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| Tennessee Senator Refuses to Apologize for Pressure Cooker Joke Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 10:20 AM PDT  State Sen. Stacey Campfield Is Refusing to Apologize for His Blog Post 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 |
| Obama threatens "family tattoo" if daughters get their own Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 12:13 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If they were thinking about getting tattoos, the Obama daughters may want to reconsider. Speaking on NBC's "Today" show in a segment originally filmed before the Boston Marathon bombings, President Barack Obama revealed the strategy he and First Lady Michelle Obama have been using to keep their daughters away from tattoos. "What we've said to the girls is, 'If you guys ever decide you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo, in the same place, and we'll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo,'" Obama said. ... Full Story | Top |
| NKorean soldiers put down arms to help plant crops Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 07:27 PM PDT SASI-RI, North Korea (AP) — The North Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone is a hive of activity — not of fighting, but of farming. Full Story | Top |
| Was George W. Bush the worst president ever? Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 05:08 AM PDT The dedication of the George W. Bush library gives loyalists of the former president a chance to highlight what they see as the positive legacy of his eight years in office. Full Story | Top |
| Obama and Bush, distinct men with policy overlaps Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 12:38 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite vast differences with President George W. Bush on ideology, style and temperament, President Barack Obama has stuck with Bush policies or aspirations on a number of fronts, from counterterrorism to immigration, from war strategy to the global fight against AIDS. 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 |
| Aggressive Girls Put Teenage Boy In Embarrassing State Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013 10:00 PM PDT DEAR ABBY: My son is a tall, strikingly handsome teenager, although somewhat shy. Our problem is that his looks attract the wrong kind of attention from aggressive girls, and it's getting worse every year.He and his 14-year-old sister went out to eat after school yesterday, and when they returned it was obvious my son was upset and his sister was furious. She said a group of college girls at a table next to them were teasing and taunting my son with blatantly sexual propositions. They went so far as to touch him suggestively as they got up to leave. ... Full Story | Top |
| Gut bugs are implicated in heart attacks and stroke Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 02:01 PM PDT By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thousands of heart attack victims every year have none of the notorious risk factors before their crisis - not high cholesterol, not unhealthy triglycerides. Now the search for the mystery culprits has turned up some surprising suspects: the trillions of bacteria and other microbes living in the human gut. In a study released on Wednesday, scientists discovered that some of the bugs turn lecithin - a nutrient in egg yolks, liver, beef, pork and wheat germ - into an artery-clogging compound called TMAO. ... Full Story | Top |
| 72,000 Ladybugs Released in Mall of America Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 12:38 PM PDT  Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home, the nursery rhyme advises. Full Story | Top |
| At America’s worst university, a professor calls Boston Bombings ‘mass casualty drill’ Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 06:02 AM PDT Florida Atlantic University is quite obviously the worst place in the United States to attend college. Full Story | Top |
| Glenn Beck conspiracy theory: What's his evidence? Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 01:23 PM PDT Glenn Beck has spent lots of time in recent days alleging that the Boston Marathon bombing was carried out by a conspiracy that revolved around a shadowy Saudi national questioned by police in a Boston hospital in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy. Full Story | Top |
| Suspected Boston Bomber Receives All-Star Defense Team Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013 09:51 PM PDT  Public Defenders Representing Dzhokhar Tsarneav Face Threats, Budget Cuts Full Story | Top |
| Minaret of landmark mosque in Syria destroyed Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 09:55 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — The minaret of a landmark 12th century mosque in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo was destroyed Wednesday, leaving the once-soaring stone tower a pile of rubble and twisted metal scattered in the tiled courtyard. 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 |
| Boston bomb investigation extends to Russia Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 05:29 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — New information emerged Wednesday from U.S. officials that the name of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects had been added to a U.S. government terrorist database long before the explosions. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, more than 4,000 mourners paid tribute to a campus police officer who authorities say was gunned down by the suspects. Full Story | Top |
| WHO says new bird strain is "one of most lethal" flu viruses Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 03:44 AM PDT By Sui-Lee Wee and Kate Kelland BEIJING/LONDON (Reuters) - A new bird flu strain that has killed 22 people in China is "one of the most lethal" of its kind and transmits more easily to humans than another strain that has killed hundreds since 2003, a World Health Organization (WHO) expert said on Wednesday. The H7N9 flu has infected 108 people in China since it was first detected in March, according to the Geneva-based WHO. ... Full Story | Top |
| Who is 'Misha,' the Armenian Muslim who radicalized Tamerlan Tsarnaev? Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 12:10 AM PDT  The Associated Press talks to the family of the alleged Boston bombers, and uncovers clues about a mysterious Islamist Svengali Full Story | Top |
| 9 famous quotes that are (technically) grammatically incorrect Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013 11:53 PM PDT  From a Yogi Berra-ism to the Second Amendment, America's best-known sayings aren't exactly paragons of linguistic perfection 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 |
| ‘Armed and Dangerous’: Beck’s Latest Revelations on Saudi National Once a ‘Person of Interest’ in Boston Bombings Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 08:30 AM PDT "Napolitano will be the first to fall." Full Story | Top |
| Is the Woman in This Mosque’s Promo Video the Boston Bomber Suspect’s Wife? Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 08:06 AM PDT "My name is Kat. I'm a new convert." Full Story | Top |
| Justice says Armstrong was 'unjustly enriched' Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013 09:58 PM PDT AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department laid out its case in a lawsuit against Lance Armstrong on Tuesday, saying the cyclist violated his contract with the U.S. Postal Service and was "unjustly enriched" while cheating to win the Tour de France. Full Story | Top |
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