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Internet blackout looms for thousands: What you need to know
Sun,8 Jul 2012 08:58 AM PDT
Thousands of computer users may lose Internet access on Monday, when the deadline for a temporary fix to a malicious software scam shut down by the FBI last year expires. What is it? Millions of computers were infected with the so-called "Internet Doomsday" virus used in the hacking scam, which redirected Internet searches through DNS [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama ad calls Romney 'the problem' with job losses to China
Sat,7 Jul 2012 02:15 PM PDT
ABC OTUS News - Undeterred by independent fact checkers that have debunked the thrust of their claims, the Obama campaign is redoubling attacks on Mitt Romney as an "outsourcer" in a new TV ad airing in eight battleground states. The 30-second spot — titled "The Problem" — claims Romney... Full Story | Top |
Congressman Barney Frank weds in same-sex marriage
Sun,8 Jul 2012 02:39 PM PDT
Reuters -  BOSTON (Reuters) - Democratic Representative Barney Frank wed his longtime partner, James Ready, on Saturday, becoming the first sitting congressman to enter into a same-sex marriage. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick officiated the ceremony and added some levity by saying Frank, 72, and Ready, 42, had vowed to love each other through Democratic and Republican administrations alike, and even through appearances on Fox News, according to Al Green, a Democratic congressman from Texas. "Barney was beaming," said Green, who attended the ceremony. ...
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Oscar-winning film star Ernest Borgnine dies in LA at age 95
Sun,8 Jul 2012 02:26 PM PDT
Ernest Borgnine, who created a variety of memorable characters in both movies and television and won the best-actor Oscar for his role as a lovesick butcher in "Marty" in 1955, died Sunday. He was 95. Borgnine's longtime spokesman, Harry Flynn, told The Associated Press that Borgnine died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles with [...] Full Story | Top |
Great White Shark: Cape Cod Beach Reopens After Sighting
Sun,8 Jul 2012 09:45 AM PDT
ABC News -  Swimmers in Cape Cod, Mass. are venturing back into the water Sunday after a great white shark sighting closed a popular beach this weekend. Lifeguards and swimmers spotted the shark some 100 to 150 yards off Nauset Beach in Orleans Saturday afternoon. The 12-14 foot...
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Democrats want Romney to explain offshore accounts
Sun,8 Jul 2012 04:24 PM PDT
Associated Press -  Mitt Romney privately raised millions of dollars from New York's elite on Sunday, as Democrats launched coordinated attacks against the likely Republican presidential nominee, intensifying calls for him to explain offshore bank accounts and release several years of tax returns.
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Congressman Barney Frank Marries Longtime Partner Jim Ready
Sun,8 Jul 2012 04:32 AM PDT
ABC OTUS News -  Congressman Barney Frank, D-Mass., tied the knot with his long time partner Jim Ready this weekend, according to a news release from Frank's office. Frank, 72, and Ready, 42, were married at the Boston Marriott Hotel in Newton, Mass. Saturday night. They have been together...
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Analysis: Little hope for compromise in Congress
Sun,8 Jul 2012 05:10 AM PDT
Associated Press -  Republicans and Democrats in Congress who congratulated themselves for passing relatively routine legislation before July 4 are returning to the Capitol for a summer stocked with political show votes and no serious role for bipartisanship.
