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| Rat meat sold as lamb in latest China food scandal Friday, May 03, 2013 11:25 AM PDT  Chinese police have broken up a criminal ring accused of taking meat from rats and foxes and selling it as lamb in the country's latest food safety scandal. The Ministry of Public Security released results ... Full Story | Top |
| Drug find means hikers may be charged for search Friday, May 03, 2013 11:01 AM PDT SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Two teen hikers lost for days in a California forest might have to pay for part or all of the $160,000 search after a small amount of drugs was found in their car, authorities said. Full Story | Top |
| Out there: Former Sen. Mike Gravel says White House suppressing evidence of ETs Friday, May 03, 2013 04:29 AM PDT Top Line Even as most Americans wonder what planet politicians are from, is it possible that the government is squelching evidence of extraterrestrials visiting Earth? One former presidential hopeful says yes – and that the conspiracy goes all the way to the top. Former Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) says the White House has helped keep [...] Full Story | Top |
| Boston bombing suspects had planned July 4 attack Thursday, May 02, 2013 11:50 PM PDT  By Ross Kerber, Jim Finkle and Mark Hosenball BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The two brothers suspected of carrying out the deadly attacks on the Boston Marathon had originally planned to set off their bombs on July 4, a law enforcement official said. The official said the suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, advanced the date of their attack because they completed building bombs more quickly then they originally anticipated. The official declined to be identified and did not offer more details. ... Full Story | Top |
| Miami cop fired 8 times could make it 9 Friday, May 03, 2013 07:14 AM PDT For one police officer, will the ninth strike mean he's out? This time around, Sgt. German Bosque—who has been fired eight times from three different police departments—has been charged with leaving his assault weapon with his girlfriend's father, a trained security guard, while on an eight-day leave, according to CBS4 Miami. That's a no-no, says [...] Full Story | Top |
| Notre Dame professor tackles ‘myth’ of Christian martyrdom Friday, May 03, 2013 08:16 AM PDT Candida Moss, a professor of early Christianity at the University of Notre Dame and a practicing Catholic, wants to shatter what she calls the "myth" of martyrdom in the Christian faith. Sunday school tales of early Christians being rounded up at their secret catacomb meetings and thrown to the lions by evil Romans are mere [...] Full Story | Top |
| Fresh off victory, NRA holds convention in Houston Friday, May 03, 2013 04:00 AM PDT  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Fresh off a huge victory over President Barack Obama on gun control, the message from the National Rifle Association is clear: The fight has just begun. Full Story | Top |
| North Korea could reach U.S. with nuclear arms: Pentagon Friday, May 03, 2013 05:31 AM PDT  By David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea's continuing development of nuclear technology and long-range ballistic missiles will move it closer to its stated goal of being able to hit the United States with an atomic weapon, a new Pentagon report to Congress said on Thursday. The report, the first version of an annual Pentagon assessment required by law, said Pyongyang's Taepodong-2 missile, with continued development, might ultimately be able to reach parts of the United States carrying a nuclear payload if configured as an intercontinental ballistic missile. ... Full Story | Top |
| Arrest made in Okla. cold case dating to 1992 Friday, May 03, 2013 05:58 AM PDT  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma authorities said Thursday that bodies found last month in a hole initially dug for a septic tank were likely those of three females missing since 1992 and that police had arrested a man who sprinkled black pepper on the impromptu grave in an apparent attempt to cover any odor. Full Story | Top |
| Kurtz leaves DailyBeast after retracted blog post Friday, May 03, 2013 06:03 AM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Columnist Howard Kurtz left The Daily Beast on Thursday, the same day the website retracted one of his blog posts in which he mistakenly accused NBA player Jason Collins of hiding a previous engagement to a woman before declaring this week that he is gay. Full Story | Top |
| Ancient Roman Cemetery Discovered Beneath Parking Lot Friday, May 03, 2013 06:52 AM PDT  Hidden beneath a parking lot in Leicester, England, archaeologists have discovered a 1,700-year-old Roman cemetery that seemed to show no religious bias. Full Story | Top |
