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A Financial Planning Guide for Singles 10/09/2014 12:00am • No single person is an island when it comes to financial planning. Those who have been single lifelong, as well as those who find themselves single in the middle of their lives due to divorce or the death of a spouse, have a unique array of financial complications and considerations, financial advi VA moves to ax 4 senior execs in scandal response 10/08/2014 03:56am • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Veterans Affairs Department said it is firing four senior executives as officials move to crack down on wrongdoing following a nationwide scandal over long wait times for veterans seeking medical care, and falsified records covering up the delays. North Korea, at UN, mentions its labor camps 10/08/2014 03:22am • CARA ANNA Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- A North Korean official publicly acknowledged to the international community the existence of his country's "reform through labor" camps Tuesday, a mention that appeared to come in response to a highly critical U.N. human rights report earlier this y Alaska's Begich battles midterm partisan undertow 10/06/2014 05:22pm • NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press KODIAK, Alaska (AP) -- For Democrats to maintain control of the Senate, they have to hope that the Senate race in Alaska is decided by issues that most voters elsewhere have never confronted, like genetically modified salmon or fishing quotas.One illustration of th No challenge expected on Missouri abortion law 10/06/2014 12:30am • DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A new Missouri law requiring a 72-hour abortion waiting period is set to take effect this week, and the state's only licensed abortion clinic isn't planning to try to stop it.Although Planned Parenthood officials have denounced the Missouri 2 Koreas meet for highest level talks in 5 years 10/05/2014 03:44am • HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea's presumptive No. 2 and other members of Pyongyang's inner circle met with South Korean officials Saturday in the rivals' highest level face-to-face talks in five years, a possible indication that both sides are interested in purs Tough Texas abortion law may head to Supreme Court 10/04/2014 04:40pm • DAVID CRARY Associated Press EL PASO, Texas (AP) -- Abortion-rights lawyers are predicting "a showdown" at the U.S. Supreme Court after federal appellate judges allowed full implementation of a law that has closed more than 80 percent of Texas' abortion clinics.As of Friday, abortion services for ma North Korea's No. 2 visits South for rare talks 10/04/2014 11:34am • HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea's presumptive No. 2 and other members of Pyongyang's inner circle met with South Korean officials Saturday in the rivals' highest level face-to-face talks in five years, a possible indication that both sides are interested in purs N. Korea No. 2 visits South for rare talks 10/04/2014 01:52am • HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea's presumptive No. 2 led members of Pyongyang's inner circle in a rare trip Saturday to South Korea for the close of the Asian Games, with the rivals holding their highest level face-to-face talks in five years.After months of tens Palestinian university expels Israeli visitor 10/03/2014 05:58pm • MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- The expulsion of an Israeli journalist from an academic conference hosted by a top Palestinian university has unleashed a fierce debate about academic freedom in the West Bank.It is also shining a spotlight on the apparent radicalizatio University of New Mexico apologizes on 'sex week' 10/02/2014 08:20pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- An effort to promote sex education and raise awareness of sexual assault at the University of New Mexico backfired, forcing administrators to apologize.Vice President for Student Affairs Eliseo Torres issued an apology Wednesday after officials received dozens of complaints APNewsBreak: Mine safety violations down 10/02/2014 04:38pm • FREDERIC J. FROMMER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of chronic safety violators among mine operators has fallen sharply in recent years, according to government figures released Thursday.The Mine Safety and Health Administration said the number has dropped in response to reforms the a Secret Service chief quits due to security lapses 10/02/2014 03:00am • EILEEN SULLIVAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secret Service Director Julia Pierson abruptly resigned Wednesday in the face of multiple revelations of security breaches, bumbling in her agency and rapidly eroding confidence that the president and his family were being kept safe.President Barac Hagel: Military medical system 'average' 10/01/2014 10:30pm • DEB RIECHMANN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Wednesday directed military medical officials to show within 45 days how they will improve care, patient safety and access to treatment at underachieving military health care facilities.Hagel released findings of a 90 Cancer doctor given 10 years for poisoning lover 09/30/2014 11:42am • JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) -- A jury on Monday sentenced a Texas cancer researcher to 10 years in prison after she was convicted of poisoning her colleague, who was also her lover, by lacing his coffee with a sweet-tasting chemical found in antifreeze.Dr. Ana Maria Gonzalez-Angulo,