| Obama: Boehner keeping government shut Posted: 03 Oct 2013 09:26 AM PDT  He also issued dire warnings on the upcoming debt-ceiling deadline.
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| 'We need only caskets': More than 100 dead in shipwreck off Italy Posted: 03 Oct 2013 09:14 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.
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| NY SUV driver's wife: We were in 'grave danger' Posted: 03 Oct 2013 09:54 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.
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| US, Japan to deploy new radar, drones in next year Posted: 03 Oct 2013 09:17 AM PDT  TOKYO (AP) — The United States and Japan moved Thursday to modernize and expand their defense alliance to counter new challenges, including a nuclear-armed North Korea and potential aggression from China over disputed territory.
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| Tropical Storm Karen forms in the Gulf of Mexico Posted: 03 Oct 2013 08:19 AM PDT  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Preparations began Thursday along the central Gulf Coast as newly formed Tropical Storm Karen threatened to become the first named tropical system to menace the United States this year.
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| Mexicans seek asylum as drug violence persists Posted: 03 Oct 2013 08:19 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.
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| Islamic fighters connect in Africa Posted: 03 Oct 2013 10:18 AM PDT  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The Westgate Mall attack in Kenya threw the spotlight on al-Shabab, a Somalia-based group of Islamic militants that claimed responsibility. But its relationship with al-Hijra, a relatively obscure cell of extremists in Kenya, represents what terrorism analysts say is a worrying trend in Africa: an increase in collaboration among religious radicals across borders and vast, poorly policed regions.
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| Pills made from poop cure serious gut infections Posted: 03 Oct 2013 08:32 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.
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| Victim of Myanmar attack mourns mother left behind Posted: 03 Oct 2013 10:07 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.
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| Online delays signal strong demand for health care Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:12 AM PDT  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Overloaded websites and jammed phone lines frustrated consumers for a second day as they tried to sign up for health insurance under the nation's historic health care overhaul.
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| Shutdown in 3rd day with Obama, Hill at impasse Posted: 03 Oct 2013 08:43 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.
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| Who knew? Shutdown casualties shatter stereotypes Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:12 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Taking out a mortgage. Getting married in a park. Going for a fall foliage drive. Cashing a check.
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| Italy boat migrant toll raises to at least 114 Posted: 03 Oct 2013 08:58 AM PDT ROME (AP) — Italy's coast guard says divers have seen at least another 20 bodies around a migrant boat on the sea floor after it capsized off the southern island of Lampedusa, raising the death toll in the shipwreck to at least 114 people. |
| Migrant ship capsizes off Italy, killing 94 Posted: 03 Oct 2013 07:55 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.
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| Calif. man charged in black market drug scheme Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:18 AM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — FBI agents found him in the science fiction section of a small branch of the San Francisco public library, chatting online. |
| 'You're beautiful but you have to be honest' Posted: 03 Oct 2013 07:44 AM PDT  Rep. Todd Rokita prefaced a response to CNN's Carol Costello during a debate over shutdown pay by praising her beauty.
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| Officials scramble to provide access to Obamacare sites Posted: 03 Oct 2013 07:11 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. ...
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| Shutdown, Day 3: No signs of a way out Posted: 03 Oct 2013 08:43 AM PDT  Meanwhile, a bigger problem looms -- the debt ceiling.
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| Over 100 dead, 200 missing as migrant boat sinks off Italy Posted: 03 Oct 2013 09:33 AM PDT  "It's horrific, like a cemetery, they are still bringing them out," Lampedusa's mayor said.
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| Overflowing tank cause of new leak at Fukushima Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:46 AM PDT  TOKYO (AP) — Another day, another radioactive-water spill. The operator of the meltdown-plagued Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant says at least 430 liters (110 gallons) spilled when workers overfilled a storage tank without a gauge that could have warned them of the danger.
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| 'Killer hornets' kill 42 in China Posted: 03 Oct 2013 03:03 AM PDT  Beijing (AFP) - Swarms of hornets have killed 42 people in northwestern China in recent months, state media said Thursday, as temperatures rise and development drives the stinging insects into cities.
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| Army ranger remembers ‘Black Hawk Down’ 20 years later Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:23 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 [...]
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| No end in sight as shutdown enters day three Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:14 AM PDT  White House talks between President Obama and top lawmakers yield no signs of progress.
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| NSA reveals more about its spying efforts at home Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:14 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Top U.S. intelligence officials are revealing more about their spying in an effort to defend the National Security Agency from charges that it has invaded the privacy of Americans on a mass scale. Yet the latest disclosure — the NSA tried to track Americans' cellphone locations — has only added to the concerns of lawmakers.
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| Kerry: 'Diplomatic malpractice' not to engage Iran Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:42 AM PDT  TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday it would be "diplomatic malpractice of the worst order" not to test Iran's willingness to comply with international demands over its nuclear program.
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