| Rubio’s pitch to conservatives on immigration reform: If you don’t act, Obama will Friday, May 03, 2013 07:01 AM PDT In preparation for a new round of Senate hearings on bipartisan legislation to overhaul the nation's immigration system, bill co-author Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is urging skeptical conservatives who oppose it to instead work to toughen measures such as border security. Rubio, a Republican with one of the most conservative voting records in the chamber—and [...] Full Story | Top |
| Migrants to Obama: Don't deport Mama Friday, May 03, 2013 05:19 AM PDT  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Beneath the slogan "Obama, don't deport my Mama," dozens of migrant families deported from the U.S. despite having children born there rallied outside the U.S. Embassy before President Barack Obama's arrival Thursday, demanding passage of a U.S. immigration law they say is vital to keeping families together. Full Story | Top |
| Obama doesn't have a 'juice' problem. He has a Republican problem. Friday, May 03, 2013 02:40 AM PDT  The president still thinks he can win over his GOP opponents. He couldn't be more wrong. Full Story | Top |
| Obama: US-Mexico stereotypes must be broken Friday, May 03, 2013 09:47 AM PDT  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Calling for an end to "old stereotypes," President Barack Obama on Friday portrayed Mexico as an emerging nation that is remaking itself and said the U.S.-Mexico relationship should be defined by shared prosperity, not by threats both countries face. "It's time to recognize new realities," he declared. Full Story | Top |
| Solar Plane Takes Off on Historic Coast-to-Coast Flight Friday, May 03, 2013 06:50 AM PDT  A solar-powered airplane that can fly day and night without using a single drop of fuel embarked on an unprecedented flight across the United States today (May 3). Full Story | Top |
| Chinese police bust million-dollar rat-meat ring Thursday, May 02, 2013 10:55 PM PDT  BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have broken a crime ring that passed off more than $1 million in rat and small mammal meat as mutton, authorities said, in a food safety crackdown that coincides with a bird flu outbreak and other environmental pressures. Authorities have arrested 904 suspects since the end of January for selling and producing fake or tainted meat products, the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement posted on its website on Thursday. ... Full Story | Top |
| Utah soccer league hiring security after ref hit Friday, May 03, 2013 04:08 PM PDT  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah soccer league that saw one of its referees punched by a teen player and sent into a coma plans to play on — but with security present at games and without the player's team, its president said Friday. Full Story | Top |
| Suspected Boston bombers eyed July 4th attack date — and 6 other new revelations Friday, May 03, 2013 04:28 AM PDT  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has reportedly given investigators fresh insight into the attack Full Story | Top |
| Why Syria may be Obama's gravest foreign policy blunder ever Thursday, May 02, 2013 11:16 PM PDT  America should not intervene in Syria. But a pair of presidential screw-ups may force us to. Full Story | Top |
| Strong US jobs report sends stocks higher Friday, May 03, 2013 07:16 AM PDT  An unexpectedly strong U.S. jobs report pushed stock markets higher on Friday as investors welcomed signs that the world's largest economy is not slowing down as quickly as some had feared. The Labor Department ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. military plane crashes in southern Kyrgyzstan Friday, May 03, 2013 08:22 AM PDT By Olga Dzyubenko BISHKEK (Reuters) - A U.S. military refueling plane on its way to Afghanistan exploded in mid air and crashed in Kyrgyzstan on Friday when its cargo of fuel ignited, the Central Asian country's Emergencies Ministry said. The aircraft took off from the U.S. military transit center at Kyrgyzstan's international Manas airport, which U.S. forces maintain for operations in Afghanistan, with around 70 metric tons of fuel on board, a local ministry official said. The plane, used for inflight refueling, disappeared from radar screens at 3:10 p.m. ... Full Story | Top |
| Job Offer From Dad Has Too Many Strings Attached Thursday, May 02, 2013 10:00 PM PDT DEAR ABBY: I'm 29 and for 10 years I have been struggling with controlling parents. They have cut two of my sisters out of their lives because they live closer to their spouses' parents.My husband and I are full-time students, ex-military and taking advantage of the G.I. Bill. We're looking for jobs, but my parents have threatened not to speak to me if we take jobs closer to his parents. I'm trying to be fair to both sets of parents, but we can't stay unemployed because of this issue. We have a family to support.I tried reasoning with them, but I'm unsure how to proceed. ... Full Story | Top |
