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• New York judge finds Donald Trump liable for unlicensed school
• Man threatening to jump off New York building shuts down street
• Red Cross president: 'The Ebola crisis will grow'
• More than 30 hurt, 5 critically, in Arkansas train crash: officials
• Obama can barely hide frustration with France, Italy
• Live coverage: Apple launches new iPads
• Community college in Los Angeles evacuated over threat
• Most New York rentals on Airbnb illegal, attorney general says
• Republicans pressure for Ebola travel ban
• Americans say avoiding international air travel over Ebola outbreak: Reuters/Ipsos poll
• U.S. transportation security chief to retire: Homeland Security
• Syrian border town hammered by 14 U.S. airstrikes
• Elementary! New exhibit sifts Sherlock Holmes' legacy
• U.S. claims for unemployment drop to 14-year low
• Suicide attack kills 12 in Baghdad
• Rescuers search for dozens of trekkers lost in deadly Nepal blizzards
• Defense continues in trial of friend of accused Boston bomber
• Second Texas nurse with Ebola receiving care at Atlanta hospital
• Matt Bai: Let's change the way we choose the vice president
• Hurricane Gonzalo regains strength on way to Bermuda
• Hospital exec 'deeply sorry' for Ebola mistakes
• Extreme measures: U.S. hospitals take on Ebola, but at what risk?
• White House shifts into crisis mode on Ebola response
• Second sanity exam of accused Colorado cinema gunman completed
• Appeals court temporarily blocks gay marriage in Alaska

New York judge finds Donald Trump liable for unlicensed school Posted: 16 Oct 2014 01:30 PM PDT By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump is personally liable for operating a for-profit investment school without the required license, a New York judge ruled in a lawsuit brought by the New York Attorney General against the real estate entrepreneur. New York state Supreme Court Justice Cynthia S. Kern said he was notified by the state in 2005 that his Trump Entrepreneur Initiative - known as Trump University until 2010 - was in violation of state education law. "It is undisputed that Mr. ...

Man threatening to jump off New York building shuts down street Posted: 16 Oct 2014 12:59 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City police on Thursday afternoon were attempting to stop a man from jumping off of a building towering above a busy stretch of Times Square. Calls began to roll in at 2:45 p.m. of a man in his 30s sitting on the edge of a roof near Madame Tussauds wax museum on 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues, in a neighborhood popular with tourists, police said. The stretch of roadway and sidewalks were closed to vehicle and traffic, police said. ...

Red Cross president: 'The Ebola crisis will grow' Posted: 16 Oct 2014 12:43 PM PDT The head of the International Red Cross is warning that the Ebola crisis will grow and that the threat of a "global health catastrophe" is real.

More than 30 hurt, 5 critically, in Arkansas train crash: officials Posted: 16 Oct 2014 11:23 AM PDT LITTLE ROCK (Reuters) - More than 30 people were hurt, five of them critically, when a freight train and a passenger train collided in northwest Arkansas on Thursday, the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management said. There have been no fatalities in the crash that took place near Winslow, about 130 miles (210 kms) northwest of Little Rock, they said. "Two engines and four cars were damaged in the collision. About 300 gallons (1,360 liters) of diesel was released," said Rick Fahr, a spokesman for the agency. ...

Obama can barely hide frustration with France, Italy Posted: 16 Oct 2014 11:06 AM PDT President Obama doesn't think some allies are pulling their weight.

Live coverage: Apple launches new iPads Posted: 16 Oct 2014 10:35 AM PDT Live coverage: Apple launches new iPads

Community college in Los Angeles evacuated over threat Posted: 16 Oct 2014 10:17 AM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A community college in Los Angeles was evacuated on Thursday due to an "unknown threat," and students told to avoid the campus, a message on the college's Facebook page said. "Do not come to campus. Please spread the word that this is an evacuation of Pierce College now," officials from the school, located in the Woodland Hills suburb of Los Angeles, warned on Facebook. The threat appeared on social media, and at one point the school was placed on lockdown, said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Deputy Guillermina Saldana. ...

Most New York rentals on Airbnb illegal, attorney general says Posted: 16 Oct 2014 09:45 AM PDT By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nearly three-quarters of the New York City listings of private homes for rent on Airbnb, a popular online marketplace, violate state zoning and sublet laws, the state's attorney general said on Thursday. Commercial users are also illegally using the website to run multi-million-dollar, large-scale rental operations, according to a report by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. The report "raises serious concerns about the proliferation of illegal hotels," Schneiderman said in a statement. ...

Republicans pressure for Ebola travel ban Posted: 16 Oct 2014 09:29 AM PDT Public support grows for temporary restrictions on non-U.S. citizens seeking to come to U.S. from West Africa.

Americans say avoiding international air travel over Ebola outbreak: Reuters/Ipsos poll Posted: 16 Oct 2014 08:39 AM PDT By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Nearly half of Americans are so concerned about the Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 4,000 people in West Africa and infected two U.S. nurses who treated a Liberian Ebola victim in Texas that they are avoiding international air travel, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Thursday. The poll results come as health officials said the second nurse infected at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas had flown from Ohio to Texas with a slight fever the day before she was diagnosed. ...

U.S. transportation security chief to retire: Homeland Security Posted: 16 Oct 2014 08:23 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration will retire after four and a half years leading the 60,000-employee agency, the Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday. John Pistole, who has led TSA since June 2010, has overseen security operations at more than 450 airports around the United States, the department said. Pistole "has been integral in leading TSA's transformation to a risk-based, intelligence-driven counterterrorism agency dedicated to protecting our transportation systems," Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said in a statement. ...

