Saturday, April 27, 2013

Daily News: Most Popular News Headlines - Gwyneth Paltrow's Stylist Defends Sheer No-Underwear Dress: "This Girl Has Taste, This Girl Has Confidence"

Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 09:30 AM PDT
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Gwyneth Paltrow's Stylist Defends Sheer No-Underwear Dress: "This Girl Has Taste, This Girl Has Confidence" 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 09:30 AM PDT
Gwyneth Paltrow's Stylist Defends Sheer No-Underwear Dress: "This Girl Has Taste, This Girl Has Confidence"The Iron Man 3 actress has been criticized for her daring red carpet look, but stylist Elizabeth Saltzman says Paltrow was "just joking" about feeling humiliated
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APNewsBreak: Russia caught bomb suspect on wiretap 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 02:18 PM PDT
Boston terror: Anatomy of a failure in intelWASHINGTON (AP) — Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received details about the call.
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Justin Bieber - Shirtless With Selena Gomez (Photo) 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 01:36 PM PDT
Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez -- InstagramIt appears Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are happily "Jelena" once more.
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Why mom of alleged Boston bombers buys conspiracy theories 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 04:30 AM PDT
Why Mom of Alleged Boston Bombers Buys Conspiracy TheoriesDespite a reported confession by one of the suspects, the parents of the two alleged Boston Marathon bombers say their sons are innocent.
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Some say immigration bill is bad deal for the GOP 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 08:23 AM PDT
FILE – In this April 18, 2013, file photo Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks at a Capitol Hill news conference with the Senate's "Gang of Eight", the bipartisan team pushing an immigration overhaul, to outline their immigration reform legislation that would creates a path for 11 million unauthorized immigrants to apply for U.S. citizenship. After radio host Rush Limbaugh told Rubio many conservatives "are scared to death" that the Republican Party "is committing suicide, that we're going to end up legalizing 9 million automatic Democrat voters," Rubio said the risk is worth taking. "Every political movement, conservatism included, depends on the ability to convince people that do not agree with you now to agree with you in the future,"he said. At right is Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, and at Rubio's left is Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Some feisty Republicans are challenging a claim widely held among GOP leaders that the party must support more liberal immigration laws if it's to be more competitive in presidential elections.
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NKorea charges US man of plot to overthrow regime 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 02:07 AM PDT
In this March 20, 2013 photo, a North Korean flag hangs inside the interior of Pyongyang's Supreme Court. North Korea says it will soon deliver a verdict in the case of detained American Kenneth Bae it accuses of trying to overthrow the government, further complicating already fraught relations between Pyongyang and Washington. The announcement about Bae comes in the middle of a lull after weeks of war threats and other provocative acts by North Korea against the U.S. and South Korea. Bae, identified in North Korean state media by his Korean name, Pae Jun Ho, is a tour operator of Korean descent who was arrested after arriving with a tour on Nov. 3 in Rason, a special economic zone bordering China and Russia. (AP Photo)PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea announced Saturday that an American detained for nearly six months is being tried in the Supreme Court on charges of plotting to overthrow the government, a crime that could draw the death penalty if he is convicted.
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Obama: Flight delay fix a 'Band-Aid' 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 10:34 AM PDT
FILE - This April 23, 2013 file photo shows a United Airlines jet departing in view of the air traffic control tower at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle. Congress easily approved legislation Friday ending furloughs of air traffic controllers that have delayed hundreds of flights daily, infuriating travelers and causing political headaches for lawmakers. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the congressional fix for widespread flight delays is an irresponsible way to govern, but he's prepared to sign the legislation that lawmakers fast-tracked.
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Obama chides lawmakers over flight delay fix, budget conflict 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 02:27 PM PDT
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the Planned Parenthood National Conference at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in WashingtonBy Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama chided Republicans on Saturday for approving a plan to ease air-traffic delays caused by federal spending cuts while leaving budget cuts that affect children and the elderly untouched. The Senate and the House of Representatives backed a plan this week to give the Department of Transportation flexibility to cover immediate salaries of air traffic controllers at the Federal Aviation Administration who had been furloughed as part of budget cuts known as the "sequester. ...
