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Obama to meet with top lawmakers today

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Obama to meet with top lawmakers today

Obama to meet with top lawmakers today

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 09:24 AM PDT

A US Park Police officer watches at left as a National Park Service employee posts a sign on a barricade closing access to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law stalled a temporary funding bill, forcing about 800, 000 federal workers off the job and suspending most non-essential federal programs and services. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)The president will urge the House GOP to pass a clean spending bill.

Shutdown puts food program for low-income mothers at risk

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 07:47 AM PDT

WIC program at riskNearly 9 million low-income mothers and children receive benefits under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Congress' inability to pass a funding bill forced the USDA, which oversees the $7 billion program, to shutter support for WIC's clinical services, food and administrative costs.

Tale of two patients: Barriers for poor women with breast cancer

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 07:17 AM PDT

Tale of Two Patients: Survival Barriers for Poor Women with Breast CancerDee Dee Ricks was only 38 when she found out she had Stage 2 breast cancer. A divorced mother of two young sons, she had pulled herself out of poverty and made a fortune on Wall Street. "I was told my chances are better by having a double mastectomy," said Ricks. "I'm like you do [...]

A bumpy first day for new insurance marketplaces

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 12:45 AM PDT

Doug Carmichael, worksite coordinator for Marketplace Nebraska, a health insurance broker under the new Affordable Care Act, explains to citizens the health insurance enrollment process and the options available to them at a seminar at the Willa Cather Omaha Public Library in Omaha, Neb., Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)CHICAGO (AP) — For millions of Americans trying to log in, the online insurance marketplaces created by the new health care law began with a stalled website, an error message or a menu that didn't work.

Italy PM survives vote after Berlusconi about-face

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 06:18 AM PDT

People of Freedom party leader Silvio Berlusconi covers his face as he speaks on a mobile phone after delivering his speech at the Senate, in Rome, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. Berlusconi acknowledged defeat Wednesday and announced he would support the government of Premier Enrico Letta, a stunning about-face on the Senate floor after defections in his party robbed him of the backing he needed to bring down the left-right coalition government. It was a major setback for Berlusconi, who had demanded his five Cabinet ministers quit the government and bring it down, incensed at a vote planned Friday that could strip him of his Senate seat following his tax fraud conviction and four-year prison sentence. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)ROME (AP) — Silvio Berlusconi made a stunning about-face Wednesday and threw his support behind the government of Premier Enrico Letta in a confidence vote, acknowledging defeat on the Senate floor after defections in his party robbed him of the backing he needed to bring down the government.

Man in custody after device found at Fla. airport

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 06:02 AM PDT

Police block the road to the Jacksonville International Airport terminal as a shuttle used to move people out of the airport drives by Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, in Jacksonville, Fla. The airport was evacuated after authorities found two suspicious packages. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Bruce Lipsky)JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities arrested a suspect after finding two suspicious packages — including one they described as destructive — at the Jacksonville International Airport.

Weapons experts begin Syria mission amid clashes

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 07:06 AM PDT

BEIRUT (AP) — As deadly clashes raged on the edge of Damascus, international inspectors left their hotel on Wednesday to start work on the task of destroying Syria's chemical arsenal under the tightest of deadlines in the midst of a civil war.

AP PHOTOS: Gaza tunnels idle amid Egypt crackdown

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 05:37 AM PDT

In this Monday, Sept. 30, 2013 photo, a Palestinian worker smokes a cigarette inside a smuggling tunnel along the border with Egypt in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Gaza's tunnel smugglers along the border with Egypt are mostly idle these days. Some rest on cots in the dank underground pathways, stretching out for a smoke. Others pass the time cleaning the small carts on wheels that are normally pulled through the tunnels carrying cement or consumer goods from Egypt. Since the summer, Egypt's military has tried to destroy or seal off most of the smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border, a consequence of the heightened tensions between Cairo and the Hamas government in Gaza. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza's tunnel smugglers along the border with Egypt are mostly idle these days.

Pirates move on to NLDS after beating Reds 6-2

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 12:48 AM PDT

Pittsburgh Pirates' Russell Martin (55) is greeted by on-deck batter Clint Barmes (12) after hitting a home run in the second inning of the NL wild-card playoff baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)PITTSBURGH (AP) — Andrew McCutchen was in mid-answer when teammate A.J. Burnett stuck a bottle of champagne inside the jersey of the star Pittsburgh Pirates center fielder and turned it upside down.

22 dogs will get lucky on new CBS television show

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 07:34 AM PDT

In this Aug. 14, 2013 photo provided by CBS Entertainment, Animal expert Brandon Mcmillan, host and animal trainer of the show "Lucky Dog" picks up a dog at an animal shelter. McMillan swoops into animal shelters across the U.S., rescuing untrained and unadoptable dogs. Then, back at his training facility known as the Lucky Dog Ranch, he trains them for a lucky family to adopt them. Mcmillan will rescue, train and place 22 dogs in 22 weeks for CBS's 'Lucky Dog," which airs Saturday, at 9:30 a.m. EDT. (AP Photo/Bryan Curb, CBS Entertainment)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brandon McMillan has trained as many as 10,000 dogs for television, movies, commercials, videos and people. Then he started saving dogs from animal shelters, training them and finding homes for them.

