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• Dow plunges 450 points
• Dow plunges 400 points
• Dow plunges 400 points
• Dow plunges 400 points
• Live report: Ann Romney's new ammo in fight against MS
• U.S. war on IS militants has new name: ‘Operation Inherent Resolve’
• Second day of numerous U.S.-led airstrikes on Syria's Kobani
• Time Warner to set HBO free, launch over-the-top service
• Comet landing site picked for European space mission
• Man shot by police after attacking passengers on Connecticut bus
• Pot business conference draws hundreds, hoping U.S. will legalize
• Lockheed says makes breakthrough on fusion energy project
• 2nd Texas health worker Ebola positive
• Is Cory Gardner’s nice-guy persona enough to win in Colorado?
• North, South Korea hold high-level military talks
• Second Texas healthcare worker tests positive for Ebola
• Record number of black candidates seeking office
• California school district settles transgender discrimination complaint
• Nurses: No Ebola protocol at Texas hospital
• Exclusive: U.S. pork group counters antibiotics report with online campaign
• Supreme Court blocks Texas abortion restrictions
• CDC: We could have done more in Dallas Ebola case
• Police say tests show teen shot by St. Louis officer had gun residue on hands
• Supreme Court blocks Texas abortion restrictions
• CDC director: We could have done more in Ebola case

Dow plunges 450 points Posted: 15 Oct 2014 11:16 AM PDT Dow plunges 450 points

Dow plunges 400 points Posted: 15 Oct 2014 11:01 AM PDT Stocks are plunging as traders dump risky assets and park their money in investments seen as relatively safe, such as U.S. government bonds.

Dow plunges 400 points Posted: 15 Oct 2014 11:00 AM PDT Stocks are plunging as traders dump risky assets and park their money in investments seen as relatively safe, such as U.S. government bonds.

Dow plunges 400 points Posted: 15 Oct 2014 10:45 AM PDT We're live-blogging all the action in the stock market on Wednesday.

Live report: Ann Romney's new ammo in fight against MS Posted: 15 Oct 2014 10:12 AM PDT Ann Romney is fighting a battle tougher than any political campaign her husband, Mitt, has ever waged. She has multiple sclerosis — a disabling disease that affects the central nervous system and disrupts the flow of information between the brain and the body. Romney has managed her illness, for which there is no cure, through mainstream and alternative medicines and therapies — ones she wants others suffering from neurological diseases (including Alzheimer's, ALS, Parkinson's and brain tumors) to benefit from, too.

U.S. war on IS militants has new name: ‘Operation Inherent Resolve’ Posted: 15 Oct 2014 09:57 AM PDT President Obama's war on the so-called Islamic State finally has a name: It's Operation Inherent Resolve. It's not as dramatic as Desert Storm but not as bad as Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL).

Second day of numerous U.S.-led airstrikes on Syria's Kobani Posted: 15 Oct 2014 09:39 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. aircraft carried out 18 strikes on Islamic State positions near the besieged Syrian border town of Kobani and five strikes against the group in Iraq on Tuesday and Wednesday, the U.S. military's Central Command said. The planes struck 16 buildings occupied by Islamic State militants and destroyed several of their fighting positions near Kobani, a Kurdish town on the Syrian border with Turkey, it said in a statement on Wednesday. ...

Time Warner to set HBO free, launch over-the-top service Posted: 15 Oct 2014 08:37 AM PDT (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc plans to go head-to-head with Netflix Inc and launch a standalone option in 2015 for popular pay TV channel HBO. The move to take HBO Go "over-the-top" - media jargon that means consumers can watch the channel with a broadband connection - is a significant milestone for a channel long dependent on cable distributors. HBO's top executive, Richard Plepler, announced that decision during an investor day on Wednesday where Time Warner's other top executives laid out plans to boost the company's growth. ...

Comet landing site picked for European space mission Posted: 15 Oct 2014 08:06 AM PDT BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency has confirmed the time and place it will attempt to land the first spacecraft on a comet.

Man shot by police after attacking passengers on Connecticut bus Posted: 15 Oct 2014 07:33 AM PDT NORWALK Conn. (Reuters) - A man wielding a box cutter who attacked passengers on a tour bus headed to a Connecticut casino has died after being shot by a state trooper, officials said on Wednesday. The man, whose identity was not released, was arrested late Tuesday after the driver steered the bus into a construction site off a major highway, state police said, and died of his gunshot wound at a hospital in Norwalk, Connecticut. ...

Pot business conference draws hundreds, hoping U.S. will legalize Posted: 15 Oct 2014 06:13 AM PDT By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) - Marijuana is illegal under federal law in the United States, but more than 300 attendees paid $500 each to attend the Cannabis Business Expo at a high-end hotel in Manhattan's Times Square, hoping to profit if it becomes legal by the end of the decade. The expo this week failed to attract any large publicly traded consumer or agriculture companies that could benefit if and when pot gets the federal blessing, and drew a mixed crowd. ...

Lockheed says makes breakthrough on fusion energy project Posted: 15 Oct 2014 05:58 AM PDT By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp said on Wednesday it had made a technological breakthrough in developing a power source based on nuclear fusion, and the first reactors, small enough to fit on the back of a truck, could be ready in a decade. Tom McGuire, who heads the project, said he and a small team had been working on fusion energy at Lockheed's secretive Skunk Works for about four years, but were now going public to find potential partners in industry and government for their work. ...

