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| Rep. King criticizes vacation for Obama daughters Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 03:01 PM PDT Speaking on a radio program, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, ripped into President Obama for sending his daughters, Sasha and Malia, on a vacation while the federal government is being squeezed by the so-called sequester. ThinkProgress, a progressive blog, reports that King was speaking on the "Mickelson in the Morning" program. A listener named Carla called [...] Full Story | Top |
| North Korea says it has cut last military hotline Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 11:59 AM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Raising tensions with South Korea yet again, North Korea cut its last military hotline with Seoul on Wednesday, saying there was no need to continue military communications between the countries in a situation "where a war may break out at any moment." Full Story | Top |
| Woman opts out of Powerball pool, but co-workers give her cut anyway Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 07:15 AM PDT Imagine you work in a small office. A group of co-workers asks if you'd like to go in on some Powerball tickets. You decline. You're on a tight budget, and you've only been there a few weeks, anyway. You show up for work the next day to find out they won. That's exactly what happened [...] Full Story | Top |
| Study: Health law to raise claims cost 32 percent Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 09:44 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A new study finds that insurance companies will have to pay out an average of 32 percent more for medical claims on individual health policies under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Full Story | Top |
| Woman returns $30,000 she found in donated clothes Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 07:50 AM PDT A woman who took donated clothes from a relative returned the favor—with a vengeance: She gave back the $30,000 she found inside the hand-me-downs. Carol Sutor of Bristol, Pa., was going through the clothes—which had belonged to her cousin's daughter's 85-year-old mother-in-law, who had recently died—when she came across a canvas bag on a hanger. [...] Full Story | Top |
| Supreme Court indicates it may strike down marriage law Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 04:00 PM PDT By Lawrence Hurley and David Ingram WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court seemed to be leaning on Wednesday toward striking down a law that denies federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples in a move that would reflect a shift in Americans' attitudes about gay marriage. In a second day of oral arguments on same-sex marriage, a majority of the court raised serious concerns with the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, enacted in 1996 under President Bill Clinton. ... Full Story | Top |
| Shooting suspect James Holmes offers to plead guilty Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 02:05 PM PDT Click image to see more photos. (Pool/Reuters) [Updated at 6:25 p.m. ET] The man jailed in the Aurora, Colo., movie theater massacre is willing to plead guilty to avoid being executed, according to a court motion filed on Wednesday. The offer from James Holmes, who is charged with shooting 70 moviegoers last July, killing 12, [...] Full Story | Top |
| North Korea to cut all channels with South as "war may break out any time" Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 09:43 AM PDT SEOUL (Reuters) - Reclusive North Korea is to cut the last channel of communications with the South because war could break out at "any moment", it said on Wednesday, days of after warning the United States and South Korea of nuclear attack. The move is the latest in a series of bellicose threats from North Korea in response to new U.N. sanctions imposed after its third nuclear test in February and to "hostile" military drills under way joining the United States and South Korea. The North has already stopped responding to calls on the hotline to the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Conservative justices stress federal overreach in gay marriage case Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 09:35 AM PDT A majority of Supreme Court justices expressed concern Wednesday about a federal law that bars same sex marriage, signaling the nation's highest court may be poised to extend a potentially historic victory to the gay rights movement. Hearing arguments in the second of two major gay marriage cases over two days, the probing questions from [...] Full Story | Top |
| Justices could dodge gay marriage decision in DOMA case Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 02:04 AM PDT On Wednesday, the Supreme Court justices will hear arguments in the second gay marriage case ever in the court's history, again raising hopes from both sides that the court will weigh in decisively on the issue. On Tuesday, justices hinted that they may dodge a decision in California's gay marriage case, which makes the stakes [...] Full Story | Top |
| FBI attempts to explain UFO memo in vault Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 08:16 AM PDT The Federal Bureau of Investigation has broken its silence on the most popular file in its digital vault. The one-page memo, dated March 22, 1950, was addressed to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover from Guy Hottel, then head of the FBI's Washington, D.C., field office. It relayed some information from an informant. The subject: FLYING [...] Full Story | Top |
| Golden Gate Bridge to go to digital toll system Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 05:32 AM PDT  Drivers approaching the majestic Golden Gate Bridge will experience something new for the first time in 76 years: no human toll collectors. The toll takers were removed in favor of cheaper and faster electronic ... Full Story | Top |
| Corporations Paint Their Brands Red For LGBT Rights Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 03:32 PM PDT  Corporate America Joins The Gay Marriage Debate Full Story | Top |
| Ashley Judd says she won’t run for Senate in Kentucky Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 02:12 PM PDT Ashley Judd, a Democrat who was mulling a challenge to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for his Kentucky U.S. Senate seat in 2014, won't run after all, the actress announced Wednesday. "After serious and thorough contemplation, I realize that my responsibilities and energy at this time need to be focused on my family," Judd said [...] Full Story | Top |
