| Pope: Church focusing on 'small-minded rules' Posted: 19 Sep 2013 09:48 AM PDT  In an interview, Pope Francis says the church needs to be more merciful and welcoming.
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| Hurricane Manuel slams Mexico, thousands stranded Posted: 19 Sep 2013 09:28 AM PDT  By Lizbeth Diaz and Anahi Rama MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Hurricane Manuel lashed Mexico's northwest coast with heavy rains on Thursday, prompting evacuations amid the threat of fresh flash floods that storms have unleashed across Mexico, killing at least 81 people. Storms have inundated vast swathes of Mexico since late last week, wrecking roads, destroying bridges, and triggering landslides that buried homes and their occupants. Roads became raging rapids in the Pacific resort of Acapulco, stranding some 40,000 tourists. ...
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| Syrian rebel infighting: Civil war within a civil war? Posted: 19 Sep 2013 09:44 AM PDT  A daily summary of global reports on security issues.
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| Egypt troops storm Islamist stronghold near Cairo Posted: 19 Sep 2013 09:40 AM PDT  KERDASA, Egypt (AP) — Egyptian security forces backed by armored fighting vehicles and helicopters stormed a tourist town near the Great Pyramids that became an Islamist stronghold on Thursday, the latest in a stepped up campaign by the military-backed government to put down armed supporters of the ousted president.
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| AP PHOTOS: Egypt police officer shot by militants Posted: 19 Sep 2013 11:11 AM PDT  KERDASA, Egypt (AP) — "Let's go, men! Go in, toward martyrdom," police Gen. Nabil Farrag, a pistol in one hand and a walkie-talkie in the other, exhorted his men Thursday morning as they prepared to storm a town held by Islamic militants outside Cairo.
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| House to vote on stopgap funding bill, 'Obamacare' Posted: 19 Sep 2013 11:20 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House promised a veto of a Republican effort to gut President Barack Obama's health care law that is part of a temporary funding bill in the House to prevent a partial government shutdown on Oct. 1.
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| Here's the truth: The government doesn't shut down Posted: 19 Sep 2013 09:19 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Here's the truth about a government "shutdown." The government doesn't shut down.
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| French president says war on terror won in Mali Posted: 19 Sep 2013 11:29 AM PDT  BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — French President Francois Hollande declared Thursday that the war on terror had been won in the West African nation of Mali, listing the towns that French and Malian troops liberated from al-Qaida's local fighters earlier this year.
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| Hurricane Manuel hits land in northern Mexico Posted: 19 Sep 2013 08:16 AM PDT  ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Mexico's government said 58 people were missing after a massive landslide smashed through a tiny coffee-growing village deep in the country's southern mountains, where fresh waves of rain threatened more danger for rescue workers trying to evacuate the last residents from the isolated hamlet on Thursday.
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| Greece moves to crack down on far-right party Posted: 19 Sep 2013 10:48 AM PDT  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's government moved Thursday to crack down on the ultranationalist Golden Dawn party after the fatal stabbing of an anti-fascist rapper, as Europe's top human rights official warned in an interview that Greece was the most worrying example of a wider European drift toward radicalization.
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| Warming lull haunts authors of key climate report Posted: 19 Sep 2013 06:18 AM PDT  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Scientists working on a landmark U.N. report on climate change are struggling to explain why global warming appears to have slowed down in the past 15 years even though greenhouse gas emissions keep rising.
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| JPMorgan pays $920M, admits fault in trading loss Posted: 19 Sep 2013 11:05 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — JPMorgan Chase & Co. will pay $920 million and has admitted that it failed to oversee trading that led to a $6 billion loss and renewed worries about serious risk-taking by major banks.
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| Iran's top leader opens way for Rouhani outreach Posted: 19 Sep 2013 09:30 AM PDT  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — There's no mistaking the desire of Iran's new president and his allies to open greater contacts with Washington over nuclear talks and possibly other regional crises such as Syria. The messages that really matter, though, come from the ultimate decision-maker in Tehran: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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| NJ's high court rules against 'joking judge' Posted: 19 Sep 2013 09:31 AM PDT  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — This one-liner probably won't make it into Vince Sicari's standup act.
