Thursday, October 3, 2013

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Thursday, Oct 03, 2013 12:14 AM PDT
No end in sight as shutdown enters day three 
Thursday, Oct 03, 2013 12:14 AM PDT
 House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio walks to his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. The Republican-run House has rejected an effort by Democrats to force a quick end to the partial government shutdown. By a 227-197 vote Wednesday, the House rejected a move by Democrats aimed at forcing the House to vote on immediately reopening the government without clamping any restrictions on President Barack Obama's health care law. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)White House talks between President Obama and top lawmakers yield no signs of progress.
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NSA reveals more about its spying efforts at home 
Thursday, Oct 03, 2013 12:14 AM PDT
 National Intelligence Director James Clapper listens at left, as National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, before the Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act . U.S. intelligence officials say the government shutdown is seriously damaging the intelligence community's ability to guard against threats. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)WASHINGTON (AP) — Top U.S. intelligence officials are revealing more about their spying in an effort to defend the National Security Agency from charges that it has invaded the privacy of Americans on a mass scale. Yet the latest disclosure — the NSA tried to track Americans' cellphone locations — has only added to the concerns of lawmakers.
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New leak at crippled Fukushima nuclear plant 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 11:03 PM PDT
 Image provided by TEPCO on September 26, 2013 shows a broken silt fence (yellow floats) at the Fukushima nuclear power plantTokyo (AFP) - Another leak of radioactive water has been found at Fukushima, the plant's Japanese operator said Thursday, the latest setback for the troubled clean-up at the broken nuclear power station.
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NSA chief admits testing US cellphone tracking 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 09:03 PM PDT
 National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander pauses while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, before the Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. U.S. intelligence officials say the government shutdown is seriously damaging the intelligence community's ability to guard against threats. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)WASHINGTON (AP) — National Security Agency chief Gen. Keith Alexander revealed Wednesday that his spy agency once tested whether it could track Americans' cellphone locations, in addition to its practice of sweeping broad information about calls made.
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Suicide car bombing kills 15 people in Pakistan 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 11:09 PM PDT
 Map locates earthquake; 1c x 3 inches; 46.5 mm x 76 mm;PARACHINAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into the compound of a rival militant commander in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing 15 people, a government official said.
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US, Japan to deploy new radar, drones in next year 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 10:38 PM PDT
 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, second from left, Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera second from right, and Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, shake hands before the Japan-US 2+2 meeting in Tokyo, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, Pool)TOKYO (AP) — U.S. and Japanese officials said Thursday they will position a second early-warning radar in Japan within the next year and deploy new long-range surveillance drones to help monitor disputed islands in the East China Sea by next spring, moves that may well raise tensions again with China.
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Authorities: 8 killed in church bus crash in Tenn. 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 05:39 PM PDT
 Emergency personnel search the scene near a collision involving a bus on I-40, in Dandridge, Tenn, on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. A spokeswoman for Tennessee's Safety Department says there are multiple fatalities and injuries in an interstate bus crash between a passenger bus, a tractor-trailer and another vehicle. (AP Photo/The Knoxville News Sentinel, Michael Patrick)DANDRIDGE, Tenn. (AP) — A bus taking a church group home to North Carolina blew a tire, veered across a highway median and crashed into a sport utility vehicle and tractor-trailer Wednesday in a fiery wreck that killed eight people, authorities said.
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Gene scans solve mystery diseases in kids, adults 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 02:14 PM PDT
 This Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013 photo provided by Ashley Wonderly shows Cannon Collier, 4, in Georgetown, Texas. His parents, Lindsey and Brandon Collier searched for years for an answer to what was plaguing their son. "We weren't getting any answers and they were just all over the map on everything they were testing for." "It is a huge weight lifted off our shoulders" she said of testing at Baylor that found a rare muscle disorder. Genetic counselors said the problem was not likely to occur in other offspring, so the Colliers had a second child. Their 6-week-old daughter, Smith, is fine, and Cannon is being helped now by intensive physical therapy and other treatments. (AP Photo/Ashley Wonderly)They were mystery diseases that had stumped doctors for years — adults with strange symptoms and children with neurological problems, mental slowness or muscles too weak to let them stand. Now scientists say they were able to crack a quarter of these cases by decoding the patients' genes.
