| Analysis: Israel's Netanyahu faces wild cards Posted: 14 Oct 2012 01:45 PM PDT  The Israeli government has called a general election for Jan. 22, and polls suggest Benjamin Netanyahu's rightist-religious coalition is likely to win a renewed majority — but an array of wild cards make the outcome of this campaign unpredictable nonetheless.
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| Grand Canyon works through list for river trips Posted: 14 Oct 2012 01:38 PM PDT The Grand Canyon boasts some of the most spectacular views in the world, revealing a rich geological history that few ever see from the Colorado River that formed it millions of years ago. |
| Obama says debate prep going great, works on being aggressive Posted: 14 Oct 2012 01:36 PM PDT  WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Sunday his debate preparation was "going great" and aides said the Democrat would be more aggressive in his next face off with Mitt Romney after their last encounter gave the Republican challenger a boost. Since that first debate in Denver on October 3, polls indicate Romney has erased Obama's lead heading into the November 6 election. Obama and Romney debate again on Tuesday at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. The third and final presidential debate will take place on October 22 in Florida. ...
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| Longtime GOP Senate moderate Arlen Specter dies Posted: 14 Oct 2012 01:35 PM PDT  For most of his 30 years as Pennsylvania's longest-serving U.S. senator and prominent moderate in Congress, Arlen Specter was a Republican, though often at odds with the GOP leadership.
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| Feds: Passenger had murder directions on computer Posted: 14 Oct 2012 01:34 PM PDT  A teacher arrested at Los Angeles International Airport wearing a bulletproof vest and with checked bags containing knives, body bags, a smoke grenade and other weapons also had files on his computer detailing how to kidnap and kill people, federal authorities disclosed Friday.
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| American says it will work on seats on more planes Posted: 14 Oct 2012 01:33 PM PDT American Airlines says it will modify seats on 49 more planes to prevent rows of seats from coming loose during flight. |
| Jones' kick return lifts Ravens over Cowboys 31-29 Posted: 14 Oct 2012 01:31 PM PDT  Jacoby Jones tied an NFL record with a 108-yard kickoff return, and the Baltimore Ravens held on to beat the Dallas Cowboys 31-29 Sunday for their 14th straight regular-season home win.
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| Debate preparation trumps 2012 campaigning Sunday Posted: 14 Oct 2012 01:28 PM PDT  As Mitt Romney's campaign claimed new momentum in the race for the White House, President Barack Obama's political advisers on Sunday promised the incumbent would unleash his more aggressive side in Tuesday's debate to prevent their Republican rival from delivering another "magical and theatrical performance."
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| October not the same without Yanks' missing man Posted: 14 Oct 2012 01:28 PM PDT  A player stood at shortstop at Yankee Stadium, yet the shortstop was missing.
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| UAE sends medics to Pakistan to evacuate girl shot by Taliban Posted: 14 Oct 2012 01:27 PM PDT  DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates has dispatched a medical team to evacuate a Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban if doctors decide she should be taken abroad for treatment, a UAE news agency reported on Sunday. The WAM state news agency said the team would evaluate the condition of education campaigner Malala Yousufzai and facilitate her transfer to a hospital outside Pakistan. ...
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| Greene powers Jets to 35-9 runaway over Colts Posted: 14 Oct 2012 01:26 PM PDT  Just about everything worked for the New York Jets — for a change. Even their long-struggling running game.
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| 24-mile skydive a boon for YouTube, social media Posted: 14 Oct 2012 01:22 PM PDT Felix Baumgartner's 24-mile skydive from the stratosphere on Sunday was a boon for social networks as millions of users shared in the wonder of the moment from their computers, tablets and phones. |
| Before Facebook, there was Manet, painting friends Posted: 14 Oct 2012 01:15 PM PDT  Long before smartphones turned so many of us into amateur photographers and revolutionized how we depict each other through social media, there were the works of French Impressionist Edouard Manet.
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| Bryant's kick pushes Falcons past Raiders 23-20 Posted: 14 Oct 2012 01:14 PM PDT  Matt Bryant kicked his second game-winning field goal in three weeks, a 55-yarder with 1 second remaining, and the Atlanta Falcons remained unbeaten with a sloppy 23-20 victory over the Oakland Raiders on Sunday.
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| Fewer qualms for gun-rights groups over Romney now Posted: 14 Oct 2012 01:05 PM PDT  Gun-rights groups perceive President Barack Obama as a threat to unfettered access to firearms. They once had qualms about Mitt Romney, too.
