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3 arrested in separate 'Dark Knight' incidents
Tue,24 Jul 2012 08:49 AM PDT
Associated Press -  At least 3 men accused of making threats during or after watching the new Batman movie have been arrested in separate incidents, underscoring moviegoers' anxieties and heightened security in the wake of a deadly mass shooting at a Colorado theater showing the film.
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White House: Families' taxes could go up $1,600
Tue,24 Jul 2012 06:23 AM PDT
Associated Press - A standoff with Congress that results in the January expiration of wide-ranging tax cuts would mean 114 million families would see average tax increases of $1,600 next year, the White House says. Full Story | Top |
Romney: Obama has 'diminished American leadership' around the world
Tue,24 Jul 2012 12:52 PM PDT
LONDON—Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama of having "diminished American leadership" around the world with his foreign policy approach and suggested his administration had put the lives of American service members at risk by leaking classified national security details to the media. In a hard-hitting speech before the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Reno, [...] Full Story | Top |
Jim Henson Company breaks ties with Chick-fil-A over gay marriage stance
Mon,23 Jul 2012 12:38 PM PDT
The company that created the Muppets has decided to end its business relationship with Chick-fil-A over the restaurant chain's public stance against gay marriage. In an announcement on Facebook, Jim Henson Company CEO Lisa Henson said her company will no longer supply toys or other merchandise to the fast-food chain. "The Jim Henson Company has [...] Full Story | Top |
Eagle Scouts return medals over organization's anti-gay stance
Tue,24 Jul 2012 11:45 AM PDT
The Boy Scouts of America's stance of not allowing openly gay people to serve as troop leaders or members has inspired several Eagle Scouts to return their hard-earned medals and renounce their membership. Boing Boing writer Maggie Koerth-Baker first posted a story about how her husband, Christopher Baker, a former Eagle Scout, returned his medal [...] Full Story | Top |
Health care repeal would widen deficit by $109 billion, says CBO
Tue,24 Jul 2012 12:44 PM PDT
Repealing the health care law passed in 2010 and upheld by the Supreme Court in June would increase the federal deficit by $109 billion over 10 years, a new Congressional Budget Office analysis estimates. The CBO on Tuesday rated the health care repeal bill passed by the House earlier this month and found that "the [...] Full Story | Top |
Colorado shooting victim remains in ICU as wife gives birth to first child
Tue,24 Jul 2012 10:34 AM PDT
A woman whose husband was critically wounded in the Colorado movie theater shooting has given birth to the couple's first child. Katie Medley gave birth to a boy named Hugo Jackson Medley on Tuesday at University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora, the same hospital where her husband, Caleb Medley, lies in critical but stable condition. [...] Full Story | Top |
Heart Yourself
Tue,24 Jul 2012 05:32 AM PDT
Katie's Take Here's the good news—in the past decade 27% fewer women have died from heart disease, and the lion's share of credit really goes to awareness campaigns like Go Red and celebrities like Barbra Streisand who have shined a megawatt spotlight on the issue. The bad news, though, is far too many women still [...] Full Story | Top |
Gun sales spike in Colorado after shooting, just like they did in Arizona
Tue,24 Jul 2012 09:14 AM PDT
Gun sales in Colorado have spiked since last week's massacre, The Denver Post reports. Background checks jumped more than 41 percent since Friday's shooting that left 12 dead and 58 injured during a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" at an Aurora movie theater. Over the weekend, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation approved background [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama Fundraises With Players in Solyndra Scandal
Mon,23 Jul 2012 07:34 PM PDT
ABC OTUS News - SAN FRANCISCO — At an exclusive re-election fundraiser tonight, President Obama hobnobbed with 60 of his wealthiest supporters, including two figures at the center of the Solyndra loan controversy. Steve Westly, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, was one of the first to raise red flags... Full Story | Top |
Feinstein: White House Behind National Security Leaks
Mon,23 Jul 2012 11:48 PM PDT
National Journal - The chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Monday the White House was behind recent national security leaks in part, but would not implicate President Obama on the matter, the Associated Press reports. Full Story | Top |
Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes appears dazed in court
Mon,23 Jul 2012 02:13 PM PDT
[Updated at 5:10 p.m. EST] CENTENNIAL, Colo.--James Holmes, the suspect in the Colorado theater massacre, appeared in a Colorado courtroom on Monday, three days after one of the deadliest shooting sprees in modern American history. Arapahoe County District Court Judge William B. Sylvester advised Holmes of his Miranda rights, and said that there was probable [...] Full Story | Top |
14 dead in horrific Texas pickup truck crash
Mon,23 Jul 2012 07:40 AM PDT
A pickup truck carrying 23 people veered off a Texas highway and crashed late Sunday, killing 14 and injuring 9 others. The Ford F-250 Super Duty pickup was was traveling north on U.S. Highway 59 when it crashed into two large trees near Goliad, Texas, about 100 miles southeast of San Antonio, Texas Highway Patrol [...] Full Story | Top |
Pa. monsignor gets 3-6 years in sex abuse cover-up
Tue,24 Jul 2012 02:28 PM PDT
Associated Press -  The first U.S. church official convicted of covering up sex-abuse claims against Roman Catholic priests was sentenced Tuesday to three to six years in prison by a judge who said he "enabled monsters in clerical garb ... to destroy the souls of children."
