| Watch live: Obama statement on gov't shutdown fight Posted: 27 Sep 2013 12:38 PM PDT  The president comments after Senate rolled back Obamacare funding cuts.
|
| 10 things to waste your time with this weekend Posted: 27 Sep 2013 11:22 AM PDT  The Procrastinaut is back, with a level-headed chicken and nine decades of Bigfoot sightings!
|
| Senate puts Obamacare funding back into spending bill Posted: 27 Sep 2013 11:06 AM PDT  With a shutdown looming, House Republicans must respond before Tuesday
|
| Colo. immigrants face uncertainty after floods Posted: 27 Sep 2013 10:50 AM PDT EVANS, Colo. (AP) — Immigrants living in the U.S. illegally returned to their mobile home parks in flood-ravaged Colorado to find that there was little left to salvage — not the water-damaged cars, not the old family pictures and not the sheds carried away by the rushing waters. |
| 'If you build it, they will come'? Posted: 27 Sep 2013 10:19 AM PDT  A poll shows nearly half of Americans have never heard of health care exchanges.
|
| Miss World drama fueled by host country Indonesia Posted: 27 Sep 2013 09:17 AM PDT  JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Beauty queens and backstage drama may seem inevitable, but at this year's Miss World competition, something more serious than hair-pulling and name-calling has come from host country Indonesia: Muslim hardliners have threatened to hijack the competition despite major concessions from the government and organizers.
|
| Stocks fall on debt limit worries Posted: 27 Sep 2013 09:01 AM PDT  Stocks fell on Friday as investors focused on the risk that the U.S. government could shut down next week.
|
| 8 dead, dozens missing in India building cave-in Posted: 27 Sep 2013 08:14 AM PDT  MUMBAI, India (AP) — Rescuers pulled a small girl alive from a collapsed apartment building in India's financial capital nearly 12 hours after the structure caved in Friday, killing at least eight people and leaving dozens trapped under the rubble.
|
| NSA workers spied on significant others, says watchdog Posted: 27 Sep 2013 07:58 AM PDT  By Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least a dozen U.S. National Security Agency employees have abused secret surveillance programs in the past decade, most often to spy on their significant others, according to the latest findings of the agency's internal watchdog. In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee's top Republican, Charles Grassley, NSA Inspector General George Ellard outlined 12 instances of "intentional misuse" of the agency's intelligence gathering programs since January 1, 2003. ...
|
| Sudan: New protests demanding regime fall Posted: 27 Sep 2013 07:43 AM PDT  KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Security forces opened fire on Sudanese protesters Friday, witnesses said, as thousands marched through the streets of the capital in an opposition push to turn a wave of popular anger over fuel price hikes into an outright uprising against the 24-year rule of President Omar al-Bashir.
|
| Syrian chemical weapons arsenal inspections to begin Posted: 27 Sep 2013 07:15 AM PDT  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The inspectors responsible for tracking down Syria's chemical arms stockpile and verifying its destruction plan to start in Syria by Tuesday. They will face their tightest deadlines ever and work right in the heart of a war zone, according to a draft decision obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
|
| Rights groups say 50 dead after Sudanese protests Posted: 27 Sep 2013 07:02 AM PDT  By Khalid Abdelaziz and Ulf Laessing KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of Sudanese demanding the resignation of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir after rights groups accused security forces of shooting dead at least 50 people in the worst unrest in Sudan's central region for years. Around 3,000 people, angered by a police crackdown on protests against the lifting of fuel subsidies, took to the streets after Friday prayers in Khartoum's twin-city Omdurman across the Nile, shouting "freedom, freedom" and "the people want the fall of the regime". ...
|
| Disturbing number of British pilots admit falling asleep, survey says Posted: 27 Sep 2013 06:39 AM PDT  By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) - More than half of British airline pilots say they have fallen asleep in the cockpit, a survey said, ahead of an EU vote on flying hours which a pilots' association said could compromise flight safety. According to the British Airline Pilots' Association (BALPA), 56 percent of 500 commercial pilots admitted to being asleep while on the flight deck and, of those, nearly one in three said they had woken up to find their co-pilot also asleep. ...
