| For inaugural poet, a journey home to America Posted: 29 Nov 2013 01:25 PM PST  MIAMI (AP) — The Miami neighborhood where inaugural poet Richard Blanco grew up, in many ways, resembles Cuba his family left behind. Down the street, a man sells avocados from a small table. His favorite bakery, a few blocks north, serves guava pastries and cafe con leche.
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| Driver shot dragging Chicago-area police officer Posted: 29 Nov 2013 01:23 PM PST CHICAGO (AP) — A suburban Chicago police officer was released from a hospital Friday after being dragged by a car driven by fleeing Thanksgiving Day shoplifting suspects, one of whom was charged with attempted murder. |
| BLACK FRIDAY LIVE: Shoppers find better online Posted: 29 Nov 2013 01:22 PM PST  The holiday shopping season kicked off early, as several retailers began offering deals on Thanksgiving Day. Many people complained about the early start and the mad rush for deals — yet they went out shopping anyway. After all that, some thought the deals weren't all that great — at least compared with online shopping.
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| Americans kick off 2-day holiday shopping marathon Posted: 29 Nov 2013 01:20 PM PST The holiday shopping season started as a marathon, not a sprint. |
| US: Tough sanctions on Iran remain despite deal Posted: 29 Nov 2013 01:19 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration said on Friday that it was maintaining tough oil-related sanctions against Iran even though the U.S. and five other world powers have signed an initial deal with Tehran to curb its nuclear program and prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. |
| New Zealand on top at Dubai Sevens Posted: 29 Nov 2013 01:19 PM PST  Favourites New Zealand coasted into the quarter-finals of the Dubai Rugby Sevens on Friday, as they looked to follow up on their win at Australia's Gold Coast in the first of the IRB Sevens World Series. The Kiwis saw off France 24-5 and Portugal 38-0 before hammering the dangerous Kenya 40-0, although there were indications that the east Afrians were saving some energy for Saturday's knockout stages. New Zealand coach Gordon Tietjens said of his team's performances: "We've come on and our younger guys are really pushing into the team now. "We started scratchily this morning but we've kicked on and to get 40 points on the board against Kenya is great for us."
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| Institute: NKorea resumes work at old launch site Posted: 29 Nov 2013 01:17 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. research institute said Friday it has detected a new construction at a North Korean missile launch site which the institute says is being upgraded to handle larger rockets.
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| Factbox: U.S. holiday shopping surveys - cutting through the noise Posted: 29 Nov 2013 01:14 PM PST For those trying to make sense of who the winners and losers are this holiday shopping season, and what it says about the state of the U.S. economy, there are a plethora of forecasts, estimates and surveys, as well as tons of anecdotal evidence. Investors and Wall Street strategists who follow retail sales provided Reuters with some guidelines to avoid being confused by the deluge of data. |
| Ted Lilly retiring at 37 after 15 seasons Posted: 29 Nov 2013 01:11 PM PST  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Ted Lilly would have loved to keep pitching — if his body would allow him to start every fifth day, and if he could stay off the disabled list.
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| Sprained knee sidelines Lin Posted: 29 Nov 2013 01:08 PM PST  Los Angeles (AFP) - Houston Rockets guard Jeremy Lin will miss two weeks with a sprained right knee, the NBA team said Friday.
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| Shrunken head? Ripley's NY to shoppers: Believe it Posted: 29 Nov 2013 01:06 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Where's a Black Friday shopper to turn for a 19th century vampire-killing kit?
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| Did Comet ISON survive? Scientists see tiny hope Posted: 29 Nov 2013 12:58 PM PST  STOCKHOLM (AP) — A comet that gained an earthly following because of its bright tail visible from space was initially declared dead after grazing the sun. Now, there is a sliver of hope that Comet ISON may have survived.
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| Chara scores winner in Bruins' 3-2 victory Posted: 29 Nov 2013 12:55 PM PST  BOSTON (AP) — Zdeno Chara and Patrice Bergeron scored third-period goals to lift the Boston Bruins to a 3-2 comeback win over the New York Rangers on Friday.
