| Paul Ryan’s first challenge as House speaker Posted: 01 Nov 2015 11:47 AM PST  Newly elected House Speaker Paul Ryan says it's time for his fellow House Republicans to "take some policy risks" on an ambitious conservative agenda that includes comprehensive tax reform, an overhaul of federal poverty programs and the replacement of the Affordable Care Act, President Obama's signature health care law better known as Obamacare.
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| Turkey's PM declares victory in parliamentary election Posted: 01 Nov 2015 11:30 AM PST  Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has declared victory for his ruling party after preliminary election results showed it restoring its majority in parliament.
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| Airbnb wages $8 million campaign to defeat San Francisco measure Posted: 01 Nov 2015 11:14 AM PST  Airbnb has spent more than $8 million and hired a top political operative to defeat a San Francisco initiative on the ballot Tuesday that could threaten the growth of one of the most valuable global technology companies. Proposition F, which would limit short-term rentals, was brought by affordable housing advocates fed up with the city's housing stock being used as rentals for tourists while residents face skyrocketing rents and evictions. For Airbnb, a defeat in its hometown of San Francisco would be mostly a symbolic blow.
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| Prices, politics challenge Obamacare's 3rd sign-up season Posted: 01 Nov 2015 06:17 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The government's insurance website is faster and easier to use, but as a third sign-up season gets underway, President Barack Obama's health care law is approaching limits.
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| East German who announced Berlin Wall opening dies at 86 Posted: 01 Nov 2015 05:30 AM PST  BERLIN (AP) — Guenter Schabowski, the senior East German official whose cryptic announcement that the communist country was opening its fortified border precipitated the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, died Sunday at 86.
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| Ex-N.Y. legislative leaders facing U.S. corruption trials Posted: 01 Nov 2015 04:26 AM PST  Former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, long one of the state's most powerful lawmakers, goes on trial this week on charges that he used his office to collect millions of dollars in kickbacks and bribes. Dean Skelos, former Senate majority leader, faces his own criminal trial on Nov. 16. Together with Governor Andrew Cuomo, Silver, a Democrat, and Skelos, a Republican, wielded virtually absolute control in Albany over everything from the state budget to key legislation.
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| S. Korea, Japan, China leaders agree to mend strained ties Posted: 01 Nov 2015 01:38 AM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Leaders from South Korea, China and Japan said they pledged at a rare three-way summit Sunday to boost exchanges and economic cooperation and try to repair ties badly strained by history and territorial disputes.
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| Wreckage believed to be of cargo ship El Faro located: U.S. officials Posted: 31 Oct 2015 07:06 PM PDT  A search team aboard the U.S. Naval Ship Apache discovered the wreckage using sonar equipment, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement. The statement said officials planned to send a deep ocean remotely operated vehicle to confirm the identity of the wreckage on Sunday.
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| Texas storms kill at least six, bring torrential rains Posted: 31 Oct 2015 06:36 PM PDT  By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - At least six people have died in Texas in storms that lashed parts of the state with heavy rains, causing flooding and the cancellation of dozens of flights as twisters were reported near Houston, authorities said on Saturday. A day after tornadoes ripped through buildings outside San Antonio and heavy rains swelled some rivers near Austin to record levels, the National Weather Service reported an apparent twister south of Houston in Brazoria County early on Saturday that damaged 25 trailer homes near the town of Alvin. The Weather Service said it had tracked other possible twisters on Saturday in or near La Porte and Friendswood, near Houston.
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| Police say gunman kills 3 in downtown Colorado Springs Posted: 31 Oct 2015 05:26 PM PDT  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A man marching down the street shot and killed three people on Saturday, before being fatally shot in a gunbattle with police, authorities and witnesses said.
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| Storms, tornadoes lash Texas; death toll rises to 6 Posted: 31 Oct 2015 04:23 PM PDT  HOUSTON (AP) — The death toll rose to six in Texas as more bodies were recovered on Saturday after another band of strong storms and heavy rain spawned three tornadoes and dangerous flooding in the waterlogged state.
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