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• Voters are punishing Obama for this one economic failure
• Bill Clinton to the rescue
• Major casualty in Baghdad car bomb blast
• U.S. says 21 air raids slow IS advance near Turkey border
• Oklahoma newspaper publisher, wife, daughter found dead in family home
• For sublet, urgently: House where Adolf Hitler was born
• Protesters, Hong Kong police in standoff near government HQ
• Family that lived with Texas Ebola victim showing no symptoms: mayor
• Supreme Court leaves California foie gras ban intact
• Prosecutor: Pistorius offered 'blood money'
• Ebola death rate increases to 70 percent
• Newly-found ancient cult complex may have been for storm god worship
• Despite recent headlines, 'official' Palestine still a long way off
• Former Charlotte, N.C., mayor faces sentencing for corruption
• California bus driver quarantined after Ebola scare
• German hospital: UN worker dies of Ebola
• Doctor gives blood for Ebola-infected Dallas nurse
• Two killed as storms move across southern United States
• Americans face post-foreclosure hell as wages garnished, assets seized
• Police arrest 50 protesting shootings of blacks in St. Louis area
• U.S. needs to rethink Ebola infection controls, says CDC chief
• Inside Bashar Assad's torture chambers (Warning: 'Horrific' images)
• State media: N. Korea leader Kim appears in public with walking stick
• Police: Nearly 50 arrested in Ferguson protests
• N. Korea's Kim reappears after extended absence

Voters are punishing Obama for this one economic failure Posted: 14 Oct 2014 11:11 AM PDT Voters are punishing Obama for this one economic failure

Bill Clinton to the rescue Posted: 14 Oct 2014 10:37 AM PDT LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Democrats are again enlisting their favorite political son to fend off a Republican drive to claim a U.S. Senate seat and other top offices, announcing Tuesday that former President Bill Clinton will return to the state to campaign for the second time this month.

Major casualty in Baghdad car bomb blast Posted: 14 Oct 2014 10:21 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A Shi'ite Muslim member of Iraq's parliament was killed in a car bomb attack at a checkpoint entrance to the Shi'ite neighborhood of Kadhimiya in Baghdad on Tuesday, according to a parliamentary media official and police. Police and medics said Ahmed Al-Khafaji, also a member of the Shi'ite Badr political party, was among 25 people killed in the blast on the edge of Kadhimiya, home to the Shi'ite shrine of Imam Kahdim. Khafaji is also a former deputy interior minister, his party said. The death toll was earlier reported to be 18. ...

U.S. says 21 air raids slow IS advance near Turkey border Posted: 14 Oct 2014 10:03 AM PDT Washington (AFP) - US-led aircraft hammered Islamic State jihadists with 21 bombing raids near Kobane on Monday and Tuesday amid signs the strikes had "slowed" the group's advance on the Syrian border town, the American military said.

Oklahoma newspaper publisher, wife, daughter found dead in family home Posted: 14 Oct 2014 09:13 AM PDT By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - The publisher of a newspaper in a small Oklahoma city, his wife and their 17-year-old daughter were found dead inside their home on Monday and the local prosecutor is treating their deaths as homicides, according to police and newspapers. The bodies of John Hruby; his wife, Katherine "Tinker" Hruby; and their daughter, Katherine, were found by a housekeeper around 9 a.m. on Monday, police in the southern Oklahoma city of Duncan said. ...

For sublet, urgently: House where Adolf Hitler was born Posted: 14 Oct 2014 08:54 AM PDT Vienna (AFP) - Austria's interior ministry is appealing to other government departments to take over the house where Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau, amid a long-running debate over what should become of the building.

Protesters, Hong Kong police in standoff near government HQ Posted: 14 Oct 2014 08:20 AM PDT HONG KONG (AP) — Dozens of pro-democracy protesters were in a tense standoff Tuesday night with a large number of riot police near Hong Kong's government headquarters.

Family that lived with Texas Ebola victim showing no symptoms: mayor Posted: 14 Oct 2014 07:46 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The family who shared an apartment with a Liberian man who died of Ebola in Texas is showing no signs of illness, while the dog of a nurse who contracted the deadly virus is healthy and being cared for, Dallas's mayor said on Tuesday. Thomas Eric Duncan's girlfriend, her 13-year-old son and two nephews in their 20s had been living with Duncan before he was admitted to a Dallas hospital on Sept. 28. "So far no signs of the virus in any of them," Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said on CNN. "We check them twice a day, and everybody's healthy. ...

Supreme Court leaves California foie gras ban intact Posted: 14 Oct 2014 07:29 AM PDT By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a victory for animal rights activists, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed California to continue to ban foie gras, a delicacy produced from the enlarged livers of ducks and geese that have been force-fed corn. Rejecting a legal challenge to the law, the court declined to hear an appeal filed by restaurants and producers of foie gras. In doing so, the high court left intact an August 2013 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the law. California enacted the law in 2004 but it did not go into effect until 2012. ...

Prosecutor: Pistorius offered 'blood money' Posted: 14 Oct 2014 07:12 AM PDT PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius offered $34,000 to the family of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp after he killed her, but the family rejected the funds because they did not want "blood money," a prosecutor said Tuesday at the sentencing hearing for the double-amputee athlete.

Ebola death rate increases to 70 percent Posted: 14 Oct 2014 06:39 AM PDT World Health Organization also warned of potential for 10,000 new cases per week in 2 months.

