| AP sources: IS, al-Qaida reach accord in Syria Posted: 13 Nov 2014 12:28 PM PST  ISTANBUL (AP) — Militant leaders from the Islamic State group and al-Qaida gathered at a farm house in northern Syria last week and agreed on a plan to stop fighting each other and work together against their opponents, a high-level Syrian opposition official and a rebel commander have told The Associated Press.
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| Surprising findings about school lunches Posted: 13 Nov 2014 11:40 AM PST  By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – In a study of three rural Virginia elementary schools, both packed and school lunches almost entirely met nutrition standards, but those packed at home tended to have more calories, fat and saturated fat. "We assumed there would be differences between school and packed lunch, but not such stark differences," said lead author Alisha R. Farris of the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. ...
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| Obama plan to shield up to 5 million immigrants from deportation: NY Times Posted: 13 Nov 2014 10:05 AM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama plans to announce an overhaul of U.S. immigration policy through executive action that would shield up to 5 million undocumented immigrants, the New York Times reported on Thursday. The newspaper, citing administration officials with direct knowledge of the plan, said the overhaul may be announced as soon as next week. Officials said the plan would allow many parents of children who are American citizens or legal residents to obtain legal work documents and stay in the United States. ...
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| Letter from North Dakota: The Oil Party Rocks On Posted: 13 Nov 2014 09:31 AM PST  By Ernest Scheyder WILLISTON N.D. (Reuters) - Falling oil prices have spooked Wall Street and even parts of Texas. But in North Dakota's booming oil patch, the crude-fueled party carries on. Since June, the price of crude oil has fallen 30 percent to about $75 a barrel, raising fears that oil production would slow across the United States. But you wouldn't know it here. The state's economy remains the fastest growing in the nation, thanks to more than 1 million barrels of oil produced each day. ...
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| Australians bury heads in sand to mock government Posted: 13 Nov 2014 08:42 AM PST  More than 400 protesters sent a big climate change message.
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| Family of slain Missouri teenager plea for peaceful protests Posted: 13 Nov 2014 08:10 AM PST  CLAYTON Mo (Reuters) - The family of a black teenager shot dead in August in Missouri pleaded on Thursday for peaceful protests and a measured police response in anticipation of grand jury decision on whether or not to indict the white police officer involved in the shooting. Michael Brown, 18, was killed in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, setting of a national uproar over racial profiling and police tactics. ...
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| Attorneys for slain black Missouri teen to speak on Thursday Posted: 13 Nov 2014 06:31 AM PST  By Scott Malone FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - Lawyers for the unarmed black teen shot dead by a Missouri police officer on Thursday planned to discuss a private autopsy the teen's family commissioned, as the pathologist who performed it testifies before a grand jury. A grand jury, meeting in private under standard U.S. procedures, was expected to reach a decision this month on whether to indict Darren Wilson, the white officer who shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson in August. ...
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| U.S. Capitol workers, others to strike for higher pay, union Posted: 13 Nov 2014 05:25 AM PST  By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some U.S. Capitol workers on Thursday will join for the first time a strike by other federal contract workers to press President Barack Obama to boost pay and spur unionization, a spokesman for strike organizers said. About two dozen food service workers will be among several hundred federal contract employees expected to strike at the white-domed Capitol, Smithsonian museums, the Pentagon and other sites, said Paco Fabian, a spokesman for the Good Jobs Nation campaign for better pay and benefits. ...
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| Space agency releases 1st picture from comet Posted: 13 Nov 2014 03:46 AM PST  BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency on Thursday published the first image taken from the surface of a comet, and said that its Philae lander is still "stable" despite a failure to latch on properly to the rocky terrain.
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| Matt Bai: Challenging inequality, the Uber way Posted: 13 Nov 2014 03:13 AM PST  A business venture called Aspiration has the mission of giving middle-income families access to the same variety of investment vehicles that richer Americans have. Trying to democratize Wall Street might be a better strategy than sitting around and railing against it. Aspiration
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| 911 tapes of Washington state school shooting rampage released Posted: 13 Nov 2014 02:57 AM PST  (Reuters) - Authorities on Wednesday released emergency-911 calls of the shooting rampage at a Washington state high school last month, providing details on the scene of carnage and confusion. Five teens, including 15-year-old shooter Jaylen Fryberg, were killed as a result of the Oct. 24 shooting inside a cafeteria at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, an hour's drive north of Seattle. "I am in the cafeteria. I have the shooter, one shooter. Blood is everywhere... I need help. ...
