Thursday, October 31, 2013

2013/10/31 Headlines: U.S. Drone Strike Kills 3 in Pakistan; Syria Meets Deadline to Destroy Chemical Weapons Equipment; Report: NSA Secretly Breaking Into Google, Yahoo Data Links; U.S., German Officials Meet at White House About NSA Spying; Report: NSA Spied on Vatican Phone Calls; Sebelius Apologizes for Healthcare Website Failures; Anti-Keystone XL Protesters Disrupt Obama Healthcare Speech; Romney Rejects Obama Comparison to Massachusetts Health Law; Koch Pipeline Spills Crude Oil in Texas; Federal Reserve to Continue Bond Purchases; Senate Confirms Obama Nominees for Labor Board, FCC; Obama Taps 2 Top Fundraisers for Ambassador Posts; Activists Warn Plan to Move Fukushima Fuel Rods Could Spark Massive Disaster; Protesters Condemn "Shop-and-Frisk" Profiling Outside Barneys Store; "Treme" Actor Sues over Racial Profiling at Macy's; Protest Blocks NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly's Speech at Brown University; New York City to Raise Age for Buying Cigarettes to 21