| U.S. Ebola patient had contact with kids Posted: 01 Oct 2014 10:34 AM PDT  Texas Gov. Rick Perry says school-aged children are being monitored for symptoms.
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| US, India to Team Up on Mars Exploration Posted: 01 Oct 2014 10:24 AM PDT  India's recent Mars success appears to have turned some heads. NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will investigate ways to collaborate on future missions to Mars, officials said Tuesday (Sept. 30). The announcement comes just one week after India put its first-ever Mars probe in orbit around the Red Planet, becoming just the fourth entity — after the United States, the Soviet Union and the European Space Agency — to do so. NASA and ISRO also signed an agreement Tuesday that lays out their respective roles on the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission, which is scheduled to launch to Earth orbit in 2020 to study the consequences of climate change on a fine scale.
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| Texas girl kidnapped 12 years ago at age 4 found alive in Mexico Posted: 01 Oct 2014 08:37 AM PDT  An Austin, Texas, girl abducted 12 years ago has been found in Mexico, law enforcement officials say.
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| U.S. experts hunt for Ebola exposure after first case Posted: 01 Oct 2014 09:30 AM PDT  By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health experts are monitoring "a handful" of people who were potentially exposed to Ebola through physical contact with the first patient diagnosed with the deadly virus in the United States, the top U.S. public health official said on Wednesday. Health officials confirmed the first case of the virus in the country on Tuesday, when a man who flew from Liberia to Texas tested positive for Ebola, which has killed more than 3,000 people in three countries in West Africa. ...
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| U.S. lawmakers rebuke Secret Service over White House breach Posted: 30 Sep 2014 06:20 PM PDT  By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Secret Service faced scathing criticism on Tuesday for the agency allowing an intruder with a knife to run into the White House, while details emerged of a separate security lapse involving an armed contractor who rode an elevator with President Barack Obama. Secret Service Director Julia Pierson acknowledged the agency charged with protecting Obama had failed on Sept. ...
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| No charges yet in shooting death of suburban Los Angeles mayor Posted: 01 Oct 2014 10:53 AM PDT  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - No charges have been filed so far in the shooting death of the mayor of the small Los Angeles suburb of Bell Gardens, a day after his wife shot him during a heated argument, authorities said on Wednesday. Bell Gardens Mayor Daniel Crespo, 45, and his wife, Levette, 43, were arguing on Tuesday afternoon at their home in the city when their 19-year-old son, Daniel Crespo Jr, intervened, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officials said. Father and son got into a physical fight and Levette Crespo got a gun and shot her husband multiple times, officials said. ...
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| UN loses first staffer to virus outbreak Posted: 01 Oct 2014 10:02 AM PDT  "Probable Ebola" strikes member of international organization in Liberia.
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| Nationality trumps race in sentencing gap Posted: 01 Oct 2014 02:21 AM PDT  Study after study has shown that black men do more time in jail than white men who commit similar crimes — an entrenched racial disparity in the nation's justice system that Attorney General Eric Holder has decried as "shameful" and unacceptable.
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| No country for old men, or women: Afghanistan Posted: 01 Oct 2014 09:36 AM PDT  By Kieran Guilbert LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Afghanistan is the worst country to live in as an older person, an annual index on the wellbeing of the elderly showed on Wednesday. The Asian country was ranked bottom for the second consecutive year in HelpAge International's Global AgeWatch Index, its health situation in particular the poorest in the world. Norway topped the index - up one place from last year - followed by Sweden, Switzerland, Canada and Germany, all of which remained in the top 10. ...
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| 'Not comfortable' with Secret Service chief in job Posted: 01 Oct 2014 10:46 AM PDT  Senior Democratic lawmaker wants Julia Pierson to leave after series of presidential security breaches.
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| Rhode Island child dies of infection related to Enterovirus D68 Posted: 01 Oct 2014 10:46 AM PDT  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - A Rhode Island child hospitalized with Enterovirus D68 has died of a bacterial infection in what state public health officials described on Wednesday as an unusual and dangerous combination. The child, a 10-year-old girl who was not named, died last week as a result of a staphylococcus aureus sepsis alongside the respiratory virus, the Rhode Island Department of Health said in a statement, calling it a "very rare combination that can cause very severe illness in children and adults. ...
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| Corruption allegations deep-freeze Greenland's government Posted: 01 Oct 2014 09:03 AM PDT  By Teis Jensen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Three Greenlandic ministers stepped down from the government on Wednesday to press Prime Minister Aleqa Hammond to quit after she was accused of misuse of state money on private flights and hotels for family members. Hammond, premier since April last year, temporarily left office on Tuesday to wait for the results of an inquiry into her use of state funds, naming Kim Kielsen as her acting head of government. ...