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| First Ebola treatment trials to start in west Africa Posted: 13 Nov 2014 02:24 AM PST  Medical aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Thursday it would launch clinical trials of three possible treatments for Ebola in west Africa from next month. The trials to be run in Liberia and Guinea from December give "hope for patients to finally get a real treatment against a disease that today kills between 50 percent and 80 percent of those infected," said Annick Antierens, who is coordinating the trials with three different research partners. Two antiviral drugs to be tested -- brincidofovir and favipiravir -- have been highlighted by the World Health Organization as promising. Another therapy using blood and the transfer of plasma from Ebola survivors to sufferers would be tested in Guinea, MSF said.
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| Immigration, Keystone top first day of lame duck Posted: 13 Nov 2014 01:51 AM PST  Lawmakers return to a Capitol where results of last week's GOP blowout are still sinking in.
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| Arkansas Governor to pardon son's drug conviction: report Posted: 13 Nov 2014 01:34 AM PST  (Reuters) - Outgoing Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe said on Wednesday that he will pardon his son for a felony drug conviction, local media reported. Beebe, who is set to leave office in January due to term limits, said he would pardon his son Kyle, now 34, for his 2003 felony conviction of marijuana possession with intent to deliver, local broadcaster KATV said. "Kids, when they're young, do stupid stuff. He was no different," Beebe told KATV in an interview published online. "If they've straightened up, to get their life back on track and have a second chance, so this is no different. ...
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| Doctor arrested in India sterilization deaths Posted: 13 Nov 2014 12:27 AM PST  NEW DELHI (AP) — The doctor who conducted sterilization procedures after which 13 women died in central India was arrested and blamed tainted post-surgery drugs for the deaths.
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| New Orleans detectives faulted for ignoring sex crimes Posted: 12 Nov 2014 11:04 PM PST (Reuters) - Hundreds of sex crime complaints to the New Orleans Police Department over a three-year period went virtually uninvestigated, city watchdog and police officials said on Wednesday. Roughly 1,300 sexual assault calls were assigned to five detectives between 2011 and 2013, and in 65 percent of those cases officers filed no follow-up reports, the office of the city's inspector-general said in a report. ... |
| Exclusive: Controversial U.S. energy loan program has wiped out losses Posted: 12 Nov 2014 09:13 PM PST |
| FedEx workers at New Jersey facility vote against unionization Posted: 12 Nov 2014 07:54 PM PST  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Workers at a Newark, New Jersey, FedEx Freight facility voted against joining a union on Wednesday, in a blow to a concerted drive by the Teamsters to unionize FedEx Corp. "We are proud of our employees for doing their homework on the union and making an informed decision against third-party interference," FedEx Freight said in a statement after the result was announced. ...
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| Colorado man's wife, dead in fall from cliff, insured for millions Posted: 12 Nov 2014 06:51 PM PST By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - A Colorado man accused of killing his wife by pushing her off a cliff two years ago stood to reap millions of dollars from life insurance benefits, prosecutors said on Wednesday, as homicide investigators delved separately into the 1995 death of his first spouse. A federal grand jury indicted Harold Henthorn, 58, on first-degree murder charges last week in the slaying of Toni Henthorn, 50, who plunged 50 feet to her death in Rocky Mountain National Park in September 2012. ... |
| California man pleads not guilty to killing family of four Posted: 12 Nov 2014 04:44 PM PST  By Dana Feldman VICTORVILLE Calif. (Reuters) - An ex-convict pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to four counts of murder in the slayings of a couple and their two young sons whose skeletal remains were found buried last year in the California desert. The suspect, Charles "Chase" Merritt, 57, has been described by police as a former business associate of the father, Joseph McStay, who was reported missing with his wife and two boys in February 2010 from the family's Southern California home. ...
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| Forensics expert to testify at Ferguson grand jury Posted: 12 Nov 2014 03:54 PM PST  ST. LOUIS (AP) — A private forensic pathologist who performed an autopsy on Michael Brown will testify before the grand jury deciding whether to charge the Ferguson police officer who shot him, the attorney for Brown's parents said Wednesday.
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| Voter turnout for 2014 midterms worst in 72 years Posted: 12 Nov 2014 01:06 PM PST  Voter turnout in last week's midterm elections was terrible. How terrible? Just 36.3 percent of eligible voters cast votes — the worst turnout in 72 years.
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