2014-10-01 U.S. Spotlight

Obama: US misjudged threat of Islamic State militants  PBS NewsHour
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said in an interview airing Sunday that he agrees with intelligence leaders who believe the United States not only underestimated the threat of militants seeking to form the Islamic State group but also overestimated ...

2014-10-01 U.S. Health

  New York Times   

Ebola Is Diagnosed in Texas, First Case Found in the US  New York Times
Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the infected individual came to the United States from Liberia. Video by Associated Press on Publish Date September 30, 2014. Continue reading the main story. Continue ...

2014-10-01 U.S. Science

  Sydney Morning Herald   

Australia's 2013 heatwave due to climate change, researchers conclude  Sydney Morning Herald
Record temperatures in Australia in 2013 were almost certainly caused by man-made climate change, five separate studies have found. Researchers from the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University and the University of NSW have ...

2014-10-01 U.S. Sports

  ABC News   

A's playoff notes: Oakland looks to keep Royals bullpen out of it  San Jose Mercury News
KANSAS CITY -- The A's were down to one catcher after the third inning when Derek Norris had to replace the injured Geovany Soto. Soto hurt his left thumb tagging out Kansas City Royals base runner Eric Hosmer at the plate in the first inning of Tuesday's ...

2014-10-01 U.S. Entertainment

  RollingStone.com   

'Sons of Anarchy' recap: 'The streets are about to blow up'  San Jose Mercury News
(SPOILER ALERT: Read no further if you don't want to know what happened during the latest episode of the FX drama, "Sons of Anarchy"). -----. I'd love to have a dollar for every time someone has written or uttered the line, "All hell is about to break loose on ...

2014-10-01 U.S. Technology

  Forbes   

The Most Important Promised Feature Of Windows 10 Could Pay Off Big For ...  Forbes
Microsoft unveiled much of what I said you should expect to hear at their Windows press event today in San Francisco, along with a few new details and additional features we hadn't heard of yet from all of the “Windows 9″ leaks buzzing around the net ...

2014-10-01 U.S. Business

  New York Times   

EBay Does About-Face in Decision to Spin Off PayPal  New York Times
Photo. A PayPal employee demonstrates pay options.Credit Beck Diefenbach/Reuters. At eBay's annual board retreat in Half Moon Bay, Calif., in June, the company's 12 directors found themselves moving in a somewhat unexpected direction: breaking up the ...

2014-10-01 U.S. U.S.

  Fox News   

Secret Service let armed former convict ride in an elevator with Obama  Fox News
President Obama shared an elevator earlier this month with an armed security contractor who has three felony convictions relating to assault and battery, in the latest report of a serious violation of Secret Service security protocols. Multiple sources confirmed ...

2014-10-01 U.S. World

  NBCNews.com   

Chinese Web Censors Struggle With Hong Kong Protest  New York Times
As protesters in Hong Kong continue to defy the authorities with their demands for greater democracy, mainland China's politically minded web users have been trying to outmaneuver the invisible army of Internet guardians working to scour social media of ...