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• Boy survives long fall down California oceanside cliff
• Chelsea Clinton on motherhood: 'I'm so happy'
• Last US Ebola patient cured
• Jon Stewart's bold new project
• Missouri Governor to outline law enforcement plans for decision on police shooting
• Hole in Florida swallows car, forces evacuations of homes
• Cold sweeping south, northern Great Lakes hit by early heavy snow
• Is Nigeria's Boko Haram moving toward governing?
• Special Report: For these oil and gas bets, the odds favor the house
• Putin steals show with head-turning gesture
• John Cleese opens up
• Mormon church admits founder Joseph Smith had about 40 wives
• Arctic blast descends on Rockies, Upper Midwest
• Portland schools urged to scrap transfers to boost racial diversity
• U.S. was ill-equipped to handle Ebola rescues: Documents
• Ferguson, Missouri, braces for grand jury decision, new protests
• US officials: More work needed on Iran nuke deal
• S. Korean ferry captain gets 36 years in prison
• Rockies, Upper Midwest get blast of wintry weather
• Anadarko's $5.15 billion cleanup deal approved by U.S. court
• U.S. veterans agency to reorganize around customer service
• New York doctor infected with Ebola to be released from hospital
• Gunman takes at least 2 hostage in Oklahoma office building

Boy survives long fall down California oceanside cliff Posted: 11 Nov 2014 12:02 PM PST (Reuters) - A 4-year-old boy on a family hike on California's scenic northern coast fell 230 feet (70 meters) down an oceanside cliff but managed to survive and was conscious when rescuers reached him on the rocky shore below, a fire official said on Tuesday. After the fall off the scenic promontory on Monday at Bodega Head State Park, two paramedics were lowered in a metal basket by ropes and found the boy crying, suffering bone fractures and major injuries, Bodega Bay firefighter Lou Stoerzinger said. ...

Chelsea Clinton on motherhood: 'I'm so happy' Posted: 11 Nov 2014 10:40 AM PST For the past 24 years, Glamour has hosted the Women of the Year Awards celebrating celebrities, politicians, and athletes along with other inspiring and empowering women.

Last US Ebola patient cured Posted: 11 Nov 2014 10:23 AM PST The last known Ebola patient in the United States, a New York doctor who contracted the virus while treating infected people in West Africa, was released from the hospital on Tuesday after being declared cured. Craig Spencer, an emergency room doctor in New York, appeared at a press conference flanked by Mayor Bill de Blasio to announce that he had been discharged from Bellevue Hospital -- one of a handful of US medical facilities designated to handle Ebola cases. "New York City's first and only Ebola case is successfully treated. Dr Spencer is Ebola-free and New York City is Ebola-free," de Blasio proclaimed at the hospital, to cheers and applause.

Jon Stewart's bold new project Posted: 11 Nov 2014 09:50 AM PST NEW YORK (AP) — A bleary-eyed Jon Stewart is sitting outside his offices reflecting on his directorial debut, "Rosewater," a drama about the unjust imprisonment of journalist Maziar Bahari in Iran.

Missouri Governor to outline law enforcement plans for decision on police shooting Posted: 11 Nov 2014 09:17 AM PST (Reuters) - Missouri Governor Jay Nixon on Tuesday is expected to detail law enforcement preparations ahead of protests that could erupt once a grand jury decides whether to indict a white police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson. Tensions have been building for weeks as the St. Louis suburb awaits an announcement of the grand jury's decision on the shooting death of Michael Brown, 18, by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9. There is widespread expectation the grand jury will not indict Wilson. ...

Hole in Florida swallows car, forces evacuations of homes Posted: 11 Nov 2014 09:02 AM PST By Letitia Stein TAMPA Fla. (Reuters) - Residents in central Florida on Tuesday monitored the threat of a hole that swallowed a car sitting in a driveway and forced six families to evacuate their homes. The hole measured 10 feet wide and 10 feet deep as of Monday afternoon but officials said they were not calling it a sinkhole, which is typically formed by water erosion, until that had been confirmed by engineers. ...

Cold sweeping south, northern Great Lakes hit by early heavy snow Posted: 11 Nov 2014 08:44 AM PST CHICAGO (Reuters) - Drivers faced a second day of unseasonably heavy snow and some businesses and schools shut down in the northern Great Lakes region on Tuesday, while a cold front was expected to push cold air south as far as Texas on Wednesday. "Temperatures will be 20 to 40 degrees below average from just east of the Rockies to the Plains," the National Weather Service said on its website. The cold was expected to extend as far as Texas on Wednesday, with freeze warnings issued for about two dozen counties including Dallas. ...

Is Nigeria's Boko Haram moving toward governing? Posted: 11 Nov 2014 07:54 AM PST A version of this blog originally appeared on Africa in Transition. The views expressed are the author's own.

Special Report: For these oil and gas bets, the odds favor the house Posted: 11 Nov 2014 07:23 AM PST By Emily Flitter NEW YORK (Reuters) - Atlas Energy LP has a deal for investors eager to get in on the U.S. energy boom: Contribute at least $25,000 in a partnership that will drill for oil and gas in Texas, Ohio, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania and then share any revenue from the wells' output. Atlas Resources LLC, a subsidiary of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based energy group, aims to raise as much as $300 million before the offer closes Dec. 31. The company says it will toss in up to $145 million of its own capital, too. But not all investors are created equal in this undertaking. ...

