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| Pa. man lands 'corrected' 1918 stamps Monday, Dec 30, 2013 02:45 AM PST  BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A collector credits a hunch with helping him land one of just 100 sheets of stamps recently issued by the United States Postal Service featuring a corrected version of its rare and famous error, the 1918 "inverted Jenny." Full Story | Top |
| Americans rank Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton as most admired: poll Monday, Dec 30, 2013 06:39 AM PST  (Reuters) - Americans named President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the world's most admired living man and woman in 2013, according to a Gallup poll released on Monday. Obama topped the annual list for the sixth consecutive year, a typical ranking for a sitting U.S. president, the polling organization said. Full Story | Top |
| Samsung sells 110-inch ultra-HD TV for $150,000 Monday, Dec 30, 2013 03:31 AM PST  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung said a 110-inch TV that has four times the resolution of standard high-definition TVs is going on sale for about $150,000 in South Korea. Full Story | Top |
| Midas mechanic finds diamond ring lost for 6 years Monday, Dec 30, 2013 10:30 AM PST An engagement ring that was lost in Richmond, Virginia in 2007, was recently found by a mechanic in Greenville, South Carolina. Full Story | Top |
| One-third of Americans reject evolution, poll shows Monday, Dec 30, 2013 02:37 PM PST  By Chris Francescani NEW YORK (Reuters) - One-third of Americans reject the idea of evolution and Republicans have grown more skeptical about it, according to a poll released on Monday. Sixty percent of Americans say that "humans and other living things have evolved over time," the telephone survey by the Pew Research Center's Religion and Public Life Project showed (Click http://www.pewforum.org/2013/12/30/publics-views-on-human-evolution/ for the full survey). But 33 percent reject the idea of evolution, saying that "humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time," Pew said in a statement. "The gap is coming from the Republicans, where fewer are now saying that humans have evolved over time," said Cary Funk, a Pew senior researcher who conducted the analysis. Full Story | Top |
| 7 Political Predictions for 2014 Monday, Dec 30, 2013 02:45 AM PST  Sure, budget brinksmanship and Hillary presidential hints are a given. But millions more sign-ups for health-care coverage and the ousting of Mitch McConnell? They could happen, too. Full Story | Top |
| Nazi-looted art found in German parliament: report Monday, Dec 30, 2013 07:30 AM PST  By Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) - An art historian has found two art works stolen by the Nazis inside Germany's parliament, a newspaper reported on Monday, in a new embarrassment for authorities after a huge stash of looted art came to light last month. The Bundestag, in a statement issued after the report in Bild newspaper, said an art historian was reviewing two "suspicious cases", but a spokesman would not confirm the find. The art historian's investigations into the German parliament's art collection, which began in 2012, were continuing, the Bundestag spokesman said. "It is unclear when there will be a result to the investigations," he said. Full Story | Top |
| The $375 Applebee’s dinner Monday, Dec 30, 2013 04:36 AM PST  Ringing in the New Year, Big Apple(bee's)-style. Full Story | Top |
| Congress letting 55 tax breaks expire at year end Monday, Dec 30, 2013 10:01 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — In an almost annual ritual, Congress is letting a package of 55 popular tax breaks expire at the end of the year, creating uncertainty — once again — for millions of individuals and businesses. Full Story | Top |
| Gay in Utah: Hostility, acceptance part of life Monday, Dec 30, 2013 06:12 AM PST  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah has long been known as a bastion of red-state conservatism with deep roots in the Mormon faith. It's the kind of place that has historically been unwelcoming to gay marriage. Full Story | Top |
| Schumacher critical, outlook uncertain after fall Monday, Dec 30, 2013 09:09 AM PST GRENOBLE, France (AP) — Doctors treating Michael Schumacher refused Monday to predict an outcome for the seven-time Formula One champion, saying they were taking his critical head injury "hour by hour" following a skiing accident. Full Story | Top |
| Train collision in North Dakota sets oil rail cars ablaze Monday, Dec 30, 2013 03:38 PM PST  By Alicia Nelson FARGO, North Dakota (Reuters) - A BNSF train carrying crude oil in North Dakota collided with another train on Monday setting off a series of explosions that left at least 10 cars ablaze, the latest in a string of incidents that have raised alarms over growing oil-by-rail traffic. Local residents heard five powerful explosions just a mile outside of the small town of Casselton after a westbound train carrying soybeans derailed, and an eastbound 104-car train hauling crude oil ran into it just after 2 p.m. CST (2000 GMT), local officials said. Half of the oil cars have been separated from the train, but another 56 cars remain in danger, said Cecily Fong, the public information officer with the North Dakota Department of Emergency Services. Both trains were operated by BNSF Railway Co, which is owned by Warren Buffett's Bershire Hathaway Inc. The incident threatens to stoke concerns about the safety of carrying increasing volumes of crude oil by rail, a trend that emerged from the unexpected burst of shale oil production out of North Dakota's Bakken fields. Full Story | Top |
| New Year on ice as weather stalls Antarctic air-sea rescue Monday, Dec 30, 2013 08:01 PM PST  Passengers on an icebound Russian research vessel are preparing to ring in the New Year in remote Antarctica after blizzards hampered a helicopter rescue planned when several icebreaking attempts failed. The MV Akademik Shokalskiy has been stranded 100 nautical miles east of the French base Dumont d'Urville for a week, hemmed in by impenetrable pack ice that three separate breakers have been unable to breach. The Australian government's supply ship Aurora Australis on Monday came within 10 nautical miles of the marooned vessel -- which has 74 research scientists, tourists and crew on board -- but was forced to turn back by snow showers and freezing winds. Russia's foreign ministry said a decision had been reached overnight to evacuate all 52 passengers by a helicopter on board the Chinese icebreaker Xue Long, which remains nearby after its own aborted bid to reach the Akademik Shokalskiy. Full Story | Top |
