| LAX returns to normal after chaotic night Posted: 23 Nov 2013 11:42 AM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Operations were back to normal at Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday following a car crash and false alarms that evacuated terminals, stalled dozens of flights and panicked passengers jittery after a recent shooting rampage.
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| Obama insists US economy 'headed in right direction' Posted: 23 Nov 2013 11:06 AM PST  Barack Obama, amid the lowest poll numbers of his presidency and a barrage of bad headlines, accentuated the positive on Saturday, telling Americans that the US economy is headed "in the right direction." "Over the past couple months, most of the political headlines you've read have probably been about the government shutdown and the launch of the Affordable Care Act," the president said in his weekly media address referring to the new health care law informally known as Obamacare. "But if you look beyond those headlines, there are some good things happening in our economy," he said. The president's approval ratings, battered by slow economic growth, the October partial government shutdown, and the clumsy health care law rollout, have sunk to around 40 percent, according to several recent polls.
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| Modest deal breaks deadlock at UN climate talks Posted: 23 Nov 2013 10:47 AM PST  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Avoiding a last-minute breakdown, annual U.N. climate talks have limped forward with a modest set of decisions meant to pave the way for a new pact to fight global warming.
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| Powerful storm system blasts US West; 4 killed Posted: 23 Nov 2013 10:14 AM PST  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Western U.S. has been drenched by a powerful storm system that blasted several states and has led to four deaths.
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| Powerful storm system blasts US West; 5 killed Posted: 23 Nov 2013 09:58 AM PST LAS VEGAS (AP) — A powerful storm system is marching across the Western U.S., leaving parts of Arizona, Nevada and California soaked as it bears down on New Mexico with predictions of widespread snow and freezing temperatures. |
| Iran nuclear talks in difficult 'homestretch' Posted: 23 Nov 2013 08:34 AM PST  Iranian and Western officials poured cold water Saturday on hopes that a landmark nuclear deal was all but sewn up after world power foreign ministers flew in to join talks with Tehran in Geneva. "We have now entered a very difficult stage," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told state television from the third round of talks in six weeks in Switzerland. The talks, held in the plush suites of a Geneva hotel, are aimed at securing a freeze on parts of Iran's nuclear programme in order to ease fears that it will develop atomic weapons, in return for modest sanctions relief. "It's not a done deal," said his German counterpart Guido Westerwelle.
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| Compromise breaks deadlock at UN climate talks Posted: 23 Nov 2013 07:45 AM PST WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Developed countries and fast-growing economies have reached a last-minute compromise to avert a breakdown of U.N. climate talks in Warsaw. |
| UN climate talks on 'brink of collapse' Posted: 23 Nov 2013 07:10 AM PST WARSAW, Poland (AP) — U.N. climate talks were deadlocked Saturday as the U.S. and China clashed over what role the Chinese and other fast-growing economies should play in a new pact to fight global warming. |
| Activists: Government airstrikes kill 44 in Syria Posted: 23 Nov 2013 06:52 AM PST BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian activists say a string of government airstrikes on rebel-held areas in the north have killed at least 44 people. |
| Zumba instructor in prostitution bust leaves jail Posted: 23 Nov 2013 06:02 AM PST  ALFRED, Maine (AP) — The Zumba instructor who ran a prostitution business in which she videotaped unsuspecting clients so her business partner could watch from his office 100 miles away has been released from jail, bringing to a close a scandal featuring sex videos, adultery and a client list with more than 100 names.
