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Horses could soon be slaughtered for meat in US
Wed,30 Nov 2011 10:19 AM PST
AP -  Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be up and running in as little as a month.
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Woman "imprisoned" on Scientology cruise ship for 12 years
Wed,30 Nov 2011 06:51 AM PST
The Sideshow - UPDATE: The Village Voice has an extended interview with Valeska Paris, which you can read here. For most people, an extended stay aboard a luxury cruise liner sounds like a dream vacation. But Valeska Paris says she was held against her will aboard the Scientology cruise ship "Freewinds" for more than a decade. During her [...] Full Story | Top |
Former "sheriff of the year" arrested and sent to jail named after him
Wed,30 Nov 2011 07:38 AM PST
The Sideshow - Every civil servant wants to experience his or her legacy firsthand--but not the way that onetime Arapahoe Sheriff Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. has. Sullivan, a nationally renowned law enforcement leader, was arrested on drug charges and is now being detained in the Denver area jail that bears his name. Sullivan, who in 2001 was named [...] Full Story | Top |
Digging into China's nuclear tunnels
Wed,30 Nov 2011 09:34 AM PST
The Washington Post - The Chinese have called it their "Underground Great Wall" — a vast network of tunnels designed to hide their country's increasingly sophisticated missile and nuclear arsenal. Full Story | Top |
Brian Williams ignores fire alarm during 'NBC Nightly News' broadcast
Wed,30 Nov 2011 05:31 AM PST
The Cutline - Brian Williams, host of NBC's "Nightly News," kicked off its East Coast newscast Tuesday night with a story on American Airlines' bankruptcy--and a persistent fire alarm. Just seconds into the broadcast, a fire alarm interrupted Williams, who told the audience that it was indeed a fire alarm before throwing to reporter Tom Costello. "You'll forgive [...] Full Story | Top |
Your Smartphone Is Spying on You
Wed,30 Nov 2011 12:53 PM PST
The Atlantic Wire - An Android developer recently discovered a clandestine application called Carrier IQ built into most smartphones that doesn't just track your location; it secretly records your keystrokes, and there's nothing you can do about it. Is it time to put on a tinfoil hat? That depends on how you feel about privacy.Related: Facebook and Google Join Forces to Oppose Privacy Bill Full Story | Top |
Burger King debuts thicker fries amid competition
Wed,30 Nov 2011 07:35 AM PST
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Burger King Corp, the second largest hamburger chain, has changed its french fry recipe for the first time since 1998 as competition from upstarts and traditional fast-food rivals mounts. Burger King said it made the new fries thicker, reduced sodium and added a coating that makes them crisper and keeps them hotter longer. The fries, now a bit wider in diameter than a No. 2 pencil, will be available in its more than 7,000 North American Burger King restaurants by December 5. Prices remain the same. "We're always trying to have the best menu possible. ...
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Republicans offer $100 reward for photo of Sen. Bob Casey with Obama
Wed,30 Nov 2011 09:31 AM PST
The Ticket - Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, offered a $100 reward on Wednesday to anyone who snaps a photo today of Bob Casey, the Democratic senator from Pennsylvania, with President Obama during his visit to the state. "I've got $100 dollars... for any person that can get us a picture here," Priebus told [...] Full Story | Top |
Tech Firm Implements Employee 'Zero Email' Policy
Tue,29 Nov 2011 08:53 AM PST
ABC News -  You've got mail–not. Employees of tech company Atos will be banned from sending emails under the company's new "zero email" policy. CEO Thierry Breton of the French information technology company said only 10 percent of the 200 messages employees receive per day are useful and...
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Video: Rescued beagle dogs experience sunlight for the first time
Tue,29 Nov 2011 02:12 PM PST
The Sideshow - In the heartwarming video below, a group of beagles rescued from a research laboratory in Spain experience sunlight for the first time. The 72 beagles arrived in Los Angeles last week, after they'd been saved by the Animal Rescue, Media & Education's (ARME) Beagle Freedom Project. On its web site, the Beagle Freedom Project describes itself [...] Full Story | Top |
More than 200 arrested in Occupy LA raid
Wed,30 Nov 2011 08:37 AM PST
AP -  In a massive show of force, 1,400 police officers, some in riot gear stormed the Occupy Los Angeles camp early Wednesday, driving protesters from the park and arresting more than 200 who defied orders to leave. Similar raids in Philadelphia led to 50 arrests, but the scene in both cities was relatively peaceful.
