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| The ‘Straight Talk Express’ is back: McCain on his fears about the future of the GOP Friday, Aug 02, 2013 02:44 AM PDT The Fine Print Sen. John McCain has a strong warning for Republicans: Falter on immigration reform and the party will lose in 2016. "If we fail on immigration reform, it won't matter who our nominee is because of the polarization of the Hispanic vote," McCain, R-Ariz., tells "The Fine Print." "Now that's not why I'm [...] Full Story | Top |
| Kim Kardashian Makes First Post-Baby Appearance On Mom's Show Kris: 'I'm Loving Life' Friday, Aug 02, 2013 01:35 PM PDT  Kim Kardashian resurfaced on Friday for her first TV appearance since giving birth in mid-June. Full Story | Top |
| Dems hit GOP on immigration in top critic's home Friday, Aug 02, 2013 10:55 AM PDT Kicking off an August of likely intense debate over immigration, the Senate's second-ranking Democrat traveled to Iowa Friday to rebuke House Republicans who oppose major changes embraced by the Senate. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ohio officials: Rates to increase under health law Friday, Aug 02, 2013 06:43 AM PDT Ohioans using the new marketplaces created by the federal health care law will pay on average 41 percent more for their monthly premiums, state insurance officials said Thursday, though federal subsidies ... Full Story | Top |
| Derek Hough Returning To Dancing With The Stars, Talks Family Dance Off Friday, Aug 02, 2013 10:38 AM PDT  Derek Hough confirmed he will be back on "Dancing with the Stars," and he told Access Hollywood he's looking forward to the changes on the way in the new season. Full Story | Top |
| Kim Kardashian Makes First Post-Baby Appearance On Kris Jenner's Show Friday, Aug 02, 2013 01:35 PM PDT  Kim Kardashian resurfaced on Friday for her first TV appearance since giving birth in mid-June. Full Story | Top |
| Feds shut down Calif. debt collectors Friday, Aug 02, 2013 07:24 AM PDT A group of California debt collectors have been shut down after being accused of extortion; humiliating debtors by calling their friends, employers and families; and making false threats of lawsuits, the ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. closes embassies, alerts Americans overseas to terrorist threats in August Friday, Aug 02, 2013 08:49 AM PDT  State Department issues global travel warning, says Middle East and North Africa particularly at risk Full Story | Top |
| Rep. Issa accuses IRS of obstructing investigation Friday, Aug 02, 2013 12:23 PM PDT  A GOP lawmaker accused the Internal Revenue Service of obstructing congressional investigations into the agency's targeting of tea party groups, a charge the head of the IRS denied. Rep. Darrell Issa, ... Full Story | Top |
| Mainers get glimpse into health exchange rates Friday, Aug 02, 2013 06:18 AM PDT With two months to go before the enrollment opens on the health care exchange, Mainers are getting an early look into the new insurance rates and other changes coming under the federal health care law. ... Full Story | Top |
| US careful not to let Snowden destroy Russia ties Friday, Aug 02, 2013 08:04 AM PDT  Russia's decision to grant asylum to Edward Snowden has upset the Obama administration and enraged Congress. But if the United States wasn't prepared to scrap its maddeningly difficult relationship with ... Full Story | Top |
| Catholic high school cans teacher after his big, gay wedding Friday, Aug 02, 2013 02:02 AM PDT Matrimonial bliss turned into an employment nightmare for a gay Catholic high school teacher in the suburban sprawl of Southern California after a local newspaper published photos of his big, gay wedding in July. Full Story | Top |
| Woman tricked into buying 2 actual apples she thought were iPhones Friday, Aug 02, 2013 08:21 AM PDT  There are apples, the fruit, and Apple iPhones, and usually it's pretty easy to tell the difference. Unfortunately, an Australian woman caught up in a scam ended up paying $1,200 for two pieces of fruit. Full Story | Top |
| Analysis: McCain's deals and 'wacko-bird' barbs are priceless for Obama Thursday, Aug 01, 2013 10:04 PM PDT  By Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator John McCain accidentally walked in on President Barack Obama this week when he was addressing a Democrats-only meeting of senators. "Come on in, John," Obama shouted. A red-faced McCain turned around and headed out to chuckles and then applause from the Democrats. "My mistake," McCain said. To the far-right in the Republican Party, there is no mistake about it. In a party that generally brooks no compromise with Obama, McCain is the compromiser-in-chief. He's negotiating with the White House. ... Full Story | Top |
| Wallet returned after 24 years missing Friday, Aug 02, 2013 06:25 AM PDT  A missing wallet was sent back to a man who lost it 24 years ago. The wallet's owner posted photos of the find on Reddit. Full Story | Top |
| Simon Cowell On What Went Wrong With The X Factor Season 2 Judges' Panel Friday, Aug 02, 2013 08:56 AM PDT  Simon Cowell has said that last season the judges' panel on Fox reality singing competition show, "The X Factor," wasn't as fun as he expected it to be. Full Story | Top |
| FDA links stomach bug in 2 states to Mexican farm Friday, Aug 02, 2013 08:17 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration says an outbreak of stomach illnesses in Iowa and Nebraska is linked to salad mix served at local Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants and supplied by a Mexican farm. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. issues global travel alert, cites al Qaeda threat Friday, Aug 02, 2013 03:18 PM PDT  By Arshad Mohammed and Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States issued a worldwide travel alert on Friday warning Americans that al Qaeda may be planning attacks in August, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa. The State Department travel alert was based on the same intelligence that prompted it to close 21 U.S. embassies and consulates on Sunday, August 4, chiefly those in the Muslim world, a U.S. official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. "The Department of State alerts U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| USPS takes photos of all mail Friday, Aug 02, 2013 03:27 AM PDT  The Postal Service takes pictures of every piece of mail processed in the United States — 160 billion last year — and keeps them on hand for up to a month. In an interview with The Associated Press, Postmaster ... Full Story | Top |