Newly-found ancient cult complex may have been for storm god worship Posted: 14 Oct 2014 05:32 AM PDT A massive cult complex, dating back about 3,300 years, has been discovered at the site of Tel Burna in Israel. Inside the complex, researchers discovered three connected cups, fragments of facemasks, massive jars that are almost as big as a person and burnt animal bones that may indicate sacrificial rituals. The archaeologists said they aren't sure who was worshipped at the complex, though Baal, the Canaanite storm god, is a possibility. "The letters of Ugarit [an ancient site in modern-day Syria] suggest that of the Canaanite pantheon, Baal, the Canaanite storm god, would have been the most likely candidate," Itzhaq Shai, a professor at Ariel University who is directing a research project at Tel Burna, told Live Science in an email.

Despite recent headlines, 'official' Palestine still a long way off Posted: 14 Oct 2014 05:17 AM PDT Paris (AFP) - Despite a highly-symbolic British vote to recognise Palestine as a state, the road to official recognition is still fraught with obstacles, experts say, with the hoped-for two-state solution a long way off.

Former Charlotte, N.C., mayor faces sentencing for corruption Posted: 14 Oct 2014 04:29 AM PDT CHARLOTTE N.C. (Reuters) - Former Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon is due to be sentenced on Tuesday after admitting to using his public positions in North Carolina's largest city for personal financial gain, including taking at least $50,000 in bribes. Cannon, a Democrat who served on the Charlotte City Council before being elected mayor last November, pleaded guilty in June to a public corruption charge. A nearly four-year investigation resulted in his arrest and resignation in March. U.S. ...

California bus driver quarantined after Ebola scare Posted: 14 Oct 2014 04:13 AM PDT (Reuters) - A Los Angeles bus driver was quarantined for several hours on Monday after a passenger wearing a surgical mask claimed he had Ebola, a county transportation official said. The man, who was accompanied by a woman without any protective gear, boarded the Venice, California-bound bus and told the driver, "Don't mess with me. I have Ebola," said Los Angeles County Metro spokesman Paul Gonzales. After a few minutes, the man dropped his mask and exited the bus with the woman, Gonzales said. ...

German hospital: UN worker dies of Ebola Posted: 14 Oct 2014 02:23 AM PDT The United Nations medical official was infected with Ebola while working in Liberia.

Doctor gives blood for Ebola-infected Dallas nurse Posted: 13 Oct 2014 11:55 PM PDT DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas nurse who caught Ebola while treating a Liberian patient who died of the disease has received a plasma transfusion donated by a doctor who beat the virus.

Two killed as storms move across southern United States Posted: 13 Oct 2014 11:06 PM PDT BIRMINGHAM Al (Reuters) - Two people were killed and at least four were injured on Monday as a strong storm swept across several southern U.S. states, officials said. A 75-year-old woman was killed about 45 miles (72 km) outside Birmingham, Alabama, when high wind brought a tree down on her trailer, said Walker County coroner J.C. Poe. Her husband, who was also in the trailer, was taken to hospital with injuries, Poe said. ...

Americans face post-foreclosure hell as wages garnished, assets seized Posted: 13 Oct 2014 10:34 PM PDT By Michelle Conlin NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many thousands of Americans who lost their homes in the housing bust, but have since begun to rebuild their finances, are suddenly facing a new foreclosure nightmare: debt collectors are chasing them down for the money they still owe by freezing their bank accounts, garnishing their wages and seizing their assets. By now, banks have usually sold the houses. But the proceeds of those sales were often not enough to cover the amount of the loan, plus penalties, legal bills and fees. ...

Police arrest 50 protesting shootings of blacks in St. Louis area Posted: 13 Oct 2014 07:09 PM PDT By Fiona Ortiz FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - Hundreds of people demonstrated in the pouring rain in the St. Louis area on Monday, staging a series of rolling protests in the latest show of anger over the police killing of an unarmed black teenager in August. At least 50 protesters were arrested in civil disobedience acts in Ferguson, the suburb where Michael Brown, 18, was shot dead. Other groups occupied St. Louis city hall, where they tried to hang a banner, shut down a local Walmart, and chanted outside a fundraiser for a local politician. An additional protest was planned at a St. ...

U.S. needs to rethink Ebola infection controls, says CDC chief Posted: 13 Oct 2014 06:06 PM PDT By Lisa Maria Garza and Terry Wade DALLAS (Reuters) - Medical experts need to rethink how highly infectious diseases are handled in the United States, a U.S. health official said on Monday, after a Dallas nurse contracted Ebola despite wearing protective gear while caring for a dying Liberian patient. As an outbreak of the deadly virus spread beyond West Africa, hospitals and nursing associations across the United States were taking a closer look at how prepared they were to handle such infections. "We have to rethink the way we address Ebola infection control. ...

Inside Bashar Assad's torture chambers (Warning: 'Horrific' images) Posted: 13 Oct 2014 05:50 PM PDT The State Department has obtained 27,000 photographs showing the bodies of Syrian torture victims.

State media: N. Korea leader Kim appears in public with walking stick Posted: 13 Oct 2014 05:34 PM PDT By Tony Munroe and Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, using a cane for support, visited a housing development, state media reported on Tuesday, ending a lengthy absence from public view that had fueled speculation over his health and grip on power in the secretive country. Several pictures on the front page of Tuesday's Rodong Sinmun newspaper showed Kim smiling and gesturing, surrounded by aides and wearing his signature dark buttoned suit and appearing to be supporting himself with a black cane. ...

Police: Nearly 50 arrested in Ferguson protests Posted: 13 Oct 2014 05:02 PM PDT FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Pounding rain and tornado watches didn't deter hundreds of protesters Monday outside Ferguson police headquarters, where they stayed for almost four hours to mark how long 18-year-old Michael Brown's body was left in a street after he was fatally shot by police.

N. Korea's Kim reappears after extended absence Posted: 13 Oct 2014 03:58 PM PDT North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un has made his first public appearance in more than a month, with state media on Tuesday reporting a visit to a new housing complex in Pyongyang.

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