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| U.S. extends Iran oil sanctions waivers to China, India, South Korea Posted: 29 Nov 2013 12:54 PM PST  By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department extended six-month Iran sanctions waivers on Friday to China, India, South Korea and other countries in exchange for their reducing purchases of Iranian crude oil earlier this year. The waivers had been expected. Under a law governing sanctions imposed on Iran's disputed nuclear program by the United States, the State Department is required to determine whether the Islamic Republic's oil consumers have reduced their purchases.
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| Will early shopping season launch bring Black Friday hangover? Posted: 29 Nov 2013 12:54 PM PST  By Suzanne Barlyn, Phil Wahba, Marina Lopes and Dhanya Skariachan NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. retailers' controversial choice to kick off the U.S. holiday shopping season early, on Thanksgiving, may not pay off as much as they had hoped. Eager to entice cautious consumers, especially with six fewer shopping days this year than in 2012, many retailers offered sales on Thanksgiving, traditionally a day for family, friends and football games. Even Macy's Inc's flagship store in New York City opened on the U.S. holiday for the first time in its 155-year history, at 8 p.m. Some U.S. shoppers played along, hitting the Internet and stores on Thanksgiving. "It's a lot less than I thought," said Alison Goodwin, from Horsham, Pennsylvania, who ventured to an area mall on Friday seeking gifts and maybe something for herself.
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| Police to talk to crane operator at Brazil stadium Posted: 29 Nov 2013 12:44 PM PST  SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian police plan to talk Friday to the operator of the crane that collapsed this week and killed two workers at a stadium set to host the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament opener. Police said they hope the interview will help investigators pinpoint the cause of the accident, which has cast more doubt on Brazil's preparedness for hosting the showcase event.
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| Another win for Gut in Beaver Creek downhill Posted: 29 Nov 2013 12:41 PM PST  Beaver Creek (United States) (AFP) - Switzerland's Lara Gut won the first downhill of the women's alpine World Cup season on Friday on the new Raptor course built for the 2015 World Championships. Gut continued a strong start to a season that will be highlighted by the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia, notching her second victory in three races after her giant slalom triumph in Soelden, Austria, last month. The 22-year-old, who is aiming for Olympic glory in February after she missed the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games recovering from a hip injury, clocked 1min 41.26sec to beat Liechtenstein's Tina Weirather by 0.47sec. Italy's Elena Fanchini was third, 0.98sec behind the winner.
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| EU says Russia cannot 'veto' its ties with East Europe nations Posted: 29 Nov 2013 12:35 PM PST  EU leaders slammed Russia on Friday for meddling in its affairs after Ukraine rejected a landmark accord with the European Union designed to draw the ex-Soviet state into the Western fold. The snub by Ukraine highlighted a worsening EU-Russia tug-of-war over former Soviet satellites in eastern Europe. "The times of limited sovereignty are over in Europe," European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said at the close of the summit. The two-day summit in the Lithuanian capital on the EU's eastern flank was to have celebrated a five-year drive to cement ties between the bloc and Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
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| Venezuela's Maduro vows stricter business inspections Posted: 29 Nov 2013 12:31 PM PST  By Andrew Cawthorne and Daniel Wallis CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said a stricter wave of inspections for suspected price-gouging would begin on Saturday in an aggressive pre-election "economic offensive" aimed at taming the highest inflation in the Americas. Maduro, who has staked his presidency on preserving the legacy of late socialist leader Hugo Chavez, launched a theatrical - and often televised - wave of inspections this month to force companies to reduce prices. He says "capitalist parasites" are trying to wreck Venezuela's economy and force him from office. Opponents scoff at the measures as cheap and short-term populism that is hiding the failure of Venezuela's socialist economic model and intended to win votes at an upcoming poll.
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| Steelers CB Gay fined $15,750 Posted: 29 Nov 2013 12:29 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback William Gay has been fined $15,750 by the NFL for his hit last Sunday that gave Browns quarterback Jason Campbell a concussion. |
| Ukraine opposition demands leader resign after EU snub Posted: 29 Nov 2013 12:29 PM PST  Ukraine's opposition vowed at a mass rally in Kiev on Friday to maintain pressure on President Viktor Yanukovych to step down after he refused to salvage a key deal with the European Union. Speaking to around 10,000 supporters, opposition leaders said Yanukovych had until mid-March to sign a political and free trade deal with the bloc. "We are demanding Yanukovych's resignation," said an opposition statement read out at the evening rally by an activist and singer who goes by the stage name Ruslana, in the presence of top leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk and world boxing champion Vitali Klitschko. "We declare that we are continuing to fight for a European Ukraine," said the flamboyant singer, who won the Eurovision song contest in 2004.