| Spain: driver received 3 signals to slow down Friday, Aug 02, 2013 08:27 AM PDT  The driver of a Spanish train that derailed, killing 79 people, ignored three warnings to reduce speed in the two minutes before the train hurtled off the tracks on a treacherous curve, crash investigators ... Full Story | Top |
| US issues global travel alert over al-Qaida threat Friday, Aug 02, 2013 08:08 AM PDT  The United States has issued a global travel alert because of an al-Qaida terrorist threat. The State Department says the potential for terrorism is particularly strong in the Middle East and North Africa. ... Full Story | Top |
| Russia gives Snowden asylum, Obama-Putin summit in doubt Friday, Aug 02, 2013 07:06 AM PDT  By Timothy Heritage and Steve Holland MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia rejected U.S. pleas and granted American fugitive Edward Snowden a year's asylum on Thursday, letting the former spy agency contractor slip out of a Moscow airport after more than five weeks in limbo while angering the United States and putting in doubt a planned summit between the two nations' presidents. The United States wanted Russia to send Snowden home to face criminal charges including espionage for disclosing in June secret American internet and telephone surveillance programs. ... Full Story | Top |
| Storms cause damage across wide swath of Montana Friday, Aug 02, 2013 04:51 PM PDT Strong thunderstorms that moved across Montana left a trail of damage to crops and buildings along with downed trees and power outages. The worst damage from Thursday's storm may have occurred in Gallatin ... Full Story | Top |
| Woods takes command after flirting with 59 Friday, Aug 02, 2013 03:44 PM PDT  By Mark Lamport-Stokes AKRON, Ohio (Reuters) - Tiger Woods came close to shooting only the sixth 59 on the PGA Tour with an electrifying display in Friday's second round at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational before he ran out of steam with five holes to play. ... Full Story | Top |
| GOP in key states tries to slow anti-abortion push Friday, Aug 02, 2013 10:30 AM PDT  Abortion is still legal but getting one in many states will be difficult if laws passed this year are upheld by the courts. In a march through conservative legislatures, anti-abortion Republicans passed ... Full Story | Top |
| Michelle Knight Returns to Cleveland House of Horrors Friday, Aug 02, 2013 01:19 PM PDT  Knight Returned to Seymour Avenue Day After She Told Kidnapper: 'Your Hell Is Just Beginning' Full Story | Top |
| Bikers Come Together to Give 11-Year-Old With Brain Cancer Best Birthday Ever Friday, Aug 02, 2013 10:29 AM PDT Yesterday we profiled a couple of Internet jokesters helping a homeless man have a day he wouldn't forget, in the interest (at least partly) of showing a different side of themselves. Well, it looks like the trend is continuing in a story out of Parma, Idaho. Gage Driskell is an 11-year-old boy with life-threatening cancer. [...] Full Story | Top |
| 10-year-old boy calls police, says father driving drunk Friday, Aug 02, 2013 09:06 AM PDT A 10-year old boy fearing for his life called police while trapped in a speeding car with his father. Full Story | Top |
| House OKs 40th effort to repeal health law Friday, Aug 02, 2013 10:57 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — For the 40th time, Republicans pushed legislation through the House on Friday targeting President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, this one a bill preventing the Internal Revenue Service from implementing any part of the health care law. Full Story | Top |
| So does Congress actually get three months of vacation each year? Friday, Aug 02, 2013 03:28 AM PDT With the Senate and House getting ready for an August recess, with little progress on important legislation, some critics say politicians should stay in D.C. And that begs a bigger question: How much vacation do politicians get anyway? Full Story | Top |
| Hezbollah leader slams Israel in rare public speech Friday, Aug 02, 2013 09:37 AM PDT  BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah emerged from hiding on Friday to deliver his first major speech in years, addressing a rally in his southern Beirut stronghold in support of the Palestinian conflict against Israel. "Israel poses a danger on all people of this region...including Lebanon, and removing it is a Lebanese national interest," Nasrallah told hundreds of supporters in his half-hour speech. The charismatic Shi'ite cleric has lived mainly in the shadows, fearing assassination, since Hezbollah fought an inconclusive month-long war with Israel in 2006. ... Full Story | Top |
| Key points in the genetically modified food debate Friday, Aug 02, 2013 12:20 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the biggest stumbling blocks to securing a massive free trade agreement between the United States and Europe is a sharp disagreement on genetically modified foods. Full Story | Top |
| US employers add 162K jobs; rate falls to 7.4 pct. Friday, Aug 02, 2013 01:56 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added 162,000 jobs in July, a modest increase and the fewest since March. At the same time, the unemployment rate fell from 7.6 percent to a 4½-year low of 7.4 percent. Full Story | Top |
| La.: please report tiger shrimp caught off La Friday, Aug 02, 2013 07:19 AM PDT With the inshore white shrimp season getting close, biologists are asking shrimpers to keep an eye out for Asian tiger prawns and to send photos of any they catch. The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries ... Full Story | Top |
| Texas Republicans think Wendy Davis should pay for special session Friday, Aug 02, 2013 07:21 AM PDT The Texas Legislature's unprecedented three special sessions this summer are likely to leave the taxpayers of the Lone Star State footing a $2.4 million bill. But according to Republican state Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, there's a simple option: Make Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis pay for it Full Story | Top |
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