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| Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox goes dark in blow to virtual currency Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 01:55 PM PST Mt. Gox, once the world's biggest bitcoin exchange, went dark on Tuesday, with its website down, its Tokyo office empty, and a cryptic comment from its chief executive that the business was at "a turning point." Full Story | Top |
| Kentucky Senate Hopeful Flashes Bill Clinton Trump Card Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 02:45 AM PST  Kentucky Senate Hopeful Embraces Bill Clinton Full Story | Top |
| U.S. diplomats to Obama: Ambassador nominees should really know something about their destination Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 05:50 AM PST Please, presidents, stop picking big campaign donors to be ambassadors whether or not they know anything about the country where they'd be posted and are clueless about foreign affairs in general. Full Story | Top |
| Was local TV reporter canned for her handstand? Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 07:22 AM PST Julie Tremmel, a popular TV reporter with NBC affiliate WJAR in Rhode Island, was recently fired. Many are wondering if the dismissal was a response to a handstand she performed during a segment on "America's Got Talent" auditions. Full Story | Top |
| Teen Invents Flashlight That Could Change The World Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 10:21 AM PST Ann Makosinski was just another teenager with another science project when she joined her local science fair in Victoria, Canada, last year. Her invention, a flashlight that is powered solely from hand heat, took second place at the competition. Ann, 16, and her parents, both of whom are HAM radio operators and like to fiddle [...] Full Story | Top |
| Calif. couple strike $10 million gold-coin bonanza Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 04:09 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Northern California couple out walking their dog on their property stumbled across a modern-day bonanza: $10 million in rare, mint-condition gold coins buried in the shadow of an old tree. Full Story | Top |
| California 'lifers' leaving prison at record pace Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 04:25 PM PST  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nearly 1,400 lifers in California's prisons have been released over the past three years in a sharp turnaround in a state where murderers and others sentenced to life with the possibility of parole almost never got out. Full Story | Top |
| Polio-like disease appears in California children Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 06:02 AM PST  STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — An extremely rare, polio-like disease has appeared in more than a dozen California children within the past year, and each of them suffered paralysis to one or more arms or legs, Stanford University researchers say. But public health officials haven't identified any common causes connecting the cases. Full Story | Top |
| Student suspended, criminally charged for fishing knife left in father’s car Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 04:46 AM PST A senior at Northeast High School in Clarksville, Tenn. has been suspended for 10 days and faces a multitude of additional punishments including criminal charges because school officials found a knife belonging to his father inside his father's car. The student is David Duren-Sanner, reports local CBS affiliate WTVF. The father left — wait for it — a fishing knife in the car. The boy's father noted that the knife could have easily been wedged between two seats. Full Story | Top |
| 'Secrets of the Vatican' exposes moral crises facing Catholic Church's new pope Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 03:53 AM PST The Roman Catholic Church is enjoying some of its best press in decades, and hundreds of thousands of alienated Catholics are returning, thanks in large part to the new, and in some cases revolutionary, leadership of Pope Francis. Full Story | Top |
| Obama makes it official: U.S. planning for full Afghan withdrawal Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 10:17 AM PST After giving him the silent treatment for eight months, President Barack Obama on Tuesday called Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The message? A blunt warning that all U.S. troops will leave his war-torn country by 2015 unless Karzai or his successor sign a bilateral security agreement with the United States. Full Story | Top |
| Lawyers: Gay marriage a detriment to children Monday, Feb 24, 2014 08:48 PM PST OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Lawyers who are appealing a federal judge's ruling that overturned Oklahoma's ban on same-sex marriage said in a court filing Monday that legalizing gay marriage would harm children, undermine society and make traditional marriages unstable. Full Story | Top |
| Beyond 9/11: President Bush’s new initiative to help the vets he sent to war Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 04:08 AM PST 8-year commander in chief assisting former troops make transition to civilian life Full Story | Top |
| Uganda tabloid prints list of 'top' homosexuals Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 09:49 AM PST KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A Ugandan newspaper published a list Tuesday of what it called the country's "200 top" homosexuals, outing some Ugandans who previously had not identified themselves as gay one day after the president enacted a harsh anti-gay law. Full Story | Top |
| Obama hosts Boehner for rare, private Oval Office chat Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 12:38 PM PST  By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner met for about an hour on Tuesday in a rare, one-on-one Oval Office discussion between two leaders who have fought bitterly during fiscal crises over the past several years. "They agreed that there is a lot of work to do the rest of the year, and it is important to work together wherever we can find common ground," a Boehner aide said. The two leaders talked about immigration reform, which Obama wants the House to pass, but which Boehner has hinted is unlikely to get through Congress this year. Obama had spoken with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai ahead of his meeting with Boehner, warning him that he would pull all U.S. troops from the country this year unless a security agreement is signed soon. Full Story | Top |
