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| Katy Perry: ‘My Vulnerability Is My Strength’ Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 07:23 AM PST Katy Perry does not live in a bubble. Despite having an army of more than 48 million Twitter followers, loads of music awards, and the constant heat of the spotlight, a four-day trip to Madagascar burst any kind of illusion that was surrounding her. "The experience still continues to change me and reshape my thinking," Full Story | Top |
| Harry Reid exempts some of his Senate staff from Obamacare exchanges Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 11:29 AM PST Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is the only top congressional leader to exempt some of his staff from having to buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act exchanges. Full Story | Top |
| Most youth unhappy with Obama's job performance: poll Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 08:51 AM PST  By Richard Valdmanis BOSTON (Reuters) - Young Americans are unhappy with virtually every major thing President Barack Obama has done since he was re-elected, but they would still vote for him today, according to the results of a Harvard University survey released on Wednesday. This increasingly influential demographic known as the "millennial generation" has been a traditional base of Obama's support. Still, disapproval ratings were higher for both Republicans and Democrats in Congress. And a plurality of respondents, 46 percent, said they would still vote for Obama for president if they could recast their 2012 ballots, compared with 35 percent who said they would vote for the then-Republican nominee, Mitt Romney. Full Story | Top |
| Las Vegas Sending Homeless Dogs to Canada Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 03:23 PM PST  Canada: Send Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Pekingese Full Story | Top |
| Obama: Income inequality a defining challenge Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 04:09 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama prodded Congress to raise wages and secure the social safety net as he issued an overarching appeal Wednesday to correct economic inequalities that he said make it harder for a child to escape poverty. "That should offend all of us," he declared. "We are a better country than this." Full Story | Top |
| Bill Clinton: I never denied smoking marijuana Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 01:26 AM PST In a TV interview, the former president sets the record straight about his infamous "I didn't inhale" quote. Full Story | Top |
| Obama, in speech, to focus on income disparities Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 12:31 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid public doubts over his stewardship of the economy, President Barack Obama is putting a renewed focus on the income gap between rich and poor as he pushes for short-term congressional action and begins setting the domestic agenda for the remainder of his presidency. Full Story | Top |
| Newtown 911 tapes: 'They're still running, they're still shooting' Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 11:08 AM PST Harrowing 911 calls made from Sandy Hook Elementary School to police in Newtown, Conn., were released Wednesday, giving the public a small but chilling window into the mass shooting that killed 26 people, including 20 children, last December. Full Story | Top |
| Oldest Human DNA Reveals Mysterious Branch of Humanity Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 10:11 AM PST  The oldest known human DNA found yet reveals human evolution was even more confusing than thought, researchers say. These new findings could shed light on a mysterious extinct branch of humanity known as Denisovans, who were close relatives of Neanderthals, scientists added. Although modern humans are the only surviving human lineage, others once strode the Earth. These included Neanderthals, the closest extinct relatives of modern humans, and the relatively newfound Denisovans, who are thought to have lived in a vast expanse from Siberia to Southeast Asia. Full Story | Top |
| Cold snap felt across western half of nation Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 02:34 AM PST HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A wintry storm pushing through the western half of the country is bringing bitterly cold temperatures that prompted safety warnings for residents in the Rockies and threatened crops as far south as California. Full Story | Top |
| Woman drives 'Liberty Van' 5,000 miles to fight ticket, wins Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 06:42 AM PST A 56-year-old grandmother drove from Kentucky to New Jersey several times in order to fight a $56 traffic ticket over her so-called "Liberty Van." Good news for the woman: She won. Full Story | Top |
| Kramer Stops By … Kind Of Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 08:57 AM PST It's been a decade since Michael Richards, better known as Kramer on the hit show "Seinfeld" has been on a sitcom. But now the man is back and he's teaming up with some very funny ladies: Kirstie Alley and Rhea Perlman. "I know it's been a decade since you were on a sitcom," Katie noted, Full Story | Top |
| Biden calls for trust with China amid airspace dispute Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 03:06 PM PST By Ben Blanchard and Michael Martina BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, visiting China as a dispute over a new Chinese air defense zone rattles nerves around the region, said on Wednesday that relations between Washington and Beijing had to be based on trust. Beijing's decision to declare an air defense identification zone in an area that includes disputed islands has triggered protests from the United States, Japan and South Korea, and dominated Biden's talks in Tokyo on Tuesday. The United States has made clear it will stand by treaty obligations that require it to defend the Japanese-controlled islands, but it is also reluctant to get dragged into any military clash between rivals Japan and China. Full Story | Top |
