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Zuckerberg in Indonesia for Internet-access push 10/13/2014 04:02pm • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- On his first visit to Facebook-crazy Indonesia, Mark Zuckerberg met the president-elect, spread the word about his company's global Internet-access initiative and posted a photo of himself at an ancient Buddhist temple.The Facebook CEO arrived Sunday, when he climbed Borob US eyes sale of NY's Waldorf hotel to Chinese firm 10/13/2014 04:00pm • MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Concerned about potential security risks, the U.S. government is taking a close look at last week's sale of New York's iconic Waldorf Astoria hotel to a Chinese insurance company.U.S. officials said Monday they are reviewing the Oct. 6 purchase of Bolivia's Morales coasts to 3rd term as president 10/13/2014 01:59pm • CARLOS VALDEZ Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- Evo Morales coasted to victory in Bolivia's presidential elections, winning an unprecedented third term as voters rewarded the former coca grower for delivering economic and political stability in what has traditionally been one of South America Men come together in support of children in Maryland 10/13/2014 01:51pm • SUITLAND, Md. -- Fathers, grandfathers and other male mentors turned out Monday at more than a dozen Prince George's County schools to spend time with their kids, marking national Men Make a Difference Day. Census Bureau figures indicate that 1/3 of children in the United States go to bed each Making yourself anonymous online 10/13/2014 11:37am • WASHINGTON -- Posting without signing your name doesn't guarantee anonymity on the Web. A new Kickstarter project aims to allow users to quickly and inexpensively use the powerful Tor anonymity network software. In the past, using the Tor software with anything more than Web browsing required Over 1,000 Europeans a day ask Google to scrub Web 10/13/2014 09:08am • MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google is being swamped with demands from Europeans trying to erase humiliating links to their past from the world's dominant Internet search engine.Nearly 145,000 requests have been made in the European Union and four other countries by peo Bolivia's Morales coasts to 3rd term as president 10/12/2014 11:07pm • CARLOS VALDEZ Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- Evo Morales easily won an unprecedented third term as Bolivia's president Sunday on the strength of the economic and political stability the coca growers' union leader has brought to the South American country.Morales, a native Aymara from Boliv Quick count: Bolivia's Morales coasts to 3rd term 10/12/2014 09:10pm • CARLOS VALDEZ Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- Evo Morales easily won an unprecedented third term as Bolivia's president Sunday on the strength of the economic and political stability brought by his government, according to an unofficial quick count of the vote.Morales, a native Aymara from 5 Cheap DIY Halloween Costumes 10/12/2014 12:00am • The average person plans to spend about $77 on Halloween this year, and more than two-thirds plan to buy Halloween costumes, according to the National Retail Federation. But have you seen the prices on some of those chintzy store-bought costumes? You could easily drop $50 to $70 on just one costume 'Queen of Jaffna' to link Sri Lanka's north again 10/11/2014 07:56pm • KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- The "Queen of Jaffna," a once-popular train linking the ethnic Tamil's northern heartland to the rest of Sri Lanka before a bloody civil war cut the link 24 years ago, chugs back into service this coming week, reinforcing the government's a Defense Department rocket to launch from Va. 10/11/2014 03:40pm • WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. (AP) -- NASA is preparing to launch a rocket for the Defense Department from Virginia.The Terrier-Lynx suborbital rocket is scheduled to launch between midnight and 2:00 a.m. on Sunday.The rocket will launch from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Indiana woman wins $300,000 in ArtPrize contest 10/11/2014 01:24am • GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) -- An Indianapolis woman on Friday won $300,000 in the annual ArtPrize competition in Michigan for a sculpture called Intersections.Anila Quayyum Agha, a native of Pakistan, won the public vote prize of $200,000 for the work, which is a cube that's illuminated from the insid Stocks mixed...Nielsen discovers counting error...FAA, flight attendants fight over electronics 10/10/2014 03:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks are mixed in afternoon trading on Wall Street after several days of wild swings. Semiconductor stocks are dragging down the Nasdaq composite index after Microchip Technology cut its sales outlook for the quarter and warned investors to expect bad news from similar companies. Obama: 'Unequivocally committed' to net neutrality 10/10/2014 11:32am • SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- President Barack Obama says he is "unequivocally committed" to keeping the Internet free and open, a concept known as "net neutrality."Net neutrality is the idea that Internet service providers shouldn't block, manipulate or slow data moving across their networks.Obama c EU antitrust body OKs Liberty Global's Dutch deal 10/10/2014 09:00am • BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union's antitrust authority has granted conditional approval to Liberty Global PLC's proposed 10 billion-euro ($13 billion) deal to fully take over Dutch cable operator Ziggo NV.The EU Commission said Friday the acquisition may go ahead provided Liberty sells one pay TV