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| X-Ray Reveals Hundreds of Gold Needles in Woman's Knees Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 06:32 AM PST  When doctors examined an X-ray image of the knees of a woman experiencing severe joint pain, they found a gold mine: hundreds of tiny gold acupuncture needles left in her tissue. But when pain relievers and anti-inflammatory drugs didn't alleviate the pain in her knees and only caused stomach discomfort, she had turned to acupuncture, the doctors wrote last week in the New England Journal of Medicine. In the woman's acupuncture treatment, the needles, which were presumably made of gold, were intentionally left in her tissue for continued stimulation, according to the report. However, leaving the needles, or any objects, in the body may not be such a good idea, said Dr. Ali Guermazi, a professor of radiology at Boston University, who wasn't involved with the case. Full Story | Top |
| Obama: Won't wait for legislation to advance 2014 priorities Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 12:38 PM PST  By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he would not wait for Congress to pass legislation to advance his policy priorities this year and said he was "getting close" to finishing a review of U.S. surveillance practices - to be unveiled on Friday. Obama, speaking to reporters during a cabinet meeting at the White House, foreshadowed his upcoming State of the Union address and what appeared to be a new messaging strategy by emphasizing his ability to take executive actions without approval from lawmakers. Obama began last year with high hopes of making progress on gun control, immigration reform, and other issues after giving an inaugural address that rallied his base and set an aggressive tone for his second term. His gun control efforts largely failed and an immigration reform bill passed in the Senate but stalled in the House of Representatives. Full Story | Top |
| Doomsday Clock Set at 5 'Til Midnight Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 03:11 PM PST  The iconic Doomsday Clock remains poised at five minutes until midnight, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced today (Jan. 14). The clock is no doomsday device — rather, it's a visual metaphor for the danger of a "civilization-threatening technological catastrophe." Every year, the board analyzes international threats, particularly nuclear arsenals and climate change, and decides where the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock should rest. The Doomsday Clock is the invention of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, a publication started by some of the researchers who worked on the atomic bomb. The wife of one of these researchers, Martyl Langsdorf, was a painter. Full Story | Top |
| New Jersey's Christie in address again apologizes, looks ahead Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 03:24 PM PST "Without a doubt, we will cooperate with all appropriate inquiries to ensure that this breach of trust does not happen again." Two sets of emails last week appeared to show that Christie's aides had orchestrated lane closures for several days last September on a stretch of highway leading to the George Washington Bridge, which spans the Hudson River between New Jersey and Manhattan, and then lied about it. Christie has denied any knowledge of the apparent orchestration to snarl traffic at the bridge as political payback against the Democratic mayor of the nearby city of Fort Lee, New Jersey, for his refusal to endorse Christie's gubernatorial bid. But the governor's speech mostly addressed the "Jersey Comeback," which Christie has long claimed has resulted in private sector jobs and secured public-private investment in the Garden State, and his cooperation with the Democrat-controlled state legislature. "No state in this country has shown more bipartisan cooperation and governance over the last four years than New Jersey and our people are proud of it. Full Story | Top |
| Why a taxi driver protest turned violent in Paris Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 08:10 AM PST  The attacks by striking cab drivers on Uber cars in Paris on Monday appear to be the first violent clashes in the ongoing battle between cabbies and app-based car services. But tensions have been brewing for months. Full Story | Top |
| Religious groups face increased hostility worldwide: report Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 07:07 AM PST  By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor (Reuters) - Violence and discrimination against religious groups by governments and rival faiths have reached new highs in all regions of the world except the Americas, according to a new Pew Research Center report. Social hostility such as attacks on minority faiths or pressure to conform to certain norms was strong in one-third of the 198 countries and territories surveyed in 2012, especially in the Middle East and North Africa, it said on Tuesday. The Washington-based center, which is non-partisan and takes no policy position in its reports, gave no reason for the rises noted in hostility against Christians, Muslims, Jews and an "other" category including Sikhs, Bah'ais and atheists. Hindus, Buddhists and folk religions saw lower levels of hostility and little change in the past six years, according to the report's extensive data. Full Story | Top |
| 46 years on, Vietnamese helmet returned Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 02:29 AM PST  HUONG NON, Vietnam (AP) — In 1968, young American soldier John Wast was scouring a battlefield in central Vietnam for weapons and intelligence when an enemy helmet with an image of a dove scratched onto it caught his eye. He tied it to his rucksack, and five months later took it home as a war souvenir, where for 46 years it had sat on a shelf. Full Story | Top |
| Rare birth of naturally conceived identical triplets Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 11:40 AM PST A mother in Shreveport, Louisiana had a very special delivery recently when her three, naturally conceived, identical triplet boys were born. Full Story | Top |
| Who But Christie Can Beat Hillary? Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 02:45 AM PST  Even without Bridgegate, Chris Christie wouldn't get the Republican nomination. That leaves a pack of conservatives vulnerable to Clinton. Full Story | Top |
| At least 2 kids hurt in New Mexico school shooting Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 11:38 AM PST ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — A shooter opened fire Tuesday morning at a middle school in the southeastern New Mexico city of Roswell, injuring at least two students before being taken into custody. Full Story | Top |
| Israeli defence minister apologises to Kerry over diatribe Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 05:27 PM PST  Israel's Minister of Defence Moshe Yaalon apologised to US Secretary of State John Kerry after he accused the American of having an "obsession" with Middle East peace, sparking a furious diplomatic row between the two allies. The White House had described Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon's initial comments as "offensive," in a mark of the degree of outrage in Washington at the latest public spat between the two countries, which follows a major row over Iran policy. However, in a statement, a contrite Yaalon said: "Israel and the United States share a common goal to advance the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians led by Secretary Kerry. Full Story | Top |
