| Death of Israeli kingmaker leaves huge void Posted: 07 Oct 2013 12:50 PM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — To his supporters, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef was a revered spiritual sage who empowered masses of disenfranchised Sephardic Jews. Among secular Israelis, he was widely perceived as a medieval figure, bedecked in flowing robes and occasionally given to bizarre rants.
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| Health law glitches: fatal or fleeting? Posted: 07 Oct 2013 12:34 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The glitch-ridden rollout of President Barack Obama's health care law has opponents crowing: "Told you so!" and insisting it should be paused, if not scrapped.
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| Curt Schilling selling items from home Posted: 07 Oct 2013 11:46 AM PDT  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling — whose video game company collapsed into bankruptcy last year, prompting a high-profile lawsuit in Rhode Island — is selling off furniture, sports collectibles and even artificial plants from his Massachusetts home.
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| Americans, German-American win medicine Nobel Posted: 07 Oct 2013 11:29 AM PDT  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two Americans and a German-American won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering how key substances are transported within cells, a process involved in such important activities as brain cell communication and the release of insulin.
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| Divers recover 38 more bodies, death toll hits 232 Posted: 07 Oct 2013 11:13 AM PDT  LAMPEDUSA, Italy (AP) — Italian divers have recovered 38 more bodies from a smugglers' boat that capsized and sank to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea with hundreds of migrants on board.
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| Senate could vote on debt ceiling this week Posted: 07 Oct 2013 10:58 AM PDT  But the bill most likely would stall when it hits the Republican-controlled House
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| Kerry urges new nuclear proposals from Iran Posted: 07 Oct 2013 10:44 AM PDT  Nusa Dua (Indonesia) (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday urged Iran to come up with new nuclear proposals, rebuffing Tehran's position that the onus is now on foreign powers to unblock the long-running impasse.
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| Egypt judges advise dissolving Brotherhood party Posted: 07 Oct 2013 09:42 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — A panel of Egyptian judges has recommended the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood's political party, a move that signals a widening crackdown on the group.
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| Giant white diamond fetches record price at auction Posted: 07 Oct 2013 09:27 AM PDT  HONG KONG (AP) — A white diamond the size of a small egg sold for $30.6 million at a Hong Kong auction Monday night, edging out the previous record for such a stone set just six months ago.
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| White House open to short-term hike in debt limit Posted: 07 Oct 2013 09:27 AM PDT  The move could help avert a financial crisis and recession that would echo 2008 — or worse.
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| Syria makes 'excellent' start on chemical disarmament Posted: 07 Oct 2013 08:48 AM PDT  By Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria won foreign praise on Monday for starting to destroy its chemical arsenal, although an opposition activist said the world was merely giving President Bashar al-Assad time to kill more people with conventional weapons. An official from the international mission overseeing the stockpile's elimination said Damascus had made an excellent start on Sunday, and the United States acknowledged its rapid compliance with a U.N. resolution on destroying chemical weapons as extremely significant. ...
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| Wave of deadly attacks in Egypt kills 9 Posted: 07 Oct 2013 08:02 AM PDT CAIRO (AP) — A drive-by shooting killed six Egyptian soldiers east of Cairo on Monday, shortly after a massive car bombing hit the security headquarters in a town near the tourist resorts of southern Sinai, killing three policemen and wounding dozens. |
| 6 things you might not know about Justice Scalia Posted: 07 Oct 2013 07:47 AM PDT  The court's conservative firebrand, Antonin Scalia, gave an extensive interview to New York Magazine that reveals a few surprising things about him.
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| Divers recover 17 more bodies, death toll hits 211 Posted: 07 Oct 2013 07:15 AM PDT  LAMPEDUSA, Italy (AP) — Italian divers recovered 17 more bodies Monday from a smugglers' boat that capsized and sank to bottom of the Mediterranean Sea with hundreds of migrants on board.
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| Americans, German win Nobel for cell transport Posted: 07 Oct 2013 06:44 AM PDT STOCKHOLM (AP) — Americans James Rothman and Randy Schekman and German-born researcher Thomas Sudhof won the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries on how hormones, enzymes and other key substances are transported within cells. |
| Malala Yousafzai: ‘I Was Spared for a Reason’ Posted: 07 Oct 2013 06:14 AM PDT  "On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine," she says.
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| Bobby Jindal: ‘We’re all frustrated with what’s going on in D.C.’ Posted: 07 Oct 2013 05:57 AM PDT  Politics Confidential Louisiana governor and potential 2016 Republican presidential contender Bobby Jindal says he's "frustrated" with the lack of leadership in Washington but declined to directly criticize his own party for fueling the current government shutdown. "I'm not interested in Republican fratricide," Jindal told "Politics Confidential" when asked if he approved of the Republican Party's [...]
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| Shutdown spawns vacuum in farm market information Posted: 07 Oct 2013 05:26 AM PDT  WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — When Tim Peterson finished planting his 900 acres of winter wheat last week, the usually market-savvy Kansas farmer unexpectedly found himself struggling to make critical marketing decisions without being able to access to vital agricultural reports, casualties of the federal government shutdown.
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| AP PHOTOS: Lone family stays in Syrian village Posted: 07 Oct 2013 04:55 AM PDT  KFAR LATA, Syria (AP) — Grubby-faced children huddle around a small swing that was brought indoors so they could play — at least a tiny bit sheltered by the walls of their home from the relentless bombardment in the northern Syrian village of Kfar Lata.
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| Supreme Court to decide if voters can kill affirmative action Posted: 07 Oct 2013 04:40 AM PDT  The court will also decide campaign finance, prayer at legislative meetings, and abortion rights.
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| Ovadia Yosef, rabbi and Israeli kingmaker, dies Posted: 07 Oct 2013 04:24 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the religious scholar and spiritual leader of Israel's Sephardic Jews who transformed his downtrodden community of immigrants from North Africa and Arab nations and their descendants into a powerful force in Israeli politics, died on Monday. He was 93.
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| Egypt: 5 army soldiers killed in drive-by shooting Posted: 07 Oct 2013 04:08 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian security officials say one army officer and four soldiers were killed in a drive-by shooting east of Cairo.
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| 2 Americans, German win Nobel medicine prize Posted: 07 Oct 2013 03:37 AM PDT  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Americans James Rothman and Randy Schekman and German-born researcher Thomas Suedhof won the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries on how hormones, enzymes and other key substances are transported within cells.
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| Olympic flame relay highlights Putin's Russia Posted: 07 Oct 2013 03:22 AM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — In the words of President Vladimir Putin, the four-month Olympic flame relay will "show the world Russia as she is and as we love her."
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| Egypt: Huge explosion hits security HQ in Sinai Posted: 07 Oct 2013 03:06 AM PDT El-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Egyptian officials say a massive explosion, possibly from a car bomb, has hit the security headquarters in a southern Sinai town, killing two people and wounding 48. |
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