| Latest update in Canada shootings Posted: 22 Oct 2014 11:26 AM PDT  Police search for suspects near the National War Memorial in central Ottawa.
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| Tests return for dog belonging to nurse with Ebola Posted: 22 Oct 2014 11:09 AM PDT  Bentley, the year-old Cavalier King Charles spaniel owned by Ebola-infected Texas nurse Nina Pham, has tested negative for Ebola, officials said Wednesday.
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| Man faked coma for two years Posted: 22 Oct 2014 10:35 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — He might have got away with it if it hadn't been for his supermarket loyalty card.
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| All four Blackwater guards found guilty in 2007 Iraq shootings Posted: 22 Oct 2014 09:47 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal jury returned guilty verdicts for all four former Blackwater security guards charged in the 2007 shootings of more than 30 Iraqis in Baghdad.
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| CDC: 21-day Ebola monitoring for W. African travelers to U.S. Posted: 22 Oct 2014 09:31 AM PDT  (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday announced new measures to monitor for Ebola anyone entering the United States from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea for a 21-day period. Under the measures starting Monday, travelers from the three West African countries will be expected to check in with health officials every day and report their temperatures and any Ebola symptoms through the 21-day period, the CDC said. (Reporting by Bill Berkrot; Editing by Grant McCool)
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| Fowle back at Ohio home 'in good health' after detention in North Korea Posted: 22 Oct 2014 08:59 AM PDT  By Jon Herskovitz (Reuters) - American Jeffrey Fowle returned to his home in southern Ohio on Wednesday, with his lawyer saying he was in good health after a nearly half-year detention in reclusive North Korea. Fowle, 56, had been one of three Americans held by Pyongyang, which typically has tried to use the release of foreign captives as a way to build domestic political support for its leaders. ...
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| Jury deliberates for second day over accused Boston bomber friend Posted: 22 Oct 2014 08:43 AM PDT  By Daniel Lovering BOSTON (Reuters) - A jury deliberated for a second day on Wednesday over whether a friend of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect was too high on marijuana to have intentionally lied to investigators about his role in the aftermath of the 2013 attack. Federal prosecutors said Robel Phillipos, 21, repeatedly lied when questioned by the FBI after two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the race, killing three people and injuring more than 260 - the worst attack in the United States since Sept. 11, 2001. ...
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| Suspected Indiana serial killer's 1st hearing postponed Posted: 22 Oct 2014 08:26 AM PDT  CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) — A man who allegedly confessed to killing seven women in Indiana refused to respond to the judge during his initial court appearance Wednesday, prompting her to postpone it and to warn him he'd spend "the rest of his life" in jail unless he cooperates.
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| U.S. airdrop to Kurdish fighters was wrong, says Turkey's president Posted: 22 Oct 2014 08:10 AM PDT  ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday it was wrong of the United States to air drop military supplies to Kurdish fighters defending the Syrian border town of Kobani, as some weapons were seized by Islamic State militants besieging it. The Pentagon said on Tuesday the vast majority of the U.S. supplies dropped on Sunday had reached the Kurdish fighters despite an online video showing Islamic State jihadists with a bundle. "What was done here on this subject turned out to be wrong. ...
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| Canadian soldier shot at War Memorial; Parliament locked down Posted: 22 Oct 2014 07:54 AM PDT  Canadian soldier shot at War Memorial; Parliament locked down
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| Care for a little 'Hitler' in your coffee? Posted: 22 Oct 2014 07:22 AM PDT  Geneva (AFP) - Swiss retailer Migros apologised on Wednesday for what it said was a string of errors which put coffee cream with the faces of Hitler and Mussolini in cafes in the Alpine country.
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| 3 Denver teens possibly tried to join Islamic State Posted: 22 Oct 2014 07:06 AM PDT  Girls headed for Turkey, stopped in Germany; authorities now looking at friends for similar sentiments.
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| NYC subway breaks record with more than 6 mln daily rides Posted: 22 Oct 2014 06:50 AM PDT  NEW YORK (Reuters) - More people rode the New York City subway than ever in September, with the number of trips exceeding a record-breaking 6 million on five separate days over the month, transit officials said on Wednesday. There were 6,106,694 trips on the subway on Sept. 23, the highest number since daily figures were first recorded in 1985, and likely the highest since the late 1940s, when the system had more elevated lines and far fewer people owned cars. Four other days in September also exceeded 6 million trips, the Metropolitan Transportation Agency said. ...
