| Gunman kills TSA agent at LAX, injures 2 others Posted: 01 Nov 2013 01:06 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man with a semi-automatic rifle opened fire at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday, killing a TSA employee and wounding two other people in an attack that frightened passengers and disrupted flights nationwide, officials said.
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| Trial of Egypt's Morsi fraught with risks Posted: 01 Nov 2013 12:49 PM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's new military-backed government had hoped trying Mohammed Morsi would close the chapter on his presidency. Instead, the trial of the ousted Islamist president on charges of inciting murder, which begins Monday, is only compounding their troubles.
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| Union official: TSA agent killed in LAX shooting Posted: 01 Nov 2013 12:30 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — A gunman armed with a semi-automatic rifle opened fire at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday, killing a Transportation Security Administration employee and wounding two other people in an attack that frightened passengers and disrupted flights nationwide. |
| AP PHOTOS: A city rises from Syrian refugee camp Posted: 01 Nov 2013 11:58 AM PDT  A plan to turn a sprawling Syrian refugee shantytown into a functional temporary city has no shortage of difficulties. Zaatari, a desert camp near Jordan's border with Syria, is the largest camp of its kind in the region. It is home to more than 100,000 people who have fled the bloody Syrian civil war that continues to rage. Zaatari is currently far from the vision that some people have for it: a temporary city with local councils, paved streets, parks, an electricity grid and sewage pipes. Life is tough here. The strong often take from the weak, women fear going to communal bathrooms after dark, sewage runs between pre-fab trailers and boys hustle for pennies carting goods in wheelbarrows instead of going to school. This camp, the size of a modern city, is far from modern.
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| Possible shooting reported at Los Angeles airport Posted: 01 Nov 2013 11:42 AM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police and paramedics surrounded a terminal on Friday at Los Angeles International Airport because of a reported shooting. |
| Live updates from LAX shooting incident Posted: 01 Nov 2013 11:08 AM PDT |
| TSA employee shot at LAX terminal Posted: 01 Nov 2013 10:38 AM PDT  A suspect has been detained and flights halted at the airport.
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| UConn unanimous No. 1 in preseason women's hoops Posted: 01 Nov 2013 10:20 AM PDT  Geno Auriemma and his UConn Huskies are back in a familiar place — No. 1 in the poll.
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| Drone strike kills Pakistani Taliban chief: sources Posted: 01 Nov 2013 10:06 AM PDT  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The head of the Pakistani Taliban was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan on Friday, several security sources told Reuters, the latest in a series of blows to the country's most feared militant group. Hakimullah Mehsud, who was believed to be in his mid-30s and was one of Pakistan's most wanted men, has been reported dead several times before. But late on Friday, several intelligence, army and militant sources across Pakistan confirmed he had been killed in the drone strike in the lawless North Waziristan region. "We can confirm Hakimullah Mehsud was killed in the drone strike," said one senior security official.
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| What NYC might look like under de Blasio Posted: 01 Nov 2013 09:47 AM PDT  His Republican mayoral rival warns Gotham could return to its darker days.
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| Kenya Muslim leader: I could be killed next Posted: 01 Nov 2013 09:26 AM PDT  MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — In August 2012, a leader of a Kenyan mosque that has attracted extremist followers was shot dead as he drove through the streets of Mombasa. Fourteen months later, another leader of the same mosque met the same fate. There have been no arrests in either case.
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| Fan injured by hot dog suing Kansas City Royals Posted: 01 Nov 2013 09:11 AM PDT  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — If it had been a foul ball or broken bat that struck John Coomer in the eye as he watched a Kansas City Royals game, it's unlikely the courts would have forced the team to pay for the surgeries and suffering he's endured
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| In-flight phones: Others likely to follow FAA lead Posted: 01 Nov 2013 08:54 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — International regulators are likely to follow in the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's footsteps in loosening restrictions on the use of smartphones and other electronics during takeoff and landing.
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| Drone strike kills four, possibly a senior Taliban commander, in Pakistan Posted: 01 Nov 2013 08:38 AM PDT  By Saud Mehsud DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - A drone strike killed four people in Pakistan's lawless North Waziristan region on Friday, possibly including a senior Pakistani Taliban commander, intelligence sources said. North Waziristan is the stronghold of the Taliban insurgency and shares a border with Afghanistan. One Pakistan army source told Reuters separately the military were checking reports that a top Taliban commander might have been killed in the attack. There was no official comment from neither the government nor the Taliban.
