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| Airlines promise a return to civility, for a fee Monday, Sep 30, 2013 03:20 PM PDT  Airlines are introducing a new bevy of fees, but this time passengers might actually like them. Unlike the first generation of charges which dinged fliers for once-free services like checking a bag, these ... Full Story | Top |
| She's gone: Woman quits via interpretive dance Monday, Sep 30, 2013 09:22 AM PDT Here's one way to quit a job. Full Story | Top |
| Federal government shuts down for the first time in 17 years as Congress continues to debate Monday, Sep 30, 2013 09:29 PM PDT  This is the first shut down of its kind since the Clinton era. Full Story | Top |
| Poll: More Americans would blame GOP for shutdown than Obama Monday, Sep 30, 2013 06:40 AM PDT  As finger-pointing on Capitol Hill continues on the eve of a possible government shutdown, a new national survey shows that more Americans would blame Republicans than President Barack Obama. Full Story | Top |
| Obama: Government shutdown 'entirely preventable' if House GOP drops demands Monday, Sep 30, 2013 02:21 PM PDT President says he hopes for "11th-hour" breakthrough. Full Story | Top |
| Obama’s community organizer roots pay off Monday, Sep 30, 2013 04:26 AM PDT Politics Confidential Former White House Director of Digital Strategy Macon Phillips sees potential for the White House to communicate effectively in even the darkest corners of the Internet. He says the infamous "Death Star" petition to the White House resulted in more than just a clever official White House response. "We put into our answer [...] Full Story | Top |
| Global study: World not ready for aging population Monday, Sep 30, 2013 08:04 PM PDT  The world is aging so fast that most countries are not prepared to support their swelling numbers of elderly people, according to a global study being issued Tuesday by the United Nations and an elder rights group. Full Story | Top |
| Fencing coach stops robbery in shopping center Monday, Sep 30, 2013 12:29 PM PDT Franco Scaramuzza pulled into a Bellevue shopping center in Nashville, Tennessee recently and witnessed a crime in the act. Full Story | Top |
| Shutdown impact: Tourists, homebuyers hit quickly Monday, Sep 30, 2013 01:27 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A government shutdown would have far-reaching consequences for some, but minimal impact on others. Full Story | Top |
| NYC inmate almost as costly as Ivy League tuition Monday, Sep 30, 2013 03:17 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — New York is indeed an expensive place, but experts say that alone doesn't explain a recent report that found the city's annual cost per inmate was $167,731 last year — nearly as much as it costs to pay for four years of tuition at an Ivy League university. Full Story | Top |
| Justice Dept to sue North Carolina over voter law Monday, Sep 30, 2013 09:12 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder says the Justice Department will sue the state of North Carolina for alleged racial discrimination over tough new voting rules. Full Story | Top |
| Countdown: GOP unity frays as shutdown grows near Monday, Sep 30, 2013 06:26 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A threatened government shutdown imminent, House Republicans scaled back their demands to delay the nation's health care law Monday night as the price for essential federal funding, but President Barack Obama and Democrats rejected the proposals as quickly as they were made. Full Story | Top |
| Obamacare dispute sends gov't to brink of shutdown Monday, Sep 30, 2013 09:18 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Compromise elusive, Republicans and Democrats engaged in finger-pointing Monday just hours before the first government shutdown in 17 years, driven by an intractable budget dispute over President Barack Obama's signature health care law. Full Story | Top |
| Cooking for 34: Ann Romney’s Food Brings the Family Together Monday, Sep 30, 2013 06:43 AM PDT It's been almost a year since Ann Romney stepped out of the political spotlight with her husband, at the culmination of the 2012 presidential election – so does she miss it? "Not. At. All." she answered, without a beat. On her life since the glare of the campaign trail, "It's wonderful actually, I have to [...] Full Story | Top |
| Kitten refuses to let go of pizza Monday, Sep 30, 2013 11:38 AM PDT An adorable kitten with a penchant for stealing pizza was caught red-pawed last week when her owner shot a short video of the wide-eyed feline clinging to a stolen slice. Full Story | Top |
| No survivors expected in fiery Calif. jet crash Monday, Sep 30, 2013 09:57 AM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — Investigators awaited the arrival of a crane Monday at a Southern California airport where a private jet crashed into a hangar after landing, but they did not expect to find any survivors on the flight from Idaho, officials said. Full Story | Top |
| Congress misses deadline for averting shutdown Monday, Sep 30, 2013 09:05 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has missed the deadline for averting the first partial government shutdown in 17 years. Full Story | Top |
| Health law challenge threatens government shutdown Monday, Sep 30, 2013 01:50 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A conservative challenge to the president's health care law has the federal government teetering on the brink of a partial shutdown. Full Story | Top |
