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| UNC responds to sexual assault allegations Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 06:31 PM PST The University of North Carolina has formally responded to allegations that an honor code violation was brought against a student as a form of retaliation for her speaking out about an alleged rape. "The Carolina community cares deeply about all of our students, including both students in this specific matter," UNC chancellor Holden Thorpe said [...] Full Story | Top |
| Man arrested after calling 911 nine times trying to order a cheeseburger Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 04:29 PM PST An Indiana man got the attention of local police after he tried to order a cheeseburger by calling 911 nine times. According to WISHTV, 52-year-old Gregory Jackson Sr. has reportedly had past run-ins with police, but this may be the most bizarre. Jackson reportedly made the nine phone calls in just 90 minutes. Eventually, New [...] Full Story | Top |
| The ‘Unsinkable’ Titanic II Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 03:36 PM PST Let’s hope the Titanic II ocean liner doesn't end up like the original. The Australian billionaire Clive Palmer, who is financing plans for the replica luxury liner, unveiled blueprints for the ship that will be built in China and have its maiden voyage in 2016 to chart the course of the original Titanic from Southampton, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Why Rand Paul voted to confirm Chuck Hagel as defense secretary Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 03:21 PM PST Only four Republicans crossed party lines on Tuesday to approve President Barack Obama's defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel, but no senator sparked more confusion than Kentucky's Rand Paul, a vocal critic of Hagel who nonetheless cast his vote in favor of the former Nebraska senator. Just hours after he had voted against a procedural measure [...] Full Story | Top |
| Man rescues dog from block of floating ice (VIDEO) Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 03:15 PM PST Pifas, a three-year-old golden retriever mix, was rescued by a kind stranger who helped guide the dog to safety after it became stranded on a block of ice in a frozen lake. NBCNews.com reports that Pifas disappeared from his owner’s home and was missing for over a week before he was spotted some 200 feet [...] Full Story | Top |
| Shelby County v. Holder pits local election control against lingering racism Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 02:47 PM PST The historical marker, placed by the Alabama Historical Association, on the original Shelby County courthouse. (Tommy Daspit/YCN) “Nobody likes to be stereotyped,†said Reggie Giles, a resident of Shelby County, Ala. Which is why stereotypical assumptions about Southerners, he notedâ€"specifically, that they’re racistsâ€"is offensive. “Racism is a stigma that the South can't seem to shake [...] Full Story | Top |
| Senate confirms Chuck Hagel as defense secretary Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 02:24 PM PST The Senate on Tuesday voted to confirm former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense, overcoming a fierce campaign by some GOP lawmakers to block President Barack Obama's nominee. Hagel's nomination, which required support from just a majority of the chamber, passed 58-41. Four Republicans voted to approve Hagel's nomination: Sen. Rand Paul [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama: ‘Flexibility’ in applying deep spending cuts won’t work Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 02:01 PM PST President Barack Obama declared on Tuesday that “there’s no smart way†to make the deep across-the-board spending cuts set to kick in at week’s end. His remarks effectively rejected efforts by Republicans to give him more power over where and when to apply the cuts, known in Washington as sequestration. In a campaign-style speech in [...] Full Story | Top |
| McConnell camp denounces ‘race-baiting’ attack on his wife Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 01:37 PM PST Kentucky Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell’s re-election campaign on Tuesday accused a liberal group of “race-baiting,†after the organization, Progress Kentucky, charged that his Taiwan-born wife, Elaine Chao, had helped send American jobs to China during two terms as labor secretary. Progress Kentucky, which is advocating for McConnell's defeat in 2014, denied its comments were racially [...] Full Story | Top |
| Reid: No tax increase? Then bring on the sequester. Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 12:30 PM PST Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would support letting the $85 billion in across-the-board sequestration cuts take effect on Friday if Republicans don't agree to increasing taxes as part of an alternative plan, the Nevada Democrat said on Tuesday "Until there's some agreement on revenue, I think we should just go ahead with the sequester," Reid [...] Full Story | Top |
| Gun buyback proposal would trade firearms for Beyoncé tickets Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 11:53 AM PST Got a gun? Hand it in, and you could end up with a ticket to Beyoncé's Mrs. Carter tour. At least, that's the dream of music manager Michael "Blue" Williams, the head of Family Tree Entertainment. The idea is part of his proposal for what the New York Daily News says would be the "first [...] Full Story | Top |
