| Complete JFK anniversary coverage Posted:  Fifty years later, America remembers. See live video.
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| Afghan spokesman rebuffs US troop deal deadline Posted: 22 Nov 2013 10:19 AM PST  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's president on Friday rebuffed American demands that he sign a security pact allowing U.S. forces to stay in the country for another decade, while the U.S. defense secretary warns that planning for a post-2014 military presence may be jeopardized if the deal isn't finalized by the end of the year.
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| Documents: Mass. teacher's throat cut, note left Posted: 22 Nov 2013 10:55 AM PST  SALEM, Mass. (AP) — The body of a popular Massachusetts teacher who police say was killed by one of her students was found in the woods, naked from the waist down and with her throat slit and a note that read, "I hate you all," according to court documents released Friday.
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| 50 dead in grocery roof collapse in Latvia Posted: 22 Nov 2013 10:36 AM PST  RIGA, Latvia (AP) — Hordes of shoppers were picking up food after work in the Latvian capital when an enormous section of the supermarket's roof caved in. Firefighters rushed in to save them, only to be crushed themselves when a second part of the roof collapsed.
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| In Egypt, a darkening mood as instability persists Posted: 22 Nov 2013 05:47 AM PST  CAIRO (AP) — In Egypt, misery just keeps piling on and, fittingly, the nation is officially in mourning.
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| Olympic groups to monitor Brazil's polluted waters Posted: 22 Nov 2013 09:55 AM PST  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Olympic sports federations will be monitoring efforts to clean up the polluted waters around Rio de Janeiro to prevent health risks to athletes at the 2016 Games.
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| A-Rod, MLB await decision, expected in January Posted: 22 Nov 2013 07:47 AM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Now the waiting begins for Alex Rodriguez and Major League Baseball.
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| Uranium enrichment at heart of nuclear disputes Posted: 22 Nov 2013 06:40 AM PST  For more than a decade — through standoffs and outreach — the cornerstone of Iran's nuclear disputes with the West has been uranium enrichment, which is the central process in turning concentrated uranium into nuclear fuel. Negotiators in Geneva must balance opposing interests: Demands by the U.S. and allies for limits and controls over how far Iran can take its program and Tehran's insistence to maintain its self-sufficiency over every step of the nuclear process from uranium mines to reactor cores. Enrichment also is at the forefront of criticism by Israel and its backers in the West who fear leaving Iran even with the basic technology to make reactor fuel, which is the pathway for possible weapons-grade material.
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| JFK 50th: Nation pauses to remember lost president Posted: 22 Nov 2013 10:55 AM PST  DALLAS (AP) — Fifty years after John F. Kennedy fell victim to an assassin's bullet while visiting Texas with his wife, people at home and abroad paused Friday to remember the 35th president of the United States. Collected here are memories of the slain president, details from the day of his death and live updates from the memorial service at Dealey Plaza in Dallas.
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| 47 dead in grocery roof collapse in Latvia Posted: 22 Nov 2013 07:40 AM PST RIGA, Latvia (AP) — Hordes of shoppers were picking up food after work in the Latvian capital when an enormous section of the supermarket's roof caved in. Firefighters rushed in to save them, only to be crushed themselves when a second part of the roof collapsed. |
| Web inventor: Surveillance threatens democracy Posted: 22 Nov 2013 09:59 AM PST LONDON (AP) — The scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web spoke out Friday against what he called a "growing tide of surveillance and censorship," warning that it is threatening the future of democracy. |
| Russian FM Lavrov to join Iran nuclear talks Posted: 22 Nov 2013 06:34 AM PST  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov threw his weight Friday behind nuclear talks with Iran, flying to Geneva to join senior negotiators struggling to seal a deal that would see Tehran start to roll back its atomic activities in exchange for sanctions relief.
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| Ancient wine cellar reveals a sophisticated drink Posted: 22 Nov 2013 06:00 AM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have uncovered a 3,700-year-old wine cellar in the ruins of a Canaanite palace in Israel, and chemical analysis shows this is where they kept the good stuff.
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| To spin or not to spin: Does Microsoft need Xbox? Posted: 22 Nov 2013 09:51 AM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates donned a cool leather jacket when he first introduced the Xbox onstage in 2000. More than a decade later, the video game console is still the hippest brand in Microsoft's portfolio. But as the company begins selling its first new Xbox in eight years on Friday, some critics say Microsoft should spin the gaming unit off. They argue that Xbox distracts management from the company's fast-growing cloud computing business and its effort to catch up to rivals in tablet and smartphone sales.
