What’s On Saturday
Date: 26 October 2013
By KATHRYN SHATTUCK
25. oktober 2013 var en fredag under stjernetegnet for ♏. Det var 297 dag på året. Præsident for USA var Barack Obama.
Hvis du blev født på denne dag, er du 12 år gammel. Din sidste fødselsdag var den lørdag den 25. oktober 2025, 225 dage siden. Din næste fødselsdag er søndag den 25. oktober 2026, om 139 dage. Du har levet i 4.608 dage, eller omkring 110.604 timer, eller omkring 6.636.264 minutter eller omkring 398.175.840 sekunder.
Date: 26 October 2013
By TOM PEDULLA
Date: 26 October 2013
By JONATHAN MARTIN
Sen Ted Cruz, Texas Republican who has worried senior members of his party about political fallout from the federal government shutdown, argues the battle over the health care law will invigorate Republicans in 2014 elections; speaks at fund-raiser in Des Moines, where Iowa state party has been taken over by insurgent conservative wing.
Date: 26 October 2013
By BILL VLASIC
Kevyn Orr, emergency manager for Detroit, testifies that he was not hired by Michigan’s governor to lead Detroit into bankruptcy court; accusation has been at heart of arguments by unions and retirees that they were never given a chance to negotiate for payments owed them by the city because of a calculated plan to take Detroit to a Chapter 9 filing.
Date: 26 October 2013
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
Georgia's voters prepare to go to polls to replace Pres Mikheil Saakashvili as several officials who served in the departing president’s cabinet are on trial or facing prosecutions that could bring long sentences; trials offer evidence of how Saakashvili's government has lost power, leading members of his own party to worry that the criminal cases are part of ruthless political retribution.
Date: 26 October 2013
By KEN BELSON and TOM PEDULLA
NFL will end its nearly quarter-century-long sponsorship with helmet maker Riddell after 2013-14 season; company was target of lawsuit by thousands of retired players who claimed it hid information about dangers of concussions; other football news noted.
Date: 26 October 2013
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Chinese high-tech company BYD, wooed to California with deal that included $2 million in tax subsidies, has said it would create dozens of jobs but employs fewer than 40 workers; at least 5 of those are Chinese workers here temporarily, being paid less than $8 an hour; state officials slap company with $100,000 in fines for violating the minimum wage law and failing to provide sufficient documentation of pay.
Date: 26 October 2013
By DAVID E. SANGER
News analysis; Europe's uproar over revelations that National Security Agency is monitoring their leaders and citizens obscures a new reality: that the digital age has merely expanded the ability of nations to do to one another what they have done for centuries; at same time, this technology has allowed Europeans, Chinese and other powers to replicate the NSA's surveillance techniques.