| Muslims Versus Islamists Friday, May 03, 2013 12:00 AM PDT The Obama administration is quite worried about stereotyping Muslims as violence-prone terrorists. They fear that any acknowledgment that some Muslims commit acts of terror because they are religiously motivated (however twisted the terrorists' interpretation of Islam may be) is to encourage a backlash of intolerance (at best) and violence (at worst) against Muslim Americans. Full Story | Top |
| Solar-powered plane takes off for flight across U.S. Friday, May 03, 2013 07:50 AM PDT  By Laila Kearney SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A solar-powered airplane that developers hope to eventually pilot around the world took off early on Friday from San Francisco Bay on the first leg of an attempt to fly across the United States with no fuel but the sun's energy. The plane, dubbed the Solar Impulse, departed shortly after 6 a.m. local time from Moffett Field, a joint civil-military airport near the south end of San Francisco, heading first to Phoenix on a slow-speed flight expected to take 15 to 20 hours. ... Full Story | Top |
| Mom wants teacher fired just because he bought ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ for ninth grader Friday, May 03, 2013 06:32 AM PDT The Daily Caller has located the one man in America who claimed to be unaware that the novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" is a tour de porn — and sadism, and bondage. Full Story | Top |
| Obama pursues ‘permission structure’ politics in second term Friday, May 03, 2013 11:45 AM PDT "Permission structure" wasn't the oddest thing to come out of President Barack Obama's mouth this week. That honor goes to Obama's assurance that NBA veteran Jason Collins, having come out as gay, "can bang with Shaq," which had West Wing aides wincing. Still, the jokes flew. Is that "structure" like having a safe word? Isn't [...] Full Story | Top |
| Video of Dog Rejecting Owner’s Affection Goes Viral Friday, May 03, 2013 11:05 AM PDT Earlier this week, we told you a story about how animals show affection. Most of the time, it's not that hard to get pets to express some sort of love and appreciation for all of the attention, food, water, and exercise you have given them. Sometimes, however, the animals just don't share the same feelings [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama reaching out to Mexican young people Friday, May 03, 2013 12:26 AM PDT  MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Barack Obama and Mexico's new president, Enrique Pena Nieto, are stepping gingerly to avoid any suggestion of meddling in each other's most contentious issues. Instead, Obama is drawing attention to the cultural ties that have linked the two nations and the economic bonds that have begun to take hold more recently. Full Story | Top |
| Lindsay Lohan never went to rehab, may go to jail Friday, May 03, 2013 06:50 AM PDT Surprise, surprise: Lindsay Lohan never went to court-ordered rehab on May 2 like she was supposed to, and now she may face jail time. Again. Here's what went down: Full Story | Top |
| Underwater German WWII bomber to be salvaged Friday, May 03, 2013 07:58 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — A famous German WWII bomber has spent decades submerged in the English Channel — but that's about to change. Full Story | Top |
| American Idol: The Trouble With Nicki Minaj (Dish Of Salt) Friday, May 03, 2013 03:55 PM PDT  "American Idol" has experienced a few missteps over its 12 seasons, but nothing has rattled the show like the addition of judge Nicki Minaj, says AccessHollywood.com's Laura Saltman. Full Story | Top |
| Job market resilience eases growth concerns Friday, May 03, 2013 02:02 PM PDT  By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employment rose at a faster pace than expected in April and hiring was much stronger than previously thought in the prior two months, a sign of resilience that should help the economy absorb the blow from belt-tightening in Washington. Nonfarm payrolls rose by 165,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate fell to 7.5 percent, the lowest level since December 2008, the Labor Department said on Friday. The job counts for February and March were revised up by a net 114,000. "This bolsters the case that the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| I caught my boyfriend on Match.com again. Help! Friday, May 03, 2013 02:00 AM PDT  Starshine Roshell weighs in on this and other quandaries Full Story | Top |
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