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Shutdown more likely: Republicans will move ahead with plan to delay Obamacare

Shutdown more likely: Republicans will move ahead with plan to delay Obamacare


Shutdown more likely: Republicans will move ahead with plan to delay Obamacare

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 10:38 AM PDT

Boehner talks to reporters as he arrives at the U.S. Capitol in WashingtonCongress must agree to a plan to fund the government by Tuesday or the federal government will shut down.


Shoe thrown as Rouhani home after historic Obama call

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 10:10 AM PDT

Iranian president Hassan Rouhani is protected by bodyguards as his motorcade draw out of Tehran's Mehrabad Airport upon his arrival from New York, on September 28, 2013Tehran (AFP) - A shoe was thrown at Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's motorcade Saturday as he arrived home to a mixed reception after his historic call with Barack Obama, an AFP correspondent reported.


Miss Philippines wins Miss World in Indonesia

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 08:47 AM PDT

Newly crowned Miss World, Megan Young of Philippines, center, with second runner-up Miss France Marine Lorpheline, left, and third runner-up Miss Ghana Carranza Naa Okailey Shooter, smile after they winning the Miss World contest in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)BALI, Indonesia (AP) — Miss Philippines, Megan Young, was crowned Miss World on Saturday amid tight security on Indonesia's resort island of Bali, where the contest's final round was moved following protests by Muslim hardliner groups.


Radio problems cited in deaths of 19 firefighters

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 10:54 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, June 30, 2013, file photo, the Yarnell Hill Fire burns in Glenn Ilah near Yarnell, Ariz. Investigators are set to release a report Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013, on the deaths of 19 elite firefighters in Arizona, nearly three months after the crew became trapped by flames in a brush-choked canyon north of Phoenix. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Kadlubowski, File)PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — A three-month investigation into the June deaths of 19 firefighters killed while battling an Arizona blaze cites poor communication between the men and support staff, and reveals that an airtanker carrying flame retardant was hovering overhead as the men died.


Iran leader's US outreach meets praise, some anger

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 09:54 AM PDT

A supporter of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, holds a local newspaper with a headline that reads, "historic call from a return flight," upon his arrival from the U.S. near the Mehrabad airport in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. Iranians from across the political spectrum hailed Saturday the historic phone conversation between President Barack Obama and Rouhani, reflecting wide support for an initiative that has the backing of both reformists and the country's conservative clerical leadership. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Smiling and waving flags, Iranians from across the political spectrum welcomed President Hassan Rouhani home Saturday with cheers for his historic phone conversation with his American counterpart. But pockets of anger over the new contact between the two enemy nations signaled challenges ahead.


1 week later, a nervous time in Nairobi

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 10:14 AM PDT

Patrons sit for lunch in a restaurant at the Junction mall, in Nairobi, Kenya, Saturday Sept. 28, 2013. On Saturday afternoon at Nairobi's Junction shopping center, many people were thinking about the events of one week earlier, a couple miles away at the Westgate Mall, where a team of Islamist gunman had launched a bloody four-day siege. By the time it ended, at least 67 people were dead, and the Westgate was a patchwork of smears of blood. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Someone has dropped a shopping bag just outside the Nakumatt supermarket, and a bottle of juice has shattered. Cranberry, it looks like, or maybe cherry. The liquid leaks from the plastic bag and across the tile floor, puddling in fist-sized splotches of red.


NJ legal battle over gay marriage will continue

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 10:09 PM PDT

Cindy Meneghin, right, kisses her partner Maureen Kilian, both from Butler, N.J., during a rally at Garden State Equality in Montclair, N.J., hours after a Superior Court Judge ruled that New Jersey is unconstitutionally denying federal benefits to gay couples and must allow them to marry, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. Meneghin has been with Kilian for 39 years. Judge Mary Jacobson ruled it legal for gay couples to marry in the state beginning Oct. 21, 2013. The ruling comes after a group of gay marriage supporters sued the state in July, days after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down key parts of a law that blocked the federal government from granting benefits to gay couples. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)A judge's ruling Friday that New Jersey must allow gay couples to marry will not be the last word on the issue after Gov. Chris Christie's administration said it would appeal to a higher court.