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| Scientists discover a killer dinosaur Posted: 22 Nov 2013 06:35 AM PST  Palaeontologists on Friday announced they had uncovered the remains of one of the greatest land predators ever -- a nine-metre (30-foot) four-tonne dinosaur that stalked the planet 100 million years ago. The newly-discovered species has been called Siats meekerorum, whose first name honours a cannibalistic monster in the mythology of the Native American Ute people. A giant meat-eater, the dino lorded it even over the tyrannosaurs of the time, the scientists said. It would take another 30 million years or so before the eight-tonne Tyrannosaurus rex emerged to take the title of apex killer in present-day North America.
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| Newtown investigation report to be released Posted: 22 Nov 2013 07:34 AM PST  NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — A summary of the investigation into the shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School will be released Monday, Connecticut prosecutors said.
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| Not business as usual, but the bar's open in storm-ravaged Tacloban Posted: 22 Nov 2013 07:55 AM PST Once he had got hold of 20 cases of San Miguel beer, Gerry Ruiz knew he had enough supplies to start serving customers again. The Calle Zaragosa Cafe appears to be the first standalone restaurant or bar to have opened in Tacloban since one of the world's most powerful typhoons reduced much of the central Philippine city to rubble two weeks ago. The storm killed 5,209 people, the National Disaster Agency said on Friday, as it barreled across the central Philippines from east to west, making it the most deadly natural disaster ever to hit the country. |
| China warns North Korea, blames Japan for tension Posted: 22 Nov 2013 04:39 AM PST  China warned North Korea on Friday it would not tolerate chaos on its doorstep, while blaming Japan for the tension between Asia's two largest economies. Ties between Beijing and Pyongyang have deteriorated since North Korea conducted its third nuclear test in February. China signed on to U.N. sanctions in March, but remains the North's largest trading partner. "China will never allow (anyone) to cause chaos and incidents on our home's doorstep and will never accept China's process of development from being disturbed and interrupted again," Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on the foreign ministry's website.
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| Evolution debate again engulfs Texas board Posted: 22 Nov 2013 01:19 AM PST  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The long-simmering battle over teaching evolution in Texas boiled over at a late-night meeting, as the Board of Education extended preliminary approval of new science books for use in classrooms across the state but held up one biology text because of alleged factual errors.
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| Philippine typhoon death toll rises above 5,000 Posted: 22 Nov 2013 05:17 AM PST  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The death toll from one of the strongest typhoons on record has risen above 5,000 and is likely to climb further, although recovery efforts are beginning to take hold, Philippine officials said Friday.
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| China tests first stealth combat drone: media Posted: 22 Nov 2013 03:43 AM PST  China has tested its first stealth combat drone, state media said Friday, citing online photos of an aircraft resembling a shrunken US B2 bomber and hailing the advance toward Western-level technology. The test flight of the "Sharp Sword" unmanned aircraft is another step in China's years-long military build-up, with its defence spending now the second highest in the world and growing by double-digit percentages each year. It comes weeks after Tokyo said a drone had flown near East China Sea islands claimed by both it and Beijing, ratcheting tensions between the rivals up another notch. "The successful flight shows the nation has again narrowed the air-power disparity between itself and Western nations," the China Daily newspaper said, adding the flight made China the "fourth power... capable of putting a stealth drone into the sky".
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| 32 dead in grocery roof collapse in Latvia Posted: 22 Nov 2013 03:23 AM PST  RIGA, Latvia (AP) — At least 32 people died, including three firefighters, after an enormous section of roof collapsed at a Latvian supermarket in the country's capital, emergency medical officials said Friday.
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| Days before launch, Obamacare website failed to handle even 500 users Posted: 21 Nov 2013 06:54 PM PST  By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the last days before the botched October 1 launch of President Barack Obama's healthcare website, the team in charge was seeing alarming results from performance tests, according to internal emails released by Republican lawmakers investigating the rollout. HealthCare.gov was unable to consistently handle 500 users at once in the testing, and tests failed with 2,000 users over a three-day period, according to a series of emails between members of the information technology team at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS. "I do not want a repeat of what happened near the end of December 2005 where Medicare.Gov had a meltdown," Henry Chao, the website's project manager at CMS, wrote in capital letters in an urgent message on September 26 to his team and contractors. The emails, released by the Republican-led House Energy and Commerce Committee, are the latest to illustrate the depths of problems with the Obamacare website, which has frustrated millions of Americans with error messages and slow responses as they try to shop for health insurance.
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