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• Fears grow in United States over Ebola's spread outside West Africa
• U.S. Republican Senator still undecided on Ebola funding increase
• South Carolina court bars judges from issuing gay marriage licenses
• U.S. House Republicans release $750 mln in Ebola funds to Pentagon
• NYC lawyer accused of rape removes himself from chokehold lawsuit
• Ebola victim's heartbreaking story of love and loss
• Ben Affleck's 'Islam' statements make him target
• Mom: Teen killed by St. Louis cop was unarmed
• Ebola's devastating effect on tourism
• Arizona landscaper killed by swarm of bees
• Woman's tweets over pilots gets her booted from flight
• Americans: Ban flights from Ebola nations
• Prolific 1990s graffiti artist 'Cost' nabbed with brushes, arrested in NYC
• Airline workers strike over Ebola concerns
• Where is Kim Jong Un?
• Matt Bai: Why an independent win in Kansas would matter
• Fatal St. Louis police shooting sparks protests
• St. Louis police fatally shoot suspect, spawning tense protest
• Man arrested in murder of Southern California transgender activist
• U.S., allies chafing at Turkish inaction on Syria
• Prayer vigil held at Indiana campus for American held by Islamic State
• U.S. justice grants Idaho's request to block gay marriage
• Obama claims progress in war against Islamic State
• Officials erred in reporting voter spike in Missouri suburb where teen was shot
• Pennsylvania police say sniper's journal shows 'true evil exists'

Fears grow in United States over Ebola's spread outside West Africa Posted: 09 Oct 2014 12:39 PM PDT By Laila Kearney and Patricia Zengerle NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fears are growing in the United States about Ebola with about 200 airline cabin cleaners walking off the job in New York and some lawmakers demanding the government ban travelers from the West African countries hit hardest by the virus. "The nation is frightened, and people are frightened of this disease," the U.S. cabinet secretary for health, Sylvia Burwell, said on Thursday, a day after the death in Texas of the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States. U.S. ...

U.S. Republican Senator still undecided on Ebola funding increase Posted: 09 Oct 2014 12:04 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican Senator James Inhofe has not yet agreed to release additional Defense Department funds for a military mission to fight Ebola in West Africa, his spokeswoman said on Thursday, citing concerns over protecting military staff and the mission's long-term future. Approval by Inhofe, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services committee, is the final sign-off needed for an increase in Pentagon Ebola funds to $750 million. Two key House of Representatives lawmakers earlier on Thursday agreed to that amount after releasing only $50 million last week. ...

South Carolina court bars judges from issuing gay marriage licenses Posted: 09 Oct 2014 11:40 AM PDT By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON S.C. (Reuters) - The South Carolina Supreme Court ordered state judges on Thursday not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples until a federal court rules on whether the state can continue enforcing its ban on such marriages. The state Supreme Court's instruction came after Charleston County Probate Judge Irvin Condon accepted marriage license applications from 19 gay couples on Wednesday. Condon had indicated he would begin issuing the documents after the state's mandatory 24-hour waiting period for marriage licenses, citing U.S. ...

U.S. House Republicans release $750 mln in Ebola funds to Pentagon Posted: 09 Oct 2014 11:04 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday agreed to release $700 million more to fight Ebola from the Defense Department's request to shift $1 billion in war funds, bringing the total so far to $750 million. The additional funds were released following briefings from Pentagon officials this week after a handful of lawmakers had limited the funding shift to just $50 million until they received more information about plans to deploy up to 4,000 U.S. ...

NYC lawyer accused of rape removes himself from chokehold lawsuit Posted: 09 Oct 2014 10:34 AM PDT By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - A high-profile lawyer accused of raping a woman in his New York City apartment last week has said he will no longer handle a planned wrongful-death lawsuit against the city by the family of Eric Garner, who died after police put him in chokehold during his arrest. Sanford Rubenstein's law partner will instead handle the lawsuit in the wake of a police investigation into a 42-year-old woman's report that Rubenstein raped her, he said in a statement on Wednesday. ...

Ebola victim's heartbreaking story of love and loss Posted: 09 Oct 2014 10:34 AM PDT DALLAS — Love, not Ebola, drove Thomas "Eric" Duncan from his native Liberia.

Ben Affleck's 'Islam' statements make him target Posted: 09 Oct 2014 09:40 AM PDT Ben Affleck's 'Islam' statements make him target

Mom: Teen killed by St. Louis cop was unarmed Posted: 09 Oct 2014 09:23 AM PDT Authorities allege the 18-year-old shot three times before the off-duty officer returned fire.

Ebola's devastating effect on tourism Posted: 09 Oct 2014 08:49 AM PDT Just as the travel industry had picked up, the deadly virus has cast a gloomy shadow.

Arizona landscaper killed by swarm of bees Posted: 09 Oct 2014 08:01 AM PDT DOUGLAS, Ariz. (AP) — Thousands of swarming bees have left one landscaper dead and another critically injured after the men were stung in southern Arizona.

Woman's tweets over pilots gets her booted from flight Posted: 09 Oct 2014 07:44 AM PDT MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire woman says she was removed from a JetBlue flight after tweeting about the flight's delays, which included a pilot having to take a sobriety test.

