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| Penguins on parade in African-themed costumes Friday, May 31, 2013 12:21 PM PDT Penguins already are a dapper-looking bunch. But add African-themed costumes to the black-and-white birds, put them in a parade and you've got quite a sight. The march of the dressed-up penguins is making waves on the Web. According to Sky News, the birds were trotted out in African garb at the Yokohama's Hakkeijima Sea Paradise [...] Full Story | Top |
| Bachmann’s departure came as a surprise to tea party organizers Friday, May 31, 2013 10:14 AM PDT Earlier this month, while planning a press conference with other lawmakers and tea party leaders in response to the Internal Revenue Service's unfair targeting of conservatives, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann told Tea Party Patriots national coordinator Jenny Beth Martin that she longed to travel and speak to tea party groups more often than she had [...] Full Story | Top |
| Video shows Boston bombing suspects at the gym three days before attacks Friday, May 31, 2013 09:30 AM PDT A video shows the Boston Marathon bombing suspects working out at a gym only days before the attacks. According to CNN, the video captures Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at Wai Kru, a mixed martial arts center, with a friend on Friday, April 12, at 2:45 p.m. The bombing took place the following Monday. The video [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama pressures Congress to prevent student loan rate increase Friday, May 31, 2013 07:22 AM PDT President Barack Obama on Friday publicly called on Congress to prevent Stafford student loan interest rates from doubling this summer. The president, who spent time on the 2012 campaign trail speaking out against a rate increase, spoke in the Rose Garden on Friday surrounded by college students. He pressed Congress to extend current rates or [...] Full Story | Top |
| Cleveland hero Charles Ramsey to become a paid speaker Friday, May 31, 2013 07:18 AM PDT The Cleveland man who become an overnight celebrity after he freed three young women believed to have been held captive for a decade will now get a chance to cash in on his fame. Ramsey has signed with Bruce Merrin's Celebrity Speakers and Entertainment Bureau, it was announced on Thursday. According to NBC News, Ramsey [...] Full Story | Top |
| This week in history Friday, May 31, 2013 06:19 AM PDT This week in history: Joan of Arc was martyred, a ballet causes a riot, and two people made it to the top of Everest for the first time. Plus, London's Big Ben clock goes into operation. Read all about it. Joan of Arc martyred Considered a heroine of France, the 18-year-old claimed to hear the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Donald Rumsfeld on Afghanistan War: “It’s not combat, as such” Friday, May 31, 2013 04:23 AM PDT Politics Confidential Donald Rumsfeld made a habit of collecting adages to live by over the course of his decades-long government career. His collection began as a stack of index cards, which then transformed into a White House document dubbed "Rumsfeld's Rules" by President Ford, and has now evolved into a book. Most of Rumsfeld's new [...] Full Story | Top |
| Drones to enter public skies in 2015: Will it be safe? Friday, May 31, 2013 02:58 AM PDT Nothing stresses out drone enthusiasts more than reading in the news that some hobbyist decided to pilot a homemade, remote-controlled helicopter drone over Alcatraz or, as in a reported case in March, test out a three-foot-wide drone near a jetliner landing at John F. Kennedy airport. "People like that make our lives more difficult," said [...] Full Story | Top |
| Seven months after Sandy, Rockaway residents get their subway back Thursday, May 30, 2013 01:59 PM PDT Jose Hernandez and his wife, Carry, were riding on a New York City subway car on Thursday when the news came through the speakers: The final stop would be Far Rockaway, Queens. They stood up and cheered. "We haven't seen this in a long time," said Carry Hernandez. The longtime residents of the Rockaways, home [...] Full Story | Top |
| Fossil remains may contain the world’s first bird specimen Thursday, May 30, 2013 01:40 PM PDT A fossil largely forgotten inside a Chinese museum might actually contain the world's first bird. Nature magazine reports that the Aurornis xui specimen was technically discovered by a Chinese farmer several years ago. But it had remained unidentified until paleontologist Pascal Godefroit stumbled across the fossil last year in the museum at the Fossil and [...] Full Story | Top |
| Michigan’s Dingell to become longest-serving U.S. lawmaker Thursday, May 30, 2013 01:26 PM PDT Fifty-seven years, five months and 26 days. Come next Friday, June 7, that's how long Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., will have served in the U.S. Congress—breaking the record set by the late Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., for longest-serving American lawmaker. Dingell first took the oath of office in 1955. In a rare truce amid partisan [...] Full Story | Top |
| New York Aquarium’s Jon Dohlin: ‘It Takes More Than Hurricane Sandy to Get a Walrus to Even Blink’ Friday, May 31, 2013 10:41 AM PDT When superstorm Sandy barreled up the East Coast with wind speeds nearing 100 miles per hour and a 12-foot storm surge, it could almost be called a nonevent for a certain population living just off the Coney Island boardwalk. "Let me tell you something. It takes a lot more than Hurricane Sandy to get a [...] Full Story | Top |
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