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| Man buys toy poodles, discovers they’re actually ferrets on steroids Monday, Apr 08, 2013 05:59 AM PDT An Argentine man who thought he bought a pair of poodles at an outdoor market in Buenos Aires brought them home to the vet only to be told they were actually ferrets on steroids, reports the Daily Mail. The man, a retiree from Catamarca, purchased the animals at La Salada, Argentina's largest bazaar. The veterinarian [...] Full Story | Top |
| Is North Korea on the brink of war? Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 01:17 PM PDT Politicians and pundits painted a pretty bleak picture of the situation in North Korea on the Sunday talk-show circuit, with South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham predicting a "major war" breaking out if Kim Jong Un attacks South Korea. "The North Koreans need to understand if they attack an American interest or an ally of this [...] Full Story | Top |
| Broadcasters worry about 'Zero TV' homes Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 04:17 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Some people have had it with TV. They've had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don't like timing their lives around network show schedules. They're tired of $100-plus monthly bills. Full Story | Top |
| Cold case arrest prompts cross-country probe Monday, Apr 08, 2013 01:54 AM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Los Angeles cold case detectives caught up with Samuel Little this past fall, he was living in a Christian shelter in Kentucky, his latest arrest a few months earlier for alleged possession of a crack pipe. But the LA investigators wanted him on far more serious charges: The slayings of two women in 1989, both found strangled and nude below the waist — victims of what police concluded had been sexually motivated strangulations. Full Story | Top |
| NKorea recalling workers from jointly run factory Monday, Apr 08, 2013 05:04 AM PDT SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Monday it will suspend operations at a factory complex it has jointly run with South Korea, pulling out more than 53,000 North Korean workers and moving closer to severing its last economic link with its rival as tensions escalate. Full Story | Top |
| China rebukes North Korea, says no state should sow chaos Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 04:15 PM PDT  By Ben Blanchard and Jane Chung BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) - China's leaders issued thinly veiled rebukes to North Korea for raising regional tensions, with the president saying no country should throw the world into chaos and the foreign minister warning that Beijing would not allow mischief on its doorstep. The weekend comments were the strongest yet by China in response to more than a month of North Korean rhetoric that has included threats to launch a nuclear attack on the United States and to wage war with Seoul. ... Full Story | Top |
| North Korea suspends last project with South, Putin cites Chernobyl Monday, Apr 08, 2013 05:14 AM PDT By Christine Kim PAJU, South Korea (Reuters) - North Korea suspended its sole remaining major project with the South on Monday, after weeks of threats against the United States and South Korea, as Russian President Vladimir Putin said any nuclear conflict could make Chernobyl look like a fairy tale. ... Full Story | Top |
| Gay rights activists, topless protesters greet Putin Monday, Apr 08, 2013 12:22 PM PDT  By Alexei Anishchuk and Thomas Escritt AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin defended Russia's treatment of homosexuals on Monday in Amsterdam, where 1,000 gay rights activists waved pink and orange balloons and blasted out dance music to press home their protest. Western nations need Russia for energy and as a market for exports but are uneasy about Putin's human rights policies and his treatment of opponents in his new Kremlin term. ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama to bring some Sandy Hook families on AF1 Monday, Apr 08, 2013 11:33 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is providing a ride on Air Force One to 11 relatives of those killed at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School so they can attend his gun control speech Monday before heading to Washington to personally plead with senators reluctant to back gun legislation. Full Story | Top |
| All about immigration: Green cards? Citizenship? Monday, Apr 08, 2013 01:52 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — This may be the year Congress decides what to do about the millions of immigrants living illegally in the U.S. And this may be the week when a bipartisan group of senators makes public details of the overhaul plan it has been negotiating for months. Full Story | Top |
| New Culprit in Red Meat Linked with Heart Disease Monday, Apr 08, 2013 05:23 AM PDT The high amounts of saturated fat and cholesterol in red meat have long been blamed for increasing people's risk of heart disease. But now, new research points a finger at another culprit in meat that may be more closely tied to this leading killer. Full Story | Top |
| TIME’s Joe Klein: It Is ‘Anti-American’ And Paranoid to Think the Government Might Oppress You Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 05:28 PM PDT "And that is paranoia that these groups like the NRA, the Gun Owners of America, they feed this crap and it really is anti-American." Full Story | Top |
| 5,000 NYC pay phones will take you back to 1993 Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 01:11 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Want to journey to a grittier time in New York City's not-too-distant past, when the murder rate was sky-high, Times Square was a crossroads of crime and porn, Starbucks had yet to arrive, and hardly anyone owned a cellphone? Full Story | Top |
| Pentagon struggles with high cost of health care Monday, Apr 08, 2013 02:35 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The loud, insistent calls in Washington to rein in the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare ignore a major and expensive entitlement program — the military's health care system. Full Story | Top |
| Glenn Beck Eviscerates MSNBC Promo Claiming Your Kids Belong to the ‘Whole Community’ — and Makes Some Scary Connections Monday, Apr 08, 2013 09:16 AM PDT "It is so far beyond what we have ever thought as a nation, it's remarkable." Full Story | Top |
| They’re (almost) here! The cicadas are coming Monday, Apr 08, 2013 08:19 AM PDT It's not a welcomed reunion, but after 17 years the cicadas are set to return to the East Coast. Insect experts say that starting in mid April to late May, residents from North Carolina to New England will witness the emergence of billions upon billions of the singing insects. For them to emerge, the ground [...] Full Story | Top |
