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• After North Korea imprisonment, Bae needs rest, time with family: sister
• Man found dead at U.C. Berkeley fraternity house: report
• Breakaway lava close to hitting empty Hawaii house
• Continental CEO Harold Hamm ordered to pay $995 million in divorce
• Press demands FBI never use 'unusual technique' again
• U.S. releases low 2015 Obamacare enrollment forecast
• What we know after Islamic State leader reportedly wounded
• Obama pressures FCC for strong net neutrality rules
• U.S. Postal Service reports data breach affecting employees, call center
• Israeli teen girl killed in West Bank stabbing, Palestinian attacker shot
• Obama comes out swinging on issue that could change the Internet
• Awkward handshake starts off historic summit
• U.S. transgenders welcome an easier path to altering birth papers
• 'This is completely unacceptable'
• Food costs eating into consumers' saving at the pump as holidays near
• Egyptian militants pledge allegiance to IS group
• Suicide bomber kills 48 students in Nigeria
• At least 20 killed in explosion at northeast Nigerian school
• Electorate divided by daily life, views on issues
• Obama: Momentum building on 'historic' trans-Pacific trade deal
• Plane crash kills nine, including church leader, on Grand Bahama
• Obama arrives in Beijing
• Alaska storm brings frigid weather to swath of US

After North Korea imprisonment, Bae needs rest, time with family: sister Posted: 10 Nov 2014 12:48 PM PST SEATTLE (Reuters) - Kenneth Bae, the Korean-American missionary who returned to the United States on Saturday after being imprisoned in North Korea for two years, will not give any further interviews while he rests and spends time with his family, his sister said in a statement on Monday. "We are exhausted after this roller-coaster ride and just want to get back with our lives and reacquainted with Kenneth," said Terri Chung, Bae's sister, who led the campaign for his release. ...

Man found dead at U.C. Berkeley fraternity house: report Posted: 10 Nov 2014 11:44 AM PST (Reuters) - The death of a 20-year-old man at a fraternity house near the University of California, Berkeley over the weekend was being investigated as suspicious, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Monday, citing police. The man, who was pronounced dead at the Zeta Psi house on Sunday afternoon, did not live there and was not a student at the university, the Chronicle reported. The newspaper said homicide detectives were investigating the death of the man, who was not identified pending notification of next of kin, but have not ruled out drugs or alcohol as possible factors. ...

Breakaway lava close to hitting empty Hawaii house Posted: 10 Nov 2014 11:27 AM PST PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) — A small stream of lava is getting close to hitting the first house in a rural town on Hawaii's Big Island that has been watching the flow for months.

Continental CEO Harold Hamm ordered to pay $995 million in divorce Posted: 10 Nov 2014 11:11 AM PST (Reuters) - An Oklahoma County judge has ordered oil magnate and Continental Resources Chief Executive Officer Harold Hamm to pay nearly $1 billion in a divorce judgment, according to a court filing made public on Monday. Special Judge Howard Haralson found that Hamm should pay his ex-wife Sue Ann Hamm a total of $995.5 million, with about a third of the funds, or $322.7 million, to be paid by the end of the year, the filing says. Hamm will then be required to pay the rest of the judgment, some $650 million, in installments worth at least $7 million per month, the filing says. ...

Press demands FBI never use 'unusual technique' again Posted: 10 Nov 2014 10:55 AM PST The Associated Press on Monday demanded assurances from the Justice Department that the FBI will never again impersonate a member of the news media, following revelations that an agent in Seattle portrayed ...

U.S. releases low 2015 Obamacare enrollment forecast Posted: 10 Nov 2014 10:23 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. administration on Monday dramatically cut expectations for 2015 Obamacare enrollment, saying between 9 million and 9.9 million people will enroll in private health plans, compared with a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecast of 13 million. An Obama administration report, released just before the start of 2015 open enrollment on Saturday, also reduced the official count of 2014 enrollment to 7.1 million people as of Oct. 15, from 7.3 million in August. ...

What we know after Islamic State leader reportedly wounded Posted: 10 Nov 2014 09:18 AM PST BAGHDAD (AP) — After Iraqi officials said an airstrike wounded Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, here are some questions and answers about what's known now about his status and the effect it could have on the extremist group that holds a third of both Iraq and Syria.

Obama pressures FCC for strong net neutrality rules Posted: 10 Nov 2014 08:29 AM PST By Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday pressured the federal communications regulator to toughen its planned Internet traffic rules, saying higher-fee "fast lanes" should be banned and Internet providers should be overseen more like public utilities are. Obama's detailed position on the issue of "net neutrality," a platform in his presidential campaign in 2008, represented a rare step by the White House into the policy-setting of an independent agency. ...

