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| Man gets 11 pounds of pot in mail by mistake Monday, Jun 03, 2013 06:48 AM PDT It sounds like a stoner's dream, but it's been a bit of a nightmare for a California man who recently got an unexpected FedEx delivery: 11 pounds of marijuana. George Burton, from Sacramento, Calif., said the FedEx Kinkos box—with his name and return address handwritten on it—was left on his porch Thursday. Burton and his [...] Full Story | Top |
| Video captures Jasper, Texas, police officers beating woman Monday, Jun 03, 2013 01:45 PM PDT [Updated at 5:50 p.m. ET] A southeast Texas town with a history of racial unrest on Monday fired two white police officers recently captured on video slamming a black woman's head into a countertop and wrestling her to the ground. "The amount of force used was abominable," the woman's attorney, Cade Bernsen, told Yahoo News. [...] Full Story | Top |
| DNA tests reveal man wrongly ID’d as kidnapped baby from 1964 Monday, Jun 03, 2013 08:14 AM PDT Paul Fronczak is having an identity crisis. The Nevada man, who back in 1964 was determined to be the kidnapped baby of Chester and Dora Fronczak, has learned he's not, in fact, their biological son, according to a CBS2 New York report. The story is this: In 1964, at the now-demolished Michael Reese Hospital in [...] Full Story | Top |
| Man hunting for pythons finds mysterious jewelry Monday, Jun 03, 2013 02:56 PM PDT  MIAMI (AP) — Like most people who signed up for Florida's official Burmese python hunt last winter, Mark Rubinstein slogged a couple times through the Everglades without ever seeing one of the elusive snakes. Full Story | Top |
| Chinese city plans to fine unmarried mothers Monday, Jun 03, 2013 06:39 AM PDT  A Chinese city's plan to fine mothers who have a child out of wedlock has sparked criticism that the policy is discriminatory and could lead to an increase in abandoned babies. One expert said Monday that ... Full Story | Top |
| Kid Has Awesome Recovery to Embarrassing Band Moment Monday, Jun 03, 2013 10:30 AM PDT When it's your moment to shine, you want to do your absolute best —especially when that moment is happening publicly in front of a crowd of people. Let's just say you're performing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in a band, and your job is to play the cymbals. What happens if your instrument breaks? How do you [...] Full Story | Top |
| Biden on mental illness: There’s nothing to be ashamed of Monday, Jun 03, 2013 06:34 AM PDT Vice President Joe Biden closed out a mental health conference at the White House Monday afternoon with a message of support to those affected by mental illness. "Let's use this moment to send a message to tens of millions of Americans, especially the young people and parents of young people all over this country," Biden [...] Full Story | Top |
| Chemist Hopes 'Artificial Leaf' Can Power Civilization Using Photosynthesis Monday, Jun 03, 2013 02:46 PM 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 |
| Instagram User Digitally Adds Himself to Super-Realistic Encounters With Celebrities Monday, Jun 03, 2013 10:46 AM PDT Thanks to Twitter, Instagram and endless entertainment blogs, it's nearly impossible to not keep up with your favorite celebrities. You can find out what restaurants they're eating at, where they're shopping and how they spend their spare time. One Instagram user figured out a way to enjoy time with the celebrities who are always trending. [...] Full Story | Top |
| No, Trayvon Martin Didn't Film Homeless Men Getting Beaten — He Filmed a Bike Monday, Jun 03, 2013 06:41 AM PDT  Ahead of next week's start to his murder trial, the strategy of George Zimmerman's defense team has been to throw Trayvon Martin's character into question by leaking "evidence" that stirs up a negative reaction in the press and on social media, even if the Florida courts find it irrelevant. With most of the damage already done, Zimmerman's attorneys now insist that Martin's controversial cellphone video, which they introduced as evidence of the victim taping his friends as they beat up a homeless man, wasn't as controversial as they made it sound. Full Story | Top |
| IRS woes grow with report of conference spending Monday, Jun 03, 2013 12:25 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service, already under fire after officials disclosed that the agency targeted conservative groups, faces increased scrutiny because of an inspector general's report that it spent about $50 million to hold at least 220 conferences for employees between 2010 and 2012. Full Story | Top |
| What If Healthy People Don't Want to Buy Obamacare? Monday, Jun 03, 2013 11:23 AM PDT  With less than a year until the Affordable Care Act starts to really kick in, there is a growing concern the group of people who are most needed to make the plan work properly are the ones most likely opt out. Full Story | Top |
