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6 lessons of the government shutdown

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6 lessons of the government shutdown

6 lessons of the government shutdown

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 09:57 AM PDT

Congressman caught snoozing during shutdown debateThese days, D.C. has come to stand for Dysfunction Central.

Capitol suspect believed she was being watched

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Tweeter Home shares explode, as traders confuse it for Twitter

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 09:59 AM PDT

The BunkBy 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. ...

Riots in Kenya after cleric, 3 others, killed

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 09:37 AM PDT

Kenyan security forces patrol in their vehicle past a burning tyre following rioting after Friday Muslim prayers in Mombasa, Kenya Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. A religious leader on Kenya's coast says that the Muslim cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Ismael who preached at Mombasa's Masjid Musa Mosque, whose previous imam Aboud Rogo Mohammed was mysteriously shot dead in August 2012, has died in a barrage of bullets late Thursday near the coastal city of Mombasa. (AP Photo)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Gunmen killed a Muslim cleric and three others in a hail of bullets in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, a year after the imam's predecessor was killed in the same manner and on the same road and nearly the same spot.

Karen threatens US during quiet hurricane season

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 11:10 AM PDT

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Residents of a vulnerable Louisiana island town were ordered to leave Friday as Tropical Storm Karen tracked toward the northern Gulf coast, weakening but poised to be the first named storm to hit the U.S. in what has so far been a quiet hurricane season.

Twitter dishes tantalizing tidbits in IPO treatise

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 10:12 AM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2013, file photo, a smartphone display shows the Twitter logo in Berlin, Germany, Twitter unsealed the documents Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, for its planned initial public offering of stock and says it hopes to raise up to $1 billion. (AP Photo/dpa, Soeren Stache, File)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 Vegas, clubbing almost as popular as gambling

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 09:51 AM PDT

FILE - This Jan. 20, 2013 file photo, revelers dance to the music played by DJ Afrojack inside the XS nightclub in Las Vegas. A poll conducted this year by the national gambling lobby found that 26 percent of casino-goers now eschew wagering, and the city's growing mega-clubs are threatening to become the most lucrative draw for a town built on betting. Las Vegas now boasts 21 of the country's 100 most profitable nightclubs, according to the trade publication Nightclub & Bar. The town also dominates the top 10 spots, with seven clubs bringing in more than $25 million a year. The other three clubs with earnings in the same range are LIV and Mango's Tropical Cafe in Miami Beach, and LAVO in New York City. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)LAS VEGAS (AP) — The cannon at the Flutter Fetti booth near the front of the gambling trade show in Las Vegas last week delivered regular bursts of metallic and crepe paper cutouts, shooting them to the ceiling in big booms and carpeting the floor with shimmering hearts, stars and circles. The glittery mess outshone the slot machines and online poker touchscreens in more ways than one.

Migrants used empty water bottles to stay afloat

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 10:47 AM PDT

In this image made from video provided by the Italian Coast Guard and recorded on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, survivors of a ship transporting hundreds of migrants which caught fire and sank wear thermal rescue blankets after being rescued by the Italian Coast Guard off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, Italy. Authorities on Friday, Oct. 4 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. (AP Photo/Italian Coast Guard)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.

MLB: Rodriguez suit violates league drug program

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 09:44 AM PDT

New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez arrives at the offices of Major League Baseball, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013 in New York. The grievance to overturn Rodriguez's 211-game suspension began Monday before arbitrator Fredric Horowitz. (AP Photo/David Karp)NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball calls Alex Rodriguez's lawsuit against the sport a "clear violation" of the confidentiality provisions of the league's drug program.

In Asia, Obama's no-show is a boost for China's Xi

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 03:20 AM PDT

Chinese President Xi Jinping, foreground right, bows as he inspects a guard of honor during a welcoming ceremony at Parliament Square in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. Xi is on a three-day state visit to Malaysia. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)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.

Mother: Woman killed in DC chase was depressed

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 09:07 AM PDT

A damaged Capitol Hill police car is surrounded by crime scene tape after a car chase and shooting in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. On Thursday, police shot and killed 34-year-old Miriam Carey, of Stamford, Conn., after a car chase that began when Carey tried to breach a barrier at the White House. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)WASHINGTON (AP) — A Connecticut woman who was shot to death by police after a car chase that began when she tried to breach a barrier at the White House suffered from postpartum depression, her mother said.

Legendary Vietnam Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap dies

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 09:04 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.

Pope trip to St. Francis' town highlights goals

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 10:12 AM PDT

Pope Francis passes by a statue of St. Francis as he walks with his pastoral staff during a mass, in Assisi, Italy, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. Pope Francis made a pilgrimage Friday to the hillside town of Assisi and the tomb of his namesake, St. Francis, the 13th-century friar who renounced a wealthy, dissolute lifestyle to embrace a life of poverty and minister to the most destitute. St. Francis was famously told by God to "repair my house." (AP Photo/Pietro Crocchioni, Pool)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.

