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| Some unions now angry about health care overhaul Friday, May 24, 2013 09:40 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Some labor unions that enthusiastically backed President Barack Obama's health care overhaul are now frustrated and angry, fearful that it will jeopardize benefits for millions of their members. Full Story | Top |
| Mystery of Irish Potato Famine Solved Friday, May 24, 2013 07:08 AM PDT  The Irish potato famine that caused mass starvation and approximately 1 million deaths in the mid-19th century was triggered by a newly identified strain of potato blight that has been christened "HERB-1," according to a new study. Full Story | Top |
| I-5 bridge collapse survivor: 'You hold on' Friday, May 24, 2013 03:58 AM PDT  MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — Dan Sligh and his wife were in their pickup truck on Interstate 5 heading to a camping trip when a bridge before them disappeared in a "big puff of dust." Full Story | Top |
| Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys Friday, May 24, 2013 09:31 AM PDT  GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) — After lengthy and wrenching debate, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have voted to open their ranks to openly gay boys for the first time, but heated reactions from the left and right made clear that the BSA's controversies are far from over. Full Story | Top |
| Wedding Thank-You Note Fails To Deliver Intended Message Thursday, May 23, 2013 10:00 PM PDT DEAR ABBY: My husband and I attended the wedding of the son of some old friends in another state. Rather than buy the young couple a gift, we instead gave them a check for $1,000. Imagine our astonishment when a month later the following arrived in our mailbox:"Dear 'Loretta' and 'Evan,'"Thank you for the generous donation. We really enjoyed spending that money. If ever you feel like you have too much of it, we would gladly take it off your hands."Love, 'Mason' and 'Candace'"Abby, my husband and I have worked hard for many years in our business and have been blessed by the Lord. ... Full Story | Top |
| I-5 bridge collapses into Wash. river, injuring 3 Friday, May 24, 2013 12:35 AM PDT  MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — An Interstate 5 bridge over a river collapsed north of Seattle Thursday evening, dumping two vehicles into the water and sparking a rescue effort by boats and divers as three injured people were pulled from the chilly waterway. Full Story | Top |
| Exiled cleric who taught UK knifeman praises 'courage' Friday, May 24, 2013 07:25 AM PDT  By Dominic Evans TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - A Syrian-born Islamist cleric who taught one of the men accused of hacking to death an off-duty British soldier on a London street praised the attack for its "courage" and said Muslims would see it as a strike on a military target. In an interview in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, where he has lived since being banished from Britain in 2005, Omar Bakri, founder of banned British Islamist group Al Muhajiroun, said he knew suspect Michael Adebolajo from his lectures a decade ago. ... Full Story | Top |
| Foreign preacher takes rare turn on Vietnam stage Friday, May 24, 2013 02:15 AM PDT  HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The 25,000 people at the soccer stadium and the millions more watching at home waited 90 minutes before the Australian evangelical preacher got to the message he had come to Communist-ruled Vietnam to deliver. Full Story | Top |
| Fear of art sale sparked by Detroit emergency manager asking for appraisal Friday, May 24, 2013 01:13 AM PDT  By Steve Neavling DETROIT (Reuters) - As part of his efforts to solve Detroit's financial crisis, the city's emergency manager Kevyn Orr has asked for an appraisal of the collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts, sparking fears in artistic and philanthropic circles that he means to auction off the city's artistic jewels. Orr was appointed in March by Michigan's Republican Governor Rick Snyder to tackle the shrinking city's long-term debt problem, which the emergency manager estimated at $15 billion in a recent report on the state of Detroit. ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama wants to end 'war on terror' but Congress balks Friday, May 24, 2013 11:34 AM PDT  By Patricia Zengerle and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama wants to roll back some of the most controversial aspects of the U.S. "war on terror," but efforts to alter the global fight against Islamist militants will face the usual hurdle at home: staunch opposition from Republicans in Congress. In a major policy speech on Thursday, Obama narrowed the scope of the targeted-killing drone campaign against al Qaeda and its allies and announced steps toward closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba. He acknowledged the past use of "torture" in U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Black Spanish teacher claims she was fired for using the word ‘negro’ in class Friday, May 24, 2013 07:18 AM PDT In the annals of political correctness run amok in American schools, this story — if true — is easily an all-timer. Full Story | Top |