| A Blast of a Find: 12 New Alaskan Volcanoes Monday, Jun 03, 2013 05:56 AM PDT  In Alaska, scores of volcanoes and strange lava flows have escaped scrutiny for decades, shrouded by lush forests and hidden under bobbing coastlines. Full Story | Top |
| Report by College Republicans details ways to capture youth vote Monday, Jun 03, 2013 12:24 PM PDT It will take a lot more than Facebook and Kid Rock to get young people on the Republican bandwagon. In the months since the 2012 presidential election, Republicans have acknowledged they have their work cut out for them in winning millennials—the generational tag given to those born between 1980 and 2000. On Monday, the College [...] Full Story | Top |
| Daughter Is Sick And Tired Of Caring For Ailing Relatives Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 10:02 PM PDT DEAR ABBY: I took care of my grandmother until her death a few years ago, and now my mother is very sick. I feel angry because I'm only 23, and it seems all I have ever done is take care of sick people. I sit at the hospital sometimes just fuming.Mom was a smoker and now she has cancer. I keep thinking if she hadn't smoked, she wouldn't be in this fix, and neither would I. I always visit her and try to do everything she asks of me, and yet I think I'm starting to hate her. I dread going to the hospital, sitting there and waiting for test results, etc. ... Full Story | Top |
| New IRS head says taxpayers no longer trust agency Monday, Jun 03, 2013 03:18 PM PDT  His agency under relentless fire, the new head of the Internal Revenue Service acknowledged to Congress on Monday that American taxpayers no longer trust the IRS amid a growing number of scandals — from ... Full Story | Top |
| In dissent, Scalia joins with court’s liberals to blast police DNA testing without warrant Monday, Jun 03, 2013 11:42 AM PDT The Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision Monday that police may take a DNA swab from people arrested for crimes without first getting a warrant to do so. In an unusual twist, the court's conservative firebrand, Antonin Scalia, joined three of his liberal colleagues in a scathing dissent that warns the court's decision paves [...] Full Story | Top |
| Court: Police can take DNA swabs from arrestees Monday, Jun 03, 2013 10:20 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday said police can routinely take DNA from people they arrest, equating a DNA cheek swab to other common jailhouse procedures like fingerprinting. Full Story | Top |
| Obama administration disputes charge attorney general lied Monday, Jun 03, 2013 03:23 PM PDT  By Steve Holland and David Ingram WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday pushed backed against Republican accusations that Attorney General Eric Holder lied during a congressional appearance last month about his involvement in leak investigations that involved reporters. Republican lawmakers have called Holder's credibility into question by alleging that he failed to tell the truth in testimony to the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee about the Justice Department's secret seizures of journalist records. ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama calls for end to mental illness stigma Monday, Jun 03, 2013 01:33 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Monday that he wants to end the stigma of mental illness and enrolled the star power of actors Bradley Cooper and Glenn Close at a White House conference organized in response to the December shootings at a Connecticut elementary school. Full Story | Top |
| Israel to send African migrants to third country Monday, Jun 03, 2013 01:18 PM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has reached an agreement to send thousands of African migrants to an unidentified country, according to a court document obtained Monday, a plan that has elicited criticism over its potential harm to the migrants. Full Story | Top |
| Two congressmen insist you aren’t guaranteed a right to vote Monday, Jun 03, 2013 07:00 AM PDT Two members of the House of Representatives insist the Constitution doesn't guarantee you the right to vote—and one leading fact-checking group says they may be correct, on a technicality. Full Story | Top |
| Paid liar? Jay Carney refuses to respond to Issa’s accusation Monday, Jun 03, 2013 10:27 AM PDT House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, a fierce critic of the Obama administration, branded White House press secretary Jay Carney a "paid liar" this past weekend, accusing him of covering up what Issa believes was a coordinated effort to use the Internal Revenue Service to target conservatives. But when given the opportunity to respond to [...] Full Story | Top |
| Woman finally goes to prom after being held captive for a decade Monday, Jun 03, 2013 09:57 AM PDT Tanya Kach is owed some good times—including her missed prom. According to local station WTAE, the 31-year-old Pittsburgh woman, kidnapped in 1996 at the age of 14 and found in 2006, finally got that chance, attending the local Second Chance Prom thrown by radio station Star 100.7 for people 21 and over on Saturday night. [...] Full Story | Top |
