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| May Day rally turns violent in Seattle Thursday, May 02, 2013 12:57 AM PDT SEATTLE (AP) — Police used "flash bangs" and pepper spray against some protesters who pelted them with rocks and bottles late Wednesday, as violence erupted during May Day in Seattle. Full Story | Top |
| North Korea sentences American to 15 years' labor Thursday, May 02, 2013 01:07 AM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A Korean American detained for six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for "hostile acts" against the state, the North's media said Thursday — a move that could trigger a visit by a high-profile American if history is any guide. Full Story | Top |
| Teen Girl Expelled, Charged With a Felony After Science Experiment Goes Awry Thursday, May 02, 2013 12:32 AM PDT Science experiments don't always go the way they are intended. A 16-year-old Florida teenager knows this all too well. Full Story | Top |
| Obama to pitch immigration overhaul in Mexico Thursday, May 02, 2013 09:10 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has his top domestic ambition at the head of his agenda as he travels to Mexico on Thursday. To sell his immigration overhaul back home, he needs a growing economy in Mexico and a Mexican president willing to help him secure the border. Full Story | Top |
| Student Punished, Charged With a Felony After He ‘Tried to Do the Right Thing’ When He Forgot His Shotgun Was in His Truck Thursday, May 02, 2013 12:37 PM PDT "He could have told a story, but he told the truth." Full Story | Top |
| Chinese incursion leaves India on verge of crisis Thursday, May 02, 2013 01:36 PM PDT  NEW DELHI (AP) — The platoon of Chinese soldiers slipped across the boundary into India in the middle of the night, according to Indian officials. They were ferried across the bitterly cold moonscape in Chinese army vehicles, then got out to traverse a dry creek bed with a helicopter hovering overhead for protection. Full Story | Top |
| Rand Paul: The next and last GOP nominee? Thursday, May 02, 2013 12:45 AM PDT  If the Kentucky senator is the Republican Party's standard bearer in 2016, it is not inconceivable that he could destroy the party Full Story | Top |
| Daughter voices anger at mom found after 11 years Thursday, May 02, 2013 06:38 PM PDT  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The teenage daughter of a woman who just revealed she abandoned her family 11 years ago said Thursday the disclosure has angered her and she is not eager to restart their relationship. Full Story | Top |
| FBI releases photos of 3 men wanted in Benghazi investigation Thursday, May 02, 2013 06:27 AM PDT The Federal Bureau of Investigation is asking the Libyan people for help in identifying three individuals who were on the grounds of the U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi when it was attacked on Sept. 11, 2012. The attack resulted in the death of Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and three other Americans. The [...] Full Story | Top |
| Boston bombing suspects had planned July 4 attack Thursday, May 02, 2013 07:18 PM PDT  By Ross Kerber, Jim Finkle and Mark Hosenball BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The two brothers suspected of carrying out the deadly attacks on the Boston Marathon had originally planned to set off their bombs on July 4, a law enforcement official said. The official said the suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, advanced the date of their attack because they completed building bombs more quickly then they originally anticipated. The official declined to be identified and did not offer more details. ... Full Story | Top |
| Fresh off victory, NRA holds convention in Houston Thursday, May 02, 2013 11:30 AM PDT  The National Rifle Association has spent much of the past year under siege, ardently defending gun rights following mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut and fighting back against mounting pressure ... Full Story | Top |
| Officers hurt, 17 arrested in clash at May Day rally in Seattle Thursday, May 02, 2013 06:23 AM PDT  By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) - Seattle police said on Thursday they would form a task force to investigate any crimes committed during a violent May Day rally which saw eight police officers injured and 17 protesters arrested. Protesters and police had exchanged a chaotic barrage of rocks, bottles and pepper spray grenades on Wednesday. It was the second year in a row that a rally on May Day had turned violent. Demonstrators threw large rocks at police, smashed store and car windows, overturned trash cans and lined up newspaper display racks to block streets, police said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Struggling Catholic schools strategize to draw new students Thursday, May 02, 2013 06:53 AM PDT  By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - For years, headlines about Catholic schools in the United States have told gloomy tales of falling enrollment and multiple closings. Between 2000 and 2013, 2,090 U.S. Catholic schools closed or consolidated and enrollment fell 24.5 percent, according to the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA). In places like Chicago's Leo Catholic High School for boys, student numbers have plummeted from 1,200 students in the 1950s to 157 this year. In New York, the Catholic Archdiocese plans to close 24 schools. ... Full Story | Top |
| Easy, beautiful blend of eggs and veggies for Mom Thursday, May 02, 2013 07:48 AM PDT  Mom always said to eat your vegetables, so this Mother's Day serve her breakfast in bed inspired by a walk through the garden. Full Story | Top |