| Panic in Indian city with leopard on the prowl Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 04:53 AM PST  MEERUT, India (AP) — Forestry officials and police armed with tranquilizer darts searched for a leopard that injured six people in a northern Indian city, creating panic and driving people indoors, police said Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| Colorado Girl Scouts told not to sell cookies outside pot shops Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 05:41 AM PST In response to a California Girl Scout's ingenious strategy to sell Girl Scout cookies outside of a marijuana dispensary, the Girl Scouts of Colorado issued a statement on its Facebook page effectively barring its members from doing the same. Full Story | Top |
| Obama: Health insurance enrollment at 4 million Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 06:36 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Pressing for a final rush of health care enrollees, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that about 4 million people have signed up for health insurance through federal or state marketplaces set up under his health care law. Full Story | Top |
| Whale's tail smacks woman right on the ol' noggin Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 10:46 AM PST "That's for being part of the species that created the "Free Willy" trilogy." -- Whale's inner monologue as it uses its tail to smack an innocent whale-watching bystander across the head (we like to think). Full Story | Top |
| GOP Senate races may worsen conservative divide Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 02:29 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — A half-dozen Senate races are heightening the struggle between establishment Republicans and tea party campaign operations, threatening to exacerbate conservative divisions this fall and beyond. Full Story | Top |
| Obama tells Pentagon to plan for Afghan pullout Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 02:37 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — In a blunt warning to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, President Barack Obama threatened on Tuesday to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year if a crucial security pact isn't signed — and he ordered the Pentagon to accelerate planning for just that scenario. Full Story | Top |
| Israel bombs Hezbollah target on Syria-Lebanon border Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 12:21 PM PST  Israel, bent on halting any transfer of weapons to Lebanon's Hezbollah, has bombarded a position of the powerful Shiite group on the Lebanese-Syrian border, Lebanese sources said on Tuesday. "Two Israeli raids hit a Hezbollah target on the border of Lebanon and Syria" on Monday night, a Lebanese security source told AFP. Lebanon's National News Agency said the raids struck outside the border town of Nabi Sheet, a Hezbollah bastion where its fighters are suspected of maintaining a weapons store and training camp. They said they heard planes flying low and that the target appeared to be a Hezbollah position in the nearby mountains. Full Story | Top |
| Sun Unleashes Monster Solar Flare, Biggest of 2014 Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 06:18 AM PST  The sun fired off a major solar flare late Monday (Feb. 24), making it the most powerful sun eruption of the year so far and one of the strongest in recent years. The massive X4.9-class solar flare erupted from an active sunspot, called AR1990, at 7:49 p.m. EST (0049 Feb. 25 GMT). NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured high-definition video of the monster solar flare. The spaceecraft recording amazing views the solar flare erupting with a giant burst of plasma, called a coronal mass ejection, or CME. Full Story | Top |
| Obama, Boehner meet for hour at White House Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 03:00 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Disentangled from showdowns or looming crises, President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner held a rare one-on-one Oval Office meeting Tuesday addressing potential areas of common ground that could lay a foundation for more ambitious goals like immigration and trade that remain long shots for action this year. Full Story | Top |
| VW Tennessee workers challenging UAW objection to plant vote Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 01:12 PM PST  (Reuters) - Five Volkswagen workers are trying to challenge an objection filed by the United Auto Workers with the federal government following the UAW's defeat in a unionization vote at the Chattanooga, Tennessee, VW plant, an anti-union group said Tuesday. The five workers at the Chattanooga plant have filed to be allowed to intervene against the objection filed with the National Labor Relations Board, the National Right to Work Foundation said. The UAW on Friday filed the objection to the result of the February 12-14 election, in which VW's Chattanooga workers rejected the union by a 712-to-626 vote. Full Story | Top |
| Do You Know Your Retirement Number? Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014 06:40 AM PST That might explain why Americans are on track to replace an average of only 60 percent or less of their income during retirement. That means someone who brings home an $80,000 salary at the peak of his working years should save enough before retirement to generate at least $64,000 a year post-retirement. Yet, more than half of Americans report having less than $25,000 in savings and investments, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a nonprofit research organization. The EBRI also reports just 13 percent of workers say they are "very confident" they will have a comfortable retirement. Full Story | Top |
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