2nd Texas health worker Ebola positive Posted: 15 Oct 2014 05:41 AM PDT Female who treated first U.S. Ebola patient is isolated; 75 people being monitored.

Is Cory Gardner’s nice-guy persona enough to win in Colorado? Posted: 15 Oct 2014 04:05 AM PDT If Cory Gardner can't win in Colorado, who can? It's a question that's about more than just one candidate and one state — it's about the future of a Republican party that for the past decade has been pulled increasingly to the right, making truly purple states like Colorado appear blue by default. For as much as the Beltway pundit class talks about President Obama being a drag on down-ballot Democrats nationwide, it's the Republican party brand that could bring down Gardner in Colorado. And if Republicans miss taking back control of the Senate for the third consecutive time because they can't win in a state like Colorado in an off-year election under a president whose popularity has tanked, it won't be because Todd Akin moments —viral gaffes from hyper-conservative candidates — took them down. It will be because average, independent voters have come to believe that the GOP is the party of Todd Akins.

North, South Korea hold high-level military talks Posted: 15 Oct 2014 03:17 AM PDT North and South Korea held high-level military talks on Wednesday to air grievances over recent exchanges of fire across their land and sea borders, Seoul's defence ministry said.

Second Texas healthcare worker tests positive for Ebola Posted: 15 Oct 2014 02:29 AM PDT (Reuters) - A second Texas healthcare worker who treated the first patient in the United States to be diagnosed with Ebola has tested positive for the disease, the Texas Department of State Health Services said in a statement on Wednesday. The worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, was immediately isolated after reporting a fever on Tuesday, the department said. "Health officials have interviewed the latest patient to quickly identify any contacts or potential exposures, and those people will be monitored," the department said. ...

Record number of black candidates seeking office Posted: 15 Oct 2014 02:12 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 100 black candidates will be on the ballot in statewide and congressional races next month, a post-Reconstruction record that some observers say is a byproduct of President Barack Obama's historic presidency.

California school district settles transgender discrimination complaint Posted: 15 Oct 2014 01:09 AM PDT (Reuters) - A southern California school district settled a claim with the federal government that alleged the district discriminated against a transgender student, officials said on Tuesday. The Downey Unified School District agreed to treat the student as they would any other female pupil, allowing her access to the same sex-designated facilities, programs and events, the U.S. Department of Education said in a statement. ...

Nurses: No Ebola protocol at Texas hospital Posted: 14 Oct 2014 10:59 PM PDT A nurses' union slams safety conditions at the hospital where a man died from the virus.

Exclusive: U.S. pork group counters antibiotics report with online campaign Posted: 14 Oct 2014 10:28 PM PDT By P.J. Huffstutter CHICAGO (Reuters) - A leading U.S. pork association will use an online marketing campaign to counter a critical television documentary on antibiotics use in livestock, pointing consumers to industry-funded websites that defend the practice, according to an association email. The National Pork Board sent out an email about the strategy to food and agriculture officials in advance of Tuesday evening's PBS Frontline program entitled, "The Trouble with Antibiotics". ...

Supreme Court blocks Texas abortion restrictions Posted: 14 Oct 2014 06:29 PM PDT By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked certain restrictions on abortion contained in a Texas state law that abortion rights groups said would have forced all but a handful of clinics to shut down in the state of 26 million people. The high court granted a request filed by abortion rights groups that puts on hold parts of a federal appeals court decision that had allowed the law to go into effect. The brief court order said that requirements that clinics have certain hospital-like settings for surgeries could not go into effect pending appeal. ...

CDC: We could have done more in Dallas Ebola case Posted: 14 Oct 2014 06:14 PM PDT Ebola has haunted Dallas for more than two weeks, killing one man and infecting a nurse who was treating him. Now, CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden says the nation's health protection agency should have stepped in and taken control when the country's first Ebola case appeared in Dallas.

Police say tests show teen shot by St. Louis officer had gun residue on hands Posted: 14 Oct 2014 05:42 PM PDT By Shannon Stapleton St. Louis (Reuters) - A black teenager fatally shot last week in St. Louis by an off-duty police officer had gunshot residue on his hands, jeans and T-shirt, according to crime lab results released on Tuesday after four days of protests in the city against police violence. The killing of 18-year-old Vonderrit Myers by a white officer last Wednesday intensified the demonstrations over the deadly Aug. 9 shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. ...

Supreme Court blocks Texas abortion restrictions Posted: 14 Oct 2014 04:21 PM PDT By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked certain restrictions on abortion contained in a Texas state law. The high court granted a request filed by abortion rights groups that puts on hold parts of a federal appeals court decision that had allowed the law to go into effect. The brief court order said that requirements that clinics have certain hospital-like settings for surgeries could not go into effect pending appeal. ...

CDC director: We could have done more in Ebola case Posted: 14 Oct 2014 04:05 PM PDT Ebola has haunted Dallas for more than two weeks, killing one man and infecting a nurse who was treating him. Now, CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden, says the nation's health protection agency should have stepped in and taken control when the country's first Ebola case appeared in Dallas.

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