Lawmakers feeling heat from government shutdown

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 06:26 AM PDT

Visitors to Independence National Historical Park are reflected in the window of the closed building housing the Liberty Bell, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, in Philadelphia. Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law stalled a temporary funding bill, forcing about 800, 000 federal workers off the job and suspending most non-essential federal programs and services. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers locked in a political stare-down Wednesday were buffeted by rising anger from across the nation about a partial government shutdown that ruined vacations, sapped businesses and closed military cemeteries as far away as France. Some on Capitol Hill ominously suggested the impasse might last for weeks, but a few Republicans seemed ready to blink.

For Israel, attack on Iran seems off the table

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 09:04 AM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, arrives for a meeting with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during the 68th session of the General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)JERUSALEM (AP) — President Barack Obama's decision to open a dialogue with Iran's new president appears to have robbed Israel of a key asset in its campaign to prevent the Islamic Republic from developing a nuclear weapon: the threat of unilaterally attacking Iranian nuclear facilities.

Berlusconi defeated, decides to back Italy gov't

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 05:16 AM PDT

Italian premier Enrico Letta speaks during a video appearance at the Italian State RAI TV program "Che Tempo che Fa", in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Sunday backpedaled somewhat in his strategy aimed apparently at collapsing Italy's fragile coalition government and triggering early elections, after some key supporters chafed at his orders to quit the Cabinet in a show of solidarity ahead of a Senate vote to strip him of his seat because of his tax-fraud conviction and prison sentence.(AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)ROME (AP) — Silvio Berlusconi acknowledged defeat Wednesday and announced he would support the government of Premier Enrico Letta in a confidence vote, a stunning about-face after defections in his party robbed him of the backing he needed to bring down the government.

Fla. airport closed when destructive device found

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 04:22 AM PDT

Police block the road to the Jacksonville International Airport terminal as a shuttle used to move people out of the airport drives by Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, in Jacksonville, Fla. The airport was evacuated after authorities found two suspicious packages. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Bruce Lipsky)JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jacksonville International Airport was shut down for several hours after authorities found two suspicious packages — one they said was destructive — that led to an evacuation.

Dad who saved girl in deadly rock slide remembered

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 01:01 AM PDT

Chaffee County Sheriff's Deputy Kevin Everson, right, and other deputies walk out the Agnes Vaille Falls trail shortly after leaving the scene of a rock slide that killed five people Monday, Sept. 30, 2013, in Chaffee County, Colo. Deputies who reached the area rescued a teenage girl who suffered a broken leg but had to pull back after rocks kept falling from a cliff and a boulder field with rocks estimated at weighing more than 100 tons began shifting. Rescuers were to return to the site Wednesday. (AP Photo/P. Solomon Banda)BUENA VISTA, Colo. (AP) — Friends preparing to bury five relatives who died in a Colorado rock slide are remembering the father credited for saving his daughter's life as a selfless volunteer who probably didn't flinch to jump in front of cascading boulders to protect his daughter.

Shutdown leaves thousands in DC area in limbo

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 11:06 AM PDT

A US Park Police officer ties police tape to a hand rail closing access to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law stalled a temporary funding bill, forcing about 800,000 federal workers off the job and suspending most non-essential federal programs and services. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)WASHINGTON (AP) — The usually bustling District of Columbia will be uniquely affected Wednesday by the first government shutdown in 17 years, with thousands of federal employees who make up the backbone of the metro area's workforce ordered not to report to work.

Twitter co-founder exchanges tweets with Iranian president

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 08:28 AM PDT

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani takes his chair before a news conference at the Millennium Hotel in midtown Manhattan, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)In an unusual public display involving a world leader, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey exchanged tweets with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday, asking him when his country's people would have greater access to social media.

Celebrated author Tom Clancy dies at 66

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'If anyone is not essential, it's Congress'

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 07:21 AM PDT

The U.S. Capitol building is seen on Tuesday morning after the federal government was shutdown when the House and Senate failed to pass a budget in WashingtonRepublican Rep. Michael Grimm has harsh words for the 'far-right faction.'

A soldier’s-eye view of the shutdown

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 07:25 AM PDT

Troops in AfghanistanMilitary pay is protected, but the impasse is impacting operations.

Graffiti art from Banksy shows up in NYC

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 07:22 AM PDT

Graffiti art from Banksy shows up in NYCBanksy launches New York City street art show, starting with this image, with satirical cellphone audio tour. (banksy.co.uk via Yahoo News)

Wife: Biker husband is victim in NYC altercation

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 03:15 AM PDT

In this frame grab from video provided by the New York Police Department, motorcyclists ride alongside a sport utility vehicle, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013, in New York. Police say that a man driving with his family along a New York City highway was attacked and beaten by a large group of motorcyclists who first surrounded his sport utility vehicle and stopped it on the road, then chased him for miles after he plowed through the blockade of bikes in an attempt to escape. (AP Photo/New York Police Department)NEW YORK (AP) — Shaky camera footage depicts the gory scene: A driver who police say was frightened when a group of motorcyclists swarmed his Range Rover plowed through them, striking a rider in a purple T-shirt and black helmet.

Greenpeace activists charged with piracy for protest

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 03:34 AM PDT

Russia: 5 Greenpeace activists charged with piracyGreenpeace said Wednesday that five of its activists who were detained after protesting at a Russian oil platform have been charged with piracy and could face up to 15 years in prison if found guilty. ...

Louisiana prisoner freed after 41 years of solitary

Posted: 01 Oct 2013 07:21 PM PDT

This undated image courtesy of Herman's House, shows inmate Herman Wallace at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in AngolaNEW ORLEANS (AP) — A 71-year-old Louisiana prisoner who spent 41 years in solitary confinement and is now dying of cancer was released late Tuesday from prison, his attorneys said.

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