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| 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 |
| U.S. senator McCain pictured with Syrian rebel kidnapper: paper Thursday, May 30, 2013 10:21 AM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S. Senator John McCain was photographed during a trip to Syria with a man implicated in the kidnapping by Syrian rebels of 11 Lebanese Shi'ite pilgrims a year ago, a Lebanese newspaper said on Thursday. McCain, a Republican, has been an outspoken advocate for U.S. military aid to the rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad and made a short, highly publicised trip to meet rebel commanders in Syria three days ago. He has insisted that the United States could locate the "right people" to help among rebel ranks infiltrated with radicalised Islamists. ... 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 |
| Lebanese TV: Syria has received Russian missiles Thursday, May 30, 2013 04:27 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — Syria has received the first shipment of Russian missiles that are part of a more sophisticated air defense system, President Bashar Assad told Lebanon's Hezbollah-owned TV channel, according to remarks released by the station Thursday. 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 |
| Huge Asteroid 1998 QE2 Sails By Earth on Friday Thursday, May 30, 2013 06:39 AM PDT  A massive asteroid nearly 2 miles wide will zip by Earth on Friday (May 31), in a cosmic event that has grabbed the attention of stargazers, scientists and even White House officials. The asteroid poses no threat of hitting Earth during the flyby, NASA officials assure. Full Story | Top |
| No charge against Chinese mother of baby in sewer Thursday, May 30, 2013 06:34 AM PDT BEIJING (AP) — The mother of a Chinese baby boy who was rescued from a sewer pipe beneath a restroom shortly after birth is unlikely to face criminal charges because authorities concluded he fell into the toilet accidentally, local officials and media reports said Thursday. Full Story | Top |
| Maine teens wary of social media after homicide Thursday, May 30, 2013 03:26 PM PDT  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The death of a 15-year-old Maine girl allegedly killed in a bizarre kidnapping plot involving a fake Facebook profile has prompted some of her classmates to scale back their social media use — or ditch it altogether. Full Story | Top |
| Boston bombing suspect is walking, mother says Thursday, May 30, 2013 02:02 PM PDT  MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) — The remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has recovered enough to walk and assured his parents in a phone conversation that he and his slain brother were innocent, their mother told The Associated Press on Thursday. Full Story | Top |
| HBO's VICE crew surprised by North Korean leader Thursday, May 30, 2013 04:39 AM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — The documentary crew that accompanied Dennis Rodman to North Korea over the winter says it had no idea it would meet the reclusive country's young leader, Kim Jong Un, until he showed up at a basketball game it was filming. Full Story | Top |
| Bear euthanized after chasing dog, attacking woman Thursday, May 30, 2013 05:16 AM PDT WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Environmental authorities say they euthanized a 200-pound black bear that attempted to chase a dog into a Connecticut home. Full Story | Top |
| Friend Keeping Confidences Feels He's About To Crack Wednesday, May 29, 2013 10:01 PM PDT DEAR ABBY: I am friendly with a married couple. The husband, "Grant," is my best friend and we talk about everything. His wife, "Sharon," and I are equally close. Their wedding date was last summer.I have known for a while that Grant didn't want to get married. He did it to please everyone around him. Sharon, however, was elated. He hoped that after the wedding his feelings would change. Now they have been married for nine months Grant tells me he can't continue on, that he is unhappy and no longer wants to be married.I have begged and pleaded with him to level with Sharon. ... Full Story | Top |
| Amanda Bynes: 'I'm Not Crazy' Thursday, May 30, 2013 06:54 AM PDT  Amanda Bynes might be the subject of numerous headlines, seemingly constant Twitter feuds and mass speculation about the state of her wellbeing - but according to the retired actress, she's all good. Full Story | Top |
| AP Exclusive: Soldier to admit Afghan massacre Thursday, May 30, 2013 02:50 AM PDT  SEATTLE (AP) — Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was "crazed" and "broken" when he slipped away from his remote southern Afghanistan outpost and attacked mud-walled compounds in two slumbering villages nearby. 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 |
| 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 |
| Supporters of U.S. immigration bill unsettled by Rubio message Wednesday, May 29, 2013 10:11 PM PDT  By Caren Bohan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senator Marco Rubio's repeated criticism of parts of the sweeping U.S. immigration bill he helped craft has unsettled immigration reform advocates and others who support its passage. Rubio, a Cuban-American lawmaker from Florida seen as a possible 2016 presidential contender, has consistently defended the bill's centerpiece - providing legal status for roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ancient Egyptians Crafted Jewelry From Meteorites Thursday, May 30, 2013 08:58 AM PDT  An ancient Egyptian iron bead found inside a 5,000-year-old tomb was crafted from a meteorite, new research shows. Full Story | Top |
| Boy, 10, finds $10,000 in Kansas City hotel room Thursday, May 30, 2013 01:40 PM PDT KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 10-year-old boy who found $10,000 in a drawer at a Kansas City hotel where he was staying with his dad turned the money over to police. Full Story | Top |
| Karl Rove Was Feeding the Romneys False Hope on Election Night Thursday, May 30, 2013 09:10 AM PDT  The Romneys clung to the belief that they could still win Ohio — and the White House — late into election night, even though exit polls across the country showed they were toast, as public polls had shown the week before. Karl Rove, too, refused to believe Ohio was lost, even after Fox News' own decision desk called the state for President Obama. Whose fault is that? The old story, reported right after the election, was that Rove was relaying the concerns of the Romney campaign on-air that night. ... 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 |
| Ex-Microsoft manager plans to create first U.S. marijuana brand Thursday, May 30, 2013 03:44 PM PDT  By Jonathan Kaminsky SEATTLE (Reuters) - A former Microsoft executive plans to create the first U.S. national marijuana brand, with cannabis he hopes to eventually import legally from Mexico, and said he was kicking off his business by acquiring medical pot dispensaries in three U.S. states. Jamen Shively, a former Microsoft corporate strategy manager, said he envisions his Seattle-based enterprise becoming the leader in both recreational and medical cannabis - much like Starbucks is the dominant name in coffee, he said. ... Full Story | Top |
| OSU head jabs Notre Dame, Catholics Thursday, May 30, 2013 11:42 AM PDT  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The president of Ohio State University said Notre Dame was never invited to join the Big Ten because the university's priests are not good partners, joking that "those damn Catholics" can't be trusted, according to a recording of a meeting he attended late last year. 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 |
| Ohio State's Mormon President Really Doesn't Like Catholics Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:19 PM PDT  So much for religious tolerance! E. Gordon Gee, the handsomely-paid 69-year-old president of (The) Ohio State University, was caught disparaging Catholic leaders of the University of Notre Dame on audio tapes recorded in December and made public by the Associated Press on Thursday. During a meeting with his university's Athletic Council, Gee characterized Notre Dame's clergy as as untrustworthy and sinful, eliciting laughter from other Ohio State leaders present. ... Full Story | Top |
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