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Cyber Deals Have Their Day MondayNEW YORK (AP) — Power up and shop.Millions of Americans took advantage of online deals

ranging from free shipping to hundreds of dollars off elec-tronics and half-price clothing Monday, which was ex-pected to be the busiest online shopping day of the year.

The spending surge on so-called Cyber Monday cameafter a disappointing holiday weekend in stores. And itshowed that Americans are increasingly comfortable buy-ing items on tablets and smartphones.

Early results showed online shopping was up 18.7 per-cent compared with the same time last year, according tofigures by IBM Benchmark. Mobile traffic, which includessmartphones and tablets, accounted for 30 percent of allonline traffic.

Brandon Harris, 27, from Memphis, Tenn., started shop-ping at midnight Sunday and by Monday had spent around$300 and completed half of his Christmas shopping, includ-ing a Barbie doll for his niece and a TV for his mother.

Amazon.com Considering DronesNEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is working on a way to get

packages to customers in 30 minutes or less — via self-guided drone.

Consider it the modern version of a pizza delivery boy,minus the awkward teenager.

Amazon.com Inc. says it’s working on the so-calledPrime Air unmanned aircraft project but it will take yearsto advance the technology and for the Federal Aviation Ad-ministration to create the necessary rules and regulations.

The project was first reported by CBS’ “60 Minutes”Sunday night, hours before millions of shoppers turned totheir computers to hunt Cyber Monday bargains.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in the interview that whilehis octocopters look like something out of science fiction,there’s no reason they can’t be used as delivery vehicles.

Army To Handle Security In Lebanon City TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — The government authorized

the army Monday to take charge of security in Lebanon’ssecond-largest city of Tripoli for six months followingdeadly sectarian clashes by rival sides stemming from thecivil war in neighboring Syria.

Many fear that the violence in Tripoli — only 18 miles(30 kilometers) from the Syrian border — could tip the restof Lebanon back toward chaos. At least 12 people werekilled and more than 100 wounded in the latest fightingthat broke out Saturday.

The decision by caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikatiafter a high-level security meeting at the presidentialpalace is meant to allay fears that the fighting was spread-ing out of control in the northern port city. But the army isweak and has been largely unable to stop the violence.Dozens of soldiers have been killed and wounded in Tripolithis year, often caught in the crossfire between rival gun-men.

Sectarian clashes linked to the war in Syria often flare inTripoli between supporters and opponents of Syrian Presi-dent Bashar Assad.

Lebanon is divided into a patchwork of sects, includingSunnis, Shiites and Christians. Syria’s rebels are dominatedby its Sunni Muslim majority, and Lebanese Sunnis mostlysupport their brethren across the border, while LebaneseShiites have staked their future with the Assad regime. TheLebanese Shiite group Hezbollah has played a critical rolein recent battlefield victories for forces loyal to Assad.

Egypt: Military Powers Raise Concern CAIRO (AP) — Extensive amendments of the constitu-

tion adopted under Egypt’s ousted Islamist president givethe military more privileges, enshrining its place as the na-tion’s most powerful institution and the source of realpower, while removing parts that liberals feared set thestage for the creation of an Islamic state.

The new draft constitution is a key first step in imple-menting a political transition laid down by the military afterit removed Mohammed Morsi from power. A 50 memberpanel declared the draft finished Monday, paving the way fora nationwide referendum within 30 days to ratify the docu-ment.

The military-backed government has heralded the draftcharter as a step toward democracy — seeking to prove thecredentials of the post-Morsi system amid continuingprotests by Islamists furious over the coup against the coun-try’s first freely elected president.

The amended document enshrines personal and politicalrights in stronger language than past constitutions. Butrights experts express fears that the political power carvedout for the military could leave those rights irrelevant.

One key clause states that for the next two presidentialterms, the armed forces will enjoy the exclusive right ofnaming the defense minister, an arrangement that gives themilitary autonomy above any civilian oversight and leavesthe power of the president uncertain.

