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| Is the U.S. working to de-escalate a North Korean standoff? Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 02:40 AM PDT Warships might not sail, more missile tests might be postponed, potentially provocative photos of bombers will stay under wraps: After a muscular, even aggressive early response to North Korea's nuclear saber-rattling, the United States has shifted into a more cautious mode, eager to avoid giving Pyongyang any excuse for further escalation, officials say. The White [...] Full Story | Top |
| Hooters Waitress Says Post-Brain Surgery Appearance Cost Her Job Monday, Apr 08, 2013 04:02 PM PDT Sandra Lupo Couldn't Wear a Wig Because It Caused 'Extreme Stress' to Her Wound, Lawsuit Says Full Story | Top |
| How the NRA won Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 06:55 AM PDT Most Americans support tougher gun control measures. Too bad the gun lobby has so many politicians in its pocket Full Story | Top |
| Navy's New Laser Weapon Blasts Bad Guys From Air, Sea Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 04:13 AM PDT  Brass Promises a Cheap and Effective Laser For Navy Ships Full Story | Top |
| North Korea warns foreigners to leave South amid new threats of war Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 06:07 AM PDT By Christine Kim and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea intensified threats of an imminent conflict against the United States and the South on Tuesday, warning foreigners to evacuate South Korea to avoid being dragged into "thermonuclear war". The North's latest message belied an atmosphere free of anxiety in the South Korean capital, where the city center was bustling with traffic and offices operated normally. Pyongyang has shown no sign of preparing its 1. ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama to bring some Sandy Hook families on AF1 Monday, Apr 08, 2013 02:38 PM PDT  HARTFORD, Conn. (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 |
| Exclusive : Beyonce, Jay-Z visited Cuba with Treasury Department OK - source Monday, Apr 08, 2013 03:49 PM PDT By David Adams MIAMI (Reuters) - A visit by American pop star Beyonce and rapper husband Jay-Z to Havana last week was a cultural trip that was fully licensed by the U.S. Treasury Department, a source familiar with the itinerary said on Monday. The longstanding U.S. trade embargo against Cuba prevents most Americans from traveling to the communist-led island without a license granted by the U.S. government. ... Full Story | Top |
| Father sobs on 911 after kids buried in collapse Monday, Apr 08, 2013 05:33 PM PDT  STANLEY, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man tearfully begged authorities to hurry to his house to rescue his daughter and her cousin, who were buried when the walls of a 24-foot deep pit he dug on his property collapsed. Full Story | Top |
| Rick Santorum’s Dire Warning on Gay Marriage Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 07:50 AM PDT "The Republican party's not going to change on this issue." Full Story | Top |
| McConnell campaign asks FBI to probe recording of private meeting on Ashley Judd Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 08:22 AM PDT Liberal news website Mother Jones on Tuesday morning published audio from a private February discussion between Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and aides about the Kentucky Republican's 2014 re-election campaign and potential Democratic challenger Ashley Judd. The audio and transcripts—billed as a "secret tape" by Washington Bureau chief David Corn—show the McConnell camp discussing how [...] Full Story | Top |
| Two-step method for ensuring moist roasted chicken Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 08:00 AM PDT  The curse of roasted chicken — especially when you are working with parts rather than a whole bird — is how easily is dries out. A few too many minutes in the oven can be all it takes to go from juicy to chewy. Full Story | Top |
| Rubio seeks to assure GOP that immigration overhaul will create toughest enforcement laws in U.S. history Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 02:30 AM PDT At a private meeting on Wednesday afternoon, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio will brief his fellow Republican senators on the details of a comprehensive immigration reform plan set to be released sometime over the next week, and he is expected to assure them that the legislation will contain the "the toughest immigration enforcement laws in U.S. [...] Full Story | Top |