| Special Report: Behind the charm, a political pope Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 05:11 AM PDT By Paulo Prada and Helen Popper BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - When Jorge Bergoglio finished studying chemistry at high school his mother asked him what he would study next. "Medicine," replied the skinny 19-year-old, according to his younger sister, Maria Elena. Bergoglio's mother cleared a storage room in the family's working-class Buenos Aires home for him to use as a study. Every day, after his morning job in a lab, he would arrive home and disappear into the room. One morning, though, his mother got a surprise. ... Full Story | Top |
| Gay marriage equality box spreads on social media Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 06:03 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Bud Light said it with beer cans and Martha Stewart with red velvet cake as companies and celebrities from Beyonce to George Takei joined millions of social media users in posting and tweaking a simple red logo in support of gay marriage. Full Story | Top |
| Arizona assault rifle purchase by Giffords' husband triggers outcry Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 12:14 PM PDT By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - The husband of Gabrielle Giffords, who with his wife is a top campaigner for curbs to military-style weapon ownership, has drawn criticism for buying an assault rifle in Arizona, a purchase he said meant to highlight the need for gun control. Former astronaut Mark Kelly, who with Giffords founded a new lobbying group this year to curb gun violence, said it took only "a matter of minutes" to complete the background check for the AR-15 assault weapon he purchased at a gun shop in Tucson. ... Full Story | Top |
| Analysis: Knox case could pit extradition treaty against U.S. Constitution Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 05:03 AM PDT By Terry Baynes NEW YORK (Reuters) - The possibility that American Amanda Knox could be convicted of murder and extradited to Italy for punishment could force U.S. courts to enter legal territory that is largely uncharted, legal experts said. Italy's top court on Tuesday ordered the retrial of Knox, 25, for the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher. The move potentially pits a U.S. constitutional ban on double jeopardy, or being tried twice for the same offense after an acquittal, against international extradition agreements, experts said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Sarah Palin aims to stay relevant with new fundraising video Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 01:16 PM PDT Sarah Palin resigned as governor of Alaska in July 2009, and in the nearly four years since, she's consciously worked to keep the political world wondering what she might do next. Will she run for president? Will she do another reality television show? Is she aiming for her own talk show? Palin hasn't offered many [...] Full Story | Top |
| A boost for gay marriage: Justices question US law Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 06:55 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Concluding two days of intense debate, the Supreme Court signaled Wednesday it could give a boost to same-sex marriage by striking down the federal law that denies legally married gay spouses a wide range of benefits offered to other couples. Full Story | Top |
| Taxpayers to subsidize NY's higher minimum wage Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 07:35 AM PDT A hike in New York's minimum wage is a big win for Democrats, but a provision buried inside the tentative state budget shows taxpayers will be paying much of the bill. The "minimum wage reimbursement ... Full Story | Top |
| John Edwards’ daughter Cate speaks out about his affair Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 01:56 PM PDT John Edwards' daughter Cate is finally speaking out about her father's affair with a former campaign aide, which effectively ended his marriage to her late mother, Elizabeth, and killed his political career. "I was devastated, and I was disappointed," Cate Edwards tells NBC's Savannah Guthrie in an interview set to air Friday on the "Today" [...] Full Story | Top |
| Reminder: How Mexico Treats “Undesirable” Foreigners Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 12:00 AM PDT American politicians in both parties are stampeding all over themselves to pander to Mexico and adopt mass illegal alien amnesty schemes. But while the Mexican government lobbies for more "humane" treatment of illegal border crossers from their country into ours, Mexico remains notoriously restrictionist toward "undesirable" foreigners who break their laws or threaten their security. Full Story | Top |
| Largest Oklahoma Earthquake Linked to Oil Extraction Wastewater Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 10:17 AM PDT  The largest-ever recorded quake in Oklahoma was caused by the injection of wastewater, a byproduct of oil extraction, into the ground, new research confirms. Full Story | Top |
| Girl hit by arrow that appeared out of nowhere Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 10:05 AM PDT An 8-year-old girl on a field trip to a museum was mysteriously hit in the leg by an arrow. According to SFgate.com, police reports stated that the third-grader from the Mary E. Silveira Elementary School in San Rafael, Calif., was playing on a replica of a whale outside the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley [...] Full Story | Top |
| 'Obamacare' to drive up health-care premiums? Report sets off firestorm Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 04:02 PM PDT How will the Affordable Care Act affect me? Full Story | Top |
| What is The Red Equal Sign Taking Over Facebook Profile Pictures? Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 11:42 AM PDT During the past few days, if you have frequented Facebook or Twitter, you may have noticed a trend in the look of some of your friends' profile pictures. People around the world are changing their profile picture to show their support for gay marriage. The image in common is a distinct red square with a [...] Full Story | Top |
| Man wins $8K after Disney 'Small World' breakdown Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 05:43 AM PDT  An attorney says a disabled man was awarded $8,000 by Disneyland after the "It's A Small World" ride broke, stranding him for a half hour while the theme song played continuously. Lawyer David ... Full Story | Top |
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