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| Bachmann’s rise and fall—and what it says about the GOP Wednesday, May 29, 2013 11:26 AM PDT There was a time, albeit brief, when polls showed Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann topping the 2012 Republican presidential primary field. And that tells you something about the challenges the GOP faces as it tries to rebrand itself as a viable party in presidential politics. Bachmann, who announced Wednesday she would not seek re-election to the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Scientists say newly discovered woolly mammoth blood boosts cloning prospects Wednesday, May 29, 2013 11:17 AM PDT A team of scientists says blood recovered from the preserved carcass of a woolly mammoth is reviving hopes that the extinct creature could one day be cloned back into existence. "When we broke the ice beneath her stomach, the blood flowed out from there. It was very dark," said Semyon Grigoryev, a Russian scientist who [...] Full Story | Top |
| 6 things People teaches you about Chris Christie (and 1 thing you suspected) Wednesday, May 29, 2013 11:04 AM PDT New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's workout routine soundtrack includes Bruce Springsteen, Van Halen, Aerosmith, "older Bryan Adams stuff" and Rob Thomas. That's just one of the choice nuggets (two, if you count "he has a regular workout schedule") in the rowdy Republican's exclusive interview with People Magazine, which hits newsstands on Friday. Read the whole [...] Full Story | Top |
| Cicada cam gives users frightening glimpse of ‘swarmageddon’ Wednesday, May 29, 2013 10:11 AM PDT The great cicada invasion of 2013 has begun in earnest on the East Coast, with hundreds of thousands of the noisy, sex-crazed insects popping up from Georgia to Connecticut. Discovery.com is looking to capitalize on the peculiar craze with a cicada cam, providing live, streaming video of the Brood II cicadas covering a replica of [...] Full Story | Top |
| Good Samaritan rescues 3 after car crashes into swimming pool Wednesday, May 29, 2013 09:34 AM PDT A grandmother and her two granddaughters have a good Samaritan to thank for their safe rescue after they drove into a swimming pool. The scary incident happened on Tuesday afternoon in Yorba Linda, Calif. Neighbor Anita Campbell heard what sounded like an explosion and children crying, and she took action. She found a car with [...] Full Story | Top |
| Japanese funeral home ad re-creates skeleton with flowers Wednesday, May 29, 2013 09:18 AM PDT It's common practice to have a floral arrangement at a funeral. But a new ad for a Japanese funeral home is showcasing a unique twist by using pressed flowers to re-create the shape of the human skeleton. The image, titled Life Is Endless, is composed of a variety of colorful flowers. "The March 11th earthquake [...] Full Story | Top |
| New virus called ‘threat to the entire world’ Wednesday, May 29, 2013 08:20 AM PDT The first death in France from a new SARS-like coronavirus brings the worldwide total for the disease to 27 deaths and 49 infections, CNN reports. The 65-year-old Frenchman was diagnosed after returning from a stay in Dubai. According to CNN, the World Health Organization has said the disease was first seen in Saudi Arabia last [...] Full Story | Top |
| Spot a Bad Hotel – Before You Book Wednesday, May 29, 2013 08:13 AM PDT How to decode online listings to find the best hotels - and avoid the worst. Full Story | Top |
| Eric Holder to meet with media bureau chiefs Wednesday, May 29, 2013 08:07 AM PDT Attorney General Eric Holder will meet with several media bureau chiefs over the next two days as part of a review of Justice Department policies, a department official confirmed on Wednesday. The review was ordered last week by President Barack Obama after recent controversies over leak investigations. From the official: These meetings will begin a [...] Full Story | Top |
| Missing man walks up to news crew reporting on … missing man Wednesday, May 29, 2013 07:40 AM PDT A local television news crew reporting on a missing Maine man found him as they were about to shoot a live update near his home. Robert McDonough, a 73-year-old who suffers from dementia, had been missing for more than 14 hours when he walked past the WMTW News 8 crew camped out on the side [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama explains lipstick on his collar Wednesday, May 29, 2013 06:47 AM PDT President Barack Obama had some explaining to do. The commander in chief arrived at the East Room for an event Tuesday night honoring Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders—one of whom had shown him some love. There to speak of their contributions, he began his remarks by discussing a very red mark on his collar left by [...] Full Story | Top |