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New conservative lobbying push for gay marriage 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 07:33 AM PDT
FILE - In this April 18, 2013, file photo Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton tell hundreds who turned out to rally at the State Capitol, in St. Paul, Minn. in support of a bill to legalize gay marriage that he hoped legislators will pass this year. A spokesman for American Unity PAC tells The Associated Press that the group has established a lobbying operation and already spent more than $250,000 to lobby Republican lawmakers in Minnesota, with plans to spend more. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A national group of prominent GOP donors that supports gay marriage is pouring new money into lobbying efforts to get Republican lawmakers to vote to make it legal.
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Investigators push ahead in Boston bombing probe 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 02:56 PM PDT
FILE - This April 25, 2013 file photo shows the mother of the two Boston bombing suspects, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, left, speaking at a news conference in Makhachkala, the southern Russian province of Dagestan. Two government officials tell The Associated Press that U.S. intelligence agencies added the Boston bombing suspects' mother to a federal terrorism database about 18 months before the attack. At right is her sister-in-law Maryam. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev, File)BOSTON (AP) — With the Boston marathon bombing suspect in a prison hospital, investigators are pushing forward in the U.S. and abroad to piece together the myriad details of a plot that killed three people and injured more than 260.
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Kentucky woman ordained as priest in defiance of Roman Catholic Church 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 05:58 PM PDT
Rosemarie Smead sings with the audience before being ordained a Roman Catholic priest in LouisvilleBy Mary Wisniewski LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (Reuters) - In an emotional ceremony filled with tears and applause, a 70-year-old Kentucky woman was ordained a priest on Saturday as part of a dissident group operating outside of official Roman Catholic Church authority. Rosemarie Smead is one of about 150 women around the world who have decided not to wait for the Roman Catholic Church to lift its ban on women priests, but to be ordained and start their own congregations. ...
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Belief in God May Boost Treatment of Mental Illness 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 04:32 AM PDT
Belief in God May Boost Treatment of Mental IllnessPatients who believe in God may experience better short-term treatment outcomes for psychiatric illness, according to a new study.
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FBI: Miss. man arrested in suspicious letters case 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 11:27 AM PDT
FILE - In this Tuesday April 23, 2013 file photo, Everett Dutschke stands in the street near his home in Tupelo, Miss., and waits for the FBI to arrive and search his home in connection with the sending of poisoned letters to President Barack Obama and others. FBI spokeswoman Deborah Madden says Dutschke, 41, was arrested Saturday, April 27, 2013, at his Tupelo home in connection with the letters, which allegedly contained ricin. They were sent last week to Obama, Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi and earlier to 80-year-old Mississippi Judge Sadie Holland. (AP Photo/Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Thomas Wells, File) MANDATORY CREDITJACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man whose home and business were searched as part of an investigation into poisoned letters sent to the president and others has been arrested in the case, according to the FBI.
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NYC officials seek human remains amid plane debris 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 10:37 AM PDT
NY officials seek human remains amid plane debrisThe New York City medical examiner's office plans to resume searching for human remains two blocks from the World Trade Center after the sudden discovery of an airplane's landing gear. Medical examiner's ...
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GOP faces Senate recruitment woes in key states 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 05:47 AM PDT
FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2013, file photo, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad delivers the annual Condition of the State address before a joint session of the Iowa Legislature, at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa. Republicans are struggling to recruit strong Senate candidates in states that present the party's best opportunities to reclaim the majority, a sign that the GOP's post-2012 soul searching may end up creeping into the midterm congressional elections. GOP top national Senate campaign strategists tried again, in vain it turns out, to persuade Branstad to run for Senate instead of seeking another gubernatorial term. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republicans are struggling to recruit strong U.S. Senate candidates in states where the party has the best chances to reclaim the majority in Washington.
