Declassified document: US narrowly escaped nuclear blast in 1961 H-bomb accident  —  LONDON — A U.S. hydrogen bomb nearly detonated on the nation's east coast, with a single switch averting a blast which would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that flattened Hiroshima, a newly published book says.

‘All Muslims leave... we only want to kill non-Muslims’: Gunmen massacre at least 22 in Kenyan shopping mall after releasing anyone who could prove they were Islamic by reciting a prayer  —  Kenyan police and soldiers have pinned down the remaining gunmen who opened fire at a shopping centre earlier today …

Obama calls Boehner, says he won't negotiate on debt ceiling  —  President Obama phoned Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Friday to tell him he will not negotiate with Republicans on the debt ceiling, according to a readout provided by the Speaker's office.  —  Boehner told the president he was …

Funeral Bombing, Other Attacks in Iraq Kill 65  —  BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car near a funeral tent packed with mourners and another bomber on foot blew himself up nearby in a Shiite part of Baghdad early Saturday evening, the deadliest assault in a day of attacks that claimed at least 65 lives in Iraq.

Rollie Chance, misidentified as Navy Yard shooter, demands media accountability  —  Rollie Chance was home in Stafford, about 40 miles south of Washington, when he began watching the news about the shootings at the Washington Navy Yard Monday morning.  A retired Navy lieutenant …

(ND-ALL) Congressman Kevin Cramer To People Who Can't Find Jobs or Aren't Able To Work: Don't Eat  —  Earlier today, a constituent of North Dakota Congressman Kevin Cramer posted a comment on Cramer's Facebook wall.  The constituent apparently wanted to make sure that …

The final triumph of welfare reform  —  The Third Way was supposed to end welfare politicking as we knew it, but no one told Republicans  —  House Republicans voted yesterday to cut $40 billion in funding for SNAP — the anti-poverty program commonly known as “food stamps” — because …

Myths of the Obamacare Shutdown Soap Opera  —  There are a number of misperceptions of the internecine dispute taking place among conservatives, and within the Republican Party, around the effort by some to use the continuing resolution and the possibility of a government shutdown, to attempt to defund Obamacare.

Japan dismissed US warnings to contain radioactive water at Fukushima  —  Japanese authorities ignored US calls to contain contaminated water at the stricken Fukushima power plant in 2008, officials told media.  The revelation comes as the Japanese battle to stem radioactive water leaks flooding into the sea from the facility.