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News Feed Latest worldwide news Bo Pelini Draws Mix of Support, Rebuke From Fans Longtime Nebraska football fans Karen Shelton and Sue Schrader arrived at Memorial Stadium eager to show their support Saturday for embattled coach Bo Pelini. The New Old Age Blog Daughters (Still) Are the Caregivers Children who live near their mothers are six times more likely to wind up as caregivers than other adult children, a new study finds, and they are mostly women. UPDATE 2-Former U.S. auto czar Ron Bloom to advise Detroit retirees DETROIT, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Detroit's retirees have bolstered their defenses against benefit cuts in the city's bankruptcy case by hiring Ron Bloom, a chief architect of the Obama administration's... Kenyan president says he lost close relatives in mall shooting NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said he himself had lost close relatives in Saturday's mass shooting in a Nairobi shopping mall. 'Miracle' no fatalities in Chicago shooting police superintendent Sept. 20 - Police say 13 people wounded, including a three-year-old, in an apparent gang-related shooting spree on Chicago's South Side. Rough Cut. (no reporter narration). REFILE-Same firm checked background of Navy Yard shooter, Snowden WASHINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - The same company that scrutinized former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden for a U.S. government security clearance said on Thursday it also checked the background... In Pursuit of Tastier Chickens, a Strict Diet of Four-Star Scraps In an experiment, chickens are being fed prized scraps from acclaimed New York restaurants to rediscover what, aficionados say, a chicken should taste like. Apple splits its pitch Can it work? Apple has launched two new iPhones, one for the early adopters and one for the budget crowd. So can its pitch work? Tech journalist Stuart Miles argues Apple's strategy is simple -- but smart. Ad tech provider Rocket Fuel shares nearly double in debut (Reuters) - Shares of advertisement technology company Rocket Fuel Inc nearly doubled in their debut as investors flocked to grab a piece of the company that has shown impressive revenue growth. Expert Promoter didn't pressure Jackson's doc The doctor convicted in Michael Jackson's death did not appeared to be pressured by AEG Live, an expert hired by the concert promoter testified Friday. Days Best in the N.F.L. The top performers and key injuries in Week 2 of the N.F.L. season. Throngs greet Apple's newest iPhones, gold color sells out (Reuters) - Thousands of iPhone enthusiasts queued up at Apple Inc stores around the world on Friday as two new models of the smartphone went on sale, but Apple's shares ended slightly lower as... UPDATE 1-Little hope for 68 missing in Mexican village mudslide -President ACAPULCO, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Sixty-eight people were missing on Saturday after a mudslide caused by torrential rains that have already killed more than 100 people across Mexico buried a mountain... D. J. R. Bruckner, Columnist and Critic, Dies at 79 Mr. Bruckner, who was a longtime editor for The New York Times Book Review, landed on Nixons enemies list over his syndicated columns for The Los Angeles Times. Head of NBC Entertainment Extends Contract to 2017 Robert Greenblatt, who was put in charge by Comcast in 2011, has had some successes like The Voice as well as fallow periods. Tool Kit New Devices Mind Pets While Owners Are Away Innovative tools help ease pet owners concerns about what their animals are doing while home alone. U.S. seeks to ease Israeli concerns over Iran contacts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even as it crafts a response to overtures from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, the Obama administration is working to reassure Israeli officials there will be no easing of sanctions on Tehran unless it first takes tangible steps to limit its nuclear program, U.S. and diplomatic sources said. Teacher punished for Twitter lesson After a student made obscene comments about her on Twitter, a high school teacher in northern Mexico taught a lesson with an online post of her own a video showing her confronting the girl in class. A Data Broker Offers a Peek Behind the Curtain The Acxiom Corporation plans to open a Web site that will allow individual consumers to see some of the information that the company has collected about them. Movie Review +1, a Sci-Fi Party Film From Dennis Iliadis A bawdy college