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Lauryn Hill allowed to tour before sentence ends

Lauryn Hill allowed to tour before sentence ends

Lauryn Hill allowed to tour before sentence ends

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 01:04 PM PDT

FILE - An April 22, 2013, file photo shows singer Lauryn Hill walking from federal court in Newark, N.J. Hill's attorney says she has been released from federal prison after serving time for failing to pay taxes. The singer left the facility in Connecticut on Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, file)NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A federal judge in New Jersey is allowing Lauryn Hill to participate in a concert tour before completing her sentence in a tax case.

Factbox: Fed officials' comments on U.S. economy, policy

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 01:03 PM PDT

(Reuters) - The Federal Reserve in September bucked market expectations for a reduction to its $85-billion monthly bond purchase program, saying it wanted more evidence of solid growth before winding down stimulus. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke went out of his way to stress the program was "not on a preset course." In June he had said the Fed expected to cut back before year end. ...

Obama tells Republicans he will negotiate once they end 'threats'

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 01:03 PM PDT

By Roberta Rampton and Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama turned up the political pressure on Republicans on Tuesday, saying he would be willing to negotiate on budget issues only after they agree to re-open the federal government and raise the debt limit with no conditions. At a news conference, an unbending Obama said he would not hold talks on ways to end the fiscal impasse under threat from "more extreme parts of the Republican Party." "If reasonable Republicans want to talk about these things again, I'm ready to head up to the Hill and try," Obama told reporters. ...

Egypt's capital scarred by 2½ years of turmoil

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 01:02 PM PDT

In this Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013 photo, Egyptians crowd a shopping at a market in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's capital has long been proud of its nickname, CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's capital has long been proud of its nickname, "Mother of the World" — a metropolis of 18 million throbbing with the vitality and fun of other great cities, even if at times it seemed unmanageable and chaotic.

London rewarded with third NFL game for 2014

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 01:02 PM PDT

People pose for a picture in front of a giant NFL sign in London's Regent street on September 28, 2013New York City (AFP) - The roaring success of the two NFL games played in London will see them host a third one in the 2014 season, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced on Tuesday.

US default would be 'worse' than shutdown: Obama

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:57 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama speaks during a press conference at the White House in Washington, on October 8, 2013Washington (AFP) - Failure to raise the debt ceiling would cause the United States to default on its bills, a situation "dramatically worse" than the current government shutdown, President Barack Obama warned Tuesday.

House GOP dismisses default warnings as more hype

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:56 PM PDT

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, right, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va., left, face reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, following a closed-door Republican strategy meeting as the partial government shutdown enters its second week with no end in sight. President Barack Obama called John Boehner once again saying he won't negotiate over reopening the government or must-pass legislation to prevent a U.S. default on its obligations. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Hard-line House Republicans are dismissing dire warnings that a government default would wreck U.S. and world economies as another case of hyperbole from an Obama administration that cried wolf about the likely impacts of automatic spending cuts and partially shutting down the government.

In tight decision, a Fed centrist wanted to trim QE

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:56 PM PDT

The facade of the U.S. Federal Reserve building is reflected on wet marble during the early morning hours in WashingtonBy Pedro da Costa and Jonathan Spicer JOHNSTOWN, Pa./NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Federal Reserve official known for her centrist views said on Tuesday she wanted to reduce the U.S. central bank's asset purchases last month, adding her voice to the Fed's so-called policy hawks who have spoken out against the shock decision to leave monetary policy unchanged. The admission by Sandra Pianalto, who is retiring as president of the Cleveland Fed early next year, may come as a surprise given her long-standing support of Chairman Ben Bernanke's concerted effort to boost the U.S. ...

2 win physics Nobel for Higgs theory

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:56 PM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 4, 2012, file photo, Belgian physicist Francois Englert, left, and British physicist Peter Higgs answer a journalist's question about the Higgs boson at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin, near Geneva. Englert and Higgs were awarded the Nobel physics prize on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini, File)STOCKHOLM (AP) — Nearly 50 years after they came up with the theory, but little more than a year since the world's biggest atom smasher delivered the proof, Britain's Peter Higgs and Belgian colleague Francois Englert won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping to explain how matter formed after the Big Bang.

CBS No. 1 for viewers in new TV season's 2nd week

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:56 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A couple of new CBS shows have fared well in the prime-time TV ranking.

What if car boss Mulally took over at Microsoft?

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 01:09 PM PDT

FILE- In this Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009, file photo, Ford Motor Company CEO and president Alan Mulally, right, listens to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, left, during Mulally's keynote address at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Mulally said Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, he's made no changes to his plan to stay at Ford through the end of 2014. But he hasn't denied rumors that Microsoft Corp. is courting him. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma File)Back when Microsoft was the biggest name in technology, CEO Bill Gates leveled an attack on the auto industry: If carmakers were as innovative as computer companies, he said, a car would cost just $27.

