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Sunday, May 13, 2012 8:30 PM PDT

Today's Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines: Facebook CEO Zuckerberg turns 28, IPO could be $100B gift JPMorgan executives expected to resign 49 bodies dumped on Mexican highway Yahoo! CEO Thompson departs, board settles with investors Newsweek cover: Obama 'first gay president' Secret Service sex scandal hearings set AP Exclusive: Drawing focuses on Iran's nuke work Father of Kansas plane crash survivor speaks Slideshow: Mother's Day in prison Texting while walking banned in New Jersey town Calif. FBI agent missing, possibly armed, suicidal Boston U. student recovering after New Zealand crash Brown pushes tax hike as California's money woes deepen Ivy League school janitor graduates with honors Bloomberg: N.C. marriage vote sets back civil rights Leftist Mexican presidential candidate rises in poll Legendary bass player 'Duck' Dunn dies in Tokyo Senior Afghan peace negotiator shot dead in Kabul Syrian forces kill 7 civilians in rural attack: activists George W. Bush consoles Joe Biden on 'SNL' (VIDEO) Man attempts to set world record, fist-pumping 17 hours straight Facebook CEO Zuckerberg turns 28, IPO could be $100B gift Sun,13 May 2012 07:33 PM PDT Associated Press - Don't let the hoodie and sneakers fool you. Mark Zuckerberg is no wet-behind-the-ears CEO. Full Story Top JPMorgan executives expected to resign Sun,13 May 2012 06:29 PM PDT Reuters - Three executives involved with the failed hedging strategy that has left JPMorgan Chase & Co with a $2 billion trading loss and a tarnished reputation are expected to leave the bank this week, sources close to the matter said on Sunday. The company is expected to accept the resignation of Ina Drew, its chief investment officer and one of its highest-paid executives, in the next few days, the sources said. Two of Drew's subordinates who were involved with the trades, Achilles Macris and Javier Martin-Artajo, are expected to be asked to leave, according to the sources. ... Full Story Top 49 bodies dumped on Mexican highway Sun,13 May 2012 07:22 PM PDT Associated Press - Forty-nine bodies with their heads, hands and feet hacked off were found Sunday dumped on a northern Mexico highway leading to the Texas border in what appeared to be the latest carnage in an escalating war between Mexico's two dominant drug cartels. Full Story Top Yahoo! CEO Thompson departs, board settles with investors Sun,13 May 2012 05:21 PM PDT Associated Press - Yahoo swept out Scott Thompson as CEO Sunday in an effort to clean up a mess created by an exaggeration about his education that destroyed his credibility as he set out to turnaround the long-troubled Internet company. Full Story Top Newsweek cover: Obama 'first gay president' Sun,13 May 2012 07:41 AM PDT The Ticket - It won't be nearly as controversial as Time magazine's breastfeeding cover, but Newsweek's May 21 issue declares Barack Obama the country's "first gay president." The accompanying cover story was written by Andrew Sullivan, the popular--and openly gay--political blogger. The magazine even gives the commander-in-chief a rainbow halo. Obama, Sullivan writes, "had to discover his black [...] Full Story Top Secret Service sex scandal hearings set Sun,13 May 2012 10:22 AM PDT The Ticket - The chairmen of the Senate and House Homeland Security Committees leading a probe of the Secret Service said on Sunday that they plan to hold a May 23 Congressional hearing on the prostitution scandal that rocked the agency in April. Secret Service director Mark Sullivan and Charles Edwards, acting inspector general of the Dept. of [...] Full Story Top AP Exclusive: Drawing focuses on Iran's nuke work Sun,13 May 2012 01:57 PM PDT Associated Press - A drawing based on information from inside an Iranian military site shows an explosives containment chamber of the type needed for nuclear arms-related tests that U.N. inspectors suspect Tehran has conducted there. Iran denies such testing and has neither confirmed nor denied the existence of such a chamber. Full Story Top Father of Kansas plane crash survivor speaks Sun,13 May 2012 04:07 PM PDT Associated Press - Ron Luce didn't recognize the voice of the woman who phoned Friday to say his daughter Hannah was with her, and was fine. Full Story Top Slideshow: Mother's Day in prison Fri,11 May 2012 01:09 AM PDT Cori Walters, 32, (R) hugs her daughter Hannah Walters, 6, at California Institute for Women state prison in Chino, California May 5, 2012. An annual Mother's Day event, Get On The Bus, brings children in California to visit their mothers in prison. Sixty percent of parents in state prison report being held over 100 miles (161 km) from their children. Picture taken May 5, 20 REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW SOCIETY) ATTENTION EDITORS PICTURE 13 OF 28 FOR PACKAGE 'MOTHER'S DAY BEHIND BARS' Full Story Top Texting while walking banned in New Jersey town Sun,13 May 2012 08:27 AM PDT ABC News Blogs - Avid texters beware: Fort Lee, N.J. police said they will begin issuing $85 jaywalking tickets to pedestrians who are caught texting while walking. "It's a big distraction. Pedestrians aren't watching where they are