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• Republicans mull response to Obama on immigration
• Awaiting Ferguson grand jury, activists drill protest tactics
• Window washers describe 'panic' of dangling 69 floors above New York
• U.S. seeks to ease influx of Central American child migrants
• Same-sex couples file Supreme Court appeal
• U.S. court rejects religious objection to Obamacare contraception deal
• Walmart gets difficult Black Friday news
• St. Louis-area schools will get notice of grand jury's finding: letter
• U.S. Postmaster General Donahoe to retire in February
• Reviews of U.S. nuclear forces call for changes
• Obama to shield many from deportation
• Loophole for Nazis finally closed
• Is Google Glass a bust?
• Surgeon with Ebola coming to US for care
• For House, 9th Keystone bill may be the charm
• Fugitive ex-policeman targeted Los Angeles police chief's father
• Two hurt as man pulls knife at Connecticut Navy base
• New Jersey state Assembly approves assisted suicide bill
• Report: Surgeon infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone to be flown to Nebraska
• U.S. internal review cites Secret Service failures in White House intrusion
• What is a lame-duck politician? And is it always a bad thing?
• Obama order to affect millions of immigrants
• Conservation groups ask Obama administration to protect Yellowstone bison
• Kansas counties issue same-sex marriage license after court ruling
• Violent New York drug gang busted in shooting that paralyzed girl

Republicans mull response to Obama on immigration Posted: 14 Nov 2014 11:49 AM PST The House GOP are debating how to respond to the president's executive action.

Awaiting Ferguson grand jury, activists drill protest tactics Posted: 14 Nov 2014 11:33 AM PST By Scott Malone ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - In a former union hall in downtown St. Louis, about 100 activists formed a rough circle and, at the instruction of organizer Michael McPhearson, crossed the room wading through a crowd of people going the opposite way. "How hard was that? How much harder will it be after the grand jury comes back?" McPhearson, executive director of activist group Veterans for Peace, asked the group, which ranged from young black college students to bearded white retirees. Police around the St. ...

Window washers describe 'panic' of dangling 69 floors above New York Posted: 14 Nov 2014 11:17 AM PST By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two window washers who dangled from a broken scaffold 69 floors above the ground at One World Trade Center said on Friday their emotions ranged from terror to resolved calm while they awaited rescue and the rest of New York held its breath. Two days after the harrowing accident at the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, Juan Lopez, 33, said the scare has convinced him to end his days of high-altitude work - at least for now. "There's a lot of options for window cleaning - a lot of ground floor jobs," he said. "I will probably do that. ...

U.S. seeks to ease influx of Central American child migrants Posted: 14 Nov 2014 11:01 AM PST By Anna Yukhananov and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington will allow some children in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to apply for refugee status from their home countries, Vice President Joe Biden announced on Friday, in a bid to stem an exodus of undocumented migrants to the U.S. border through Mexico. The program only applies to children whose parents are legal residents of the United States. But Biden said it should provide an alternative for children making the "harrowing" journey alone from Central America in order to join their parents. ...

Same-sex couples file Supreme Court appeal Posted: 14 Nov 2014 10:29 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Same-sex couples seeking the right to marry are asking the Supreme Court to settle the issue of gay marriage nationwide.

U.S. court rejects religious objection to Obamacare contraception deal Posted: 14 Nov 2014 09:07 AM PST By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a win for the Obama administration on insurance coverage for contraception under Obamacare, a U.S. appeals court on Friday ruled that Catholic non-profit groups' religious rights were not violated by a compromise already achieved on the volatile issue. Catholic groups had sued over the compromise, saying they should not have to pay for or facilitate access to contraception or abortion, but a judge wrote in the ruling that under the compromise, "the regulations do not compel them to do that. ...

Walmart gets difficult Black Friday news Posted: 14 Nov 2014 08:16 AM PST 1,600 stores across the U.S. may not operate the way the company expects.

