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| Alaska brewery powered by … beer Monday, Feb 04, 2013 03:47 PM PST A brewery is Alaska is being fueled by its own beer â€" in a manner of speaking. The Alaskan Brewing Co. (ABC) plans to use spent grain from the brewing process to help power the majority of the brewery’s functions and reduce energy costs by 70 percent. "We had to be a little more innovative [...] Full Story | Top |
| Tagg Romney bypasses Massachusetts Senate race Monday, Feb 04, 2013 02:46 PM PST Mitt Romney’s son says he’s not interested in running for the Senate seat recently vacated by now-Secretary of State John Kerry in Massachusetts. Tagg Romney, the oldest son of the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, said in an email to Yahoo News that he’s “humbled by the outreach†he received from Republicans looking to draft him [...] Full Story | Top |
| Post-Super Bowl, Twitter becomes home for tasteless tweets Monday, Feb 04, 2013 02:27 PM PST On Mondayâ€"a day that should have been dominated by talk of the Super Bowl blackout, Beyoncé's electric halftime performance and, oh yeah, the Baltimore Ravens' victoryâ€"the personal Twitter accounts of at least four current and former political figures sparked some understandable backlash. During the Super Bowl power outage on Sunday, Michael Brown, former director of [...] Full Story | Top |
| Barely legal: Women wearing pants in Paris, and other odd laws on the books Monday, Feb 04, 2013 01:58 PM PST Paris is as fashion-forward as it gets. Then again, maybe not: Women, technically, are banned from wearing pants. At least according to a law from 1800, still on the books. But keep your trousers on: In a statement, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, France's minister of women's rights, said the 200-year-old ban has been supplanted by other laws. [...] Full Story | Top |
| Library offers free pole dancing class to draw visitors Monday, Feb 04, 2013 01:39 PM PST Libraries always look for new ways to engage readers through cultural enrichment. But one branch in Scotland took an unconventional approach by hosting a pole dancing classâ€"at the library. STV reports that pole dancing teacher Nikki Clark hosted the class at the Mayfield Library in Dalkeith, Midlothian, as part of “Love Your Library Day.†The [...] Full Story | Top |
| In address, Eric Cantor will outline House Republican priorities Monday, Feb 04, 2013 11:40 AM PST House Majority Leader Eric Cantor will outline an ambitious blueprint spelling out the House Republican agenda on Tuesday, one that emphasizes education, innovation, simplifying the tax code, and reforming immigration and labor laws. According to excerpts of Cantor's speech provided to Yahoo News, the Virginia Republican is planning a wide-ranging address at the American Enterprise [...] Full Story | Top |
| Ex-sniper Chris Kyle spoke of legacy days before his death Monday, Feb 04, 2013 10:52 AM PST American war hero Chris Kyle fortuitously spoke of the legacy he wanted to leave just days before being shot dead by a fellow veteran he was mentoring. “I would love for people to be able to think of me as a guy who stood up for what he believed in and helped make a difference [...] Full Story | Top |
| Ex-FEMA director mocks Superdome blackout Monday, Feb 04, 2013 10:35 AM PST Like plenty of people watching the power outage in the New Orleans Superdome during the Super Bowl on Sunday, Michael Brown cracked a Katrina joke on Twitter. Unlike plenty of people, however, Brown was former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency under President George W. Bush, in charge of managing the federal response to [...] Full Story | Top |
| White House defends Obama skeet shooting photo Monday, Feb 04, 2013 10:22 AM PST The White House was still answering for "skeet-gate" Monday following a photo released late Friday of President Barack Obama shooting skeet in August 2012. "Why did the White House decide to release the skeet shooting photos three days before this trip?" a reporter asked White House press secretary Jay Carney during Monday's briefing aboard Air [...] Full Story | Top |
| Bill Clinton recalls Ed Koch as a mayor—and a pen pal Monday, Feb 04, 2013 09:40 AM PST NEW YORKâ€"Former President Bill Clinton offered a funny and moving eulogy to former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, praising him as someone who truly understood and tried to help “real people.†Speaking at Koch’s funeral on Monday morning, Clinton praised Koch as someone who “had a big brain but an even bigger heart." "I [...] Full Story | Top |
