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Iraq's prime minister is here in Washington asking for help to battle insurgent Al Qaeda. As NPR's Michele Kelemen explains Iraq is asking for weapons and more intelligence sharing not boots on the ground. 

 

Two years after he refused to let US troops stay in his country, prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, says his government needs America's help to battle a local Al Qaeda affiliate, that has once again become a regional threat in Iraq and in neighboring Syria. Speaking through an interpreter at a Washington think tank , he described Al Qaeda as a dirty wind that wants to spread worldwide. 

 

They carry their rotten ideas everywhere. 

 

Some leading senators have blamed Maliki from mismanaging Iraqi politics and fueling the violent by disfranchising Sunnites, but the Iraqi prime minister says all Iraqis, Sunnites, Kurds and Shiah have been victims of terrorism bombings. Michele Kelemen NPR News, Washington. 

 

The number of people applying for unemployment benefits fell last week to 340,000. NPR's JamesRollyxx, reports the drop comes at the time when the jobs market is lightening. 

 

The labor department said the number of people filing for unemployment compensation for the first time fell by 10,000. Overall the four-week average of first-time claims has been rising. But labor department official say that's partly because of the government shutdown, which temporarily forced a lot of people out of work. But the shutdown is over now and the officials say the labor market appears to have recovered, still the trend in the jobs market is down for the year. The average number of new jobs created has been fallen somewhat every quarter. The government is expected to release its unemployment report for October Next week. JamesRollyxx, NPR News New York. 

 

It's official vice president Joe Biden doing the honors as former Newark mayor Cory Booker was swearing, as the democratic senator from New Jersey today. 

 

As you take this obligation filing without many mental reservation, our purpose of a vision, and you are aware and faithfully discharge the duties of the office, on which you are about to honor, so help you god. 

 

I do.  

 

Congradulations, senator, welcome...

 

Booker becoming the second African American in the senate, senate majority leader Harry Reid said the 44-year-old Booker will be a welcome edition to the body. 

 

We're gonna find Cory Booker is going to be a great asset to this nation and to the senate. 

 

Booker was like to fill out the term of senator Frank Lautenberg, who died earlier this year. 

 

Federal appeals court has moved today to reinstate a list part of Texas's tough new abortion restrictions, a requirement the doctors who work at the clinics have the admitting privileges in a nearby hospital, so it means as many as a dozen clinics provide abotions in the state will not be able to perform the procedures starting as soon as tomorrow.  Handle of judges at the fifth circuit court of appeals ruling just three days after a judge ruled the provision requiring admitting privileges serves no medical purpose. 

 

On Wall Street today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 73 points; the S&P 500 lost six points. This is NPR. 

 

Shell Oil says it will submit its plans for increased oil exploration in the arctic, the company says while no firm plans have been made, drilling more to take place most likely spot would be in the Chukchi sea. The plans submitted a proposal in the next few weeks, will announce to Shell's parent company, Royal Dutch Shell PLC, unveiled its third quarter earnings numbers, Shell attempted to drill both in the Chukchi sea and the Beaufort sea in 2012, but suffers from some serious setbacks. 

 

The legal battle behind one of the year's biggest pop song, is soon getting more complicated. As NPR's Neda Ulaby reports the family of Marvin Gaye, fought a lawsuit against the writers of his song, Blurred lines. 

 

Maybe you remeber, that over the summer, the Blurred lines' writers, preemptively sued the Gayes family, it appeared Robin Thicke,  Pharrell Williams and rapper T.I. were pretty share they were going to get sue themselves. They were riot, on Wednesday, Gayes family filed a suit claiming copyright infringement of not one, but two of Gayes songs, including "After the dance".  Of course, the Blurred lines song writers say they are only paying tribute to Marvin Gaye, not inappreciation on his copyright.  At this point, that fictive suits and counter suits, has assumed proportions had been intellectual property so popular. Each said it hired its own musicologists to help prove its point. Neda Ulaby NPR news. 

 

US official say they have found a tunnel connects  Tijuana, Mexico to an industrial area in Sandiego. Authority say the tunnel equipped electricity, ventilation and a rail system was apparently designed to smuggle large quantity of drugs. Nation immigration and custom enforcement official say as more than eight tons of mariguana and 325 pounds of cocaine, three people are in custody.