| Calif. court: Motorist can't use hand-held map Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 06:33 AM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Steven Spriggs was stopped in a traffic jam near downtown Fresno and thought nothing of whipping out his iPhone 4 and clicking on the map feature to see if there was an alternate route around the construction mess. Full Story | Top |
| Conn. Father’s Stunning Claim: Son’s School Is Teaching That Americans Don’t Have the Right to Bear Arms Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 07:00 AM PDT "The courts have never found a law regulating the private ownership of weapons unconstitutional." Full Story | Top |
| Democrats Call Mitch McConnell 'Washington's Top Roadblock' Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 08:56 AM PDT  ABC News' Michael Falcone reports: A pro-Democratic super PAC unveiled an online campaign on Tuesday that aims to draw attention to what the group says is Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's "record of putting Washington's interests above Kentucky's." The Senate Majority PAC has created a... Full Story | Top |
| Afghan women in Kabul prison over 'moral' crimes Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 06:17 AM PDT  KABUL (AP) — Lost and alone in a strange city Mariam called the only person she knew, her husband's cousin. She worried he wouldn't help her because she had left her home in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province, fleeting to the capital Kabul to escape his relentless and increasingly vicious beatings. But he promised to help. Too busy to come himself he sent a friend who took her to "some house", held a gun to her head and raped her. Full Story | Top |
| Admiral says North Korea is direct threat to US Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 07:44 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. military commander in the Pacific said Tuesday that North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic missiles represents a clear and direct threat to the United States and its allies in the region. Full Story | Top |
| Japan increasingly nervous about North Korea nukes Monday, Apr 08, 2013 07:50 PM PDT  TOKYO (AP) — It's easy to write off North Korea's threats to strike the United States with a nuclear-tipped missile as bluster: It has never demonstrated the capability to deploy a missile that could reach the Pacific island of Guam, let alone the mainland U.S. Full Story | Top |
| Stars ask to help Obama change drug, jail policy Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 05:50 AM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lil Wayne, Ron Howard, Scarlett Johansson and Kim Kardashian are all on the same page when it comes to criminal justice reform. Full Story | Top |
| Mark Kelly Says 'Failure Is Not An Option' on Universal Background Checks Monday, Apr 08, 2013 05:02 PM PDT ABC News's Jonathan Karl and Shushannah Walshe Report: Mark Kelly isn't taking no for an answer. "Failure is not an option," Kelly, former astronaut and husband of Gabby Giffords, told ABC News' Jonathan Karl in an interview, stressing that he's doing everything in his power... Full Story | Top |
| Egypt's Christian pope blasts Islamist president Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 09:48 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — The leader of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church on Tuesday blasted the country's Islamist president over his handling of recent deadly sectarian violence, including an attack on the main cathedral in Cairo. Full Story | Top |
| GOP Congressman’s Gay Son Claims CNN, MSNBC Cancelled When He Refused to Bash His Dad for Not Supporting Gay Marriage Monday, Apr 08, 2013 08:26 PM PDT Both networks dispute allegations. Full Story | Top |
| Science: Women Prefer Larger Penises Monday, Apr 08, 2013 01:31 PM PDT "I like small penises," said no women interviewed for an actually scientific study released Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, or PNAS. Yes, PNAS is a funny sounding acronym, and, yes, PNAS has found that size does matter — and that women prefer "showers" to "growers." Full Story | Top |
| Glenn Beck: ‘If You Have Ears to Hear and Eyes to See, Look Into Transformational Education’ Monday, Apr 08, 2013 08:34 PM PDT "They are airing an announcement that your kids do not belong to you." Full Story | Top |
| Baboon sounds may hold key to origins of human speech Monday, Apr 08, 2013 01:38 PM PDT They may not sound familiar, but the gurgling and lip-smacking noises made by gelada baboons could shed light on the origins of human speech, researchers say. Thore Bergman, assistant professor at the University of Michigan and head author of a study that looked at the primates, told Yahoo News in an email that geladas made [...] Full Story | Top |
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