Pentagon freeze on death benefits sparks outrage

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:52 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators are expressing outrage that families of fallen U.S. military personnel are being denied death benefits while Democrats and Republicans grope for a way to end the partial government shutdown.

Police reopen investigation of Minn. priest's porn

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:52 PM PDT

Frank Meuers looks through a folder than contains all his information and correspondence with the Archdiocese, outside the headquarters of the Catholic Church in St. Paul, Minn. Monday afternoon, Oct. 7, 2013 after a news conference presented by SNAP, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. Meuers came forward and for the first time publicly told how he was abused by a priest, Rudolph Henrich, while a youngster in Golden Valley. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Jeff Wheeler) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUTST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Police in St. Paul, Minn., have reopened their investigation of an old case of a priest and pornography that has shaken the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

High court wary of campaign contribution limits

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:50 PM PDT

This artist rendering shows Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., seated, center, listening as attorney Bobby Burchfield,standing, right, argues for McConnell during the Supreme Court's hearing on campaign finance, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, at the Supreme Court in Washington. Justices, from left are, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice John Roberts, Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito and Elena Kagan. (AP Photo/Dana Verkouteren)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appeared ready Tuesday to free big individual donors to give more money to political candidates in the court's first major campaign finance case since the justices took the lid off of independent spending in 2010.

TB probe widens in Vegas after mom, baby deaths

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:48 PM PDT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Health officials urged tuberculosis testing for hundreds of babies, family members and staff who were at a Las Vegas neonatal intensive care unit this past summer, saying they want to take extra precautions after the death of a mother and her twin babies and the infection of more than 26 people.

$1.9M diamond deal on Neiman Marcus Christmas list

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:48 PM PDT

Actor Brady White portrays Santa Claus as he holds a falcon included in the Bespoke Global Falconry Companion experience offered in the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, in Dallas. The gift is listed at $150,000. (AP Photo/LM Otero)DALLAS (AP) — Need that one-of-a-kind stocking stuffer and have $1.9 million burning a hole in your pocket? Design your own diamond ring and travel to Africa to see where the stone came from.

Stocks fall as investors wait on Washington

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:45 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks ground lower Tuesday as budget gridlock in Washington brought the U.S. closer to an unprecedented default on its debt.

'God particle' scientists win Nobel Physics Prize

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:44 PM PDT

British physicist Peter Higgs (R) speaks with Belgium physicist Francois Englert at a press conference on July 4, 2012 at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) offices in Meyrin near GenevaStockholm (AFP) - Peter Higgs of Britain and Francois Englert of Belgium won the Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for conceiving of the tantalising "God particle" which confers mass.

Libya prime minister says US raid won't hurt ties

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:39 PM PDT

This image from the FBI website shows Anas al-Libi, an al-Qaeda leader connected to the 1998 embassy bombings in eastern Africa and wanted by the United States for more than a decade. Gunmen in a three-car convoy seized Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known by his alias Anas al-Libi, outside his house Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013, in the Libyan capital, his relatives said. (AP Photo/FBI)TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Relations between Tripoli and Washington will not be hurt by the U.S. raid that seized an al-Qaida suspect from the Libyan capital, Libyan leaders said Tuesday, as they requested Washington allow the family of the detainee — now being held on a U.S. warship — to establish contact with him.

NYPD: Mother of 'Baby Hope' identified using DNA

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:39 PM PDT

This Tuesday, July 23, 2013, photo shows a poster soliciting information regarding an unidentified body near the site where the body was found in New York. In a dramatic break in a cold case more than two decades old, investigators used DNA to identify the mother of a dead child known only as Baby Hope, police said Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly declined to discuss the case further as investigators try to determine the circumstances of the 3- to 5-year-old girl's death. The case dates to July 23, 1991, when a road worker smelled something rotting and discovered the girl's remains inside a picnic cooler along the Henry Hudson Parkway. Her body was unclothed and malnourished and showed signs of possible sex abuse. Detectives theorized at the time that she had been suffocated before being dumped like garbage on a grassy incline. They estimated she was dead six to eight days before the cooler was found. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)NEW YORK (AP) — In a dramatic break in a cold case more than two decades old, investigators used DNA to identify the mother of a dead child known only as Baby Hope, police said Tuesday.

Anti-army protests staged at Egyptian universities

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:37 PM PDT

Cairo University students and members of the Muslim Brotherhood shout slogans against the military and interior ministry inside Cairo UniversityBy Maggie Fick CAIRO (Reuters) - Hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters chanted "Down with the military government" outside Cairo University on Tuesday, defying Egypt's army-backed authorities despite deadly clashes with security forces two days earlier. Supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi had urged university students to protest against the army following the violence on Sunday, one of Egypt's bloodiest days since the military ousted the Islamist leader on July 3. The death toll from Sunday's unrest rose to 57, state media said, with 391 people wounded. ...

