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• Autumn storms slam the Midwest
• Egypt: 4 killed in clashes during Islamist protest
• White House supports back pay for federal workers
• Migrants used empty water bottles to stay afloat
• Tweeter Home shares explode, as traders confuse it for Twitter
• Legendary Vietnam Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap dies at 102
• 6 lessons of the government shutdown
• Rodriguez sues MLB and Selig, citing 'witch hunt'
• Dems say it's time for GOP to unite, end shutdown
• Boehner demands two-party negotiations
• Reds dump manager Dusty Baker after playoff loss
• Pope trip to St. Francis' town highlights goals
• Reds fire manager Dusty Baker after playoff loss
• Already? Heavy snow, thunderstorms moving into Midwest
• Legendary Vietnam Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap dies
• Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood protesters march in Cairo
• Police identify prime suspect in biker road rage incident
• Pope, in Assisi, calls on Church to shun vanity
• Twitter dishes tantalizing tidbits in IPO treatise
• In Asia, Obama's no-show is a boost for China's Xi
• As shutdown drags on, lawmakers focus on posturing
• Search resumes for dead in migrant shipwreck
• UK's powerful Daily Mail faces a political storm
• Obama cancels Asia trip to deal with shutdown
• Kershaw fans 12, Dodgers beat Braves 6-1 in Game 1

Autumn storms slam the Midwest Posted: 04 Oct 2013 12:46 PM PDT Travis Randall walks through the debris-strewn yard of his parent's home in Hickman, Neb., Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, after it was struck by a tornado. Powerful storms crawled into the Midwest on Friday, dumping heavy snow in South Dakota, spawning a tornado in Nebraska and threatening dangerous thunderstorms from Oklahoma to Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Egypt: 4 killed in clashes during Islamist protest Posted: 04 Oct 2013 12:15 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian Health Ministry official says four people have been killed in clashes between Islamist supporters of the ousted president and security forces.

White House supports back pay for federal workers Posted: 04 Oct 2013 11:44 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it supports House legislation to give back pay to federal workers furloughed during the current partial government shutdown.

Migrants used empty water bottles to stay afloat Posted: 04 Oct 2013 11:28 AM PDT LAMPEDUSA, Italy (AP) — Survivors of a fiery shipwreck that killed more than 110 African migrants clung for hours to empty water bottles in the dark, trying desperately to keep themselves from drowning in the sea, an Italian fisherman said Friday.

Tweeter Home shares explode, as traders confuse it for Twitter Posted: 04 Oct 2013 10:57 AM PDT By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) - Excitement for Twitter's coming IPO is running pretty high - so much so that some investors on Friday mistook the nearly worthless stock of long-dead electronics retailer Tweeter for the "tweeting" site, sending shares up more than 1,000 percent. Tweeter Home Entertainment Group, a specialty consumer electronics company that went bankrupt in 2007, saw a its most active day of trading in more than six years even though it has nothing to do with the social media site. ...

Legendary Vietnam Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap dies at 102 Posted: 04 Oct 2013 10:42 AM PDT HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, the brilliant and ruthless commander who led a ragtag army of guerrillas to victory in Vietnam over first the French and then the Americans, died Friday. The last of the country's old-guard revolutionaries was 102.

6 lessons of the government shutdown Posted: 04 Oct 2013 10:26 AM PDT These days, D.C. has come to stand for Dysfunction Central.

Rodriguez sues MLB and Selig, citing 'witch hunt' Posted: 04 Oct 2013 09:42 AM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Rodriguez took a swing for the fences in a bid to restore his reputation and lucrative career with the New York Yankees, accusing Major League Baseball and Commissioner Bud Selig in a lawsuit made public Friday of pursuing him in a "witch hunt" designed to smear Rodriguez' character and cost him tens of millions of dollars.

Dems say it's time for GOP to unite, end shutdown Posted: 04 Oct 2013 09:22 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama decided to stay home from economic summits in Asia as Democrats stepped up pressure on congressional Republicans to rein in their tea party faction and reopen the government with no strings attached.

Boehner demands two-party negotiations Posted: 04 Oct 2013 09:08 AM PDT 'This isn't some damn game,' the House Speaker said on Friday.

