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Business events scheduled for the coming week 10/30/2014 03:00pm • The Associated Press All times are EasternMONDAY, Nov. 3WASHINGTON -- Institute for Supply Management releases its manufacturing index for October, 10 a.m.; Commerce Department releases construction spending for September, 10 a.m.DETROIT -- Automakers release vehicle sales for October.TUESDAY, Nov. Business events scheduled for the coming week 10/30/2014 02:09pm • The Associated Press All times are EasternMONDAY, Nov. 3WASHINGTON -- Institute for Supply Management releases its manufacturing index for October, 10 a.m.; Commerce Department releases construction spending for September, 10 a.m.DETROIT -- Automakers release vehicle sales for October.TUESDAY, Nov. Pair convicted in secret $1.6 M Navy silencer deal 10/30/2014 01:40pm • MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press McLEAN, Va. (AP) -- A senior Navy intelligence official and a California race-car mechanic were convicted in federal court for their roles in pushing through a secret Navy contract to build hundreds of untraceable rifle silencers for an unspecified, classified progra Elaborate FBI repairman ruse shown in videos 10/30/2014 12:38pm • ALICIA A. CALDWELL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wearing a lapel camera and posing as an Internet repairman, an undercover government agent walked into a luxury villa at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and recorded everything he saw as part of a major international gambling bust.Defense lawyers sa FTC says AT&T misled customers over unlimited data 10/30/2014 10:32am • JENNIFER C. KERR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- AT&T is being sued by the government over allegations it misled millions of smartphone customers who were promised unlimited data but had their Internet speeds cut by the company -- slowing their ability to open web pages or watch streaming video. China eases monopoly on credit cards 10/30/2014 08:44am • JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) -- China says it will ease restrictions on credit cards in a move that might give Visa, MasterCard and other foreign competitors greater access to the Chinese market.Foreign companies will be allowed for the first time to apply to set up credit card clear Activists: Myanmar clinging to political prisoners 10/30/2014 08:32am • ROBIN McDOWELL Associated Press YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar has freed more than a thousand political prisoners since former military rulers handed over power three years ago, a move that has smoothed the former pariah state's international rehabilitation. Now the government says the job is done. In 'Nightcrawler,' Gyllenhaal is on the prowl 10/30/2014 07:34am • JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer TORONTO (AP) -- Dan Gilroy, writer-director of the Los Angeles noir "Nightcrawler," knew his star, Jake Gyllenhaal, had entered an adventurous new phase as an actor. But he still didn't foresee the sudden emergence of a hair tie."One day he goes, 'Can I put my hair up in a Baidu profit up 27 percent as mobile grows 10/30/2014 02:00am • BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese search engine Baidu Inc. said Thursday its quarterly profit rose 27 percent as user traffic for its mobile operation surpassed passed its desktop computer-based search business.The Beijing-based company said it earned 3.9 billion yuan ($631.5 million), or 11 yuan ($1.79) per New Australian law targets leakers, not reporters 10/29/2014 11:50pm • ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- A contentious new law that carries a prison term for anyone who reveals information about certain secret security operations was aimed at Edward Snowden-like leakers rather than investigative reporters, Australia's attorney-general said on Thu NYC hatchet attack called terrorism, but why? 10/29/2014 11:40pm • TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- What police have labeled the latest act of terror in New York City didn't involve an international conspiracy, a high-profile target or a bomb -- just an unemployed loner wielding a hardware-store hatchet on an unremarkable street.New York Police Department Midwest rappers, others charged with fraud 10/29/2014 10:20pm • MICHAEL TARM Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) -- Members of an Indiana-based rap group called RACK Boyz and other suspects from Illinois made hundreds of thousands of dollars in a bank fraud scheme that included wooing participants through social media and Internet videos, federal and state authorities Video shows FBI impersonating repairmen in ruse 10/29/2014 09:47pm • ALICIA A. CALDWELL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- It was an extraordinary ruse. Dramatic new video obtained by The Associated Press, filmed through the lapel camera carried by an undercover government agent, shows how the FBI tricked its way inside a luxury villa at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas Google working on pill that searches for illnesses 10/29/2014 08:44pm • BRANDON BAILEY AP Technology Writer LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Google is working on a cancer-detecting pill in its latest effort to push the boundaries of technology.Still in the experimental stage, the pill is packed with tiny magnetic particles, which can travel through a patient's bloodstream, FBI says it faked AP story to catch bomb suspect 10/29/2014 07:00pm • GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) -- The FBI confirmed Tuesday it faked an Associated Press story to catch a bomb threat suspect in 2007, but now says it did not spoof a Seattle Times Web page as part of the investigation.Police in Lacey, near Olympia, sought the FBI's help as repeated bomb