Here’s the truth: The government doesn’t shut down
By ANDREW TAYLOR Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, speaks with reporters about the looming deadline to fund the government and the fight among House Republicans on a strategy,…
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Oil falls below $107 as stock markets stall
By PABLO GORONDI Supporters of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans during a protest in Ramses Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Aug. 16, 2013. Heavy gunfire rang out…
Air traffic control modernization hits turbulence
By JOAN LOWY An Alaska Airlines plane takes off Monday, Oct. 28, 2013, from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle. The modernization of the U.S. air traffic control system, one of…
POLICE: BRAZIL PROTESTERS BEAT UP OFFICER
A demonstrator from the Black Bloc anarchist group throws a Molotov cocktail at a burning bus during a protest against Sao Paulo’s Governor Geraldo Alckmin in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday,…
SF TRANSIT STRIKE HAS COMMUTERS FACING GRIDLOCK
By LISA LEFF and TRACIE CONE With the BART transit system on strike, people wait in line to catch a ferry to San Francisco Monday, Oct. 21, 2013, from Jack…
TRAIN KILLS 2 TRACK WORKERS AMID SF BAY STRIKE
By TERRY COLLINS and TRACIE CONE A BART police officer covers one of the two people that were struck and killed by a moving BART train along Jones Road in…
ARGENTINE COMMUTER TRAIN SLAMS INTO STATION, AGAIN
By DAMIAN PACHTER Police officers and paramedics carry a wounded passenger to an ambulance after a commuter train slammed into the end of the line when arriving to Once central…
2ND SF BAY AREA TRANSIT STRIKE IN 4 MONTHS BEGINS
By TERRY COLLINS Roxanne Sanchez, left, president of Service Employees International Union Local 1021, left, speaks during a news conference on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013, in Oakland, Calif. San Francisco…