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| Autopsy of slain Missouri teen shows close-range gunshot: report Posted: 22 Oct 2014 06:04 AM PDT  (Reuters) - A newly disclosed autopsy of the unarmed black teenager whose killing by a white police officer set off months of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, suggests he suffered a gunshot to the hand from close range, the St. Louis Post Dispatch reported. The St. Louis County medical examiner's autopsy of 18-year-old Michael Brown, obtained by the newspaper and published online late on Tuesday, said a microscopic examination of his hand tissue showed particles "consistent with products that are discharged from the barrel of a firearm. ...
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| Ebola gives U.S. 'preppers' another reason to prepare for worst Posted: 22 Oct 2014 05:31 AM PDT  By Jonathan Kaminsky (Reuters) - With the closest known U.S. cases of Ebola diagnosed about 160 miles away in Dallas, Cary Griffin is taking no chances. If, as the former correctional officer fears, the virus spreads to hundreds of people, Griffin is headed to the woods. "I'll do what the English royalty did to survive the bubonic plague," Griffin said, referring to King Charles II's flight to the countryside during the Great Plague of London in 1665-66. "I'm going into the country. ...
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| North Korea cites Obama requests in freeing American prisoner Posted: 22 Oct 2014 05:14 AM PDT  SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un released one of three Americans detained in the country taking into consideration "repeated requests" of U.S. President Barack Obama, Pyongyang's state KCNA news agency said on Wednesday. Jeffrey Fowle, 56, was arrested in May for leaving a Bible at a sailor's club in the North Korean city of Chongjin, where he was traveling as a tourist. "The criminal was handed over to the U.S. side according to a relevant legal procedure," KCNA said. Fowle was unexpectedly freed on Tuesday and flown from Pyongyang on a U.S. ...
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| From Bedouin Israeli doctor to jihadist Posted: 22 Oct 2014 04:59 AM PDT  HURA, Israel (AP) — He was a quiet whiz kid at the top of his class in Israel, who overcame tough odds in this minority Arab village to become a star medical student and hospital intern.
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| Massive finds off coast of North Carolina Posted: 22 Oct 2014 04:29 AM PDT  Washington (AFP) - Two sunken ships from World War II -- a German U-boat and an American merchant vessel -- have been found deep in the ocean off the coast of North Carolina, officials said Tuesday.
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| Is Iowa's Joni Ernst a pragmatist or a partisan? Posted: 22 Oct 2014 02:09 AM PDT  The contest between Iowa state Sen. Joni Ernst and Rep. Bruce Braley is one of the closest Senate races in the country. And whether Iowans believe her claim that she is a middle-of-the-road Republican conservative who likes to solve problems — rather than a tea party candidate who wants to impeach President Barack Obama and abolish the Department of Education and the IRS — will decide the race and possibly determine which party controls the Senate.
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| The Ben Bradlee mystique Posted: 22 Oct 2014 01:09 AM PDT  The famed Washington Post editor was a one-of-a kind newsman from an age gone by.
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| Giants top Royals 7-1 in World Series opener Posted: 22 Oct 2014 12:36 AM PDT  The Giants snapped Kansas City's eight-game postseason winning streak, riding a Hunter Pence home run, another sublime Madison Bumgarner performance and a mistake-filled Royals showing to a 7-1 victory at Kauffman Stadium on Tuesday.
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| CDC debuts new safety steps in Ebola training for thousands Posted: 22 Oct 2014 12:20 AM PDT  Thousands of New York City health-care workers — from nurses to janitors — learned how to safely put on and take off a full suit of protective equipment to treat a patient with Ebola at an upbeat Centers for Disease Control and Prevention event in Manhattan Tuesday morning.
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| U.S. government probes medical devices for possible cyber flaws Posted: 21 Oct 2014 10:44 PM PDT  By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is investigating about two dozen cases of suspected cybersecurity flaws in medical devices and hospital equipment that officials fear could be exploited by hackers, a senior official at the agency told Reuters. ...
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| Bumgarner, Giants stop Royals 7-1 in Series opener Posted: 21 Oct 2014 09:25 PM PDT  San Francisco puts a sudden end to Kansas City's perfect postseason roll.
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| U.S. authorities arrest head of Mexican drug gang Gulf Cartel Posted: 21 Oct 2014 08:54 PM PDT (Reuters) - The head of the notorious Mexican cocaine-trafficking gang, the Gulf Cartel, was taken into custody in southern Texas, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. Mexican national, Juan Francisco Saenz-Tamez, 23, was arrested on Oct. 9 while shopping in Edinburg, Texas just north of the Mexican-U.S. border, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Texas said in a joint statement with federal authorities. Law enforcement officials said he led the cartel as it shipped thousands of kilograms of cocaine and marijuana into eastern Texas, which were then distributed across the country. ... |
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