| Long-lost wallet returned, complete with cash Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 11:03 AM PST Three years ago, trash collector Harold Walls lost his wallet, which held $800. It turns out, though, the wallet wasn't really lostâ€"it was on vacation. And thanks to a good Samaritan, Walls finally has it back. DelawareOnline.com has the full story. Walls had assumed he dropped his wallet while collecting trash one morning. He and [...] Full Story | Top |
| Lady Antebellum on New Record, Foundation, Ping Pong Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 10:57 AM PST Country music's superstar trio, Lady Antebellum, are no strangers to gold and other precious metals. After seven Grammy awards, a self-titled double platinum debut album and a triple platinum second record, the title of their latest album, 'Golden' is entirely appropriate. In a Newsmakers interview with Linsey Davis for ABC News and Yahoo News, Charles [...] Full Story | Top |
| A year after high school mass shooting, Ohio town still grieves Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 10:21 AM PST A few red ribbons, tattered by the elements, still hang on trees along the streets of Chardon, Ohio. To some people in town, the ribbons are a necessary reminder of a shooting spree at Chardon High School a year ago that left three students dead and three others injured. On Tuesday, just a day shy [...] Full Story | Top |
| English requirement in immigration reform will test underfunded ESL system Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 09:15 AM PST The thorny topic of immigration reform has catapulted to the top of the to-do lists of both Republicans and Democrats, even as both sides continue to bicker over details. President Barack Obama and a bipartisan group of senators are eager to pass an immigration bill this year, with their main points of disagreement, deliberated in [...] Full Story | Top |
| Biden to address AIPAC conference Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 07:58 AM PST Vice President Joe Biden will make a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the powerful lobbying group that advocates close relations between the U.S. and Israel, at its conference in Washington, D.C. next month. Biden will address the group on March 4, an aide told Yahoo News, confirming a report in JTA. It [...] Full Story | Top |
| Chinese official flips out at airport after missing flight Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 07:47 AM PST A high-ranking official in the Chinese government lost his cool (and then some) when he and his family missed their flight at the Kunming Wujiaba International Airport in Yunnan Province, China. A video shows the man, identified as Yan Linkun, standing near a boarding gate. There is no sound, but reports from Beijing Cream suggest [...] Full Story | Top |
| Boehner on sequestration: The Senate needs to get ‘off their ass’ Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 07:44 AM PST With across-the-board federal spending cuts set to kick in on Friday, House Speaker John Boehner reiterated his plea for the Senate to pass an alternative to the sequester, calling on senators to get "off their ass." "We should not have to move a third bill before the Senate gets off their ass and begins to [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama brings sequester fight to Newport News, Va. Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 07:15 AM PST As the country inched closer to the March 1 sequester deadline, President Barack Obama on Tuesday traveled to Newport News, Va., to make a local case for what he and the administration believe will be the devastating economic impacts of the budget cuts. Obama spoke at Newport News Shipbuilding, which supplies materials to all 50 [...] Full Story | Top |
| UNC student faces possible expulsion for speaking out about alleged sexual assault Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 06:29 AM PST A University of North Carolina student who says she was raped has been charged with violating the school's honor code and creating a hostile environment for her alleged attacker by speaking out about her ordeal. Landen Gambillâ€"a sophomore who last spring reported being raped by a student she says is still on the school's Chapel [...] Full Story | Top |
| ‘Stand your ground’ laws survive debate one year after Trayvon Martin’s death Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 04:00 AM PST One year after 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by an armed neighborhood watchman, setting off a national debate about race and gun laws, the campaign to change state self-defense laws in Martin's name has petered out. George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer facing second-degree murder charges, said he shot Martin in self-defense last [...] Full Story | Top |
| Two in three Americans say sequester will hurt economy Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 03:48 AM PST Roughly two out of three Americans say that automatic spending cuts set to trigger Friday will have a major negative effect on the economy, according to a new public opinion poll. And more would blame congressional Republicans (45 percent) than President Barack Obama (32 percent), the non-partisan Pew Research Center found in its survey. But [...] Full Story | Top |
| Tuesday in politics: Obama takes sequester campaign on the road, and more Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 03:37 AM PST President Barack Obama will speak Tuesday at Virginia's largest industrial employer, Newport News Shipbuilding, to highlight how it would be affected by the sequester â€" $85 billion in automatic, across-the-board spending cuts scheduled to begin taking effect Friday. Obama said Monday that if the cuts are not averted, the company's workers will sit idle and [...] Full Story | Top |
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