| Clinton: Obama should honor health care pledge Posted: 12 Nov 2013 12:17 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Adding pressure to fix the administration's problem-plagued health care program, former President Bill Clinton says President Barack Obama should find a way to let people keep their health coverage, even if it means changing the law.
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| US Airways-American Airlines reach merger settlement Posted: 12 Nov 2013 12:01 PM PST  By Diane Bartz and Soyoung Kim WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - US Airways Group Inc and American Airlines will give low-cost competitors more access to a half dozen key U.S. airports, including New York and Washington, D.C., in exchange for permission to merge and create the world's largest airline. The agreement announced on Tuesday settles a government lawsuit filed in August that argued that US Airways and AMR Corp, parent of bankrupt American Airlines, should be forced to scrap the merger because it would hinder competition and lead to higher fares. It is a compromise for the airlines, which will divest a number of takeoff and landing slots at Reagan National Airport just outside Washington, D.C., and at New York's LaGuardia Airport, both busy airports with limited capacity.
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| Confusion in Egypt over end of state of emergency Posted: 12 Nov 2013 11:25 AM PST  CAIRO (AP) — A court declared that Egypt's 3-month-old state of emergency expired Tuesday, two days earlier than expected, throwing the government and security agencies into confusion amid worries that its lifting could add new fire to protests by supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.
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| Spanish pianist could face jail for practicing Posted: 12 Nov 2013 11:07 AM PST MADRID (AP) — To most people, noise pollution is a jet engine roaring over their head. For one Spanish woman, it was a neighbor playing the piano more softly than a spoken conversation. |
| What an American-US Airways merger means for you Posted: 12 Nov 2013 10:27 AM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — American Airlines and US Airways have cleared the last major hurdle to merging, but it will be several months — if not years — before passengers see any significant impact.
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| Govt in agreement to allow American merger Posted: 12 Nov 2013 10:11 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says it has reached an agreement to allow American Airlines and US Airways to merge, creating the world's biggest airline.
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| Aquino: Philippines typhoon death toll closer to 2,000 or 2,500, not 10,000 Posted: 12 Nov 2013 09:55 AM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The death toll from the massive typhoon that hit the Philippines is likely closer to 2,000 or 2,500, not the previously reported figure of 10,000, President Benigno Aquino told CNN in an interview on Tuesday. "The figure right now I have is about 2,000, but this might still get higher," Aquino told CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour in an interview was posted on CNN's website. "Ten thousand, I think, is too much," he told CNN. "There was emotional drama involved with that particular estimate." (Reporting by Susan Heavey; Editing by Will Dunham)
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| U.S. justices decline to hear second Oklahoma abortion case Posted: 12 Nov 2013 09:39 AM PST  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review a decision striking down a Oklahoma law that required any woman seeking an abortion to be shown an ultrasound image of the fetus beforehand. By refusing to hear the case, the high court left intact an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that struck down the law on the basis that it violated the U.S. Supreme Court's precedent on abortion restrictions. It was the second time in two weeks that the high court had declined to review an Oklahoma court ruling that struck down an abortion restriction. Last week, the court dismissed another case concerning a state law in Oklahoma that cracked down on the use of the abortion-inducing drug RU-486.
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| Bill Clinton says Obama needs to keep health care vow Posted: 12 Nov 2013 09:01 AM PST  The former president says he like the law, but says it may need modified.
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| 1 World Trade Center named as tallest US building Posted: 12 Nov 2013 08:23 AM PST  CHICAGO (AP) — The new World Trade Center tower in New York knocked Chicago's Willis Tower off its pedestal as the nation's tallest building when an international panel of architects announced Tuesday that the needle atop the skyscraper can be counted when measuring the structure's height.
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| Committee to say whether NY tower tallest building Posted: 12 Nov 2013 08:07 AM PST  CHICAGO (AP) — An expert committee of architects is set to announce whether New York's new World Trade Center tower or Chicago's Willis Tower is the tallest building in the U.S.