kegger has a possible extraterrestrial mystery in +1. Tennis baby takes Internet by storm The daughter of Bob Bryan, part of of tennis' greatest double act in history, has become a social media phenomenon. Saving South Africa's rhinos South African conservationists are trying to save the country's remaining rhinos. CNN's Robyn Curnow reports. Emmys 2013 Cranston is having a moment Right now, Bryan Cranston is The Man. He's up for Emmy, has water-cooler talk for "Breaking Bad," in bunches of movies. City Room Williamsburg Waterfront, 125 P.M. N.Y. See Guilherme Santos, a resident of Brooklyn for 50 years, relaxed in a park near the East River in Williamsburg on Friday. Rainbow laces spark club criticism It was supposed to provide the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow but the latest effort to fight homophobia in football is in danger of fading into monochrome. Letters Atoms Everywhere (1 Letter) Letter to the editor. Movie Review Jewtopia, a Comedy Directed by Bryan Fogel In Jewtopia, a young man asks a childhood friend to help him act Jewish so he can romance the girl of his dreams. MARKET PULSE-Prosensa, Zillow, FireEye, Tibco, gold stocks (For more market insights, including options activity, click on ; for the Day Ahead newsletter http//link.reuters.com/mex49s; for the Morning News Call newsletter, http//link.reuters.com/nex49s) East Lake Leader Stenson Takes Nothing for Granted Henrik Stenson has both the Tour Championship and FedExCup firmly in his grasp heading into the last two rounds but, though he enjoys being a front-runner, is well aware a lot can happen over the final 36 holes. Alonso to snub McLaren interest McLaren may want a reunion with Fernando Alonso, but the Spaniard has no intention of leaving Ferrari. City Room The Week in Pictures for Sept. 20 Watch a slide show of photographs from the past week in New York City and the region. Subjects include a fire on the Jersey Shore, prayers at the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Queens, and vote counting in Brooklyn. Billy Joel, Shirley MacLaine top Kennedy Center honors list (Reuters) - Pop singer Billy Joel, Oscar-winning actress Shirley MacLaine and jazz composer Herbie Hancock on Thursday were among the annual recipients of this year's Kennedy Center Honors, one of the United States' top cultural awards. T Magazine On View | The Wild English Ponies of Dartmoor Travel to London The artist Patricia Heal has created a multimedia exhibition dedicated to the indigenous ponies of Devon, England, which she has spent years photographing. About New York Moved to Tears at the Cloisters by a Ghostly Tapestry of Music A sacred composition of Renaissance England is reworked by the multimedia artist Janet Cardiff and carried through 40 speakers in The Forty Part Motet. The most ruthless al-Assad? He's the strongman behind the strongman Maher al-Assad. Who is Peer Steinbrueck? In the quiet world of German politics, outspoken Social Democrat leader and Angela Merkel's main challenger, Peer Steinbrueck, is causing something of a storm. Tokyo man to lose home to make way for stadium again TOKYO (Reuters) - Kohei Jinno fans out the black and white photos of his family posing proudly in front of their central Tokyo home, a house they were forced to leave ahead of the 1964 Olympic Games to make way for construction of the main stadium. No. 22 Notre Dame Beats Michigan State 17-13 Cam McDaniel scored on a 7-yard run following a questionable pass interference call, one of several penalties that hurt Michigan State, as Notre Dame beat the Spartans 17-13 Saturday for their 10th straight home win. FireEye's debut signals red hot interest in cybersecurity (Reuters) - The shares of cybersecurity company FireEye Inc leapt 80 percent in their trading debut on Friday in a sign of how red hot cybersecurity is on Wall Street at the moment, and even inspired at least one peer to accelerate plans to go public. UPDATE 4-BlackBerry warns of big loss, 4,500 job cuts; shares dive By Euan Rocha TORONTO, Sept 20 (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd warned on Friday it expects to report a huge quarterly operating loss next week and that it will cut more than a third of its global workforce, rekindling fears of the company's demise and sending its shares into a tailspin. The company, which has struggled to claw back market share from the likes of Apple Inc's iPhone and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's Galaxy phones, said it expects to report a net operating loss of between $950 m

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