St. Louis-area schools will get notice of grand jury's finding: letter Posted: 14 Nov 2014 08:01 AM PST By Scott Malone FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - A suburban St. Louis school district told parents that it expects to receive at least three hours' notice from prosecutors when a grand jury decides whether to charge a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teen in Ferguson, Missouri. Officials and residents around Ferguson, which was torn by weeks of sometimes violent protests following the Aug. ...

U.S. Postmaster General Donahoe to retire in February Posted: 14 Nov 2014 07:14 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - United States Postmaster General, Patrick Donahoe, who has led the financially troubled U.S. Postal Service for four years, is set to retire in February 2015, clearing the way for the service's first female postmaster general. The Postal Service Board of Governors, which made the announcement Friday, said it had picked Megan Brennan, the agency's chief operating officer, to be the 74th postmaster general and chief executive.   Donahoe has worked for the Postal Service in different positions for 39 years. (Reporting by Elvina Nawaguna; Editing by Bernadette Baum)

Reviews of U.S. nuclear forces call for changes Posted: 14 Nov 2014 06:59 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Internal and external reviews of the U.S. nuclear arsenal show that significant changes are needed to ensure the security and effectiveness of the force, a Defense Department report said on Friday. The reviews, which Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered after a series of incidents involving nuclear personnel, included more than 100 recommendations to improve the nuclear forces. (Writing by Bill Trott; Editing by Susan Heavey)

Obama to shield many from deportation Posted: 14 Nov 2014 06:26 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is considering a plan that would shield possibly around 5 million immigrants living in the country illegally from deportation as part of a broad set of executive actions that could be announced as early as next week, people familiar with the discussions say.

Loophole for Nazis finally closed Posted: 14 Nov 2014 05:03 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation Thursday to strip suspected Nazi war criminals of their Social Security benefits, insisting American taxpayers should not be underwriting the retirement of anyone who participated in the Third Reich's atrocities.

Is Google Glass a bust? Posted: 14 Nov 2014 04:46 AM PST By Alexei Oreskovic, Sarah McBride and Malathi Nayak SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - After two years of popping up at high-profile events sporting Google Glass, the gadget that transforms eyeglasses into spy-movie worthy technology, Google co-founder Sergey Brin sauntered bare-faced into a Silicon Valley red-carpet event on Sunday. He'd left his pair in the car, Brin told a reporter. The Googler, who heads up the top-secret lab which developed Glass, has hardly given up on the product -- he recently wore his pair to the beach. ...

Surgeon with Ebola coming to US for care Posted: 14 Nov 2014 03:39 AM PST FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — A surgeon working in Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola and will be flown Saturday to the United States for treatment, officials from Sierra Leone and the United States said.

For House, 9th Keystone bill may be the charm Posted: 14 Nov 2014 01:16 AM PST The House is on track to approve the pipeline, and this time, the Senate may follow.

Fugitive ex-policeman targeted Los Angeles police chief's father Posted: 13 Nov 2014 11:39 PM PST (Reuters) - A former Los Angeles police officer who eluded authorities for days after a grudge-driven killing spree last year had targeted the city police chief's father, police said on Thursday. Christopher Dorner, the 33-year-old former Los Angeles Police Department officer who took his own life after killing four people in a vendetta against the police force, targeted George Beck, the father of Police Chief Charlie Beck, LAPD spokeswoman Officer Sally Madera said. The news was first reported by local broadcaster NBC4, which published an interview with Charlie Beck on Thursday. ...

Two hurt as man pulls knife at Connecticut Navy base Posted: 13 Nov 2014 10:21 PM PST (Reuters) - Two U.S. Navy civilian police officers were injured on Thursday outside a submarine base in Connecticut after a belligerent man pulled a knife near an entrance, military officials said. The suspect got into a scuffle with an officer and pulled the knife outside the New London naval submarine base in Groton around 7 p.m., base spokesman Chris Zendan said. Two other officers responded to the incident and one suffered a ricochet injury after a colleague fired his pistol, Zendan said, while another received a minor stab wound to the leg. ...