Obama: U.S. will continue going after al Qaeda-linked groups in Africa

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:33 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama speaks to reporters about continuing government shutdown during White House news conference in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Obama said on Tuesday that the United States will continue to go after al Qaeda-linked groups in Africa, but that is not the same as going to war there. "There is a difference between us going after terrorists who are plotting directly to do damage to the United States and us getting involved in wars," Obama told a news conference. "Where you've got active plots and active networks, we are going to go after them." U.S. ...

Taylor Swift sets songwriting record

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:28 PM PDT

FILE - This Sept. 24, 2013 file photo shows singer Taylor Swift at the premiere of the "Romeo and Juliet" in Los Angeles. Swift has set a record with the Nashville Songwriters Association International. The organization announced Tuesday that it would name Swift as its songwriter/artist of the year. This is her sixth win, beating out five-time winners Vince Gill and Alan Jackson. The award recognizes Nashville acts that have achieved Top 30 singles. Swift has 14 Top 30 songs from July 12, 2012, through June 13. She's also the youngest artist to win the honor. (Photo by Dan Steinberg/Invision/AP, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift has set a record with the Nashville Songwriters Association International.

Family: Man who set self on fire was mentally ill

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2013 file photo provided by Katy Scheflen, people run to a man who set himself on fire on the National Mall in Washington. Police on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013 identified the man, who later died, as John Constantino, 64, of Mount Laurel, N.J., though police had no more information on his possible reasons. (AP Photo/Katy Scheflen, File)MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (AP) — The death of a New Jersey man who set himself on fire on the National Mall was the result of his long fight with mental illness, not a political statement, his family said.

Italy holds suspected ship captain; death toll 275

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:21 PM PDT

Italian Coast Guard personnel recover a body bag on their patrol boat in Lampedusa island, Italy, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013. Italian divers have recovered more bodies from the wreck of a smuggler's ship that sank off the tiny island of Lampedusa, raising the death toll to 250. Coast Guard Commander Filippo Marini said 18 bodies were recovered Tuesday from within the ship's hold, while one was spotted by a helicopter floating nearby the wreck. Marini said the search would continue as long as weather allows. Just 155 migrants, most if not all from Eritrea, survived last Thursday's shipwreck. Survivors said there were some 500 people on board when the ship capsized and sank in sight of land. A disproportionate number of the dead are women: So far the bodies of 75 women have been recovered, while only six of the survivors were female. Seven of the dead are children. (AP Photo/Francesco Malavolta)LAMPEDUSA, Italy (AP) — Italy on Tuesday detained a 35-year-old Tunisian man suspected of being the captain of a boat carrying African migrants that sank off the tiny island of Lampedusa. Divers, meanwhile, recovered dozens of additional bodies from the wreckage, raising the death toll to 275.

Analysis: Take HP's slide personally, CEO Whitman tells employees

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:18 PM PDT

Meg Whitman, chief executive officer and president of Hewlett-Packard, speaks during the grand opening of the company's Executive Briefing Center in Palo AltoBy Poornima Gupta SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - When Hewlett-Packard Co was removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average a month ago, Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman sent an impassioned email to the company's 300,000-plus employees. "I hope that every HP employee took today's announcement personally," she said in the one-page internal memo on September 10. Calling HP's departure from the benchmark index it joined in 1997 a "blow to our brand," Whitman said the moved showed many people still harbored doubts about her turnaround plan. ...

Coach Smith: Falcons could lose Jones for season

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:16 PM PDT

Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones can't hold on to a pass as he is hit by New York Jets cornerback Antonio Cromartie during the second half of an NFL football game Monday, Oct. 7, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP photo/Atlanta Journal Constitution, Curtis Compton) GWINNETT OUT MARIETTA OUT LOCAL TV OUT (WXIA, WGCL, FOX 5)FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) — The Atlanta Falcons could lose Julio Jones for the season after the Pro Bowl receiver injured his foot Monday in a 30-28 loss to the New York Jets.

Police arrest 8 in international Silk Road busts

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:16 PM PDT

LONDON (AP) — Authorities in Britain, Sweden, and the United States have arrested eight more people following last week's closure of Silk Road, a notorious black market website which helped dealers to sell drugs under the cloak of anonymity, officials and media said Tuesday.

News Summary: Critic faults anti-bribe enforcement

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:15 PM PDT

SEEING NO EVIL: Half the world's top exporters are doing little or nothing at all to investigate or prosecute multinational companies found using bribes in foreign markets, an anti-corruption watchdog says.

NFL to play 3 games in London

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:15 PM PDT

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, left, and New England Patriots football team owner Robert Kraft talk as they arrive for the NFL fall meeting in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)WASHINGTON (AP) — The NFL will play three regular-season games at London's Wembley Stadium next year, hosted by the Jaguars, Falcons and Raiders.

