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| Dozens die in Odessa, rebels down Ukraine helicopters Friday, May 02, 2014 03:13 PM PDT  By Maria Tsvetkova SLAVIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Dozens of people were killed in a fire and others were shot dead when fighting between pro- and anti-Russian groups broke out on the streets of Odessa on Ukraine's Black Sea coast on Friday, opening a new front in a conflict that has split the country. In the east, pro-Russian separatists brought down two Ukrainian military helicopters involved in a pre-dawn operation to try to dislodge the militants from their strongholds in the town of Slaviansk. The separatists said three of their number had been killed, and two civilians, while the defense ministry said two crew from the downed helicopters died and two other servicemen were killed when separatists attacked them on Friday evening. "Heavy fighting is continuing," the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said. Full Story | Top |
| Obama, Merkel threaten new Russia sanctions Friday, May 02, 2014 09:57 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel threatened tougher new sanctions against Russia on Friday if Moscow does not quickly change its disruptive behavior. Full Story | Top |
| Nineteen hurt in New York subway derailment Friday, May 02, 2014 03:23 PM PDT  A New York City subway train carrying 1,000 riders derailed on Friday morning while traveling through a tunnel in the borough of Queens, injuring 19 people, city fire officials said. The incident, at 10:24 a.m., involved six cars in an eight-car Manhattan-bound 'F' line subway, they said. The cause of the derailment was not immediately known but MTA Chairman Thomas Prendergast said the mass-transit agency will begin a full inspection of signals and tracks. My car went dark," said Connie Wang, 24, a freelance photographer who was riding in a car in the middle of the train. Full Story | Top |
| Russia Can Lose Territory, Too. It Should Worry. Friday, May 02, 2014 02:30 AM PDT  Even President Obama, at last, found an off-ramp he didn't believe in. Thus two weeks after an agreement to disarm and disband pro-Russian separatists, those separatists remain armed and banded, backed by an unrepentant Russia. Russia has successfully defied the international system not just because it is stronger on the ground, but because it found a loophole in the rules of international behavior. In eastern Ukraine and the Crimea, the rule against annexing another state is clouded by the rule supporting ethnic self-determination. That cloudiness has muted the Western reaction and been mildly humiliating at the same time – a bonus for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Full Story | Top |
| Family reunited with dog that went missing 18 months ago during Hurricane Sandy Friday, May 02, 2014 07:18 AM PDT About 18 months after Hurricane Sandy struck the eastern United States, a family was reunited with the dog they thought had been lost to the storm. Full Story | Top |
| Coming soon: a brain implant to restore memory Friday, May 02, 2014 09:28 AM PDT  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is forging ahead with a four-year plan to build a sophisticated memory stimulator, as part of President Barack Obama's $100 million initiative to better understand the human brain. Some say those who could benefit include the five million Americans with Alzheimer's disease and the nearly 300,000 US military men and women who have sustained traumatic brain injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan. "If you have been injured in the line of duty and you can't remember your family, we want to be able to restore those kinds of functions," DARPA program manager Justin Sanchez said this week at a conference in the US capital convened by the Center for Brain Health at the University of Texas at Dallas. "We think that we can develop neuroprosthetic devices that can directly interface with the hippocampus, and can restore the first type of memories we are looking at, the declarative memories," he said. Full Story | Top |
| KIDS ARE COLLATERAL DAMAGE IN WIFE'S WAR ON MARRIAGE Thursday, May 01, 2014 10:01 PM PDT DEAR ABBY: My wife and I both served in the military. When she returned from Egypt 19 months ago, she dropped a bomb on me, saying she didn't want to be married anymore. She said she had settled for second best all her life and that's what she had done with me. She went on to say she knows there's someone better than me out there, and she's going to find him. All the evidence points to an affair, which she denies -- constant trips out of town, emails and phone calls. We are now living paycheck to paycheck. We have no more savings and I'm paying all the expenses when it comes to the kids. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ready for Hillary’s Running Mate? Friday, May 02, 2014 02:45 AM PDT  There's one candidate who would make a whole lot of sense—and he's got history and plenty of experience in his favor. Full Story | Top |
| Obama, Merkel to display unity against Russia Friday, May 02, 2014 07:28 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel mounted a display of trans-Atlantic unity Friday against an assertive Russia, even as sanctions imposed by Western allies seemed to be doing little to change President Vladimir Putin's reasoning on Ukraine. Full Story | Top |
| Northern Ireland waits for verdict in Adams arrest Friday, May 02, 2014 04:32 AM PDT  BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Northern Ireland is waiting. The country's most famous — and infamous — politician could be charged over a decades-old slaying of a Belfast mother of 10, or walk away a free man. Full Story | Top |
| Did da Vinci create a 3D 'Mona Lisa'? Friday, May 02, 2014 01:26 PM PDT  Leonardo Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" painting may be part of the oldest 3D artwork, say two visual scientists. In 2012, scientists discovered that beneath layers of black paint, a seemingly insignificant "knock-off" of the "Mona Lisa" in the Museo del Prado in Madrid was in actuality very close to the original hanging in the Louvre Museum in Paris, revealing the same subject with the same mountain landscape background. That painting may have been painted by Da Vinci or possibly one of his students. "When I first perceived the two paintings side by side, it was very obvious for me that there is a very small but evident difference in perspectives," study researcher Claus-Christian Carbon of the University of Bamberg in Germany wrote in an email to Live Science. Full Story | Top |
