Friday, August 30, 2013

Daily News: Most Popular News Headlines - Cracking the ‘Waffle House Index’: How breakfast may determine the severity of this hurricane season

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Cracking the ‘Waffle House Index’: How breakfast may determine the severity of this hurricane season 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 04:16 AM PDT
The Fine Print If disaster strikes this hurricane season, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will use an unconventional system to evaluate damage: the 'Waffle House Index.' FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate told "The Fine Print" that he started using Waffle Houses as an informal metric of measuring the severity of a storm in its aftermath. He [...]
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Strongest man lifts 975 pounds 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 09:19 AM PDT
Don't try this at home: Video from Norwegian sports enthusiast Per Gunnar Roalkvam out of Sanyu, China, this week captures an eye-popping sight: Strongman Brian Shaw lifting a weight of 442.5 kilos – almost a thousand pounds.
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Dunkin' Donuts criticized for 'racist' ad campaign 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 07:17 AM PDT
Dunkin' Donuts apologizes for blackface advertA leading human rights group has called on Dunkin' Donuts to withdraw a "bizarre and racist" advertisement for chocolate doughnuts in Thailand that shows a smiling woman with bright pink lips ...
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New Orleans promoted as a gay honeymoon haven 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 07:49 AM PDT
Thousands of visitors roll into New Orleans this week for Southern Decadence: five days of celebration of gay culture in a city now being promoted by tourism officials as a honeymoon site for same-sex ...
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It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s You Flying a Jetpack 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 11:55 AM PDT
When Glenn Martin was a boy, in 1969, he watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. Afterward, he imagined a not-too-distant future in which humans had bases on Mars and flew to work with personal jetpacks. Later, in 1981, when he was an undergraduate studying biochemistry in New Zealand, Martin wondered why the future had [...]
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Russian, NORAD forces unite for exercise 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 08:36 AM PDT
This photo made Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013, over the Bering Strait near Alaska shows three Russian Federation Air Force SU-27s intercepting a passenger plane that was hijacked during a simulation to test the response of NORAD and Russian Federation forces. The exercise among Canadian and U.S. forces from NORAD, along with the Russian Federation, saw the Canadians successfully hand off the hijacked plane to Russian fighters over the Bering Strait. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)OVER ALASKA (AP) — Flying at 34,000 feet over the Bering Strait, the Russian pilots had a singular focus: making sure they smoothly received the hand-off of a "hijacked" jetliner from their U.S.-Canadian counterparts.
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How Dungeons & Dragons Gave Birth to the Modern Video Game Industry 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 07:41 AM PDT
Video games are an enormous, multibillion-dollar industry, growing like Super Mario on mushrooms. But the business can trace its roots to a simpler time, when a humble game played with pen, paper and a set of funny-looking dice ruled the rec and dorm rooms of geeks, nerds, dreamers and math majors. That game was Dungeons [...]
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Fla. is No. 2 in lack of health insurance 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 03:59 AM PDT
Florida had the nation's second-highest rate of residents without health insurance with almost 1 out of 4 Floridians lacking it, according to new U.S. Census figures released Thursday. Only Texas surpassed ...
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Scant foreign support for US strikes on Syria 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 05:40 PM PDT
FILE - This Oct. 27, 1983 black-and-white file photo shows two officers in the U.S. Army stationed at the Port Salines airport in Grenada confering as they walk near the tarmac. U.S. forces have set up heavy security around the perimeter of the air strip on the tiny island. President Barack Obama is poised to become the first U.S. leader in three decades to attack a foreign nation without broad international support or in direct defense of Americans. Not since President Ronald Reagan ordered an invasion of the Caribbean island of Grenada in 1983 has the U.S. been so alone in pursuing major lethal military action beyond a few attacks responding to strikes or threats against its citizens. (AP Photo/Doug Jennings, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is poised to become the first U.S. leader in three decades to attack a foreign nation without mustering broad international support or acting in direct defense of Americans.
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Court upholds 1st ban on gay-to-straight therapy 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 04:04 AM PDT
A federal appeals court sided with California on Thursday and upheld the first law in the nation banning a psychological treatment that seeks to turn gay youth straight. In a resounding, unanimous opinion, ...
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GOP senator: 'No common ground' in budget talks 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 05:38 AM PDT
The White House and a breakout group of eight Republican senators have been unable to find agreement in their attempts at reaching a bipartisan budget deal, separated by long-standing differences over ...
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Syria coalition: US, France, but no Britain? Not really a surprise 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 07:54 AM PDT
Barack Obama (R) shakes hands with Francois Hollande in the Oval Office at the White House on May 18, 2012They've worked together against Syria before.
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Marco Rubio heckled by conservatives over immigration push 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 01:01 PM PDT
FILE - In this June 13, 2013 file photo Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks in Washington. Get your face on TV and write a book: Check. Start meeting the big money people: Check. Visit Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina _ Israel, too: Check. Deny any of this has to do with running for president: Check. For politicians planning or tempted to run for the presidency in 2016, the to-do list is formidable. What's striking is how methodically most of them are plowing through it while they pretend nothing of the sort is going on. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)The former tea party darling is booed at a conservative conference in his home state.
