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VA settles complaints by 3 Phoenix whistleblowers 09/29/2014 09:36pm • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Veterans Affairs Department said Monday it has settled complaints filed by three employees who faced retaliation after filing whistleblower complaints about the troubled Phoenix VA hospital.The employees were among the first to report widespread w Iceland announces men-only UN meeting on women 09/29/2014 06:30pm • CARA ANNA Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Iceland is announcing a U.N. conference on women and gender equality -- and only men and boys are invited.The country's foreign affairs minister told the U.N. General Assembly of world leaders on Monday that the January "barbershop" conference will b New EU trade chief seeks reset in US trade talks 09/29/2014 01:30pm • JUERGEN BAETZ Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) -- Acknowledging strong public skepticism in Europe over free trade talks with the U.S., the European Union's incoming trade chief on Monday called for a "fresh start" and more transparency in the negotiations.Sweden's Cecilia Malmstrom said she was "stru Braley and Ernst clash in first Iowa Senate debate 09/29/2014 10:06am • CATHERINE LUCEY Associated Press INDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) -- The candidates in one of the closest Senate races in the nation faced off in a testy first debate in Iowa Sunday night, with Democrat Bruce Braley and Republican Joni Ernst seeking to distinguish themselves on live television.Before a crowd of Manassas Park wounded warrior receives specially adapted home 09/29/2014 09:48am • WASHINGTON -- A Manassas Park, Virginia, retired U.S. Army reserve specialist injured in combat received a life-changing home upgrade Monday, thanks to a non-profit organization. Jay Briseno of Manassas Park is blind, paralyzed from the neck down, speechless, dependent on a ventilator to breath Texas cancer doctor convicted of poisoning lover 09/29/2014 09:00am • JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) -- A cancer researcher in Texas was convicted Friday of aggravated assault for 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, 43, a breast cancer docto Liberia: Top doctor goes under Ebola quarantine 09/29/2014 12:16am • JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Liberia's chief medical officer is placing herself under quarantine for 21 days after her office assistant died of Ebola.Bernice Dahn, a deputy health minister who has represented Liberia at regional conferences about combating the epid Cuba sharply expands Ebola medical mission 09/26/2014 07:22pm • HAVANA (AP) -- Cuba is greatly expanding the medical mission it's sending to Africa to fight Ebola.The Health Ministry earlier said it would send 165 health workers to Liberia. Now it's saying the mission will include 461 health workers, and some will be sent to Liberia and Guinea. The announcement Court program gives prostitutes another chance 09/26/2014 06:09pm • ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS AP Legal Affairs Writer BEXLEY, Ohio (AP) -- Judge Paul Herbert once dismissed prostitution as "the world's oldest profession," a crime the accused women brought on themselves. Then he began to notice the similarities between domestic violence victims appearing in his courtroom Jurors deliberating in poisoned doctor trial 09/26/2014 01:22am • JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) -- A Texas cancer researcher accused of poisoning a colleague who was also her lover was described by prosecutors on Wednesday as a devious and manipulative person who took extreme action when the man she'd become obsessed with rejected her.Dr. Ana Maria What's Behind the Slowdown in Health Care Costs 09/26/2014 12:00am • A flood of 77 million people from the baby boomer generation have been turning 65, the age of Medicare eligibility, since 2011. These younger enrollees have been a leading factor driving down the rate at which health care spending is increasing, because the younger boomers tend to be healthier than South Carolina College Road Trip: College of Charleston 09/26/2014 12:00am • Ask College of Charleston students what it was about their campus visit that drew them to the school, and you might hear something like, "They had me at the Cistern." Hollywood couldn't conjure a more storybook backdrop for a S outhern college than this grand grassy yard (named for the oval cistern Report: Services for female veterans fall short 09/24/2014 05:40pm • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Veterans Affairs Department and other government agencies are not doing enough to help women who served in the military, even as their number is rising dramatically, according to a new report.The report, released Wednesday by the Disabled American Sierra Leone: 130 Ebola cases found in lockdown 09/23/2014 11:00pm • CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Health teams that went door-to-door in Sierra Leone found 130 confirmed cases of Ebola during a nationwide shutdown to slow the spread of the disease, an official said Tuesday, as authorities consider repeating the unprecedented e Rights of same-sex military spouses vary by state 09/23/2014 04:46pm • MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- On the wall over her bunk in Kuwait, Marine Cpl. Nivia Huskey proudly displays a collection of sonogram printouts of the baby boy her pregnant spouse is carrying back home in North Carolina. If all goes as planned, the 28-year-old militar