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| Bird makes home, lays eggs on car’s windshield wiper Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 06:27 PM PST Home is where you hang your hat. Or, if you're this little birdie, wherever you build a nest. Reddit user gorbok posted a photo his friend Trevor Maltby took upon returning to his car after leaving it at the Cairns International Airport in Australia for six days while away on business. The photo, taken on [...] Full Story | Top |
| It’s been 10 years since the Iraq War started: Share your story Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 02:54 PM PST A U.S. soldier walks next to an Iraqi child in Mosul, Iraq, in 2008. (Petros Giannakouris/AP) On March 19, 2003, the U.S. began military operations in Iraq. For nearly nine years, America’s profile in the region shifted between invader, liberator, occupier, nation-builder, caretaker and more. When the U.S. officially ended the war on Dec. 15, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Bob Dole urges Hagel confirmation as defense secretary Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 02:47 PM PST Add Bob Doleâ€"former senator, former presidential candidate, grievously wounded in World War IIâ€"to the list of Republican heavy-hitters urging the Senate to confirm the embattled Chuck Hagel as defense secretary. “Hagel’s wisdom and courage make him uniquely qualified to be Secretary of Defense and lead the men and women of our armed forces,†Dole said [...] Full Story | Top |
| Ready for the Oscars? A Yahoo News chat about all things Academy Awards Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 01:48 PM PST The Academy Awards are Sunday night. Which film do you want to see win? Do you have a favorite for best actor? Which films caught your eye this year? Join Yahoo! Entertainment's features editor Matt Whitfield and BuzzFeed's Adam Vary as we run through all things Oscars. Bring your predictions and your questions. Full Story | Top |
| White House rejects GOP senators’ request to withdraw Hagel Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 01:15 PM PST The White House on Thursday afternoon flatly rejected a request made earlier in the day by 15 Republican senators to withdraw Chuck Hagel's nomination as defense secretary. "This waste of time is not just meaningless political posturingâ€"because we firmly believe that Sen. Hagel will be confirmedâ€"but the waste of time is of consequence," White House [...] Full Story | Top |
| John McCain’s unlikely new booster: Jackie Collins Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 01:04 PM PST Best-selling author Jackie Collins is perhaps best known for her tawdry romantic thrillers about scandalous Hollywood housewives and the bad boys they love. But the British-born writer, who has often said she’s proud to be described as “raunchy,†apparently happens to have a soft spot for John McCain. Collins tells The New York Times’ By [...] Full Story | Top |
| The Men Who Keep Oscars’ Secrets Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 01:03 PM PST For two days of the year, there are only two people in the world who know the secret to the winners of that year’s Academy Awards. Rick Rosas and Brad Oltmanns, also known as “the men holding the briefcases on the red carpet,†are accountants at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the firm that has been counting Oscar [...] Full Story | Top |
| Shoeshiner donates $200,000 to children’s hospital Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 12:51 PM PST For 32 years, Albert Lexie has been much more than the shoeshine man at the Pittsburgh Children’s Hospitalâ€"he's a philanthropist who's been giving back his tips. So far, all those dollars have added up to an impressive $200,000 in donations to the Children’s Hospital Free Care Fund, which helps out parents of sick children who [...] Full Story | Top |
| T. Boone Pickens praises Bloomberg: We’d be ‘better off’ if he were in D.C. Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 11:22 AM PST NEW YORKâ€"Michael Bloomberg remains cagey about whether he’ll someday run for president. But the outgoing New York City mayor received a notable show of support on Thursday from one of the country’s biggest political donors who has spent tens of millions of dollars in the past to elect presidential candidates. T. Boone Pickens, the billionaire [...] Full Story | Top |
| Former Nike Designer Reinvents the Bicycle Horn Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 11:06 AM PST Meet the Orp smart horn. Designed in Portland, Oregon by a company called FUSE, the Orp is meant to save lives with its two-tone horn and bright, electricity-saving LED lights. Lead designer Tory Orzeck, who used to design shoes for Nike, said he decided to reinvent the bike horn when he noticed a startling rise [...] Full Story | Top |
| Rubio a ‘savior’? Maybe not, but many conservative groups see (voting) perfection Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 10:59 AM PST Marco Rubio may not be the "Savior of the Republican Party," but similar to followers of a better-known savior who walked the earth 2,000 years ago, some of the most influential American conservative groups see perfection in the junior senator from Florida. (Rubio seems to want to keep the messianic allusions to a minimum. After [...] Full Story | Top |
| Business, labor reach deal on some aspects of low-skilled worker program Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 10:34 AM PST Leaders of the AFL-CIO and the Chamber of Commerce released a statement of "shared principles" on immigration reform on Thursday as the groups continue to hammer out a deal over what a low-skilled immigrant worker program should look like. The statement does not settle one of the central disputes between the two groups: whether there [...] Full Story | Top |