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| Activists: Government airstrikes kill 29 in Syria Posted: 23 Nov 2013 05:46 AM PST BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government airstrikes on rebel-held areas in the north killed at least 29 people Saturday, activists said, as al-Qaida-linked rebels captured one of the country's oil field in the east. |
| Zumba teacher in prostitution bust leaves jail Posted: 23 Nov 2013 05:12 AM PST ALFRED, Maine (AP) — The Zumba instructor who ran a prostitution business in which she videotaped unsuspecting clients so her business partner could watch from his office 100 miles away has been released from jail, bringing to a close a scandal featuring sex videos, adultery and a client list with more than 100 names. |
| Hard bargaining in Geneva on Iran nuclear deal Posted: 23 Nov 2013 04:56 AM PST  GENEVA (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and five foreign ministers joined Iran nuclear talks Saturday, cautioning there were no guarantees their participation would be enough to seal a deal to curb Tehran's atomic program.
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| Kerry, top diplomats join Iran nuclear talks Posted: 23 Nov 2013 04:22 AM PST Cautioning there are no guarantees, they hope to seal a deal to curb Tehran's atomic program. |
| Surfer killed by shark off Australia's west coast Posted: 23 Nov 2013 02:05 AM PST PERTH, Australia (AP) — A 35-year-old surfer was fatally mauled by a shark Saturday off a notorious stretch of Australia's west coast, police said. |
| Auto crash, gun fears bring chaotic night to LAX Posted: 23 Nov 2013 12:40 AM PST LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fears of gunfire, false alarms and a real auto accident brought minutes of chaos and hours of delays to Los Angeles International Airport, where frayed nerves remained three weeks after a gunman killed one person and injured three others. |
| Zumba teacher in prostitution bust set for release Posted: 23 Nov 2013 12:23 AM PST  ALFRED, Maine (AP) — The Zumba instructor whose prostitution case shocked a quiet seaside Maine community is about to be released from jail, bringing to a close a scandal featuring sex videos, adultery and a long client list that allegedly included a former mayor and a minister.
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| Climate talks stalled over finance, carbon cuts Posted: 23 Nov 2013 12:04 AM PST WARSAW, Poland (AP) — U.N. climate talks have carried over into an extra day as more than 190 countries wrangle over climate aid to developing countries and milestones for work on a new global warming pact. |
| Anniversary of JFK death brings sadness, solemnity Posted: 22 Nov 2013 10:59 PM PST  DALLAS (AP) — It was the same time, 12:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 22. It was the same place, downtown Dallas.
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| U.S. arrests son of Mexican cartel boss Posted: 22 Nov 2013 10:28 PM PST  The son of a leader of Mexico's feared Sinaloa cartel has been arrested in the United States for drug trafficking, prosecutors said Friday. Serafin Zambada-Ortiz, 23, was detained after being stopped Wednesday as he tried to enter America at Arizona's Nogales border crossing, said the US Attorney's Office for southern California. He appeared in court Thursday, and is due back before a judge on Monday in Tucson, said spokeswoman Kelly Thornton. Zambada-Ortiz is the son of Sinaloa cartel leader Ismael Zambada-Garcia, also known as Mayo.
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| 3 killed in California as winter weather hits West Posted: 22 Nov 2013 10:12 PM PST  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Three people were killed in blustery Northern California, football playoffs were called off because of rain in Arizona, and dozens of cars became stranded in snowy rural Nevada as winter weather barreled through the West.
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| Security, military police dominate Honduras vote Posted: 22 Nov 2013 09:21 PM PST  TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The last thing Honduras needs is a presidential election that's a draw.
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| TV set up in typhoon city to beam Pacquiao fight Posted: 22 Nov 2013 08:50 PM PST  TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) — Hoping to lift the spirits of thousands of people left homeless by a deadly typhoon in the Philippines, cable operators on Saturday set up TV screens inside an astrodome, near a church and in other landmarks in the devastated region to broadcast live boxing icon Manny Pacquiao's comeback fight.
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| Remains in California are those of missing boys Posted: 22 Nov 2013 08:00 PM PST  VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Bones found at a Southern California desert gravesite are those of two boys whose parents also were buried there, coroner's officials confirmed Friday.
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| Dallas confronts its darkest day Posted: 22 Nov 2013 07:44 PM PST  Fifty years after JFK's death, Dallas held its first official observation.
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