| Baseball to move ahead with instant replay Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:58 PM PST  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Another baseball tradition is about to largely disappear: a manager, with a crazed look in his eyes, charging the field and getting into a face-to-face shouting match with an umpire.
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| APNewsBreak: Phelps back in US anti-doping program Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:58 PM PST  Michael Phelps has rejoined the U.S. drug-testing program, the strongest sign yet that he's returning for the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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| AP source: Incognito files grievance vs Dolphins Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:57 PM PST A person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press that Richie Incognito has filed a grievance against the Miami Dolphins over his suspension. |
| McDonald's eyes global coffee growth Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:56 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — McDonald's wants to be a bigger player in the global coffee business. |
| Pa. paper: Sorry for panning Gettysburg Address Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:55 PM PST HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — It took 150 years, but a Pennsylvania newspaper said Thursday it should have recognized the greatness of President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address at the time it was delivered. |
| Secret Service facing another sex scandal Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:54 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Secret Service is dealing with another case of sexual misconduct involving agents assigned to protect the president, a little more than 18 months after a South American prostitution scandal tarnished the agency's reputation. |
| US mob kingpin Bulger gets two life terms Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:50 PM PST  Notorious Boston underworld kingpin James "Whitey" Bulger was jailed for life on Thursday after a 40-year career of murder, money laundering and arms trafficking. Bulger, 84, who was arrested in 2011 after 16 years on the run, faces the prospect of dying in prison after Judge Denise Casper handed down two life terms and an additional five years in prison. Casper, who also ordered Bulger to pay just over $19.5 million in restitution to his victims, branded the feared mobster's catalogue of crimes as "unfathomable." Bulger, a former FBI informant, said only one word after sentencing: "yes" when asked if he understood.
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| Jana and Farallon shopped at J.C. Penney in third quarter Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:50 PM PST  By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) - Retailer J.C. Penney drew two prominent new institutional shoppers in the third quarter even as an ambitious overhaul fizzled and its stock price dropped. Hedge funds Jana Partners and Farallon Capital Management Group took positions in the ailing department store operator. Barry Rosenstein's Jana Partners and Farallon, founded by Tom Steyer, each bought 500,000 shares in the Plano, Texas-based company during the quarter, regulatory filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday show. Richard Perry's Perry Capital sold 2 million shares, leaving him with 10 million shares at the end of the quarter.
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| Obama: we deserved to be 'slapped' over health rollout Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:50 PM PST  Barack Obama admitted Thursday he deserved to be "slapped around" over the chaotic debut of his health care law, and pledged to work hard to restore confidence in his reeling presidency. Obama, with his approval rating tanking and fellow Democrats in open revolt, promised to fix website and coverage failures that have hampered the rollout of the new law and sparked an opening for gleeful Republicans. "These are two fumbles on ... a big game, but the game's not over," Obama said, announcing a plan to make good on his discredited promise that Americans who liked their existing health care plans could keep them. "Had I been informed, I wouldn't be going out saying, 'Boy, this is going to be great,'" Obama said, though he warned that buying health care was a complicated business and was "never going to be like buying a song on iTunes."
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| Iceberg the size of Manhattan could threaten shipping Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:47 PM PST  Brest (France) (AFP) - An iceberg the size of Manhattan has broken off a glacier in Antarctica and could survive long enough to drift into international shipping lanes, scientists said Thursday. A team led by British scientists has been monitoring the iceberg since it broke off the Pine Island Glacier in July in a bid to predict its path and environmental impact. "An iceberg that size could survive for a year or longer and it could drift a long way north in that time and end up in the vicinity of world shipping lanes in the Southern Ocean," said Dr Robert Marsh, from the University of Southampton.
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| Governments mining Google for more personal data Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:46 PM PST  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is becoming less likely to comply with government demands for information on its users' activities as authorities in the U.S. and other countries get more aggressive about mining the Internet for personal data.
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| FBI: OK for Congress to talk to Benghazi survivors Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:42 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director James Comey told senators Thursday he is not opposed to Congress speaking with the survivors of the 2012 attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. That contradicts the Obama administration's position that such discussions would jeopardize the FBI's criminal case.
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| EU officials welcome end of aid for Ireland, Spain Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:41 PM PST  BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union officials welcomed the end of bailout support for Spain and Ireland, saying that showed the effectiveness of more than four years of efforts to cut excessive government debt.
