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| Seven months after Sandy, Rockaway residents get their subway back Thursday, May 30, 2013 01:59 PM PDT Jose Hernandez and his wife, Carry, were riding on a New York City subway car on Thursday when the news came through the speakers: The final stop would be Far Rockaway, Queens. They stood up and cheered. "We haven't seen this in a long time," said Carry Hernandez. The longtime residents of the Rockaways, home [...] Full Story | Top |
| Fossil remains may contain the world’s first bird specimen Thursday, May 30, 2013 01:40 PM PDT A fossil largely forgotten inside a Chinese museum might actually contain the world's first bird. Nature magazine reports that the Aurornis xui specimen was technically discovered by a Chinese farmer several years ago. But it had remained unidentified until paleontologist Pascal Godefroit stumbled across the fossil last year in the museum at the Fossil and [...] Full Story | Top |
| Michigan’s Dingell to become longest-serving U.S. lawmaker Thursday, May 30, 2013 01:26 PM PDT Fifty-seven years, five months and 26 days. Come next Friday, June 7, that's how long Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., will have served in the U.S. Congress—breaking the record set by the late Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., for longest-serving American lawmaker. Dingell first took the oath of office in 1955. In a rare truce amid partisan [...] Full Story | Top |
| Michele Bachmann’s exit: What it means for the Tea Party Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:11 PM PDT Bottom Line A surprise announcement this week in Washington as Minnesota congresswoman and one time GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann announced she will not be seeking re-election after her current congressional term runs out in 2014. Lots of you had questions about the announcement and what Bachmann's departure from Congress means for her, and for [...] Full Story | Top |
| Man builds working car out of wood Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:08 PM PDT Putting all other do-it-yourself projects to shame, a Hungarian farmer spent the winter building a car made almost entirely of wood. "I love to work with wood," Istvan Puskas, a 51-year-old from the village of Tiszaors, said in what should be considered the biggest understatement ever. The frame, axles, gears and even the gas tank—which [...] Full Story | Top |
| Man wins $31M double jackpot with identical lottery tickets Thursday, May 30, 2013 11:31 AM PDT Harry Black won an incredible $31.7 million in the lottery. But the way he accomplished it is even more amazing. As the BBC reports, Black, from British Columbia, won the money thanks to his purchasing two tickets with identical numbers. "This is a wonderful surprise to all of us," said Kevin Gass of the British [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama’s half-brother selling president’s handwritten letters for $30,000 Thursday, May 30, 2013 10:15 AM PDT Sign up for one of President Barack Obama's email lists, and you can receive a wealth of letters from the president, free of charge. But if you'd like copies of handwritten notes from Obama to relatives in Kenya, well, that will cost you. The New York Post reports that Obama's older half-brother, Malik Abongo Obama, [...] Full Story | Top |
| GOP group aggressively seeking minority candidates for 2014 Thursday, May 30, 2013 10:07 AM PDT The ongoing saga of the Republican effort to woo minority voters continues this week with an announcement that one party group plans to spend $6 million this election cycle to recruit and support female and minority candidates at the state level. The effort is a continuation of the Republican State Leadership Committee's Future Majority Project, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Letter possibly laced with ricin sent to Obama Thursday, May 30, 2013 09:51 AM PDT A letter addressed to President Barack Obama that might have been contaminated with ricin was intercepted by authorities on Thursday, the Secret Service confirmed. The letter holds similarities to mail sent to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg that tested positive for the deadly toxin. "U.S. Secret Service can confirm that the White House mail [...] Full Story | Top |
| Multiple media outlets just say no to Eric Holder meeting Thursday, May 30, 2013 09:29 AM PDT A growing number of news organizations invited to meet this week with Attorney General Eric Holder to discuss the Justice Department's guidelines governing security leak investigations that involve reporters are refusing the invitation citing the meetings' off-the-record status. A Justice Department official said on Wednesday that meetings with select bureau chiefs will be off the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Sonar image may show Amelia Earhart’s plane Thursday, May 30, 2013 08:34 AM PDT A sonar image may point to the wreckage site of Amelia Earhart's plane, the Electra, The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery announced. The nonprofit organization has been on the hunt for the Earhart plane for the last 25 years. "What we have is something that looks like what we think the expected wreckage should [...] Full Story | Top |
| Swedish high school forgets to offer class required for graduation Thursday, May 30, 2013 07:23 AM PDT Skipping out on a class required for graduation is the kind of thing you'd expect from a slumping senior, but not the high school itself. Students at a high school in Gothenburg, Sweden, were outraged to learn that their school "forgot" to teach them a required religion class—days before the students were about to graduate, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Giant, fluorescent pink slugs found on mountain Thursday, May 30, 2013 07:05 AM PDT It would seem to be something you'd see only in a cartoon or at a Phish concert, but according to park rangers in New South Wales, Australia, dozens of giant, fluorescent pink slugs have been popping up on a mountaintop there. "As bright pink as you can imagine, that's how pink they are," Michael Murphy, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Man threatens to blow up state building’s misspelled sign Thursday, May 30, 2013 06:02 AM PDT An Oregon man walked into a state office on Wednesday with a pressure cooker he claimed was a bomb and told employees he tried to blow up a sign outside the building because it was misspelled. Leonard Burdek, a 50-year-old from Salem, Ore., arrived at the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission offices shortly after 9 [...] Full Story | Top |
| Special prosecutor for IRS flap? 3 in 4 Americans say yes Thursday, May 30, 2013 04:25 AM PDT Americans overwhelmingly say they want a special prosecutor to look into charges that the Internal Revenue Service improperly targeted conservative groups, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Thursday. Among all voters, support for an independent probe runs 76 to 17 percent. The figure drops slightly among Democrats, to 63 to 30 percent. At [...] Full Story | Top |
| Privacy a looming issue as drone regulation loosens Thursday, May 30, 2013 04:14 AM PDT ATLANTA—Earlier this month, a woman in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle noticed a small camera-equipped drone buzzing around outside the third-floor window of her home. She sent her husband out to tell the man operating the small aircraft by remote control to leave, but he insisted that it was legal for him to fly [...] Full Story | Top |
| South Africa Grapples With Nelson Mandela’s Legacy Thursday, May 30, 2013 03:37 AM PDT Although he was imprisoned for nearly three decades, including 18 years on desolate Robben Island, it was not retribution and revenge that Nelson Mandela sought when he became president of the newly democratic South Africa in 1994, but reconciliation. And now, nearly 20 years after the end of a brutal and racist apartheid regime, Mandela's [...] Full Story | Top |
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