Keystone passes the House

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• Keystone passes the House
• Same-sex couples file Supreme Court appeal
• Walmart gets difficult Black Friday news
• Dallas-area teacher fired over racial tweets
• Inside Myanmar’s eerily empty capital
• Bad news for Google Glass fans
• Obama's Keystone position doesn't shift
• Obama to shield many from deportation
• Loophole for Nazis finally closed
• Tough decision for comet scientists
• Surgeon with Ebola coming to US for care
• Sources: Obama executive order to affect millions of immigrants
• U.S. seeks to ease influx of Central American child migrants
• Reviews of U.S. nuclear forces call for changes
• U.S. court rejects religious objection to Obamacare contraception deal
• Missouri town told to prepare for worst
• What is a lame-duck politician? And is it always a bad thing?
• Trooper ambush suspect charged with terrorism
• AP sources: IS, al-Qaida reach accord in Syria
• Surprising findings about school lunches

Keystone passes the House Posted: 14 Nov 2014 10:46 AM PST Next up for the controversial bill: the U.S. Senate.

Same-sex couples file Supreme Court appeal Posted: 14 Nov 2014 10:04 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Same-sex couples seeking the right to marry are asking the Supreme Court to settle the issue of gay marriage nationwide.

Walmart gets difficult Black Friday news Posted: 14 Nov 2014 08:16 AM PST 1,600 stores across the U.S. may not operate the way the company expects.

Dallas-area teacher fired over racial tweets Posted: 14 Nov 2014 10:49 AM PST DUNCANVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Dallas-area school board fired a teacher Friday who posted racially charged tweets about the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.

Inside Myanmar’s eerily empty capital Posted: Inside Myanmar's eerily empty capital

Bad news for Google Glass fans Posted: 14 Nov 2014 08:27 AM PST By Alexei Oreskovic, Sarah McBride and Malathi Nayak SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - After two years of popping up at high-profile events sporting Google Glass, the gadget that transforms eyeglasses into spy-movie worthy technology, Google co-founder Sergey Brin sauntered bare-faced into a Silicon Valley red-carpet event on Sunday. He'd left his pair in the car, Brin told a reporter. The Googler, who heads up the top-secret lab which developed Glass, has hardly given up on the product -- he recently wore his pair to the beach. ...

Obama's Keystone position doesn't shift Posted: 14 Nov 2014 06:03 AM PST The president makes his stance clear as the GOP plans a major vote on the pipeline.

Obama to shield many from deportation Posted: 14 Nov 2014 07:16 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is considering a plan that would shield possibly around 5 million immigrants living in the country illegally from deportation as part of a broad set of executive actions that could be announced as early as next week, people familiar with the discussions say.

Loophole for Nazis finally closed Posted: 13 Nov 2014 12:50 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation Thursday to strip suspected Nazi war criminals of their Social Security benefits, insisting American taxpayers should not be underwriting the retirement of anyone who participated in the Third Reich's atrocities.

Tough decision for comet scientists Posted: 14 Nov 2014 07:03 AM PST Before their probe's batteries run out, scientists must decide on a risky procedure .

Surgeon with Ebola coming to US for care Posted: 14 Nov 2014 08:49 AM PST FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — A surgeon working in Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola and will be flown Saturday to the United States for treatment, officials from Sierra Leone and the United States said.

Sources: Obama executive order to affect millions of immigrants Posted: 13 Nov 2014 11:16 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is poised to act soon to unveil a series of executive actions on immigration that will shield possibly around 5 million immigrants living in the country illegally from deportation, according to advocates in touch with the White House.

U.S. seeks to ease influx of Central American child migrants Posted: 14 Nov 2014 10:53 AM PST By Anna Yukhananov and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington will allow some children in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to apply for refugee status from their home countries, Vice President Joe Biden announced on Friday, in a bid to stem an exodus of undocumented migrants to the U.S. border through Mexico. The program only applies to children whose parents are legal residents of the United States. But Biden said it should provide an alternative for children making the "harrowing" journey alone from Central America in order to join their parents. ...

Reviews of U.S. nuclear forces call for changes Posted: 14 Nov 2014 07:25 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Reviews of the U.S. nuclear arsenal show significant changes are needed to ensure the security and effectiveness of the force, a Defense Department report said on Friday. The reviews, which Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel ordered after a series of incidents involving nuclear personnel, included more than 100 recommendations to improve the nuclear forces. Hagel told a Pentagon news conference the reviews found systematic problems that could "undermine the safety, security and effectiveness" of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. ...

U.S. court rejects religious objection to Obamacare contraception deal Posted: 14 Nov 2014 08:46 AM PST By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a win for the Obama administration on insurance coverage for contraception under Obamacare, a U.S. appeals court on Friday ruled that Catholic non-profit groups' religious rights were not violated by a compromise already achieved on the volatile issue. Catholic groups had sued over the compromise, saying they should not have to pay for or facilitate access to contraception or abortion, but a judge wrote in the ruling that under the compromise, "the regulations do not compel them to do that. ...

Missouri town told to prepare for worst Posted: 13 Nov 2014 12:50 PM PST Residents of a community near Ferguson are warned to stay close to their homes.

What is a lame-duck politician? And is it always a bad thing? Posted: 13 Nov 2014 11:03 AM PST There's been a lot of chatter about last week's Republican sweep in elections transforming President Obama as a lame duck — but what exactly does that term mean?

Trooper ambush suspect charged with terrorism Posted: 13 Nov 2014 04:49 PM PST The man accused of opening fire on a Pennsylvania State Police barracks admitted killing a trooper because he was dissatisfied with government and wanted to "wake people up," according to court documents filed Thursday that provided the first indication of a possible motive.

AP sources: IS, al-Qaida reach accord in Syria Posted: 13 Nov 2014 12:25 PM PST ISTANBUL (AP) — Militant leaders from the Islamic State group and al-Qaida gathered at a farm house in northern Syria last week and agreed on a plan to stop fighting each other and work together against their opponents, a high-level Syrian opposition official and a rebel commander have told The Associated Press.

Surprising findings about school lunches Posted: 13 Nov 2014 11:27 AM PST By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – In a study of three rural Virginia elementary schools, both packed and school lunches almost entirely met nutrition standards, but those packed at home tended to have more calories, fat and saturated fat. "We assumed there would be differences between school and packed lunch, but not such stark differences," said lead author Alisha R. Farris of the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. ...

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