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| Meteorologist vows never to fly again after seeing latest climate report Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 06:40 AM PDT  Meteorologist vows never to fly again after seeing latest climate report. Full Story | Top |
| Hot times during the Cold War: Close calls revealed in new book on U.S. nuclear arsenal Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 04:57 AM PDT Power Players There have been a handful of instances over the years in which nuclear weapons have come close to detonating in America. Such "broken arrow" events have never leveled entire towns or led to nuclear fallout, but a new book by the author of "Fast Food Nation" says they could have. "There's been a [...] Full Story | Top |
| Congress plunges nation into government shutdown Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 04:56 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law stalled a temporary funding bill, forcing about 800,000 federal workers off the job and suspending most non-essential federal programs and services. Full Story | Top |
| Republicans want to fund parts of the government, but that wouldn't end the shutdown Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 01:58 PM PDT  And the Senate rejected the plan anyway. Full Story | Top |
| Obama blasts ‘Republican shutdown,’ defends Obamacare Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 10:38 AM PDT  He compares Obamacare website to Apple. Full Story | Top |
| Ex-NBA player Tate George convicted of fraud Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 04:02 AM PDT  A former NBA player best known for his 1990 tournament buzzer-beater for the University of Connecticut was convicted Monday of four counts of federal wire fraud in a Ponzi scheme that netted him $2 million. ... Full Story | Top |
| Anthony Bourdain admits mistake on NM 'Frito pie' Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 03:51 AM PDT  Insults dished out by food critic Anthony Bourdain on an episode of CNN's "Parts Unknown" have stirred up outrage in New Mexico — and now he acknowledges that he was wrong. The sharp-tongued ... Full Story | Top |
| Icahn wants Apple to spend $150B buying its stock Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 02:59 PM PDT  Activist investor Carl Icahn is pressuring Apple to spend $150 billion buying back its own stock, a target that would more than double the amount that the company's board authorized in a previous attempt ... Full Story | Top |
| President Obama Urges GOP to Abandon 'Ideological Crusade,' End Shutdown Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 12:01 PM PDT Republicans and Democrats Are Far Away From a Resolution to End the Shutdown Full Story | Top |
| Slave descendants fighting tax hikes on Ga. coast Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 03:43 AM PDT Residents of one of the few remaining Gullah-Geechee communities on the Southeast coast opened new appeals Monday against soaring property values that brought them big tax hikes, fearful they could be ... Full Story | Top |
| All in a name: Jimmy Kimmel quizzes Americans on 'Obamacare' vs. Affordable Care Act Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 02:45 PM PDT It turns out more people support the 'Affordable Care Act' than 'Obamacare' even though they are the same thing. Full Story | Top |
| Poll: Americans reject GOP shutdown strategy Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 06:25 AM PDT  Republicans may be hurting brand one year before 2014 elections Full Story | Top |
| Federal workers get shutdown instructions Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 03:47 AM PDT  Federal workers will still have to report to work for about four hours Tuesday even though the government is shutting down. With no late deal averting the midnight Monday shutdown, several federal agencies ... Full Story | Top |
| Shut down? Hell no! say angry vets who storm barricades at D.C. memorial Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 10:00 AM PDT Veterans came to Washington to honor their own and refused to let the government shutdown keep them from visiting the federally managed World War II Memorial. Full Story | Top |
| Shutdown stories: How congressional quarreling is affecting us Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 12:09 PM PDT As the shutdown starts, Yahoo News is cataloging anecdotes Americans are sharing with us. Full Story | Top |
| From rapper to Raptor, Drake takes on new role Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 03:58 AM PDT  From rapper to Raptor, Drake already has one sweet perk with his new job. Go ahead, security. Just try and turn him away now from an NBA locker room. Drake no longer has to crash the party. Instead, he's ... Full Story | Top |
| Greenpeace crew in 'shock' in Russian jails Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 04:16 AM PDT Moscow (AFP) - Greenpeace crew members detained in Russian jails for two months over their open-sea protest against Arctic oil drilling are "close to shock" over their conditions, a rights activist said Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| For House Republicans, confrontation is safer than compromise Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 04:21 AM PDT  By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For most Republicans in the House of Representatives, the only greater peril than shutting down the federal government would have been fighting to keep it open. While a shutdown could hurt the Republican Party's ability to win the Senate next year or take the White House in 2016, that's not the concern of party members in the House, who led the push to pair continued government funding with measures that would delay President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law. ... Full Story | Top |