| Scientists say: Give drones a chance Wednesday, May 29, 2013 05:46 AM PDT ATLANTA—As dozens of protesters waved signs proclaiming, "Stop Assassinations: Ground the Drones!" outside the Grand Hyatt on Tuesday, a room full of scientists, oblivious to their demonstrations, raptly watched a 30-minute PowerPoint presentation about "riparian vegetation," "river morphology" and the helpful qualities of beaver dams. The researchers who came from around the world to attend [...] Full Story | Top |
| Tsarnaev’s first phone call to mom: ‘Be patient. Everything will be fine.’ Wednesday, May 29, 2013 05:30 AM PDT Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, says she has spoken with her son for the first time since his arrest. "I couldn't stop myself from crying," Tsarnaeva said in an phone interview with Bloomberg News late Monday from her home in Dagestan, Russia. "He said: 'I am absolutely fine; my [...] Full Story | Top |
| Vets advocate: Obama must ‘step up’ to shrink disability benefits backlog Wednesday, May 29, 2013 04:07 AM PDT Top Line With nearly 900,000 veterans waiting to hear from the Veterans Administration about disability benefits claims—and the average wait time stretching to almost 300 days—the advocacy group Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) is calling on the president to make policy changes that will help diminish the backlog. IAVA's Chief Policy Officer Tom [...] Full Story | Top |
| Democrat seeks to topple Nikki Haley without sounding too much like a Democrat Wednesday, May 29, 2013 02:40 AM PDT COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Democratic state Sen. Vincent Sheheen, who is planning to challenge Republican Gov. Nikki Haley in 2014, says he wants nothing to do with Washington—but not in quite the same way Haley does. "I don't keep up with what's going on nationally," Sheheen told Yahoo News in an interview earlier this [...] Full Story | Top |
| Michele Bachmann won’t seek re-election Wednesday, May 29, 2013 01:48 AM PDT Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann said early Wednesday that she will not run for re-election in 2014. The Minnesota conservative made the announcement in a video posted on her website. "After a great deal of thought and deliberation, I have decided next year I will not seek a fifth congressional term," Bachmann said in the eight-and-a-half-minute [...] Full Story | Top |
| Commuters say teakettle billboard looks like Hitler Tuesday, May 28, 2013 06:18 PM PDT A billboard along the 405 Freeway in Southern California is generating all sorts of buzz. But the cause of the attention does not exactly align with the intended effect. That's because a number of people are saying the new JCPenney teakettle bears a striking resemblance to Adolf Hitler. The teakettle in question is formerly known [...] Full Story | Top |
| 400-year-old plants show signs of life in lab Tuesday, May 28, 2013 03:44 PM PDT Plants dating to the Little Ice Age discovered in the Arctic have come back to life. These plants are not your typical houseplant. Called bryophytes, the species is known to stay dried-out during long, cold winters and then come back to life after a time. But weathering 400 years in a frozen glacier—that was the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Fifth-grader born without hands plays trombone in honors band Tuesday, May 28, 2013 02:54 PM PDT  Sara McKinney was born without hands, but that hasn't stopped the fifth-grade musician from tackling life's challenges. An NJ.com profile explains that Sara recently earned a seat in the South Jersey Elementary Honors Band, which is made up of the eight counties in southern New Jersey. Her music teacher, Gary Schneider, told NJ.com that Sara [...] Full Story | Top |
| Super PAC supporting Clinton presidential bid names finance chairs Tuesday, May 28, 2013 02:49 PM PDT Ready for Hillary, a super PAC supporting a possible Hillary Clinton presidential bid in 2016, announced on Tuesday that longtime Clinton fundraiser Susie Tompkins Buell and Houston lawyers Steve and Amber Mostyn would lead the organization's national finance committee. The addition of high-profile fundraising talent is the latest sign of the group's seriousness and depth [...] Full Story | Top |
| Weiner, gaining in polls, attends his first NYC mayoral debate Tuesday, May 28, 2013 02:24 PM PDT NEW YORK—Former Rep. Anthony Weiner made his first debate appearance as a candidate for New York City mayor as a new poll found him gaining ground in the race. The new Marist Poll found Weiner trailing his chief rival, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, 19 percent to Quinn's 24 percent. That was a shift from [...] Full Story | Top |
| House GOP targets close Clinton aides in latest Benghazi demand Tuesday, May 28, 2013 01:23 PM PDT House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) on Tuesday issued subpoenas for all State Department documents related to inaccurate talking points used to explain the Benghazi, Libya, terrorist attack. "The State Department has not lived up to the Administration's broad and unambiguous promises of cooperation with Congress. Therefore, I am left with [...] Full Story | Top |
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