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| Supreme Court strikes down DOMA; rules it interferes with states, ‘dignity’ of same-sex marriages Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 10:57 AM PDT Click image to see more photos. (Noah Berger/AP Photo) The Supreme Court released two major decisions expanding gay rights across the country on Wednesday as hordes of cheering demonstrators greeted the news outside. The justices struck down a federal law barring the recognition of same-sex marriage in a split decision, ruling that the law violates [...] Full Story | Top |
| London ‘levitating’ magician’s secret revealed Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 08:02 AM PDT Sad news, levitation fans: Dynamo, the magician who caused a stir in London earlier this week by appearing to levitate alongside a double-decker bus, was not, in fact, levitating. It was an illusion. According to a crowdsourced investigation conducted on Australia's news.com.au Facebook page, Dynamo's "arm" was actually a steel prosthetic that was fastened to [...] Full Story | Top |
| Texas abortion bill falls after challenge Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 04:22 AM PDT  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Despite barely beating a midnight deadline, hundreds of jeering protesters helped stop Texas lawmakers from passing one of the toughest abortion measures in the country. Full Story | Top |
| Trayvon Martin's friend describes final phone call Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 03:00 PM PDT SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A friend who was on the phone with 17-year-old Trayvon Martin moments before he was fatally shot by George Zimmerman testified that she heard the Miami teen shout, "Get off! Get off!" before his telephone went dead. Full Story | Top |
| New Jersey man falls into coma, wakes up in Poland Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 07:43 AM PDT Sixty-nine-year-old Wladyslaw Haniszewski had lived in the U.S. for about 30 years. But when the New Jersey resident fell into a coma he awoke to find himself in his native country of Poland. The New York Daily News reports that Haniszewski fell victim to a growing phenomenon in which uninsured immigrants are deported by U.S. hospitals [...] Full Story | Top |
| Texas carries out its 500th execution since 1982 Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 06:24 PM PDT  HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas marked a solemn moment in criminal justice Wednesday evening, executing its 500th inmate since it resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982. Full Story | Top |
| No More Chemo: Doctors Say It’s Not So Far-Fetched Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 02:45 AM PDT There's a revolution occurring in cancer treatment, and it could mean the end of chemotherapy. Full Story | Top |
| Cardinal Timothy Dolan: ‘Today is a tragic day for marriage and our nation’ Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 11:15 AM PDT  Click image to see more photos. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) While supporters of marriage equality celebrated the Supreme Court's historic decisions on gay marriage on Wednesday, religious conservatives slammed the rulings and vowed to continue their fight against same-sex unions. "Today is a tragic day for marriage and our nation," Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Archbishop Salvatore [...] Full Story | Top |
| Undocumented: The faces behind the immigration debate Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 04:03 AM PDT Power Players In many ways, Jose Antonio Vargas is an American success story. He's a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker. There's only one problem: he didn't immigrate to the United States legally. When Vargas was 12 years old, his mother sent him from the Philippines to live with his grandparents, who are naturalized [...] Full Story | Top |
| Al-Qaida said to be changing its ways after leaks Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 02:03 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to salvage their surveillance of al-Qaida and other terrorists who are working frantically to change how they communicate after a National Security Agency contractor leaked details of two NSA spying programs. It's an electronic game of cat-and-mouse that could have deadly consequences if a plot is missed or a terrorist operative manages to drop out of sight. Full Story | Top |
| Cronut Creator Dominique Ansel Isn’t a One-Pastry Chef Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 09:56 AM PDT Time in the pastry world can be divided into two distinct periods: Before the Cronut and In the Cronut Era. Before the Cronut, a hybrid treat created this past May by New York City-based patissier Dominique Ansel, consumers had to settle for the pedestrian doughnut, or the highfalutin'-but-somehow-unsatisfying croissant. By marrying these two standards, Ansel [...] Full Story | Top |
| Gay rights supporters erupt in cheers over ruling Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 12:07 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Supporters of same-sex marriage burst into cheers, wept openly and chanted "DOMA is Dead" outside the Supreme Court as word reached them that the justices had struck down a key provision of the federal law defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Full Story | Top |
| UN sounds alarm on widespread designer drug use Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 06:25 AM PDT  VIENNA (AP) — VIENNA — The U.N. drug control agency on Wednesday sounded the alarm on the spread of designer drugs, which are sold openly and produce legal but sometimes deadly highs, while reporting that global drug use generally remains stable. Full Story | Top |
