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(AP) Gov’t shutdown enters 2nd week, no end in sightBy DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe government shutdown entered its second week with no end in sight and ominous signs that the United States was closer to the first default in the nation’s

(AP) Bomb kills 2 in Pakistan anti-polio driveBy RIAZ KHANAssociated PressPESHAWAR, PakistanA bomb exploded next to a van carrying Pakistani security guards tasked with protecting workers involved in an anti-polio drive in the country’s northwest on Monday, killing two people,

(AP) Egypt: 51 killed in new bout of street violenceBy HAMZA HENDAWIThe Associated PressCAIROSecurity forces and Islamist protesters clashed around the country Sunday, leaving 51 killed, as a national holiday celebrating the military turned to mayhem. Crowds from Egypt’s two

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says that if he owned the Washington Redskins, he would “think about changing” the team name, wading into the controversy over a football nickname that many people deem offensive to Native Americans. Obama, in

Even though only 11 percent of Americans think the Washington Redskins should change their nickname, President Barack Obama decided it was important to discuss the matter on Friday just three days after the federal government shutdown and as the country

(AP) AP sources: US Navy SEALs raid Somali townBy ABDI GULED and JASON STRAZIUSOAssociated PressMOGADISHU, SomaliaU.S. Navy SEALs carried out a pre-dawn raid Saturday on a coastal town in southern Somalia looking for a specific al-Qaida suspect linked to the

On October 3, the Republican state senators who won in the September 10 Colorado recall were sworn into office. Former Colorado Councilman Bernie Herpin took state Senator John Morse’s (D-Colorado Springs) office, and retired Pueblo police officer George Rivera took

(AP) No. 8 Florida State routs No. 25 Maryland 63-0By KAREEM COPELANDAssociated PressTALLAHASSEE, Fla.Jameis Winston reaffirmed his Heisman Trophy candidacy with the best performance of his short career Saturday. The Florida State redshirt freshman put up career-highs with 393 yards

President Barack Obama indicated that he may support efforts to get the Washington Redskins to change their nickname, saying that if he owned the Redskins he would “think about changing” the team name. “I don’t know whether our attachment to

(AP) LA students get iPads, crack firewall, play gamesBy JOHN ROGERSAssociated PressLOS ANGELESEducation officials in the nation’s second-largest school district are working to reboot a $1 billion plan to put an iPad in the hands of each of their 650,000

(AP) Migrants used empty water bottles to stay afloatBy ANDREA ROSAAssociated PressLAMPEDUSA, ItalySurvivors of a fiery shipwreck that killed more than 100 African migrants clung to empty water bottles to keep themselves from drowning and were coated in gasoline, an

(AP) Fugitive witness in Hernandez case in custodyBy PAT EATON-ROBBAssociated PressHARTFORD, Conn.Authorities say a fugitive with ties to former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez has been taken into custody in Connecticut. The U.S. Marshals Service says Alexander Bradley of East

(AP) Mississippi football players disrupt campus playBy DAVID BRANDTAP Sports WriterJACKSON, Miss.A University of Mississippi professor says that a group of Ole Miss students, including football players, disrupted a production of a campus play with “hate speech” on Tuesday night.

(AP) Russian Embassy in Libya evacuated after attackBy VLADIMIR ISACHENKOVAssociated PressMOSCOWRussia on Thursday evacuated all of its diplomats and their families from Libya, the day after a mob attack on the Russian Embassy, and issued a warning to its citizens

(AP) Chicago burger garnished with communion waferBy CARYN ROUSSEAUAssociated PressCHICAGOA Chicago restaurant has cooked up a controversial burger of the month for October, garnishing it with an unconsecrated communion wafer and a red wine reduction sauce. Kuma’s Corner, a foodie

(AP) With turkeys gone wild, Maine expands huntingBy CLARKE CANFIELDAssociated PressPORTLAND, MaineOnce nearly wiped out of existence, turkeys are running wild. Buoyed by what’s been called the most successful wildlife restoration project ever, wild turkeys are eating crops, ruining gardens,

(AP) Official: Service academy games will go onBy RALPH D. RUSSO and LOLITA C. BALDORAssociated PressU.S. military academy football teams will play this weekend, despite the government shutdown. A senior defense official said Wednesday the decision affects this weekend’s games

