| Hydrogen cars could be headed to showroom near you Posted: 20 Nov 2013 01:12 PM PST  DETROIT (AP) — Cars that run on hydrogen and exhaust only water vapor are emerging to challenge electric vehicles as the world's transportation of the future.
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| Israel, Gulf in 'strange alliance' against Iran Posted: 20 Nov 2013 01:11 PM PST  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — When U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made another stop in the Middle East this month, he received an expected earful over Washington's outreach to Iran: Don't trust Tehran, tighten sanctions even more, anything short of complete nuclear concessions is a grave mistake.
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| US stocks fall as Fed notes suggest stimulus cuts soon Posted: 20 Nov 2013 01:12 PM PST  New York City (AFP) - US stocks fell Wednesday after minutes from the last Federal Reserve policy meeting said the central bank could scale back its stimulus program "in coming months."
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| ADA says pilot in NY boat crash admitted drinking Posted: 20 Nov 2013 01:09 PM PST  NEW CITY, N.Y. (AP) — The man accused of crashing a powerboat into a barge on the Hudson River, killing a bride-to-be and her fiance's best man, told rescuers he'd been "drinking all day," a prosecutor said Wednesday.
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| Kerry: Muslim Brotherhood 'stole' Egypt revolution Posted: 20 Nov 2013 01:07 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry is accusing Egypt's well-organized Muslim Brotherhood of having "stolen" the revolution that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011. |
| Slack economy raises stimulus question for ECB Posted: 20 Nov 2013 01:07 PM PST  FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Alarmingly low inflation and weak growth have led officials at the European Central Bank to consider what had once seemed unthinkable: A Federal Reserve-like program of large-scale bond purchases to jolt the region's economy.
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| Creditors conclude talks in Greece, back December Posted: 20 Nov 2013 01:06 PM PST  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek officials say bailout creditors have concluded a round of talks with the government on demanded austerity measures and will return to Athens early in December.
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| Minutes: Fed could slow bond buys in coming months Posted: 20 Nov 2013 01:05 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the Federal Reserve agreed last month that they would likely start reducing their bond purchases in coming months if the job market improved further. They also weighed the possibility of slowing the purchases even without clear evidence of a strengthening job market.
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| 1st Greenpeace protester leaves Russian jail Posted: 20 Nov 2013 01:02 PM PST  ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — The first of 30 Greenpeace activists arrested by Russia in an Arctic protest two months ago was freed on bail Wednesday, in a case that has drawn attention both to Russia's ambitions in the region and its hard line against dissent.
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| Fed sees stimulus taper 'in coming months' Posted: 20 Nov 2013 01:00 PM PST  Federal Reserve policy makers expected at their October meeting that they would begin cutting the stimulus program "in coming months", the minutes of that meeting showed Wednesday. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) left the $85 billion a month asset-purchase program unchanged at the October 29-30 meeting. At the same time, the group reiterated that any such move was contingent on data continuing to show a strengthening economy, and they discussed the need to better communicate their expectations for interest rate changes. They noted that markets had overly linked together two separate policy decisions -- when the asset purchases would be cut, and when the Fed would begin raising its base interest rate.
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| Nebraska man reunited with long-lost motorcycle Posted: 20 Nov 2013 01:00 PM PST  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man has been reunited with his long-lost, now-vintage motorcycle nearly 50 years after it was stolen.
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| House OKs bill to speed oil, gas drilling Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:57 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House approved a bill Wednesday aimed at speeding up drilling for oil and natural gas.
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| Vonn partially tears repaired right knee ligament Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:56 PM PST  Lindsey Vonn partially tore one of the reconstructed ligaments in her surgically repaired right knee in a training crash that at the very least puts her preparation for the Sochi Olympics on hold.
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| Candidate concedes loss in bid for San Diego mayor Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:55 PM PST  SAN DIEGO (AP) — A technology industry executive and former state assemblyman has conceded defeat in the race for San Diego mayor and endorsed a fellow Democrat and city councilman.