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| The secret, dirty cost of Obama's green power push Posted: 12 Nov 2013 07:33 AM PST  CORYDON, Iowa (AP) — The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America's push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed away the soil. The polluted streams that dump fertilizer into the water supply.
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| High court won't hear Okla. ultrasound case Posted: 12 Nov 2013 06:59 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is declining to revive Oklahoma's strict ultrasound law for women seeking abortions. |
| Committee to say whether NY tower tallest building Posted: 12 Nov 2013 06:23 AM PST  An expert committee of architects is set to announce whether New York's new World Trade Center tower or Chicago's Willis Tower is the tallest building in the U.S. The Height Committee of the Council on ...
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| Relief efforts hampered in Philippines' hardest-hit areas Posted: 12 Nov 2013 06:07 AM PST  Aid workers, medical teams overwhelmed by thousands seeking food, shelter and rescue.
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| The secret, dirty cost of Obama's green power push Posted: 12 Nov 2013 05:13 AM PST  The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America's push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed away the soil. The polluted streams that dump fertilizer into the water supply. Even ...
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| Relief efforts hampered in Philippines' hardest-hit areas Posted: 12 Nov 2013 04:57 AM PST  Aid workers, medical teams overwhelmed by thousands seeking food, shelter and rescue.
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| 5-ex Madoff employees on trial in NYC for fraud Posted: 12 Nov 2013 04:39 AM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — In the many years he spent as a trader at Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, David Kugel learned that investments that Madoff claimed to be making for clients were fiction.
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| Iran denies it scuttled nuclear talks Posted: 12 Nov 2013 02:58 AM PST  Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday denied US claims that the Islamic republic had scuttled nuclear talks in Geneva, pointing instead to France as the culprit. US Secretary of State John Kerry said in Abu Dhabi on Monday Iran had balked at the Geneva talks just as world powers were closing in on a deal to curb Tehran's nuclear programme in return for sanctions relief. "The P5+1 was unified on Saturday when we presented our proposal to the Iranians... But Iran couldn't take it," said Kerry, who took part in the high-level talks. Zarif, on his Twitter account, alluded to comments by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who has been pilloried in the Iranian media after reports emerged that he scuppered a potential deal.
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| Bitter Morocco-Algeria row before king's US trip Posted: 12 Nov 2013 02:05 AM PST RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A Saharan stand-off may become a U.S. problem. |
| Slain musicians came to NYC for music freedom Posted: 11 Nov 2013 11:50 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Iranian musicians Soroush and Arash Farazmand came to the United States to pursue their passion — playing music in an indie rock band called the Yellow Dogs. But they gained their notoriety in another, horrific way.
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| Industry takes aim at AP ethanol investigation Posted: 11 Nov 2013 09:40 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — A new Associated Press investigation, which found that ethanol hasn't lived up to some of the government's clean-energy promises, is drawing a fierce response from the ethanol industry.
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| AP PHOTOS: A tough life on Lima's rough edges Posted: 11 Nov 2013 09:25 PM PST  LIMA, Peru (AP) — A little more than a half hour by car from the touristy Lima of fine cuisine and breezy seaside promenades is the soup kitchen where Juan Barrueta, an 84-year-old candy vendor, pays less than a dollar for lunch.
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| Bucs hold off Dolphins 22-19 for first victory Posted: 11 Nov 2013 09:10 PM PST  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Mike Glennon threw a 1-yard touchdown pass to tackle Donald Penn and led a long fourth-quarter TD drive to put the Buccaneers ahead for good in a 22-19 victory over the embattled Miami Dolphins on Monday night.
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| Dolphins lead Bucs 19-15 after 3rd quarter Posted: 11 Nov 2013 08:22 PM PST  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Ryan Tannehill threw two touchdown passes to Rishard Matthews and the Miami Dolphins rallied to take a 19-15 lead over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after three quarters on Monday night.
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