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- Wrong man was executed in Texas, probe says
- Beauty pageant winner caught in ugly controversy
- Poll: Obama's gay marriage stance could hurt him
- Nancy Pelosi: The Democrats' $43-million weapon
- ABC News Exclusive: Zimmerman Medical Report Shows Broken Nose, Lacerations After Trayvon Martin Shooting
- Jindal On Obama's Experience: He 'Never Ran a Lemonade Stand'
- 15 Current Technologies A Child Born Today Will Never Use
- Florida mother kills her four children, then herself
- Report: Global Biodiversity Down 30 Percent in 40 Years
- Obama Talks Gay Marriage, Politics and Pop Culture on 'The View'
- Y! Big Story: Mexico's six-year drug war behind the Mother's Day massacre
- Have a Nice Colonoscopy: New Test Eliminates Probing, Laxative
- George W. Bush: 'I'm for Mitt Romney'
- Secure Communities deportation program will expand to New York and Mass., despite Democratic governors' objections
- This $2.8 million Leica is the world's most expensive camera
- Chris Matthews bombs on 'Jeopardy!'
- Wife calls Rod Blagojevich's prison area 'one of the saddest places'
- Weary warriors favor Obama
- 103-year-old man to be buried in coffin made from tree he fought for decades to protect
- Obama: JPMorgan Is 'One of the Best-Managed Banks'
- Mississippi Highway Murders: Killer Posing as Cop?
- Ignore the Time breastfeeding cover: Never ask if you're 'mom enough.' Here's how.
- EU carries out first strikes on Somali pirates
- Ron Paul: Nomination is out of reach, but campaign continues
- Over 55 and jobless, Americans face tough hunt
- Lexus found submerged in family's swimming pool; drunk-driving suspected
- Virginia Republicans Deny Judgeship to Gay Prosecutor
- California targets health, public workers to fix budget hole
- Obama financial forms show big JP Morgan account
- Mexico drug wars: 49 headless, dismembered bodies found dumped along highway
- Authorities: 5 dead after shootings in Fla.
- Iran hangs "Mossad agent' for scientist killing
- Are the abortion ultrasound laws headed for the Supreme Court?
- Man bitten by rattlesnake at Washington state Walmart
- Teachers dance behind students in prank video set to Whitney Houston song
- Edwards' campaign finance chairman paid mistress
- Man sets himself on fire outside Breivik trial
- Obama calls pastors to explain gay marriage support; black churches 'conflicted'
- Henry Kissinger receives full TSA pat-down at airport
- GOP kills civil unions in Colorado special session
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Wrong man was executed in Texas, probe says
Mon,14 May 2012 10:11 PM PDT
AFP -  He was the spitting image of the killer, had the same first name and was near the scene of the crime at the fateful hour: Carlos DeLuna paid the ultimate price and was executed in place of someone else in Texas in 1989, a report out Tuesday found.
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Beauty pageant winner caught in ugly controversy
Tue,15 May 2012 08:09 AM PDT
The Lookout - A newly crowned beauty queen in Fiji, who sparked an outcry because of her mixed heritage, was asked to give up her title because of her age, not her race, according to pageant officials. Torika Watters, 16, was chosen last month to represent Fiji in the Miss World contest. The pageant drew the likes of [...] Full Story | Top |
Poll: Obama's gay marriage stance could hurt him
Tue,15 May 2012 01:41 AM PDT
The Ticket - A New York Times/CBS News poll released Monday night shows the possible political perils of President Obama's recent announcement that he supports same-sex marriage. Most of those polled say the president's position will not impact how they vote. But among those who say it will influence their choice, 26 percent said they are less likely [...] Full Story | Top |
Nancy Pelosi: The Democrats' $43-million weapon
Tue,15 May 2012 03:11 AM PDT
Power Players - Spinners and Winners Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., became the most powerful woman in American history when she was sworn in as Speaker of the House in 2007. She lost that power four years later and is now hell-bent on winning it back. Spinners and Winners caught up with Pelosi on her early morning power walk [...] Full Story | Top |
Jindal On Obama's Experience: He 'Never Ran a Lemonade Stand'
Tue,15 May 2012 10:00 AM PDT
ABC OTUS News - Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal criticized President Obama's experience before he became president in an interview Tuesday, and defended Mitt Romney, who has recently come under attack by Obama's campaign for his record at Bain Capital. "President Obama hasn't run anything before he was elected President... Full Story | Top |
15 Current Technologies A Child Born Today Will Never Use
Sun,13 May 2012 07:24 AM PDT
LiveScience.com -  From the moment that I found out my wife was pregnant with our first child, a son, I've thought of his development in terms of tech. When pregnancy sites described our six-week-old fetus as the size of a "lentil," I referred to him as the length of an RFID chip. When the doctor said he had reached 1.3 pounds, I told all my friends that my son was the size of an iPad. When he was born this week, he was about the size of an HP Envy 15, though unfortunately his cries did not use Beats Audio.