Reds dump manager Dusty Baker after playoff loss Posted: 04 Oct 2013 08:53 AM PDT CINCINNATI (AP) — The Reds fired Dusty Baker on Friday, ousting the manager who led them to their best stretch of success since the Big Red Machine but couldn't get them past the first round of the postseason.

Pope trip to St. Francis' town highlights goals Posted: 04 Oct 2013 08:34 AM PDT ASSISI, Italy (AP) — Pope Francis broke bread with the poor and embraced the disabled on a pilgrimage to his namesake's hometown Friday, urging the faithful to follow the example of the 13th-century St. Francis, who renounced a wealthy, dissolute lifestyle to embrace a life of poverty and service to the poor.

Reds fire manager Dusty Baker after playoff loss Posted: 04 Oct 2013 08:17 AM PDT CINCINNATI (AP) — The Reds have fired manager Dusty Baker, who led them to their best stretch of success since the Big Red Machine but couldn't get them past the first round of the playoffs.

Already? Heavy snow, thunderstorms moving into Midwest Posted: 04 Oct 2013 07:42 AM PDT SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Powerful storms crawled into the Midwest on Friday, dumping heavy snow in South Dakota, spawning a tornado in Nebraska and threatening dangerous thunderstorms from Oklahoma to Wisconsin.

Legendary Vietnam Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap dies Posted: 04 Oct 2013 07:26 AM PDT HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vo Nguyen Giap, the brilliant and ruthless self-taught general who drove the French out of Vietnam to free it from colonial rule and later forced the Americans to abandon their grueling effort to save the country from communism, has died. At age 102, he was the last of Vietnam's old-guard revolutionaries.

Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood protesters march in Cairo Posted: 04 Oct 2013 06:56 AM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Defying a crackdown, thousands of supporters of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood marched through a Cairo suburb on Friday toward the site of their former protest camp that was crushed by security forces in August, a Reuters witness said. Soldiers and policemen boosted their presence around Rabaa al-Adaweya mosque, the larger of the Brotherhood's two former Cairo sit-ins, as the march approached, the state news agency reported. ...

Police identify prime suspect in biker road rage incident Posted: 04 Oct 2013 06:24 AM PDT Police search for the man who smashed the window of an SUV driver, who was then beaten after an accident.

Pope, in Assisi, calls on Church to shun vanity Posted: 04 Oct 2013 05:54 AM PDT By Philip Pullella ASSISI, Italy (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Church, from the lowliest priest to the pontiff himself, must strip itself of all "vanity, arrogance and pride" and humbly serve the poorest members of society, Pope Francis said on Friday. The pope's appeal, made in the central Italian hill town of Assisi where his namesake Saint Francis lived in the 12th century, comes amid a drive by Francis to turn around a Church plagued by financial and sexual abuse scandals. Saint Francis is revered by Catholics and many other Christians for his simplicity, poverty and love of nature. ...

Twitter dishes tantalizing tidbits in IPO treatise Posted: 04 Oct 2013 05:08 AM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter, a privately held company built on blurbs, has finally laid itself bare in documents that read more like a treatise than a tweet.

In Asia, Obama's no-show is a boost for China's Xi Posted: 04 Oct 2013 04:36 AM PDT BEIJING (AP) — President Barack Obama has called off a trip to Asia just as China's president is being feted in regional capitals ahead of summits where the U.S. no-show will give China a chance to shine and boost its influence.

As shutdown drags on, lawmakers focus on posturing Posted: 04 Oct 2013 04:06 AM PDT "This place is a mad house," one Congressman said. It would be funny if it weren't true.

Search resumes for dead in migrant shipwreck Posted: 04 Oct 2013 03:32 AM PDT LAMPEDUSA, Italy (AP) — Authorities are contending with choppy waters in the search for dozens of migrants believed to have drowned after their rickety boat caught fire and sank off the coast of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa.

UK's powerful Daily Mail faces a political storm Posted: 04 Oct 2013 01:49 AM PDT LONDON (AP) — Britain's Daily Mail newspaper will tell you that many things you eat can give you cancer, global warming is probably bunk and the British way of life is under threat from pernicious Eurocrats in Brussels.

Obama cancels Asia trip to deal with shutdown Posted: 04 Oct 2013 01:28 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is canceling a trip to Asia to stay in Washington and push for an elusive funding bill to get the nation's business back up and running.