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| Meningitis outbreak rises to 205 cases, CDC says Posted: 14 Oct 2012 01:04 PM PDT  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Seven more people have been diagnosed with fungal meningitis linked to possibly tainted vials of a steroid medication, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Sunday, bringing the total number of cases to 205 in 14 states. The death toll from the unprecedented outbreak was unchanged at 15, the CDC said. The new cases were confirmed in New Hampshire, Florida, Indiana, and Tennessee, the CDC said. ...
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| Former senator Arlen Specter, 82, dies of cancer Posted: 14 Oct 2012 01:00 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Arlen Specter, a gruff, independent-minded moderate who spent three decades in the U.S. Senate but was spurned by Pennsylvania voters after switching in 2009 from Republican to Democrat, died on Sunday of cancer, his family said. He was 82. Specter played a pivotal role in many of the major issues of his time, including the investigation into the assassination of President John Kennedy, disputes over controversial Supreme Court nominees, and the Senate vote not to remove President Bill Clinton from office for perjury after an affair. ...
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| Skydiver lands safely after 24-mile leap to Earth Posted: 14 Oct 2012 12:59 PM PDT  Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner landed safely on Earth after a 24-mile jump from the stratosphere in a dramatic, record-breaking feat that may also have marked the world's first supersonic skydive.
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| Skydiver lands smoothly after daring 24-mile leap Posted: 14 Oct 2012 12:56 PM PDT Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner landed gracefully on Earth after a 24-mile jump from the stratosphere in a dramatic, record-breaking feat that may also have marked the world's first supersonic skydive. |
| Syria accused of cluster bomb use in civil war Posted: 14 Oct 2012 12:55 PM PDT  The Syrian regime was accused Sunday of dropping cluster bombs — indiscriminate scattershot munitions banned by most nations — in a new sign of desperation and disregard for its own people.
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| Putin loyalists likely to win Russia local votes Posted: 14 Oct 2012 12:55 PM PDT  President Vladimir Putin's loyalists appeared likely Sunday to retain their hold in thousands of local elections that offered slightly more room for competition, but were marred by opposition claims of widespread vote fraud.
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| Search for body of UNH student put on hold Posted: 14 Oct 2012 12:55 PM PDT  A prosecutor says the search for the body of a 19-year-old University of New Hampshire student has been suspended ahead of the arraignment for an actor and martial arts instructor who's been charged in her death.
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| Florida, K-State, Notre Dame move up in AP poll Posted: 14 Oct 2012 12:54 PM PDT Breaking down the AP college football poll after Week 7 of the regular season. |
| Sept. 11 trial rules under scrutiny at Guantanamo Posted: 14 Oct 2012 12:34 PM PDT A U.S. military judge is considering broad security rules for the war crimes tribunal of five Guantanamo prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 attacks, including measures to prevent the accused from publicly revealing what happened to them in the CIA's secret network of overseas prisons. |
| At CDC, scientists fight to halt a deadly outbreak Posted: 14 Oct 2012 12:33 PM PDT  Scattered across the carefully landscaped main campus of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are the staff on the front lines fighting a rare outbreak of fungal meningitis: A scientist in a white lab coat peers through a microscope at fungi on a glass slide. In another room, another researcher uses what looks like a long, pointed eye dropper to suck up DNA samples that will be tested for the suspect fungus.
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| Search for body of UNH student put on hold for day Posted: 14 Oct 2012 12:32 PM PDT The search for the body of a 19-year-old University of New Hampshire student was suspended Sunday ahead of the arraignment for a martial arts instructor active in community theater who's been charged in her death, a prosecutor said. |
| How would candidates' tax plans affect investors? Posted: 14 Oct 2012 12:30 PM PDT With the outcome of next month's presidential election increasingly hazy, here's a shred of clarity that investors can cling to: The tax rates they pay on investment income like stock profits and dividends are almost certain to change. |
| Libya Congress elects rights lawyer prime minister Posted: 14 Oct 2012 12:18 PM PDT Libya's 200-member General National Congress has elected a former congressman and human rights lawyer as the country's new prime minister. |
| 'Taken 2' takes down 'Argo' in close weekend Posted: 14 Oct 2012 12:17 PM PDT  Liam Neeson's "Taken 2" has defended its box-office title with a narrow win over Ben Affleck's "Argo."
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| GOP senator alleges cover-up on Libya Posted: 14 Oct 2012 12:16 PM PDT  A senior Republican senator on Sunday accused President Barack Obama's aides of deliberately covering up the details of the Sept. 11 attack in Libya that killed a U.S. ambassador so that voters wouldn't question Obama's handling of the war on terror.