Putin steals show with head-turning gesture Posted: 11 Nov 2014 06:36 AM PST BEIJING (AP) — It was a warm gesture on a chilly night when Vladimir Putin wrapped a shawl around the wife of Xi Jinping while the Chinese president chatted with Barack Obama. The only problem: Putin came off looking gallant, the Chinese summit host gauche and inattentive.

John Cleese opens up Posted: 11 Nov 2014 05:00 AM PST "Monty Python." "Fawlty Towers." "A Fish Called Wanda." John Cleese has been making audiences laugh for decades. Now, in an interview with Yahoo News, he talks about his new autobiography, "So, Anyway."

Mormon church admits founder Joseph Smith had about 40 wives Posted: 11 Nov 2014 04:44 AM PST (Reuters) - The Mormon church has admitted that founder Joseph Smith married about 40 women including a 14-year-old and others who were already the wives of his followers, having maintained for nearly 200 years that he was monogamous. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has tried to gloss over aspects of its history, including the polygamy practiced by Smith and Brigham Young, who helped found Salt Lake City, Utah, the headquarters of the Mormon church. ...

Arctic blast descends on Rockies, Upper Midwest Posted: 11 Nov 2014 03:55 AM PST PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — After the snow comes the cold.

Portland schools urged to scrap transfers to boost racial diversity Posted: 11 Nov 2014 02:33 AM PST By Courtney Sherwood PORTLAND Ore. (Reuters) - A citizen's group in Portland, Oregon, said on Monday the city should drop policies allowing students to transfer public schools, saying it is making the schools less racially diverse and poorer. "It's mostly white, mostly middle-class families, transferring out of schools that have students of color," said Kali Thorne Ladd, a member of the group which had been asked by educators to evaluate Portland Public Schools transfer policies. ...

U.S. was ill-equipped to handle Ebola rescues: Documents Posted: 11 Nov 2014 02:17 AM PST The U.S. State Department expedited a $4.9 million deal for medevac services, Yahoo News has learned, after two Americans infected with Ebola, Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, recently had trouble being rescued from West Africa. The CDC had developed an airworthy isolation chamber for infectious patients in the past decade, but the high-tech transportation tent was in storage when Samaritan's Purse — a Christian humanitarian group — first sought help from the federal government.

Ferguson, Missouri, braces for grand jury decision, new protests Posted: 10 Nov 2014 10:44 PM PST By Carey Gillam (Reuters) - Tensions were building in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, on Monday as the community girded for a decision by a grand jury over whether to indict the white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teen in August. The shooting sparked weeks of unrest and ongoing demonstrations, and some groups have threatened widespread protests if Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson is not charged with a crime in the death of Michael Brown, 18. St. ...

US officials: More work needed on Iran nuke deal Posted: 10 Nov 2014 10:27 PM PST BEIJING (AP) — Two days of tough talks to limit Iran's nuclear program failed Monday to make major headway toward a final deal —a foreboding sign for years of negotiations that are set to expire in less than two weeks.

S. Korean ferry captain gets 36 years in prison Posted: 10 Nov 2014 09:56 PM PST The captain is sentenced in the April ferry sinking that killed more than 300 people.

Rockies, Upper Midwest get blast of wintry weather Posted: 10 Nov 2014 07:14 PM PST PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A blast of wintry weather blew into parts of the Rockies and Upper Midwest on Monday, bringing a foot of snow in some areas, along with plunging temperatures. The cold weather is expected to eventually blanket the central U.S. from the Rockies to the Great Lakes region.

Anadarko's $5.15 billion cleanup deal approved by U.S. court Posted: 10 Nov 2014 04:33 PM PST By Nick Brown NEW YORK (Reuters) - Anadarko Petroleum Corp's agreement to pay $5.15 billion to clean up nuclear fuel and other pollution received approval from a federal judge on Monday, the final hurdle for the settlement touted by the U.S. Department of Justice as the largest-ever environmental cleanup recovery. The agreement, reached in April, resolved a lawsuit against Anadarko and its Kerr-McGee unit from creditors of Tronox Inc, the paint materials maker that was once a unit of Kerr-McGee. ...

U.S. veterans agency to reorganize around customer service Posted: 10 Nov 2014 03:32 PM PST By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Veterans Affairs Department on Monday launched a broad reorganization aimed at providing a single access point to the agency's services as it seeks to dig itself out of a massive scandal over long waiting times for health care. Under the plan, announced by VA Secretary Bob McDonald on the eve of the Veterans Day holiday, the VA will appoint a new chief customer service officer and establish a single website or phone access point for all VA services by region from medical care to disability benefits to home loans. ...

New York doctor infected with Ebola to be released from hospital Posted: 10 Nov 2014 03:15 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York doctor who was diagnosed with Ebola after working with patients in West Africa will be released on Tuesday from a hospital where he has been treated for the disease, the hospital said. Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, had been held in isolation in Bellevue Hospital Center since he was diagnosed with Ebola on Oct. 23, after working with patients in Guinea with Médecins Sans Frontières. Spencer will join Mayor Bill de Blasio and other city officials and Bellevue staff at a news conference on Tuesday morning, the hospital said. ...

Gunman takes at least 2 hostage in Oklahoma office building Posted: 10 Nov 2014 02:11 PM PST Negotiators have made contact with an armed suspect and a dialogue has been established, police say.

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