Kershaw fans 12, Dodgers beat Braves 6-1 in Game 1 Posted: 04 Oct 2013 12:37 AM PDT ATLANTA (AP) — Clayton Kershaw finally has his first postseason win.

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• Shots outside Capitol, police say 1 injury
• All clear after shots fired at the U.S. Capitol
• Shutdown in 3rd day with debt trouble looming
• Shots heard at Capitol, building under lockdown
• Ex-official pleads no contest to Bell corruption
• Tropical Storm Karen headed for Gulf Coast states
• NY SUV driver's wife: We were in 'grave danger'
• Shutdown in 3rd day with Obama, Hill at impasse
• Death toll in Sicily shipwreck rises to 114
• Migrant ship capsizes off Italy, killing 94
• Obama: Boehner keeping government shut
• Pills made from poop cure serious gut infections
• Officials scramble to provide access to Obamacare sites
• Mexicans seek asylum as drug violence persists
• Report: Many women died in migrant shipwreck
• Berlusconi, ultimate survivor, runs out of lives
• At least 94 migrants dead in shipwreck off Italy
• Getting nowhere: Shutdown in 3rd day
• Tropical Storm Karen forms in the Gulf of Mexico
• At least 92 dead as packed migrant boat sinks off Italy
• Forging on: My vacation in a closed national park
• Victim of Myanmar attack mourns mother left behind
• Michael Jackson's doctor relieved at verdict
• Army ranger remembers ‘Black Hawk Down’ 20 years later
• At least 94 dead in migrant shipwreck off Italy

Shots outside Capitol, police say 1 injury Posted: 03 Oct 2013 01:22 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A police officer was reported injured after gunshots at the U.S. Capitol, police said Thursday. They locked down the entire complex, at least temporarily derailing debate over how to end a government shutdown.

All clear after shots fired at the U.S. Capitol Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:51 PM PDT One suspect reported dead after multiple shots were heard in the area.

Shutdown in 3rd day with debt trouble looming Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:35 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Efforts to resolve the government shutdown were at a standstill Thursday as President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner traded barbs, the Treasury warned of a dire risk to the economy ahead and work in the Capitol was briefly halted because of gunshots outside.

Shots heard at Capitol, building under lockdown Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:05 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Police say the U.S. Capitol has been put on a security lockdown amid reports of possible shots fired outside the building.

Ex-official pleads no contest to Bell corruption Posted: 03 Oct 2013 11:47 AM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — The attorney for Robert Rizzo says the disgraced former city manager of Bell, Calif., has pleaded no contest to all 69 state corruption counts against him because he wants to take responsibility for mistakes he made and put his legal troubles behind him.

Tropical Storm Karen headed for Gulf Coast states Posted: 03 Oct 2013 11:31 AM PDT By Jane Sutton MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Karen formed in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico on Thursday and could become a hurricane before hitting the U.S. coast between Louisiana and the Florida Panhandle, forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Energy companies began evacuating some workers from oil and natural gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday. Anadarko Petroleum Corp said Thursday it had shut production at its Neptune platform, which has capacity to produce 14,000 barrels per day of oil and 23 million cubic feet per day of natural gas. ...

NY SUV driver's wife: We were in 'grave danger' Posted: 03 Oct 2013 10:41 AM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — The driver of an SUV involved in a bloody weekend confrontation with a throng of motorcyclists was put in grave danger and feared for the life of his family inside when he drove through the crowd, striking a biker on the street, his wife said Thursday.

Shutdown in 3rd day with Obama, Hill at impasse Posted: 03 Oct 2013 10:12 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama laid the blame for the government's partial shutdown at the feet of House Speaker John Boehner, escalating a government-shutdown confrontation that was leading headlong into a potentially more damaging clash over the nation's borrowing authority.

Death toll in Sicily shipwreck rises to 114 Posted: 03 Oct 2013 09:39 AM PDT ROME (AP) — A ship carrying African migrants to Europe caught fire and capsized Thursday off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, killing at least 114 people as hundreds were dumped into the sea, officials said. Over 150 people were rescued but about the same number were still unaccounted for.

Migrant ship capsizes off Italy, killing 94 Posted: 03 Oct 2013 09:21 AM PDT ROME (AP) — A ship carrying African migrants to Europe caught fire and capsized Thursday off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, killing at least 94 people as hundreds were dumped into the sea, officials said. Over 150 people were rescued but some 200 others were still unaccounted for.

