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• White House gets second barrier after fence jumping
• White House vulnerability study in 1990s warned of fence jumpers
• More insurers to join Obamacare in 2015
• Obama: No nation has 'free pass' on climate change
• Sierra Leone: 130 Ebola cases found during lockdown
• Chicago Mayor Emanuel proposes decriminalizing pot in Illinois
• Pa. fugitive appears in documentary as Vietnam War re-enactor
• Pentagon: Khorasan group nearing attack
• U.S. says will abide by Mine Ban Treaty except on Korean Peninsula
• 3 dead in shooting at UPS facility in Ala., say police
• U.S. court halts bitcoin mining operation Butterfly Labs: FTC
• Obama: War on Islamic State will ‘take time’
• Emergency call tapes detail slaying of family in Florida
• Russia to bolster Black Sea fleet with 80 new warships
• 'Suitcase full of fears': Pope calls for global effort on migration crisis
• U.S.: 'No safe haven' for militants
• Boeing, Liquid Robotics to cooperate on maritime surveillance
• Friend of accused Boston bomber seeks to have trial moved
• U.N. puts spotlight on climate change
• Obama scores coalition victory with Arab strikes
• U.S., partners begin airstrikes in Syria
• Israel military shoots down Syrian aircraft
• 2 suspects in abduction of Israeli teens killed
• Security heightened at Colorado army base after reports of shots fired
• More Americans than ever have never married: survey

White House gets second barrier after fence jumping Posted: 23 Sep 2014 01:36 PM PDT By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A second fence has been erected along part of the White House grounds, pushing tourists and passersby farther away after a fence jumper got into the executive mansion. The new waist-high barricade, which closes off part of the sidewalk on the Pennsylvania Avenue side of the White House, went up late Monday or early Tuesday. It is about 8 feet (2.4 meters) from the regular spike-topped fence. The barrier was erected after Iraq war veteran Omar Gonzalez, 42, allegedly scaled the 7-foot (2. ...

White House vulnerability study in 1990s warned of fence jumpers Posted: 23 Sep 2014 12:48 PM PDT The man who jumped the White House fence, ran across the North Lawn, up the stairs and through the front door before he was stopped by the Secret Service last week shocked security experts and lawmakers.

More insurers to join Obamacare in 2015 Posted: 23 Sep 2014 12:16 PM PDT The number of insurers offering individual health plans on the Obamacare exchanges will increase about 25 percent in 2015 and that should keep down prices, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Tuesday in a report. More than 7 million people signed up for health insurance through the exchanges in 2014, which were created under President Barack Obama's national healthcare reform law and offer income-based subsidies. Next year, there will be 63 additional issuers in the 44 states for which it has data, the agency said in a report. ...

Obama: No nation has 'free pass' on climate change Posted: 23 Sep 2014 12:00 PM PDT Pres. Obama warns that the globe's climate is changing faster than efforts to address it.

Sierra Leone: 130 Ebola cases found during lockdown Posted: 23 Sep 2014 11:12 AM PDT Sierra Leone says 130 confirmed cases of Ebola were found during a three-day nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the disease. Officials are awaiting tests on about 70 more suspected cases.

Chicago Mayor Emanuel proposes decriminalizing pot in Illinois Posted: 23 Sep 2014 10:24 AM PDT By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel asked Illinois lawmakers on Tuesday to reform sentencing for low-level drug offenses, which would include ticketing rather than arresting people caught with small amounts of marijuana. Emanuel had backed a 2012 change in Chicago law that decriminalized marijuana in the nation's third-largest city. Emanuel said on Tuesday that the change statewide would save tax dollars, allow police to focus on more serious crimes and keep non-violent offenders from a lifetime in the criminal justice system. ...

Pa. fugitive appears in documentary as Vietnam War re-enactor Posted: 23 Sep 2014 10:09 AM PDT CANADENSIS, Pa. (AP) — The manhunt for the survivalist accused of ambushing a state police barracks has narrowed to the rural area where he grew up and his parents still live, but the suspect has managed to elude capture despite the efforts of hundreds of law enforcement officials.

Pentagon: Khorasan group nearing attack Posted: 23 Sep 2014 09:53 AM PDT U.S. bombed cell of al-Qaida militants in northwestern Syria of whom few have heard.

U.S. says will abide by Mine Ban Treaty except on Korean Peninsula Posted: 23 Sep 2014 09:21 AM PDT By David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States edged closer on Tuesday to compliance with the international treaty banning anti-personnel landmines, saying it would abide by key requirements of the 1999 accord everywhere except on the Korean Peninsula. Advocates of the landmine ban welcomed the administration's efforts to adhere to provisions of the treaty, but said there was no justification for its continued insistence on the right to use them on the Korean Peninsula. "It's good that the Obama administration continues to inch toward joining the Mine Ban Treaty. ...

3 dead in shooting at UPS facility in Ala., say police Posted: 23 Sep 2014 08:51 AM PDT BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Police say three people have been killed in a shooting at a UPS facility in Birmingham, Alabama.

U.S. court halts bitcoin mining operation Butterfly Labs: FTC Posted: 23 Sep 2014 08:19 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. court has shut down Butterfly Labs, a Missouri company the Federal Trade Commission alleges deceptively marketed computers designed to produce bitcoins, the "virtual currency" payment system. The FTC's complaint against Butterfly and its corporate officers alleges that the company charged consumers thousands of dollars for its bitcoin computers, called BitForce, but then failed to provide the computers until they were almost obsolete, or in many cases did not provide the computers at all. ...