Ukraine Head Asks To Resume EU talks KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Facing huge anti-government

demonstrations after spurning a deal with the EuropeanUnion, Ukraine’s embattled president sought Monday toquell public anger by moving to renew talks with Brussels.

The opposition, meanwhile, scrambled to secureenough votes in parliament to oust the Cabinet and try toforce an early presidential election, in the biggest unrest inthe country since the 2004 Orange Revolution.

President Viktor Yanukovych struggled to reaffirm hisgrip on power as thousands of demonstrators besiegedgovernment buildings in Kiev, his party suffered defectionsand three cities in the west of the country openly defiedthe central government.

The protests were sparked by Yanukovych’s decision toditch the political association and free trade pact with theEU, followed by the violent dispersal of a small peacefulrally in Kiev over the weekend.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who strongly op-posed the EU deal, denounced the opposition protests inKiev as “pogroms.”

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BY JIM FITZGERALD AND FRANK ELTMANAssociated Press

YONKERS, N.Y. — A commuter train thatderailed over the weekend, killing four passen-gers, was hurtling at 82 mph as it entered a 30mph curve, a federal investigator said Mon-day. But whether the wreck was the result ofhuman error or brake trouble was unclear, hesaid.

Asked why the train was going so fast, Na-tional Transportation Safety Board memberEarl Weener said: “That’s the question weneed to answer.”

He would not disclose what the engineeroperating the train had told investigators.Weener said investigators were examining theengineer’s cellphone — apparently to deter-mine whether he was distracted.

Weener said the information on the locomo-tive’s speed was preliminary and extractedfrom the Metro-North train’s two datarecorders, taken from the wreckage after theSunday morning accident in the Bronx.

He said the throttle went to idle six secondsbefore the derailed train came to a completestop — “very late in the game” for a train goingthat fast — and the brakes were fully engagedfive seconds before the train stopped.

Asked whether the tragedy was the result ofhuman error or faulty brakes, Weener said:“The answer is, at this point in time, we can’ttell.”

He said investigators are not aware of anyproblems with the brakes during the nine stopsthe train made before the derailment.

As investigators mined the data recordersfor information, workers righted the fallen carsalong the curve, a bend so sharp that the speedlimit during the approach drops from 70 mph to30 mph.

It takes about a mile for a train going 70 mphto stop, according to Steve Ditmeyer, an adjunctprofessor of railway management at MichiganState University and a former official with theFederal Railroad Administration.

The wreck came two years before the fed-eral government’s deadline for Metro-North andother railroads to install automatic-slowdowntechnology designed to prevent catastrophicaccidents caused by human error.

Metro-North’s parent agency and other rail-roads have pressed the government to extendthe deadline a few years because of the costand complexity of the Positive Train Control

technology, which uses GPS, wireless radio andcomputers to monitor locomotives’ positionand speed and stop trains from colliding, derail-ing or going the wrong way.

“Assuming the braking system was workingnormally, this crash would not have happened”if a PTC system had been in place, said GraydCothen, a former safety official with the FederalRailroad Administration.

He said the system would probably havealerted the engineer to the speed of the trainand the approaching curve, and if the engineerhad failed to brake manually, the PTC wouldhave probably forced the train to stop.

“This incident, if anything, heightens the im-portance of additional safety measures, likethat one,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Con-necticut, which is also served by Metro-North.“And speaking for myself, I’d be very loath tobe more flexible or grant more time.”

Margie Anders, a spokeswoman for Metro-North’s parent, the Metropolitan Transporta-tion Authority, said that the agency beganplanning for a PTC system as soon as the lawwas put into effect.

“It’s not a simple, off-the-shelf solution,” shesaid.

The engineer, William Rockefeller, was in-jured and “is totally traumatized by everythingthat has happened,” said Anthony Bottalico, ex-ecutive director of the rail employees union. Hesaid Rockefeller, 46, was cooperating fully withinvestigators.

“He’s a sincere human being with an impec-cable record that I know of. He’s diligent andcompetent,” Bottalico said. Rockefeller hasbeen an engineer for about 11 years and aMetro-North employee for about 20, he said.