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| K-State, Notre Dame move into top 5 of AP poll Posted: 14 Oct 2012 12:08 PM PDT  The top five in The Associated Press college football poll has been rearranged for a second straight week, with Florida, Kansas State and Notre Dame moving up in the rankings.
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| Endeavour's final miles turn into all-night affair Posted: 14 Oct 2012 12:08 PM PDT  In thousands of Earth orbits, the space shuttle Endeavour traveled 123 million miles. But the last few miles of its final journey are proving hard to get through.
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| Skydiver jumps into stratosphere 24 miles over New Mexico Posted: 14 Oct 2012 12:04 PM PDT  ROSWELL, New Mexico (Reuters) - An Austrian daredevil leapt into the stratosphere from a balloon hovering near the edge of space 24 miles above Earth on Sunday, breaking as many as three world records including the highest skydive ever, project sponsors said. Cheers broke out as Felix Baumgartner, 43, jumped from a skateboard sized shelf outside the 11-by-8-foot (3.3-by-2.4 meter) fiberglass and acrylic capsule that was carried as high as 128,000 feet by an enormous balloon. "We love you Felix!" screamed the crowd as he plunged through the stratosphere. ...
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| Bernanke defends Fed stimulus as China, Brazil raise concerns Posted: 14 Oct 2012 12:03 PM PDT  TOKYO (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Sunday said it was far from clear that the U.S. central bank's highly stimulative monetary policy hurts emerging economies, defending a policy raising concerns in China, Russia and Brazil. In a blunt call for certain emerging economies to allow their currencies to rise, he also said that foreign exchange intervention encouraged destabilizing inflows of foreign capital, but he did not specify China by name. ...
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| Cuba's Ladies in White mourn leader 1 year later Posted: 14 Oct 2012 11:56 AM PDT  Cuba's Ladies in White dissident group on Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of their co-founder's death with cries of "Laura Pollan lives!" outside a Havana church.
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| Analysis: As PC era fades, good times may be over at Intel Posted: 14 Oct 2012 11:56 AM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - As tablets and smartphones draw more and more users away from PCs, Intel Corp is facing some difficult questions. Intel, the world's leading chipmaker, is used to being king of the personal computer market, particularly through its historic "Wintel" alliance with Microsoft Corp, which led to breathtakingly high profit margins and an 80 percent market share. But in the fast-growing and cut-throat mobile world, Intel is struggling - its market share is less than 1 percent of smartphones, trailing Qualcomm Inc, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, ARM Holdings Plc and others. ...
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| Insight - Coal dust: creditors eye Australian magnate's fragile fortune Posted: 14 Oct 2012 11:36 AM PDT  SYDNEY/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Nathan Tinkler became Australia's youngest billionaire with a well-timed investment in mining. But as China's slowing economic growth cuts demand for iron ore and coal, Tinkler's rise from obscure electrician to mining magnate, sports club owner and champion of a rejuvenated Australian industrial town could be unraveling. Creditors are circling Tinkler, 36, who turned a A$1 million bet on an Australian coal deposit into a billion dollar fortune. At least three companies within his stable of some 50 firms are being sued for about A$200 million ($205. ...
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| Turkey bans Syrian planes from its air space, rebels gain Posted: 14 Oct 2012 11:32 AM PDT  BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Turkey has banned all Syrian aircraft from its air space as it takes an increasingly firm stance against President Bashar al-Assad, while Syrian rebels said on Sunday they had made more gains in a key province near the Turkish border. Human Rights Watch said Syrian government forces had dropped Russian-made cluster bombs over civilian areas in the past week as they battled to reverse rebel advances, an act which rights groups say can constitute a war crime. ...
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| Republicans hammer Obama over Libya attacks Posted: 14 Oct 2012 11:26 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans on Sunday kept the heat on President Barack Obama over the September 11 killing of four Americans in Libya, with a senior senator saying the attack supported the Romney campaign's claim that Obama's foreign policy is "unraveling." Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney has seized on the Obama administration's handling of the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, to try to dent Obama's foreign policy credibility ahead of the November 6 election. ...
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| Long after death, Confederate spy honored in Ark. Posted: 14 Oct 2012 11:26 AM PDT  The story of David O. Dodd is relatively unknown outside of Arkansas, but the teenage spy who chose to hang rather than betray the Confederate cause is a folk hero to many in his home state.
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