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| Mother of newborn in sewer was present for rescue Wednesday, May 29, 2013 12:44 PM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — The mother of the Chinese newborn trapped in a sewer pipe in a stunning ordeal caught on video had raised the initial alarm and was present for the entire two-hour rescue but did not admit giving birth until confronted by police, reports said Wednesday. Full Story | Top |
| Chinese teen defaces Egypt temple; sparks outcry Tuesday, May 28, 2013 08:09 PM PDT A Chinese teenager who defaced an ancient temple in Egypt with graffiti has come under fire at home where his vandalism prompted public fretting about how to cultivate a good image overseas as more newly ... 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 |
| Does Adam Levine Hate America or Just Country Music? Wednesday, May 29, 2013 06:40 AM PDT  Last night on NBC, Adam Levine—the tattooed, six-packed bro of Maroon 5 turned "coach" on The Voice—faced off with either all of the nation or at least the vast swath of it that loves country music. Either way you read it, Levine lost a war with a hot mic when, disappointed with the results of The Voice's top six voting, he muttered "I hate this country" live on national television. 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Old Torah scroll found in Italy university library Wednesday, May 29, 2013 12:25 PM PDT ROME (AP) — An Italian expert in Hebrew manuscripts said Wednesday he has discovered the oldest known complete Torah scroll, a sheepskin document dating from 1155-1225. It was right under his nose, in the University of Bologna library, where it had been mistakenly catalogued a century ago as dating from the 17th century. Full Story | Top |
| Crazy Isn't as Crazy Was: How the GOP Ran Out of Use for Michele Bachmann Wednesday, May 29, 2013 07:59 AM PDT  Michele Bachmann's career took off in November 2008, when she told MSNBC's Chris Matthews that reporters needed to "do a penetrating exposé" on members of Congress to "find out if they are pro-America or anti-America." Given then-Sen. Barack Obama's sketchy past, she said, "What it is that Barack Obama really believes?" Democrats gave her opponent $8 million in 10 days, but she won anyway. ... 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 |
| Trayvon Martin Drug Photos Can't Be Mentioned, Says Judge Tuesday, May 28, 2013 02:53 PM PDT  Lawyers for George Zimmerman Want to Show Photos of Trayvon Martin's Drug Use Full Story | Top |
| House chairman subpoenas documents on Benghazi Tuesday, May 28, 2013 02:14 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee issued subpoenas on Tuesday for State Department documents related to the widely debunked talking points about the cause of the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year. Full Story | Top |
| Ho! Ho! Ho! ‘Merry Christmas Bill’ expected to become law in Texas soon Wednesday, May 29, 2013 05:36 AM PDT After a good amount of hoopla, Texas Governor Rick Perry is expected to quietly sign legislation allowing public schools to celebrate Christmas and other winter holidays plainly and explicitly without fear of lawsuits. Full Story | Top |
| Attorney general signed off on Fox phone records subpoena: sources Tuesday, May 28, 2013 04:17 PM PDT  By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder personally approved a decision to subpoena Fox News telephone records as the Justice Department investigated an unauthorized leak regarding North Korea, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The U.S. Justice Department did not mention the subpoena when it issued a statement on Friday describing how Holder had vetted a decision to seek a search warrant for the contents of an email account used by Fox News reporter James Rosen. ... Full Story | Top |
| Rand Paul's Funny Obamacare Codes Have Been in Development Since 1994 Tuesday, May 28, 2013 03:03 PM PDT  At a Republican Party event in Iowa earlier this month, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky did a bit about the scale of Obamacare's diagnostic coding. It killed. The only problem was that Paul's critique of the new codes are a critique of codes that aren't new and aren't Obamacare. A lot of them aren't even American. Full Story | Top |
| Rep. Bachmann says she won't run for re-election Wednesday, May 29, 2013 10:22 AM PDT  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman whose sharply conservative views on social and fiscal issues elevated her to a leader of the tea party movement, announced Wednesday she will not seek a fifth term but insisted the decision was unrelated to ethics inquiries or her near-loss last fall. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. drone kills Pakistan Taliban Number two: security officials Wednesday, May 29, 2013 03:50 AM PDT  By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A U.S. drone strike killed the number two of the Pakistani Taliban in the North Waziristan region on Wednesday, three security officials said, in what would be a major blow in the fight against militancy. The drone strike killed seven people, Pakistani security officials said, including Taliban deputy commander Wali-ur-Rehman, in the first such attack since a May 11 general election in which the use of the unmanned aircraft was a major issue. ... Full Story | Top |
| Michele Bachmann Is Quitting Under Fire Wednesday, May 29, 2013 05:19 AM PDT  Rep. Michele Bachmann, the notorious four-term congresswoman whose political star power, like the Tea Party movement she came to embody, has quietly faded almost as quickly as it so vehemently burst onto the national scene, will not seek reelection in Minnesota's 6th Congressional District. Full Story | Top |
| Records: Teen wrote detailed plans for school plot Tuesday, May 28, 2013 04:40 PM PDT  CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon teen accused of planning an assault on his high school wrote detailed plans to "shoot and throw bombs throughout the school," then kill himself before engaging with responding police officers, according to court documents released Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| International Astronaut Crew Arrives at Space Station in Record Time Tuesday, May 28, 2013 07:38 PM PDT  An international trio of astronauts has just become the newest residents of a space station in orbit after a record-setting trip. Full Story | Top |
| To Save Holder, the White House Tries to Keep the GOP from Meeting the Press Wednesday, May 29, 2013 08:43 AM PDT  Despite strong opposition from conservatives, Eric Holder has never faced any real threat to his position. That's largely because the threats have never been substantive; the most serious, Fast and Furious, landed some distance from his desk, and the media didn't bite at right-wing efforts to make it a big deal. But the Department of Justice's heavy-handed media subpoenas and search warrants have shifted that perspective, aligning the media for the first time with the interests of a Republican Congress antsy to see Holder go. ... Full Story | Top |
| $1M bail for man accused in baby-freezer case Wednesday, May 29, 2013 12:46 AM PDT TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Bail was set at $1 million Tuesday for a 25-year-old Washington man accused of putting his 6-week-old daughter in a 10-degree freezer for about an hour to stop her crying. 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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