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| Three-time Indy 500 winner Franchitti forced to quit Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:39 PM PST  Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dario Franchitti has been forced to quit motor racing on medical advice after having suffered multiple injuries in a horrifying crash. "One month removed from the crash and based upon the expert advice of the doctors who have treated and assessed my head and spinal injuries post accident, it is their best medical opinion that I must stop racing," Franchitti said in a statement. Based on this medical advice, I have no choice but to stop." Franchitti won 31 Indy car races and the famed Indy 500 in 2007, 2010 and 2012.
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| Rolling Stone's DeCurtis working on Lou Reed bio Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:38 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — Longtime music writer and Rolling Stone critic Anthony DeCurtis is writing a biography of Lou Reed. |
| UNC's Hairston, McDonald to sit out again Friday Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:38 PM PST CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina leading scorer P.J. Hairston and senior Leslie McDonald will miss the second straight game due to NCAA eligibility concerns when the No. 12 Tar Heels play Holy Cross on Friday night. |
| Railroads back retrofitting flammable liquid cars Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:37 PM PST OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Proposed new safety standards for rail cars that haul flammable liquids gained support from U.S. railroads Thursday, but it's not yet clear whether the companies that own most of those cars will support the upgrades to prevent leaks. |
| Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger sentenced to life Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:36 PM PST  BOSTON (AP) — Former Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger was sentenced to life in prison Thursday at 84 for his murderous reign over the city's underworld in the 1970s and '80s, accepting his punishment with stone-faced silence even as a judge castigated him for his "almost unfathomable" depravity.
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| Yellen says Fed stimulus must continue Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:36 PM PST  Janet Yellen, the White House nominee to lead the Federal Reserve, said Thursday that the central bank's stimulus must remain in place to bolster an economy where growth remains fragile. Staking out her support for policies crafted by current chairman Ben Bernanke, Yellen, the Fed vice chair, told senators reviewing her nomination that the Fed will do whatever is in its power to back a robust US economic recovery. Growth is still too soft and unemployment at 7.3 percent too high to ease up on the stimulus throttle, she told the Senate Banking Committee. She also denied that the easy-money policy, including near-zero interest rates and $85 billion a month in bond-buying stimulus, had generated fresh bubbles in property or stock markets.
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| Netanyahu 'unimpressed' by IAEA nuclear report on Iran Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:35 PM PST  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was unimpressed by a report from the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency on Thursday that Iran had frozen its nuclear activities. Iran's archenemy Israel takes a hard line on international pressures for Tehran to rein in its controversial nuclear programme and has not ruled out military action against it. "Iran does not need to expand its programme because it already possesses the necessary infrastructure for building a nuclear weapon." The IAEA said that, in the past three months, only four new centrifuges had been installed at Iran's Natanz plant, compared with 1,861 in the previous period.
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| Government speeds research on car safety systems Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:29 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is speeding up research on safety systems that automatically prevent drivers from operating their cars if they are drunk or aren't properly buckled in.
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| 911 call: Sanctuary owner finds mauled employee Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:28 PM PST  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A chilling recording of a 911 call released Wednesday captures the owner of an Oregon wild cat sanctuary dragging an employee who'd been mauled to death from a cougar enclosure and screaming at two of the animals roaming inside to get away.
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| Alonso passed fit for US race Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:20 PM PST  Fernando Alonso passed a final medical test at Austin on Thursday and was declared fit to race for Ferrari in this weekend's United States Grand Prix. The two-time world champion had been in back pain since bouncing on the Yas Marina kerbs two weeks ago during a battle for places at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
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| Wal-Mart 3Q profit up, but cuts outlook Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:19 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart shoppers — much like many Americans — still feel like they're in a recession.
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| Fairholme offers to buy Fannie, Freddie businesses Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:18 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — An investment firm is offering to buy from the government core businesses of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in a $52 billion deal. |
| IAEA: Iran slows nuclear activities ahead of talks Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:17 PM PST  VIENNA (AP) — Iran has significantly slowed work on nuclear projects that could be used to make weapons, the U.N. atomic agency said Thursday in a report that comes as six world powers and Iran report new momentum in their nuclear talks.
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| Doctors tell Franchitti he can no longer race Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:16 PM PST  Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dario Franchitti said Thursday that doctors have told him he can no longer race because of injuries sustained in an IndyCar crash last month.