| IRS replaces official who revealed targeting Friday, May 24, 2013 07:38 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service official who led the unit that targeted tea party groups and publicly disclosed the activity has been replaced, making her the third top IRS official moved aside since the episode was revealed two weeks ago. Full Story | Top |
| After vote on gay youth, Scouts face more turmoil Friday, May 24, 2013 01:31 PM PDT  The Boy Scouts of America will get no reprieve from controversy after a contentious vote to accept openly gay boys as Scouts. Full Story | Top |
| Jury foreman says Arias testimony didn't help her Friday, May 24, 2013 06:19 AM PDT  PHOENIX (AP) — As jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial filed one by one from the courtroom after a dramatic five months of gut-wrenching testimony and gruesome photographs, three women on the panel cried and one looked to the victim's family, mouthing the word, "Sorry." Full Story | Top |
| No 'Manifesto' But New Clues to 'Frustrated' Boston Suspect: Sources Friday, May 24, 2013 12:06 PM PDT  Typical Lone Wolf: Tamerlan Tsarnaev Self-Radicalized, Failed to Join Militant Ranks in Dagestan Full Story | Top |
| How Celibate Gay Christians Deal With Desire Friday, May 24, 2013 04:51 AM PDT  Between the faction of gay Christians who are happy with their sexual identity and "ex-gays," who say they've removed their homosexual yearnings, is a third group that gets little attention. These so-called Side B Christians identify as gay and believe it's not sinful to do so. But because they see acting on their orientation as ungodly, they commit to a life of celibacy. Full Story | Top |
| Judge rules against 'America's toughest sheriff' in racial profiling lawsuit Friday, May 24, 2013 08:06 PM PDT  By Tim Gaynor and David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio violated the constitutional rights of Latino drivers in his crackdown on illegal immigration, a federal judge found on Friday, and ordered him to stop using race as a factor in law enforcement decisions. The ruling against the Maricopa County sheriff came in response to a class-action lawsuit brought by Hispanic drivers that tested whether police can target illegal immigrants without racially profiling U.S. citizens and legal residents of Hispanic origin. U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Stretched by riots, Swedish police call reinforcements Friday, May 24, 2013 08:04 AM PDT  By Ilze Filks and Mia Shanley STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Police in Stockholm called in reinforcements on Friday after youths set cars and a school ablaze in a fifth night of rioting, the worst to hit Sweden for years. Pupils at a primary school in Kista - an IT hub that is home to the likes of telecoms equipment maker Ericsson and the Swedish office of Microsoft - arrived to find the inside of the small red wooden building had been completely burnt out. ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama and the Law Friday, May 24, 2013 12:00 AM PDT If you Google "George W. Bush shredding the constitution," you will get many millions of hits. The New York Times railed, "Ever since 9/11, we have watched Republican lawmakers help Mr. Bush shred the Constitution in the name of fighting terrorism." Full Story | Top |
| Researchers say Western IQs dropped 14 points over last century Friday, May 24, 2013 11:06 AM PDT A new study from researchers in Europe claims that the average IQ in Western nations dropped by a staggering 14.1 points over the past century. "We tested the hypothesis that the Victorians were cleverer than modern populations using high-quality instruments, namely measures of simple visual reaction time in a meta-analytic study," the researchers wrote in [...] Full Story | Top |
| Wash. I-5 bridge collapse caused by oversize load Friday, May 24, 2013 08:15 AM PDT  MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — A truck hauling an oversized load struck an overhead bridge girder on the major interstate between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River below. All three occupants suffered only minor injuries. Full Story | Top |
