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Autumn storms slam the Midwest

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 12:46 PM PDT

Autumn storms slam the MidwestTravis Randall walks through the debris-strewn yard of his parent's home in Hickman, Neb., Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, after it was struck by a tornado. Powerful storms crawled into the Midwest on Friday, dumping heavy snow in South Dakota, spawning a tornado in Nebraska and threatening dangerous thunderstorms from Oklahoma to Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Egypt: 4 killed in clashes during Islamist protest

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 12:15 PM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans against Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and hold placards showing an open palm with four raised fingers, which has become a symbol of the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where Morsi supporters had held a sit-in for weeks that was violently dispersed in August during a protest in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. The traffic sign on the bridge reads, CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian Health Ministry official says four people have been killed in clashes between Islamist supporters of the ousted president and security forces.

White House supports back pay for federal workers

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 11:44 AM PDT

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Md., center, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, during an event with the Democratic Progressive Caucus and furloughed federal employees blaming House Republicans on the government shutdown. From left are, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., Hoyer, Rep. Bernard Sanders and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it supports House legislation to give back pay to federal workers furloughed during the current partial government shutdown.

Migrants used empty water bottles to stay afloat

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 11:28 AM PDT

In this image made from video provided by the Italian Coast Guard and recorded on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, survivors of a ship transporting hundreds of migrants which caught fire and sank wear thermal rescue blankets after being rescued by the Italian Coast Guard off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, Italy. Authorities on Friday, Oct. 4 are contending with choppy waters in the search for dozens of migrants believed to have drowned after their rickety boat caught fire and sank off the coast of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa. (AP Photo/Italian Coast Guard)LAMPEDUSA, Italy (AP) — Survivors of a fiery shipwreck that killed more than 110 African migrants clung for hours to empty water bottles in the dark, trying desperately to keep themselves from drowning in the sea, an Italian fisherman said Friday.

Tweeter Home shares explode, as traders confuse it for Twitter

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 10:57 AM PDT

The BunkBy Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) - Excitement for Twitter's coming IPO is running pretty high - so much so that some investors on Friday mistook the nearly worthless stock of long-dead electronics retailer Tweeter for the "tweeting" site, sending shares up more than 1,000 percent. Tweeter Home Entertainment Group, a specialty consumer electronics company that went bankrupt in 2007, saw a its most active day of trading in more than six years even though it has nothing to do with the social media site. ...

Legendary Vietnam Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap dies at 102

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 10:42 AM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, June 23, 1997, file photo, former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, left, speaks to his onetime foe Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap in Hanoi, Vietnam. Officials say Giap, the military mastermind who drove the French and the Americans out of Vietnam, died at a Hanoi hospital Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, at age 102. He was the country's last famous communist revolutionary, and used ingenious guerrilla tactics to overcome enormous odds against superior forces. (AP Photo/Tri Hieu, File)HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, the brilliant and ruthless commander who led a ragtag army of guerrillas to victory in Vietnam over first the French and then the Americans, died Friday. The last of the country's old-guard revolutionaries was 102.

6 lessons of the government shutdown

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 10:26 AM PDT

Congressman caught snoozing during shutdown debateThese days, D.C. has come to stand for Dysfunction Central.

Rodriguez sues MLB and Selig, citing 'witch hunt'

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 09:42 AM PDT

New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez arrives at the offices of Major League Baseball, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013 in New York. The grievance to overturn Rodriguez's 211-game suspension began Monday before arbitrator Fredric Horowitz. (AP Photo/David Karp)NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Rodriguez took a swing for the fences in a bid to restore his reputation and lucrative career with the New York Yankees, accusing Major League Baseball and Commissioner Bud Selig in a lawsuit made public Friday of pursuing him in a "witch hunt" designed to smear Rodriguez' character and cost him tens of millions of dollars.