| In first day of U.S. shutdown, no sign how it will end Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 05:38 PM PDT  By Andy Sullivan and Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans came no closer to ending a standoff on Tuesday that has forced the first government shutdown in 17 years and thrown hundreds of thousands of federal employees out of work. As police cordoned off landmarks like the Lincoln Memorial and government agencies stopped cancer treatments and trade negotiations, Republicans in the House of Representatives moved to restore funding to national parks, veterans care and the District of Columbia. ... Full Story | Top |
| Vaccine Refusal Contributes to Whooping Cough Outbreaks Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 04:15 AM PDT The 2010 whooping cough outbreak in California may have been fueled, at least in part, by clusters of parents who refused to vaccinate their children, a new study suggests. Full Story | Top |
| The best shutdown tweets on Twitter Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 09:52 AM PDT  Reaction to the government shutdown on Twitter was both bitter and biting, many users pointing to visible signs, tweeting pictures from national parks and monuments closed as a result of the halt. Full Story | Top |
| Exclusive: Microsoft investors push for chairman Gates to step down Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 06:11 PM PDT By Nadia Damouni and Bill Rigby NEW YORK/SEATTLE (Reuters) - Three of the top 20 investors in Microsoft Corp are lobbying the board to press for Bill Gates to step down as chairman of the software company he co-founded 38 years ago, according to people familiar with matter. While Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer has been under pressure for years to improve the company's performance and share price, this appears to be the first time that major shareholders are taking aim at Gates, who remains one of the most respected and influential figures in technology. ... Full Story | Top |
| Frontier sold to ultra-cheap airline investor Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 01:58 PM PDT Frontier Airlines is being sold to William Franke, a pioneer of the cheap tickets and high fees airline business that has spread overseas and is growing in the U.S. Franke is the former chairman of Spirit ... Full Story | Top |
| NASA Finds Ingredient for Plastic on Saturn's Moon Titan Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 07:54 AM PDT  For the first time, a chemical essential for the creation of plastic on Earth has been found in a far-off part of the solar system: Saturn's largest Titan. Full Story | Top |
| Web traffic, glitches slow Obamacare exchanges launch Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 04:18 PM PDT  By David Morgan and Caroline Humer (Reuters) - Technical glitches and heavy internet traffic slowed Tuesday's launch of new online insurance exchanges at the heart of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform, showcasing the challenge of covering millions of uninsured Americans. The opening itself represented a victory for Obama's signature domestic policy achievement after years of attack from Republican foes and delays in building the technology infrastructure to support sites in 50 U.S. states. ... Full Story | Top |
| Israel ready to tackle nuclear Iran 'alone' Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 12:26 PM PDT  New York (AFP) - Israel is ready to act alone to stop Iran making a nuclear bomb, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday, in a warning against rushing into deals with Tehran's new leaders. Full Story | Top |
| Health insurance markets open; success to be seen Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 07:16 AM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — Online insurance marketplaces at the heart of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul struggled to handle the volume of consumers on Tuesday, the first day of a six-month open enrollment period. Full Story | Top |
| Constitution Check: Does the federal government have a constitutional duty to stay open? Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 07:00 AM PDT  Lyle Denniston looks at the question of a constitutional obligation to avoid a partial federal government shutdown, and how James Madison would view the situation Full Story | Top |
| Government powers down; Obama to address country Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 10:03 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday, forcing some 800,000 federal workers off the job as a protracted dispute over President Barack Obama's signature health care law reached the boiling point. Obama readied a midday statement to the nation while Democrats and Republicans at the Capitol blamed each other for the first shutdown in nearly two decades. Full Story | Top |
| 10,000 walrus come ashore in northwest Alaska Tuesday, Oct 01, 2013 12:58 PM PDT  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An estimated 10,000 walrus unable to find sea ice over shallow Arctic Ocean water have come ashore on Alaska's northwest coast. Full Story | Top |
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