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| APNewsBreak: Russia caught bomb suspect on wiretap Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 02:18 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received details about the call. Full Story | Top |
| Justin Bieber - Shirtless With Selena Gomez (Photo) Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 01:36 PM PDT  It appears Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are happily "Jelena" once more. Full Story | Top |
| Obama jokes about radical 2nd term changes Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 09:04 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama joked Saturday about his plans for a radical second-term evolution from a "strapping young Muslim Socialist" to retiree golfer, all with a new hairstyle like first lady Michelle's. Full Story | Top |
| Kentucky woman ordained as priest in defiance of Roman Catholic Church Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 05:58 PM PDT  By Mary Wisniewski LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (Reuters) - In an emotional ceremony filled with tears and applause, a 70-year-old Kentucky woman was ordained a priest on Saturday as part of a dissident group operating outside of official Roman Catholic Church authority. Rosemarie Smead is one of about 150 women around the world who have decided not to wait for the Roman Catholic Church to lift its ban on women priests, but to be ordained and start their own congregations. ... Full Story | Top |
| In a first, black voter turnout rate passes whites Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 05:51 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — America's blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time, reflecting a deeply polarized presidential election in which blacks strongly supported Barack Obama while many whites stayed home. Full Story | Top |
| 6 months after Sandy, thousands homeless in NY, NJ Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 06:55 PM PDT  MANTOLOKING, N.J. (AP) — The 9-year-old girl who got New Jersey's tough-guy governor to shed a tear as he comforted her after her home was destroyed is bummed because she now lives far from her best friend and has nowhere to hang her One Direction posters. Full Story | Top |
| Court may limit use of race in college admission decisions Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 08:09 AM PDT  By Joan Biskupic WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thirty-five years after the Supreme Court set the terms for boosting college admissions of African Americans and other minorities, the court may be about to issue a ruling that could restrict universities' use of race in deciding who is awarded places. The case before the justices was brought by Abigail Fisher, a white suburban Houston student who asserted she was wrongly rejected by the University of Texas at Austin while minority students with similar grades and test scores were admitted. ... Full Story | Top |
| A Suprising State Introduces Anti-LGBTQ Legislation Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 02:31 PM PDT While the U.S. Supreme Court deliberates over the constitutionality of same-sex marriage bans, lawmakers in some states are still bickering over whether or not it's lawful to openly discriminate against gay, lesbian and transgender communities. Full Story | Top |
| Obama chides lawmakers over flight delay fix, budget conflict Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 02:27 PM PDT  By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama chided Republicans on Saturday for approving a plan to ease air-traffic delays caused by federal spending cuts while leaving budget cuts that affect children and the elderly untouched. The Senate and the House of Representatives backed a plan this week to give the Department of Transportation flexibility to cover immediate salaries of air traffic controllers at the Federal Aviation Administration who had been furloughed as part of budget cuts known as the "sequester. ... Full Story | Top |
| Boston bomb suspect in small cell with steel door Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 08:24 PM PDT  AYER, Mass. (AP) — The Boston Marathon bombing suspect is being held in a small cell with a steel door at a federal medical detention center about 40 miles outside the city, a federal official said Saturday. Full Story | Top |
| Older Boston bombing suspect spoke of "jihad" with mother: report Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 06:44 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The older suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings spoke to his mother about "jihad" in a 2011 phone call secretly recorded by Russian officials, CBS News reported on Saturday. Authorities learned of the wiretapped discussion between Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of two ethnic Chechen brothers suspected of carrying out the April 15 blasts in Boston, and Zubeidat Tsarnaeva within the last few days, CBS said. It provided no other details. A spokesman for the FBI on Saturday declined to comment on the report. CNN quoted U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Analysis: Israeli credibility on line over Iran nuclear challenge Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 02:59 AM PDT  By Crispian Balmer and Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel risks a loss of credibility over both its "red line" for Iran's nuclear program and its threat of military action, and its room for unilateral maneuver is shrinking. After years of veiled warnings that Israel might strike the Islamic Republic, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid out an ultimatum at the United Nations last September. Iran, he said, must not amass enough uranium at 20 percent fissile purity to fuel one bomb if enriched further. ... Full Story | Top |
