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Friday, Sep 27, 2013 08:42 AM PDT
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Sebelius: Health bill limited without Texas' help 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 08:42 AM PDT
Sebelius: Health bill limited without Texas' helpU.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius visited Texas for the fifth time in two months Thursday to tout the benefits of the federal health care overhaul, but she acknowledged that many ...
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Kenyan Hero's Harrowing Tale of Rescues in Mall Massacre 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 06:41 AM PDT
Kenyan Hero's Harrowing Tale of Rescues in Mall MassacreBy ALEXANDER MARQUARDT NAIROBI, Kenya–In one of the most memorable images to emerge from inside the Nairobi mall attacked last weekend by Islamic extremists, a 4-year-old girl is seen running toward a man who is reaching out a hand to pull her to safety. The...
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Goodwill Drops Theft Charges Against Teen Who Gave Customer Discounts 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 02:45 PM PDT
Goodwill Drops Theft Charges Against Teen Who Gave Customer DiscountsA Goodwill store in Naples, Fla., reversed course today and decided to drop grand theft charges against a teen employee who had given discounts to poor customers. The decision came four days after the store had fired Andrew Anderson, 19, and had him arrested for...
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Capitol Hill’s 40 under 40: Will youth invasion change Washington? 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 04:16 AM PDT
Top Line Can youth and relative inexperience be virtues? Illinois Republican Aaron Schock and Hawaii Democrat Tulsi Gabbard are making the case that they can be – at least when it comes to getting things done on Capitol Hill. The two members of Congress, both in their thirties, are recruiting Congress' 40 members under the [...]
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Cruz, Lee delay votes on spending bill 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 08:38 AM PDT
Cruz, Lee delay votes on spending billTed Cruz and Mike Lee are the odd men out in the Senate — to both Republicans and Democrats. The GOP's frustration with the tea party conservatives was on full display Thursday in a remarkable, rhetorical ...
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Obama has historic call with Iran leader, warns GOP about shutdown 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 01:08 PM PDT
Republicans must not "burn the house down," the president says.
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Obama: Obamacare critics are 'desperate' fat-cat Fox News watchers 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 04:04 AM PDT
Second term slump for Obama, or worse?The White House goes nuclear in Affordable Care Act battle.
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Record Swimmer Diana Nyad’s Next Horizon: Broadway! 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 03:16 PM PDT
Diana Nyad has "Broadway lights" on her mind. The celebrated endurance swimmer, who, after four failed attempts over 35 years, completed her long journey – in 52 hours, 54 minutes and 18 seconds – from the rocky shoreline of Havana, Cuba, to Key West, Fla., on Labor Day, is eyeing a new horizon. "I'm a [...]
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Obama's no-negotiation stance setting new tone 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 03:00 PM PDT
President Barack Obama speaks about the Affordable Care Act, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013, at Prince George's Community College in Largo, Md. The president is promoting the benefits of his health care law before new insurance exchanges open for business next week. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — This time, President Barack Obama says, he's not budging. This is the confrontational Obama, the "Make my day" president, betting Republicans blink to avoid a government shutdown or a first-ever default of the nation's debts.
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Ahead of talks, feds find $100M for broke Detroit 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 04:35 AM PDT
Ahead of talks, feds find $100M for broke DetroitThe federal fingerprint in efforts to fix Detroit is growing larger as the Obama administration has found millions of dollars in grant money to help the bankrupt city hire more police and firefighters, ...
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Senate puts Obamacare funding back into spending bill and sends to House Republicans 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 11:03 AM PDT
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., left, confers with Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013, as Senate Democratic leaders told reporters that conservative Republicans are to blame for holding up a stopgap spending bill to keep the government running. Senate passage of the spending bill — stripped of the "Obamacare" provision — was expected no later than Saturday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)With a shutdown looming, House Republicans must respond before Tuesday
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25 Republican senators reject Cruz strategy to defund Obamacare 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 11:56 AM PDT
U.S. Senator Cruz reacts to a question after remarks on federal budget spending votes in WashingtonThe Senate rejects Cruz, but the fight isn't over.
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Preparing for shutdown, government plans furloughs 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 02:27 PM PDT
Preparing for shutdown, government plans furloughsMore than a third of federal workers would be told to stay home if the government shuts down, forcing the closure of national parks from California to Maine and all the Smithsonian museums. Low-to-moderate ...
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Climate panel: warming 'extremely likely' man-made 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 08:47 AM PDT
Climate panel: warming 'extremely likely' man-madeScientists now believe it's "extremely likely" that human activity is the dominant cause of global warming, a long-term trend that is clear despite a recent plateau in the temperatures, an international ...
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Official says Kenyan forces caused mall collapse 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 11:23 AM PDT
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's military caused the massive collapse of three floors of Nairobi's Westgate Mall during the terrorist siege in which at least 67 people died, a top-ranking government official said Friday.
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Brazil family fights to keep house-trained tigers 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 04:39 PM PDT
MARINGA, Brazil (AP) — Dan slurped desperately on his pink nursing bottle and spilled milk all over the place, while his brother Tom patiently waited to take a swim in the family pool.
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SAT scores continue decline; 57 percent of incoming freshmen not ready for college 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 10:13 AM PDT
The annual SAT scores have been released to the public and show a continued decline in math and writing scores.
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US troops won't get paid during shutdown: Pentagon 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 03:30 PM PDT
A member of a military honor guard awaits an honor cordon ceremony at the Pentagon for meetings in Washington, DC, September 23, 2013Washington (AFP) - The US military's nearly 1.4 million troops will stay on the job in the case of a government shutdown but they will not get paid, the Pentagon said Friday.
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U.S. internal watchdog finds NSA workers spied on significant others 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 07:06 AM PDT
An undated aerial handout photo shows the National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters building in Fort Meade, MarylandBy Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least a dozen U.S. National Security Agency employees have abused secret surveillance programs in the past decade, most often to spy on their significant others, according to the latest findings of the agency's internal watchdog. In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee's top Republican, Charles Grassley, NSA Inspector General George Ellard outlined 12 instances of "intentional misuse" of the agency's intelligence gathering programs since January 1, 2003. ...
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'The Faces of Facebook' displays all of Facebook's 1.2 billion profile pics in one project 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 07:55 AM PDT
Faces of FacebookFind out what your FACE # is with this Facebook web project.
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Caught on Video: Heartwarming Moment Bystanders Save Fallen Man from Subway Tracks 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 09:42 AM PDT
Sometimes it takes a moments of high tension and potential danger to remind us just how good people can be, even to those they've never met. Such was the case in Boston on Wednesday, when a man's tumble onto subway tracks gave way to a harrowing rescue scene.
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Can the White House sell America on health care exchanges? 
Friday, Sep 27, 2013 09:32 AM PDT
The race to enroll Americans in the health insurance marketplaces established by President Barack Obama's 2010 health care law begins Tuesday. But the Obama administration has an uphill climb to explain what exactly the exchanges are.
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