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| Boston Bombing Shatters Chinese Family’s Dreams for Daughter Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 07:42 PM PDT Three people were killed, more than 250 people were injured and a city was left reeling as twin bombs detonated at the Boston Marathon last week. Not only was it a tragic event for Boston and America, it reached all the way across the world to China. One of the young people killed was a [...] Full Story | Top |
| Listen to world’s first recording of Alexander Graham Bell’s voice Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 07:23 PM PDT Researchers have discovered the world's first voicemail: an audio recording of Alexander Graham Bell made on April 15, 1885 using a mixture of cardboard and wax. The Smithsonian Magazine has posted the audio recording, in which the inventor of the telephone announces, "In witness whereof—hear my voice, Alexander Graham Bell." Listen to the audio recording [...] Full Story | Top |
| ‘Stoopid Tall’ bike is over 14 feet tall Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 02:29 PM PDT A bike is a bike is a bike. Unless the bike is "Stoopid Tall," a heavily modified 14-and-a-half-foot-tall monstrosity ridden and built by Richie Trimble. Trimble spoke with LA Streets Blog about his recent adventure riding his bike on the streets of Los Angeles. Trimble recorded the journey for posterity. I think I'm an adrenaline [...] Full Story | Top |
| With Boston top of mind, House panels to hold hearing on Islamist extremism in Chechnya Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 02:10 PM PDT More than a week after two ethnic Chechen men allegedly detonated two deadly bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, a House panel plans to examine Islamist radicalism in Chechnya. The House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade, and the subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats have scheduled a joint [...] Full Story | Top |
| Fund launched to pay for physical therapy, counseling for Boston victims Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 02:02 PM PDT The organizers of National High-5 Day have launched an initiative to help pay for physical therapy and mental health counseling for Boston Marathon bombing victims and first responders. A campaign, found at Rally.org, was launched on National High-5 Day (April 18), three days after the bombings. It has so far collected nearly $5,000 from more [...] Full Story | Top |
| Biden: Bombing suspects ‘perverted, cowardly, knockoff jihadis’ Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 01:19 PM PDT Vice President Joe Biden issued a damning characterization on Wednesday of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. Speaking at a memorial service at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for slain MIT police officer Sean Collier, Biden questioned the motives behind terror attacks against the United States. "I get asked, like my colleagues, almost every [...] Full Story | Top |
| White House backs Reid’s plan to temporarily offset sequester Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 11:35 AM PDT With deep federal spending cuts known as the sequester beginning to affect air travel and forcing some public-sector layoffs, the White House on Wednesday seemed to offer public support for Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's proposal to temporarily pay down the sequester without generating new tax revenue. White House officials previously stated the president [...] Full Story | Top |
| Laura Bush: New library is not ‘a monument’ to her husband Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 11:28 AM PDT DALLAS—Former first lady Laura Bush formally unveiled the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum to the media on Wednesday, saying she hopes the facility will help Americans "really learn and relearn" about her husband's presidency. Speaking on the eve of the library's dedication ceremony, Bush emphasized that her husband's goal was not to create [...] Full Story | Top |
| Tech company wants to launch ‘space harpoon’ to clean up debris Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 09:52 AM PDT European technology company Astrium has an out-of-the-box plan to get rid of all the old satellites and junk cluttering up outer space. The idea: a space harpoon. Yahoo's Buzz60 explains that after more than 50 years of space exploration, there's a lot of debris floating around. The more debris, the more likely something could collide [...] Full Story | Top |
| Campaign worker charged with blackmailing women bragged of playing ‘Ellis the Elephant’ for Gingrich Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 09:50 AM PDT As it turns out, there may be junk in that trunk. A Republican presidential campaign worker who was charged this week with cyberstalking young women often bragged about about dressing up as "Ellis the Elephant," a character in Callista Gingrich's children's books who would appear during book signings with her husband, former Republican presidential candidate [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama breaks promise—again—to commemorate Armenian ‘genocide’ Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 09:21 AM PDT President Barack Obama on Wednesday called the mass killings of Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Turks in 1915 "one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century," but again broke a 2008 campaign promise to label the tragedy a "genocide." Doing so would have angered NATO ally Turkey. "Ninety-eight years ago, 1.5 million [...] Full Story | Top |
| Bombing suspect reportedly a fan of al-Qaida magazine and Alex Jones website Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 08:40 AM PDT Videos on the Internet and an online jihadist magazine may have played a part in the Boston Marathon bombings suspects' self-radicalization, according to reports. New accounts say the brothers learned how to build a bomb from the online magazine, Inspire, which gave instructions on how to make them with a pressure cooker. Pressure cooker bombs, [...] Full Story | Top |
| UN official who tied Boston bombings to Israel must go, U.S. says Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 08:38 AM PDT A top U.S. official called on Wednesday for the United Nations to fire a human rights advocate who implied that the Boston Marathon bombings were payback for America's "geopolitical fantasy of global domination" and its friendship with Israel. "Outraged by Richard Falk's highly offensive Boston comments. Someone who spews such vitriol has no place at [...] Full Story | Top |
| Inside the Time 100: Biden toasts Boston, says 2014 will be ‘most attended marathon in history’ Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 07:54 AM PDT NEW YORK—The Time 100 gala took place steps away from Central Park, Lincoln Center and Times Square. But for hundreds of "influential" people in attendance at the black-tie event here celebrating the magazine's annual list, their thoughts were in Boston. "We've suffered loss and we're grieving, but we're not bending," Vice President Joe Biden, one [...] Full Story | Top |
| Rhode Island could become 10th state to allow same-sex marriage Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 06:48 AM PDT New England's gay marriage holdout may soon join the rest of the region in allowing same-sex unions. Rhode Island senators are expected to vote on a measure as early as Wednesday, making the state the 10th in the nation to allow same-sex marriage. A similar bill has already passed the House. Interestingly, every single Republican [...] Full Story | Top |
| Bush, like past presidents, faces scrutiny over his library’s version of history Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 05:27 AM PDT DALLAS—As former President George W. Bush prepares to officially open his presidential library on Thursday, a question arises as it has for his predecessors: How objective will it be about his time in the White House? Bush left office five years ago as one of the most unpopular presidents in history, his poll numbers weighed [...] Full Story | Top |
| Man who found Tsarnaev on boat doesn’t want donations for new one Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 05:19 AM PDT The man who found Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in his boat—a boat subsequently riddled with bullets during a dramatic standoff with police—doesn't want donations for a new one. Instead, the Watertown, Mass., resident would like the money to go to the marathon's victims. "They lost limbs," David Henneberry told Boston's WCVB-TV. "I [...] Full Story | Top |
| Former Obama Staffer Leads White House Protests Against Pipeline Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 04:10 AM PDT Power Players Environmental activists are turning up the heat on President Obama as he faces what could be the trickiest decision of his second term: whether or not to approve the controversial proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which could reach his desk this summer. The project, which would transport oil from the tar sands of Alberta [...] Full Story | Top |
| Venus Williams Courts Success in Fashion, Fun … and Tennis Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 07:30 PM PDT We know Venus Williams as one of the foremost tennis players of her generation – an incredibly talented competitor who helped carry the sport into the 21st century along with her sister, Serena Williams. Venus Williams, 32, has been dominant in tennis long enough that one might be forgiven for forgetting that she is not [...] Full Story | Top |
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