| Feds look for temporary fix after I-5 collapse Friday, May 24, 2013 01:23 PM PDT  MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — Federal officials were searching the country for a possible temporary replacement for a bridge that collapsed along the crucial Interstate 5 corridor, but Washington Gov. Jay Inslee cautioned Friday that major disruptions will last for weeks, if not months. Full Story | Top |
| Did Obama Forget to Salute? Friday, May 24, 2013 08:26 AM PDT The president may have forgotten something as he boarded Marine One this morning. On his way to the U.S. Naval Academy graduation ceremony on Annapolis, Md., President Obama didn't return the salute of the marine standing guard at the door of Marine One, as he... Full Story | Top |
| Cleveland Women Can Decide If They Want Alleged Captor's Dogs Friday, May 24, 2013 12:05 PM PDT  Ariel Castro's Three Dogs Are in Foster Care Until the Women Make a Decision Full Story | Top |
| Alabama mystery illness solved: it's common flu Friday, May 24, 2013 06:44 AM PDT Health officials investigating a cluster of mysterious illnesses in Alabama closed their investigation Thursday after determining the illnesses were unrelated and no new bacteria or viruses were involved. ... Full Story | Top |
| Safe room mandates remain rare in tornado states Friday, May 24, 2013 04:29 AM PDT  MOORE, Okla. (AP) — After living nearly 20 years in their one-story brick home, Sherry and Larry Wells finally won the lottery — for a state rebate on a home storm shelter, that is. A contractor finished installing the concrete bunker beneath the slab of their garage in early May. About three weeks later, the shelter saved their lives when a tornado that killed 24 people tore through their neighborhood. Full Story | Top |
| Judge rules against Arizona sheriff in racial profiling suit Friday, May 24, 2013 04:26 PM PDT PHOENIX (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday found hardline Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio had violated the constitutional rights of Latino drivers in his crackdown on illegal immigration, and ordered him to stop using race as a factor in law enforcement decisions. The ruling against the Maricopa County sheriff came in response to a class-action lawsuit brought by Hispanic drivers that tested whether police can target illegal immigrants without racially profiling Hispanic citizens and legal residents. U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| UK-bound Pakistan plane diverted, 2 men arrested Friday, May 24, 2013 12:28 PM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Britain scrambled fighter jets Friday to intercept a commercial airliner carrying more than 300 people from Pakistan, diverting it to an isolated runway at an airport on the outskirts of London and arresting two British passengers who allegedly threatened to destroy the plane. Full Story | Top |
| No Wonder Republican Criticism of Obama Isn’t Working Friday, May 24, 2013 01:34 AM PDT Henny Youngman, the late borscht belt comedian, told hundreds of politically incorrect jokes. One of them was his response when asked, "How's your wife?" "Compared to what?" he'd say. Full Story | Top |
| Extraordinary Video of Man Playing Guitar During Brain Surgery Friday, May 24, 2013 09:59 AM PDT When you think of all the advancements in medical technology, it can blow your mind. To prove that, we're bringing you the story of Brad Carter, a 39-year-old musician and actor. Carter has appeared on various TV shows, including "CSI." Carter had brain surgery recently, and you have to see it to believe it. Thanks [...] Full Story | Top |
| Jury in Arias case gives up after no consensus Friday, May 24, 2013 01:52 AM PDT PHOENIX (AP) — As jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial filed one by one from the courtroom after a dramatic five months of gut-wrenching testimony and gruesome photographs, three women on the panel cried and one looked to the victim's family, mouthing the word, "Sorry." Full Story | Top |
| Taliban attack international compound in Afghan capital Friday, May 24, 2013 10:49 AM PDT  By Amie Ferris-Rotman and Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban militants launched a large-scale attack involving the United Nations in the center of the Afghan capital Kabul on Friday, sparking a five-hour battle with security forces. A plume of smoke hung over Kabul after the attack was launched, with the sound of .50 caliber heavy machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and sniper fire clearly audible throughout the city center as night fell. An Afghan police officer was killed and 10 other people were wounded during the attack, which began at 4 p.m. ... Full Story | Top |
| Apple's iPhone 5S: Everything we know so far [Updated] Friday, May 24, 2013 07:25 AM PDT  A "flatter" iOS 7? A new A7 processor? A fingerprint chip? Here, a handy guide to all the iRumors Full Story | Top |
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