| 7 things we know about the college students accused of helping Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Thursday, May 02, 2013 04:46 AM PDT  Details are trickling in about the three 19-year-old men arrested for allegedly getting rid of evidence in the Boston bombing suspect's dorm room Full Story | Top |
| May Day activists cheer state immigration laws Thursday, May 02, 2013 09:39 AM PDT  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — As Congress debates the first national immigration overhaul in decades, a state-level push advancing rights for people in the U.S. illegally has picked up momentum across the country. Full Story | Top |
| Emily’s List launches effort to elect female president; hopes for Hillary Clinton Thursday, May 02, 2013 07:57 AM PDT At the kickoff of a six-figure campaign to elect America's first female president in 2016, Emily's List President Stephanie Schriock addressed the question on everybody's mind: Will Hillary Clinton run? "There is one name that seems to be getting mentioned more than others," Schriock told reporters at the National Press Club Thursday. "We do not [...] Full Story | Top |
| US officials: More in favor of arming Syria rebels Thursday, May 02, 2013 01:44 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Discussions within the Obama administration in favor of providing arms to the Syrian rebels are gaining ground amid new indications that President Bashar Assad's regime may have launched additional chemical weapons attacks, U.S. and other diplomatic officials say. Full Story | Top |
| Would Ronald Reagan Support Gay Marriage? Thursday, May 02, 2013 06:44 AM PDT "Reagan was silent on same-sex marriage, as was everyone of his generation." Full Story | Top |
| Lawyer: Lindsay Lohan checks into rehab facility Thursday, May 02, 2013 09:50 AM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lindsay Lohan has checked into a rehab facility to comply with her sentence in a misdemeanor driving case, but her arrival there was not without drama. Full Story | Top |
| ‘Redneck Day,’ ‘White Trash Wednesday’ don’t go over so well at public schools Thursday, May 02, 2013 07:02 AM PDT At Queen Creek High School on the outskirts of Phoenix, Az., the student council hatched a brilliant plan to energize students for prom week. That plan included Wednesday's campus-wide "Redneck Day." Full Story | Top |
| Rhode Island becomes 10th state with gay marriage Thursday, May 02, 2013 05:15 PM PDT  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island on Thursday became the nation's 10th state to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed, as a 16-year effort to extend marriage rights in this heavily Roman Catholic state ended with the triumphant cheers of hundreds of gays, lesbians, their families and friends. Full Story | Top |
| 2 airplanes about to take off clip at NJ airport Thursday, May 02, 2013 06:29 AM PDT  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Two airplanes taxiing while preparing for takeoff at Newark Liberty International Airport clipped each other, leaving one of the planes with a portion of its left wing ripped away. Full Story | Top |
| This is the end: Team of experts say humanity faces extinction Thursday, May 02, 2013 04:30 PM PDT The crazy man walking down the city street holding a sign that reads "The end is near" might just have a point. A team of mathematicians, philosophers and scientists at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute say there is ever-increasing evidence that the human race's reliance on technology could, in fact, lead to its demise. [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama, Mexican president talk economy, security Thursday, May 02, 2013 05:18 PM PDT  MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Barack Obama sought on Thursday to tamp down a potential rift with Mexico over a dramatic shift in the cross-border fight against drug trafficking and organized crime, acceding that Mexicans had the right to determine how best to tackle the violence that has plagued their country. Full Story | Top |
| Benedict comes home to new house, new pope Thursday, May 02, 2013 03:09 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (AP) — Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI comes home on Thursday to a new house and a new pope, as an unprecedented era begins of a retired pontiff living side-by-side with a reigning one inside the Vatican gardens. Full Story | Top |
| Hagel: US rethinking possibly arming rebels Thursday, May 02, 2013 03:26 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is rethinking its opposition to arming the rebels who have been locked in a civil war with the Syrian regime for more than two years, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday, becoming the first top U.S. official to publicly acknowledge the reassessment. Full Story | Top |
| Violence mars May Day rally in Seattle Thursday, May 02, 2013 05:49 AM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Supporters of immigration reform rallied across the nation on May Day in lively gatherings that were marred by a burst of violence in Seattle, where police fired pepper spray at rock-throwing protesters in clashes that left 17 people arrested. Full Story | Top |
| Constitution Check: Was the court wrong in agreeing to decide and in its ruling in Bush v. Gore? Thursday, May 02, 2013 07:00 AM PDT Lyle Denniston examines the latest remarks by retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor about how the Supreme Court acted in the controversial Bush v. Gore decision. Full Story | Top |
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