| South Carolina lawmakers take aim at healthcare law Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 07:19 AM PST  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - South Carolina lawmakers say they have found a way to stop implementation of the U.S. Affordable Care Act in their state, an effort that could provide a template for other Republican-led legislatures looking to derail the federal program. The proposed measure would ban state agencies from helping carry out President Barack Obama's signature healthcare reform law and prevent federal money flowing through state coffers from being spent on it, said Republican state Senator Tom Davis. The legislation would give South Carolina oversight of insurance rates offered through its federal exchange and require healthcare navigators, which help people sign up for the healthcare benefits, to be licensed by the state, said Davis, who chairs the committee drafting the measure. "Even though the federal government may pass a law, and even though that law may be constitutional, that doesn't mean that the federal government can direct the state to spend state dollars to implement it," he said. Full Story | Top |
| Dozens of trade-offs in $1.1 trillion budget bill Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 12:27 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — A massive $1.1 trillion spending bill, aimed at funding the government through October and putting to rest the bitter budget battles of last year, is getting generally positive reviews from House Republicans who are eager to avoid another shutdown crisis with elections looming. Full Story | Top |
| NJ's Christie apologizes again for payback scheme Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 12:49 PM PST TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Faced with a widening political scandal that threatens to undermine his second term and a possible 2016 presidential run, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie apologized again Tuesday, saying his administration "let down the people we are entrusted to serve" but that the issue doesn't define his team or the state. Full Story | Top |
| GOP constituents also depend on jobless aid Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 05:34 AM PST  When federal emergency unemployment benefits expired last month, the effects ran deep in a Colorado county marked by two exit ramps off Interstate 25 — one leading to the conservative religious group Focus ... Full Story | Top |
| Grandmother Deserves To Know Her Secret Great-Granddaughter Monday, Jan 13, 2014 09:00 PM PST DEAR ABBY: My family has been keeping a secret from my grandmother. I have a 17-month-old daughter that she doesn't know exists. I wanted to tell my grandma from the start about her great-granddaughter (her first), but I am afraid to. My family thinks that telling her will cause too much stress on her. No one in the family takes my feelings into consideration. I think my grandmother should know she's a great-grandma. The problem is, I don't know how to tell her. She's 90 years old. I'm afraid if I say something now, it really might be too stressful for her. ... Full Story | Top |
| Handshake vs. Fist Bump: Which is safer? Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 08:36 AM PST Dr. Richard Besser set out to find out which is a safer interaction during the flu season, the fist bump or the hand shake. Of course the hand shake and the fist bump aren't equal greetings. He wouldn't recommend you first bump at a job interview or when you meet your girlfriend's parents for the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Four New Mysteries in the Obamacare Enrollment Numbers Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 02:45 AM PST  The White House is heralding the news that 2.2 million people have signed up through state and federal health care exchanges as evidence that Obamacare, which started as a disaster, is finally working. On Monday Health and Human Service Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that December alone accounted for 1.8 million new enrollees. Full Story | Top |
| Obama urges Congress to give Iran diplomacy a chance Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 03:28 AM PST President Barack Obama urged the US Congress to give peace with Iran a chance Monday, as lawmakers lined up behind new sanctions despite warnings they could doom an interim nuclear deal. Obama said that the six-month pact due to go into force on January 20 after being concluded at the weekend, offered a "door of opportunity" for Iran to have better relations with the outside world, after decades of deep antagonism with the United States. But he said that if Iran fails to live up to the terms of the deal, which freezes aspects of its nuclear program in return for limited sanctions relief, he would support new punitive measures to stop Tehran getting a nuclear weapon. "My preference is for peace and diplomacy," Obama told reporters in the Oval Office. Full Story | Top |
| Hospital: 14-year-old likely target of NM shooting Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 09:51 AM PST  ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — Officials at a Texas hospital say a 14-year-old boy who was the likely target of a school shooter in southeastern New Mexico has been brought there in critical condition. Full Story | Top |
| Christie proposing longer school day amid scandal Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 06:02 AM PST TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will propose extending the public school calendar and lengthening the school day in a speech he hopes will help him rebound from an apparent political payback scheme that threatens to damage his second term and could cut short any ambitions to run for president. Full Story | Top |
| Affordable housing for gay seniors opens in Pa. Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 07:46 AM PST  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jerry Zeft was so excited to move into his new apartment that he slept on an air mattress for nearly a week while he waited for his bed and other belongings to catch up with him. No matter that he's 70 years old. Full Story | Top |
| Nurses Spring Into Action When Pilot Has Heart Attack Mid Flight Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 12:13 PM PST On a flight from Des Moines, Iowa, to Denver, Colo., two announcements were made over the intercom. The first asked if anyone on the plane had medical experience. The second asked if any passenger had flight experience. This story could have had a very tragic ending. But, instead, two nurses came to the rescue of the fallen pilot. Meanwhile, his co-pilot safely landed the plane in Omaha. Full Story | Top |
| Christie tries to turn page on traffic scandal: 'Mistakes were clearly made' Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014 01:35 PM PST The New Jersey governor reiterated responsibility for a traffic scandal that threatens to undermine his policy agenda and 2016 presidential ambitions. Full Story | Top |
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