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| This Is What Mitt Romney's White House Would Have Looked Like Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 07:46 AM PDT  If things had gone differently last November when President Obama soundly secured a second term over Republican nominee Mitt Romney, had Romney come away the victor, the White House would have received a massive Bain-ification day 1 makeover. Time's Zeke Miller reports the Republican commissioned the Romney Readiness Project, a 138-page report preparing the specific changes Romney would have exacted when he took over office from Obama on Inauguration Day had he succeeded. A team of around 500 worked for R2P, Inc., the official company name for his transition team. ... Full Story | Top |
| 3-D printing goes from sci-fi fantasy to reality Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 12:31 PM PDT  SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) — Invisalign, a San Jose company, uses 3-D printing to make each mouthful of customized, transparent braces. Mackenzies Chocolates, a confectioner in Santa Cruz, uses a 3-D printer to pump out chocolate molds. And earlier this year, Cornell University researchers used a 3-D printer, along with injections of a special collagen gel, to create a human-shaped ear. Full Story | Top |
| Issa Says Washington Directed IRS Targeting Out of Cincinnati Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 10:18 AM PDT  WASHINGTON — The IRS agents in Cincinnati who were involved in the targeting of conservative groups were "being directly ordered from Washington," Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said today, and he accused the White House of lying about the involvement of IRS headquarter officials in the... Full Story | Top |
| Vinegar cancer test saves lives, India study finds Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 02:53 PM PDT  MUMBAI, India (AP) — A simple vinegar test slashed cervical cancer death rates by one-third in a remarkable study of 150,000 women in the slums of India, where the disease is the top cancer killer of women. Full Story | Top |
| Chemist Hopes 'Artificial Leaf' Can Power Civilization Using Photosynthesis Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 10:36 AM PDT Imagine an artificial leaf that mimics photosynthesis, which lets plants harness energy from the sun. But this leaf would have the ability to power your homes and cars with clean energy using only sunlight and water. This is not some far-off idea of the future.... Full Story | Top |
| House panel: Report finds $50M for IRS conferences Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 07:48 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A government watchdog has found that the Internal Revenue Service spent about $50 million to hold at least 220 conferences for employees between 2010 and 2012, a House committee said Sunday. Full Story | Top |
| Neighbors Continue To Drop In Even After Couple Moves Out Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 10:01 PM PDT DEAR ABBY: We moved my elderly parents into an adult assisted-living center last year because they were no longer able to safely care for themselves or their home. They have now decided to put their house up for sale. Our problem is that sometimes when we have driven by the house to check that everything's OK, we have found some of the neighbors enjoying the afternoon sitting on my parents' front porch. The house has been shown three times, and one of the times another neighbor was in the backyard sitting on the deck. Another time, a neighbor walked into the house during a private showing. ... Full Story | Top |
| Female Israeli soldiers punished for racy photos Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 11:07 AM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Sunday that it has disciplined a group of female soldiers who posed for photos in underwear and combat gear and posted the images on Facebook. Full Story | Top |
| Schumer: Immigration bill to pass Senate by July 4 Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 10:59 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawmaker who helped negotiate a bipartisan bill to overhaul immigration predicted on Sunday that comprehensive legislation would overwhelmingly pass the Senate by July 4 while House Republicans cautioned that they would write their own version, one piece at a time. Full Story | Top |
| How a Myanmar tycoon is profiting from change Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 12:44 PM PDT  Zaw Zaw, one of Myanmar's most successful and notorious businessmen, likes to pick his way at odd hours around the hulking skeleton of his new hotel, rising beside Yangon's main airport road. The 366-room ... Full Story | Top |
| 'After Earth' Is Will Smith's Biggest Summer Bust Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 01:13 PM PDT  Welcome to the Box Office Report, where dinosaurs are always welcome in our summer movies, but Jaden Smith is not. Full Story | Top |
| Egypt: Court rules legislature illegally elected Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 06:49 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's highest court ruled on Sunday that the nation's Islamist-dominated legislature and constitutional panel were illegally elected, dealing a serious blow to the legal basis of the Islamists' hold on power. Full Story | Top |
| Cleanup goes on as storms move toward East Coast Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 09:53 AM PDT  EL RENO, Okla. (AP) — As the East Coast braced for the possibility of severe storms Sunday, the all-too-familiar task of cleaning up went on in Oklahoma after the weekend's violent weather claimed 10 lives there. Full Story | Top |
| Llama busts loose in Fla., subdued with taser Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 01:08 PM PDT  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — When Scooter the llama busted out of his penned-in yard in Tallahassee, it took three county sheriff's deputies and a taser gun to get him back in again. Full Story | Top |
| Tebow rumors hint at the end of an extraordinary career Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 05:16 AM PDT A report in ESPN The Magazine is suggesting that people close to Tim Tebow are saying that his National Football career is probably over. If the report — and the sentiment — are true, then Tim Tebow could be the first professional football player to lose his job because he was too popular. Full Story | Top |
| Big city, tiny apartment: small-scale living is new trend in U.S. Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 06:41 AM PDT  By Elaine Porterfield SEATTLE (Reuters) - Aaron McConnell doesn't mind sharing a kitchen with seven neighbors. He's fine in living quarters with just enough room for a twin bed, a corner desk and little else. Closets? Forget about it - he stores his clothing and other possessions on shelves and hooks. McConnell's small-scale home life is part of a hot trend in U.S. real estate - micro apartments. "I like living in a community," he says. "It's kind of fun, very social. ... Full Story | Top |