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| Few thousand in Haiti march in parallel protests Posted: 29 Nov 2013 12:24 PM PST PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Several thousand Haitians marched in parallel protests on Friday in the Caribbean nation's capital. |
| Ukraine's Yanukovich vetoes EU push to save trade deal Posted: 29 Nov 2013 12:17 PM PST  By Justyna Pawlak and Adrian Croft VILNIUS (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich vetoed last-minute attempts by the European Union to rescue a trade deal that could have been signed at a summit on Friday and would have signaled a historic shift away from Russia, EU diplomats said. Under pressure from Moscow, Yanukovich abandoned plans last week to sign the agreement, preferring closer ties with Ukraine's former Soviet master and dealing a blow to EU efforts to build closer relations with its eastern neighbors. As EU leaders gathered on Vilnius on Thursday for a summit with six countries in eastern Europe and the southern Caucasus, officials from the EU and Ukraine tried to work out a last-minute compromise that could have allowed Yanukovich to sign the trade deal in the near future. EU diplomats told Reuters a preliminary understanding had been reached, but Yanukovich had refused to sign off on it.
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| Lara Gut wins season-opening World Cup downhill Posted: 29 Nov 2013 12:14 PM PST  BEAVER CREEK, Colo. (AP) — Lara Gut of Switzerland won her second World Cup event of the season, taking the season-opening downhill Friday in a race Lindsey Vonn skipped to rehab her right knee.
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| Caymans Islands to report US citizens' assets Posted: 29 Nov 2013 12:14 PM PST GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (AP) — The Cayman Islands has signed an agreement with the U.S. government to fight offshore tax evasion and encourage financial transparency. |
| 'If/Then' brings new life to DC's National Theatre Posted: 29 Nov 2013 12:10 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Washington theater with a long history of incubating Broadway-bound shows is getting a rebirth of its own while hosting a new world premiere from the creative team behind "Next to Normal" and the star power of "Rent."
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| Sasha could decide Obama's post-White House home Posted: 29 Nov 2013 12:09 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sasha Obama could be the deciding factor in whether her father stays in Washington after he leaves office.
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| Fights, store evacuation mar U.S. holiday shopping rush Posted: 29 Nov 2013 12:07 PM PST  The post-Thanksgiving shopping rush sparked incidents of violence across the United States as a police officer was injured breaking up a fight, a shopper was shot in the leg over a TV and a Walmart was evacuated, according to police and media reports. In White Plains, just north of New York City, an outlet of Wal-Mart Stores Inc was evacuated on Friday, with employees and shoppers saying they had been warned of a possible bomb threat. In Romeoville, Illinois, police shot a suspected shoplifter in the shoulder late Thursday night after the car he was driving dragged an officer through the parking lot of a Kohl's department store, Romeoville Police Chief Mark Turvey said in a video posted by the Chicago Tribune newspaper.
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| Appling helps No. 1 MSU top Mount St. Mary's 98-65 Posted: 29 Nov 2013 12:07 PM PST  EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Keith Appling came off the bench to score 17 points and Denzel Valentine and Travis Trice added 15 apiece Friday to power Michigan State to a 98-65 victory over Mount St. Mary's and help the Spartans continue their domination of non-conference opponents at home during November.
