| Navy secretary's jaw-dropping travel bill Posted: 18 Nov 2014 10:45 AM PST  Navy Secretary Ray Mabus's travel costs are staggering, and taxpayer-funded.
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| Hong Kong protesters break into legislature as tensions rise again Posted: 18 Nov 2014 11:02 AM PST  By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - A small group of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters broke into the city's legislature via a side door early on Wednesday, and police stopped others storming the building as tensions jumped following a period of calm. The incident came just hours after court bailiffs managed to clear part of a protest camp in the heart of the city that has been occupied by pro-democracy demonstrators for nearly two months, while leaving most of the main protest site intact. ...
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| Fracking to be permitted in GW National Forest Posted: 18 Nov 2014 11:18 AM PST  Environmentalists and energy boosters alike welcomed a federal compromise announced Tuesday that will allow fracking in the largest national forest in the eastern United States, but make most of its woods ...
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| German auction house putting Hitler watercolor on market Posted: 18 Nov 2014 09:29 AM PST  NUREMBERG, Germany, Nov 18 (Reuters) - A 1914 watercolour by Adolf Hitler to be auctioned on Saturday could fetch up to 50,000 euros ($62,685) given strong global interest, a German auction house chief said on Tuesday. Auctioneer Kathrin Weidler said the painting entitled "Standesamt und Altes Rathaus Muenchen" (Civil Registry Office and Old Town Hall of Munich) is one of about 2,000 works Hitler painted from about 1905 to 1920 as a struggling young artist. ...
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| Ex-billionaire goes on trial for insider trading Posted: 18 Nov 2014 09:26 AM PST  By Marta Nogueira RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Eike Batista, once Brazil's richest man, arrived at a Rio de Janeiro courthouse on Tuesday for trial on charges of insider trading in the run up to the bankruptcy of his oil firm OGX, the largest bankruptcy in Latin American history. The flamboyant entrepreneur, who once parked his sports car in his living room and married a Playboy cover girl, remained silent as he arrived in court to take a front row seat. Dressed in a gray pinstripe suit and light blue tie, he was surrounded by four lawyers. ...
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| Oxford's word of the year may surprise you Posted: 18 Nov 2014 03:46 AM PST  'Bae' and 'contactless' were the runners-up.
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| Obama stakes final two years on climate change Posted: 18 Nov 2014 06:18 AM PST  With limited time still in power, the president looks to the environment.
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| Pelosi remains Democratic House minority leader Posted: 18 Nov 2014 11:23 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats re-elected Rep. Nancy Pelosi to another two-year term as House minority leader on Tuesday, two weeks after elections in which the party lost at least a dozen seats in the chamber.
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| Where will Charles Manson get married? Posted: 18 Nov 2014 07:04 AM PST  CORCORAN, Calif. (AP) — Mass murderer Charles Manson plans to marry a 26-year-old woman who left her Midwestern home and spent the past nine years trying to help exonerate him.
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| 3 Americans, 1 Briton killed in synagogue attack Posted: 18 Nov 2014 07:58 AM PST  Police say two Palestinians attacked worshippers in Jerusalem with knives, axes and guns.
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| Silicon Valley's rise as a financial political force, in charts and graphics Posted: 18 Nov 2014 02:01 AM PST  Crowdpac compiled data on which counties have given the most money to politics and created this animated graphic.
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| Plane crashes into Chicago home Posted: 18 Nov 2014 05:40 AM PST By Karen Brooks (Reuters) - A small cargo plane crashed into a home in Chicago early Tuesday, moments after the pilot had reported engine problems, authorities said. The occupants of the home escaped uninjured after the crash at 2:42 a.m. CST but Chicago police said they did not have information about potential injuries sustained by the pilot, who authorities said was the only occupant of the plane. ... |
| 'Serious military buildup' in Ukraine Posted: 18 Nov 2014 05:00 AM PST  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg denounced on Tuesday what he called a serious Russian military buildup both inside Ukraine and on the Russian side of the border and urged Moscow to pull back its troops. Stoltenberg said NATO saw movement of troops, equipment, tanks, artillery and also of advanced air defense systems in violation of a ceasefire agreement. Russia denies providing arms or troops to support a separatist pro-Russian rebellion in eastern Ukraine, which began after the removal of a Kremlin-oriented Ukrainian president by mass protests in February. ...
