| Diggers hunt survivors in buried Guatemala town, death toll hits 48 Posted: 03 Oct 2015 01:20 PM PDT  By Sofia Menchu SANTA CATARINA PINULA, Guatemala (Reuters) - Rescue workers scrabbled through earth and rubble on Saturday in search of survivors of a massive landslide in Guatemala that killed at least 48 people, even as hopes began to fade for hundreds of others still missing. Diggers plowed into the mounds of earth that destroyed homes in Santa Catarina Pinula on the southeastern flank of Guatemala City, after authorities said on Friday that as many as 600 people were unaccounted for after Thursday night's disaster. Loosened by rain, tons of earth, rock and trees cascaded onto part of the town from the hillside above, flattening houses and trapping residents who had gone home for the night.
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| More rain, flooding forecast along soggy East Coast Posted: 03 Oct 2015 01:03 PM PDT  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Rain pummeling parts of the East Coast showed little sign of slackening Saturday, with record-setting precipitation prolonging the soppy misery that has been eased only by news that powerful Hurricane Joaquin will not hit the U.S.
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| Clinton gets endorsement of largest U.S. labor union Posted: 03 Oct 2015 12:30 PM PDT  U.S. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, who has been vying with challenger Bernie Sanders for the support of organized labor, scored a win on Saturday with an endorsement from the National Education Association, a huge teachers union. The move makes the NEA, the largest U.S. labor union with 3 million members, the latest in a string of unions to support Clinton, including the American Federation of Teachers and the machinists' union. Clinton's lead in opinion polls has been narrowing against Sanders, a Vermont senator who has rallied progressives with his pledges to tackle income inequality and rein in Wall Street.
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| U.S. auto union, Ford avert strike at pickup factory Posted: 03 Oct 2015 10:18 AM PDT  The United Auto Workers union and Ford Motor Co. have averted a strike at a factory in Kansas City, Mo. that builds the company's best-selling F-150 pickup trucks, the union said in a Facebook post late on Friday. Settles said last week the Union local in Kansas City, representing about 7,000 workers, had been unable to resolve differences over seniority, staffing and safety issues. Ford has made about $1.1 billion investments in the Kansas City facility to expand production of pickups and commercial vans.
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| UN slams 'inexcusable' Afghan hospital air strike that kills 19 Posted: 03 Oct 2015 10:01 AM PDT  A suspected US air strike on a hospital killed 19 people Saturday in the Afghan city of Kunduz, medical charity MSF said, a bombardment that the UN condemned as "inexcusable, and possibly even criminal". Dozens more were seriously wounded at the facility, a key lifeline that has been running "beyond capacity" during fighting that saw the Taliban seize control of the northern provincial capital for several days. The strike early Saturday left the building engulfed in flames, with photos posted by Doctors Without Borders showing their staff shocked and dazed.
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| At least 16 killed at Afghan hospital after U.S. air strike Posted: 03 Oct 2015 09:11 AM PDT  By Hamid Shalizi and Andrew MacAskill KABUL (Reuters) - An airstrike hit a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Afghan city of Kunduz on Saturday, killing at least 16 people in what the U.S. military called possible "collateral damage" in the battle to oust Taliban insurgents. Frantic MSF staff phoned military officials at NATO in Kabul and Washington after the attack, and bombs continued to rain down near the medical facility for nearly an hour, one official from the aid group said. The U.S. military promised to investigate the incident, which could renew concerns over the use of its air power in the conflict.
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| 9 staffers dead after Doctors Without Borders' Afghan clinic bombed Posted: 03 Oct 2015 05:52 AM PDT  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Nine local staffers for Doctors Without Borders were killed and 30 were missing after an explosion near their hospital in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz that may have been caused by a U.S. airstrike.
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| Fiorina makes distortion of Planned Parenthood a centerpiece Posted: 03 Oct 2015 12:54 AM PDT  GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina has spent the last two weeks repeating an erroneous description of videos secretly recorded by anti-abortion activists. That seems bound to continue as she makes her opposition to Planned Parenthood a centerpiece of her 2016 campaign.
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| Arizona sheriff denies investigating racial profiling case judge Posted: 02 Oct 2015 09:05 PM PDT  Arizona's controversial lawman, Joe Arpaio, took the witness stand on Friday during his civil contempt hearing and denied that his office used a confidential informant to investigate the judge presiding over his racial profiling case. During questioning, Arpaio said the probe had stemmed from the informant's allegations that the federal government had cracked into about 150,000 local bank accounts. "I wanted to get to the bottom of this massive infiltration," Arpaio said during the hearing in U.S. District Court in Phoenix.
