Mom: Teen killed by St. Louis cop was unarmed

Mom: Teen killed by St. Louis cop was unarmed
1901 time capsule finally opened. What's inside?
Ben Affleck's 'Islam' statements make him target
Ebola victim's heartbreaking story of love and loss
Startling effects of voter ID laws
Arizona landscaper killed by swarm of bees
Ebola's devastating effect on tourism
Woman's tweets over pilot gets her booted from flight
Activist investor Icahn urges action on Apple's undervalued stock
Americans: Ban flights from Ebola nations
Prolific 1990s graffiti artist 'Cost' nabbed with brushes, arrested in NYC
Police-citizen unrest erupts St. Louis again
Airline workers strike over Ebola concerns
Matt Bai: Why an independent win in Kansas would matter
Where is Kim Jong Un?
Airport screening for Ebola: 5 things to know
U.S. beefs up Ebola airport screenings
Day of legal confusion leaves gay couples in limbo
U.S., allies chafing at Turkish inaction on Syria
White policeman kills black teen in St Louis, triggering fresh protests
U.S. House Republicans release $750 mln in Ebola funds to Pentagon
NYC lawyer accused of rape removes himself from chokehold lawsuit
Obama claims progress in war against Islamic State
Pennsylvania police say sniper's journal shows 'true evil exists'
U.S. warns air strikes alone cannot save Kobane from IS

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 09:55 AM PDT

Authorities allege the teen shot three times before the officer returned fire.

1901 time capsule finally opened. What's inside?

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 10:22 AM PDT

WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — The highly-anticipated opening of a time capsule that been hidden in the head of a lion statue atop a historical landmark for more than a century yielded at least one surprise Thursday: a hardcover book.

Ben Affleck's 'Islam' statements make him target

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Ben Affleck's 'Islam' statements make him target

Ebola victim's heartbreaking story of love and loss

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 08:54 AM PDT

DALLAS — Love, not Ebola, drove Thomas Eric Duncan from his native Liberia.

Startling effects of voter ID laws

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 08:38 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — States that toughened their voter identification laws saw steeper drops in election turnout than those that did not, with disproportionate falloffs among black and younger voters, a nonpartisan congressional study released Wednesday concluded.

Arizona landscaper killed by swarm of bees

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 07:16 AM PDT

DOUGLAS, Ariz. (AP) — Thousands of swarming bees have left one landscaper dead and another critically injured after the men were stung in southern Arizona.

Ebola's devastating effect on tourism

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Just as Africa's travel industry had picked up, the deadly virus has cast a gloomy shadow.

Woman's tweets over pilot gets her booted from flight

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 09:20 AM PDT

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire woman says she was removed from a JetBlue flight after tweeting about the flight's delays, which included a pilot having to take a sobriety test.

Activist investor Icahn urges action on Apple's undervalued stock

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 04:51 AM PDT

In a new letter to the Apple CEO, Carl Icahn lays out an aggressively bullish case for Apple's new iPhone models and the company's growth prospects. He says he won't sell any of his stock in any future tender offer Apple might undertake.

Americans: Ban flights from Ebola nations

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 05:19 AM PDT

But health experts say such a move would be counterproductive.

Prolific 1990s graffiti artist 'Cost' nabbed with brushes, arrested in NYC

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 06:47 AM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police say they have arrested a high-profile graffiti artist.

Police-citizen unrest erupts St. Louis again

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Police say an off-duty officer shot and killed a teen who opened fire during a chase.

Airline workers strike over Ebola concerns

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Matt Bai: Why an independent win in Kansas would matter

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 12:56 AM PDT

A month out from the midterm elections, Kansas is the most interesting state on the map. Greg Orman, who is running for Senate as an independent against the state's powerful Republican incumbent, Pat Roberts, has opened up a surprising lead; according to one analysis, Orman is the only Senate candidate in the country who keeps getting more popular, rather than less.

Where is Kim Jong Un?

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 04:41 AM PDT

TOKYO (AP) — As North Korea's ruling party prepares to mark its 69th anniversary on Friday, the world will be watching to see if leader Kim Jong Un will make his first public appearance in more than a month.

Airport screening for Ebola: 5 things to know

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 06:47 AM PDT

The Obama administration announced Wednesday that airline passengers arriving from the three West African countries experiencing an unprecedented Ebola outbreak will now be screened for potential exposure ...

U.S. beefs up Ebola airport screenings

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 02:22 PM PDT

New measures will be put in place in New York City, Newark, Chicago, Atlanta and D.C.

Day of legal confusion leaves gay couples in limbo

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 06:14 PM PDT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — County clerks in Nevada turned away gay couples eager to marry Wednesday amid a flurry of conflicting court decisions, including a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that blocked partners in Idaho moments before they would have picked up marriage licenses.

U.S., allies chafing at Turkish inaction on Syria

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 07:35 PM PDT

ISTANBUL (AP) — As U.S. generals and Secretary of State John Kerry warn that a strategic Syrian border town could fall to Islamic State militants, the Turkish military has deployed its tanks on its side of the frontier but only watched the slaughter.

White policeman kills black teen in St Louis, triggering fresh protests

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 02:59 AM PDT

By Kenny Bahr ST LOUIS Mo (Reuters) - A white off-duty policeman shot and killed a black teenager in St Louis on Wednesday, officers said, triggering a night of protests just miles from the site of another police shooting of another black youth in the suburb of Ferguson. Police said the 18-year-old was armed and fired three shots while he was being chased by the officer, and they had recovered a gun at the scene. The youth was killed almost two months to the day since sometimes violent protests erupted in Ferguson after a white police officer shot dead unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown. ...

U.S. House Republicans release $750 mln in Ebola funds to Pentagon

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 10:56 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday agreed to release $700 million more to fight Ebola from the Defense Department's request to shift $1 billion in war funds, bringing the total so far to $750 million. The additional funds were released following briefings from Pentagon officials this week after a handful of lawmakers had limited the funding shift to just $50 million until they received more information about plans to deploy up to 4,000 U.S. ...

NYC lawyer accused of rape removes himself from chokehold lawsuit

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 10:03 AM PDT

By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - A high-profile lawyer accused of raping a woman in his New York City apartment last week has said he will no longer handle a planned wrongful-death lawsuit against the city by the family of Eric Garner, who died after police put him in chokehold during his arrest. Sanford Rubenstein's law partner will instead handle the lawsuit in the wake of a police investigation into a 42-year-old woman's report that Rubenstein raped her, he said in a statement on Wednesday. ...

Obama claims progress in war against Islamic State

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 04:45 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a stubborn enemy, President Barack Obama professed confidence Wednesday that the U.S. will keep making progress against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, as the reality set in of a lengthy military conflict with limited prospects for success.

Pennsylvania police say sniper's journal shows 'true evil exists'

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 03:53 PM PDT

By Joe McDonald BLOOMING GROVE Pa. (Reuters) - Pennsylvania police have found a journal describing in chilling detail the ambush that killed a state trooper and wounded another nearly four weeks ago at a barracks in the Poconos Mountains, officials said on Wednesday. The journal was found about two weeks ago, along with two pipe bombs resembling hand grenades that police say survivalist Eric Frein left at a campsite in the deep woods, possibly as search teams were closing in on him during the manhunt. Police declined to say on Wednesday why they had waited to disclose the find. ...

U.S. warns air strikes alone cannot save Kobane from IS

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 03:01 PM PDT

Washington (AFP) - President Barack Obama conferred with commanders Wednesday on the "difficult" fight against Islamic State jihadists as the US military warned air power alone could not prevent the group from seizing a key Syrian border town.