going and they are not aware," said Thomas Ripoli, chief of the... Full Story Top Calif. FBI agent missing, possibly armed, suicidal Sun,13 May 2012 02:29 PM PDT Associated Press - Law enforcement officers in Southern California searched in rugged mountain terrain for a second day on Sunday for a missing FBI agent who was said to be despondent and possibly suicidal. Full Story Top Boston U. student recovering after New Zealand crash Sun,13 May 2012 07:39 PM PDT Associated Press - The parents of a Boston University student critically injured in a New Zealand minivan crash that killed three of her schoolmates have flown to the country to be by her side at a hospital. Full Story Top Brown pushes tax hike as California's money woes deepen Sun,13 May 2012 05:06 PM PDT Reuters - California Governor Jerry Brown was elected in 2010 on a promise to fix the state's chronic fiscal crisis. His weekend announcement of a much bigger-than-expected shortfall in the state budget signals how far he still has to go. In an unusual move that underscored the highly politicized nature of the state budget, Brown took to YouTube on Saturday to deliver the bad news: the state's projected budget deficit for the fiscal year starting July 1 is now $16 billion, up from the $9 billion anticipated in January. ... Full Story Top Ivy League school janitor graduates with honors Sun,13 May 2012 12:25 PM PDT Associated Press - For years, Gac Filipaj mopped floors, cleaned toilets and took out trash at Columbia University. Full Story Top Bloomberg: N.C. marriage vote sets back civil rights Sun,13 May 2012 02:15 PM PDT Associated Press - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has told University of North Carolina graduates that last week's gay marriage vote shows there is still a lot of work to be done for civil rights in this country. Full Story Top Leftist Mexican presidential candidate rises in poll Sun,13 May 2012 05:59 PM PDT Reuters - Leftist Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has moved up into a second-place tie in the latest voter survey by pollster BGC, but front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto maintains a large lead. With seven weeks to go until the July 1 election, Lopez Obrador, the 2006 runner-up, rose 3 percentage points to 26 percent, according to the poll for Monday's edition of newspaper Excelsior, which BGC published on its website on Sunday. Josefina Vazquez Mota, of President Felipe Calderon's National Action Party (PAN), slipped 2 points to 26 percent. ... Full Story Top Legendary bass player 'Duck' Dunn dies in Tokyo Sun,13 May 2012 01:28 PM PDT Associated Press - Donald "Duck" Dunn, the bassist who helped create the gritty Memphis soul sound at Stax Records in the 1960s as part of the legendary group Booker T. and the MGs and contributed to such classics as "In the Midnight Hour," ''Hold On, I'm Coming" and "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay," died Sunday at 70. Full Story Top Senior Afghan peace negotiator shot dead in Kabul Sun,13 May 2012 04:18 PM PDT Reuters - Gunmen shot dead a top Afghan peace negotiator in the capital Kabul on Sunday, police said, dealing another blow to the country's attempts to negotiate a peace deal with the Taliban. Maulvi Arsala Rahmani was one of the most senior members on Afghanistan's High Peace Council, set up by President Hamid Karzai two years ago to liaise with insurgents. "He (Rahmani) was stuck in heavy traffic when another car beside him opened fire," said General Mohammad Zahir, head of the investigations unit for Kabul police. ... Full Story Top Syrian forces kill 7 civilians in rural attack: activists Sun,13 May 2012 02:26 PM PDT Reuters - AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian troops backed by tanks shot dead seven civilians when they overran a rebellious Sunni Muslim village west of the city of Hama on Sunday, activists' organizations said, in a crackdown on the rural epicenter of the 14-month anti-government revolt. In neighboring Lebanon, three people were killed when fighting erupted in the city of Tripoli between members of the Alawite minority loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and members of the Sunni majority. ... Full Story Top George W. Bush consoles Joe Biden on 'SNL' (VIDEO) Sun,13 May 2012 08:20 AM PDT The Ticket - Last week's White House drama surrounding gay marriage was, predictably, the focus of "Saturday Night Live's" opening sketch on Saturday. Joe Biden--played by Jason Sudeikis--complains about being overshadowed by President Barack Obama. "It's not fair--I was the first one who said it should be legal," Biden says to Obama. "But now you're the one getting [...] Full Story Top Man attempts to set world record, fist-pumping 17 hours straight Sun,13 May 2012 11:25 AM PDT The Sideshow - A 34-year-old unemployed man from Ohio attempted to set a Guinness World Record over the weekend by fist pumping for 17 hours straight. James Peterson began the attempt on Friday morning, according to the Akron Beacon Journal, and was scheduled to end at 3 a.m. local time Saturday. Peterson, a self-described fist-pumping "veteran," was accompanied [...] Full Story Top

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