| Investigators probe deadly Russian plane crash in Egypt Posted: 31 Oct 2015 11:50 PM PDT  Cairo and Moscow reject a claim from an Islamist group that it downed the aircraft.
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| Prices, politics challenge Obamacare's 3rd sign-up season Posted: 01 Nov 2015 08:02 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The government's insurance website is faster and easier to use, but as a third sign-up season gets underway, President Barack Obama's health care law is approaching limits.
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| Paul Ryan: It would be 'ridiculous' to work with Obama on immigration Posted: 01 Nov 2015 09:43 AM PST  By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan on Sunday ruled out working with President Barack Obama on overhauling U.S. immigration policy, saying it would be "a ridiculous notion" to pursue legislation because Obama cannot be trusted on the issue. Republicans have fought Obama's unilateral steps that bypassed a gridlocked Congress to try to shield millions of illegal immigrants from deportation. Obama's executive orders, announced last November but put on hold by the courts, would let up to 4.7 million illegal immigrants stay without threat of deportation.
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| U.S. Navy salvage team seeking to confirm wreckage of sunken El Faro Posted: 01 Nov 2015 10:27 AM PST  By David Adams MIAMI (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy salvage team was preparing on Sunday to launch a remotely operated submersible to confirm that wreckage discovered near the Bahamas was that of the cargo ship El Faro, lost in a hurricane last month along with its 33 crew members. The team is seeking to retrieve the ship's voyage data recorder, similar to an airplane's black box, as part of an investigation into what caused the ship to sink, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The cargo ship's owner Tote Inc. has been hit with four lawsuits filed by relatives of the crew, alleging the ship was not seaworthy and should have changed course to avoid Hurricane Joaquin.
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| Ex-N.Y. legislative leaders facing U.S. corruption trials Posted: 01 Nov 2015 10:12 AM PST  Former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, long one of the state's most powerful lawmakers, goes on trial this week on charges that he used his office to collect millions of dollars in kickbacks and bribes. Dean Skelos, former Senate majority leader, faces his own criminal trial on Nov. 16. Together with Governor Andrew Cuomo, Silver, a Democrat, and Skelos, a Republican, wielded virtually absolute control in Albany over everything from the state budget to key legislation.
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| Texas storms kill at least six, bring torrential rains Posted: 31 Oct 2015 06:22 PM PDT  By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - At least six people have died in Texas in storms that lashed parts of the state with heavy rains, causing flooding and the cancellation of dozens of flights as twisters were reported near Houston, authorities said on Saturday. A day after tornadoes ripped through buildings outside San Antonio and heavy rains swelled some rivers near Austin to record levels, the National Weather Service reported an apparent twister south of Houston in Brazoria County early on Saturday that damaged 25 trailer homes near the town of Alvin. The Weather Service said it had tracked other possible twisters on Saturday in or near La Porte and Friendswood, near Houston.
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| East German who announced Berlin Wall opening dies at 86 Posted: 01 Nov 2015 07:52 AM PST  BERLIN (AP) — Guenter Schabowski, the senior East German official whose cryptic announcement that the communist country was opening its fortified border precipitated the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, died Sunday at 86.
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| Police say gunman kills 3 in downtown Colorado Springs Posted: 31 Oct 2015 03:06 PM PDT  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A man marching down the street shot and killed three people on Saturday, before being fatally shot in a gunbattle with police, authorities and witnesses said.
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| Storms, tornadoes lash Texas; death toll rises to 6 Posted: 31 Oct 2015 03:16 PM PDT  HOUSTON (AP) — The death toll rose to six in Texas as more bodies were recovered on Saturday after another band of strong storms and heavy rain spawned three tornadoes and dangerous flooding in the waterlogged state.
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| S. Korea, Japan, China leaders agree to mend strained ties Posted: 01 Nov 2015 02:07 AM PST  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The biggest result of the first meeting of South Korean, Chinese and Japanese leaders in more than three years? More meetings.
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