| NFL: London team could be less than a decade away Posted: 23 Oct 2014 10:49 AM PDT  The National Football League anticipates a franchise across the pond.
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| White House announces new healthcare intiiative Posted: 23 Oct 2014 10:20 AM PDT  The Obama administration announced a program budgeted at $840 million.
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| Continuing revelations in UNC cheating scandal Posted: 23 Oct 2014 09:02 AM PDT  CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Bogus classes and automatic A's and B's are at the heart of a cheating scandal at the University of North Carolina that lasted nearly two decades, encompassing about 3,100 students — nearly half of them athletes.
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| Suspected Boko Haram militants make horrifying move Posted: 23 Oct 2014 08:59 AM PDT  YOLA Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram militants kidnapped at least 25 girls in an attack on a remote town in northeastern Nigeria, witnesses to the attack said, despite talks aimed at freeing more than 200 other female hostages the militants seized in April. John Kwaghe, who witnessed the attack and lost three daughters to the abductors, and Dorathy Tizhe, who lost two, said the attackers came late in the night, forcing all the women to go with them, then later releasing the older ones.
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| Canada's PM makes big pledge after attack Posted: 23 Oct 2014 09:54 AM PDT  Prime Minister Stephen Harper lays out response to yesterday's tragedy in Ottawa.
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| Six in quarantine in Connecticut as U.S. steps up Ebola checks Posted: 23 Oct 2014 09:30 AM PDT  By Richard Weizel WEST HAVEN, Conn. (Reuters) - Connecticut placed six West Africans who recently arrived in the United States under quarantine for possible Ebola exposure, a move that comes as the United States starts new restrictions on those coming from the countries hardest hit by the deadly virus. The family of six West Africans, who arrived Saturday and were planning to live in the United States, will be watched for 21 days, Connecticut state health authorities said Thursday. Officials have yet to say where the family came from. ...
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| Prosecutors accept proposed trial delay for Colorado cinema gunman Posted: 23 Oct 2014 09:40 AM PDT  DENVER (Reuters) - Prosecutors in the Colorado theater massacre case do not oppose a defense request to delay the murder trial of accused gunman James Holmes until early next year, court papers showed on Thursday. A ruling by the judge on whether to postpone the trial is pending. Earlier this week, public defenders asked Arapahoe County District Court Judge Carlos Samour to postpone the trial, which is set to begin in December, because they needed more time to review results of a second sanity examination. ...
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| Maryland man charged after jumping White House fence, dogs cleared for duty Posted: 23 Oct 2014 09:28 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man arrested after jumping the White House fence on Wednesday night has been charged with three felony counts and four misdemeanors, the U.S. Secret Service said on Thursday. Dominic Adesanya of Bel Air, Maryland, was unarmed when he was arrested on the White House grounds after facing Secret Service dogs that stopped and attacked him, the Secret Service said. ... |
| Homecoming for U.S. cameraman recovered from Ebola Posted: 23 Oct 2014 09:12 AM PDT  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An American video journalist who recovered from Ebola is home in Rhode Island.
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| What do we know about Canada gunman? Posted: 23 Oct 2014 05:38 AM PDT  Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, 32, was Quebec native, and appeared on a government watch list.
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| Canadian security laws to get beefed up Posted: 23 Oct 2014 07:42 AM PDT  After Ottawa attacks, Canadian PM Stephen Harper said government will accelerate giving more powers to security agencies.
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| Islamic State now world's richest terrorist group Posted: 23 Oct 2014 08:16 AM PDT  The Islamic State has become the world's wealthiest terror group, earning tens of millions of dollars a month from illegal oil sales and ransoms, officials said Thursday. This will be a sustained fight, and we are in the early stages," said undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence David Cohen. Cohen is among a team of Obama administration officials leading the fight against the Islamic State (IS) group, also known as ISIL, which has seized a large swath of territory in Iraq and Syria. The group is now "considered the world's wealthiest and most financially sophisticated terrorist organization," said Marwan Muasher, vice president at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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| Court: Olympian Jim Thorpe's remains can't be removed to tribal land Posted: 23 Oct 2014 08:34 AM PDT  By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Jim Thorpe's remains will stay in the Pennsylvania hamlet named for the legendary Native American athlete and Olympics champion, after a federal appeals court on Thursday rejected an effort by two sons to move them to tribal lands in his native Oklahoma. Addressing an unusual dispute between two generations of descendants, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia said a lower court judge was wrong to order that Thorpe's remains be turned over to the Sac and Fox Nation. ...
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| WHO: Ebola still of grave concern; number with disease approaches 10,000 Posted: 23 Oct 2014 10:15 AM PDT  Top Ebola experts raised grave concerns Thursday about the worsening epidemic in west Africa as the number of infections soared to almost 10,000 and the death toll edged closer to 4,900. The World Heath Organization said after an emergency meeting on the deadly haemorrhagic fever that the situation in the worst-hit countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone "remains of great concern" as cases increase exponentially. It formally declared a global emergency in August, sparking outside criticism and internal soul-searching over claims that it was too slow, as the first case was in Guinea in December. WHO's deputy chief, Keiji Fukuda, said the international community had for months been ramping up the fight, with 600 international experts deployed in the embattled region over recent weeks.
