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| Kris Jenner Reveals Her Take On Kim Kardashian & Kanye West's Unique Baby Name Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 11:23 AM PDT  Kris Jenner stopped by Access Hollywood Live on Thursday, where the reality TV star dished on everything from daughter Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's new baby, the future of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," husband Bruce Jenner's alone time at their beach house and her hew talk show! Full Story | Top |
| Friend: Trayvon Martin encounter racially charged Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 04:52 PM PDT  SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman's defense attorney insisted during several testy exchanges with an important prosecution witness Thursday that Trayvon Martin injected race into a confrontation with the neighborhood watch volunteer and insinuated the young woman was not believable because of inconsistencies in her story. Full Story | Top |
| Immigration reform bill passes Senate, moves to skeptical House Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 01:30 PM PDT  The Senate passed a sweeping immigration reform bill on Thursday afternoon, after a recently hashed-out compromise on border security helped persuade a total of 14 Republicans to vote for the measure. The bill, which passed 68-32, could face a steep uphill climb in the Republican-controlled House. The vote brings Congress a step closer to passing [...] Full Story | Top |
| Chase speaking at Gandolfini's funeral Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 07:41 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Mourners gathered Thursday for the funeral of James Gandolfini and the creator of "The Sopranos" is due to memorialize the actor at the ceremony. Full Story | Top |
| Obama clashes with African host over gay rights Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 09:35 AM PDT  DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday praised the Supreme Court's ruling on same-sex marriage as a "victory for American democracy" but clashed with his African host over gay rights in a sign of how far the movement has to go internationally. Full Story | Top |
| Where do 700,000 displaced Syrians go? An interactive map Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 05:40 AM PDT The world population of refugees grew by nearly 100,000 people in 2012, according to detailed data the United Nations released last week, an increase driven in large part by the crisis in Syria. Separate conflicts in Mali and the Democratic Republic of the Congo combined to make 2012 the worst year for refugees in two [...] Full Story | Top |
| James Gandolfini Funeral: Joe Pantoliano Remembers His Sopranos Co-Star & Friend Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 01:26 PM PDT  James Gandolfini's memorial service was held in New York City on Thursday and "Sopranos" co-star and friend Joe Pantoliano spoke to Access Hollywood about remembering the late actor. Full Story | Top |
| ROLL CALL: Vin Diesel Wanted By Marvel Studios Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 09:29 AM PDT  Plus, which actress is slamming "The Bling Ring"? And, a reality star and her DK boyfriend spit, again! Your Daily Dispatch of Celebrity Shenanigans! Full Story | Top |
| Real-life ‘Star Trek’ Tricorder Could Save Lives Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 10:11 AM PDT After his young son fell 36 feet from a window in 2005, Walter De Brouwer spent the better part of a year at the hospital. Nelson, his son, had endured severe brain trauma. In addition to a lengthy rehabilitation, Nelson required vigilant monitoring; his vital signs were checked daily. For De Brouwer, a 55-year-old Belgian [...] Full Story | Top |
| Target cuts ties with Deen; drugmaker distances Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 03:09 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Paula Deen's multimillion-dollar merchandise and media empire continues to unravel following revelations that she used racial slurs in the past. Full Story | Top |
| Flavor experiment: Wash. farmer feeds pot to pigs Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 01:50 AM PDT  SNOHOMISH, Wash. (AP) — The white van with tinted windows pulled up to the driveway with its cargo - cardboard boxes full of marijuana. And the customers eagerly awaited it, grunting and snorting. Full Story | Top |
| Israelis brand selves in solidarity with animals Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 01:56 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — Sasha Boojor squirmed and struggled as black-clad masked men yanked him out of a cage and branded him with a hot iron. While the smell of seared flesh was disturbing, he said, this shocking and painful act was worth it: He was showing solidarity with animals that suffer branding on farms around the world. Full Story | Top |
| Relief, resolve greets California marriage ruling Wednesday, Jun 26, 2013 09:52 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Thousands celebrated in the streets of San Francisco Wednesday night after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for gay marriages to resume in California following a bitter, five-year legal battle. But the nation's most populous state might have to wait at least 25 days before joining the 12 other states where gay couples already have the right to wed. Full Story | Top |
| Christian Pundits Say They're the Real Victims in the Gay Marriage Fight Now Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 07:10 AM PDT  The Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional because, in part, the court found the law was created to express disapproval of a class of citizens: gay couples. But in doing so, the court created a new class of citizens to demonize: conservative Christians. At least, that's according to some conservative commentators and the religious right. Full Story | Top |
| Woman asked to prove she’s female to get driver’s license Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 09:51 AM PDT A 37-year-old Georgia woman whose birth certificate mistakenly labeled her as male had to jump through some major hoops to get her driver's license renewed. Fox 5 Atlanta spoke with Nakia Grimes of Clayton County about her odyssey to get the typo cleared up. Grimes said she never really had occasion to look closely at [...] Full Story | Top |
| Special Report: Myanmar gives official blessing to anti-Muslim monks Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 01:15 AM PDT  By Andrew R.C. Marshall YANGON (Reuters) - The Buddhist extremist movement in Myanmar, known as 969, portrays itself as a grassroots creed. Its chief proponent, a monk named Wirathu, was once jailed by the former military junta for anti-Muslim violence and once called himself the "Burmese bin Laden." But a Reuters examination traces 969's origins to an official in the dictatorship that once ran Myanmar, and which is the direct predecessor of today's reformist government. ... Full Story | Top |
| Senate passes sweeping immigration legislation Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 04:59 PM PDT  By Richard Cowan and Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate approved a landmark immigration bill on Thursday that would provide millions of undocumented immigrants a chance to become citizens, but the leader of the House of Representatives said the measure was dead on arrival in the House. In a rare show of bipartisanship, the Democratic-controlled Senate passed the bill by a vote of 68-32, with 14 of the Senate's 46 Republicans joining all 52 Democrats and two independents in support of the bill. ... Full Story | Top |
| Photos show rare jaguar roams S. Ariz. mountains Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 10:40 AM PDT  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — New photographs show that a rare male jaguar apparently has been roaming in Southern Arizona mountains for at least nine months, indicating the animals are occasionally moving into their historic range from northern Mexico and into the American Southwest. Full Story | Top |
| In Africa, Obama lauds democracy but urges progress on gay rights Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 07:53 AM PDT  By Jeff Mason and Daniel Flynn DAKAR (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, kicking off a long-awaited African tour, lauded a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage as a victory for democracy and urged African nations to end discrimination against homosexuals. In only his second visit to Africa since taking office, Obama hailed the advance of democracy there and said he was looking at ways to extend the AGOA free trade agreement, due to expire in 2015, to create more jobs on the world's poorest continent. ... Full Story | Top |
| Defense challenges testimony of woman on phone with Trayvon Martin Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 04:32 PM PDT  By Barbara Liston SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - A woman who was on the phone with unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin moments before he was shot by a neighborhood watchman rejected attempts by a lawyer in a Florida court to depict Martin as the aggressor in a struggle that ended in his death. A former resident of the gated community where Martin was killed also testified on Thursday that she saw the watch volunteer, George Zimmerman, on top of Martin during the fatal encounter. ... Full Story | Top |
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