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CEO of Lenovo Gives $3 Million in Bonuses to Employees
Tue,24 Jul 2012 05:41 AM PDT
ABC News -  Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing has decided to use a $3 million bonus he received for the company's record-setting year to reward thousands of the company's rank-and-file employees. The 47-year-old gave around 10,000 employees worldwide bonus checks for their hard work, Lenovo spokesman Jeffrey Shafer said....
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Attackers said to carve gay slurs on Nebraska woman; police probe
Mon,23 Jul 2012 10:57 AM PDT
Reuters - OMAHA, Neb (Reuters) - Police in Lincoln, Nebraska, said Monday they are investigating a possible gay hate crime against a 33-year-old woman who was tied up in her home and had words sliced onto her body by three masked attackers. The attack prompted a vigil by about 500 people in the state's capitol Sunday. The woman told police that three masked men entered her home in south Lincoln early Sunday morning, tied her up and carved words into her body with a knife, according to a police report. Local media reported that the words were gay slurs, but police declined to confirm this. ... Full Story | Top |
Romney to slam Obama on national security leaks
Tue,24 Jul 2012 06:46 AM PDT
LONDON—In a high-profile speech Tuesday, Mitt Romney will accuse President Barack Obama's administration of leaking classified national security information to benefit the president politically. According to excerpts of a speech Romney will deliver at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Reno, Nev., the presumptive Republican nominee will cite complaints—including from California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, [...] Full Story | Top |
Ariz sheriff: 'Dirty' immigrant remark taken wrong
Tue,24 Jul 2012 11:57 AM PDT
Associated Press -  An Arizona sheriff known nationally for his hardline stance on illegal immigration took the witness stand Tuesday and faced allegations that his trademark immigration sweeps amounted to racial profiling against Hispanics.
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Gun control surfaces in CT, VA Senate debates following Colorado shooting
Mon,23 Jul 2012 12:30 PM PDT
A mass shooting Friday in Aurora, Colo., that left 12 dead and 58 wounded has already pushed the issue of gun control into the local political dialogue across the country. This weekend, two high-profile Senate race debates in Virginia and Connecticut tackled the topic. At the Democratic Connecticut Senate debate Sunday afternoon, Rep. Chris Murphy and [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama has 'no tolerance for leaks,' White House insists as Romney attacks
Tue,24 Jul 2012 12:51 PM PDT
The White House insisted on Tuesday that President Barack Obama "has no tolerance for leaks" of national security secrets as Mitt Romney accused the Administration of disclosing sensitive information for political gain. "There are two experienced federal prosecutors investigating the leaks in question," press secretary Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One as Obama [...] Full Story | Top |
Outside money ban in Massachusetts Senate race is working, but at what price?
Tue,24 Jul 2012 03:12 AM PDT
What's one way to blunt the effects of outside interest groups on politics? Ban them. That's what Republican Sen. Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren did in their Massachusetts Senate race. The two candidates struck a unique deal in January (pdf) to penalize one another if any outside group bought advertising to influence their [...] Full Story | Top |
Late night TV/computer sessions linked to depression
Tue,24 Jul 2012 01:00 AM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Sitting in front of a computer or TV screen late into the night or leaving it on when you fall asleep could increase your chances of becoming depressed, according to a study by U.S. scientists. The study, by a team of neuroscientists at Ohio State University Medical Center partly funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, will give screen-addicted night owls pause for thought. ... Full Story | Top |
Obama lays out 'The Choice' for voters in new ad
Mon,23 Jul 2012 03:05 PM PDT
Looking directly at the camera, President Barack Obama lays out "the choice" voters face in November in a new ad scheduled to run in the key battlegrounds of Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. The minute-long message won't air in Colorado until Saturday, an acknowledgement of the tragic mass shooting [...] Full Story | Top |
Earhart search returning to HI without plane pics
Mon,23 Jul 2012 04:01 PM PDT
Associated Press - A $2.2 million expedition that hoped to find wreckage from famed aviator Amelia Earhart's final flight is on its way back to Hawaii without the dramatic, conclusive plane images searchers were hoping to attain. Full Story | Top |
Propecia turned me into a woman, man claims
Mon,23 Jul 2012 04:53 PM PDT
A software engineer who was trying to combat hair loss says a generic form of Propecia caused him to develop breasts and made his hips widen like a woman's. And now, after nine months of taking finasteride, 38-year-old William McKee goes by the name Mandi and is considering having a complete sex change. "My rock-hard [...] Full Story | Top |
Stolen valor: Obama vows to fight 'contemptible' lies with website
Mon,23 Jul 2012 01:58 PM PDT
Taking aim at so-called "stolen valor" cases, President Barack Obama announced a new initiative Monday to crack down on what he called the "contemptible" practice of lying about military service. Obama's initiative came after the Supreme Court in late June struck down on First Amendment grounds a law punishing the practice in a 6-3 ruling. [...] Full Story | Top |
Demonstrators protest California police shooting
Sun,22 Jul 2012 10:42 PM PDT
Associated Press -  Demonstrators stormed a police department in Orange County, Calif., on Sunday to protest an officer-involved shooting that left an unarmed man dead and led to a violent clash between witnesses and police.
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