| Would raising teacher pay boost America's low test scores? Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 09:24 AM PST  America's lackluster performance on international math, reading and science tests released Tuesday has rekindled the debate over the status and pay of U.S. teachers. Full Story | Top |
| Lawyer: Engineer in 'daze' before NYC train crash Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 12:00 PM PST  YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) — An engineer whose speeding commuter train ran off the rails along a curve, killing four people, experienced a hypnotic-like daze and nodded at the controls before he suddenly realized something was wrong and hit the brakes, a lawyer said as a federal regulator called for the railroad to make immediate safety improvements. Full Story | Top |
| Would you buy a used website from this man? Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 01:17 AM PST  The past two months have not been kind to the credibility of Barack Obama and his administration. Millions of cancelations made a mockery of Obama's promise that people could keep their health insurance, and documents uncovered by the media over the past several weeks show that administration officials knew it to be false even while they repeated the claims. But instead of slowing down, the Obama administration is trying to squeeze even more people into this dysfunctional system. This week, President Obama and his White House advisers surveyed the damage done by ObamaCare, and decided that the best solution is... a series of sales pitches. Full Story | Top |
| After health law woes, Obama returns focus on middle class, poor Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 02:59 PM PST  By Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seeking to recover from the bungled rollout of his healthcare reforms, President Barack Obama went back to basics on Wednesday with a renewed focus on government policies that benefit the struggling poor and middle classes. With his job approval ratings sinking, Obama sought to promote some of the ideals he has championed throughout his presidency. "We have to relentlessly push a growth agenda," Obama told a supportive crowd at a community center in one of the capital's poorest neighborhoods. "A relentlessly growing deficit of opportunity is a bigger threat to our future than our rapidly shrinking fiscal deficit." He challenged Republicans in Congress to do more than say 'no' to initiatives including raising the minimum wage or expanding health coverage: offer alternatives and set aside a preoccupation with cutting government spending. Full Story | Top |
| Non-profit sends Amazon a cake to celebrate third year of unpaid invoice Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 02:09 PM PST Attention Amazon finance department. The non-profit Metabrainz baked you guys a cake to celebrate the third anniversary of you not paying your bill. Congratulations? Full Story | Top |
| Dozens of whales beached in Everglades National Park in Florida Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 07:44 AM PST By Jane Sutton MIAMI (Reuters) - Dozens of whales were beached in the Everglades National Park in southwest Florida, and rangers and wildlife workers were trying to keep the animals stable until the tide rose enough to allow them to return to sea, a park spokeswoman said on Wednesday. About 30 whales were stranded in shallow water, and 10 more were on the shore, in a remote park of the Everglades near the Gulf of Mexico when the pod was first sighted Tuesday, park spokeswoman Linda Friar said. The animals were believed to be short-finned pilot whales, typically found in deep water in tropical and temperate areas. "Pilot whales are common stranders. Full Story | Top |
| More Obamacare enrollees in two days than all of October: sources Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 11:52 AM PST  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More people signed up on the government's new health insurance website on the first two days of December than in the entire first month of the launch of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform, sources familiar with the numbers said on Wednesday. Obama's administration has been criticized by Republican opponents for not regularly disclosing figures over political concerns. The improved enrollment figures provide the first evidence that a five-week emergency effort by the administration to fix HealthCare.gov was allowing more people to sign up for insurance in 36 states served by the website. Full Story | Top |
| Dangerous Global Warming Closer Than You Think, Climate Scientists Say Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 03:01 AM PST Dangerous Global Warming Closer Than You Think, Climate Scientists Say Full Story | Top |
| Mexico finds stolen radioactive material Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 07:28 PM PST Tepojaco (Mexico) (AFP) - Mexican authorities found a stolen medical device containing dangerous radioactive material outside the truck that was carrying it north of Mexico City, threatening the lives of those who touched it, officials said. Military and police forces cordoned off the area to prevent contamination after finding the radiation treatment machine in a rural area north of Mexico City two days after the truck was stolen. The device containing cobalt-60 was taken out of its steel-reinforced wood container and left hundreds of meters (yards) from the truck in Hueypoxtla, said Mardonio Jimenez, operations director at the National Commission for Nuclear Safety and Safeguards (CNSNS). "It's almost absolutely certain that whoever removed this material by hand is either already dead or about to die," CNSNS director Juan Eibenschutz told Milenio television. Full Story | Top |
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