| Boston suspects' father postpones trip to US Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 08:33 AM PDT  MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) — The father of the two Boston bombing suspects said Sunday that he has postponed a trip from Russia to the United States because of poor health. Full Story | Top |
| Leftist priests: Francis can fix church 'in ruins' Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 08:15 AM PDT  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A new pope from Latin America known for ministering to the poor in his country's slums is raising the hopes of advocates of liberation theology, whose leftist social activism had alarmed previous pontiffs. Full Story | Top |
| Pyongyang glitters but most of NKorea still dark Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 10:07 PM PDT  PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — The heart of this city, once famous for its Dickensian darkness, now pulsates with neon. Full Story | Top |
| California government draws battle lines over schools funding Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 02:42 PM PDT By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - A controversial plan to shift billions of dollars in education funding toward the poorest school districts and away from wealthier ones is fast becoming a personal crusade for California Governor Jerry Brown, who this week promised "the battle of their lives" to legislators who dare to oppose it. ... Full Story | Top |
| Mexico detains 108 in immigration sweep; most from Central America Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 04:52 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican authorities said on Saturday they detained 108 undocumented immigrants along highways, at bus stations and on a cargo train route that thousands of Central Americans use every year to cross Mexico and enter the United States illegally. Ninety five Central Americans, mostly from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, were detained in the southern states of Oaxaca and Tabasco during sweeps by federal police in the last 24 hours, Mexico's migration institute said in a statement. Seven of the Central Americans were children, the institute said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Exclusive: Boston bomb suspects' parents retreat to village, cancel U.S. trip Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 11:42 AM PDT  By Maria Golovnina UNDISCLOSED LOCATION IN NORTH CAUCASUS, Russia (Reuters) - The parents of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects have retreated to a village in southern Russia to shelter from the spotlight and abandoned plans for now to travel to the United States, the father of the suspects told Reuters on Sunday. Speaking in the garden of a large house, Anzor Tsarnaev said he believed he would not be allowed to see his surviving son DzhokharŸ, who was captured and has been charged in connection with the April 15 bomb blasts that killed three people and wounded 264. ... Full Story | Top |
| Bangladesh owner is at nexus of politics, business Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 03:23 AM PDT  SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — When the cracks in the building appeared early Tuesday afternoon, a stocky man in his early 30s, a feared political operative who a neighbor says dropped out of school in seventh grade, quickly arrived at the scene in this crowded industrial suburb of the capital. Full Story | Top |
| Miss. man charged in suspicious letters case Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 04:06 PM PDT  BRANDON, Miss. (AP) — An ex-martial arts instructor made ricin and put the poison in letters to President Barack Obama and others, the FBI charged Saturday, days after dropping similar charges against an Elvis impersonator who insisted he had been framed. Full Story | Top |
| Kyle Richards, 44, Wants More Children: "Halle Berry is Older Than Me!" Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 01:15 PM PDT  The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star and mother of four also admits that she has a celebrity body crush on Jennifer Aniston Full Story | Top |
| Israel responds to Gaza rocket fire with airstrike Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 01:16 AM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel responded to rockets fired from the Gaza Strip with airstrikes on sites used by Islamic militant group Hamas, which rules the Palestinian territory, the military said on Sunday. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. lawmakers press Obama to take action on Syria Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 10:33 AM PDT By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican senators on Sunday pressed U.S. President Barack Obama to intervene in Syria's civil war, saying America could attack Syrian air bases with missiles but should not send in ground troops. Pressure is mounting on the White House to do more to help Syrian rebels fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad, which the Obama administration last week said had probably used chemical arms in the conflict. ... Full Story | Top |
| Dad Anticipates Tough Talks With His Teenage Daughters Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 10:00 PM PDT DEAR ABBY: As a father of two teenage daughters, I have a question about couples living together. Do relationships that start this way have a higher failure rate than those that don't? What should be considered when a young girl has the "living together" question presented to her by a young man? And most important, what can I as a father do to help my daughters make an intelligent decision about this, other than just "load my shotgun" (LOL)?As always, thank you for broadening my wisdom horizon and giving me examples of solid advice from which both my and my family's life have been enriched. ... Full Story | Top |
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