| LAX shooting suspect in custody Posted: 01 Nov 2013 10:54 AM PDT  A TSA employee is shot and up to three other people were injured outside Terminal 3.
|
| Live updates from LAX shooting incident Posted: |
| What NYC might look like under de Blasio Posted: 01 Nov 2013 07:28 AM PDT  His Republican mayoral rival warns Gotham could return to its darker days.
|
| Pakistani Taliban chief killed in drone strike: sources Posted: 01 Nov 2013 10:54 AM PDT  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik and Jibran Ahmad ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR (Reuters) - The chief of the Pakistani Taliban was killed by a U.S. drone strike on Friday, security sources and a senior Taliban commander said, in a major blow to the country's most feared militant group. Hakimullah Mehsud was one of Pakistan's most wanted men with a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head. He led an increasingly violent insurgency from a secret hideout in North Waziristan, the Taliban's mountainous stronghold on the Afghan border. "We confirm with great sorrow that our esteemed leader was martyred in a drone attack," a senior Taliban commander said.
|
| German official: Snowden willing to testify before Congress Posted: 01 Nov 2013 09:16 AM PDT  The former NSA contractor wants to shed light on "possibly serious offenses."
|
| Fan injured by hot dog suing Kansas City Royals Posted: 01 Nov 2013 08:52 AM PDT  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — If it had been a foul ball or broken bat that struck John Coomer in the eye as he watched a Kansas City Royals game, it's unlikely the courts would have forced the team to pay for the surgeries and suffering he's endured
|
| Drone strike kills four, possibly a senior Taliban commander, in Pakistan Posted: 01 Nov 2013 08:21 AM PDT  By Saud Mehsud DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - A drone strike killed four people in Pakistan's lawless North Waziristan region on Friday, possibly including a senior Pakistani Taliban commander, intelligence sources said. North Waziristan is the stronghold of the Taliban insurgency and shares a border with Afghanistan. One Pakistan army source told Reuters separately the military were checking reports that a top Taliban commander might have been killed in the attack. There was no official comment from neither the government nor the Taliban.
|
| Conservative groups driving GOP agenda Posted: 01 Nov 2013 10:15 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Virtually unknown outside Washington, a coalition of hardline conservative groups is fighting to seize control of the Republican agenda.
|
| Largest camp for Syrian refugees becoming a city Posted: 01 Nov 2013 07:31 AM PDT  ZAATARI CAMP, Jordan (AP) — The manager of the region's largest camp for Syrian refugees arranges toy figures, trucks and houses on a map in his office trailer to illustrate his ambitious vision. In a year, he wants to turn the chaotic shantytown of more than 100,000 people into a temporary city with local councils, paved streets, parks, an electricity grid and sewage pipes.
|
| AP PHOTOS: Syrian refugee camp becoming a city Posted: 01 Nov 2013 07:18 AM PDT  A plan to turn a sprawling Syrian refugee shantytown into a functional temporary city has no shortage of difficulties. Zaatari, a desert camp near Jordan's border with Syria, is the largest camp of its kind in the region. It is home to more than 100,000 people who have fled the bloody Syrian civil war that continues to rage. Zaatari is currently far from the vision that some people have for it: a temporary city with local councils, paved streets, parks, an electricity grid and sewage pipes. Life is tough here. The strong often take from the weak, women fear going to communal bathrooms after dark, sewage runs between pre-fab trailers and boys hustle for pennies carting goods in wheelbarrows instead of going to school. This camp, the size of a modern city, is far from modern.
|
| Falling inflation another headache for ECB Posted: 01 Nov 2013 09:14 AM PDT  FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — On top of high unemployment and sluggish growth, the European Central Bank has a new headache: an unexpected drop in inflation.
|
| In-flight phones: Others likely to follow FAA lead Posted: 01 Nov 2013 09:21 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — America's Federal Aviation Administration says it is relaxing restrictions on the use of smartphones and other electronics inside American airplanes. Passengers are still barred from making calls or downloading data off a cellular network during takeoff or landing, but the OK on using laptops, consoles, e-readers, and other electronics at the beginning and end of each flight will come as a relief to many U.S. travelers. Here's a look at what may be in store for air travelers in the rest of the world.
|
| Kenya Muslim leader: I could be killed next Posted: 01 Nov 2013 09:00 AM PDT  MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — In August 2012, a leader of a Kenyan mosque that has attracted extremist followers was shot dead as he drove through the streets of Mombasa. Fourteen months later, another leader of the same mosque met the same fate. There have been no arrests in either case.
|
| UConn unanimous No. 1 in preseason women's hoops Posted: 01 Nov 2013 10:02 AM PDT  Geno Auriemma and his UConn Huskies are back in a familiar place — No. 1 in the poll.
|
| Syria peace envoy: No talks without opposition Posted: 01 Nov 2013 05:21 AM PDT  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria warned on Friday in Damascus that there can be no peace talks without the opposition while making yet another plea for both sides in the civil war to come to the negotiating table in Geneva later this month.