Dems say it's time for GOP to unite, end shutdown

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 09:22 AM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks about the government shutdown and debt ceiling during a visit to M. Luis Construction, which specializes in asphalt manufacturing, concrete paving, and roadway reconstruction, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, in Rockville, Md. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama decided to stay home from economic summits in Asia as Democrats stepped up pressure on congressional Republicans to rein in their tea party faction and reopen the government with no strings attached.

Boehner demands two-party negotiations

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 09:08 AM PDT

Obama Pins Government Shutdown on Boehner'This isn't some damn game,' the House Speaker said on Friday.

Reds dump manager Dusty Baker after playoff loss

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 08:53 AM PDT

Cincinnati Reds manager Dusty Baker watches from the dugout steps as the Pittsburgh Pirates bat in the fifth inning of the NL wild-card playoff baseball game Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)CINCINNATI (AP) — The Reds fired Dusty Baker on Friday, ousting the manager who led them to their best stretch of success since the Big Red Machine but couldn't get them past the first round of the postseason.

Pope trip to St. Francis' town highlights goals

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 08:34 AM PDT

Pope Francis is welcomed by children as he arrives to the Caritas Reception Center at St. Mary of the Angels, near Assisi, Italy, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, to lunch alongside the poor people who are being assisted at the Center. Pope Francis made a pilgrimage Friday to the hillside town of Assisi and the tomb of his namesake, St. Francis, the 13th-century friar who renounced a wealthy, dissolute lifestyle to embrace a life of poverty. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, pool)ASSISI, Italy (AP) — Pope Francis broke bread with the poor and embraced the disabled on a pilgrimage to his namesake's hometown Friday, urging the faithful to follow the example of the 13th-century St. Francis, who renounced a wealthy, dissolute lifestyle to embrace a life of poverty and service to the poor.

Reds fire manager Dusty Baker after playoff loss

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 08:17 AM PDT

Cincinnati Reds manager Dusty Baker watches from the dugout steps as the Pittsburgh Pirates bat in the fifth inning of the NL wild-card playoff baseball game Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)CINCINNATI (AP) — The Reds have fired manager Dusty Baker, who led them to their best stretch of success since the Big Red Machine but couldn't get them past the first round of the playoffs.

Already? Heavy snow, thunderstorms moving into Midwest

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 07:42 AM PDT

This NOAA satellite image taken Thursday, October 03, 2013 at 11:00 AM EDT shows a developing storm in the Northern Rockies is generating clouds with rain showers and snow across the Upper Mississippi Valley and Northern and Central Plains into the Northern Rockies and Intermountain West. Fair conditions exist across the remaining regions. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Powerful storms crawled into the Midwest on Friday, dumping heavy snow in South Dakota, spawning a tornado in Nebraska and threatening dangerous thunderstorms from Oklahoma to Wisconsin.

Legendary Vietnam Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap dies

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 07:26 AM PDT

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vo Nguyen Giap, the brilliant and ruthless self-taught general who drove the French out of Vietnam to free it from colonial rule and later forced the Americans to abandon their grueling effort to save the country from communism, has died. At age 102, he was the last of Vietnam's old-guard revolutionaries.

Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood protesters march in Cairo

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 06:56 AM PDT

Supporters of deposed President Mursi and Muslim Brotherhood clash with anti-Mursi protesters during march in CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - Defying a crackdown, thousands of supporters of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood marched through a Cairo suburb on Friday toward the site of their former protest camp that was crushed by security forces in August, a Reuters witness said. Soldiers and policemen boosted their presence around Rabaa al-Adaweya mosque, the larger of the Brotherhood's two former Cairo sit-ins, as the march approached, the state news agency reported. ...

Police identify prime suspect in biker road rage incident

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 06:24 AM PDT

Police identify prime suspect in biker road rage incidentPolice search for the man who smashed the window of an SUV driver, who was then beaten after an accident.