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| Nigeria says kills more than 50 Islamist insurgents in airstrike Posted: 29 Nov 2013 12:06 PM PST Nigeria's military said on Friday that it may have killed more than 50 Islamist insurgents in an airstrike on one of their main bases in the northeast of the country. The latest strikes on Thursday targeted Boko Haram sect hideouts in the Gwoza hills, near the border with Cameroon. In May, the military stepped up an offensive against the Islamist group, which is fighting to establish an Islamic state in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country split roughly evenly between Christians and Muslims. "We had intelligence that Boko Haram were still hiding somewhere around the Bita bush. |
| Goldman Sachs sued in Singapore penny stock saga Posted: 29 Nov 2013 12:02 PM PST  By Rujun Shen SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A shareholder who suffered losses in a penny stock trading debacle in Singapore is suing Goldman Sachs, accusing the investment bank of arbitrarily selling her holdings and saying the sales contributed to a crash in their prices. Last month, Blumont Group Ltd, Asiasons Capital Ltd and LionGold Corp Ltd - three firms interlinked by cross shareholdings and common officers - lost a combined market value of about S$8 billion ($6.4 billion) in just three days of trading. Both the crash and huge run-ups in their share prices earlier in the year left many in the market mystified, prompting the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the stock exchange to launch an extensive review. The lawsuit was filed in the High Court in London on November 20 by Quah Su Ling, who held stocks in all three companies and is the chief executive of investment firm IPCO International Ltd, the second-largest shareholder in Blumont.
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| Dog found under rubble 9 days after Ill. tornado Posted: 29 Nov 2013 11:58 AM PST  WASHINGTON, Ill. (AP) — A six-month-old pit bull that was buried under a pile of rubble for more than a week after a tornado ripped through a central Illinois city has been coaxed to freedom with hot dogs and reunited with his owner.
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| Egypt Islamists rally to defy protest law Posted: 29 Nov 2013 11:58 AM PST  CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian security forces firing tear gas and water cannons on Friday broke up anti-government demonstrations by Islamists defying a draconian new law restricting protests.
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| Happy with rehab, Vonn trains, eyes Canada return Posted: 29 Nov 2013 11:58 AM PST  VAIL, Colo. (AP) — Lindsey Vonn is energized by her progress in recovering from a knee injury and might be in the starting gate next week in Canada.
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| Ukrainian opposition accuses Yanukovich of stealing EU dream Posted: 29 Nov 2013 11:54 AM PST  By Thomas Grove and Pavel Polityuk KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's political opposition said on Friday that President Viktor Yanukovich had 'stolen the dream' of closer integration with Europe as his supporters hailed his decision to spurn an EU free trade deal. In a sea of blue and gold, the colors of both the EU and Ukrainian flags, some 10,000 protesters chanted "Ukraine is Europe" in Independence Square, the theatre of the Orange Revolution of 2004-5 that thwarted Yanukovich's first presidential bid. Yanukovich's decision to suspend a deal that would have aligned Ukraine's economy more closely with Europe's by opening borders to goods, and set the stage for an easing of travel restrictions, was for many an opportunity lost.
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| Ukraine wants financial, economic aid package from EU: Yanukovich Posted: 29 Nov 2013 11:49 AM PST KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich said on Friday that Kiev still intended to sign an association and trade agreement with the EU in the future, but he wanted the bloc to take 'decisive steps' to draw up an economic aid package for Ukraine. Justifying his decision not to sign the agreement on Friday at an EU summit in Lithuania's capital, he told EU leaders in a closed summit session: "Unfortunately, Ukraine in the last while has turned out to be alone in dealing with serious financial and economic problems. ... |
| Man charged in fiery Ohio crash that killed couple Posted: 29 Nov 2013 11:41 AM PST FREMONT, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio motorist traveling at more than 125 mph was charged Friday with vehicular homicide after his car struck a minivan, killing a couple inside, the State Highway Patrol said. |
| Fire hits Brazil's Latin America Memorial Posted: 29 Nov 2013 11:40 AM PST SAO PAULO (AP) — The fire department of Brazil's biggest city says a fire swept through a large auditorium in Sao Paulo's Latin America Memorial, a political, cultural and leisure complex designed by famed architect Oscar Niemeyer. |
| Protests as France debates divisive prostitution bill Posted: 29 Nov 2013 11:32 AM PST  French lawmakers on Friday examined a bill punishing clients of prostitutes that has sparked fierce argument in a country known for its liberal attitudes to sex. Dozens rallied both for and against the bill as debate began in the lower house National Assembly, which is expected to vote on the bill next Wednesday. Prostitution itself is allowed in France, but soliciting, pimping, and the sale of sex by minors are prohibited.
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| S&P 500 gains for 8th straight week Posted: 29 Nov 2013 11:31 AM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market fizzled Friday at the end of a holiday-shortened trading day, but still logged its longest streak of weekly gains in a decade.
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