| U.S. says WikiLeaks soldier driven by 'arrogance' Monday, Jun 03, 2013 02:25 PM PDT By Ian Simpson FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - Military prosecutors said arrogance drove the U.S. soldier who went on trial on Monday accused of the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history through the WikiLeaks anti-secrecy website three years ago. But at the opening of the court-martial of Private First Class Bradley Manning, 25, his defense lawyer portrayed him as a naive young soldier who had leaked the documents, combat videos and other data because he wanted to reveal the human cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. ... Full Story | Top |
| Fort Hood suspect to represent himself at trial Monday, Jun 03, 2013 04:32 PM PDT  FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood rampage hinted Monday that he would try to justify the attack, revealing for the first time his defense strategy after a military judge said he could represent himself — and question the soldiers he is accused of shooting — during his upcoming trial. Full Story | Top |
| Christie Stakes High in Filling Lautenberg's Senate Seat, Likely to End Up in Court Monday, Jun 03, 2013 04:42 PM PDT  Who Will Chris Christie Appoint in New Jersey? Could Lead to Political Drama Full Story | Top |
| The Upside of Michael Douglas and the Cunnilingus Confession Monday, Jun 03, 2013 02:43 PM PDT Everybody has something to say about Michael Douglas's celebrity-sex-health disclosure on Sunday, from yuck to yahoo, and I presume he wanted it that way. It's hard to imagine the actor didn't know his intimation to The Guardian's Xan Brooks that his throat cancer was caused by HPV wouldn't become the biggest part of that interview. Once you drop the term cunnilingus, there's no going back. In the interview, Brooks asked Douglas about his disease and whether the actor attributed it to his drinking and smoking. Douglas corrected him: "No. ... Full Story | Top |
| Even without Michele Bachmann, the GOP is still crazy Monday, Jun 03, 2013 02:10 AM PDT  Many mainstream Republicans breathed a sigh of relief when the Minnesota Tea Partier announced her retirement. But there's still Louie Gohmert and Ted Cruz and... Full Story | Top |
| New IRS chief tells Congress he will clean up tax agency Monday, Jun 03, 2013 03:49 PM PDT  By Kim Dixon and John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The new chief of the Internal Revenue Service told Congress on Monday the tax-collecting agency would fully investigate and repair the problems that led to the inappropriate targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny. Acting IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel, appearing before Congress for the first time since moving into the top job two weeks ago, promised to restore the agency's tattered image with a public accounting of the practices that have led to multiple investigations and a political firestorm. ... Full Story | Top |
| Millennials Don't Hate Big Government, but They Do Hate the GOP Economic Fix Monday, Jun 03, 2013 02:57 PM PDT The College National Republican Committee goes where the Republican National Committee wouldn't dare in its 2012 election autopsy — they admit that it's not just the party's positions on gay marriage and abortion that repel young voters. It's the economic policy, too. The most eye-catching part of the College Republicans' analysis is that focus groups were "brutal," saying the GOP was "closed-minded, racist, rigid, old-fashioned." But Mitt Romney's presidential campaign didn't center on 1950s values or birtherism or banning gay marriage. ... Full Story | Top |
| 3 things to do if you're arrested in Mexico Monday, Jun 03, 2013 08:12 AM PDT What should a tourist do if arrested in Mexico and accused of carrying drugs? Full Story | Top |
| Donald Trump Still Blames Romney for Failing to Use Trump's Superpowers Monday, Jun 03, 2013 08:10 AM PDT  Donald Trump says that even though he won the 2012 Republican primary for Mitt Romney, Romney didn't call him a single time after he clinched the nomination. Trump thinks he could have won Florida for Romney, too, if Romney hadn't been too chicken to air Trump's "You're Fired!" ad in the fall. "I would have made a very big difference for him, as I did in the primaries," Trump said. But that's fine, because Trump is considering another fake presidential campaign. Full Story | Top |
| Fox News 'mole' resurfaces with book Monday, Jun 03, 2013 07:59 AM PDT  Joe Muto has dealt with losing his job, losing his reputation and losing friends. The low point for the former Fox News Channel "mole" came three weeks ago, when he needed to be escorted from ... Full Story | Top |
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