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| Florida cop on leave after using stun gun on 62-year-old woman Posted: 01 Oct 2014 08:22 AM PDT  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida police officer has been placed on administrative leave pending an internal affairs investigation after he fired a stun gun into a 62-year-old woman's back during an arrest in a Tallahassee neighborhood.
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| 700-year-old tomb may decide Turkey's role in IS fight Posted: 01 Oct 2014 05:21 AM PDT  By Dasha Afanasieva and Selin Bucak ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A vow to defend the 700-year-old tomb of Suleyman Shah, grandfather of the founder of the Ottoman Empire, in a Turkish enclave in northern Syria could decide Turkey's role in the military campaign against Islamic State. Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said on Tuesday that the militants were advancing on the white stone mausoleum, guarded by several dozen Turkish soldiers and perched on a manicured lawn under a Turkish flag on the banks of the Euphrates. ...
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| NYC teacher at elite school faces multiple sex charges Posted: 01 Oct 2014 07:05 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — A teacher at an elite New York City high school already accused of sending an indecent photo to a student is now facing an additional 36-count indictment alleging he victimized six others.
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| Two Colorados, two visions, one tight race Posted: 01 Oct 2014 02:20 AM PDT  No one expected the 2014 Colorado governor's race to be tight — or even much of a race. Now the contest between Gov. John Hickenlooper and former dairy farmer, community banker, and Congressman Bob Beauprez is a textbook tossup.
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| Congo tries to contain second Ebola outbreak Posted: 01 Oct 2014 06:05 AM PDT  Death toll from virus rose to 42 Wednesday in separate spread from West Africa's.
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| Taiwan throws support behind Hong Kong protests Posted: 01 Oct 2014 07:14 AM PDT  Chinese Communist Party has long wanted a governing arrangement like Hong Kong's, for Taiwan.
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| China body-searches 10K pigeons released for holiday celebration: reports Posted: 01 Oct 2014 05:33 AM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — The 10,000 doves released in a ceremony Wednesday for China's National Day underwent unusual scrutiny, each having its feathers and anus checked for dangerous materials, state-run media reports said, reflecting government jitters over possible attacks.
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| Royals slip past A's in epic 12-inning AL wild-card game Posted:  K.C. scores a crazy, come-from-behind, 12-inning, walk-off 9-8 victory over the Oakland A's.
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| More bodies found on Japanese volcano; toll now 47 Posted: 01 Oct 2014 08:38 AM PDT  OTAKI, Japan (AP) — One body recovered near the volcano's peak was in a squatting position and had to be dug out of a thick layer of ash. Another was caught between boulders bigger than large refrigerators. Police who recovered the bodies Wednesday portrayed a painful scene of death around the summit where hikers enjoying an autumn weekend hike were caught by the mountain's surprise eruption.
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| Texas patient confirmed as first Ebola case diagnosed in U.S. Posted: 30 Sep 2014 01:50 PM PDT  CDC director: "I have no doubt we'll stop this disease dead in its tracks in the U.S."
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| Plea accepted in embassy bombings case Posted: 30 Sep 2014 04:25 PM PDT  Judge accepts Egyptian lawyer's guilty plea in 1998 blasts of two U.S. embassies.
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| Mayor of suburban L.A. city fatally shot; wife in custody Posted: 30 Sep 2014 11:34 PM PDT  BELL GARDENS, Calif. (AP) — The wife suspected of shooting and killing the mayor of a Los Angeles County city has been released after hours of questioning, authorities said.
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| 3 charged in Mexico army killing of 22 Posted: 30 Sep 2014 08:33 PM PDT  Three soldiers have been charged with homicide in the June killings of 22 suspected gang members in southern Mexico, Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam announced on Tuesday.
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| Satellite photos show world's fourth-largest lake disappearing Posted: 30 Sep 2014 11:26 AM PDT The Aral Sea, once the fourth-largest lake in the world, is nearly gone, images released by NASA this week show. |
| U.S. loosens civilian death policy in Syria, Iraq Posted: 30 Sep 2014 12:30 PM PDT  Exclusive: New standards in Iraq, Syria follow reports of Idlib missile strike casualties.
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| Police on manhunt for ambush suspect find pipe bombs Posted: 30 Sep 2014 04:20 PM PDT  State police searching for a man accused of killing a state trooper said Tuesday they found two pipe bombs in the Pennsylvania woods during their manhunt.
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