U.S. Postal Service reports data breach affecting employees, call center Posted: 10 Nov 2014 08:11 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service reported a data breach on Monday that may have compromised personal information about its 500,000 employees as well as data on customers who contacted its call center from January through mid-August. The employee information possibly accessed includes names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, beginning and end dates of employment and emergency contact information, the Postal Service said in a statement. "The Postal Service has recently learned of a cyber security intrusion into some of our information systems. ...

Israeli teen girl killed in West Bank stabbing, Palestinian attacker shot Posted: 10 Nov 2014 07:55 AM PST A young Israeli was killed and two others were wounded on Monday when a Palestinian stabbed them outside a West Bank settlement before being shot, medics and police said. "Paramedics confirmed the death of a young woman," the emergency services said of the incident outside Alon Shvut settlement in the southern West Bank.

Obama comes out swinging on issue that could change the Internet Posted: 10 Nov 2014 07:23 AM PST The president made a surprise statement some call a rebuke of current ISP policies.

Awkward handshake starts off historic summit Posted: 10 Nov 2014 06:49 AM PST BEIJING (AP) — An uneasy handshake Monday between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe marked the first meeting between the two men since either took power, and an awkward first gesture toward easing two years of high tensions.

U.S. transgenders welcome an easier path to altering birth papers Posted: 10 Nov 2014 06:33 AM PST By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Naz Seenauth's driver's license says he is male. His birth certificate says he is female. The mismatch, he says, is deeply frustrating. New York City, where Seenauth was born and raised, does not accept that he is a transgender man and will not amend his birth certificate, for now at least, even though his doctor will attest to his gender. "It was kind of weird," Seenauth said of his failed attempt to get the document reissued last year, "because New York City is such a liberal place. ...

'This is completely unacceptable' Posted: 10 Nov 2014 05:27 AM PST PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Maine nurse who battled politicians over her quarantine after she returned from treating Ebola patients in West Africa said she will continue speaking out on behalf of public health workers.

Food costs eating into consumers' saving at the pump as holidays near Posted: 10 Nov 2014 04:55 AM PST By Nathan Layne (Reuters) - Martha Franco says she hadn't really noticed the sharp drop in gasoline prices, even though the mother of three is always shuttling the kids around in her SUV. She has been paying closer attention to the soaring cost of meat instead. "Meat and grains. Actually it seems like the price of everything is going up," Franco, 30, said following a visit to a Kmart discount store on the outskirts of Chicago, with her two youngest children and a bag of groceries in the shopping cart. ...

Egyptian militants pledge allegiance to IS group Posted: 10 Nov 2014 02:14 AM PST CAIRO (AP) — Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, a jihadi organization based in the Sinai Peninsula that has carried out several attacks targeting Egyptian security forces, has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group.

Suicide bomber kills 48 students in Nigeria Posted: 10 Nov 2014 01:58 AM PST Survivors say the bomber was disguised in a school uniform.

At least 20 killed in explosion at northeast Nigerian school Posted: 10 Nov 2014 01:41 AM PST A bomb blast tore through a secondary school as students gathered for assembly before classes, a teacher said.

Electorate divided by daily life, views on issues Posted: 10 Nov 2014 12:36 AM PST Judging by the exit polls, people who vote for Democrats and those who back Republicans seem to be living in different countries.

Obama: Momentum building on 'historic' trans-Pacific trade deal Posted: 09 Nov 2014 11:12 PM PST The president has arrived in Beijing on the first leg of an eight-day Asia tour.

Plane crash kills nine, including church leader, on Grand Bahama Posted: 09 Nov 2014 07:23 PM PST By Neil Hartnell NASSAU Bahamas (Reuters) - A private jet struck a construction crane on approach to Grand Bahama International Airport on Sunday and crashed, killing all nine people aboard, including the leader of the Bahamas Faith Ministries, police and civil aviation officials said. Pastor Myles Munroe was headed across the island chain from Lynden Pindling International Airport near Nassau, capital of the archipelago nation, to Grand Bahama, where authorities said they believed he was due to host a church conference. ...

Obama arrives in Beijing Posted: 09 Nov 2014 06:18 PM PST The trip marks one of Obama's final opportunity to amplify U.S. influence in Asia.

Alaska storm brings frigid weather to swath of US Posted: 09 Nov 2014 01:44 PM PST A massive storm fueled by the remnants of Typhoon Nuri did not do much damage in Alaska's sparsely populated Aleutian Islands, but forecasters say it's anchoring a system that will push a frigid blast of air into the mainland United States and send temperatures plunging early this week.

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