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Newt Gingrich dominates Florida in new poll
Wed,30 Nov 2011 05:13 AM PST
The Ticket - ORLANDO, Fla. -- Newt Gingrich drew unprecedented crowds during a campaign swing in southwest Florida last week, but a new state-wide poll suggests that support for the former House Speaker is spread wide across the state. Gingrich now leads the Republican presidential field in Florida with 41 percent of support from registered votes here, according [...] Full Story | Top |
Rick Perry Forgets Two Things in the Same Sentence
Tue,29 Nov 2011 12:25 PM PST
The Atlantic Wire - Previously, Rick Perry has shown that he is capable of remembering two out of three things at a time, and on Tuesday, at a campaign event in New Hampshire, he reportedly forgot both the United States voting age and the date of the general election. And he managed to make those mistakes in the same sentence, as The Washington Post recounts from a town hall meeting in the state: Full Story | Top |
Thanksgiving spat over chair ends in knife attack
Tue,29 Nov 2011 03:32 PM PST
Reuters - MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A Wisconsin man who allegedly attacked a fellow guest at a Thanksgiving Day dinner after she ignored his claim to a specific chair at the dining table has been charged with attempted homicide. Kendrick Carr, 23, allegedly pulled a foot-long butcher knife on the woman after she refused to stand up from the chair he said he wanted to sit in, according to the criminal complaint filed in Racine County Circuit Court on Monday. The woman defended herself with a broom and was unharmed, according to the complaint. ... Full Story | Top |
Daily Caller stirs up Obama book title controversy where there isn't one
Wed,30 Nov 2011 08:19 AM PST
The Cutline - The Daily Caller, Tucker Carlson's conservative website, published what it labeled an "exclusive" on Tuesday: a 2006 video that shows Barack Obama, then an Illinois senator, at a campaign stop "praising Reverend Jeremiah Wright and telling an audience that he 'stole' the title of his book 'The Audacity of Hope' from Wright's sermon of the [...] Full Story | Top |
Coulter calls McCain a 'douchebag,' gets bleeped by MSNBC
Tue,29 Nov 2011 09:05 AM PST
The Cutline - Ann Coulter, conservative author and preferred provocateur among cable news bookers, was repeatedly bleeped during a recent appearance on "Morning Joe" on Tuesday. In the bleeped asides, Coulter apparently called John McCain a "douchebag." Coulter was also cut for several seconds while discussing the consistency of current and former GOP candidates, including Newt Gingrich, Mitt [...] Full Story | Top |
Herman Cain considers dropping his presidential bid
Tue,29 Nov 2011 08:52 AM PST
The Ticket - Herman Cain is reportedly considering ending his presidential bid after fielding another charge of sexual impropriety Monday. As has been the case with the past spate of sexual-harassment charges against the former Godfather's Pizza CEO, Cain has flatly denied the latest charge from Georgia businesswoman Ginger White that the two had carried on a 13-year [...] Full Story | Top |
Atlanta man wins $1 million lottery for second time in three years
Tue,29 Nov 2011 12:05 PM PST
The Sideshow - A man in Atlanta has hauled in a million-dollar lottery payday for the second time in just three years. Delma Kinney, 50, recently won a $1 million dollar prize playing the instant game Super Millions. In 2008, Kinney also won $1 million playing another instant game. Kinney is a single father of three, who set [...] Full Story | Top |
Reagan shooter wants more time outside hospital
Wed,30 Nov 2011 02:10 PM PST
AP -  The man who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan is asking to spend more time outside a Washington mental hospital, but a government lawyer says John Hinckley's request is premature and that he recently lied to cover up the fact he looked at books on Reagan and presidential assassinations.
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iPhone 4 Explodes Midflight on Australian Airline
Mon,28 Nov 2011 02:40 PM PST
Good Morning America -  Apple's iPhones are always among the hottest gadgets of any holiday shopping season, but for one passenger on an Australian flight, the phone was too hot to handle — literally. While on Australian flight Regional Express ZL319 Friday, a passenger's iPhone 4 (not the iPhone 4S, which is Apple's...
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Does Herman Cain think the Arab Spring is a bad thing?
Wed,30 Nov 2011 12:27 PM PST
The Envoy - Even as he acknowledged reassessing his presidential campaign amid allegations of a 13-year affair, Herman Cain set out his foreign policy vision Tuesday in a document and a speech in Michigan. "Herman Cain's Vision for Foreign Policy & National Security" paper (.pdf) seemingly reveals that the candidate, or his national security advisers, are slightly out [...] Full Story | Top |
Move by central banks exhilarates Wall Street
Wed,30 Nov 2011 02:43 PM PST
AP -  A move by the world's central banks to lower the cost of borrowing exhilarated investors Wednesday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average soaring 490 points and easing fears of a global credit crisis similar to the one that followed the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers.
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