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| Oregon gunman may have killed more if not for hero student Posted: 02 Oct 2015 08:00 PM PDT  By Eric M. Johnson and Courtney Sherwood ROSEBURG, Ore. (Reuters) - The heavily armed gunman who shot an English professor and eight others to death in an Oregon community college classroom was identified on Friday as a student in the class who previously had been turned away from a private firearms training academy. A day after a rampage that ended with 10 people dead, including the gunman, and nine wounded at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, authorities sought a motive for this year's bloodiest mass shooting in the United States, where such massacres have grown all too common. As further details of the Roseburg shooting emerged, a former girlfriend of one of the wounded survivors, a U.S. military veteran, revealed that his heroism in confronting the shooter may have saved others from being killed.
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| Obama to look for new gun measures, says 'talk' is main tool Posted: 02 Oct 2015 06:39 PM PDT  President Barack Obama said on Friday that he has asked his team to look for new ways to enforce existing regulations to keep guns away from criminals in the wake of the mass shooting in Oregon. "The main thing I'm going to do is I'm going to talk about this on a regular basis," Obama said at a news conference. Obama started by mocking Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush who earlier on Friday had said "stuff happens" in the course of an answer to a question about gun violence.
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| Hurricane Joaquin batters Bahamas, fate of cargo ship unknown Posted: 02 Oct 2015 05:34 PM PDT  By Neil Hartnell NASSAU (Reuters) - The fate of more than 30 crew aboard a cargo ship missing off the Bahamas in heavy seas whipped up by Hurricane Joaquin was unknown on Friday as the storm battered the island chain for a second day. News the vessel had lost contact with shore came as forecasters shifted the likely track of the potentially catastrophic storm further away from the U.S. East Coast, but there were still warnings about the possibility of severe flooding in the Carolinas from unrelated heavy rains. Late Friday afternoon, the U.S. National Hurricane Center downgraded Joaquin, the third hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic season, to a Category 3 hurricane on a scale of 1 to 5, down from its previous Category 4 ranking.
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| Obama to look for new gun measures, says 'talk' is main tool Posted: 02 Oct 2015 05:01 PM PDT  By Julia Edwards and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday that he has asked his team to look for new ways to enforce existing regulations to keep guns away from criminals in the wake of the mass shooting in Oregon. "The main thing I'm going to do is I'm going to talk about this on a regular basis," Obama said at a news conference. "I will politicize it, because our inaction is a political decision that we are making." Obama started by mocking Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush who earlier on Friday had said "stuff happens" in the course of an answer to a question about gun violence.
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| Oregon college shooting victims identified Posted: 02 Oct 2015 04:10 PM PDT  The nine people killed after a gunman opened fire on an Oregon community college campus Thursday took different paths to the small rural college, ranging from teens starting college for the first time to adults who were seeking a second career. One was an assistant professor of English at the college.
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| Obama: Russia action in Syria is 'recipe for disaster' Posted: 02 Oct 2015 03:04 PM PDT  President Obama warned that Russia's military engagement in Syria in support of strongman Bashar al-Assad is a "recipe for disaster," though Washington could still work with Moscow on reducing tensions. Russian President Vladimir Putin "doesn't distinguish between ISIL and a moderate Sunni opposition that wants to see Mr Assad go," Obama told reporters, referring to the self-proclaimed Islamic State group.
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| Obama rejects Russian approach to ending Syrian war Posted: 02 Oct 2015 02:00 PM PDT  President Obama is rejecting Russia's military campaign in Syria, saying it fails to distinguish between terrorist groups and moderate rebel forces with a legitimate interest in a negotiated end to the civil war.
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| Obama urges Congress to pass funding bill for fiscal year Posted: 02 Oct 2015 01:43 PM PDT  President Barack Obama on Friday urged the U.S. Congress to approve a bill to fund the government for the current fiscal year to avoid doing damage to the economy at a time global growth is slowing. "I will not sign another short-sighted spending bill," Obama told a White House news conference. On Wednesday, just hours before a midnight deadline when government agency funds were due to run out, Congress approved extending existing spending through Dec. 11.
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| Education Secretary Arne Duncan steps down after 7-year term Posted: 02 Oct 2015 01:26 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is reluctantly accepting the resignation of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, saying he's earned the right to return home as one of the longest-serving secretaries in the department's history.
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