| A security guard tasers a woman, gets crowdsourced donations Monday, Feb 04, 2013 09:21 AM PST Kevin James, move over, a new mall cop's in town. Darien Long, a shopping mall security guard, has received a rush of donations after posting a video that showed him applying a Taser to an abusive woman outside an Atlanta mall. After telling the woman to leave for disorderly conduct, Long is heard on the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Trump threatens to sue Bill Maher over joke Monday, Feb 04, 2013 09:00 AM PST Donald Trump won't let the joke go. In an interview with "Fox & Friends" on Monday, Trump said he plans to sue Bill Maher over a joke the comedian made last month on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno." During his interview with Leno, Maher joked he would donate $5 million to the charity of [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama presses Congress during Minnesota speech to pass gun measures Monday, Feb 04, 2013 08:43 AM PST President Barack Obama, speaking in Minneapolis on Monday, placed public pressure on Congress to pass gun control measures. The speech was part of an ongoing effort to respond to December's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. "Real and lasting change requires Congress to do its part and do it soon," Obama said [...] Full Story | Top |
| McCain refers to Iran’s president as a ‘monkey’; GOP rep calls jab ‘racist’ Monday, Feb 04, 2013 08:12 AM PST Oh, dear. Republican Sen. John McCain on Monday called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a "monkey." The blunt-speaking Arizona lawmaker leveled the jabâ€"swiftly condemned as "racist" by a Republican representativeâ€"via Twitter: So Ahmadinejad wants to be first Iranian in space - wasn't he just there last week? "Iran launches monkey into space" news.yahoo.com/iran-launches-… â€" John McCain [...] Full Story | Top |
| Marco Rubio’s 2-front battle for immigration reform Monday, Feb 04, 2013 07:25 AM PST Since Marco Rubio joined five colleagues, most of them Democrats, last Monday on Capitol Hill to launch a bipartisan campaign for a comprehensive immigration bill, the Florida Republican has become the GOP's top messenger for the most sweeping changes to immigration laws in a generation. But Rubio, a first-generation American born to Cuban immigrants who [...] Full Story | Top |
| Napolitano heads to Southwest border Monday, Feb 04, 2013 07:10 AM PST Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano is traveling to the Southwest border this week to "inspect border security operations," the department announced. The secretary will visit San Diego, Calif., on Monday and El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday to meet with locals and discuss the "on-going efforts to secure the border while facilitating lawful travel [...] Full Story | Top |
| Malala Yousafzai speaks publicly for first time since Taliban shooting Monday, Feb 04, 2013 06:33 AM PST Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl and activist who was shot in the head by a Taliban assassin on her way home from school last fall, has spoken publicly for the first time since the shooting. "Today you can see that I'm alive," Yousafzai said in a short video released on Monday. "I can speak. [...] Full Story | Top |
| Guatemala Dictator to Stand Trial on Genocide Charges Monday, Feb 04, 2013 04:05 AM PST After a U.S.-backed coup ousted its democratically elected government, Guatemala, a small Central American country, endured a brutal civil war that lasted more than three decades, from 1960 to 1996. Tens of thousands of Guatemalans went missing and 200,000 of its citizens were killed during the conflict, mostly by state security forces. Now, relatives of [...] Full Story | Top |
| Monday in politics: Obama campaigns for gun proposals, and more Monday, Feb 04, 2013 03:22 AM PST President Barack Obama will travel to Minnesota on Monday to campaign for his gun proposals. Obama will visit the Minneapolis Police Department’s Special Operations Center where he will make remarks and discuss the city’s recent efforts to reduce gun violence, including a push for stricter background checks. Minneapolis will mark Obama’s first trip outside of [...] Full Story | Top |
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