| Move over, Jaws—huge goldfish invade Lake Tahoe Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 09:28 AM PST Goldfish the size of canned hams are turning up in Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada border. A group of researchers from the University of Nevada at Reno discovered and documented the oversized fish, including one 18-inches long. Others had apparently spotted the fish in the waters of Lake Tahoe, but Christine Ngai and fellow researchers [...] Full Story | Top |
| Troops getting gear from charity as U.S. military braces for budget cuts Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 08:53 AM PST Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned this week that looming military spending cuts “will result in a serious erosion of readiness across the force.†The caution comes as no surprise to Aaron Negherbon, whose nonprofit helps soldiers circumvent government fiscal challenges and red tape to get critical equipment to combat troops. “I’ve been told by units [...] Full Story | Top |
| Largely powerless, House Democrats seek to influence debate over looming budget cuts Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 08:31 AM PST As the minority party in the House, Democrats are largely shut out of meaningful debates over the impending budget sequestration, but their lack of influence on the process hasn't kept them silent. Most of the negotiating over how to avoid the $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts to projected federal spending over the next decade, set [...] Full Story | Top |
| Michelle Obama teams up with Big Bird for ‘Let’s Move!’ Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 08:17 AM PST First lady Michelle Obama wants you to eat your vegetablesâ€"and she has Big Bird to help her spread the message. Obama invited Sesame Street to the White House, where she and the Muppet recorded two new public service announcements related to her "Let's Move!" healthy eating and exercise initiative for children. "Hi, we're here in [...] Full Story | Top |
| Biden urges gun legislation in speech 10 miles from Sandy Hook Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 07:40 AM PST Vice President Joe Biden urged lawmakers to have the "courage" to pass legislation addressing gun violence on Thursday at a conference in Connecticut just 10 miles from Sandy Hook Elementary School, scene of the Dec. 14 mass shooting. "We have an obligation to act," Biden said of America's politicians, after meeting with two parents of [...] Full Story | Top |
| Police cold case: Man dies decades after he was shot and paralyzed Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 07:25 AM PST Police in Sacramento, Calif., are investigating the death of a 62-year-old man who died from a shootingâ€"36 years after it happened. Walter Johnson Jr., who was left paralyzed from the 1977 attack, died from complications related to his paralysis, leading police to rule his death a homicide. They are asking the public for help in [...] Full Story | Top |
| Drones have killed 4,700, U.S. senator says Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 06:11 AM PST Just how many people have America’s drones killed? Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has put the death toll at 4,700â€"the first time an American official has publicly put a precise figure on the impact of strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles. The South Carolina lawmaker's office said he was citing an estimate already discussed on cable television. [...] Full Story | Top |
| Mississippi newspaper owner defends gay marriage cover story Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 06:03 AM PST A newspaper in rural Mississippi is defending its decision to run a cover story on what it called the first same-sex marriage in the county it serves. On Feb. 7, the Laurel Leader-Call published the story Historic Wedding: Women wed in Laurel through smiles, tears about the wedding of Jessica Powell and Crystal Craven. Craven [...] Full Story | Top |
| Fox News co-host apologizes for rape remark Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 04:29 AM PST A day after questioning whether there's a prevalence of rape on college campuses, Fox News co-host Bob Beckel apologized for the remark. "It's a horrible, horrendous issue," Bob Beckel, the liberal co-host of "The Five," said on Wednesday's show. "Simply put, rape is rape. Whether it's date rape or it's somebody coming in off the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Oscar Nominee ‘5 Broken Cameras’ a Personal Story of Palestinian Struggle Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 04:19 AM PST This weekend when the Hollywood glitterati are walking down the red carpet before the Academy Awards ceremony, there will be a rather unusual sight: a pair of documentary filmmakers from opposite sides of a longstanding conflict. Emad Burnat is a Palestinian. Guy Davidi is an Israeli. They collaborated on the Oscar-nominated Palestinian documentary “5 Broken [...] Full Story | Top |
| Thursday in politics: Biden speaks at Conn. gun violence conference, and more Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 03:12 AM PST Vice President Joe Biden will speak at a gun violence conference Thursday in Danbury, Conn. The conference will focus on President Barack Obama's gun control proposals, which include universal background checks, a ban on military-style assault weapons and limiting the size of ammunition magazines. Members of the state's congressional delegation organized the conference, and Sen. [...] Full Story | Top |
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