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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Super Bowl F-bomb could put FCC in a bind Monday, Feb 04, 2013 05:45 PM PST After another obscenity incident involving CBS and a Super Bowl broadcast, the Federal Communications Commission is under pressure to fine the TV network after Joe Flacco used a forbidden word on broadcast TV. Full Story | Top |
| Alabama Hostage Standoff Over Monday, Feb 04, 2013 12:24 AM PST  Man Threatened to Kill All the Children on the Bus Before Taking One Boy Full Story | Top |
| It's 'common sense' – or is it? The politics of Obama's new favorite phrase Monday, Feb 04, 2013 03:37 PM PST  In these early days of his second term, President Obama isn’t just promoting legislation on guns and immigration. The president and his surrogates are promoting “common-sense proposals†to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill, and a revamped, “common-sense†immigration system. 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 |
| Hillary 2016? Founder of Hillary Clinton superPAC says, ‘No doubt she’s gonna run.’ Monday, Feb 04, 2013 03:56 AM PST Politics Confidential Hillary Clinton had not even stepped down from her post as Secretary of State, when a superPAC supporting her run for president in 2016 was filed with the Federal Election Commission. The superPAC's website launched over the weekend. Allida Black is chair and founder of the group, and says she is, as the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Ahmadinejad says he is ready to be first Iranian in space Monday, Feb 04, 2013 04:04 AM PST  DUBAI (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday he was ready to be the first human sent into orbit by Iran's fledgling space program, Iranian media reported. Iran declared last week that it had successfully launched a monkey into space and retrieved it alive, which officials hailed as a major step towards their goal of sending humans into space. The launch added to Western concerns about Iran's space program because the same rocket technology could potentially be used to deliver a nuclear warhead on a ballistic missile. ... Full Story | Top |
| Experts find remains of England's King Richard III Monday, Feb 04, 2013 06:22 PM PST  LEICESTER, England (AP) â€" He was king of England, but for centuries he lay without shroud or coffin in an unknown grave, and his name became a byword for villainy. 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 |
| The faces of amnesty: Six immigrants' stories Monday, Feb 04, 2013 01:47 AM PST As Congress begins a contentious debate to legalize most of the nation’s unauthorized immigrants, many of the 2.7 million people legalized under conservative icon Reagan’s 1986 immigration reform law may feel a sense of déjà vu. Full Story | Top |
| Aviation Experts Debunk Iran’s Stealth Fighter Jet Claims Monday, Feb 04, 2013 10:26 AM PST The development of a new Iranian stealth fighter attracted a lot of attention over the weekend. But aviation experts are now questioning whether the jet is even real. This weekend pictures and video were released of Iranian military officials surveying what looked like a fully operational Q-313. Aeronautics experts, including David Cenciotti of the blog [...] Full Story | Top |
| French tanker likely hijacked off Ivory Coast Monday, Feb 04, 2013 06:47 AM PST  JOHANNESBURG (AP) â€" A French-owned oil tanker missing off Ivory Coast with 17 sailors on board likely has been hijacked, an official with an international piracy watchdog said Monday, in what may be the latest attack by criminal gangs targeting the ships to steal their valuable cargo. Meanwhile, a sailor died in a similar attack Monday near Nigeria's largest city. 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| UK sends hand-held helicopter drones to war zone Monday, Feb 04, 2013 06:08 AM PST  LONDON (AP) â€" British soldiers in Afghanistan have been issued with surveillance drones so small they can fit in the palm of a man's hand. Full Story | Top |
| Low Heart Disease Risk for Vegetarians Monday, Feb 04, 2013 03:00 AM PST  Going meatless gives vegetarians a 32 percent lower heart disease risk than non-vegetarians, a British study found, offering further proof that eating meat can be hazardous to health. The study, published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, involved 44,561 people enrolled in the European... Full Story | Top |
| Stock market has worst day this year; Dow off 129 Monday, Feb 04, 2013 01:17 PM PST The stock market is closing out its worst day so far this year, bringing the Dow average back below 14,000. 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 |
| European match-fixing probe: 380 suspicious games Monday, Feb 04, 2013 03:26 AM PST  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) â€" A wide-ranging match-fixing investigation has uncovered more than 380 suspicious matches â€" including World Cup and European Championship qualifiers and two Champions League games â€" and found evidence that a Singapore-based crime group is closely involved in match-fixing. Full Story | Top |
| SKorea, US begin drills amid NKorea nuclear threat Monday, Feb 04, 2013 11:50 AM PST  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) â€" South Korean and U.S. troops began naval drills Monday in a show of force partly directed at North Korea amid signs that Pyongyang will soon follow through on a threat to conduct its third atomic test. Full Story | Top |
| A quiet envoy to the hermit kingdom of North Korea Monday, Feb 04, 2013 05:02 AM PST  In an atmosphere of North Korean threats and rhetoric, a mysterious Korean-American plays a behind-the-scenes role that may be more significant than that of the better known actors in the drama. Full Story | Top |
| Packing for Paris? Old law bans pants for women Monday, Feb 04, 2013 07:32 AM PST  PARIS (AP) â€" If it isn't already daunting enough to pack for a trip to fashionable Paris, female visitors, beware: It's illegal to wear pants. Full Story | Top |
| Yes, it was 100 years ago that we wound up with a national income tax Monday, Feb 04, 2013 08:00 AM PST Imagine a world with income tax; if you were an American citizen before 1913, with a few exceptions you didn’t have to deal with an April deadline and the IRS. Today, no one really knows how big the tax code is. Full Story | Top |
| Iran says Israel will regret Syria airstrike Monday, Feb 04, 2013 06:20 AM PST  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) â€" A top Iranian official visiting Damascus said Monday that Israel will regret its "latest aggression" on Syria and urged the entire Muslim world to be ready to defend the Syrian people. Full Story | Top |
| School turnarounds prompt community backlash Monday, Feb 04, 2013 05:34 AM PST  The federal government's push for drastic reforms at chronically low achieving schools has led to takeovers by charter operators, overhauls of staff and curriculum, and even school shutdowns across the ... Full Story | Top |
| The day Rosa Parks made history by riding a bus Monday, Feb 04, 2013 07:30 AM PST Editor's note: February 4, 2013 marks the 100th birthday of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks. The following column from last December looks at Parks' role in the Montgomery bus boycott. 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 |
| Boehner steadies GOP team, reframes deficit debate Test Monday, Feb 04, 2013 01:11 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" House Speaker John Boehner has shored up his political clout after a shaky month, persuading his Republican caucus to pick its fights with Democrats more strategically. Full Story | Top |
| Plane from Halifax diverted to Bermuda after family smoking in seats: airline Monday, Feb 04, 2013 08:58 AM PST HALIFAX - A Canadian airline says it had to divert a plane to Bermuda because a family was openly smoking in their seats. Full Story | Top |
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