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| Court reinstates most Texas abortion limits Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 08:34 PM PDT  Ruling means a third of the clinics that perform the procedure won't be able to do so. Full Story | Top |
| Kerry: U.S. spying 'reached too far' in some cases Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 11:40 PM PDT  The United States has said in some cases its surveillance program has gone too far, an unprecedented admission in its tense row with Europe over US spying against allies. After 10 days of scandal with key European allies, a statement Thursday by Secretary of State John Kerry was the first to explicitly acknowledge overstepping by US intelligence. Kerry justified the surveillance in broad terms, citing the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the United States, as well as attacks in London, Madrid and elsewhere to argue that the US and other countries have had to come together to fight "extremism in the world that is hell-bent and determined to try to kill people and blow people up and attack governments." Full Story | Top |
| Did Obama consider dumping Biden for Clinton? Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 04:52 PM PDT  A new book claims that President Obama's advisers explored the possibility of replacing Joe Biden with Hillary Clinton on the president's re-election ticket. Full Story | Top |
| Ruling halts abortions at third of Texas' clinics Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 10:53 PM PDT AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A third of the abortion clinics in Texas can no longer perform the procedure starting Friday after a federal appeals court allowed most of the state's new abortion restrictions to take effect. Full Story | Top |
| Major oyster reef rebuilding begins on Texas coast Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 11:42 PM PDT  MATAGORDA, Texas (AP) — A deep sea oyster reef restoration being touted as the largest ever in the Gulf of Mexico began in an unlikely place: a quarry in landlocked Missouri. Full Story | Top |
| Chinese journalist tries to crowdfund his career Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 11:16 PM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — From his temporary home on a friend's sofa, Yin Yusheng hopes to craft a new kind of journalism in China, where the industry is widely seen as state-controlled and corrupt. He wants to make his readers the boss — and that includes paying his salary. Full Story | Top |
| Colorado voters deciding how to tax pot Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 11:05 PM PDT  DENVER (AP) — A pro-pot jingle in Colorado last year went like this: "Jobs for our people/Money for schools/Who could ask for more?" Nearly a year after Colorado legalized recreational weed, voters get the chance to decide exactly how much more — in taxes. Full Story | Top |
| Battle over biographies rages in Brazil Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 09:48 PM PDT  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's superstar singer Caetano Veloso fled to exile in London in 1969 after the country's military dictatorship censored and imprisoned him because of his catchy, anti-establishment anthems. Full Story | Top |
| Jerk or genius? Debate over Banksy's month of art Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 11:24 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The secretive street artist Banksy ended his self-announced monthlong residency in New York City with a final piece of graffiti, a $615,000 painting donated to charity and a debate: Is he a jerk or a genius? Full Story | Top |
| Dolphins beat Bengals 22-20 on OT safety Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 10:00 PM PDT  MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — With the Miami Dolphins needing any kind of score to end a four-game losing streak, two points were plenty. Full Story | Top |
| FAA eases rules on electronic devices on planes Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 02:32 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Airline passengers won't have to "turn off all electronic devices" anymore — they'll be able to read, work, play games, watch movies and listen to music from gate to gate under new guidelines from the Federal Aviation Administration. But they still can't talk on their cellphones through the flight. Full Story | Top |
| Israel strikes Russian weapons shipment in Syria Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 02:47 PM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli warplanes attacked a shipment of Russian missiles inside a Syrian government stronghold, officials said Thursday, a development that threatened to add another volatile layer to regional tensions from the Syrian civil war. Full Story | Top |
| US woman questions ticket for wearing Google Glass Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 10:54 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — An early adopter of Google's Internet-connected eyeglasses may soon become a guinea pig of a different sort. Full Story | Top |
| NY stop-frisk appeal could be over after election Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 11:11 PM PDT  New York (AP) — A federal appeals court block of a judge's ruling that found the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy discriminated against minorities may be short lived, depending on the outcome of next week's mayoral election. Full Story | Top |
| Court blocks ruling on NY police stop-frisk policy Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 07:03 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked a judge's ruling that found the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy discriminated against minorities, and it took the unusual step of removing her from the case, saying interviews she gave during the trial called her impartiality into question. Full Story | Top |
| Iraqi PM: Terror 'found a second chance' in Iraq Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 01:14 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Terrorists "found a second chance" to thrive in Iraq, the nation's prime minister said Thursday in asking for new U.S. aid to beat back a bloody insurgency that has been fueled by the neighboring Syrian civil war and the departure of American troops from Iraq two years ago. Full Story | Top |
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