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| Ted Cruz avoids controversy in first New York speech Wednesday, May 29, 2013 06:37 PM PDT NEW YORK— Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is a rising star Republican who has irked even members of his own party with his conservative views on immigration reform and gun control. But Cruz made no mention of those hot-button topics in his official debut on the New York political stage Wednesday, using a speech before the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Woman raises funds to visit Alaska ghost town with family ties Wednesday, May 29, 2013 04:20 PM PDT  Forty miles off the coast of Alaska lies an uninhabited island, abandoned for the past 50 years. For Joan Naviyuk Kane, who launched a crowdsourced Web-funding campaign to visit the island, it's rich with family history and ancestral roots. Now, an anonymous donation has assured the 35-year-old's travel to King Island this summer, which is [...] Full Story | Top |
| Letters sent to Bloomberg tested positive for ricin Wednesday, May 29, 2013 03:51 PM PDT NEW YORK—Two threatening letters mailed to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and opened last week have tested positive for ricin, the New York Police Department said Wednesday. The letters, first reported by The New York Times, were addressed to Bloomberg and mailed to a municipal building in New York City that houses the Department of Housing Preservation [...] Full Story | Top |
| R.I. Gov. Chafee, an independent who was a Republican, plans to become a Democrat Wednesday, May 29, 2013 02:43 PM PDT Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, an independent, has notified senior Democratic officials that he intends to switch his registration to the Democratic Party before an expected tough re-election fight in 2014. The Democratic National Committee released a statement from President Barack Obama praising Chafee as "an independent thinker and leader who's unafraid to reach across [...] Full Story | Top |
| White House won’t confirm reported drone strike against Waliur Rehman Wednesday, May 29, 2013 01:19 PM PDT Six days after President Barack Obama addressed criticisms about the use of drones to kill suspected terrorists and signed new guidelines regarding their usage, the White House declined to confirm the newest report of a drone strike. The Associated Press, Reuters and other news outlets reported on Wednesday that a U.S. drone strike on Wednesday [...] Full Story | Top |
| Bachmann’s rise and fall—and what it says about the GOP Wednesday, May 29, 2013 11:26 AM PDT There was a time, albeit brief, when polls showed Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann topping the 2012 Republican presidential primary field. And that tells you something about the challenges the GOP faces as it tries to rebrand itself as a viable party in presidential politics. Bachmann, who announced on Wednesday she would not seek re-election to [...] Full Story | Top |
| Scientists say newly discovered woolly mammoth blood boosts cloning prospects Wednesday, May 29, 2013 11:17 AM PDT A team of scientists says blood recovered from the preserved carcass of a woolly mammoth is reviving hopes that the extinct creature could one day be cloned back into existence. "When we broke the ice beneath her stomach, the blood flowed out from there. It was very dark," said Semyon Grigoryev, a Russian scientist who [...] Full Story | Top |
| 6 things People teaches you about Chris Christie (and 1 thing you suspected) Wednesday, May 29, 2013 11:04 AM PDT New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's workout routine soundtrack includes Bruce Springsteen, Van Halen, Aerosmith, "older Bryan Adams stuff" and Rob Thomas. That's just one of the choice nuggets (two, if you count "he has a regular workout schedule") in the rowdy Republican's exclusive interview with People Magazine, which hits newsstands on Friday. Read the whole [...] Full Story | Top |
| Cicada cam gives users frightening glimpse of ‘swarmageddon’ Wednesday, May 29, 2013 10:11 AM PDT The great cicada invasion of 2013 has begun in earnest on the East Coast, with hundreds of thousands of the noisy, sex-crazed insects popping up from Georgia to Connecticut. Discovery.com is looking to capitalize on the peculiar craze with a cicada cam, providing live, streaming video of the Brood II cicadas covering a replica of [...] Full Story | Top |
| Good Samaritan rescues 3 after car crashes into swimming pool Wednesday, May 29, 2013 09:34 AM PDT A grandmother and her two granddaughters have a good Samaritan to thank for their safe rescue after they drove into a swimming pool. The scary incident happened on Tuesday afternoon in Yorba Linda, Calif. Neighbor Anita Campbell heard what sounded like an explosion and children crying, and she took action. She found a car with [...] Full Story | Top |