While the train’s seven cars and locomotivewere gradually returned to their tracks Monday,the 26,000 weekday riders on the railroad’s af-fected Hudson Line faced a complicated com-mute.

Many used shuttle buses and cars to get towork. But no major delays were reported dur-ing the early rush hour.

On Sunday, the train was about half full,with about 150 people aboard, when it ran offthe rails around 7:20 a.m. while rounding abend where the Harlem and Hudson riversmeet. The lead car landed inches from thewater. In addition to the four people killed,more than 60 were injured.

Many victims had been released from hospi-tals by Monday afternoon.

NTSB: Train GoingToo Fast At Curve

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A New York commuter train derailed on Sunday in the Bronx borough. Federal investigators said Mon-day the train was estimated to be going 82 miles per hour at a curve with a 30 mph speed limit.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Com-puter crashes should be givingway to insurance coverage — ifthe government’s diagnosis ofits health care website is cor-rect.

The Health and HumanServices Department releaseda progress report Sunday onits effort to get the troubledHealthCare.gov website on themend. Administration officialssaid the worst of the onlineglitches, bugs and delays maybe over.

“The bottom line —HealthCare.gov on Dec. 1 isnight and day from where itwas on Oct. 1,” said JeffZients, the White House’stroubleshooter tasked withmaking the website functionproperly.

Yet officials acknowledgedmore work remains on thewebsite, which made its na-tional debut two months agowith hundreds of softwareflaws, inadequate equipmentand inefficient management.Federal workers and privatecontractors have undertakenan intense reworking of thesystem.

One problem that con-sumers can’t see — at leastnot yet — is quickly movingup to the top of the WhiteHouse priority list. Insurerscomplain that much of the en-rollment information theyhave gotten through the sys-tem’s back-room operation ispractically useless: erroneous,duplicative or garbled.

That raises the possibilitythat a patient could go to usetheir new coverage next Janu-ary at the pharmacy or doc-tor’s office only to be toldthey are not in the system.

“In addition to fixing thetechnical problems withHealthCare.gov the significant‘back-end’ issues must also beresolved to ensure that cover-age can begin on January 1,”said Karen Ignagni, presidentof America’s Health InsurancePlans, the largest industrytrade group. “In particular, theongoing problems with pro-cessing ... enrollment filesneed to be fixed.”

The next crucial deadlinefor the system is Dec. 23, twodays before Christmas.

Consumers must be en-rolled by that date so theircoverage can kick in on thefirst of the year.

Gov’t Diagnosis:HealthCare.govOn The Mend

WASHINGTON (AP) — TheSupreme Court on Monday re-fused to consider throwingout New York state’s taxes onInternet purchases on web-sites like Amazon.com, amove that could change theway Internet commerceworks.

The high court refusedwithout comment to hear ap-peals from Amazon.com LLCand Overstock.com Inc., intheir fights against a state lawthat forces them to remitsales tax the same way in-state businesses do.

Web retailers generallyhave not had to charge salestaxes in states where they

lack a store or some otherphysical presence. But NewYork and other states say thata retailer has a physical pres-ence when it uses affiliates —people and businesses thatrefer customers to the re-tailer’s website and collect acommission on sales. Theseaffiliates range from one-per-son blogs promoting the lat-est gadgets to companies thatrun coupon and deal sites.

Amazon and Overstockboth use affiliate programs.Amazon has been collectingsales tax in New York as itfights the state over a 2008law that was the first to con-sider local affiliates enough of

an in-state presence to re-quire sales tax collection.Overstock ended its affiliateprogram in 2008 after the lawpassed.

The Supreme Court refusalto hear the websites’ appeallikely will prompt more andmore states to attempt to col-lect taxes from website pur-chases. Around 20 states,including New York, alreadyhave similar laws on thebooks. The National Councilof State Legislatures esti-mated that states lost an esti-mated $23.3 billion in 2012from being prohibited fromcollecting sales tax from on-line and catalog purchases.

Justices Won’t Hear AppealOf NY Internet Taxation