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IMMIGRATION REFORM IS BOTH COMPASSIONATE AND PRACTICAL 
Friday, Apr 26, 2013 10:01 PM PDT
Marco Rubio, Florida's junior senator, is pushing immigration reform because he needs a major legislative accomplishment to cement his credentials as a rising GOP star.Haley Barbour, former GOP governor of Mississippi, is campaigning for an immigration overhaul because he knows that the Republican Party will be doomed if it does not make peace with growing numbers of Latino voters. ...
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6 months after Sandy, thousands homeless in NY, NJ 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 06:55 PM PDT
Homes severely damaged last October by Superstorm Sandy, are seen along the beach Thursday, April 25, 2013, in Mantoloking, N.J. Six months after Sandy devastated the Jersey shore and New York City and pounded coastal areas of New England, the region is dealing with a slow and frustrating, yet often hopeful, recovery. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)MANTOLOKING, N.J. (AP) — The 9-year-old girl who got New Jersey's tough-guy governor to shed a tear as he comforted her after her home was destroyed is bummed because she now lives far from her best friend and has nowhere to hang her One Direction posters.
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FBI removes boat used by Boston bombing suspect to storage 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 08:21 AM PDT
Members of the FBI Evidence Recovery Team inspect the boat where Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was hiding at 67 Franklin St. in Watertown, MassachusettsBy Karen Brooks (Reuters) - Investigators have removed from its Watertown, Massachusetts, backyard the now-famous boat used as a hiding spot by one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, and have taken it to an evidence storage facility, the FBI said on Saturday. The boat was the scene of high drama when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old ethnic Chechen charged with the April 15 bombing that killed three people and wounded 264, was captured by authorities on April 19 after a tense day of searching in the Boston area. ...
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Group: Sudan army supporting fugitive warlord Kony 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 03:16 AM PDT
FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2006, file photo, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army Joseph Kony answers journalists' questions following a meeting with UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland at Ri-Kwangba in southern Sudan. A report by the watchdog group Resolve on Friday, April 26, 2013, says the fugitive African warlord Joseph Kony recently found safe haven in territory along the Sudan-South Sudan border, controlled by Sudan and that Kony benefits from Sudanese military support. (AP Photo/Stuart Price, File, Pool)KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The fugitive African warlord Joseph Kony recently found safe haven in territory controlled by Sudan, a watchdog group said Friday, accusing the Sudanese military of offering aid to commanders of the Lord's Resistance Army.
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Obama readies for annual correspondents' dinner 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 12:48 PM PDT
Late-night television host and comedian Conan O'Brien tours the Brady Press Briefing room of the White House in Washington, Friday, April, 26, 2013. O'Brien visited the White House ahead of his schedule hosting of the annual White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — The annual gathering not far from the White House brings together journalists, government officials, politicians and media personalities for what's usually an evening of light-hearted banter and celebrity gawking.
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A Suprising State Introduces Anti-LGBTQ Legislation 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 02:31 PM PDT
While the U.S. Supreme Court deliberates over the constitutionality of same-sex marriage bans, lawmakers in some states are still bickering over whether or not it's lawful to openly discriminate against gay, lesbian and transgender communities.
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US tries new aerial tools in Caribbean drug fight 
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 08:57 AM PDT
A balloon-like craft known as an aerostat is shown attached to the back of the U.S. Navy high speed vessel Swift docked in Key West, Florida, Friday, April 26, 2013. The U.S. Navy on Friday began testing two new aerial tools, borrowed from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, that officials say will make it easier to detect, track and videotape drug smugglers in action. (AP Photo/Ben Fox)ABOARD THE HIGH SPEED VESSEL SWIFT (AP) — Drug smugglers who race across the Caribbean in speedboats will typically jettison their cargo when spotted by surveillance aircraft, hoping any chance of prosecuting them will vanish with the drugs sinking to the bottom of the sea.
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Do Guardian Angels Exist? Investigating Our Invisible Companions 
Friday, Apr 26, 2013 09:53 PM PDT
Do Guardian Angels Exist? Investigating Our Invisible CompanionsAre These Comforting Figures Real or a Trick of the Mind?
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