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| France says newspaper shooting suspect arrested Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:55 PM PST  PARIS (AP) — The suspect in a Paris newspaper office shooting that left a photographer gravely wounded and other attacks that triggered a two-day nationwide manhunt was arrested Wednesday evening, French authorities said.
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| Nuke troubles run deep; key officers "burned out" Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:54 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Trouble inside the Air Force's nuclear missile force runs deeper and wider than officials have let on.
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| Olympic champ Vonn has partial ligament tear Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:53 PM PST  Reigning Olympic downhill champion Lindsey Vonn's return to racing is on hold after a training crash caused new damage to her surgically repaired right knee. "Lindsey sustained a mild strain to her right knee, a partial tear to her right ACL (anterior cruciate ligament), minor facial abrasions and scapular contusions from her fall," Vonn's publicist Lewis Kay said Wednesday. Vonn, also a four-time overall World Cup champion and two-time World Champion, had spent the past few months rehabilitating her surgically repaired right knee in anticipation of a return to competition next Friday in the women's alpine World Cup stop at Beaver Creek, Colorado. After her fall on Tuesday, Vonn was taken off the mountain by sled and was examined by orthopaedic surgeon Bill Sterett in Vail, Colorado.
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| Kerry: US and Karzai agree on language for pact Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:53 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that the U.S. and Afghanistan have agreed on the final language of a bilateral security agreement that would govern the presence of American troops in the country after the NATO combat mission ends next year. |
| Too fat to fly: Stranded Frenchman's ordeal ending Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:52 PM PST  LONDON (AP) — He's been turned down by planes, trains and even a cruise ship in his quest to return home — and his family says it's because he has been deemed too fat to travel.
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| Paramount would fight 'Wonderful Life' sequel Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:52 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Paramount won't be giving any wings to a planned "It's a Wonderful Life" sequel.
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| Ally Financial repays $5.9 bn to US Treasury Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:48 PM PST  Ally Financial, the former finance arm of General Motors taken over by the government during the financial crisis, repaid the government $5.9 billion Wednesday, the US Treasury said. After two years of restructuring that turned Ally, previously known as GMAC Inc., into a bank holding company, the company has repaid the government $12.3 billion, more than 70 percent of the support provided, the Treasury said. The money will be used to buy back preferred shares held by the Treasury in the bank. After GM itself was rescued by the government at the end of 2008, Ally received $17 billion in support under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), and the Treasury currently holds a majority 74 percent stake in it.
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| 1893 recording of black vocal group up for auction Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:47 PM PST  BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — One of two copies of the oldest known recording of a black vocal group in the U.S. is up for auction — a recording so rare and delicate that the auctioneer doesn't dare try to play it.
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| Solid Oct. retail sales lift hopes for US economy Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:45 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — An increase in shopping last month during the partial government shutdown suggests that the U.S. economy may be more resilient than some have feared.
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| Fed's readiness to reduce stimulus sinks stocks Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:45 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — New signs that the Federal Reserve is getting ready to reduce its extraordinary support of the U.S. economy sent stock and bond prices lower on Wall Street Wednesday.
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| French police arrest suspect in Paris shootings Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:45 PM PST  French police on Wednesday detained a man on suspicion of carrying out the recent shootings at a left-wing newspaper and a bank headquarters in Paris, prosecutors said. Paris police had been hunting a man suspected of Monday's shooting at newspaper Liberation - which critically wounded a photographer -- a subsequent shooting outside the offices of bank Societe Generale and a carjacking that ended on the Avenue des Champs Elysees. The man, bearing a "strong physical resemblance" to the suspected gunman, was arrested around 7:00 pm (1800 GMT) in a vehicle in an underground parking lot in the western Paris suburb of Bois-Colombes, the Paris prosecutors' office said.
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| Gov't to require seat belts on large buses Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:44 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — New tour buses and buses that provide service between cities must be equipped with seat belts starting in late 2016 under a federal rule issued Wednesday, a safety measure sought by accident investigators for nearly a half century.