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| German official: Snowden willing to testify before Congress Posted: 01 Nov 2013 08:20 AM PDT  The former NSA contractor wants to shed light on "possibly serious offenses."
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| AP PHOTOS: Syrian refugee camp becoming a city Posted: 01 Nov 2013 07:42 AM PDT A plan to turn a sprawling Syrian refugee shantytown into a functional temporary city has no shortage of difficulties. Zaatari, a desert camp near Jordan's border with Syria, is the largest camp of its kind in the region. It is home to more than 100,000 people who have fled the bloody Syrian civil war that continues to rage. Zaatari is currently far from the vision that some people have for it: a temporary city with local councils, paved streets, parks, an electricity grid and sewage pipes. Life is tough here. The strong often take from the weak, women fear going to communal bathrooms after dark, sewage runs between pre-fab trailers and boys hustle for pennies carting goods in wheelbarrows instead of going to school. This camp, the size of a modern city, is far from modern. |
| Largest camp for Syrian refugees becoming a city Posted: 01 Nov 2013 06:56 AM PDT  ZAATARI CAMP, Jordan (AP) — The manager of the region's largest camp for Syrian refugees arranges toy figures, trucks and houses on a map in his office trailer to illustrate his ambitious vision. In a year, he wants to turn the chaotic shantytown of 100,000 into a temporary city with local councils, paved streets, parks, an electricity grid and sewage pipes.
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| Murdoch journalist ordered 'do his phone', court hears Posted: 01 Nov 2013 06:38 AM PDT  Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson sent an email to a senior journalist at the disgraced tabloid ordering him to "do" a celebrity's phone, the trial over Britain's phone hacking scandal heard Friday. Coulson, who later became Prime Minister David Cameron's media chief, denies conspiring to illegally access celebrities' voicemail messages in a scandal which forced tycoon Rupert Murdoch to shut the paper in 2011. The trial heard Thursday that Coulson had been having an affair with fellow defendant Rebekah Brooks, his predecessor as editor and a close Murdoch confidante, for much of the time the pair are accused of involvement in hacking. Continuing to set out his case on Friday, prosecutor Andrew Edis said Coulson, as editor from 2003 until 2007, must have known his journalists were routinely hacking phones to glean stories for the tabloid, which prided itself on its celebrity scoops.
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| Former Obama aide denies he weighed dropping Biden Posted: 01 Nov 2013 06:22 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A new book asserts the idea of replacing Vice President Joe Biden with Hillary Rodham Clinton was floated in the president's 2012 re-election campaign. But the former White House chief of staff denies it. |
| NYC stop-frisk ruling halted by appeals court Posted: 01 Nov 2013 05:33 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court block of a judge's ruling that found the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy discriminated against minorities may be short lived, depending on the outcome of next week's mayoral election.
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| U.S. evangelicals stoke anti-gay intolerance in Uganda, film shows Posted: 01 Nov 2013 05:16 AM PDT  A documentary looks at the prominent ministry known as the International House of Prayer (IHOP).
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| Germany: Prepared to speak with Snowden Posted: 01 Nov 2013 04:58 AM PDT BERLIN (AP) — Germany's top security official said Friday he will try and find a way for Edward Snowden to speak to German officials if the former National Security Agency contractor is willing to provide details about the NSA's activities including the alleged surveillance of Chancellor Angela Merkel's cellphone. |
| Germany: Prepared to meet with Snowden Posted: 01 Nov 2013 04:26 AM PDT BERLIN (AP) — Germany's top security official says he will try to organize a meeting between German investigators and Edward Snowden if he's willing to give details about the National Security Agency's alleged monitoring of Chancellor Angela Merkel and other politicians' communications. |
| Gaza runs out of power Posted: 01 Nov 2013 04:10 AM PDT  Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - A shortage of fuel halted the production of electricity across the Gaza Strip on Friday, said the energy authority of the Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the Palestinian enclave. "We have completely stopped the operation of (Gaza's sole) power plant this morning at 6:00 am (0400 GMT) because we don't have a single litre of fuel," Fathi el-Sheikh Khalil, the authority's deputy chairman, told AFP. An AFP correspondent in the Gaza Strip said the electricity supply had been cut off across most of the territory on Friday morning. Khalil blamed the power outage on Israel's destruction of tunnels used for bringing fuel to Gaza and accused the Western-backed Palestinian Authority of charging Hamas too much for its fuel.
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| NYC stop-frisk appeal could be over after election Posted: 01 Nov 2013 03:36 AM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court block of a judge's ruling that found the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy discriminated against minorities may be short lived, depending on the outcome of next week's mayoral election. |
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