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Facebook launches Ebola charity donation button 11/06/2014 06:34pm • BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Facebook is stepping up its efforts to fight Ebola by adding a button designed to make it easier for its users to donate to charities battling the disease.The social media company, working with the nonprofit NetHope, is also donating and dep Mom who left kids in car did not put cash in fund 11/06/2014 06:20pm • TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) -- For a time, Shanesha Taylor was an Internet sensation. She was the mother who -- despite leaving her children in a sweltering car during a job interview -- attracted sympathy from around the nation with a tear-stained mug shot.She received $114,000 in dona Subpoena fight resolved over FBI-Caesars search 11/06/2014 06:10pm • KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A federal judge in Nevada heard defense attorneys allege Thursday that the FBI improperly enlisted Caesars Palace officials to obtain a crucial search warrant before arresting eight men now charged with setting up an international Internet gambling hub a Texas' Perry in court for heated pretrial hearing 11/06/2014 04:33pm • WILL WEISSERT Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry made his first court appearance Thursday but left the dramatics to his attorneys, who argued strenuously that the felony charges against him should be thrown out on technicalities.His high-powered defense team said the counts CBS News launches digital streaming news network 11/06/2014 03:40pm • FRAZIER MOORE AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- CBS News has expanded its reach to a digital streaming network that features live, anchored coverage 15 hours each weekday.The ad-supported network, called CBSN, launched Thursday. It is available around the clock on Internet-connected TVs, mobile Stocks edge higher...Postal Service to deliver packages on Sunday for holidays...More air travel expected this Thanksgiving 11/06/2014 03:20pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks are slightly higher in afternoon trading on Wall Street, a day after a record-high close for the Dow and the S&P 500. Traders are cautious ahead of tomorrow's monthly jobs report. Whole Foods Market jumped 10 percent, the most in the S&P 500 index, after reporting earnings th Man accused of mailing cyanide pleads not guilty 11/06/2014 12:30pm • BANGOR, Maine (AP) -- A Maine man has pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he mailed a poisonous chemical to an Englishman who used it to kill himself.The Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/1zwIw1x ) reports that Sidney Kilmartin, of Windham, entered his plea Wednesday. Authorities say Kilma Survey finds people text and drive knowing dangers 11/05/2014 08:40pm • BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Nearly everyone agrees that texting and driving is dangerous. Many people do it anyway.In an AT&T-sponsored survey of frequent drivers who text daily -- regardless of where they are -- 98 percent said they were aware of the dangers of textin As Samsung falters, mysterious scion in the wings 11/05/2014 08:40pm • YOUKYUNG LEE AP Technology Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- As Samsung's smartphone business suffers a dizzying decline, another issue is vexing investors.Command of one of the world's most valuable consumer brands will eventually pass to the son of its ailing patriarch whose business abilities rem UK spy chief says Web is command center for terror 11/05/2014 08:40pm • DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) -- U.S.-based social media have become "command-and-control networks" for terrorists and criminals, and tech companies are in denial about their misuse, the new head of Britain's electronic eavesdropping agency said.Writing in Tuesday's Financial Times, GCHQ Pirate Bay co-founder arrested at Thai-Lao border 11/05/2014 08:40pm • THANYARAT DOKSONE Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) -- One of the founders of popular file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has been arrested under an Interpol warrant as he was crossing into Thailand from Laos, police said Tuesday.Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij, who uses the alias TiAMO, was detained Monday b Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 11/05/2014 07:40pm • The Associated Press Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:___Nov. 4The Daily Star, Hammond, Louisiana, on space travel:Americans are spoiled when it comes to space travel. We beat the Soviet Union (now Russia) to the moon. We've sent unmanned crafts to Mars. Charge: Man killed English man with mailed cyanide 11/05/2014 06:50pm • BANGOR, Maine (AP) -- A man who mailed cyanide to a suicidal English man, resulting in his death, was arrested on Wednesday, court documents said.Sidney Kilmartin sent the poison to Andrew Denton, of Hull, England, in 2012, papers filed with the U.S. District Court said.British authorities investiga Guns, laptop found with ambush suspect's capture 11/05/2014 04:04pm • MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press Eric Frein stowed Soviet-era weapons alongside modern technology and found sustenance in bags of beans and a bottle of soy sauce, and warmth from candles, a propane stove and camouflage gear.The survivalist marksman charged in a deadly ambush on a Pennsylvania state Higgins leads nation in receiving for Colorado St. 11/05/2014 03:30pm • PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) -- The only thing more magnetic than Colorado State receiver Rashard Higgins' hands may be his personality.The sophomore simply enjoys standing out in a crowd, especially around campus. He wears a dyed gold streak through his hair, just so "all ey
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