| Major security hole found in popular login protocols – and it won’t be fixed anytime soon Friday, May 02, 2014 07:42 AM PDT  Following the major Heartbleed security issue that affected millions of websites, a different vulnerability has been discovered that could have allowed hackers to steal certain personal data from users. CNET reports that a security flaw in the OAuth and OpenID online login protocols could be used to steal data and redirect users to malicious websites. Dubbed "Covert Redirect," the exploit masquerades as a login pop-up based on an affected site's domain, which would easily fool unsuspecting Internet users. "For example, someone clicking on a malicious phishing link will get a pop-up window in Facebook, asking them to authorize the app," the publication writes. "Instead of using a fake domain name that's similar to trick users, the Covert Redirect flaw uses the Full Story | Top |
| First U.S. case of deadly MERS virus confirmed: CDC Friday, May 02, 2014 04:53 PM PDT  A healthcare worker who had traveled to Saudi Arabia was confirmed as the first U.S. case of Middle East Respiratory Virus (MERS), an often fatal illness, raising new concerns about the rapid spread of such diseases, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday. The male patient traveled via a British Airways flight on April 24 from Riyadh to London, where he changed flights at Heathrow airport to fly to the United States. He landed in Chicago and took a bus to an undisclosed city in Indiana. According to the Indiana State Department of Health, the man visited the emergency department at Community Hospital in Munster, Indiana, on April 28 and was admitted that same day. Full Story | Top |
| If Russia Goes Over the Economic Cliff, It Won’t Go Alone Friday, May 02, 2014 03:00 AM PDT  Secretary of State John Kerry last month tried to explain the complexity of the decision-making process surrounding sanctions on Russia. The U.S. and E.U. have already announced very targeted sanctions against Russia as a penalty for its takeover of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula and it's threatening posture toward eastern Ukraine. However, what's been implemented so far is only a taste of what a full-on sanctions regime, such as the one imposed against Iran, might mean for the Russian economy. But in testimony before Congress last month, Kerry noted that Russia is a major player in the world economy, and said that damaging the Russian economy will also have effects on U.S. businesses operating in Russia and on U.S. exports. Full Story | Top |
| Gel Manicures Linked to Skin Cancer Friday, May 02, 2014 04:45 AM PDT  Gel manicures are wildly popular because they certainly look nice and their longevity is convenient, but the UV lamp used to dry the polish is putting skin cells in danger. A gel manicure lasts longer because of this drying process, which requires the nails be exposed to ultraviolet light for five to ten minutes (the average is eight minutes). Unfortunately, a study by JAMA Dermatology determined that the drying devices carry carcinogenic potential, "within just eight to fourteen visits between 24 to 42 months, the lamps increase the risk of skin cancer." Rather than rely on an estimate of UV lamp rays, JAMA Dermatology tested seventeen different drying devices in sixteen different salons for UV-A radiation exposure. UV-A is a type of UV ray which ages the skin, causing wrinkles and breaking DNA strands within skin cells. Full Story | Top |
| Next stop for Rob Ford _ rehabilitation center Friday, May 02, 2014 08:11 AM PDT  TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford began treatment for substance abuse, his brother said Friday, two days after a second video emerged that appears to show the mayor puffing from a crack pipe. Full Story | Top |
| Pennsylvania fights paying Jerry Sandusky's pension Friday, May 02, 2014 10:44 AM PDT  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — In an effort to keep from paying a pension to former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, Pennsylvania's retirement system is disputing his employment status at the time he was arrested on child molestation charges and later convicted. Full Story | Top |
| House plans special committee to probe Benghazi Friday, May 02, 2014 12:56 PM PDT  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Speaker of the House of Representatives said on Friday the House will vote to create a special committee - the same type of panel that investigated the Watergate scandal - to probe the deadly September 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya. Ohio Republican John Boehner made his announcement days after a conservative watchdog group released previously undisclosed emails that it said showed the White House was concerned primarily with protecting President Barack Obama's image in the wake of the attack that killed four Americans. "The administration's withholding of documents - emails showing greater White House involvement in misleading the American people - is a flagrant violation of trust and undermines the basic principle of oversight upon which our system of government is built," Boehner said in a statement. Also on Friday, the House Oversight Committee said it issued a subpoena for Secretary of State John Kerry to testify at a May 21 public hearing about the attack. Full Story | Top |
| Civil rights leader resigns, caught in scandal over NBA team owner's racist rant Friday, May 02, 2014 03:34 AM PDT The president of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP resigned Thursday in ongoing fallout over racist comments made by the owner of the Clippers basketball team, who had been slated to be honored by the organization with a lifetime achievement award. Citing the scandal over team owner Donald Sterling's anti-African-American rant on a widely circulated audio recording, Leon Jenkins said in a statement posted on the civil rights organization's website that he had caused the NAACP "negative exposure." "Please be advised that the legacy, history and reputation of the NAACP is more important to me than the presidency," Jenkins wrote. "In order to separate the Los Angeles NAACP and the NAACP from the negative exposure I have caused the NAACP, I respectfully resign my position as president of the Los Angeles NAACP." The scandal over Sterling's remarks, made public over the weekend, sparked outrage from fans and players, and numerous commercial sponsors pulled their support from the team. Full Story | Top |
| Scalia’s factual error not only one in recent Supreme Court decisions Friday, May 02, 2014 07:00 AM PDT The legal press is up in arms over a factual mistake made by Justice Antonin Scalia in a Supreme Court decision this week. But Scalia isn't alone among justices who've been corrected by academics and even a few bloggers. Full Story | Top |
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