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Fastest Way to Chill a Drink
Tue,3 Jul 2012 11:00 AM PDT
The heat of the summer is upon us. And I'm sure I'm not the only one asking: What's the fastest way to chill a drink? Fridge Depending on the starting temperature, cooling drinks in the fridge takes anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours. Not nearly fast enough when you're parched. Freezer To speed the [...] Full Story | Top |
Locals vow revenge for Afghan woman's execution
Sun,8 Jul 2012 02:47 PM PDT
Reuters - CHARIKAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Sayed Jalal furrowed his eyebrows in anger as he vowed to avenge the public execution of a woman in front of a large crowd not far from Kabul, brazen violence that spurred shock and sharp condemnation from Afghan authorities and the United States. The Taliban denied involvement in the killing in Parwan province, in which an unnamed woman's head and body were riddled with bullets at close range in punishment for alleged adultery. Authorities in Kabul directly blamed the Islamist group. "We will take revenge for this. ... Full Story | Top |
The tax man cometh to police you on health care
Sat,7 Jul 2012 08:24 PM PDT
Associated Press -  The Supreme Court's decision to uphold most of President Barack Obama's health care law will come home to roost for most taxpayers in about 2½ years, when they'll have to start providing proof on their tax returns that they have health insurance.
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Historic bridges of Yosemite Valley under siege
Sun,8 Jul 2012 09:05 AM PDT
Associated Press -  Perhaps no river crossing in Yosemite Valley has been more photographed than the historic Stoneman Bridge: a single, arching span faced with rough-hewn granite that provides a dramatic foreground to Half Dome, the park's most iconic natural marvel.
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Cosby star: New show about 'positive black family'
Fri,6 Jul 2012 07:51 PM PDT
Associated Press -  Actress Tempestt Bledsoe says she's thrilled to be returning to network television on a show that portrays "a positive black family" similar to the long-running hit sitcom she was part of for roughly eight years — "The Cosby Show."
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Morocco sex debate rages after imam's death call
Sun,8 Jul 2012 03:04 AM PDT
AFP -  The call by a radical Moroccan imam for the death of a journalist who spoke out in defence of sexual freedom has ignited a fierce debate between Islamists and secularists in a country torn between modernity and religious tradition.
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Republicans hold "Super Saturday" to energize voters
Sat,7 Jul 2012 03:39 PM PDT
Reuters -  FAIRFAX, Virginia (Reuters) - Thousands of Republican volunteers braved scorching temperatures to knock on doors and canvass voters on Saturday as the party staged its first "Super Saturday" blitz hoping to energize supporters and rival Democrats' volunteer mobilization. Republican party officials said volunteers were out in a dozen battleground states expected to see close contests in the November 6 election between Democratic President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. ...
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Obama team targets Romney over taxes, Republicans cry foul
Sun,8 Jul 2012 03:45 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's campaign and top Democrats on Sunday called on Mitt Romney to release more personal tax records and raised questions about his offshore assets that the Republican challenger's campaign condemned as an "unseemly and disgusting" character assault. Democrats and Republicans tussled over the economy, but it was Romney's offshore assets that Democrats seized on during the Sunday talk shows in their quest to portray him as a wealthy man out of touch with ordinary Americans. Romney faces Obama in the November 6 election and polls indicate a close race. ...
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Taliban publicly execute woman near Kabul: officials
Sat,7 Jul 2012 11:04 AM PDT
Reuters - KABUL (Reuters) - A man Afghan officials say is a member of the Taliban shot dead a woman accused of adultery in front of a crowd near Kabul, a video obtained by Reuters showed, a sign that the austere Islamist group dictates law even near the Afghan capital. In the three-minute video, a turban-clad man approaches a woman kneeling in the dirt and shoots her five times at close range with an automatic rifle, to cheers of jubilation from the 150 or so men watching in a village in Parwan province. ... Full Story | Top |
George Clooney, Stacy Keibler Get Food Poisoning In Italy
Sat,7 Jul 2012 09:59 AM PDT
Access Hollywood -  There are a few things that just don't sit well with George Clooney - over-aggressive paparazzi, political injustice, and apparently, his Fourth of July meal in Italy. Clooney, along with girlfriend Stacy Keibler and a small group of friends, all experienced a bout of food poisoning on Thursday after dining at a restaurant near the actor's Lake Como villa in Italy.