Americans: Ban flights from Ebola nations Posted: 09 Oct 2014 07:30 AM PDT But health experts say such a move would be counterproductive.

Prolific 1990s graffiti artist 'Cost' nabbed with brushes, arrested in NYC Posted: 09 Oct 2014 07:13 AM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police say they have arrested a high-profile graffiti artist.

Airline workers strike over Ebola concerns Posted: 09 Oct 2014 06:23 AM PDT

Where is Kim Jong Un? Posted: 09 Oct 2014 05:17 AM PDT TOKYO (AP) — As North Korea's ruling party prepares to mark its 69th anniversary on Friday, the world will be watching to see if leader Kim Jong Un will make his first public appearance in more than a month.

Matt Bai: Why an independent win in Kansas would matter Posted: 09 Oct 2014 01:31 AM PDT A month out from the midterm elections, Kansas is the most interesting state on the map. Greg Orman, who is running for Senate as an independent against the state's powerful Republican incumbent, Pat Roberts, has opened up a surprising lead; according to one analysis, Orman is the only Senate candidate in the country who keeps getting more popular, rather than less.

Fatal St. Louis police shooting sparks protests Posted: 09 Oct 2014 01:18 AM PDT Police say an off-duty officer shot and killed a teen who opened fire during a chase.

St. Louis police fatally shoot suspect, spawning tense protest Posted: 08 Oct 2014 10:22 PM PDT By Kenny Bahr ST LOUIS Mo (Reuters) - An off-duty St. Louis city policeman shot and killed a suspect who fired on him on Wednesday, police officials said, touching off unruly protests at the scene just miles from the suburb of Ferguson. The 32-year-old officer, who was working for a security company but wearing his city police uniform, attempted to stop a suspect who then fled on foot, St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Schron Jackson said. ...

Man arrested in murder of Southern California transgender activist Posted: 08 Oct 2014 08:45 PM PDT By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A 38-year-old man has been arrested in the murder of a transgender and immigrant rights activist who was found slain behind a Southern California fast food restaurant in June, police said on Wednesday. Randy Lee Parkerson was taken into custody on Tuesday in his vehicle in the city of Anaheim, not far from where the body of 29-year-old Zoraida Reyes was discovered on the morning of June 12, Lt. Bob Dunn of the Anaheim Police Department said in a written statement. ...

U.S., allies chafing at Turkish inaction on Syria Posted: 08 Oct 2014 07:58 PM PDT ISTANBUL (AP) — As U.S. generals and Secretary of State John Kerry warn that a strategic Syrian border town could fall to Islamic State militants, the Turkish military has deployed its tanks on its side of the frontier but only watched the slaughter.

Prayer vigil held at Indiana campus for American held by Islamic State Posted: 08 Oct 2014 07:10 PM PDT By Susan Guyett INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - More than 200 people, many wearing white as a sign of peace, gathered on an Indiana university campus on Wednesday to pray for an American humanitarian worker held hostage by Islamic State militants. Abdul-Rahman Kassig, formerly known as Peter Kassig, 26, was threatened in a video issued last week by Islamic State militants that purported to show the beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning, 47. ...

U.S. justice grants Idaho's request to block gay marriage Posted: 08 Oct 2014 06:38 PM PDT By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy put gay marriage on hold in Idaho on Wednesday to the disappointment of couples planning to wed, just a day after a regional federal appeals court struck down bans on same-sex nuptials there and in Nevada. Hours after agreeing to Idaho's request for a temporary stay, Kennedy clarified that his ruling did not apply to Nevada, where officials have indicated they are ready to embrace gay marriage and have no plan to challenge Tuesday's ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. ...

Obama claims progress in war against Islamic State Posted: 08 Oct 2014 05:34 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a stubborn enemy, President Barack Obama professed confidence Wednesday that the U.S. will keep making progress against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, as the reality set in of a lengthy military conflict with limited prospects for success.

Officials erred in reporting voter spike in Missouri suburb where teen was shot Posted: 08 Oct 2014 04:14 PM PDT (Reuters) - A reported spike in voter registration numbers in Ferguson, Missouri, since the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer was the result of an error by election officers, state officials said on Wednesday. The St. Louis County Board of Elections reported earlier this month that nearly 3,300 Ferguson residents had registered to vote between Aug. 9 and Sept. 30, in time for the Nov. 4 election. But election commissioners ran the wrong report, said Laura Swinford, spokeswoman for the Missouri Secretary of State's Office. ...

Pennsylvania police say sniper's journal shows 'true evil exists' Posted: 08 Oct 2014 03:58 PM PDT By Joe McDonald BLOOMING GROVE Pa. (Reuters) - Pennsylvania police have found a journal describing in chilling detail the ambush that killed a state trooper and wounded another nearly four weeks ago at a barracks in the Poconos Mountains, officials said on Wednesday. The journal was found about two weeks ago, along with two pipe bombs resembling hand grenades that police say survivalist Eric Frein left at a campsite in the deep woods, possibly as search teams were closing in on him during the manhunt. Police declined to say on Wednesday why they had waited to disclose the find. ...

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