| Hezbollah, Syrian rebels in worst clash in Lebanon Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 12:46 PM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels and Hezbollah guerrillas battled Sunday in their worst clashes yet inside Lebanon, a new sign that the civil war in Syria is increasingly destabilizing its fragile neighbor. Full Story | Top |
| How Crazy Is Micheal Douglas' Cunnilingus Cancer Link, Really? Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 03:26 PM PDT  Apparently cunnilingus causes cancer. That's according to actor Michael Douglas, who isn't as crazy as he sounds, according to science. But don't go using that as an excuse: it's only dangerous for people already suffering from human papillomavirus. Full Story | Top |
| Congressmen find few Boston attack clues in Russia Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 04:13 PM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — The head of a U.S. congressional delegation said Sunday that its meetings in Russia showed there was "nothing specific" that could have helped prevent the Boston Marathon bombings, but that the two countries need to work more closely on joint security threats. Full Story | Top |
| Republican lawmaker says IRS targeting likely led by Washington Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 03:29 PM PDT  By Patrick Temple-West WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican U.S. congressman investigating the Internal Revenue Service's scrutiny of conservative groups said on Sunday the targeting was likely directed from Washington, a claim quickly rejected by a top Congressional Democrat involved in the probe. ... Full Story | Top |
| Wildfire: NM fights blazes; Calif. area evacuated Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 04:10 AM PDT  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Firefighting teams in California and New Mexico are battling early season wildfires that have blackened thousands of acres and threatened homes and building, spurring numerous evacuations. Full Story | Top |
| Hezbollah, Syrian rebels clash on Lebanese soil Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 07:19 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels fought with the gunmen from the Hezbollah militia in a deadly clash on Lebanese soil, a security official and local media said Sunday, in the latest sign Syria's civil war is spilling over the country's borders. Full Story | Top |
| Southern Calif wildfire explodes in size overnight Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 09:02 AM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — A fire that destroyed at least five structures and threatened hundreds of others exploded in size overnight, burning dangerously close to two communities north of Los Angeles. Full Story | Top |
| Despite hot issues, lawmakers meet public less Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 05:46 AM PDT  FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) — From her front row seat at the Fort Dodge Public Library, pugnacious retiree Betty Nostrom wasted no time grilling the U.S. senator standing before 80 constituents over how he was investigating the deaths of four Americans in Libya last fall. Full Story | Top |
| Damaging storms moving through east, south Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 08:35 PM PDT  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Damaging winds flattened trees and utility wires and knocked out power in parts of northern New England on Sunday, flights were delayed in New York City and a tornado touched down in South Carolina as the East Coast weathered the remnants of violent storms that claimed 13 lives in Oklahoma. Full Story | Top |
| China drawn to Mexico's opening economy Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 09:36 AM PDT  MEXICO CITY (AP) — China has invested heavily in resource-rich Latin America in recent years, striking major trade deals with governments from Venezuela to Argentina. Now its president is reaching out to one of the few countries in the region where ties have been slow to develop: Mexico. Full Story | Top |
| Iran's Arak reactor looms into Israeli, Western view Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 01:20 AM PDT  By Fredrik Dahl and Dan Williams VIENNA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Iran aims to start a reactor next year which the West fears could arm an atomic bomb; Israel, which has bombed such construction sites around the Middle East before, may try to stop the plant being completed. The timetable for the planned start-up of the Arak heavy-water research plant is closely watched: Israeli and Western experts say any attacker would probably prefer to act before it becomes operational - to avoid generating radioactive fallout. The Islamic Republic says it will make isotopes for medical and agricultural use. ... Full Story | Top |
| David Plouffe: IRS Targeting 'Was Not a Political Pursuit' Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 10:31 AM PDT Former White House senior adviser and Democratic strategist David Plouffe fought back against assertions from GOP strategist and former Deputy Chief of Staff to George W. Bush Karl Rove that the IRS's targeting of conservative groups was a political pursuit driven by Democrats. "There's been... Full Story | Top |
| Thousands take to streets in Turkey, clash with police Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 04:13 PM PDT  By Jonathon Burch and Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Turkey's four biggest cities on Sunday and clashed with riot police firing tear gas on the third day of the fiercest anti-government demonstrations in years. The din of car horns and residents banging pots and pans from balconies in support of the protests resonated across neighborhoods in Istanbul and Ankara late into the night, as hundreds of demonstrators skirmished with riot police. ... Full Story | Top |
| Central Europe hit by floods after days of rain Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 02:06 PM PDT  BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in parts of central Europe issued disaster warnings and scrambled to reinforce flood defenses Sunday as rivers swelled by days of heavy rain threatened to burst their banks. Full Story | Top |
| Arianna Huffington: Rep. Bachmann was a 'colorful distraction' Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 12:11 PM PDT  Below you can find some of the notable comments made Sunday on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." Our powerhouse roundtable guests includedformer deputy chief of staff and senior adviser to President George W. Bush Karl Rove, Bloomberg TV contributor and former Obama White House senior... Full Story | Top |
| GOP argues with itself over Syria Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 11:33 AM PDT Republicans are arguing over what the US should do about Syria – with Democrats, of course, but more significantly with themselves Full Story | Top |
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