Obama: War on Islamic State will ‘take time’ Posted: 23 Sep 2014 08:03 AM PDT International support for Syrian air strikes proves "this is not America's fight alone."

Emergency call tapes detail slaying of family in Florida Posted: 23 Sep 2014 07:47 AM PDT By Letitia Stein TAMPA Fla. (Reuters) - Florida police released on Tuesday the tape from an emergency call placed last week by a 51-year-old felon in which he said he had just shot his daughter and her six children, adding that he planned to shoot himself when officers arrived. "I just shot my daughter and shot all my grandkids and I'll be sitting on my step and when you get here I'm going to shoot myself," Don Spirit said calmly, adding that one of the children was a baby. He grew tense when asked what type of gun he had used, demanding with profanities that authorities come to his house. ...

Russia to bolster Black Sea fleet with 80 new warships Posted: 23 Sep 2014 06:42 AM PDT By Vladimir Soldatkin NOVOROSSIYSK Russia (Reuters) - Russia will increase its Black Sea fleet with more than 80 new warships by 2020 and will complete a second naval base for the fleet near the city of Novorossiysk by 2016, its commander said on Tuesday. In comments made to President Vladimir Putin as he visited the port city, Vice Admiral Alexander Vitko said a second Black Sea base was needed in addition to the main base on the Crimea peninsula annexed from Ukraine because of NATO expansion. "Eighty ships and other vessels are expected to arrive (in Novorossiysk) before 2020. ...

'Suitcase full of fears': Pope calls for global effort on migration crisis Posted: 23 Sep 2014 06:26 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis called on Tuesday for countries to join forces to help the rising number of migrants, thousands of whom have died this year on perilous journeys to flee poverty and war. The pontiff's message comes as seaborne migration from North Africa to Europe is at a record high and the United States is seeing a surge in the number of children from Central America attempting to cross its southern border. ...

U.S.: 'No safe haven' for militants Posted: 23 Sep 2014 05:55 AM PDT U.S.-Arab strikes on Islamic State in Syria show group's attacks will be answered, Joint Chiefs say.

Boeing, Liquid Robotics to cooperate on maritime surveillance Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:35 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing Co , the No. 2 supplier to the U.S. Defense Department, and Liquid Robotics, a top supplier of autonomous ocean vehicles, on Tuesday said they had signed a multiyear agreement to collaborate on products for maritime surveillance. The companies said the initial focus would be to develop solutions for anti-submarine warfare, maritime domain awareness and other defense equipment. ...

Friend of accused Boston bomber seeks to have trial moved Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:20 AM PDT BOSTON (Reuters) - A friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber charged with lying to investigators has asked a judge to move his trial out of the city. The man, Robel Phillipos, is due in court on Tuesday for a final hearing before his trial starts on Sept. 29. U.S. prosecutors contend that Phillipos and two Kazakh exchange students, who were also friends of accused bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, went to Tsarnaev's college dorm room three days after the April 15, 2013 bombing and removed a laptop computer and backpack containing empty fireworks shells. ...

U.N. puts spotlight on climate change Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:48 AM PDT By Valerie Volcovici NEW YORK (Reuters) - With crises from Islamic State to Ebola competing for attention, the United Nations on Tuesday will zero in on climate change, giving leaders from 125 countries a platform to explain how they plan to address the issue. A huge march to call for international action on climate change, which brought as many as 400,000 people to the streets of New York on Sunday, set the tone for the summit spearheaded by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. ...

Obama scores coalition victory with Arab strikes Posted: 23 Sep 2014 02:42 AM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — For President Barack Obama, the participation of five Arab nations in airstrikes against militants in Syria marked an unexpected foreign policy victory as he plunges the U.S. deeper into a military conflict in the Middle East that he has reluctantly embraced.

U.S., partners begin airstrikes in Syria Posted: 23 Sep 2014 02:27 AM PDT The U.S. and five Arab countries launch strikes on Islamic State targets in eastern Syria.

Israel military shoots down Syrian aircraft Posted: 23 Sep 2014 01:55 AM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military shot down a Syrian fighter jet that infiltrated its airspace over the Golan Heights on Tuesday morning — the first such downing in decades, heightening tensions in the volatile plateau.

2 suspects in abduction of Israeli teens killed Posted: 23 Sep 2014 12:03 AM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces stormed a West Bank hideout early on Tuesday and killed two Palestinians suspected in the fatal abduction of three Israeli teens in June, one of the incidents that ultimately sparked the Gaza war this summer, an Israeli military spokesman said.

Security heightened at Colorado army base after reports of shots fired Posted: 22 Sep 2014 11:46 PM PDT (Reuters) - A U.S. Army base in Colorado ordered "an increased security presence" on Monday evening after reports of gun shots on or near the base, Fort Carson authorities said in a statement. "This is not thought to be an active shooter event," they added added. The installation near Colorado Springs, about 70 miles south of Denver, said the incident near its northwest perimeter happened at about 7:50 p.m. local time. There were no reports of injuries and an investigation was underway. (Reporting by Eric M. Johnson; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)

More Americans than ever have never married: survey Posted: 22 Sep 2014 09:55 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A record 20 percent of adult Americans, or 42 million people, have never married, marking a U.S. demographic and social shift, according to an analysis released on Wednesday. The rise in never-married adults is caused by several factors, including later ages for marriage and more people living together and raising children outside of wedlock, the report by the Pew Research Center said. In 2012, 23 percent of men and 17 percent of women 25 and older had never been married, marking a widening gap between the sexes. ...

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