| Courteney Cox Dating Cougar Town Co-Star Brian Van Holt Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 04:17 PM PDT  It looks like on-screen romance has blossomed into the real thing for "Cougar Town" co-stars Courteney Cox and Brian Van Holt. The pair has been dating for at least the past 10 months, a source reveals to Access Hollywood , confirming the longtime rumors surrounding the stars. Full Story | Top |
| Paula Deen's 'Today' appearance ends in tears Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 07:36 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Paula Deen dissolved into tears during a "Today" show interview Wednesday about her admission that she used a racial slur in the past, saying anyone in the audience who's never said anything they've regretted should pick up a rock and throw it at her head. Full Story | Top |
| Texas Senate GOP passes restrictive abortion bill Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 11:22 PM PDT  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Amid the deafening roar of abortion rights supporters, Texas Republicans huddled around the Senate podium to pass new abortion restrictions, but whether the vote was cast before or after midnight is in dispute. Full Story | Top |
| Scalia: 'High-Handed' Kennedy Has Declared Us 'Enemies of the Human Race' Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 06:33 AM PDT Dissenting from this morning's opinion on the Defense of Marriage Act, Justice Antonin Scalia – as expected – holds nothing back. Full Story | Top |
| Zimmerman's neighbor says she heard boy's cry Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 11:35 AM PDT  SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Two of George Zimmerman's neighbors testified Wednesday to hearing howls and shouts for help in the moments before he fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, with one claiming the cries came from a boy and the other saying the neighborhood watch volunteer was on top of the Miami teen during their fight. Full Story | Top |
| Gay Marriage Ruling Forces Pastor into Disagreeable Choice Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 09:03 AM PDT  Yahoo News asked Americans who are tangibly affected by the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage decisions to react to Wednesday's rulings. Here's one perspective. Full Story | Top |
| Why Warp Drives Aren't Just Science Fiction Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 08:02 AM PDT  Astrophysicist Eric Davis is one of the leaders in the field of faster-than-light (FTL) space travel. But for Davis, humanity's potential to explore the vastness of space at warp speed is not science fiction. Full Story | Top |
| Paula Deen dropped by Wal-Mart after 'Today' tears Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 02:39 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Paula Deen was dropped by Wal-Mart and her name was stripped from four buffet restaurants on Wednesday, hours after she went on television and tearfully defended herself amid the mounting fallout over her admission of using a racial slur. Full Story | Top |
| IRS official refuses to testify before Congress Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 07:06 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Internal Revenue Service official on Wednesday invoked his right not to answer questions at a congressional hearing, a day after a Republican report accused the official of inappropriately awarding federal contracts worth millions of dollars. At a U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, Gregory Roseman, an IRS official involved in awarding IRS contracts, repeated four times that he would not answer questions. He was then excused from the hearing. ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama in Senegal for first leg of Africa trip Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 02:50 PM PDT  DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — President Barack Obama opened a weeklong trip to Africa on Wednesday, a three-country visit aimed at overcoming disappointment on the continent over the first black U.S. president's lack of personal engagement during his first term. Full Story | Top |
| Henry Cavill Throws Kryptonite at 'Justice League' Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 06:51 AM PDT  Man of Steel was the start of Warner Bros. and DC Comics trying to build a Marvel-like movie empire, and a movie of the Justice League has always seemed to be one of the goals. But Henry Cavill, the British hunk and apparent World of Warcraft fan who plays Superman, wants his overlords to take it slow. Full Story | Top |
| Commentary: Let's Get Religion Out of the Civil Marriage Business Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 02:20 PM PDT Yahoo News asked Americans who are tangibly affected by the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage decisions to react to Wednesday's rulings. Here's one perspective. Full Story | Top |
| Al Qaeda Has Changed How It Talks Since the NSA Leaks, but How Much? Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 08:35 AM PDT  Following the Edward Snowden leaks that detailed a large part of the process by which the U.S. government's largest intelligence agency spies on terrorists — and American citizens — Al Qaeda has reportedly (and predictably) started tweaking the way it communicates, but in a way the doesn't necessarily make it harder for the National Security Agency to track them. ... Full Story | Top |
| Senate defeats GOP objection to immigration bill Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 09:23 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has voted down a GOP attempt to block immigration legislation offering eventual U.S. citizenship to millions of people. Full Story | Top |
| Endgame at hand for immigration bill in Senate Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 08:09 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is poised to push landmark immigration legislation across a few final hurdles ahead of passage as early as Thursday of the bill opening the door to U.S. citizenship for millions. Full Story | Top |
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