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| Cossacks once again patrolling Moscow streets, ‘We’re like Chuck Norris!’ Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 05:58 PM PST They've technically been around for centuries, but a small group of Cossacks recently returned to officially patrol the streets of Moscow. We're like Chuck Norris!" Cossack patrol leader Igor Gulichev said, comparing his colleagues to the role made famous by Norris in the 1990's television sitcom "Walker, Texas Ranger." According to the Russian 2010 census, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Human body could power smartphones, pacemakers and other devices Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 05:07 PM PST Imagine a world with no wall chargers. People power might just make that world a reality. That's because our own bodies just might be the sustainable energy sources of the near future, generating electricity from our own body heat, physical movement and vibrations. Roger Highfield of the Science Museum Group writes that scientists are already [...] Full Story | Top |
| Missing moon rocks found in Minnesota storage site Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 01:06 PM PST Several rocks taken from humankind's first lunar landing have been unearthed once again, with the moon rocks this time turning up in a Minnesota storage area. The Star Tribune reports that the pebble-sized samples collected by the Apollo 11 voyage in 1969 somehow ended up in a government storage area in St. Paul. "The Apollo [...] Full Story | Top |
| Improv group delights 99-cent store owner on Black Friday Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 12:13 PM PST Black Friday equals raucous crowds, massive sales and, in many cases, delighted retailers. Most of the time the store owners and managers are prepared for the madness. But not always. [Related: Black Friday sales online top $1 billion for first time] The proprietor of a 99-cent store in New York got the surprise of his [...] Full Story | Top |
| White House blasts Republican ‘obsession’ with Rice and Benghazi Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 11:54 AM PST The White House sharply escalated its attacks Tuesday on Republicans trying to stop Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice from succeeding Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state. Press secretary Jay Carney described GOP lawmakers as being gripped by a politically fueled "obsession" with a series of television appearances Rice made shortly after the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Scientist claims to have sequenced ‘Bigfoot’ DNA Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 11:09 AM PST A Texas scientist claims to have sequenced the DNA of Sasquatch, a creature whose very existence is mysterious to many and purely mythological to most. "Our study has sequenced 20 whole mitochondrial genomes and utilized next generation sequencing to obtain 3 whole nuclear genomes from purported Sasquatch samples," Dr. Melba S. Ketchum of Nacogdoches, Texas, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Mitt Romney, Michelle Obama make GQ’s ‘Least Influential People of 2012′ Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 09:09 AM PST Congratulations, Mitt Romney. After a stunning election loss, millions of dollars spent and an exhaustive campaign, GQ Magazine has named you one of the Least Influential People of 2012. From the magazine: Was anyone inspired by Mitt Romney? Did anyone vote enthusiastically for Mitt Romney? Of course not. Voting for Romney is like hooking up [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama, House GOP plan rival public campaigns on ‘fiscal cliff’ Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 08:43 AM PST President Barack Obama is ramping up efforts to win over Americansâ€"and pressure Congressâ€"on the looming "fiscal cliff," with events at the White House and on the road to argue for the expiration of Bush-era tax cuts chiefly benefiting the rich. The response from his top Republican foes? On Tuesday morning, Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch [...] Full Story | Top |
| Medicaid expansion to cost states $8 billion in first 10 years: Study Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 08:30 AM PST As governors ponder whether to expand their Medicaid programs to cover millions more low-income people under the federal health care law, a new study claims that states that hold out won't necessarily save that much money. President Barack Obama's health care law asks states to expand their Medicaid programsâ€"often the biggest line item in state [...] Full Story | Top |
| Chris Christie approval soars post-Sandy Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 07:26 AM PST New Jersey voters rate Gov. Chris Christie higher than any other New Jersey governor in Quinnipiac University's polling history, the polling institute reported on Tuesday. Registered voters gave Christie a 72 percent approval rating, according to a poll taken Nov. 19-25 after superstorm Sandy. Fifty-nine percent of the poll's respondents said Christie's response to Sandy [...] Full Story | Top |
| Down But Not Out: ‘Looking for a job has been my full-time job’ Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 06:53 AM PST Derek Ciapala and his wife, Jenn. "It wasn't supposed to be this way," Derek Ciapala says. In October 2009, he had just married. He recently moved to Cincinnati as a part of a job transfer within his financial services company. He and his wife, Jenn, were enthusiastic about their new life together. But soon "something [...] Full Story | Top |
| Chinese paper congratulates Kim Jong Un on being named ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ by the Onion Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 06:47 AM PST In a hilarious if increasingly common example of a real newspaper taking a satirical newspaper seriously, the People's Dailyâ€"the website for the Communist Party of China's newspaperâ€"published a story on Tuesday congratulating North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on being named 2012's "Sexiest Man Alive" by the Onion. "U.S. website The Onion has named North [...] Full Story | Top |
| Tuesday in politics: Susan Rice heads to Capitol Hill, and more Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 03:39 AM PST UN Ambassador Susan Rice heads to Capitol Hill this week to meet with members of Congress to discuss the Benghazi attacks, ABC News reports. That means she will come face-to-face with senators who have opposed her possible nomination to be the next Secretary of State. Her first stop: A meeting Tuesday with Sen. John McCain, [...] Full Story | Top |
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