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| Bill Clinton: Chelsea would make a great president Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 06:40 AM PDT  Forget Hillary. Bill Clinton thinks Chelsea would make a better president — at least in the long run. Full Story | Top |
| For some, a path to student loan forgiveness Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 03:09 PM PDT Wish you could make your student loans disappear? Student loan forgiveness programs can make it happen, but there's a problem. "There needs to be more awareness about these programs," says Betsy ... Full Story | Top |
| Climber finds treasure trove off Mont Blanc Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 04:17 AM PDT  Albertville (France) (AFP) - A French climber scaling a glacier off Mont Blanc got more than satisfaction for his efforts when he stumbled across a treasure trove of emeralds, rubies and sapphires that had been buried for decades. Full Story | Top |
| Guinness-fueled 'holiday' troubles many in Ireland Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 06:59 AM PDT  Ireland's love affair with pub and pint is sparking national soul-searching as never before because of an unofficial holiday dreamed up by Guinness. Thursday's celebrations of Arthur's Day, honoring the ... Full Story | Top |
| Health care exchanges open Tuesday: What you need to know Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 05:36 AM PDT On Tuesday, the health insurance exchanges that are a cornerstone of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act will open for the first time, and the White House expects 7 million uninsured people to sign up during the six-month enrollment period. Full Story | Top |
| Silver "Obamacare" plan costs $328 a month Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 07:24 AM PDT  Premiums in Florida for a mid-range health insurance plan under the Affordable Care Act will be $328 a month on average and will vary based on where a buyer lives, according to federal figures released ... Full Story | Top |
| Iran's Rouhani Calls for Destruction of All Nukes Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 03:20 PM PDT  Iranian President Urges Israel to Join Non-Proliferation Treaty Full Story | Top |
| Interpol issues alert for British terror widow Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 02:10 PM PDT  LONDON (AP) — The tabloids call her "the white widow," a British-born Muslim convert who was married to one of the suicide bombers in the 2005 attack on London's transit system. And for days now, the British media have been rife with speculation she took part in the terrorist takeover at a Nairobi shopping mall. Full Story | Top |
| Republicans bet that Obama is bluffing on debt ceiling Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 09:46 AM PDT  Both parties dig in their heels as debt ceiling deadline looms Full Story | Top |
| Bill Gates: Control-Alt-Delete was a mistake Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 08:20 AM PDT  The Microsoft co-founder says the puzzling key combination used to access the login screen on personal computers was a mistake. Full Story | Top |
| Republican infighting on full display on U.S. Senate floor Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 04:44 PM PDT  By Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican infighting took a nasty turn in the U.S. Senate on Thursday with Senator Bob Corker accusing fellow conservative Ted Cruz of using the looming fiscal deadline for self-promotion and to endear himself further with Tea Party groups. Congress has four days left to pass a spending bill to keep the government running. But traditional arguments between Republicans and Democrats, and bickering within the Republican Party have delayed action for days. ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama has 40 months left in office: Nine scenarios on his future Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 06:41 AM PDT  In April, with his domestic agenda stymied in Congress, Barack Obama tried to channel Mark Twain when he declared, "Rumors of my demise may be a little exaggerated at this point." Full Story | Top |
| Special envoy Russ Feingold calls on Rwanda to end its support of M23 rebels in Congo Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 04:12 AM PDT Politics Confidential Russ Feingold, the former senator and a leading progressive, is now taking on an entirely different role as the U.S. special envoy charged with helping to find a solution to one of the deadliest conflicts in modern times: the two-decades-long war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Shortly after returning from his [...] Full Story | Top |
| Family Caught Selling Stolen Church Goods in Front Yard Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 11:57 AM PDT  Three members of a Louisiana family have been arrested after they allegedly stole items from a church and sold them at a yard sale at their nearby home. Clariese Jones, Paul Mikell and their daughter Olivia Jones of Slidell, La., admitted to repeatedly burglarizing the... Full Story | Top |