Pope, in Assisi, calls on Church to shun vanity

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 05:54 AM PDT

Pope Francis arrives at St. Francis Basilica during his pastoral visit in AssisiBy Philip Pullella ASSISI, Italy (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Church, from the lowliest priest to the pontiff himself, must strip itself of all "vanity, arrogance and pride" and humbly serve the poorest members of society, Pope Francis said on Friday. The pope's appeal, made in the central Italian hill town of Assisi where his namesake Saint Francis lived in the 12th century, comes amid a drive by Francis to turn around a Church plagued by financial and sexual abuse scandals. Saint Francis is revered by Catholics and many other Christians for his simplicity, poverty and love of nature. ...

Twitter dishes tantalizing tidbits in IPO treatise

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 05:08 AM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2013, file photo, a smartphone display shows the Twitter logo in Berlin, Germany, Twitter unsealed the documents Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, for its planned initial public offering of stock and says it hopes to raise up to $1 billion. (AP Photo/dpa, Soeren Stache, File)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter, a privately held company built on blurbs, has finally laid itself bare in documents that read more like a treatise than a tweet.

In Asia, Obama's no-show is a boost for China's Xi

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 04:36 AM PDT

Chinese President Xi Jinping, foreground right, bows as he inspects a guard of honor during a welcoming ceremony at Parliament Square in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. Xi is on a three-day state visit to Malaysia. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)BEIJING (AP) — President Barack Obama has called off a trip to Asia just as China's president is being feted in regional capitals ahead of summits where the U.S. no-show will give China a chance to shine and boost its influence.

As shutdown drags on, lawmakers focus on posturing

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 04:06 AM PDT

US Speaker of the House John Boehner arrives to speak to the media following a meeting with US President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington, DC, October 2, 2013"This place is a mad house," one Congressman said. It would be funny if it weren't true.

Search resumes for dead in migrant shipwreck

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 03:32 AM PDT

Rescuers lift a body as they reach the port of Lampedusa, southern Italy, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. At least 114 people died and scores more were missing late Thursday after a crowded fishing boat carrying African migrants from Tripoli caught fire, flipped over and sank, Italian officials said. Between 450 and 500 people were believed to be on board; health commissioner Antonio Candela said only 159 were rescued. (AP Photo/Danilo Taralli)LAMPEDUSA, Italy (AP) — Authorities are contending with choppy waters in the search for dozens of migrants believed to have drowned after their rickety boat caught fire and sank off the coast of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa.

UK's powerful Daily Mail faces a political storm

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 01:49 AM PDT

Copies of Britain's Daily Mail newspaper are offered for sale at a newsagent in London, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. Reading Britain's Daily Mail newspaper will tell you that many things you eat can give you cancer, global warming is probably bunk and the British way of life is under threat from pernicious Eurocrats in Brussels. The Mail is Britain's most polarizing _ and arguably most powerful _ paper. To fans, it's the voice of old-fashioned British values and the enemy of meddling bureaucrats and stultifying political correctness. To critics it's a sensationalist, small-minded rag that demonizes feminists, immigrants and the poor. To politicians, the Mail is a formidable force whose blessing can help deliver crucial swing votes and whose wrath is best avoided. But the Mail may have miscalculated when it picked a fight with Ed Miliband, leader of the left-of-center opposition Labour Party, by running a story slamming Miliband's late father as LONDON (AP) — Britain's Daily Mail newspaper will tell you that many things you eat can give you cancer, global warming is probably bunk and the British way of life is under threat from pernicious Eurocrats in Brussels.

Obama cancels Asia trip to deal with shutdown

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 01:28 AM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks about the government shutdown and debt ceiling during a visit to M. Luis Construction, which specializes in asphalt manufacturing, concrete paving, and roadway reconstruction, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, in Rockville, Md. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is canceling a trip to Asia to stay in Washington and push for an elusive funding bill to get the nation's business back up and running.

Kershaw fans 12, Dodgers beat Braves 6-1 in Game 1

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 12:37 AM PDT

Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw works against the Atlanta Braves in the second inning of Game 1 of the National League Divisional Series, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman)ATLANTA (AP) — Clayton Kershaw finally has his first postseason win.
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