|
| NYC stop-frisk ruling halted by appeals court Posted: 01 Nov 2013 06:32 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court block of a judge's ruling that found the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy discriminated against minorities may be short lived, depending on the outcome of next week's mayoral election.
|
| Officials: Drone kills Pakistani Taliban leader Posted: 01 Nov 2013 09:48 AM PDT  PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Intelligence officials say the leader of the Pakistani Taliban was one of three people killed in a suspected U.S. drone strike.
|
| Congress governs self under 'Obamacare' Posted: 01 Nov 2013 10:37 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Think you're confused by "Obamacare"? It's roiling Capitol Hill behind the scenes, too.
|
| Former Obama aide denies he weighed dropping Biden Posted: 01 Nov 2013 07:43 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A new book asserts the idea of replacing Vice President Joe Biden with Hillary Rodham Clinton was floated in President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, but the former White House chief of staff denies it.
|
| Snowden seeks world's help against US charges Posted: 01 Nov 2013 09:06 AM PDT  BERLIN (AP) — Edward Snowden is calling for international help to persuade the U.S. to drop its espionage charges against him, according to a letter a German lawmaker released Friday after meeting the American in Moscow.
|
| Children rescued after bus topples into Kansas creek Posted: 31 Oct 2013 08:25 PM PDT  DOUGLASS, Kan. (AP) — Ten Kansas children and a school bus driver were pulled to safety from a fast-moving creek Thursday after the bus toppled into the water and landed half-submerged on its side.
|
| U.K. prosecutor: Tabloid editor directed hacking Posted: 01 Nov 2013 07:01 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson sent an email telling a news editor to "do his phone" in relation to an alleged target of phone hacking, a British prosecutor said Friday.
|
| U.S. evangelicals stoke anti-gay intolerance in Uganda, film shows Posted: 01 Nov 2013 04:28 AM PDT  A documentary looks at the prominent ministry known as the International House of Prayer.
|
| Jerk or genius? NYC says cheerio to street artist Banksy Posted: 01 Nov 2013 07:10 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The secretive British street artist Banksy ended his self-announced monthlong residency in New York City with a final piece of graffiti, a $615,000 painting donated to charity and a debate: Is he a jerk or a genius?
|
| Gaza runs out of power Posted: 01 Nov 2013 04:27 AM PDT  Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - A shortage of fuel halted the production of electricity across the Gaza Strip on Friday, said the energy authority of the Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the Palestinian enclave. "We have completely stopped the operation of (Gaza's sole) power plant this morning at 6:00 am (0400 GMT) because we don't have a single litre of fuel," Fathi el-Sheikh Khalil, the authority's deputy chairman, told AFP. An AFP correspondent in the Gaza Strip said the electricity supply had been cut off across most of the territory. Khalil blamed the power outage on Egypt's destruction of tunnels used for bringing fuel to Gaza and accused the Western-backed Palestinian Authority of charging Hamas too much for its fuel.
|
| Germany: Prepared to speak with Snowden Posted: 01 Nov 2013 06:36 AM PDT  BERLIN (AP) — Germany's top security official said Friday he will try to find a way for Edward Snowden to speak to German officials if the former National Security Agency contractor is willing to provide details about the NSA's activities including the alleged surveillance of Chancellor Angela Merkel's cellphone.
|
| Murdoch journalist ordered 'do his phone,' court hears Posted: 01 Nov 2013 09:48 AM PDT  Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson emailed a senior journalist at the disgraced tabloid ordering him to "do" a celebrity's phone, the trial over Britain's phone hacking scandal heard Friday. Coulson, who later became Prime Minister David Cameron's media chief, denies conspiring to illegally access celebrities' voicemail messages in a scandal that forced tycoon Rupert Murdoch to shut the paper in 2011. The trial heard Thursday that Coulson had been having an affair with fellow defendant Rebekah Brooks, his predecessor as editor and a close Murdoch confidante, for much of the time the pair are accused of involvement in hacking. On day three of his opening statement, prosecutor Andrew Edis said Coulson, as editor between 2003 and 2007, must have known his journalists were routinely hacking phones to glean stories for a tabloid that prided itself on its celebrity scoops.
|
| Court reinstates most Texas abortion limits Posted: 31 Oct 2013 08:34 PM PDT  Ruling means a third of the clinics that perform the procedure won't be able to do so.
|
| Did Obama consider dumping Biden for Clinton? Posted: 01 Nov 2013 09:26 AM PDT  A new book claims that President Barack Obama's advisers explored the possibility of replacing Joe Biden with Hillary Clinton on the president's re-election ticket.
|
| Kerry: U.S. spying 'reached too far' in some cases Posted: 31 Oct 2013 11:40 PM PDT  The United States has said in some cases its surveillance program has gone too far, an unprecedented admission in its tense row with Europe over US spying against allies. After 10 days of scandal with key European allies, a statement Thursday by Secretary of State John Kerry was the first to explicitly acknowledge overstepping by US intelligence. Kerry justified the surveillance in broad terms, citing the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the United States, as well as attacks in London, Madrid and elsewhere to argue that the US and other countries have had to come together to fight "extremism in the world that is hell-bent and determined to try to kill people and blow people up and attack governments."
|
