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| Police called after woman sees kittens having sex in her yard Friday, Apr 26, 2013 04:54 PM PDT Sure, cats aren't for everyone. But we can't remember the last time someone called the police to complain about a pair of kittens. But that's exactly what happened in Wisconsin on Thursday when a woman called police after she reportedly witnessed two kittens "having sex" in her front yard. As ridiculous as that sounds, it's [...] Full Story | Top |
| Budweiser’s Buddy Cup is Facebook-enabled Friday, Apr 26, 2013 03:13 PM PDT Facebook really is everywhere. Budweiser Brazil has announced the creation of a Facebook-enabled glass called the Buddy Cup. Here's how it works: When two Buddy Cup-holding revelers toast each other by tapping their cups, they become Facebook friends through a chip that's embedded in the cups. According to the promotional video, the cup is being [...] Full Story | Top |
| Fossilized bird egg sells at auction for more than $100,000 Friday, Apr 26, 2013 02:27 PM PDT A fossilized egg belonging to the largest known species of bird in history sold at an auction this week for $101,813. The elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus) egg was sold as part of Christie's "Travel, Science and Natural History" collection. The elephant bird went extinct sometime in the 17th or 18th century. It grew to 10 [...] Full Story | Top |
| Regret and grandma prove time-tested deterrents to teens’ tattoo pleas Friday, Apr 26, 2013 02:03 PM PDT Gable Rhoads' dragon tattoo. (Gable Rhoads/YCN) "What is it?" That's the question Gable Rhoads often fields about one of her tattoos, a black-and-red creature that crawls up her left arm. Is it a skeleton? A bird? A bat? It's a dragon. But you might not know it, she says, because not only have the colors [...] Full Story | Top |
| Iraq looms large as wary Obama warns Syria over chemical weapons Friday, Apr 26, 2013 01:15 PM PDT "A whole bunch," meet "systematic." President Barack Obama's cautious stance on the conflict in Syria shone clearly Friday as he warned President Bashar Assad that "the systematic use" of chemical weapons against Syrian rebels would trigger a forceful American response. Back in August, Obama bluntly warned Assad's regime that while he had not "at this [...] Full Story | Top |
| Baboons invade home, guys videotape the chaos Friday, Apr 26, 2013 12:40 PM PDT Something we've long suspected has proved to be true: Baboons are horrible houseguests. Howard James Fyvie and some friends saw a group of baboons climbing into a house in Betty's Bay, South Africa, whose occupants were gone. It was locked except for an open top-floor window. According to the clip's YouTube description, the guys called [...] Full Story | Top |
| Democratic lawmaker warns of ‘a world without balloons’ Friday, Apr 26, 2013 12:07 PM PDT There's a helium shortage in the United States, and Georgia Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson is almost as worried as he was when he thought Guam might tip into the ocean if the U.S. expanded its military presence on the island. During a speech on the House floor Thursday, Johnson urged his fellow lawmakers to act [...] Full Story | Top |
| The White House joins Tumblr Friday, Apr 26, 2013 10:45 AM PDT The White House announced Friday it has added Tumblr to its list of social media tools. The first post is titled "The White House, Tumbling Things." From the site: We see some great things here at the White House every day, and sharing that stuff with you is one of the best parts of our [...] Full Story | Top |
| No landing gear? No problem Friday, Apr 26, 2013 10:24 AM PDT The pilot of a private plane with stuck landing gear safely landed the plane on its belly—and in picture-perfect fashion. When the small twin-engine Cessna 414 skidded to a stop on a runway at the New Century Air Center in Gardner, Kan., there were no injuries. A KMBC news helicopter captured footage of the plane's [...] Full Story | Top |
| Lawmakers fix flight delays caused by sequestration—before going to the airport Friday, Apr 26, 2013 09:44 AM PDT We learned this week, yet again, that if you make enough noise (and have the ear of members of Congress and a well-funded lobby shop in the nation's capital) you can be spared the pain caused by government belt-tightening. As part of sequestration, which has forced the federal government to slow the growth of spending [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama’s foreign gifts: $7,750 golf bag, $40,000 photo, iPod shuffle Friday, Apr 26, 2013 09:36 AM PDT President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama could stroll around the White House in matching Dior bathrobes and Brazilian soccer jerseys before he grabs his $7,750 golf bag or goes for a ride on his bamboo bicycle while listening to his new 2GB iPod shuffle – all courtesy of the bewildering array of gifts [...] Full Story | Top |
| What Your Feet Say About Your Health Friday, Apr 26, 2013 09:11 AM PDT Katie's Take The average person takes 10,000 steps a day. That is 115,000 miles in a lifetime, enough to circle the globe four times. This puts a lot of pressure on our feet, one of the most overlooked parts of our body. But you would be surprised by how much you can learn about your [...] Full Story | Top |
| Red panda shows off its strength with pullups Friday, Apr 26, 2013 08:55 AM PDT The rigorous exercise regimen of an adorable red panda was recently caught on video and posted to Digital Spy. The small arboreal mammal, which lives at the Panda World reserve in Fuzhou, China, was practicing its pullups—on hoop rings similar to those used by Olympic gymnasts—in front of an enraptured crowd. We suspect the cuddly [...] Full Story | Top |
| Back to School And Into a Job Friday, Apr 26, 2013 08:08 AM PDT Critics assail "for-profit" colleges for overpricing their education and not preparing students for today's job market. But one such school is shredding that label with its innovative tuition promise: If you don't get a job, they don't get paid. The school is called App Academy, and it teaches novice developers how to code software. The [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama says Planned Parenthood is ‘not going anywhere’ Friday, Apr 26, 2013 07:51 AM PDT President Barack Obama on Friday defended Planned Parenthood—the largest source of reproductive health care for women, as well as an abortion provider—against its opponents, and warned critics that the organization remains steadfast. "Planned Parenthood is not going anywhere," Obama told the 1,000 people at the group's annual national conference in Washington. "It's not going anywhere [...] Full Story | Top |
| Karl Rove on Bush legacy: “He got the big things right” Friday, Apr 26, 2013 04:15 AM PDT Politics Confidential Karl Rove, who has been described by former President George W. Bush as "the architect" of his 2000 and 2004 election victories, isn't backing down in his defense of the former president's legacy, saying "he got the big things right." "He kept us safe after 9/11, he moved to modernize our tools, provide [...] Full Story | Top |
| More than 1,000 suits against NuvaRing may go to trial this fall Friday, Apr 26, 2013 03:39 AM PDT Rachel Lietzke Payne started using NuvaRing in 2008, when she was a 20-year-old college student. The contraceptive device appealed to her because it was easy to use. Birth control pills have to be taken every day, but NuvaRing, which came onto the market in 2001, is inserted into the vagina and removed each month—and is [...] Full Story | Top |
| Weekend in politics: House expected to pass air traffic bill, and more Friday, Apr 26, 2013 03:10 AM PDT The House on Friday is expected to pass a measure approved late Thursday by the Senate that would end air traffic controller furloughs that were causing widespread airline flight delays. The furloughs were triggered by last month's automatic federal spending cuts. [Senate passes bill to end air traffic control furloughs] The Senate unanimously passed the [...] Full Story | Top |
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