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Killer disease in Cambodia stumps experts
Sat,7 Jul 2012 05:33 PM PDT
AFP -  It's not bird flu or SARS, and nor does it appear to be contagious, but little more is known about a mysterious disease that has killed dozens of Cambodian children, some within 24 hours of being hospitalised.
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Extreme heat persists, but relief arriving Monday
Sun,8 Jul 2012 04:24 PM PDT
Reuters -  CHICAGO (Reuters) - A blistering heat wave finally showed signs of letting up across the U.S. Midwest and Northeast on Sunday, bringing relief to millions after days of oppressive temperatures - just as forecasters warned that a new round of record highs could soon bake Western states. "It's going to start as soon as tomorrow - really everybody in the Rockies is going to see this heat," said Alan Reppert, senior meteorologist for AccuWeather.com. He said a high-pressure system developing over the Rockies will cause temperatures of over 100 Fahrenheit (37. ...
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Could We Build 'Star Trek's' Starship Enterprise?
Sat,7 Jul 2012 07:58 AM PDT
SPACE.com -  Since its first appearance on the original "Star Trek" series in 1966, the starship Enterprise has become a symbol for space travel. Recently, an anonymous engineerclaimed that an approximation of this iconic ship could be built in the next two decades. But just how close is mankind to zipping through the stars at warp speed?
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Libyan election: Liberal alliance claims lead in first vote since fall of Gadhafi
Sun,8 Jul 2012 01:07 PM PDT
Click image to view more photos. In a historic election hailed as mostly peaceful, a liberal alliance claimed to be in the lead in Libya's parliamentary elections--the first since the fall of Moammar Gadhafi. Faisal Krekshi, secretary general of the Alliance of National Forces led by Mahmoud Jibril, said preliminary results put the group in [...] Full Story | Top |
Texas to test 1965 voting rights law in court
Sun,8 Jul 2012 08:52 AM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Voting Rights Act - a cherished safeguard for minority voters since 1965 - has been under siege for two years and this week faces one of its toughest test on an apparent path to the U.S. Supreme Court. Twenty-five hours of argument, starting on Monday and spread over five days, will help the judges of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia decide whether Texas can require voters to present a photo identification at the polls. Formulated at a time of racial turmoil, the Voting Rights Act passed 77-19 in the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
Obama invites Egypt's Islamist leader to U.S.
Sun,8 Jul 2012 01:56 PM PDT
Reuters -  CAIRO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has invited Egypt's newly elected Islamist president, Mohamed Mursi, to visit the United States in September, an Egyptian official said on Sunday, reflecting the new ties Washington is cultivating with the region's Islamists. Washington, long wary of Islamists and an ally of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, shifted policy last year to open formal contacts with the Muslim Brotherhood, the group behind Mursi's win. Mursi formally resigned from the group after his victory. ...
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U.S. Episcopalians move closer to allowing transgender ministers
Sat,7 Jul 2012 09:11 PM PDT
Reuters - INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - The U.S. Episcopal Church's House of Bishops on Saturday approved a proposal that, if it survives a final vote, would give transgender men and women the right to become ministers in the church. The House of Bishops voted at the church's General Convention to include "gender identity and expression" in its "non-discrimination canons," meaning sexual orientation, including that of people who have undergone sex-change operations, cannot be used to exclude candidates to ministry. The move comes nine years after the Episcopal Church, an independent U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
Donors offer $16 billion Afghan aid at Tokyo conference
Sun,8 Jul 2012 07:25 AM PDT
Reuters -  TOKYO (Reuters) - Major donors pledged on Sunday to give Afghanistan $16 billion in development aid through 2015 as they try to prevent it from sliding back into chaos when foreign troops leave, but demanded reforms to fight widespread corruption. Donor fatigue and war weariness have taken their toll on how long the global community is willing to support Afghanistan and there are concerns about security following the withdrawal of most NATO troops in 2014 if financial backing is not secured. "Afghanistan's security cannot only be measured by the absence of war," U.S. ...
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