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| Applebee’s defends firing of waitress who posted pastor’s ‘God’ receipt Friday, Feb 01, 2013 11:21 AM PST Facing a public relations nightmare over the firing of a waitress who posted online a pastor's note complaining about an automatic gratuity, Applebee's released a lengthy statement on Facebook on Friday defending its actions. "The guests who visit Applebee’s--people like you--expect and deserve to be treated with professionalism and care in everything we do," Applebee's [...] Full Story | Top |
| Eric Cantor: I want my Spotify Friday, Feb 01, 2013 10:51 AM PST The official Twitter account for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Friday complained about music websites that are blocked on office computers in the U.S. Capitol building, and demanded the walls be torn down. "House blocked Spotify?" read his account, referring to the music-sharing website. "This is 2013. It is a legal service that should [...] Full Story | Top |
| Scott Brown decides to steer clear of Massachusetts U.S. Senate race Friday, Feb 01, 2013 10:50 AM PST Scott Brown announced Friday that he won't vie for a political comeback this year in the special Massachusetts U.S. Senate race, dashing Republican hopes of having the well-known former senator on the ticket. After a stunning 2010 special election victory that brought him to Congress, Brown was defeated last November by Democrat Elizabeth Warren in [...] Full Story | Top |
| Iowa governor to pardon pig for annual bacon celebration Friday, Feb 01, 2013 09:41 AM PST Bonnie is one lucky porker. Kicking off Iowa's Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival next week, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad will literally save a pig's bacon by pardoning Bonnie, a Berkshire sow, on Friday. Like a president granting a pardon to a turkey at Thanksgiving time, Branstad will join Bonnie on the steps of the governor's mansion [...] Full Story | Top |
| Energy Secretary Chu steps down, blasts climate-change skeptics Friday, Feb 01, 2013 09:06 AM PST Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist frequently the target of Republican criticism, announced Friday that he was stepping down in the latest shake-up of President Barack Obama's Cabinet. Chu, who disclosed his decision in a letter to Energy Department staff, frequently clashed with GOP lawmakers over gas prices as well as government backing [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama administration offers religious colleges opt-out for contraception rule Friday, Feb 01, 2013 09:06 AM PST Religious universities and other nonprofits may opt out of requirements to provide no-cost contraception through their group health plans following a change announced Friday to President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. Nonprofits will not have to "contract, arrange, pay or refer for any contraceptive coverage to which they object on religious grounds," the Department of [...] Full Story | Top |
| Postal Service says it’s immune from local traffic laws Friday, Feb 01, 2013 08:59 AM PST A U.S. postal service truck. (AP) A government lawyer’s attempt to get dismissed nearly $700 in traffic tickets given to the U.S. Postal Service is being met with a hearty and humorous, Heck no. In a Jan. 22 letter sent to both the city of East Cleveland, Ohio, and the company that operates the city's [...] Full Story | Top |
| Descriptive Camera Trades Pictures for Text Friday, Feb 01, 2013 08:46 AM PST The Descriptive Camera is a novel idea. It’s the kind of idea someone who’s looking for new ways to approach photography comes up with, when, as a society, we’re oversaturated with digital cameras, Facebook and Instagram. Instead of revealing a picture, the camera prints a description of what’s in the image. And the description isn’t [...] Full Story | Top |
| Puppy Bowl IX preview: Meet the pups and chat with this year’s poop-scooping referee Friday, Feb 01, 2013 07:55 AM PST The Puppy Bowl, Animal Planet's furry fit of Super Bowl counterprogramming, returns for its ninth year of tail-wagging and terrier touchdowns on Sunday afternoon. Join Yahoo! News' Dylan Stableford and Dan Schachner, who is returning for his sophomore season as a Puppy Bowl referee, at 2:30 p.m. ET Friday to preview all the pup-on-pup action, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Unemployment rises to 7.9 percent, economy adds 157,000 jobs Friday, Feb 01, 2013 05:40 AM PST The unemployment rate rose from 7.8 in December to 7.9 percent in January, but the economy added 157,000 new jobs last month, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly report released Friday morning. The report indicates that job gains were seen in retail trade, construction, health care and wholesale trade, while employment edged [...] Full Story | Top |
| Underground dentist not remorseful about illegal practice Friday, Feb 01, 2013 05:39 AM PST Jose Delao during a jailhouse interview with Yahoo News this week. (Jason Sickles) PLANO, Texasâ€"Inside the unassuming ranch-style house, investigators discovered things like an x-ray machine, grinders, syringes, surgical instruments and anesthetics. Police say the homeowner, 63-year-old Jose Santiago Delao, had been running an underground dental clinic in the aging suburban Dallas neighborhood for years: [...] Full Story | Top |
| Yahoo News interview: Mitch McConnell on immigration, guns, bourbon and Sen. Ashley Judd Friday, Feb 01, 2013 04:08 AM PST Yahoo! News Chief Washington Correspondent Olivier Knox sits down for an exclusive interview with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Full Story | Top |
| Weekend in politics: January jobs report, and more Friday, Feb 01, 2013 03:30 AM PST The Labor Department will release the January jobs report Friday morning. Economists forecast that the economy added 155,000 jobs in January and that the unemployment rate stayed at 7.8 percent, the Associated Press reports, citing a Factset survey. What is the White House likely to say about the monthly jobs report? That there are signs [...] Full Story | Top |
| ‘Through hardship to the stars’: remembering Space Shuttle Columbia 10 years later Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 06:18 PM PST The Space Shuttle Columbia was just 16 minutes from landing at Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 1, 2003, when disaster struck. Friday marks a decade since the nation lost the Space Shuttle Columbia. Seven astronauts perished in the Earth’s atmosphere upon re-entry, and the orbiter disintegrated across the southern United States, its remains strewn across [...] Full Story | Top |
| Cans of ‘fresh air’ for sale in China Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 03:43 PM PST Air pollution in China has gotten so bad that one entrepreneur has decided to sell cans of fresh air. The decision by Chen Guangbiao to sell the cans of air isn’t actually an attempt at a profit-generating venture. Rather, Chen, already worth a reported $740 million, is using the cans as social commentary on the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Sex only burns about 21 calories, according to new university study Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 02:45 PM PST Burning love apparently does not equate to burning fat. A new study from the University of Alabama at Birmingham says the average sex act burns only about 21 calories. The study, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, contradicts many long-standing claims that sexual activity is a vigorous, fat-burning workout. Funded in part [...] Full Story | Top |
| Democratic Rep. Stephen Lynch enters Massachusetts Senate race Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 01:22 PM PST Democratic Rep. Stephen Lynch on Thursday afternoon announced his candidacy for U.S. senator in Massachusetts, setting up a competitive primary race against his colleague, Rep. Ed Markey. Lynch took the opportunity on Thursday to embrace his outsider status. "I will not fit in. But neither would you. And I think that can be a good [...] Full Story | Top |
| Woman allegedly uses car test drive to rob bank Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 01:10 PM PST A California man became an unsuspecting getaway driver when a woman taking a test drive in his car stopped to rob a bank. The Manteca Bulletin first reported that Gail Castle asked to take the 1987 Chrysler 5th Avenue for a test drive but that the owner, who asked to remain anonymous, insisted on coming [...] Full Story | Top |
| Student shot at Atlanta middle school; suspect in custody Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 01:05 PM PST A student was shot in the back of the neck with a handgun at a middle school in Atlanta, Ga., on Thursday afternoon. The 14-year-old Price Middle School student is "alert, conscious and breathing,†police told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was taken to a nearby hospital and is expected to be released tonight. Police apprehended [...] Full Story | Top |
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