Obama to shield up to 5 million immigrants from deportation

Obama to shield up to 5 million immigrants from deportation
Arkansas Governor to pardon his own son
Australians bury heads in sand to mock government
India doctor arrested, denies role in women deaths
Matt Bai: Challenging inequality, the Uber way
'Unprecedented' step in fight against Ebola
France to Israel: Stop building
Space agency: Comet lander ends up in cliff shadow
Immigration, Keystone top first day of lame duck
Grand jury testimony in black Missouri teen's slaying nearly done: attorney
Florida to execute man who killed wife and stepdaughter in 1992

Posted: 13 Nov 2014 10:17 AM PST

Reports indicate that the President is planning a massive immigration overhaul.

Arkansas Governor to pardon his own son

Posted: 13 Nov 2014 01:15 AM PST

Outgoing Gov. Mike Beebe is getting rid of his son's felony conviction.

Australians bury heads in sand to mock government

Posted: 13 Nov 2014 02:46 AM PST

More than 400 protesters sent a big climate change message.

India doctor arrested, denies role in women deaths

Posted: 13 Nov 2014 07:24 AM PST

NEW DELHI (AP) — The doctor who conducted sterilization procedures after which 13 women died in central India was arrested, but insisted he didn't do anything wrong — even though he said he used to perform up to 10 times more surgeries a day than allowed.

Matt Bai: Challenging inequality, the Uber way

Posted: 13 Nov 2014 02:37 AM PST

A business venture called Aspiration has the mission of giving middle-income families access to the same variety of investment vehicles that richer Americans have. Trying to democratize Wall Street might be a better strategy than sitting around and railing against it. Aspiration

'Unprecedented' step in fight against Ebola

Posted: 13 Nov 2014 07:08 AM PST

Doctors Without Borders takes a new step in the fight against the virus.

France to Israel: Stop building

Posted: 13 Nov 2014 10:07 AM PST

France is wary of Israel 's desire to build 200 new settlements in East Jerusalem.

Space agency: Comet lander ends up in cliff shadow

Posted: 13 Nov 2014 08:39 AM PST

BERLIN (AP) — Europe's comet lander Philae has come to rest in the shadow of a cliff, posing a potential problem for its solar panels, scientists said Thursday as they published the first image ever taken from the surface of a comet.

Immigration, Keystone top first day of lame duck

Posted: 13 Nov 2014 09:36 AM PST

Lawmakers return to a Capitol where results of last week's GOP rout are still sinking in.

Grand jury testimony in black Missouri teen's slaying nearly done: attorney

Posted: 13 Nov 2014 08:33 AM PST

By Scott Malone CLAYTON Mo. (Reuters) - The grand jury considering whether to charge a white Missouri police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teen in August appears to be approaching the end of its process, lawyers for the family said on Thursday. A private pathologist hired by the family of 18-year-old Michael Brown was to testify on Thursday after the grand jury, which meets in secret, asked to hear from him and may be one of its final witnesses, attorney Anthony Gray said. ...

Florida to execute man who killed wife and stepdaughter in 1992

Posted: 13 Nov 2014 10:48 AM PST

By Bill Cotterell TALLAHASSEE Fla. (Reuters) - A man convicted of fatally shooting his sleeping wife, then raping and murdering her 10-year-old daughter, was scheduled to die by injection Thursday evening at Florida State Prison after spending almost half his life on death row. Attorneys for Chadwick Banks, 43, unsuccessfully challenged the state's lethal-injection methods and argued that his post-conviction legal representation was inadequate. Banks, shot his sleeping wife, Cassandra Banks, at their mobile home near Quincy in north Florida in 1992. ...