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| Live updates: Tornadoes, storms slam Oklahoma Friday, May 31, 2013 07:17 PM PDT [Updated at 9 p.m. CT] A mother and baby have been confirmed killed when several tornadoes, including a large twister, touched down in the Oklahoma City metro area. A large and powerful storm system moved through the vicinity of Oklahoma City and Moore, which was devastated two weeks ago. Softball-sized hail, heavy flooding and straight [...] Full Story | Top |
| ‘Knaidel’ for the win (mazol tov!) Friday, May 31, 2013 02:54 PM PDT After three near-victories over the past four years, Arvind V. Mahankali won the 86th Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday. The word he spelled correctly to take the title: "knaidel." Knaidel? The unusual word, thanks to its prominent role in the nationwide competition—which this year hosted 281 contestants in National Harbor, Md.—instantly rose to the [...] Full Story | Top |
| See 1939 New York City in vibrant color Friday, May 31, 2013 02:05 PM PDT A newly released, captivating film clip brings to colorful life the streets of New York City—in the summer of 1939. You read that right: The color footage, which comes from Romano-Archives and was recently released on the Web, is 74 years old. The description on YouTube states: "New York City, summer 1939. Rarely seen recently [...] Full Story | Top |
| Eric Holder vs the media: What is ‘off the record’? Friday, May 31, 2013 01:06 PM PDT Major news outlets like The New York Times, The Associated Press, Reuters and others turned down Attorney General Eric Holder's invitation to meet with him on Thursday, because the talks would be "off the record." Everyone knows somebody who is always starting sentences with "for the record," like a narcissistic nod to a cosmic stenographer [...] Full Story | Top |
| Penguins on parade in African-themed costumes Friday, May 31, 2013 12:21 PM PDT Penguins already are a dapper-looking bunch. But add African-themed costumes to the black-and-white birds, put them in a parade and you've got quite a sight. The march of the dressed-up penguins is making waves on the Web. According to Sky News, the birds were trotted out in African garb at the Yokohama's Hakkeijima Sea Paradise [...] Full Story | Top |
| Bachmann’s departure came as a surprise to tea party organizers Friday, May 31, 2013 10:14 AM PDT Earlier this month, while planning a press conference with other lawmakers and tea party leaders in response to the Internal Revenue Service's unfair targeting of conservatives, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann told Tea Party Patriots national coordinator Jenny Beth Martin that she longed to travel and speak to tea party groups more often than she had [...] Full Story | Top |
| Video shows Boston bombing suspects at the gym three days before attacks Friday, May 31, 2013 09:30 AM PDT A video shows the Boston Marathon bombing suspects working out at a gym only days before the attacks. According to CNN, the video captures Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at Wai Kru, a mixed martial arts center, with a friend on Friday, April 12, at 2:45 p.m. The bombing took place the following Monday. The video [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama pressures Congress to prevent student loan rate increase Friday, May 31, 2013 07:22 AM PDT President Barack Obama on Friday publicly called on Congress to prevent Stafford student loan interest rates from doubling this summer. The president, who spent time on the 2012 campaign trail speaking out against a rate increase, spoke in the Rose Garden on Friday surrounded by college students. He pressed Congress to extend current rates or [...] Full Story | Top |
| Cleveland hero Charles Ramsey to become a paid speaker Friday, May 31, 2013 07:18 AM PDT The Cleveland man who become an overnight celebrity after he freed three young women believed to have been held captive for a decade will now get a chance to cash in on his fame. Ramsey has signed with Bruce Merrin's Celebrity Speakers and Entertainment Bureau, it was announced on Thursday. According to NBC News, Ramsey [...] Full Story | Top |
| This week in history Friday, May 31, 2013 06:19 AM PDT This week in history: Joan of Arc was martyred, a ballet causes a riot, and two people made it to the top of Everest for the first time. Plus, London's Big Ben clock goes into operation. Read all about it. Joan of Arc martyred Considered a heroine of France, the 18-year-old claimed to hear the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Donald Rumsfeld on Afghanistan War: “It’s not combat, as such” Friday, May 31, 2013 04:23 AM PDT Politics Confidential Donald Rumsfeld made a habit of collecting adages to live by over the course of his decades-long government career. His collection began as a stack of index cards, which then transformed into a White House document dubbed "Rumsfeld's Rules" by President Ford, and has now evolved into a book. Most of Rumsfeld's new [...] Full Story | Top |
| Drones to enter public skies in 2015: Will it be safe? Friday, May 31, 2013 02:58 AM PDT Nothing stresses out drone enthusiasts more than reading in the news that some hobbyist decided to pilot a homemade, remote-controlled helicopter drone over Alcatraz or, as in a reported case in March, test out a three-foot-wide drone near a jetliner landing at John F. Kennedy airport. "People like that make our lives more difficult," said [...] Full Story | Top |
| New York Aquarium’s Jon Dohlin: ‘It Takes More Than Hurricane Sandy to Get a Walrus to Even Blink’ Friday, May 31, 2013 10:41 AM PDT When superstorm Sandy barreled up the East Coast with wind speeds nearing 100 miles per hour and a 12-foot storm surge, it could almost be called a nonevent for a certain population living just off the Coney Island boardwalk. "Let me tell you something. It takes a lot more than Hurricane Sandy to get a [...] Full Story | Top |
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