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| Nigeria extends emergency against Islamic uprising Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:43 PM PST ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian legislators have approved a six-month extension for the state of emergency that is governing the country's northeastern states, which have been terrorized by an Islamic uprising. |
| J.C. Penney's 3Q loss widens; sales even out Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:43 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Even though J.C. Penney's latest results show the beleaguered retailer is hardly out of the woods, investors still see reasons to cheer.
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| Kerry: no quick decision on whether Iran may enrich uranium Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:42 PM PST U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday the issue of whether Iran will ultimately be allowed to enrich uranium will not be decided in an interim deal under discussion between major world powers and Iranian officials in Geneva. "Whatever a country decides or doesn't decide to do, or is allowed to do under the rules, depends on a negotiation," Kerry told reporters. |
| Congress honors American Indian code talkers Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:40 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — For decades, the wartime service of 96-year-old Edmond Harjo and other American Indian "code talkers" was something that wasn't even officially acknowledged, let alone publically recognized.
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| Angry A-Rod walks out of grievance 'farce' Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:40 PM PST  Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez, fighting to reverse his historic 211-game doping ban, walked out of a grievance hearing Wednesday calling the proceedings a "farce". Rodriguez departed the hearing after arbitrator Fredric Horowitz ruled that Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig wouldn't be required to testify. "I am disgusted with this abusive process, designed to ensure that the player fails," Rodriguez said in a statement. "This morning, after Bud Selig refused to come in and testify about his rationale for the unprecedented and totally baseless punishment he hit me with, the arbitrator selected by MLB and the Players Association refused to order Selig to come in and face me.
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| Lawsuits filed in NY boat crash that killed 2 Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:37 PM PST NEW CITY, N.Y. (AP) — The estates of two people killed in a New York boat accident have filed lawsuits alleging that poor lighting on a construction barge is to blame. |
| Ballooning animal controversies mar Macy's parade Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:36 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is awash in animal-related protests over its floats, with controversies involving the unlikely pairing of rocker Joan Jett and Shamu the killer whale.
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| Actor Chris Hemsworth, wife expecting baby no. 2 Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:35 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Hemsworth has a sequel in the works, but it's not a new movie.
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| Funerals held in Lebanon for Iran Embassy victims Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:35 PM PST  BEIRUT (AP) — Undeterred by a devastating suicide attack that rocked the Iranian Embassy in Beirut a day earlier, hundreds of Hezbollah supporters pumped their fists in the air Wednesday and vowed eternal allegiance to the Lebanese Shiite militant group as they buried victims from the bombing.
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| 5 charged in US bust over North Korean meth Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:34 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — Five foreigners were charged in the United States on Wednesday with plotting to smuggle 100 kilograms of highly potent methamphetamine that was produced in North Korea. |
| Tribune Co. to cut 700 jobs at newspaper division Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:34 PM PST CHICAGO (AP) — Tribune Co. says it's eliminating about 700 jobs as part of a restructuring of its newspaper business. |
| Insight: For Intel, Hollywood dreams prove a leap too far Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:27 PM PST  By Noel Randewich, Ronald Grover and Liana B. Baker (Reuters) - Earlier this year, Intel Corp rented temporary retail space in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago for a splashy launch of Intel TV, a new Internet entertainment service that the chipmaker promised could revolutionize the television industry. Instead, they will see ultra thin laptops and new tablets from a variety of vendors that Intel hopes will help boost its massive but flagging computer chip business. The project faced daunting challenges from the start, and Intel's new CEO, Brian Krzanich, ultimately decided the company could not afford the distraction and expense, sources familiar with the decision told Reuters. At his first annual investor day on Thursday, Krzanich is expected to discuss the growing use of chips in everyday devices, plans to breath new life into PCs, and Intel's growing contract manufacturing business - but not Intel TV.
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| While town cleans up, team prepares for a big game Posted: 20 Nov 2013 12:26 PM PST  NORMAL, Ill. (AP) — The home where Colton Marshall and his family lived is gone — one of 1,000 damaged or destroyed Sunday when a powerful tornado plowed through his central Illinois town of Washington.
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