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| Japan's Abe calls snap election, puts off tax hike Posted: 18 Nov 2014 04:00 AM PST  TOKYO (AP) — Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called a snap election for December and put off a sales tax hike planned for next year, seeking a renewed mandate for his all-or-nothing policies to end two decades of economic stagnation.
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| National Guard prepares for more Ferguson unrest Posted: 18 Nov 2014 05:49 AM PST  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — As a grand jury weighs possible criminal charges against the police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown, Missouri's governor has again activated the National Guard in an effort to avoid more unrest in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.
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| GOP vows to pass Keystone _ later if not now Posted: 18 Nov 2014 11:01 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama doesn't support a Senate push to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Tuesday, hours before a scheduled vote. Republican leaders promised to take it up again next year if the Senate fails to advance the measure, or if Obama vetoes it.
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| As Missouri awaits decision on police shooting, National Guard called in Posted: 18 Nov 2014 07:28 AM PST  By Scott Malone FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - Troops from the Missouri National Guard prepared to deploy around Ferguson on Tuesday as the city awaits a grand jury's decision on whether to indict a white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager in August. Governor Jay Nixon has declared a state of emergency in Missouri but said troops would play a backup role to police in response to any protests that develop after the decision. People around St. Louis are braced for a possible new wave of protests similar to those that followed the Aug. ...
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| Keystone XL chances dim in Senate as King says 'no' Posted: 18 Nov 2014 09:59 AM PST  By Timothy Gardner and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Keystone XL supporters in the U.S. Senate faced tough odds for passing a bill to approve the oil pipeline from Canada on Tuesday after one lawmaker they hoped might be a "yes" said he would vote against the project. "Congress is not – nor should it be – in the business of legislating the approval or disapproval of a construction project," Senator Angus King, an independent from Maine, said in a news release. ...
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| NFL suspends Vikings' Peterson over 'abusive discipline' of son Posted: 18 Nov 2014 07:27 AM PST  By Steve Ginsburg WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson was suspended without pay for at least the remainder of the 2014 season by the NFL on Tuesday for committing an "incident of abusive discipline" on his 4-year-old son. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in announcing the suspension that Peterson had shown no meaningful remorse over the incident. ...
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| Islamic State beheading videos might now be backfiring Posted: 17 Nov 2014 03:42 PM PST  Beyond its barbarity, the latest beheading video from the Islamic State offers hints of an organization in transition and perhaps under duress.
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| Toyota to start sales of fuel cell car next month Posted: 17 Nov 2014 11:18 PM PST  TOKYO (AP) — There will only be a few hundred, and they won't be cheap, but Toyota is about to take its first small step into the unproven market for emissions-free, hydrogen-powered vehicles.
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| Keystone Senate vote hangs in balance after Obama remarks Posted: 17 Nov 2014 03:36 PM PST  By Timothy Gardner and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supporters of the Keystone XL pipeline in the U.S. Senate scrambled on Monday to gather one last vote to pass a bill that authorizes the project that would help send Canadian oil to the U.S. Gulf, a task that became harder after President Barack Obama made his toughest comments yet on the topic. Momentum appeared to be going against the controversial pipeline as Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia told reporters late on Monday that he would vote against it on Tuesday. ...
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| Good news for Madoff victims Posted: 17 Nov 2014 11:34 AM PST  Former customers continue to slowly recoup piece of their lost fortunes.
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| Missouri governor declares state of emergency ahead of ruling on Ferguson shooting Posted: 17 Nov 2014 05:00 PM PST  By Scott Malone FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - Missouri's governor declared a state of emergency on Monday and authorized the state's National Guard to support police in case of violence after a grand jury decides whether to indict a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager. "Our goal here is to keep the peace and allow folks' voices to be heard," Governor Jay Nixon told reporters on a teleconference. "People need to feel safe and to achieve those goals, we need to be prepared." The order also puts the St. ...
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