| George P. Bush says dad 'moving forward' on 2016 Posted: 26 Oct 2014 09:17 AM PDT  Jeb Bush is "moving forward" on a potential 2016 White House run and it appears more likely he'll enter the Republican race. That's the opinion of his son, who's running for office in Texas.
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| Thirty adolescents abducted in northeast Nigeria: local chief Posted: 26 Oct 2014 09:36 AM PDT  Around 30 adolescents -- some of them girls aged as young as 11 -- have been abducted in northeast Nigeria over the weekend by suspected Boko Haram rebels, a local village chief said.
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| U.N. climate change draft sees risks of irreversible damage Posted: 26 Oct 2014 04:39 AM PDT  Climate change may have "serious, pervasive and irreversible" impacts on human society and nature, according to a draft U.N. report due for approval this week.
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| Fauci: Quarantine can have unintended consequences Posted: 26 Oct 2014 09:52 AM PDT  Mandatory 21-day quarantines on health care workers returning from Ebola-ravaged West Africa can have the unintended consequence of discouraging them from volunteering, a top federal health official said.
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| Steenkamp was about to leave Pistorius, says mother Posted: 26 Oct 2014 04:20 AM PDT  The mother of Oscar Pistorius's girlfriend believes that her daughter was about to leave the disgraced athlete when he shot her dead in what a South African judge ruled to be culpable homicide. June Steenkamp -- mother of 29-year-old model Reeva Steenkamp -- also told Britain's newspaper The Times that she and her husband Barry were haunted by images of the shooting, for which Pistorius was sentenced to a five-year jail term. Pistorius, the first double amputee Paralympian to compete against able-bodied athletes at the 2012 London Olympics, said he shot Steenkamp four times through a locked door to the bathroom in his Pretoria home because he mistakenly believed there was an intruder inside. In "Reeva: a Mother's Story", June Steenkamp wrote that she was "shocked" that the athlete was found guilty only of culpable homicide, or manslaughter.
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| U.S. envoy Power arrives in West Africa Posted: 26 Oct 2014 04:56 AM PDT  By Michelle Nichols CONAKRY (Reuters) - The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, arrived in Guinea's capital Conakry on Sunday to see first hand how the global response is failing to stop the deadly spread of Ebola in West Africa. Power, who will also visit Sierra Leone and Liberia, said she hopes to gain a better understanding of which resources are missing so she can push other countries to offer more help. ...
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| Four out of five eurozone banks pass ECB health test Posted: 26 Oct 2014 09:29 AM PDT  A large majority of eurozone banks were given a clean bill of health Sunday by the European Central Bank, fuelling hopes that a major cause of economic uncertainty could soon be eliminated, analysts said. In the most in-depth and stringent audit of eurozone banks ever undertaken -- aimed at preventing a repeat of the crisis that nearly led to the euro's collapse -- the ECB found that 25 out of a total 130 banks had a combined capital shortfall of 25 billion euros ($31 billion) at the end of 2013. "A period of stress and uncertainty ends for eurozone banks with the end of the exercise," said Berenberg Bank economist Chrisitan Schulz. The need for the ECB's milestone comprehensive assessment -- carried out before the central bank assumes the role of European banking supervisor on November 4 -- has become more pressing in recent weeks.
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| Search for answers after Washington state school rampage Posted: 26 Oct 2014 03:38 AM PDT  By Eric M. Johnson and Victoria Cavaliere MARYSVILLE Wash. (Reuters) - Members of the Tulalip Tribes community in Washington state say they are trying to comprehend how a life-long friendship among sports-loving cousins ended with one of them gunning down the other two, along with three female friends, in their high school cafeteria. The shooter and one girl, identified by a family friend as Zoe Galasso, were killed while the other freshmen students were gravely wounded in Friday's morning rampage at Marysville-Pilchuck High School north of Seattle. ...
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| Top U.S. health official warns of risks from Ebola quarantines Posted: 26 Oct 2014 10:42 AM PDT  By Douwe Miedema and Fiona Ortiz WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Quarantines imposed on travelers coming from Ebola-affected countries in West Africa are a "little bit draconian," a senior U.S. health official charged on Sunday, saying they could discourage American health workers from going to the region to help fight the epidemic. But the governors of New York and New Jersey, two of the states that have imposed the measures, defended the measures. ...
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| Waiting on Jeb: Will another Bush run for the White House in 2016? Posted: 26 Oct 2014 05:15 AM PDT  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Jeb Bush's flirtation with a possible run for the White House in 2016 has been so low key that some in his party aren't convinced he's prepared to take on the challenge. The former Florida governor with the famous family name is among the leaders in polls charting potential Republican contenders in 2016 and says he will decide late this year or early next year. But unlike some would-be competitors like New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who are making forward-leaning statements, Bush is publicly expressing his uncertainty. ...
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| Hawaii officials warn of possible lava evacuation Posted: 25 Oct 2014 07:05 PM PDT HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii authorities on Saturday told several dozen residents near an active lava flow to prepare for a possible evacuation in the next three to five days as molten rock oozed across a country road and edged closer to homes. |
| US to recognize same-sex marriage in 6 more states Posted: 25 Oct 2014 10:41 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government is recognizing gay marriage in six more states and extending federal benefits to those couples, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Saturday.
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