Stepped-up Ebola screening starts at NYC airport

Stepped-up Ebola screening starts at NYC airport
Second day of protests take shape in St. Louis
Snowden's girlfriend living with him in Russia: film
Ebola screening starts at New York's JFK airport
Weekend rally in St. Louis against police violence starts peacefully
Cities, states scramble after Dallas's Ebola missteps expose planning gaps
Sears says Kmart stores hit by data breach
North Korea says talks with South 'all but scrapped'
College revokes senator's degree
Gay marriage obstacles fall in conservative states
Beheading in Oklahoma: Was it terrorism or workplace violence?
Nobel Prize-winner's crusade on child slavery
Civilians 'will be most likely massacred'

Posted: 11 Oct 2014 08:59 AM PDT

The program, at Kennedy International Airport, checks the temperature of travelers arriving from West Africa.

Second day of protests take shape in St. Louis

Posted: 11 Oct 2014 09:08 AM PDT

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Hundreds gathered in downtown St. Louis on Saturday morning for a second day of organized rallies to protest Michael Brown's death and other fatal police shootings in the area and elsewhere.

Snowden's girlfriend living with him in Russia: film

Posted: 11 Oct 2014 10:46 AM PDT

New York (AFP) - Fugitive intelligence analyst Edward Snowden, who was granted asylum by Moscow after revealing the extent of US government surveillance, has been reunited with his American girlfriend in Russia.

Ebola screening starts at New York's JFK airport

Posted: 11 Oct 2014 11:00 AM PDT

By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - Medical teams at New York's JFK airport, armed with Ebola questionnaires and temperature guns, began screening travelers from three West African countries on Saturday as U.S. health authorities stepped up efforts to stop the spread of the virus. John F. Kennedy Airport is the first of five U.S. airports to start enhanced screening of U.S.-bound travelers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, where most of the outbreak's more than 4,000 deaths have occurred. ...

Weekend rally in St. Louis against police violence starts peacefully

Posted: 11 Oct 2014 04:01 AM PDT

By Kenny Bahr FERGUSON Mo (Reuters) - Weekend protests in the St. Louis area against police violence have made a tense but peaceful start, with none of the clashes with police that have affected Missouri in recent weeks. Civil rights organizations and protest groups invited people from around the country to join vigils and marches from Friday to Monday over the Aug. 9 shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a white police officer in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. A march is planned for Saturday morning through downtown St. ...

Cities, states scramble after Dallas's Ebola missteps expose planning gaps

Posted: 11 Oct 2014 04:08 AM PDT

By Sharon Begley and Yasmeen Abutaleb NEW YORK (Reuters) - The missteps in Dallas's handling of the first Ebola case diagnosed in the United States have revealed an uncomfortable reality: state and city plans for handling the deadly virus are based on generic recommendations for everything from measles to floods, to hurricanes and dirty bombs. Officials acknowledge they need to do more. ...

Sears says Kmart stores hit by data breach

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 05:48 PM PDT

The attack likely resulted in the theft of some customer payment cards at its Kmart stores.

North Korea says talks with South 'all but scrapped'

Posted: 11 Oct 2014 12:43 AM PDT

Seoul (AFP) - North Korea's state media said Saturday high-level talks with Seoul were now all but scrapped over the launch of anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets from the South, which triggered an exchange of fire across the tense border.

College revokes senator's degree

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 04:14 PM PDT

Investigators conclude John Walsh plagiarized a research paper required to graduate.

Gay marriage obstacles fall in conservative states

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 05:03 PM PDT

Weddings, court rulings and confusion are defining a week that started with the U.S. Supreme Court denying appeals from five states seeking to retain their bans on same-sex marriage. Here's a rundown of the most recent developments:

Beheading in Oklahoma: Was it terrorism or workplace violence?

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 02:19 AM PDT

Moore, Okla., is a sleepy suburb where major crime is almost unheard of — especially something like the grisly decapitation of one person by a co-worker and the attempted decapitation of another. Local officials have described what happened at Vaughan Foods as a horrifying but random case of an angry worker lashing out. But while the FBI says it has found no links so far between the confessed killer and the Islamic State or other extremist groups, there is little doubt that he sympathized with their cause.

Nobel Prize-winner's crusade on child slavery

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 05:52 AM PDT

Understandably overshadowed in the celebration of Malala's win was 2014's other Nobel Peace Prize winner, Kailash Satyarthi, a 60-year-old from New Delhi who has fought for decades to end child slavery. So who is he?

Civilians 'will be most likely massacred'

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 11:30 AM PDT

MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) — In a dramatic appeal, a U.N. official warned that hundreds of civilians who remain trapped in the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani near the border with Turkey were likely to be "massacred" by advancing extremists and called on Ankara to help prevent a catastrophe.