|
| Plan: Syria arsenal inspections by Tuesday Posted: 27 Sep 2013 05:53 AM PDT  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The inspectors responsible for tracking down Syria's chemical arms stockpile and verifying its destruction plan to start work in Syria by Tuesday. They will face their tightest deadlines ever and work right in the heart of a war zone, according to a draft decision obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
|
| Kenyan forces caused mall collapse, official says Posted: 27 Sep 2013 05:22 AM PDT  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A top-ranking government official tells The Associated Press that Kenya's military caused the massive collapse of three floors during the terrorist siege on Nairobi's Westgate Mall.
|
| Baby rescued hours after Mumbai building collapse Posted: 27 Sep 2013 05:09 AM PDT  MUMBAI, India (AP) — Rescuers have pulled a baby alive from the rubble of a building 11 hours after it collapsed in Mumbai, India's financial capital.
|
| Obama knocks his 'desperate' fat-cat critics Posted: 27 Sep 2013 04:36 AM PDT  The president also says they watch too much Fox News.
|
| Building collapse kills four in India's Mumbai, scores trapped Posted: 27 Sep 2013 04:05 AM PDT  By Rajendra Jadhav MUMBAI (Reuters) - A five-storey apartment block collapsed on Friday in the Indian financial centre of Mumbai, killing at least four people and trapping scores in the latest accident to underscore shoddy building standards in Asia's third-largest economy. The building collapsed at about 5:45 a.m. (0015 GMT) and more than 110 people were still trapped by early afternoon, said Ram Barot, a official of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai. The corporation's employees were housed in the building. ...
|
| Official: Car used by Kenya mall attackers found Posted: 27 Sep 2013 03:47 AM PDT  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A top Kenyan government official says investigators have recovered a vehicle believed to have been used by the terrorists who attacked Nairobi's Westgate Mall.
|
| Iran plays down prospects for quick IAEA nuclear deal Posted: 27 Sep 2013 03:43 AM PDT  By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran played down prospects for a quick breakthrough in talks with the U.N. nuclear agency on Friday over a stalled inquiry into its atomic work, the first such meeting under the new relatively moderate Iranian government. The discussions in Vienna, home of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), started at 10 a.m. (0800 GMT), a day after separate but related talks at the United Nations in New York, where Iran and the United States held their highest-level talks in a generation. ...
|
| Watchdog plan: Syria arsenal inspections by Oct. 1 Posted: 27 Sep 2013 02:29 AM PDT THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The global chemical weapons watchdog is calling for inspections of Syria's chemical arsenal to begin by Tuesday. |
| Senators: Limit NSA snooping into US phone records Posted: 27 Sep 2013 01:57 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Leading senators unveiled proposed changes to the way the National Security Agency gathers U.S. records in its hunt for overseas terrorists or spying targets, and top intelligence officials said they would cooperate to try to win back the public trust, following disclosures about the extensive NSA collection of telephone and email records of millions of Americans.
|
| Climate panel: warming 'extremely likely' man-made Posted: 27 Sep 2013 01:44 AM PDT  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Scientists can now say with extreme confidence that human activity is the dominant cause of the global warming observed since the 1950s, a new report by an international scientific group said Friday.
|
| Chemical weapons watchdog to meet to discuss Syria Posted: 27 Sep 2013 12:59 AM PDT THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The global chemical weapons watchdog has scheduled a meeting to approve a U.S.-Russian brokered plan to rapidly verify, secure and then destroy Syria's arsenal of poison gas and nerve agents. |
| In heart of the Rim Fire, regeneration has begun Posted: 27 Sep 2013 12:43 AM PDT TUOLUMNE CITY, Calif. (AP) — In the midst of a foreboding canyon scorched bare by the Sierra Nevada's most destructive fire in centuries, tiny ferns unfurl along a spring, black oaks push through charred soil normally blanketed with pine needles and a hawk soars above towering dead and denuded trees. |