| Japanese funeral home ad re-creates skeleton with flowers Wednesday, May 29, 2013 09:18 AM PDT It's common practice to have a floral arrangement at a funeral. But a new ad for a Japanese funeral home is showcasing a unique twist by using pressed flowers to re-create the shape of the human skeleton. The image, titled Life Is Endless, is composed of a variety of colorful flowers. "The March 11th earthquake [...] Full Story | Top |
| New virus called ‘threat to the entire world’ Wednesday, May 29, 2013 08:20 AM PDT The first death in France from a new SARS-like coronavirus brings the worldwide total for the disease to 27 deaths and 49 infections, CNN reports. The 65-year-old Frenchman was diagnosed after returning from a stay in Dubai. According to CNN, the World Health Organization has said the disease was first seen in Saudi Arabia last [...] Full Story | Top |
| Spot a Bad Hotel – Before You Book Wednesday, May 29, 2013 08:13 AM PDT How to decode online listings to find the best hotels - and avoid the worst. Full Story | Top |
| Eric Holder to meet with media bureau chiefs Wednesday, May 29, 2013 08:07 AM PDT Attorney General Eric Holder will meet with several media bureau chiefs over the next two days as part of a review of Justice Department policies, a department official confirmed on Wednesday. The review was ordered last week by President Barack Obama after recent controversies over leak investigations. From the official: These meetings will begin a [...] Full Story | Top |
| Missing man walks up to news crew reporting on … missing man Wednesday, May 29, 2013 07:40 AM PDT A local television news crew reporting on a missing Maine man found him as they were about to shoot a live update near his home. Robert McDonough, a 73-year-old who suffers from dementia, had been missing for more than 14 hours when he walked past the WMTW News 8 crew camped out on the side [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama explains lipstick on his collar Wednesday, May 29, 2013 06:47 AM PDT President Barack Obama had some explaining to do. The commander in chief arrived at the East Room for an event Tuesday night honoring Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders—one of whom had shown him some love. There to speak of their contributions, he began his remarks by discussing a very red mark on his collar left by [...] Full Story | Top |
| Scientists say: Give drones a chance Wednesday, May 29, 2013 05:46 AM PDT ATLANTA—As dozens of protesters waved signs proclaiming, "Stop Assassinations: Ground the Drones!" outside the Grand Hyatt on Tuesday, a room full of scientists, oblivious to their demonstrations, raptly watched a 30-minute PowerPoint presentation about "riparian vegetation," "river morphology" and the helpful qualities of beaver dams. The researchers who came from around the world to attend [...] Full Story | Top |
| Tsarnaev’s first phone call to mom: ‘Be patient. Everything will be fine.’ Wednesday, May 29, 2013 05:30 AM PDT Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, says she has spoken with her son for the first time since his arrest. "I couldn't stop myself from crying," Tsarnaeva said in an phone interview with Bloomberg News late Monday from her home in Dagestan, Russia. "He said: 'I am absolutely fine; my [...] Full Story | Top |
| Vets advocate: Obama must ‘step up’ to shrink disability benefits backlog Wednesday, May 29, 2013 04:07 AM PDT Top Line With nearly 900,000 veterans waiting to hear from the Veterans Administration about disability benefits claims—and the average wait time stretching to almost 300 days—the advocacy group Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) is calling on the president to make policy changes that will help diminish the backlog. IAVA's Chief Policy Officer Tom [...] Full Story | Top |
| Democrat seeks to topple Nikki Haley without sounding too much like a Democrat Wednesday, May 29, 2013 02:40 AM PDT COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Democratic state Sen. Vincent Sheheen, who is planning to challenge Republican Gov. Nikki Haley in 2014, says he wants nothing to do with Washington—but not in quite the same way Haley does. "I don't keep up with what's going on nationally," Sheheen told Yahoo News in an interview earlier this [...] Full Story | Top |
| Michele Bachmann won’t seek re-election Wednesday, May 29, 2013 01:48 AM PDT Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann said early Wednesday that she will not run for re-election in 2014. The Minnesota conservative made the announcement in a video posted on her website. "After a great deal of thought and deliberation, I have decided next year I will not seek a fifth congressional term," Bachmann said in the eight-and-a-half-minute [...] Full Story | Top |
| Woman raises funds to visit Alaska ghost town with family ties Wednesday, May 29, 2013 02:27 PM PDT Forty miles off the coast of Alaska lies an uninhabited island, abandoned for the past 50 years. For Joan Naviyuk Kane, who launched a crowdsourced Web-funding campaign to visit the island, it's rich with family history and ancestral roots. Now, an anonymous donation has assured the 35-year-old's travel to King Island this summer, which is [...] Full Story | Top |
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