| Kayaker helps save family after crash into river Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 06:24 PM PDT KYBURZ, Calif. (AP) — A kayaker was being credited with helping to save a family of five after their SUV had veered off a road and ended up in a Northern California river. Full Story | Top |
| Hamas shaves heads of Gaza youths with long hair Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 04:30 PM PDT  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Police in Hamas-ruled Gaza have started grabbing young men with long or gel-styled spiky hair off the streets, bundling them into jeeps, mocking them and shaving their heads, two of those targeted and a rights group said Sunday. Full Story | Top |
| Immigration Plan Will Be Ready This Week, Sen. Chuck Schumer Says Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 04:54 PM PDT  WASHINGTON — As the Senate returns from recess this week, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said he thinks the bi-partisan Gang of Eight will have its immigration plan completed by the end of the week. "We hope that we can have a bipartisan agreement among the... Full Story | Top |
| Rhode Island's tallest building will soon go dark Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 02:34 PM PDT  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island's tallest building will soon be its most visible symbol of the state's long economic decline. Full Story | Top |
| Chelsea Clinton doesn’t rule out bid for public office Monday, Apr 08, 2013 08:43 AM PDT After years of refusing to talk to the press, Chelsea Clinton has gradually raised her public profile over the past year, inking a deal as a special correspondent for NBC News and taking on a more prominent role in the Clinton Foundation—run by her father, former President Bill Clinton. Not surprisingly, that has led to [...] Full Story | Top |
| Record-breaking imperial Chinese bowl shines at Hong Kong sale Monday, Apr 08, 2013 04:04 AM PDT By Grace Li HONG KONG (Reuters) - A red bowl with a lotus pattern broke the world record for Chinese Kangxi ceramics on Monday, fetching over $9 million after a bidding war won by a Hong Kong ceramics dealer at the last day of spring sales for global auctioneer Sotheby's. The five days of sales in wine, jewelry, Asian and Chinese art, ceramics and watches, an indicator of China's appetite for luxury goods, are being keenly watched after sluggish economic growth in 2012 and a crackdown on lavish official spending. ... Full Story | Top |
| Special Report: Buddhist monks incite Muslim killings in Myanmar Monday, Apr 08, 2013 04:05 AM PDT  By Jason Szep MEIKHTILA, Myanmar (Reuters) - The Buddhist monk grabbed a young Muslim girl and put a knife to her neck. "If you follow us, I'll kill her," the monk taunted police, according to a witness, as a Buddhist mob armed with machetes and swords chased nearly 100 Muslims in this city in central Myanmar. It was Thursday, March 21. Within hours, up to 25 Muslims had been killed. The Buddhist mob dragged their bloodied bodies up a hill in a neighborhood called Mingalarzay Yone and set the corpses on fire. Some were found butchered in a reedy swamp. ... Full Story | Top |
| Israel comes to standstill to remember Holocaust Monday, Apr 08, 2013 05:42 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel came to a standstill for two mournful minutes Monday as sirens pierced the air in an annual ritual to remember the 6 million Jews systematically murdered by German Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust in World War II. Full Story | Top |
| Iron Lady Thatcher changed face of Britain Monday, Apr 08, 2013 07:32 AM PDT By Stephen Addison and Adrian Croft LONDON (Reuters) - Margaret Thatcher, the "Iron Lady", was a towering figure in British 20th century politics, a grocer's daughter with a steely resolve who was loved and loathed in equal measure as she crushed the unions and privatised large swathes of industry. She died on Monday, aged 87, after suffering a stroke. During her life in politics some worshipped her as a moderniser who transformed the country, others bitterly accused her of entrenching the divide between the rich and the poor. ... Full Story | Top |
| Truth Behind Gospel of Judas Revealed in Ancient Inks Monday, Apr 08, 2013 08:37 AM PDT  A long-lost gospel that casts Judas as a co-conspirator of Jesus, rather than a betrayer, was ruled most likely authentic in 2006. Now, scientists reveal they couldn't have made the call without a series of far more mundane documents, including Ancient Egyptian marriage licenses and property contracts. Full Story | Top |
| Germany: Thieves swipe 5 tons of chocolate spread Monday, Apr 08, 2013 03:33 AM PDT  BERLIN (AP) — These thieves might really have sticky fingers. Full Story | Top |
| Raucous debate on immigration to get under way Monday, Apr 08, 2013 06:40 AM PDT  Senators writing a comprehensive immigration bill hope to finish their work this week, opening what's sure to be a raucous public debate over measures to secure the border, allow tens of thousands of foreign ... Full Story | Top |
| What would the Senate look like without the 17th Amendment? Monday, Apr 08, 2013 07:15 AM PDT It's the 100th anniversary of the 17th Amendment, leading us to consider what today's U.S. Senate would look like if its members weren't directly elected by voters. Full Story | Top |
| White House to bring Newtown families aboard Air Force One Monday, Apr 08, 2013 08:42 AM PDT UPDATE 1:55 p.m. ET Air Force One will fly 11 family members of victims of the Newtown, Conn., shootings to Washington with President Barack Obama after his speech on Monday on gun violence at the University of Hartford, the White House confirmed. White House press secretary Jay Carney said at Monday's press briefing that, before [...] Full Story | Top |
| Mom: 'BUCKWILD' star a Christian, now in heaven Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 04:46 PM PDT  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — For all his on-camera carousing and cussing, "BUCKWILD" reality TV star Shain Gandee was a publicly proclaimed and baptized Christian, and his mother told hundreds of mourners Sunday that she will see him again. Full Story | Top |
| Former SEAL Has Special Message for Bloomberg in New NRA Video: If You Really Cared About Freedom… Monday, Apr 08, 2013 08:54 AM PDT "What have those guys ever accomplished that gives them any credibility on the subject of personal protection?" Full Story | Top |
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