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Florida mother kills her four children, then herself
Tue,15 May 2012 12:31 PM PDT
Reuters -  MIAMI (Reuters) - A mother shot and killed her four children before turning a gun on herself in a small town in Florida on Tuesday, authorities said. The shooting happened at a house in Port St. John, in Brevard County, about 15 miles from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. A spokesman for the Brevard County Sheriff's office identified the victims as four children aged 12, 13, 15 and 17. They were shot by their 33-year-old mother, Tonya Thomas, who then turned the gun on herself, Tod Goodyear said. All were shot with what appeared to be a handgun, he said. ...
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Y! Big Story: Mexico's six-year drug war behind the Mother's Day massacre
Tue,15 May 2012 11:25 AM PDT
Trending Now - The mass dumping of headless bodies administers a shock to Mexico, long numbed by a death count of nearly 50,000 brought on by president Felipe Calderon's war against the crime cartels. By the time his tenure ends this December, six years after his declaration, that number will likely surpass 60,000. What kind of headway has [...] Full Story | Top |
Have a Nice Colonoscopy: New Test Eliminates Probing, Laxative
Mon,14 May 2012 02:37 PM PDT
LiveScience.com - Colonoscopies could be made a bit more comfortable for people if they involved lying in a CT scanner, rather than being probed with an endoscope, and at the same time didn't require drinking upward of a gallon of laxative fluid beforehand — current requirements that most consider unpleasant. Full Story | Top |
George W. Bush: 'I'm for Mitt Romney'
Tue,15 May 2012 08:59 AM PDT
ABC OTUS News - Mitt Romney has the support of George W. Bush. "I'm for Mitt Romney," Bush told ABC News this morning as the doors of an elevator closed on him, after he gave a speech on human rights a block from his old home — the White... Full Story | Top |
Chris Matthews bombs on 'Jeopardy!'
Tue,15 May 2012 07:14 AM PDT
The Cutline - Chris Matthews appeared on Monday's "Jeopardy!" alongside CNN's Lizzie O'Leary and former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs in a special "Power Players" edition of the game show, taped last weekend in Washington. And the host of MSNBC's "Hardball," to put it politely, bombed. Problems started for Matthews when he requested a category in the [...] Full Story | Top |
Wife calls Rod Blagojevich's prison area 'one of the saddest places'
Tue,15 May 2012 08:00 AM PDT
The Lookout - An area in the prison that holds ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is "one of the saddest places on Earth," says his wife. After a Mother's Day visit to the Littleton, Colo., facility with her family, Patti Blagojevich posted on Facebook that her husband was "so happy to see the us [sic] and we were so [...] Full Story | Top |
Weary warriors favor Obama
Mon,14 May 2012 06:17 AM PDT
Reuters -  COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Mack McDowell likes to spend time at the local knife and gun show "drooling over firearms," as he puts it. Retired after 30 years in the U.S. Army, he has lined his study with books on war, framed battalion patches from his tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, a John Wayne poster, and an 1861 Springfield rifle from an ancestor who fought in the Civil War. But when it comes to the 2012 presidential election, Master Sergeant McDowell is no hawk. ...
