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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — National Intelligence Director James Clapper says there's no direct evidence of any terrorist involvement in Saturday's crash of a Russian jetliner in the Egyptian desert. But Clapper says a terror link can't be ruled out. Aviation experts say it's possible a bomb was aboard. They also point to 2001 landing in which the Metrojet Airbus A321-200's tail was damaged. The weekend crash killed all 224 people aboard.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Volkswagen emissions test cheating scandal has widened. According to federal regulators, the German automaker also programmed about 10,000 cars with larger diesel engines to emit fewer pollutants during tests than in real-world driving. VW recently admitted rigging emissions tests for millions of four-cylinder diesel engines, including nearly a half million in the U.S.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is adding automatic braking to its five-star safety rating system designed to help consumers identify the most important safety technologies to look for in new cars. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says automatic braking will be added to the ratings beginning with 2018 model cars. The systems use sensors to warn of an imminent collision and, if the driver does not apply the brakes, engage the brakes automatically.
NEW YORK (AP) — The Dow is now the last of the three major U.S. market indexes to return to positive territory for 2015. It rose 165 points today. Health care stocks were among the winners as drugmakers Pfizer and AbbVie climbed, while energy stocks rose sharply in a late-day rally. Chipotle Mexican Grill stumbled as an E. coli outbreak linked to restaurants in Oregon and Washington state spread. All 43 of its locations in those states were shut down.
LAHOMA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma sheriff says no laws were broken when the husband of a small town mayor and others dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan held a cross in front of a fire to make it appear it was burning. But Garfield County Sheriff Jerry Niles told the Enid News and Eagle that the Halloween prank by Cary Sharp, husband of Lahoma Mayor Theresa Sharp, was done in "very poor judgment."
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