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| Will Heads Roll? Who Gets Fired Over Obamacare? Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 05:31 PM PST  HealthCare.Gov Vastly Improved, but Obama Cites 'Poor Execution' Full Story | Top |
| Fast-food strikes return amid push for wage hikes Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 08:18 AM PST NEW YORK (AP) — Fast-food workers and labor organizers are marching, waving signs and chanting in cities across the country Thursday amid a push for higher wages. Full Story | Top |
| Couple places McDonald's drive-thru order, handed bag of cash instead Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 06:15 AM PST  "Honey, you're not going to believe this." Full Story | Top |
| White House reverses course, says Obama lived with Kenyan uncle Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 12:20 PM PST The White House acknowledged Thursday that President Barack Obama lived with a Kenyan uncle targeted for deportation — after initially saying there was no evidence they had ever met. Full Story | Top |
| Palin 'humble enough' to accept Bashir apology Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 10:06 AM PST  Sarah Palin accepted Martin Bashir's apology on Thursday, a day after the MSNBC host resigned in the wake of a scandal stemming from comments he made about her. Full Story | Top |
| Woman Inadvertently Live-Tweets Husband's Fatal Car Accident Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 10:32 AM PST There is no easy way to discover the news that a loved one has died. However, the way that Caran Johnson found out about the death of her husband seems unfathomably hard. The chain of events started yesterday when a newspaper in Vancouver, Wash., alerted its Twitter followers about an accident in the southbound lanes of I-205, an interstate that serves Washington and Oregon. Full Story | Top |
| AT&T unveils new Mobile Share Value plans that could save you a ton of money Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 05:00 AM PST  AT&T wants subscribers to have a merry Christmas this year. It also wants some of the people who have been fleeing its network in searching of cheaper smartphone plans to stay put. As such, the carrier on Thursday announced a brand new set of service plans that are far more consumer-friendly. AT&T is still making plenty of money on them, of course, but several of the plans offer significant savings compared to the older plans they replace. What's more, the new plans finally — FINALLY — take smartphone subsidies into account to an extent, and they automatically drop in cost by $15 per month once your phone is paid off. Or, if you bring your own phone or opt for Full Story | Top |
| Singapore marathon 'winner' ran only 6 km Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 03:15 AM PST  A pastry chef who stunned Singapore marathon organisers by being the first local runner across the finish line admitted he cheated -- and has been doing so for years, a report said Thursday. Father-of-one Tam Chua Puh, 43, caused consternation when he finished Sunday's race several minutes ahead of Singapore's finest distance athletes in a time of 2hr 46min. However, Tam admitted he had run only six kilometres (3.7 miles) of the 42km race before giving up due to knee pain and taking a short cut straight to the finish line. Bespectacled Tam, wearing a baseball cap, baggy shorts and a knee brace, was initially declared the winner before organisers, after a hasty check, disqualified him for missing all the check points. Full Story | Top |
| Sharks Do Get Cancer: Tumor Found in Great White Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 06:29 AM PST  Scientists have known for more than 150 years that sharks get cancer. That misconception is promoted in part by those who sell shark cartilage, who claim that the substance will help cure cancer, said David Shiffman, a shark researcher and doctoral student at the University of Miami. But no studies have shown that shark cartilage is an effective treatment, and the demand for the material has helped decimate shark populations, researchers say: Humans kill about 100 million sharks per year, according to a March 2013 study (although many factors contribute to the killing of sharks, including demand for shark-fin soup). "This was a very unusual sight as we have never before seen a [great] white shark with tumors," said Rachel Robbins, a study co-author and shark biologist at the Fox Shark Research Foundation, near Adelaide, in southern Australia. Full Story | Top |
| Nearly week of frigid temperatures for West Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013 09:43 PM PST DENVER (AP) — The jet stream hunkered to the south Wednesday, promising to bring nearly a week of temperatures that could dip to minus 20 or worse in the northern midsection of the country, and forcing much of the rest of the nation to deal with unexpectedly cool temperatures. Full Story | Top |
| Court hears discrimination case over wedding cake Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 04:08 AM PST  A Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex ceremony should not be forced to violate his religious beliefs, his attorney told a judge deciding whether the cake-maker should be made ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama: Mandela 'took history in his hands' and wrought justice Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 02:33 PM PST  President Barack Obama paid somber tribute to Nelson Mandela Thursday, celebrating the late South African leader's "fierce dignity and unbending will" and unquenchable thirst for justice. Full Story | Top |
| Republicans in U.S. Congress try to be more 'sensitive' about women Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 11:03 AM PST  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representative Speaker John Boehner said on Thursday he wants his fellow Republicans to be more "sensitive" as they seek to appeal to women voters in next year's congressional elections. "I try to get them to be a little bit more sensitive," Boehner said at his weekly news conference, when asked what advice he was giving his fellow Republicans as they campaign against Democratic women candidates, and try to attract female voters. There are 81 women members of the House, of whom 62 are Democrats, compared with 19 Republicans. In the Senate, 16 of the 20 women are Democrats and four are Republicans. Full Story | Top |
| Japanese police arrest woman for calling them 15,000 times Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 02:26 AM PST  Japanese police said Thursday they have arrested a woman for calling them more than 15,000 times over a six-month period. "She made as many as 927 emergency calls in one day....disturbing our police duties," said an official in the city of Sakai, near the western city of Osaka. Full Story | Top |
| The “Duck Dynasty” congressman: Meet the House’s newest member Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 04:25 AM PST Republican Rep. Vance McAllister says he prays for President Obama daily. Full Story | Top |
| Winter storm brings icy blast to wide swath of United States Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 01:11 PM PST By Suzi Parker LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - People from Texas to New York were bundling up on Thursday against winter weather that closed schools and businesses, blanketed roads and power lines with ice and threatened to disrupt travel across a wide swath of the United States. The southern plains and central region, including Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas were expected to be especially hard hit, according to the National Weather Service. In Little Rock, Arkansas, people scrambled to stock their cupboards as temperatures plunged. Utility provider Entergy Arkansas said it was bringing in an additional 6,700 workers to help with downed power lines and outages that could last a week. Full Story | Top |
| Rockwell art sells for record $46M at NY auction Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 04:17 AM PST  A Norman Rockwell painting titled "Saying Grace" sold at an auction on Wednesday for $46 million, a record for the Saturday Evening Post illustrator and for any work sold at an American art auction, ... Full Story | Top |
| From ‘Prison Break’ to Prison: Actor Lane Garrison on Dangers of Drunk Driving Thursday, Dec 05, 2013 08:57 AM PST Lane Garrison, who is co-starring in a remake of "Bonnie & Clyde" is well known for his role on "Prison Break." But one night, life imitated art – and things took a tragic turn. "I foolishly chose to drink and drive one night at a party that was two blocks from my house and I Full Story | Top |
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