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103-year-old man to be buried in coffin made from tree he fought for decades to protect
Tue,15 May 2012 12:12 PM PDT
The Sideshow - Frank Knight was a professional logger but earned his true legacy spending decades protecting New England's tallest elm tree. But as all things must, the 217-year-old tree nicknamed "Herbie" eventually succumbed to Dutch elm disease. And over the weekend, 103-year-old Knight died as well. But as a final tribute to this unique relationship between man [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama: JPMorgan Is 'One of the Best-Managed Banks'
Mon,14 May 2012 02:43 PM PDT
ABC OTUS News -  ABC News' Mary Bruce, Aaron Katersky and Christina Ng Report: Just hours after a top JPMorgan Chase executive retired in the wake of a stunning $2 billion trading loss, President Obama told the hosts of ABC's "The View" that the bank's risky bets exemplified the...
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Ignore the Time breastfeeding cover: Never ask if you're 'mom enough.' Here's how.
Mon,14 May 2012 11:53 AM PDT
The Lookout - This is a health bulletin. A sober, alarmist one. Aimed squarely at moms who feel guilty about their choices. There is a neurotoxin that every mother must avoid. It's omnipresent. It's stealthy. And it's been found in radioactively high doses on the much-discussed breastfeeding cover of Time, which asked, "Are You Mom Enough?" It's resentment. [...] Full Story | Top |
Ron Paul: Nomination is out of reach, but campaign continues
Tue,15 May 2012 09:33 AM PDT
The Ticket - Ron Paul is not suspending his presidential campaign. That's the message his staff pushed Tuesday following the candidate's declaration that he won't spend any additional funds to campaign in new states. But campaign manager Jesse Benton clearly stated that the hopes of Paul winning the Republican presidential nomination are officially over. "We recognize that Gov. [Mitt] [...] Full Story | Top |
Over 55 and jobless, Americans face tough hunt
Tue,15 May 2012 12:46 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jean Coyle, 67, has a new kind of ministry. The former professor had just begun a career as a Presbyterian minister in Virginia when the economic downturn forced her church to let her go in 2007. After that, she found only temporary work. She relied on savings while job hunting, but at 64, had to dip into her Social Security benefits. She officially retired in 2010. For spending money, she plans to start teaching a water aerobics class to earn $40 a week. "I'm not going to get wealthy on that," she said. "It's not really the ministry I expected to have. ...
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Lexus found submerged in family's swimming pool; drunk-driving suspected
Mon,14 May 2012 08:47 AM PDT
The Sideshow - A 40-year-old California man is accused of driving his Lexus through a cinder block wall and into a family's backyard swimming pool. The man, Modesto Cabral, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence on Sunday after the 5:25 a.m. one-vehicle crash. Pieces of the wall were seen stuck in the car's windshield. An [...] Full Story | Top |
Virginia Republicans Deny Judgeship to Gay Prosecutor
Tue,15 May 2012 12:56 PM PDT
The Atlantic Wire -  Amid the ongoing debate over President's support gay marriage and following of North Carolina's recent ban of it, Virginia's House of Delegates voted today to deny a judicial nomination to Tracy Thorne-Begland, who would have become the state's first openly gay judge. According to The New York Times' Sabrina Tavernise, Thorne-Begland received 33 "yes" votes to 31 "nays," in a vote held in the early hours on Tuesday morning, but needed a 51-vote majority of all the House delegates to be approved. ...
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California targets health, public workers to fix budget hole
Mon,14 May 2012 05:05 PM PDT
Reuters -  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown on Monday unveiled a revised state budget plan that calls for new cuts to healthcare for the poor and elderly and reduced work hours for state employees as part of an effort to close a $15.7 billion budget gap. Brown had said on Saturday that the projected deficit for the fiscal year beginning in July had increased from the $9.2 billion projected in January due to the slow economic recovery, less revenue and other factors including some cutbacks in social service spending blocked by the courts and federal government. ...
