledged defeat Wednesday and announced he would support the government of Premier Enrico Letta in a confidence vote, a stunning about-face after defections in his party robbed him of the backing he needed to bring down the government.

IOC receives Lance Armstrong's Olympic medal

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 05:34 AM PDT

FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 30, 2000 file photo Russia's Viacheslav Ekimov, center, winner of the gold medal in the men's individual time trial, celebrates with Germany's silver medal winner Jan Ullrich, left, and U.S. bronze medal winner Lance Armstrong as they pose on the podium following the cycling road course in Sydney, for the Summer Olympic Games. After months of delays, Lance Armstrong's Olympic medal is back with the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The IOC stripped Armstrong of the bronze medal from the 2000 Sydney Games in January after he admitted to doping. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours, File)LONDON (AP) — Lance Armstrong's Olympic medal is back with the IOC.

Weapons experts begin Syria mission amid clashes

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 05:08 AM PDT

In this Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013 photo, a Syrian opposition fighter takes cover during exchange of fire with government forces in Telata village, a frontline located at the top of a mountain in the Idlib province, northwest countryside of Syria. (AP Photo)BEIRUT (AP) — International inspectors in charge of overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons left their hotel in Damascus on Wednesday to begin their work as deadly clashes raged on the edge of the capital.

FL airport shut down when destructive device found

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 05:01 AM PDT

Police block the road to the Jacksonville International Airport terminal as a shuttle used to move people out of the airport drives by Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, in Jacksonville, Fla. The airport was evacuated after authorities found two suspicious packages. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Bruce Lipsky)JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jacksonville International Airport in Florida has reopened after authorities found two suspicious packages — one they said was destructive — that led to an evacuation and a shutdown for hours.

US businesses worry about a prolonged shutdown

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 04:35 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, file photo, people walk near Capitol Hill in Washington. As the government's partial shutdown enters a second day, most companies across the country are doing business as usual. Yet concern is rising that a prolonged shutdown would cause some work at private companies to dry up and consumers to lose faith in the U.S. economy. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)NEW YORK (AP) — As the government's partial shutdown enters a second day, most companies across the country are doing business as usual. Yet concern is rising that a prolonged shutdown would cause some work at private companies to dry up and consumers to lose faith in the U.S. economy.

Greenpeace activists charged with piracy for protest

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 04:06 AM PDT

Russia: 5 Greenpeace activists charged with piracyGreenpeace said Wednesday that five of its activists who were detained after protesting at a Russian oil platform have been charged with piracy and could face up to 15 years in prison if found guilty. ...

Parliament showdown looms for Italy prime minister

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 03:59 AM PDT

Italian premier Enrico Letta speaks during a video appearance at the Italian State RAI TV program ROME (AP) — The survival of Italy's government was in doubt Wednesday before expected confidence votes in Parliament forced by Silvio Berlusconi's decision to yank his party's support. But a divisive split among Berlusconi stalwarts in favor of stability might temporarily save the fragile ruling coalition.

AP PHOTOS: Gaza tunnels idle amid Egypt crackdown

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 02:30 AM PDT

In this Monday, Sept. 30, 2013 photo, a Palestinian worker smokes a cigarette inside a smuggling tunnel along the border with Egypt in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Gaza's tunnel smugglers along the border with Egypt are mostly idle these days. Some rest on cots in the dank underground pathways, stretching out for a smoke. Others pass the time cleaning the small carts on wheels that are normally pulled through the tunnels carrying cement or consumer goods from Egypt. Since the summer, Egypt's military has tried to destroy or seal off most of the smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border, a consequence of the heightened tensions between Cairo and the Hamas government in Gaza. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza's tunnel smugglers along the border with Egypt are mostly idle these days.

Dad who saved girl in deadly rock slide remembered

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 02:17 AM PDT

Chaffee County Sheriff's Deputy Kevin Everson, right, and other deputies walk out the Agnes Vaille Falls trail shortly after leaving the scene of a rock slide that killed five people Monday, Sept. 30, 2013, in Chaffee County, Colo. Deputies who reached the area rescued a teenage girl who suffered a broken leg but had to pull back after rocks kept falling from a cliff and a boulder field with rocks estimated at weighing more than 100 tons began shifting. Rescuers were to return to the site Wednesday. (AP Photo/P. Solomon Banda)BUENA VISTA, Colo. (AP) — Friends preparing to bury five relatives who died in a Colorado rock slide are remembering the father credited for saving his daughter's life as a selfless volunteer who probably didn't flinch to jump in front of cascading boulders to protect his daughter.

Parliament showdown looms for Italy PM Letta

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 02:02 AM PDT

Italian premier Enrico Letta speaks during a video appearance at the Italian State RAI TV program ROME (AP) — Premier Enrico Letta appealed for his government's survival Wednesday ahead of confidence votes in Parliament amid a divisive split in Silvio Berlusconi's party that could at least temporarily save his fragile ruling coalition.

Gov't shutdown: No end in sight

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 01:39 AM PDT

With the federal government out of money and out of time, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., center, meets with House GOP conferees as the Republican-controlled House and the Democrat-controlled Senate remain at an impasse, neither side backing down over Obamacare, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. From left are, House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., Cantor, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Dave Camp , R-Mich., and Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ga. Graves led an effort with other emboldened conservatives that forced Speaker Boehner and the leadership to tie the money needed to keep the government running with defunding Obamacare. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Lawmakers in both parties suggest the impasse could last for weeks.
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