| Obama: ‘Not at all’ resigned to government shutdown Monday, Sep 30, 2013 10:28 AM PDT  He says he'll talk "today, tomorrow and the next day" to congressional leaders Full Story | Top |
| John McAfee wants to sell you a $100 gadget that blocks the NSA Monday, Sep 30, 2013 04:17 AM PDT  Part-time fugitive and antivirus software founder John McAfee has a new invention he's working on. After spending some of his time filming a drug-fueled video tutorial to uninstall the antivirus program he helped create, McAfee now believes he can outsmart the NSA. Speaking at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center on Saturday, McAfee unveiled his grand plan to create a "D-Central" gadget that communicates with smartphones, tablets, and laptops to create decentralized networks that can't be accessed by government agencies. ... Full Story | Top |
| Chicago trains collide, dozens injured Monday, Sep 30, 2013 11:22 AM PDT  CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Chicago Transit Authority train collided with a standing train at a station in a western suburb of Chicago during Monday morning's rush hour, leaving at least 33 people injured, according to an official with the CTA. The collision happened at about 7:45 a.m. local time at the ground-level Harlem Station in Forest Park west of Chicago, CTA spokeswoman Catherine Hosinski said. Thirty-three people were transported to nine area hospitals with what appeared to be non-serious injuries, including the operator of the standing train, Hosinski said. ... Full Story | Top |
| GOP Rep. Peter King: ‘Ted Cruz should be blamed’ if government shuts down Monday, Sep 30, 2013 03:37 PM PDT  House Republican moderates fight back. Full Story | Top |
| Free burgers await furloughed US federal workers Monday, Sep 30, 2013 08:07 AM PDT  Washington (AFP) - A fast-food chain in Washington is promising free hamburgers to federal workers who find themselves furloughed if the US government shuts down Tuesday, its founder and proprietor said Monday. Full Story | Top |
| Under fire, 'Obamacare' going live — with glitches Monday, Sep 30, 2013 11:57 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Contentious from its conception, President Barack Obama's health care law has survived the Supreme Court, a battle for the White House and rounds of budget brinkmanship. Now comes the ultimate test: the verdict of the American people. Full Story | Top |
| CNN, NBC scrap Hillary Clinton films Monday, Sep 30, 2013 07:40 AM PDT  CNN documentary director cited political pressure on interview subjects. "Neither political party wanted the film made," he said. NBC followed suit hours later. Full Story | Top |
| Closed for business? Government shutdown history Monday, Sep 30, 2013 03:54 AM PDT  OK, gridlocked politicians we're used to. But why padlock the Statue of Liberty? You don't see other democracies shuttering landmarks and sending civil servants home just because their political parties ... Full Story | Top |
| FACT CHECK: Slippery claims on health law, budget Monday, Sep 30, 2013 04:37 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is the insurance industry's most powerful pitchman these days as he drums up interest in the health insurance markets opening for business Tuesday. Whatever the merits of his product, there are reasons for the buyer to beware of his rhetoric. Full Story | Top |
| Deadlocked Congress takes U.S. government to brink of shutdown Monday, Sep 30, 2013 04:03 PM PDT By David Lawder and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress, still in partisan deadlock on Monday over Republican efforts to halt President Barack Obama's healthcare reforms, was on the verge of shutting down most of the U.S. government starting on Tuesday morning. With the law funding thousands of routine government activities set to expire at midnight, Republicans in the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Shutdown orders issued as Congress misses deadline Monday, Sep 30, 2013 10:45 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time in nearly two decades, the federal government staggered into a partial shutdown early Tuesday morning after congressional Republicans stubbornly demanded changes in the nation's health care law as the price for essential federal funding and President Barack Obama and Democrats adamantly refused. Full Story | Top |
| Breast cancer survivor posts time-lapse video of treatment Monday, Sep 30, 2013 01:40 PM PDT When Emily Helck began treatment for breast cancer, she decided to document each day of with photos. At the end of a year, Helck put the photos together in a time-lapse video. Full Story | Top |
| Fast-food drive-thrus getting slower, study finds Monday, Sep 30, 2013 08:19 AM PDT  The amount of time consumers wait in line at fast-food drive-thru windows is on the rise. On average, customers spent roughly three minutes from order to pickup in 2013. Full Story | Top |
| At Zimbabwe golf club, 'foreign' trees exit stage Monday, Sep 30, 2013 03:56 AM PDT  A century-old thorn tree with an umbrella-shaped canopy offers shade to players on the 13th hole of Zimbabwe's oldest surviving golf course. The indigenous tree is going to stay, but "foreign" ... Full Story | Top |
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