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Economy is being eclipsed as top campaign issue 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 10:55 AM PDT
FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama greets patrons at Bingham's Family Restaurant, where he stopped to buy pie, in Lenox, Pa. Obama still calls shoring up the middle class his WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama still calls shoring up the middle class his "No. 1 priority," but recent events overseas and at home are overshadowing the U.S. economy as a political issue.
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'Walking' shark discovered in Indonesia 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 07:19 AM PDT
A tourist walks along a white sand beach n Doloda island, North Maluku, Indonesia, on August 25, 2006A new species of shark that "walks" along the seabed using its fins as tiny legs has been discovered in eastern Indonesia, an environmental group said Friday.
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New 'Walking' Shark Species Caught on Video 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 11:03 AM PDT
New 'Walking' Shark Species Caught on VideoA new species of "walking" shark has been discovered in a reef off a remote Indonesian island.
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DOJ green light for Wash., Colo. pot reformers 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 01:15 AM PDT
Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee, left, is joined by state Attorney General Bob Ferguson as he talks to the media in Olympia, Wash. about the federal government's announcement that it will not sue to stop Washington and Colorado from taxing and regulating recreational marijuana for adults, on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. Last fall, voters made both states the first in the country to legalize the sale of marijuana to adults over 21 at state-licensed stores. The states are creating rules for the system, with sales expected to begin early next year. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)SEATTLE (AP) — For generations, pot crusaders have called for an end to the nation's prohibition of marijuana, citing everything from what they say are the government's exaggerated claims about its dangers to the racial disparities in who gets busted for drug possession.
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19th-Century Samurai Training Text Deciphered 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 04:31 AM PDT
19th-Century Samurai Training Text DecipheredA training text, used by a martial arts school to teach members of the bushi (samurai) class, has been deciphered, revealing the rules samurai were expected to follow and what it took to truly become a master swordsman.
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NBA's Lamar Odom arrested for DUI in Los Angeles 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 10:13 AM PDT
FILE- This March 26, 2013, file photo, shows Los Angeles Clippers' Lamar Odom during an NBA basketball game in Dallas. Odom was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence early Friday, Aug. 30, 2013, after a CHP officer saw his white Mercedes-Benz traveling erratically on a San Fernando Valley freeway. The CHP says Odom, 33, was arrested after failing a field sobriety test. (AP Photo/Brandon Wade, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Basketball star Lamar Odom was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence early Friday after a California Highway Patrol officer saw his white Mercedes-Benz traveling erratically on a San Fernando Valley Freeway.
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Ex-church janitor pleads guilty to lewd proposal 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 03:09 PM PDT
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office shows Israel Shalom Castillo, 23, a former employee of the Victory Christian Center in Tulsa, Okla. Castillo, who is accused of sending lewd Facebook messages to a child is expected to enter a blind plea on the charges Friday afternoon. (AP Photo/Tulsa County Sheriff's Office)TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An ex-janitor at a 17,000-member Tulsa megachurch pleaded guilty Friday to making a lewd proposal to a 14-year-old girl, less than a week before his trial was set to begin.
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Syrians in 'conscience of the revolution' city call for President Obama to 'just do it' 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 02:56 PM PDT
Demonstrators in the town of Kafr Nabl, in Syria's Idlib governorate, called on US President Barack Obama to stage a military intervention.
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Foul-mouthed Pa. chief could learn fate Friday 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 09:01 AM PDT
In an Aug. 6, 2013 photo, Gilberton Police Chief Mark Kessler speaks during a news conference at Nahas' office in Frackville, Pa. Kessler says he expects to be fired for posting incendiary videos in which he rants obscenely about the Second Amendment and liberals while spraying machine-gun fire with borough-owned weapons. (AP Photo/Republican-Herald, Jacqueline Dormer)GILBERTON, Pa. (AP) — A northeastern Pennsylvania police chief suspended for posting videos in which he fired borough-owned automatic weapons while shouting obscenities could soon learn whether he'll be fired.
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Wall Street falls, ends worst month since May 2012 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 01:30 PM PDT
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock ExchangeBy Ryan Vlastelica NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell in a thinly traded session on Friday as the S&P 500 index recorded its steepest decline since May 2012 and investors avoided making large bets before a long weekend with the situation about Syria still uncertain. Afternoon trading was volatile, with indexes swinging between break-even levels and solid losses as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said in televised remarks that Syria's government used poison gas against civilians and made the case for a limited military response. ...
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Hip-hop version of 'Othello' resonates behind bars 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 09:22 AM PDT
In this Aug. 27, 2013, photo, rapper GQ, aka Gregory Qaiyum, performs during a hip hop adaptation of William Shakespeare's Othello, titled "Othello: The Remix" at the Cook County Jail in Chicago. "Shakespeare was a master storyteller who used musical language and poetry," GQ says, and the same is true of the best rappers. "So at the very basic level they're doing the exact same thing. ... You're using poetic devices like alliteration and repetition and onomatopoeia. ... They're very similar art forms despite how different they tend to be judged." (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)CHICAGO (AP) — Act I, Scene 1: Four actors in well-worn coveralls and baseball caps take the stage at the county jail. They're here to tell a tale of love, friendship, jealousy and betrayal. It's the stuff of Shakespearean tragedy. The names and themes haven't changed over the centuries, but the language has a modern beat:
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