October 24, 2013 (San Diego’s East County ) --ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:
U.S.
- Toyota recall: spiders are causing airbag problems (CS Monitor)
- Schumer to introduce debt limit legislation (The Hill)
- Study: Wind power costs taxpayers billions of dollars (Townhall)
- Obamacare said to take in almost a half million applications (Bloomberg)
- California health exchange reports 94,500 application starts (Los Angeles Times)
- Healthcare.gov: What works and what doesn’t (CNN)
- Oregon launching new program to tax drivers per mile (Fox News)
- AP CEO: Press freedom v. security a `false choice’ (U-T San Diego)
- Inside the Fox News lie machine: I fact-checked Sean Hannity on Obamacare (Salon)
- U.S. high court declines to hear privacy lawsuit against Thomson Reuters (Reuters)
- Protecting Detroit pensions may violate bankruptcy code: judge(Reuters)
WORLD
- High temperatures and winds worse Australian wildfires (CS Monitor)
- Oops! Azerbaijan Releases Election Results Before Voting Begins (NPR)
- EU Parliament urges ending data agreement with US (AP)
- China smog: Super smog blankets China city, 40 times higher than international safety standard (CS Monitor)
- Mexico calls alleged U.S. spying on Calderon ‘unacceptable’ (Reuters)
- Images show new work at NKorea's nuclear test site (U-T San Diego)
- Did Turkey Sell Out Israeli Agents To Iran? (NPR)
- Japan delaying cleanup of towns near nuclear plant (U-T San Diego)
- China to restrict satellite TV stations to one foreign program (Reuters)
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