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| Census: No sign of economic rebound for many in US Posted: 19 Sep 2013 10:13 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as the economy shows signs of improvement and poverty levels off, new U.S. census data suggests the gains are halting and uneven. Depending on education, race, income and even marriage, not all segments of the population are seeing an economic turnaround.
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| Ex-House leader DeLay's convictions overturned by Texas court Posted: 19 Sep 2013 11:17 AM PDT  By Karen Brooks AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas appeals court on Thursday overturned the 2010 convictions of former U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader Tom DeLay for money laundering and conspiracy, citing insufficient evidence. Dubbed "the Hammer" for his hard-driving, partisan style, DeLay had been accused of conspiring to illegally funnel $190,000 in corporate campaign donations to Republican candidates for the Texas Legislature in the 2002 elections. ...
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| Syria chemical attack a 'sly' rebel provocation, says Putin Posted: 19 Sep 2013 10:24 AM PDT  VALDAI, Russia (AP) — Russia has strong grounds to believe that Syrian rebels were responsible for the country's chemical attack, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday — a claim almost universally disputed by Western governments.
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| Move over NYC, we have a new murder capital Posted: 19 Sep 2013 07:21 AM PDT  The Second City is no longer No. 2 in the homicide category, according to new crime stats.
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| Caroline Kennedy seeking to be next Japan ambassador Posted: 19 Sep 2013 08:48 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former first daughter Caroline Kennedy said Thursday that she would be humbled to carry forward her father's legacy if confirmed by the Senate to be the next U.S. ambassador to Japan.
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| McCain: I am more pro-Russian than Putin Posted: 19 Sep 2013 06:35 AM PDT  In an op-ed piece to Pravda, he also defends that punk rock band—you know the one.
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| Creepy Obamacare campaign hits college campuses Posted: 19 Sep 2013 04:16 AM PDT  Group hopes to convince young people not to sign up for Obamacare
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| JPMorgan to pay $920M for 'Whale' probes Posted: 19 Sep 2013 11:17 AM PDT  The biggest U.S. bank will settle some potential liabilities from its $6.2B derivatives loss.
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| Russia has no plans yet to destroy Syrian chemical arms on its own soil Posted: 19 Sep 2013 05:50 AM PDT  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has no current plans to destroy Syrian chemical weapons on its own territory under a Russia-U.S. deal to eliminate President Bashar al-Assad's stockpiles, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Thursday. Asked whether Russia had such plans, Shoigu told Interfax news agency, "No. A decision needs to be taken for this." "We have factories for the destruction of chemical weapons, but there is a big difference between 'ready' and 'willing'. ...
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| Colorado rainfall was a once-in-a-millennium event Posted: 19 Sep 2013 03:37 AM PDT  By Alex Dobuzinskis (Reuters) - The downpour that inundated parts of Colorado this month was a once-in-a-millennium event for those areas, according to an analysis by the National Weather Service. Colorado residents are coping with widespread destruction from floods unleashed by torrential rains that began on September 9 and lasted for several days. The flooding killed at least eight people, forced thousands from their homes and caused nearly $2 billion in property damage. ...
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| Winning Powerball ticket sold in S. Carolina Posted: 19 Sep 2013 06:14 AM PDT  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Officials with the South Carolina Education Lottery say a $400 million winning ticket in the latest Powerball drawing was sold in Lexington in central South Carolina.
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| Navy Yard reopens after massacre Posted: 19 Sep 2013 10:44 AM PDT  Workers return to the Washington facility three days after a gunman's rampage killed 12.
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| Iran's president: We will never seek nuclear bomb Posted: 18 Sep 2013 04:58 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Iranian President Hasan Rouhani said Wednesday that his country has never sought and will never seek a nuclear bomb, telling NBC News in an interview that he has full authority to resolve a standoff with the West.
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| One winning ticket in $400M Powerball drawing Posted: 19 Sep 2013 09:50 AM PDT The winning ticket for the fifth-largest US. lottery prize ever was sold in South Carolina. |
| Former heavyweight boxing champion Ken Norton dies at 70 Posted: 18 Sep 2013 09:01 PM PDT  LAS VEGAS (AP) -- He was the second man to beat Muhammad Ali, breaking Ali's jaw and sending him to the hospital in their 1973 heavyweight fight.
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