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| Yosemite junior ranger returns two sticks to the park Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 04:12 PM PST When visiting a national park, one should always leave things exactly as they were. Hats off to Evie, a junior ranger at Yosemite National Park, for living the motto. After returning home from a trip to the internationally known park, young Evie discovered that she had "accidentally brought home two sticks." Honest Evie put the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Group fights to save JFK airport’s old Pan Am terminal Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 02:39 PM PST NEW YORKâ€"Kal Savi was just 10 years old in 1971 when he took his first flight out of the “flying saucer†terminal at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. “It was just spectacular,†recalled Savi, the son of a former Pan Am employee who fell in love with the building. Built in 1960 as [...] Full Story | Top |
| Fraternity raises money for member’s sexual reassignment surgery Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 01:29 PM PST Emerson College's Phi Alpha Tau fraternity has raised more than $17,000 for a member seeking to undergo gender reassignment surgery. Donnie Collins, 20, is seeking to transition from female to male. After his request to have the "top half" procedure covered by his health plan was denied, his fraternity brothers launched a fundraising campaign on [...] Full Story | Top |
| White House says ICE acted on its own in releasing detainees ahead of sequester Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 01:17 PM PST (Photo: FOX News videos) On Wednesday, a day after Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced its decision to release several hundred illegal immigrants from detention centers facing budget cuts, the White House stressed it had no hand in the decision. Jay Carney, White House press secretary, told reporters at Wednesday's White House press briefing that "this [...] Full Story | Top |
| NYC Mayor Bloomberg: Gun control tipping point of Illinois special election Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 12:03 PM PST During a victory lap in Washington on Wednesday, Michael Bloomberg hailed the issue of gun control as the reason why his PAC's favored candidate, state Rep. Robin Kelly, won Illinois' special election on Tuesday night. "We showed in Illinois that by explaining to the public what's at stake hereâ€"it's their lives, it's their kids' and [...] Full Story | Top |
| Heroic man builds Oreo separator machine Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 11:23 AM PST A cookie-favoring physicist has created what appears to be the world's first Oreo separator. David Neevel, an artist and inventor based in Portland, Ore., was commissioned by the popular cookie brand to produce the machine as part of its "Cookies vs. Creme" campaign. "My Oreo machine is based entirely on my dislike for creme and [...] Full Story | Top |
| How is John Kerry’s French? Pas mauvais. (Not bad) Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 11:07 AM PST Pas mal du tout, Monsieur Kerry. Not bad at all. The Democratic former senator from Massachusetts learned French while attending a boarding school in Switzerland starting when he was 11. And he spent many childhood summers in the Atlantic coast region of Brittany with French relatives. Those days are long goneâ€"but while Kerry seemed a [...] Full Story | Top |
| Key House Republican open to path to legality for illegal immigrants Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 10:35 AM PST The top Republican lawmaker in charge of writing the House version of an immigration reform bill expressed a willingness to offering a path to legality for illegal immigrants already living within the U.S. He stopped short, however, of describing the details of how the provisions would work. Virginia Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte, the chairman of [...] Full Story | Top |
| Father asks school to rethink dress code after son was told to remove Marines T-shirt Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 10:07 AM PST A father wants an Illinois school district to rethink its dress code after his 14-year-old son was threatened with suspension if he did not remove his U.S. Marines T-shirt. According to FoxNews.com, Daniel McIntyre, 44, said his son was told by teacher Karen Deverell during reading class at Genoa-Kingston Middle School on Monday that his [...] Full Story | Top |
| Who needs friends like these? Dog shoots owner in the leg Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 09:41 AM PST A dog may be man's best friend, but we're guessing that Gregory Dale Lanier might take issue with that sentiment after his pooch shot him with a loaded gun. According to Highlands Today, Lanier was driving around Sebring, Fla., with his dog riding shotgun (pun not intended). The dogâ€"unnamed, but we'll call him Clintâ€"accidentally kicked [...] Full Story | Top |
| Understanding the challenge to the Voting Rights Act: A Yahoo News chat Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 09:05 AM PST Join Yahoo News reporter Liz Goodwin, American Spectator columnist John Fund and MSNBC's Zach Roth to discuss the challenge to the Voting Rights Act the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday morning. Why is the court considering this case now? What are the implications if the act is overturned? We will be taking your questions. Full Story | Top |
| Obama, top lawmakers to meet Friday on spending cuts—before deadline Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 07:50 AM PST President Barack Obama has invited top congressional leaders to a meeting at the White House on Friday to discuss ways to avert across-the-board spending cuts that he says may devastate the economyâ€"the day after cuts start kicking in. Or did he? Obama on Friday will sit down with Republican House Speaker John Boehner, Democratic Senate [...] Full Story | Top |
| Club for Growth launches website targeting ‘moderate’ Republicans Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 07:41 AM PST The advocacy arm of the Club for Growth, a free-market political group, has launched a website to wage primary election challenges against Republicans with voting records that don't meet its standards. The effort aims to replace "moderate" lawmakers with candidates the group considers suitably conservative. The provocative website, PrimaryMyCongressman.com, will serve as a hub for [...] Full Story | Top |
| TV show host faints while teaching importance of oxygen Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 07:37 AM PST A TV host had a scary moment when she fainted on air on a Croatian kid’s show, “School Hour.†The theme of the day: the importance of oxygen. According to a translation provided by Reddit, the host, Zlata Muck, gets out this much: “Good morning and welcome to 'School Hour.' Today, the first 35 minutes [...] Full Story | Top |
| Republicans ask: What would you do with your $52,000 share of national debt? Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 07:20 AM PST Fifty-two thousand dollars could, among other things, buy you NFL season tickets for nearly 67 years and groceries for seven years, and make for a hefty down payment on a house. So Republicans argue in a new infographic released by Speaker John Boehner's office on Wednesday morning, part of their effort to highlight Democratic spending [...] Full Story | Top |
| Democratic Rep. Ellison launches into tirade on Fox News (VIDEO) Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 06:58 AM PST Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison exploded during a live interview with Sean Hannity on Tuesday, calling the Fox News host the "worst excuse for a journalist I've ever seen" and a "shill for the Republican Party." The Minnesota congressman was on the program to discuss President Barack Obama's remarks on the sequester when he launched into [...] Full Story | Top |
| Voter ID laws hang in balance as Supreme Court considers Voting Rights Act Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 05:30 AM PST On Wednesday, the Supreme Court hears arguments over whether a key part of the Voting Rights Actâ€"a cornerstone of the civil rights movementâ€"is unfairly targeting Southern states for systematic racial bias that no longer exists. The court's decision on the law, which helped dismantle decades of discriminatory voting restrictions in the South, could hand a [...] Full Story | Top |
| Wednesday in politics: Senate panel focuses on assault weapons ban, and more Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 03:38 AM PST The Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing Wednesday on banning assault weapons. Witnesses will include Neil Heslin, whose son Jesse was among 20 children shot to death in December at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Other witnesses will include William Begg, an emergency room doctor who treated Newtown victims that day, and U.S. [...] Full Story | Top |
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