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Obama financial forms show big JP Morgan account
Tue,15 May 2012 02:31 PM PDT
The Ticket - Maybe it's a case of putting your mouth where your money is. President Barack Obama praised JP Morgan Chase in an interview recorded Monday as "one of the best managed banks there is" and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, as "one of the smartest bankers we got." On Tuesday, the White House made public financial disclosure [...] Full Story | Top |
Mexico drug wars: 49 headless, dismembered bodies found dumped along highway
Mon,14 May 2012 06:06 AM PDT
The Lookout - Forty-nine headless, dismembered bodies were found along a stretch of highway in Mexico on Sunday. The mutilated bodies "scattered in a pool of blood"—some with their hands and feet "hacked off," according to the Associated Press—were discovered by local authorities on the edge of the town of San Juan on a road that connects Monterrey [...] Full Story | Top |
Authorities: 5 dead after shootings in Fla.
Tue,15 May 2012 07:37 AM PDT
Associated Press - Deputies called to a Florida home because neighbors heard gunshots found a person shot dead in the front yard, then found more people fatally shot inside the house, authorities said Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
Iran hangs "Mossad agent' for scientist killing
Tue,15 May 2012 03:38 AM PDT
Reuters -  DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has hanged a man it said was an agent for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad whom it convicted of killing one of its nuclear scientists in 2010, Iranian state media reported on Tuesday. Tehran has accused Israel and the United States of assassinating four Iranian scientists since 2010 in order to sabotage its nuclear program which the West suspects is hiding Iran's attempt to develop a nuclear weapons capability. ...
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Are the abortion ultrasound laws headed for the Supreme Court?
Tue,15 May 2012 07:01 AM PDT
The Lookout - A popular new piece of abortion legislation may eventually end up in front of the Supreme Court as federal courts have disagreed over whether it violates the Constitution. The law—versions of which have passed in Oklahoma, North Carolina and Texas—mandates that before a woman is allowed to obtain an abortion, doctors must give her an [...] Full Story | Top |
Man bitten by rattlesnake at Washington state Walmart
Mon,14 May 2012 06:49 PM PDT
Reuters - SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - When Mica Craig reached down to brush what he thought was a stick off some mulch in the garden section of a Washington state Walmart, it turned around and sank its fangs into his hand. The Friday encounter with a rattlesnake sent Craig, 47, to the hospital, where he said he remained in excruciating pain and may lose feeling in two fingers. Wal-Mart Stores Inc has apologized. "I reached down to grab the stick to move it out of the way, and the snake stretched out, turned around and got its fangs in my right hand," he said. ... Full Story | Top |
Teachers dance behind students in prank video set to Whitney Houston song
Tue,15 May 2012 01:29 PM PDT
The Sideshow - Students at Abby Kelley Foster Charter School were recently asked to film video testimonials for the Worcester, Massachusetts, school. However, unbeknown to the students, their teachers were actually planning an elaborate prank. While the students offer heartfelt speeches, the teachers are secretly dancing behind them with wild abandonment. A soundtrack featuring Whitney Houston's "I Wanna [...] Full Story | Top |
Edwards' campaign finance chairman paid mistress
Tue,15 May 2012 12:41 PM PDT
Associated Press -  Records introduced Tuesday at John Edwards' corruption trial show his campaign finance chairman paid the candidate's mistress a $9,000 monthly cash allowance, on top of other living and travel expenses.
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Man sets himself on fire outside Breivik trial
Tue,15 May 2012 09:52 AM PDT
Associated Press -  An unidentified man was seriously injured in a self-immolation Tuesday outside the courthouse where right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik is being tried on terror charges for a bombing and shooting massacre that killed 77 people on July 22.
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Obama calls pastors to explain gay marriage support; black churches 'conflicted'
Mon,14 May 2012 07:57 AM PDT
The Ticket - After making his historic remarks on same-sex unions last week, President Barack Obama led a conference call with black church pastors to explain his support for gay marriage, the New York Times reports. The call, which was held with "eight or so African-American ministers," occurred about two hours after the president's interview with ABC's Robin [...] Full Story | Top |
Henry Kissinger receives full TSA pat-down at airport
Tue,15 May 2012 07:52 AM PDT
The Lookout - Henry Kissinger was searched by the Transportation Security Administration at New York's LaGuardia Airport on Monday. Matthew Cole, a freelance reporter for The Washington Post, recognized the former secretary of state, who was in a wheelchair, at a security checkpoint. The 88-year-old Kissinger, Cole said, got a "full pat-down." "He stood with his suit jacket [...] Full Story | Top |
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