Obama: Boehner keeping government shut Posted: 03 Oct 2013 09:03 AM PDT He also issued dire warnings on the upcoming debt-ceiling deadline.

Pills made from poop cure serious gut infections Posted: 03 Oct 2013 08:44 AM PDT Hold your nose and don't spit out your coffee: Doctors have found a way to put healthy people's poop into pills that can cure serious gut infections — a less yucky way to do "fecal transplants." Canadian researchers tried this on 27 patients and cured them all after strong antibiotics failed to help.

Officials scramble to provide access to Obamacare sites Posted: 03 Oct 2013 08:29 AM PDT By David Morgan and Lewis Krauskopf (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Wednesday scrambled to add computer capacity to handle an unexpectedly large number of Americans logging onto new online insurance marketplaces created under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law. Technical glitches and heavy traffic slowed Tuesday's launch of the marketplaces, particularly for the federal Healthcare.gov website serving 36 states. ...

Mexicans seek asylum as drug violence persists Posted: 03 Oct 2013 07:54 AM PDT SAN DIEGO (AP) — Elizabeth Silva was walking her younger sister to school when two hooded men burst into her house and pumped three bullets into her father. When her 14-year-old brother rushed out of his bedroom to see what was happening, he was also shot dead.

Report: Many women died in migrant shipwreck Posted: 03 Oct 2013 07:40 AM PDT ROME (AP) — A migration expert says only 3 of an estimated 100 women on a migrant ship that capsized off Italy have been rescued, and no children have been saved so far.

Berlusconi, ultimate survivor, runs out of lives Posted: 03 Oct 2013 07:25 AM PDT He's the Great Houdini of world politics. Buffeted by scandal, convicted of corruption, abandoned by allies, Silvio Berlusconi has been written off countless times over the two decades in which he has dominated Italian politics — and each time he made a miraculous escape from the political dead.

At least 94 migrants dead in shipwreck off Italy Posted: 03 Oct 2013 07:06 AM PDT ROME (AP) — A ship carrying African migrants to Europe caught fire and capsized off the Italian island of Lampedusa on Thursday, killing at least 94 people as it spilled hundreds of passengers into the sea, officials said. Over 150 people were rescued but some 200 others were still unaccounted for.

Getting nowhere: Shutdown in 3rd day Posted: 03 Oct 2013 06:49 AM PDT A meeting with the president was less a negotiation than a redrawing of lines.

Tropical Storm Karen forms in the Gulf of Mexico Posted: 03 Oct 2013 06:32 AM PDT MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Karen has formed in the Gulf of Mexico, and a hurricane watch is in effect along the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida.

At least 92 dead as packed migrant boat sinks off Italy Posted: 03 Oct 2013 05:59 AM PDT "It's horrific, like a cemetery, they are still bringing them out," Lampedusa Mayor Giusi Nicolini told reporters.

Forging on: My vacation in a closed national park Posted: 03 Oct 2013 05:43 AM PDT YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Everybody gathers around Joe, the guy who seems to have all the answers. Only he doesn't.

Victim of Myanmar attack mourns mother left behind Posted: 03 Oct 2013 05:27 AM PDT THABYUCHAING, Myanmar (AP) — Buddhist mobs carrying swords and knives swarmed Zaw Lay Khar's village again and again, clashing with Muslims and burning their homes. When she saw about 40 attackers approaching her home, she fled with her daughter but had to leave behind her 94-year-old mother.

Michael Jackson's doctor relieved at verdict Posted: 03 Oct 2013 05:12 AM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — The doctor who went to prison for killing Michael Jackson with a drug overdose says he cried when he heard a jury rejected a claim that the promoter of the singer's comeback concerts was negligent in hiring him.

Army ranger remembers ‘Black Hawk Down’ 20 years later Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:57 AM PDT Power Players Twenty years after retired U.S. Army Ranger Jeff Struecker led a squad of elite forces into Mogadishu on a failed rescue mission that inspired the film "Black Hawk Down," he returned to the site of the battle in Somalia and said the memories of the 17-hour-long firefight came rushing back. "When I went [...]

At least 94 dead in migrant shipwreck off Italy Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:41 AM PDT ROME (AP) — An Italian official says 94 bodies have been found in the migrant shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa but more than 200 people are still unaccounted for.

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