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| High school offers class on go kart racing Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 05:48 PM PST We’ve all heard stories about colleges offering questionable courses for class credit: Frisbee golf, a sociological study of Lady Gaga and even a lecture series on surviving the zombie apocalypse. But the Manatee School of the Arts high school is giving them a run for their money, offering a course on “the Physics of Motorsports.†[...] Full Story | Top |
| Virginia considers dropping ban on unmarried couples cohabitating Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 02:59 PM PST Like its travel slogan says, Virginia is for lovers. But if said lovers are cohabitating outside marriage, they are currently breaking the law. But there’s good news for those lawless lovebirds: State officials in the commonwealth are considering a bill that would legalize cohabitation. Florida, Michigan and Mississippi have similar laws banning cohabitation. In 2011, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Girl comes out to parents with help from a cake Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 02:51 PM PST Coming out to your parents isn't usually easy, but Tumblr user ellende-generes (real name: Laurel) did her best to make the conversation a piece of cake. Actually, make that a whole cake. [Related: High school senior comes out as 'LGBT' while accepting award] Fifteen-year-old Laurel posted a photo of a cake she made for her [...] Full Story | Top |
| Massive sinkhole in China swallows building Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 01:55 PM PST Look out, below. A massive sinkhole in Guangzhou, China, swallowed up buildings and knocked out power to thousands of residents. According to Shanghaiist, the sinkhole is about 3,230 square feet and plenty deep. A video shows a crowd milling about the sinkhole before it expanded, causing a building to crumble as if it were detonated. [...] Full Story | Top |
| Would-be carjackers foiled by mysteries of the stick shift Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 01:51 PM PST An attempted stickup was confounded by a car’s stick shift, when would-be carjackers failed to understand the mechanics behind a manual transmission. Randolph Bean tells WOFL FOX 35 that two men attempted to steal his 2002 yellow Corvette at gunpoint outside an Orlando hospital, but they ended up running away after they couldn’t figure out [...] Full Story | Top |
| McCain on whether he’ll oppose challenges to increased border enforcement: ‘Duh.’ Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 01:29 PM PST John McCain heard your question, and he thinks it's really dumb. While the Arizona Republican senator fielded questions on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, a day after he joined a bipartisan group of senators to announce a blueprint for comprehensive immigration reform, one reporter asked how he would respond if the proposed provision that requires increased [...] Full Story | Top |
| Rubio: Obama must accept border security as part of immigration reform Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 11:03 AM PST President Barack Obama must be willing to accept border security measures as part of a comprehensive immigration reform package or else "there won't be a solution," Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, a leader of the GOP reform effort, said on Tuesday. Rubio, who on Monday unveiled a blueprint for an immigration overhaul as part of [...] Full Story | Top |
| Turn Your Old Plastic Bottles into 3-D Filament Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 10:58 AM PST With any printer, the cost of ink is what puts people off long after the machine has been paid for. With ink jet and laser printers, you can’t turn your plastic recyclables -- the cartridges -- into new toner. With 3-D printers, you can. Tyler McNaney, a college student in Vermont, fell in love with [...] Full Story | Top |
| John Kerry wins confirmation as secretary of state Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 10:49 AM PST The Senate on Tuesday easily confirmed one of its ownâ€"Democrat John Kerry of Massachusettsâ€"to be the next secretary of state, ending a largely noncontroversial process and kicking off what is expected to be a hotly contested special election for the seat Kerry has held since 1985. The vote was 94-3 for Kerry at a time [...] Full Story | Top |
| Ray LaHood, Cabinet’s sole Republican, leaving transportation post Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 10:43 AM PST Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the only Republican in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet, announced on Tuesday he is stepping down. “It has been an honor and a privilege to lead the department, and I am grateful to President Obama for giving me such an extraordinary opportunity,†LaHood, a former seven-term Republican congressman from Illinois, wrote in [...] Full Story | Top |
| New Google Maps view adds another level of North Korean scrutiny Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 10:03 AM PST Search for "North Korea" in Google Maps and you'll get a whole new perspective. Google on Monday published its most detailed map yet of North Korea, including some road names and points of interest. "To build this map, a community of citizen cartographers came together," Jayanth Mysore, senior product manager, Google Map Maker, wrote on [...] Full Story | Top |
| Conservative Hispanic group tells GOP to avoid ‘amnesty’ label Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 09:34 AM PST A conservative pro-immigration reform group has issued talking points to Republican lawmakers, telling them to avoid referring to the U.S. citizen children of illegal immigrants as "anchor babies" or calling for the construction of an "electric fence" on the border, among other things. The talking points, published by BuzzFeed, went out to Republican lawmakers on [...] Full Story | Top |
| AFL-CIO chief vows ‘full-fledged campaign’ for immigration overhaul Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 09:15 AM PST Organized labor is “entirely behind†comprehensive immigration reform and will mount a “full-fledged†campaign to help drive it through Congress, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told Yahoo News on Tuesday. Trumka, whose federation comprises 57 unions representing some 12 million people, called the planned overhaul “one of our top priorities right now.†He spoke by telephone [...] Full Story | Top |
| Remarkable photo shows fire blasting from Omaha manholes Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 08:15 AM PST An Omaha resident took a remarkable photograph of fireballs erupting from manhole covers on Sunday night. The photo was posted to social network Reddit, where it quickly went viral. What looks like a photo from the set of our favorite imaginary Stallone movie ("Fight Fire With Fists") is actually a real case of electrical fires [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama announces new aid for Syrian rebels Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 08:12 AM PST Under fire for not doing more to help Syria’s rebels, President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday that he's sending opponents of strongman Bashar al-Assad another $155 million in humanitarian aid and defended his handling of the bloody conflict. Obama said the aid sends a message to the world. “The relief we send doesn’t say ‘Made [...] Full Story | Top |
| Family of 14 gives up everything to live in RV Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 07:13 AM PST “Every single day is a weekend." That's how Susie Kellogg, mother of 12, describes family life these days, after she and her husband, Dan, decided to sell their Glenwood Springs, Colorado home last fall, fill up an RV with their childrenâ€"all of themâ€"and travel the country in search of adventure. Permanently. All but one of [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama: I’ll introduce my own immigration bill if Congress doesn’t move Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 03:38 AM PST President Barack Obama unveiled his vision for immigration reform in a speech on Tuesday afternoon in Las Vegas, Nev., telling Congress that he will send them his own bill and call for a vote if they don't move fast. "If Congress is unable to move forward in a timely fashion, I will send up a [...] Full Story | Top |
| Tuesday in politics: Obama talks immigration in Vegas, and more Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 02:39 AM PST Immigration remains at the top of the Washington agenda Tuesday, as President Obama travels to Las Vegas to rally public support for his proposals for reforming the nation's immigration system. The president will deliver remarks in a campaign-style event this afternoon at Del Sol High School. White House officials said Obama would largely endorse an [...] Full Story | Top |
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