Greek far-right leader, others arrested

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 06:08 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 6, 2012 file photo, extreme right Golden Dawn party leader Nikos Mihaloliakos speaks during a news conference in front of a banner with the twisting Maeander, an ancient Greek decorative motif that the party has adopted as its symbol, in Athens. Greek police said Mihaloliakos was arrested on charges of forming a criminal organization. Warrants for the arrest of another five Golden Dawn parliament deputies have been issued. The police counterterrorism unit is looking for the deputies. More warrants are expected. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakourism, File)ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Police arrested the leader of Greece's extreme-right Golden Dawn party and other top members on Saturday, in an escalation of a government crackdown after a fatal stabbing allegedly committed by a supporter.


Tunisia's governing Islamists to step down

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 10:31 AM PDT

FILE- Tunisian Prime Minister Ali Larayedh addresses the media in this file photo dated Monday, July 29, 2013, in Tunis, Tunisia. It is announced Saturday Sept. 28, 2013, that Larayedh will step down in three weeks and negotiations will continue to find an interim replacement, after Tunisia's governing Islamist party agreed to resign in favor of a caretaker government to resolve the political crisis that has paralyzed the country. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi, FILE)TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia's governing Islamist party has agreed to resign in favor of a caretaker government in an attempt to resolve a political crisis that has paralyzed the country, officials said Saturday.


House bill delays 'Obamacare' 1 year, pays troops

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 10:05 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press has learned that House Republicans will unveil a new bill for preventing a government shutdown on Tuesday that would also delay implementing the rest of President Barack Obama's health care law for one year.

15 feet to flattened car: Kenya mall's devastation

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 10:19 AM PDT

Vehicles that plunged down during the collapse of the upper car park level lie amidst the rubble below, viewed from the basement car park, at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. Kenya's military caused the collapse of three floors of the Westgate Mall in the deadly terrorist siege, a top-ranking official has disclosed, while the government urged patience with the pace of an investigation that has left key questions unanswered. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Fifteen feet farther and my car would have been crushed.


Shutdown threat puts pressure on House Republicans

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 08:40 AM PDT

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, arrives at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. Heat is building on balkanized Republicans, who are convening the House this weekend in hopes of preventing a government shutdown but remain under tea party pressure to battle on and use a must-do funding bill to derail all or part of President Barack Obama's health care law. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers from both parties urged one another in a rare weekend session to give ground in their fight over preventing a federal shutdown, with the midnight Monday deadline fast approaching.


UN votes to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 07:10 PM PDT

The United Nations Security Council votes on a resolution that will require Syria to give up its chemical weapons Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, at U.N. Headquarters. The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Friday night to secure and destroy Syria's chemical weapons stockpile, a landmark decision aimed at taking poison gas off the battlefield in the escalating 2 1/2-year conflict. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Friday night to secure and destroy Syria's chemical weapons stockpile, a landmark decision aimed at taking poison gas off the battlefield in the escalating 2 1/2-year conflict.


Chinese doctor builds new nose on man's forehead

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 12:12 AM PDT

In this Tuesday Sept. 24, 2013 photo, a 22-year-old patient, with a surgical made extra nose out of his rib cartilage and implanted under the skin of his forehead, rests at Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, in Fuzhou city, in southeast China's Fujian province. A surgeon in China said he has constructed the extra nose to prepare for a transplant in probably the first operation of its kind. Surgeon Guo Zhihui at the hospital spent nine months cultivating the graft for the man whose nose was damaged. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTBEIJING (AP) — A surgeon in China says he has constructed an extra nose out of a man's rib cartilage and implanted it under the skin of his forehead to prepare for a transplant in probably the first operation of its kind.


Iran on Obama talk: Broad praise, pockets of anger

Posted: 28 Sep 2013 05:42 AM PDT

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a news conference at the Millennium Hotel in midtown Manhattan, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranians from across the political spectrum hailed Saturday the historic phone conversation between President Barack Obama and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani, reflecting wide support for an initiative that has the backing of both reformists and the country's conservative clerical leadership.


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