New Jersey state Assembly approves assisted suicide bill Posted: 13 Nov 2014 10:04 PM PST By Sebastien Malo (Reuters) - The New Jersey state Assembly on Thursday passed a measure that would allow doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients, modeled after the Oregon law that allowed a 29-year-old woman suffering from brain cancer to end her life. The legislation must still win approval in the New Jersey state Senate, where a companion bill has stalled, and then be signed by Governor Chris Christie. If it passes those hurdles, New Jersey would become the fourth state with a so-called "death with dignity" law. ...

Report: Surgeon infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone to be flown to Nebraska Posted: 13 Nov 2014 06:32 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A surgeon infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone will be flown to the University of Nebraska Medical Center for treatment, "CBS Evening News" reported on Thursday. The surgeon was born in Sierra Leone but is a U.S. resident, CBS reported. Representatives for the University of Nebraska Medical Center said hospital officials could not confirm the report. "Staff members here have been in a state of readiness to treat Ebola patients since we were first visited by the U.S. State Department in early August," the medical center said in a statement. ...

U.S. internal review cites Secret Service failures in White House intrusion Posted: 13 Nov 2014 05:06 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An intruder was able to scale the White House fence and enter the executive mansion in September because of major Secret Service failures including an agent who was distracted by a personal cellphone call, according to an internal review released on Thursday. Iraq war veteran Omar Gonzalez, 42, is accused of breaking into the heavily guarded complex on Sept. 19 armed with a knife in one of the most significant security breaches since President Barack Obama took office in 2009. The suspect was not stopped until he entered the main floor of the White House. ...

What is a lame-duck politician? And is it always a bad thing? Posted: 13 Nov 2014 04:02 PM PST There's been a lot of chatter about last week's Republican sweep in elections transforming President Obama as a lame duck — but what exactly does that term mean?

Obama order to affect millions of immigrants Posted: 13 Nov 2014 03:44 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is poised to act soon to unveil a series of executive actions on immigration that will shield possibly around 5 million immigrants living in the U.s. illegally from deportation, according to advocates in touch with the White House.

Conservation groups ask Obama administration to protect Yellowstone bison Posted: 13 Nov 2014 02:56 PM PST By Laura Zuckerman (Reuters) - Two conservation groups asked the Obama administration on Thursday to provide Endangered Species Act protections for about 4,900 bison at Yellowstone National Park, where managers intend to cull the herd by 900 this winter. Buffalo Field Campaign and Western Watersheds Project said in a petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that buffalo at the park that spans parts of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho made up part of the only free-roaming band in the country to retain its genetic integrity. ...

Kansas counties issue same-sex marriage license after court ruling Posted: 13 Nov 2014 02:39 PM PST By Kevin Murphy KANSAS CITY Kan. (Reuters) - Kansas counties began issuing marriage licenses on Thursday to same-sex couples a day after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to delay a federal judge's order that lifted the state's ban. Judge Daniel Crabtree said on Nov. 4 the Kansas ban on same-sex marriage violated the U.S Constitution's due process and equal protection clause and entered a preliminary injunction that required circuit court clerks to issue licenses on Tuesday. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined a request by Kansas officials to halt same-sex marriage and the U.S. ...

Violent New York drug gang busted in shooting that paralyzed girl Posted: 13 Nov 2014 02:08 PM PST By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dozens of accused members and associates of a violent gang that pistol-whipped and used hammers to attack rivals of their drug operation were indicted for crimes including a shooting that paralyzed a girl in Brooklyn, authorities said on Thursday. A crackdown on the Gates Avenue Mafia resulted in a 146-count indictment naming 32 people, all but seven of whom have been arrested, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson said in a statement. Charges range from conspiracy to sell narcotics and weapons to attempted murder. ...

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