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| Using drones to fight infectious diseases Posted: 23 Oct 2014 07:57 AM PDT  In a remote area of Southeast Asia, drones are fighting a battle — not against terrorists or insurgents, but against infectious disease. In recent years, public health officials in the Malaysian state of Sabah have seen a rise in the number of cases of humans infected with this deadly parasite, which is spread, via mosquitos, from macaques to people. By mapping the communities where these cases occur, researchers hope to figure out why the parasite is spreading from monkeys to people with greater frequency, said Chris Drakeley, a professor of infection and immunity at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom, and one of the researchers involved in the project. "What we're doing is creating a detailed map, which we can then superimpose or overlay with the human and the macaque movement," Drakeley told Live Science.
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| Islamic State raking in millions on black market oil Posted: 23 Oct 2014 10:45 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Islamic State militants are amassing wealth at an unprecedented pace, earning about $1 million a day from black market oil sales alone, a U.S. Treasury Department official said Thursday.
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| Dancing priests go viral Posted: 23 Oct 2014 08:23 AM PDT  ROME (AP) — A video of a pair of dueling, dancing American priests studying in Rome has gone viral, following in the footsteps of a now-famous Italian nun whose Alicia Keys-esque voice won her a singing contest and a record contract.
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| U.S., allies stage 15 air strikes on Islamic State positions Posted: 23 Oct 2014 06:23 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. military forces again focused air strikes on the area near the Syrian city of Kobani in their campaign to turn back Islamic State forces and also hit oil facilities held by the militant group, the U.S. Central Command said on Thursday. A total of 15 strikes were staged against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Wednesday and Thursday, according to a statement from Central Command. The statement said U.S. ...
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| Ottawa shootings stir terror fears Posted: 23 Oct 2014 09:55 AM PDT  Two deadly attacks in three days stun Canadians, raising fears of reprisals for joining U.S.-led coalition.
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| Matt Bai: The silliest emails of the week Posted: 23 Oct 2014 03:06 AM PDT  I've been traveling around the country plugging my book on the collision of politics and celebrity in 1987 (see, I just did it again), so I haven't had a lot of time to check in on the latest election polls and midterm controversies. I did spend a half-hour watching TV in a Denver hotel, during which I saw a total of three 30-second ads that did not feature one candidate slandering another. Colorado, I feel for you.
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| Police on alert following 'terror attack' on Jerusalem train station Posted: 23 Oct 2014 08:57 AM PDT  Israel on Thursday pledged a tough response to any further attacks in Jerusalem as police flooded flashpoint Arab neighbourhoods a day after a Palestinian car attack killed a baby. It was the second deadly incident involving a Palestinian driving a vehicle in three months and prompted a sharp warning from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "Jerusalem is united and was, and always will be, the eternal capital of Israel. The driver, 21-year-old Abdelrahman Shaludi from Silwan in east Jerusalem, was shot while trying to flee the car on foot and later died of his injuries.
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| Royals even World Series as benches clear in 7-2 victory Posted:  Tempers flared. The benches cleared. A fight nearly broke out. And a World Series with little verve finally got the jolt it needed Wednesday.
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| Nurse Amber Vinson free of Ebola virus, family says Posted: 22 Oct 2014 05:16 PM PDT  Barely a week after being diagnosed with Ebola, Texas nurse Amber Vinson is free of the deadly virus, her family said on Wednesday night.
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| Koch Brothers Super PAC adds another $6.5 million in TV ads Posted: 22 Oct 2014 12:02 PM PDT The Koch brothers-backed super PAC is adding to its TV spending over the final two weeks leading up to the midterm elections, dropping an additional $6.5 million into six competitive U.S. Senate races. The ads will link Democratic candidates to President Obama. |
| Sergeant-at-arms hailed as hero Posted: 22 Oct 2014 12:24 PM PDT  Kevin Vickers is credited with shooting a gunman in an attack at the Canadian Parliament.
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| Senator blasts DEA for fake Facebook profile Posted: 22 Oct 2014 05:36 AM PDT  The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is calling on the Justice Department to condemn the actions of a DEA agent who created a fake Facebook profile using a real woman's name and photos without her consent.
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| Blackwater guards found guilty in Iraq shootings Posted: 22 Oct 2014 03:06 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Four former Blackwater security guards were convicted Wednesday in the 2007 shootings of more than 30 Iraqis in Baghdad, an incident that inflamed anti-American sentiment around the globe and was denounced by critics as an illustration of a war gone horribly wrong.
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| Latest update in Canada shootings Posted: 22 Oct 2014 11:49 AM PDT  Police search for suspects near the National War Memorial in central Ottawa.
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