Syrian border town hammered by 14 U.S. airstrikes Posted: 16 Oct 2014 08:05 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. military fighter and bomber planes carried out 14 air strikes against Islamic State targets near the Syrian border town of Kobani on Wednesday and Thursday, the U.S. military's Central Command said. The air strikes appear to have slowed the militant group's advances, but "the security situation on the ground in Kobani remains tenuous," it said in a statement on Thursday. Targets hit included 19 buildings, two command posts, three fighting positions and three sniper positions, it added. Stepped-up air attacks by U.S. ...

Elementary! New exhibit sifts Sherlock Holmes' legacy Posted: 16 Oct 2014 07:17 AM PDT LONDON (AP) — Sherlock Holmes is among the most famous Londoners of all time. Many tourists still see the bustling city through his eyes, and seek out his address, 221B Baker Street.

U.S. claims for unemployment drop to 14-year low Posted: 16 Oct 2014 06:44 AM PDT By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits fell to a 14-year low last week, a positive signal that could counter doubts over whether the economy is shifting into a higher gear. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 23,000 to a seasonally adjusted 264,000, the lowest level since 2000, the Labor Department said on Thursday. The decline suggests the labor market is gaining steam even as worries grow that the economy will not be strong enough for the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates around the middle of next year. ...

Suicide attack kills 12 in Baghdad Posted: 16 Oct 2014 06:27 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a police check point Thursday in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, killing at least 12 people, officials said.

Rescuers search for dozens of trekkers lost in deadly Nepal blizzards Posted: 16 Oct 2014 05:21 AM PDT KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Search and rescue teams flying on army helicopters spotted the bodies of eight more trekkers killed in a series of blizzards and avalanches that have hit central Nepal in recent days, raising the death toll in the region to 25, officials said Thursday.

Defense continues in trial of friend of accused Boston bomber Posted: 16 Oct 2014 04:33 AM PDT BOSTON (Reuters) - Attorneys for a friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber charged with lying to investigators are due back in court on Thursday to continue their defense of the 21-year-old man. Robel Phillipos, 21, was too intoxicated by marijuana the night of April 18, 2013, when he is charged with accompanying two other men to the accused bomber's college dorm room, to remember his actions, his lawyers assert. ...

Second Texas nurse with Ebola receiving care at Atlanta hospital Posted: 16 Oct 2014 04:17 AM PDT By Terry Wade DALLAS (Reuters) - The second nurse to contract Ebola in the United States was receiving care at an Atlanta hospital on Thursday, a day after the news emerged that officials did not stop her flying on a commercial flight even after she reported a slight temperature. The nurse, 29-year-old Amber Vinson, flew from Cleveland to Dallas on Monday, a day before she was diagnosed with Ebola, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. CDC Director Dr. ...

Matt Bai: Let's change the way we choose the vice president Posted: 16 Oct 2014 02:55 AM PDT Hillary Clinton gave a political speech in Pennsylvania last weekend, which, in case you missed the coverage, pretty much locked up the 2016 nomination. Don't be surprised if they hold the Democratic convention over Skype sometime this month, just to dispense with the tiresome formalities of an actual campaign. Maybe they'll throw in the 2020 nomination, too, while they've got everyone on the line.

Hurricane Gonzalo regains strength on way to Bermuda Posted: 16 Oct 2014 02:39 AM PDT (Reuters) - Hurricane Gonzalo regained strength on Thursday, again reaching Category 4, as it swirled towards Bermuda, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Gonzalo was about 540 miles (865 km) south-southwest of Bermuda early on Thursday, the center said, with maximum sustained winds of 140 miles per hour (220 kph). The hurricane was expected to send large swells and potentially dangerous surf conditions to the U.S. east coast on Thursday before bringing hurricane-force winds to Bermuda on Friday, forecasters said. ...

Hospital exec 'deeply sorry' for Ebola mistakes Posted: 15 Oct 2014 11:56 PM PDT A Texas hospital admits his facility made "mistakes" in its handling of the Ebola crisis.

Extreme measures: U.S. hospitals take on Ebola, but at what risk? Posted: 15 Oct 2014 10:38 PM PDT By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - The infection of two U.S. healthcare workers who cared for a dying Ebola patient in Dallas is challenging assumptions about how to protect Western medical workers who perform advanced, life-saving procedures that may increase their risk of exposure. The U.S. ...

White House shifts into crisis mode on Ebola response Posted: 15 Oct 2014 09:50 PM PDT By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rising public anxiety about the Ebola virus has forced the White House to shift into crisis mode and cancel two days of planned political events as President Barack Obama strives to show he has control over stopping the spread of the deadly disease. Just three weeks ahead of critical midterm elections, Obama is facing increased pressure from Republican critics. They say he has been too slow to protect Americans, drawing parallels to what they have described as foot-dragging on dealing with the threat from Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria. ...

Second sanity exam of accused Colorado cinema gunman completed Posted: 15 Oct 2014 08:47 PM PDT By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - The sealed results of a second sanity examination of accused Colorado theater gunman James Holmes, which could determine if the long-delayed trial will begin this year, were submitted on Wednesday, a court document shows. Holmes underwent a court-ordered psychiatric test last year after pleading not guilty by reason of insanity to shooting dead 12 moviegoers and wounding dozens more inside a suburban Denver cinema in July 2012 during a midnight viewing of the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises. ...

Appeals court temporarily blocks gay marriage in Alaska Posted: 15 Oct 2014 08:00 PM PDT (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday put gay marriage temporarily on hold in Alaska so the state can appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court over a judge's decision overturning its ban on same-sex matrimony. The decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reinstates Alaska's ban on gay marriage until Friday at noon Pacific Time to give the state sufficient time to seek a more lasting ruling from the Supreme Court, according to court papers. Judge Timothy Burgess of the U.S. ...

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