| Curiosity Rover Makes Big Water Discovery in Mars Dirt, a 'Wow Moment' Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 05:04 PM PDT  Future Mars explorers may be able to get all the water they need out of the red dirt beneath their boots, a new study suggests. Full Story | Top |
| Inside Look at Kate Gosselin’s Post-Reality Show Life Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 09:33 AM PDT Kate Gosselin is back, this time with a cookbook, and she invited Katie Couric over to her Pennsylvania home to get an inside look at what her life is like these days. Hint: it included pizza and tug of war. "Can I just say, I've never been so exhausted in my life," Katie said, after [...] Full Story | Top |
| Stocks rise on encouraging reports on the economy Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 07:00 AM PDT Stocks advanced in early trading after unemployment claims fell close to their lowest level in six years and a new data that showed economic growth accelerated in the third quarter. The Standard & Poor's ... Full Story | Top |
| Italian pasta baron's anti-gay comment prompts boycott call Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 08:23 AM PDT ROME (Reuters) - Guido Barilla, chairman of the world's leading pasta manufacturer, prompted calls for a consumer boycott on Thursday after telling Italian radio his company would never use a gay family in its advertising. "I would never do (a commercial) with a homosexual family, not for lack of respect but because we don't agree with them. Ours is a classic family where the woman plays a fundamental role," Barilla, 55, said in an interview with Radio 24 on Wednesday. ... Full Story | Top |
| Sources: Wendy Davis running for Texas governor Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 04:07 PM PDT  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democrat Wendy Davis, a state senator who catapulted to national prominence this summer with a filibuster over access to abortion, is running for Texas governor. Full Story | Top |
| Judge tosses some claims in Earhart wreckage case Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 03:53 AM PDT It's been more than 75 years since aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra vanished somewhere over the South Pacific yet the mystery of her disappearance made waves Wednesday halfway around ... Full Story | Top |
| In 21 hours, Cruz talks Obamacare in GOP terms Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 03:44 AM PDT  Stunt or principled stand, Sen. Ted Cruz's talkathon against Obamacare scored 21 hours of cable television time to describe the president's signature law in the most conservative terms. By noon Wednesday ... Full Story | Top |
| Deal reached on UN resolution on Syria weapons Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 09:05 PM PDT  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The five permanent members of the deeply divided U.N. Security Council reached agreement Thursday on a resolution to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons, a major step in taking the most controversial weapon off the battlefield of the world's deadliest ongoing conflict. Full Story | Top |
| On GOP demands, White House cracks Republican wish list only missing a ‘birther bill' Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 11:33 AM PDT  The White House on Thursday dismissed Republican demands in return for raising the country's debt limit as a partisan wish list that is only missing a "birther bill." Obama says he won't negotiate. Full Story | Top |
| Man pretends to be police officer in front of police officer Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 12:36 PM PDT  Impersonating a police officer is always a case of Bad Idea Jeans. Even worse: impersonating a police officer in front of an actual police officer. Full Story | Top |
| So You Want to Be a Country Star? Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 09:28 AM PDT It's nine o'clock on a school night. But for Lennon and Maisy Stella, it's time to go to work. It's backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, just moments away from showtime, with two of country music's unlikely new stars. The 14- and 9-year-old sisters take center stage, as the youngest stars of television's "Nashville," an [...] Full Story | Top |
| Mariska Hargitay: from Actress to Activist Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 12:05 PM PDT Mariska Hargitay plays a Special Victims Unit detective on TV, but life started imitating art when she started receiving letters from victims of abuse. "I was getting fan mail from survivors of sexual assault," she said, "These letters just started pouring in every day -- and I'm feeling like why isn't everyone talking about this?" [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama mocks GOP for 'crazy' Obamacare predictions Thursday, Sep 26, 2013 10:41 AM PDT  LARGO, Maryland (AP) — With just five days to go before Americans can begin signing up for health care under his signature law, President Barack Obama on Thursday ridiculed Republican opponents for "crazy" doomsday predictions of the impact and forecast that even those who didn't vote for him are going to enroll. Full Story | Top |
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