| Special Report: Japan's homeless recruited for murky Fukushima clean-up Monday, Dec 30, 2013 01:22 AM PST By Mari Saito and Antoni Slodkowski SENDAI, Japan (Reuters) - Seiji Sasa hits the train station in this northern Japanese city before dawn most mornings to prowl for homeless men. The men in Sendai Station are potential laborers that Sasa can dispatch to contractors in Japan's nuclear disaster zone for a bounty of $100 a head. It's also how Japan finds people willing to accept minimum wage for one of the most undesirable jobs in the industrialized world: working on the $35 billion, taxpayer-funded effort to clean up radioactive fallout across an area of northern Japan larger than Hong Kong. Almost three years ago, a massive earthquake and tsunami leveled villages across Japan's northeast coast and set off multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant. Full Story | Top |
| AP IMPACT: The world braces for retirement crisis Monday, Dec 30, 2013 04:16 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — A global retirement crisis is bearing down on workers of all ages. Full Story | Top |
| Feds announce test sites for drone aircraft Monday, Dec 30, 2013 02:57 PM PST LAS VEGAS (AP) — Six states were named Monday by federal officials to develop test sites for drones — a critical next step for the burgeoning industry that could one day produce thousands of unmanned aircraft for use by businesses, farmers and researchers. Full Story | Top |
| Federal health care sign-ups pass 1 million mark Monday, Dec 30, 2013 09:06 AM PST  HONOLULU (AP) — The government's rehabilitated health insurance website has seen a December surge in customer sign-ups, pushing enrollment past the 1 million mark, the Obama administration says. Full Story | Top |
| Texas Republicans lose 3 major donors in 2013 Monday, Dec 30, 2013 02:43 PM PST  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The deaths this year of three major Texas Republican donors, including a billionaire who died over the weekend, could signal a generational change for party kingmakers in the nation's largest GOP stronghold. Full Story | Top |
| 13 Most popular Yahoo News Photo galleries of 2013 Monday, Dec 30, 2013 07:19 AM PST The countdown of photo galleries that our Yahoo readers liked the best this year! Full Story | Top |
| 'Core' Al-Qaeda not behind Benghazi attack: US Monday, Dec 30, 2013 01:23 PM PST  The United States is still investigating last year's attack on its diplomatic mission in Benghazi but has no evidence that "core Al-Qaeda" leaders directed the assault in which four Americans died, a US official said Monday. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said, however, that some of the militants who carried out the deadly operation on September 11, 2012 may "have taken inspiration from Al-Qaeda ideology." She was speaking after the New York Times published a lengthy investigation which found no evidence that the Al-Qaeda network had direct involvement in the attack, in which ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed. Militants stormed the mission in Benghazi, eastern Libya, before later attacking a nearby CIA annex. Full Story | Top |
| Family of girl on life support plans to sue Monday, Dec 30, 2013 04:24 PM PST OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The family of a 13-year-old California girl who was declared brain dead after a tonsillectomy said Monday they will sue to keep her on life support. Full Story | Top |
| Michelle Obama adds to support for ABC's Roberts Monday, Dec 30, 2013 01:57 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michelle Obama is leading an outpouring of support for Robin Roberts after the "Good Morning America" news anchor's first public acknowledgement of her 10-year, same-sex relationship with massage therapist Amber Laign. Full Story | Top |
| NH house to vote on legalizing up to 1 oz. of pot Monday, Dec 30, 2013 07:53 AM PST New Hampshire's House votes early next month whether to legalize up to 1 ounce of marijuana for recreational use for anyone age 21 and older. Supporters propose taxing the drug when it is sold at retail ... Full Story | Top |
| The Christie Backlash Monday, Dec 30, 2013 02:45 AM PST  In a flash, the 2016 contender has seen his reputation slide from straight-talking pragmatist to partisan bully. Could a local scandal really take down Hillary's biggest competition? Full Story | Top |
| It's all in the bag _ cooking salmon en papillote Monday, Dec 30, 2013 04:43 AM PST  Fish en papillote is the elegant-sounding name of a staple recipe of classic French cuisine. Translated into English, it becomes the much less elegant-sounding — "fish in a bag." By any name, however, this method of baking fish is a smash. Full Story | Top |
| Afghanistan rejects grim U.S. intelligence forecast as baseless Monday, Dec 30, 2013 04:55 AM PST  By Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan on Monday rejected as baseless a U.S. intelligence forecast that the gains the United States and allies have made in the past three years will be significantly rolled back by 2017. The U.S. National Intelligence Estimate also predicted that Afghanistan would fall into chaos if Washington and Kabul failed to sign a pact to keep an international military contingent there beyond 2014. President Hamid Karzai's spokesman dismissed the U.S. forecast, reported by the Washington Post on the weekend, and suggested there was an ulterior motive for it. Relations between Afghanistan and the United States have grown seriously strained recently by Karzai's refusal to sign the security pact that would permit some U.S. forces to stay. Full Story | Top |
| Official who oversaw building of Obamacare website retires Monday, Dec 30, 2013 10:57 AM PST  By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health official Michelle Snyder, who oversaw the building of the troubled Obamacare website, HealthCare.gov, is retiring from her job as chief operating officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). CMS chief Marilyn Tavenner announced Snyder's departure to senior staff last week in a statement viewed by Reuters on Monday. Full Story | Top |
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