Rodriguez sues MLB and Selig, citing 'witch hunt'

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 08:56 AM PDT

New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez arrives at the offices of Major League Baseball, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013 in New York. The grievance to overturn Rodriguez's 211-game suspension began Monday before arbitrator Fredric Horowitz. (AP Photo/David Karp)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.

UK's powerful Daily Mail faces a political storm

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 05:45 AM PDT

Copies of Britain's Daily Mail newspaper are offered for sale at a newsagent in London, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. Reading 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. The Mail is Britain's most polarizing _ and arguably most powerful _ paper. To fans, it's the voice of old-fashioned British values and the enemy of meddling bureaucrats and stultifying political correctness. To critics it's a sensationalist, small-minded rag that demonizes feminists, immigrants and the poor. To politicians, the Mail is a formidable force whose blessing can help deliver crucial swing votes and whose wrath is best avoided. But the Mail may have miscalculated when it picked a fight with Ed Miliband, leader of the left-of-center opposition Labour Party, by running a story slamming Miliband's late father as "the man who hated Britain." (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)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.

Yankees star Rodriguez sues MLB, Selig in NYC

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 08:38 AM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Rodriguez has sued Major League Baseball and its commissioner, saying they are trying to destroy his reputation and career.

What can I help you with? Meet the voice behind Siri

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 08:31 AM PDT

Luke Peters demonstrates Siri, an application which uses voice recognition and detection on the iPhone 4S, outside the Apple store in Covent Garden, LondonMeet the voice behind Apple's Siri, Susan Bennett.

Boehner demands two-party negotiations

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 08:57 AM PDT

Obama Pins Government Shutdown on Boehner'This isn't some damn game,' the House Speaker said on Friday.

Egyptians demand end to army-backed rule

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 09:45 AM PDT

Egyptian supporters of ousted President Mohamed MorsPolice fired tear gas, live ammo to disperse crowds, a witness said.

Shutdown, Day 4: 'This place is a mad house'

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 03:49 AM PDT

A sign on the National Mall tells visitors of the closures do to the federal government shutdown in Washington"This place is a mad house," one Congressman said. It would be funny if it weren't true.

Already? Heavy snow, thunderstorms hit Midwest

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 10:57 AM PDT

This NOAA satellite image taken Thursday, October 03, 2013 at 11:00 AM EDT shows a developing storm in the Northern Rockies is generating clouds with rain showers and snow across the Upper Mississippi Valley and Northern and Central Plains into the Northern Rockies and Intermountain West. Fair conditions exist across the remaining regions. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Blizzards rolled into parts of Wyoming and South Dakota on Friday, bringing the snow-savvy states to an unseasonably early wintery standstill by closing highways and schools, and even forcing a tourist town to cancel its annual Octoberfest's polka-dancing bar crawl.

Police identify prime suspect in biker road rage incident

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 05:01 AM PDT

Police identify prime suspect in biker road rage incidentPolice search for the man who smashed the window of an SUV driver, who was then beaten after an accident.

Mother: Suspect in Capitol chase 'depressed'

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 12:26 AM PDT

A damaged Capitol Hill police care is surrounded by crime scene tape after a car chase and shooting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. A woman driving a black Infiniti with a young child inside tried to ram through a White House barricade Thursday, then led police on a chase that ended in gunfire outside the Capitol, witnesses and officials said. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)A Connecticut woman was killed by police after trying to breach a White House barrier.

Pope, in Assisi, calls on Church to shun vanity

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 05:09 AM PDT

Pope Francis arrives at St. Francis Basilica during his pastoral visit in AssisiBy 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. ...

Could Oswald have been stopped?

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 04:24 AM PDT

Could Oswald Have Been Stopped? Untold Stories of JFK Assassination, 50 Years LaterTop Line Half a century after President John F. Kennedy was shot, the new movie "Parkland" relives history from the perspective of those who were most intimately connected to the president's assassination in the chaotic hours and days that followed that fateful motorcade ride through downtown Dallas. "Parkland" writer and director Peter Landesman told "Top [...]

Teachers’ unions to politicians: Invest in education

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 02:40 AM PDT

Teacher Patty Westcott pickets outside Clissold Elementary School in Chicago, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012, as a strike by the Chicago Teachers Union continues into its second week. CTU members in the nation's third-largest city will pore over the details of a contract settlement Tuesday as the clock ticks down to an afternoon meeting in which they are expected to vote on ending a seven-day strike that has kept 350,000 students out of class. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)Leaders of America's largest teachers' unions are joining teachers in 170 countries to urge political leaders to invest more in K-12 education around the world.

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