Spurrier: Clowney working to return vs. Arkansas

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:11 PM PDT

FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013, file photo, South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney smiles as he sits on the bench during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Kentucky in Columbia, S.C. South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier has said Clowney's availability for Arkansas is up in the air after the All-American defensive end decided not to play in last week's game because of what has been diagnosed as a strained muscle. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt, File)COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Injured All-American Jadeveon Clowney is working hard so he can play against Arkansas on Saturday, South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier said on Tuesday.

Obama urges Boehner to hold vote to reopen gov't

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:08 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks about the the budget and the partial government shutdown, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, in the Brady Press Room of the White House in Washington. The president said he told House Speaker John Boehner he's willing to negotiate with Republicans on their priorities, but not under the threat of "economic chaos." (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he told House Speaker John Boehner he's willing to negotiate with Republicans on their priorities, but not under the threat of "economic chaos."

Obama: Extortion can't be routine in US democracy

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:06 PM PDT

President Barack Obama listens while speaking about the the budget and the partial government shutdown, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, in the Brady Press Room of the White House in Washington. The president said he told House Speaker John Boehner he's willing to negotiate with Republicans on their priorities, but not under the threat of "economic chaos." (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he's fighting the budget battle because "we can't make extortion routine as part of our democracy."

Vick throws, but doesn't practice in team drills

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:05 PM PDT

Philadelphia Eagles' Nick Foles (9) stiff-arms New York Giants' Mathias Kiwanuka (94) during the second half of an NFL football game on Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Michael Vick says his injured left hamstring feels better and he threw and jogged on Tuesday, though he didn't participate in team drills during practice.

Obama warns against lifting campaign donor caps

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:04 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks about the the budget and the partial government shutdown, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, in the Brady Press Room of the White House in Washington. The president said he told House Speaker John Boehner he's willing to negotiate with Republicans on their priorities, but not under the threat of "economic chaos." (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the elimination of caps on some political contributions would essentially be saying that anything goes. He says it would shut ordinary Americans out of the process.

Questionable design blamed for health website woes

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:02 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2013 file photo, Maureen Bardusk, 62, of Galena, Ill., poses for a photo in Chicago. A design decision to require that consumers create online accounts before they can browse available health plans under President Barack Obama's overhaul appears to have led to many of the program's technical problems, independent experts say. The result seemed strange to Bardusk, who's hesitant about giving her personal information before she can shop. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — A decision to require that consumers create online accounts before they can browse available health plans under President Barack Obama's overhaul appears to have led to many of the program's technical problems, independent experts say.

Republicans want Libya suspect brought to Guantanamo

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:00 PM PDT

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three Republican U.S. senators said on Tuesday that an al Qaeda suspect seized in Libya should be brought to the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, so he can be subjected to long-term interrogation. Senators Lindsey Graham, Kelly Ayotte and Saxby Chambliss said they hoped to urge President Barack Obama, via a congressional resolution or an amendment to an upcoming defense authorization bill, to adopt a policy for long-term detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects. In a raid in Tripoli on Saturday, U.S. ...

Mormons pushing church stance on homosexuality

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 11:59 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 2, 2013 file photo, members of the Mormons Building Bridges march during the Utah Gay Pride Parade in Salt Lake City. The Mormon church's stance on homosexuality has softened considerably since it was one of the leading forces behind California's Proposition 8. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Wendy and Tom Montgomery went door-to-door in their California neighborhood in 2008 campaigning for the passage of an anti-gay marriage proposition. They were among thousands of faithful Mormons following the direction of a church that spent millions on the cause.

89-year-old drug courier pleads guilty in Detroit

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 11:57 AM PDT

FILE - This undated booking file photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows Leo Earl Sharp, who was arrested for cocaine possession near Chelsea, Ind. On Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, Sharp pleaded guilty to hauling cocaine, telling a judge that the drug conspiracy was the only crime he's ever committed. He says he did it for the money. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service, File)DETROIT (AP) — An 89-year-old Indiana man who grows lilies pleaded guilty Tuesday in Detroit to serving as a drug mule in a scheme to distribute more than 1,400 pounds of cocaine.

As Dubai rebounds, hunger strike recalls the crash

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 11:53 AM PDT

A panoramic advertising billboard is set up by an unfinished building, center, which has been left the same since the 2009 financial crisis in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013. A hunger strike started in September by a few prisoners, convicted under the strict financial codes of the United Arab Emirates, has now grown to more than 50 people demanding authorities reconsider their sentences that can bring years behind bars for a single bounced check. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Outside Dubai's Central Jail is a panoramic sweep of the city's skyline, rising higher again amid an economic rebound. Inside the prison are scores of hunger strikers who claim they are paying an unfair price for the last spectacular boom-then-bust tumble.
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