Friday, November 15, 2013

Overview

2013/11/15 Headlines: Obama Allows Health Insurers to Continue Substandard Plans; Obama Calls on Congress to Wait on Iran Sanctions; Iraq: At Least 41 Killed in Blasts Targeting Shiites; Warren Questions Fed Chair Nominee Janet Yellen on Failure to Regulate Big Banks; Judge Criticizes U.S. Failure to Prosecute a Single CEO for Financial Crisis; U.S. Probes Potential Currency Manipulation by Traders at Big Banks; AP Source Sentenced to 3 Years for Leak on Yemen Operation; Relatives of Drone Victims Travel to D.C. for Summit; Report: 97% of NYPD "Stop-and-Frisks" Yielded No Conviction; Philippines Death Toll Climbs; Corpses Buried in Mass Grave; Iceberg the Size of Singapore Heads to Sea in Latest Sign of Warming; Report: 2013 Among 10 Warmest Ever Recorded; Gas Pipeline Explosion Kills 2 in Poland; Pipeline Explosion in Texas Spurs Evacuation of Entire Town; Colorado City Approves Fracking Ban; Michigan Prosecutors to Speak on Renisha McBride Shooting; Activist Jeremy Hammond Faces Sentencing for Statfor Hack; Socialist Candidate Kshama Sawant Wins Seattle City Council Seat