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APNewsBreak: Tesla says car fire began in battery 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 10:15 PM PDT
 FILE- In this Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, file photo, George Blankenship, Tesla Motors Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Ownership Experience speaks at media previews for the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. An Internet video of a fiery Tesla electric car near Seattle helped to push down the company's stock price Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)SEATTLE (AP) — A fire that destroyed a Tesla electric car near Seattle began in the vehicle's battery pack, officials said Wednesday, creating challenges for firefighters who tried to put out the flames.
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Jury rejects case against Jackson promoter 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 06:49 PM PDT
 FILE - In this April 27, 2011 file photo, Katherine Jackson poses for a portrait in Calabasas, Calif. A Los Angeles jury on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, rejected a negligence lawsuit by singer Michael Jackson's mother against AEG Live LLC that claimed the concert promoter was responsible for hiring the doctor convicted of causing her son's 2009 death. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — More than four years after Michael Jackson's death, a jury on Wednesday rejected the notion that the promoter of his ill-fated comeback concerts was linked to his demise, ending a long-running case that offered an unprecedented look into the singer's addiction struggles, concert preparations and his role as a parent.
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Novelist Tom Clancy a master of military thrillers 
Thursday, Oct 03, 2013 12:15 AM PDT
 This 2010 image released by G.P. Putnam Sons shows author Tom Clancy in Huntingtown, Md. Clancy, the bestselling author of "The Hunt for Red October" and other wildly successful technological thrillers, has died. He was 66. Penguin Group (USA) said Wednesday that Clancy died Tuesday in Baltimore. The publisher did not disclose a cause of death. (AP Photo/G.P. Putnam Sons, David Burnett)LOS ANGELES (AP) — With CIA analyst Jack Ryan, Tom Clancy created a character that spoke to audiences from both page and screen, representing the changing mood of a country facing growing geopolitical challenges.
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'Red October' novelist Tom Clancy dies at 66 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 02:29 PM PDT
 This 2010 image released by G.P. Putnam Sons shows author Tom Clancy in Huntingtown, Md. Clancy, the bestselling author of "The Hunt for Red October" and other wildly successful technological thrillers, has died. He was 66. Penguin Group (USA) said Wednesday that Clancy died Tuesday in Baltimore. The publisher did not disclose a cause of death. (AP Photo/G.P. Putnam Sons, David Burnett)NEW YORK (AP) — In 1985, a year after the Cold War thriller "The Hunt for Red October" came out, author Tom Clancy was invited to lunch at the Reagan White House, where he was questioned by Navy Secretary John Lehman.
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Cobb, Rays roll 4-0 over Indians in AL wild card 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 09:17 PM PDT
 Tampa Bay Rays starting pitcher Alex Cobb winds up against the Cleveland Indians in the first inning of the AL wild-card baseball playoff game Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Phil Long)CLEVELAND (AP) — The Tampa Bay Rays' road show rolls on. Next stop: Boston.
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10 Things to Know for Thursday 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 06:11 PM PDT
 House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., left, with Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks to reporters following a meeting with President Barack Obama and the Republican leadership at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. Obama and congressional leaders met at the White House on the second day of a partial government shutdown. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Thursday:
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Berlusconi weakened by political about-face 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 01:42 PM PDT
 People of Freedom party leader Silvio Berlusconi covers his face as he speaks on a mobile phone after delivering his speech at the Senate, in Rome, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. Berlusconi acknowledged defeat Wednesday and announced he would support the government of Premier Enrico Letta, a stunning about-face on the Senate floor after defections in his party robbed him of the backing he needed to bring down the left-right coalition government. It was a major setback for Berlusconi, who had demanded his five Cabinet ministers quit the government and bring it down, incensed at a vote planned Friday that could strip him of his Senate seat following his tax fraud conviction and four-year prison sentence. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)MILAN (AP) — Silvio Berlusconi's failed attempt to topple the Italian government has left him weaker than ever, zapped of the aura of invincibility that has surrounded him for two decades as he faces the possible loss of his Senate seat and a ban from politics.
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Pressure mounts to fix health insurance exchanges 
Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 03:49 PM PDT
 Debora Costa right, tries to sign up for insurance coverage for her two children, including 2-year-old Victoria, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, with help from Champaign Urbana Public Health District employee Alice Cronenberg in Champaign, Ill. Costa, who recently moved to Illinois from Brazil with her graduate-student husband and children, found after about 10 minutes that she didn't have all the information she would need to sign up. (AP Photo/David Mercer)The pressure is on for the federal government and states running their own health insurance exchanges to get the systems up and running after overloaded websites and jammed phone lines frustrated consumers for a second day as they tried to sign up for coverage using the new marketplaces.
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