(AP) Overflowing tank cause of new leak at FukushimaBy MARI YAMAGUCHIAssociated PressTOKYOAnother day, another radioactive-water spill. The operator of the meltdown-plagued Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant says at least 430 liters (110 gallons) spilled when workers overfilled a storage tank without

The Associated Press says the Tea Party’s growing power and influence has unmoored Republican politicians from their traditional alliance with Wall Street in favor of grassroots conservative activists.   AP reporters Charles Babington and Jim Kuhnhenn cited the “corporate community’s

To explain the partial shutdown of the federal government, the Associated Press is characterizing the issue as one between the noble Obama and the partisan Republicans. Further, as if they have no role here, the AP doesn’t mention Harry Reid

(AP) Pressure mounts to fix health insurance exchangesBy JULIET WILLIAMS and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVARAssociated PressThe pressure is on for the federal government and states running their own health insurance exchanges to get the systems up and running after overloaded websites and

The Reuters news agency is cutting some five percent of its editorial staff, a source close to the company said Wednesday, the latest layoffs in the troubled media industry. Parent company Thomson Reuters announced in a statement it would be

(AP) Arm cut off of Reagan statue in PolandBy MONIKA SCISLOWSKAAssociated PressWARSAW, PolandPolice were searching on Wednesday for a vandal who damaged a bronze statue of Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II in the Polish city of Gdansk by

(AP) Bomb kills 2 Pakistan soldiers in quake-hit regionBy ABDUL SATTARAssociated PressQUETTA, PakistanSuspected separatists killed two Pakistani soldiers Wednesday, in a wave of attacks targeting troops doing relief work in a remote region of the country’s southwest where a major

(AP) Man in custody after device found at Fla. airportBy DEREK KINNERAssociated PressJACKSONVILLE, Fla.Authorities arrested a suspect after finding two suspicious packages — including one they described as destructive — at the Jacksonville International Airport. Zeljko Causevic, 39, was booked

In a report describing the efforts of House Republicans working “beneath the radar” on comprehensive immigration reform, the Associated Press failed to connect the dots. It failed to point out that the ultimate endgame for House Republicans on immigration reform

(AP) Netanyahu: Israel won’t let Iran get nuclear armsBy EDITH M. LEDERERAssociated PressUNITED NATIONSIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu played the spoiler Tuesday to any easing of Iran’s relations with the West, telling world leaders his country will do whatever it

It appears the Associated Press has either been duped by a partisan government union big-wig pretending to be a beleaguered government employee facing furlough due to a government shutdown, or they knew he was an activist and withheld the information

By SINAN SALAHEDDINAssociated PressBAGHDADNearly 1,000 Iraqis were killed in September, one of the highest monthly death tolls in years, the U.N. said Tuesday, giving a somber figure that reflects the militants’ determination to rekindle large-scale sectarian conflict. Iraq is going

By NICK PERRYAssociated PressWELLINGTON, New ZealandA man from one of the lowest-lying nations on Earth is trying to convince New Zealand judges that he’s a refugee–suffering not from persecution, but from climate change. The 37-year-old and his wife left his

By RUSSELL CONTRERASAssociated PressALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Insults dished out by food critic Anthony Bourdain on an episode of CNN’s “Parts Unknown” have stirred up outrage in New Mexico–and now he acknowledges that he was wrong. The sharp-tongued chef and writer lashed

(AP) Global study: World not ready for aging populationBy KRISTEN GELINEAUAssociated PressThe world is aging so fast that most countries are not prepared to support their swelling numbers of elderly people, according to a global study going out Tuesday by

(AP) Under fire, ‘Obamacare’ going live _ with glitchesBy RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVARAssociated PressWASHINGTONContentious from its conception, President Barack Obama’s health care law has survived the Supreme Court, a battle for the White House and rounds of budget brinkmanship. Now comes the

(AP) Dad of stabbed Dodgers fan makes plea for evidenceBy PAUL ELIASAssociated PressSAN FRANCISCOThe father of a Los Angeles Dodgers fan stabbed to death after a San Francisco Giants game last week made a public plea Sunday for independent witnesses

POTISKUM, Nigeria (AP) — Suspected Islamic extremists attacked an agricultural college in the dead of night, gunning down dozens of students as they slept in dormitories and torching classrooms in an ongoing Islamic uprising in northeast Nigeria, the school’s provost