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| Mobster 'Whitey' Bulger sent to prison for life for 'unfathomable' crimes Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:15 PM PST  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Bringing an end to Boston's longest-running crime saga, a federal judge on Thursday sentenced former mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger to spend the rest of his life in prison, calling his crimes "almost unfathomable." Bulger, 84, sat stoically as U.S. District Judge Denise Casper recounted the crimes he was convicted of, including 11 murders, extortion and drug dealing while he ran Boston's brutal Winter Hill crime gang in the 1970s and '80s. Bulger terrorized the city for decades before fleeing in late 1994 on a tip that his arrest was imminent, and he spent 16 years on the lam. "The testimony of human suffering that you and your associates inflicted on others was at times agonizing to hear and painful to watch," Casper told Bulger in Boston's waterfront federal courthouse, located just blocks from where some of Bulger's killings took place. Bulger stood silently, wearing an orange prison jumpsuit over a long-sleeved T-shirt, as his sentence was read.
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| Spain's match against Eq. Guinea raises eyebrows Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:15 PM PST  MADRID (AP) — Spain's national team will travel to Equatorial Guinea for a friendly game, and the country's football federation won't say why.
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| Suit challenging Google's digital library dropped Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:15 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge handed Google Inc. a victory in a long-running legal battle on Thursday, tossing out a lawsuit claiming the Internet giant was violating copyright laws by scanning books without their permission to create the world's largest digital library. |
| NY court says gold tablet belongs to German museum Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:15 PM PST  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — In a ruling rejecting any claims to the "spoils of war," New York's highest court concluded Thursday that an ancient gold tablet must be returned to the German museum that lost it in World War II.
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| Toronto mayor says he's getting professional help Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:13 PM PST  TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford announced Thursday he's getting help from health care professionals but again refused to step aside over his drug use and drinking. He also threatened to take legal actions against former staffers who spoke to police about his behavior and denied making sexual advances toward a female staffer.
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| Former Cyprus president in critical condition Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:11 PM PST NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A doctor says former Cyprus President Glafcos Clerides has been admitted to a private clinic in a "very grave" condition. |
| Bowing to political pressure, Obama unveils fix on healthcare Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:06 PM PST  By Steve Holland and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama bowed to political pressure over his signature healthcare reform on Thursday, announcing that he would allow insurers to extend policies that have been canceled for one year even if they do not comply with the law. The October 1 rollout of the program known as Obamacare has been beset by technical problems with the main website and cancellations of existing policies because they do not meet the higher standards of the 2010 healthcare law known as Obamacare. Obama said on Thursday that to fix the problem of some health insurance coverage cancellations since online marketplaces opened, insurers could renew those plans for a year. The move was in response to a tide of anger from Republicans and fellow Democrats that Obama was not fulfilling his frequent promise that people who like their current health plans would be able to keep them under Obamacare.
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| California lawmaker says he was asked to wear wire Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:02 PM PST  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Embattled state Sen. Ron Calderon says federal authorities wanted him to wear a wire and record conversations with the Senate leader and another lawmaker, and after he refused they tried to ruin his reputation by raiding his offices and leaking an FBI affidavit alleging he took money in return for promoting certain bills.
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| Where did dogs first appear? DNA points to Europe Posted: 14 Nov 2013 11:59 AM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — For years, scientists have been dogged by this evolution question: Just where did man's best friend first appear?
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| Sri Lanka has nothing to hide over rights: president Posted: 14 Nov 2013 11:54 AM PST  Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse hit back angrily Thursday against allegations of war crimes which are set to overshadow this week's Commonwealth summit, saying he had "nothing to hide" from his critics. Rajapakse, who will chair the three-day summit in Colombo, told reporters he was ready to confront the likes of Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron but would not be lectured to. The summit has already been dogged by boycotts, with the leaders of Canada, India and Mauritius all staying away over the bloody end in 2009 to one of Asia's deadliest civil wars. Rajapakse said he was ready to meet Cameron to discuss allegations that up to 40,000 civilians were killed by Sri Lankan forces in the closing stages of the 37-year conflict in the island's north.
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| Possible sinkhole reported in yard in Florida Posted: 14 Nov 2013 11:49 AM PST DUNEDIN, Fla. (AP) — Residents of several Florida homes have been evacuated due to a possible sinkhole that opened in a backyard in Pinellas County on Thursday. |
| Barclays bank to cut 1,700 jobs in Britain Posted: 14 Nov 2013 11:47 AM PST LONDON (AP) — Barclays bank plans to cut 1,700 jobs from its network of British branches, about 5 percent of the total workforce. |
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