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| Are Hormones Sabotaging Your Weight Loss? Friday, Jul 26, 2013 08:42 AM PDT Katie's Take If you are fighting the dreaded battle of the bulge, it may have less to do with your willpower to hit the gym and eat low fat foods and more to do with your hormones. Marjorie Nolan Cohn, National Spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and author of The Belly Fat [...] Full Story | Top |
| Team examining Gulf shipwreck finds 2 other wrecks Friday, Jul 26, 2013 12:13 AM PDT  GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Marine archaeologists made a thrilling discovery this week while examining a well-preserved shipwreck deep in the Gulf of Mexico — two other sunken vessels that likely went down with it during an early 19th century storm. Full Story | Top |
| Green paint splattered on the Lincoln Memorial Friday, Jul 26, 2013 10:49 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Lincoln Memorial was temporarily closed Friday after someone splattered a splash of green paint on the statue. Full Story | Top |
| Juror says she owes Martin's parents apology Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 02:19 PM PDT  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The second juror to speak publicly told ABC News in an interview made available Thursday that she feels George Zimmerman got away with murder for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, but that there wasn't enough evidence at trial to convict him under Florida law. Full Story | Top |
| Tiger aims to regain winning ways at happy hunting ground Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 04:01 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Frustrated after a wasted opportunity to win last week's British Open, Tiger Woods will be back in PGA Tour action for next week's WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at one of his favorite venues as he hunts a fifth victory this year. American Woods has triumphed a record seven times at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio where he will also be looking to build momentum for the season's final major, the PGA Championship to be played the following week. "This is one of my favorite courses," world number one Woods said on his website (http://web.tigerwoods. ... Full Story | Top |
| Huma Has Lost Her Halo Friday, Jul 26, 2013 06:56 AM PDT  When Michele Bachmann picked on Huma Abedin a year ago — claiming she had some convoluted connection to the Muslim Brotherhood — there was a rush to defend the longtime Hillary Clinton aide. The Minnesota congresswoman quickly got a scolding from House Speaker John Boehner, Sen. John McCain, House Intelligence Committee chair Mile Rogers. But now that her husband, Anthony Weiner, is running for New York City mayor, the attacks on Abedin aren't so ridiculous, and Abedin herself is not quite so untouchable. Sen. ... Full Story | Top |
| Cleveland kidnapper avoids death penalty with plea deal Friday, Jul 26, 2013 11:08 AM PDT  In what might be the first act of mercy shown to his victims, the man charged with kidnapping, raping and beating three Cleveland, Ohio, women agreed to a plea deal on Friday that would spare the women the agony of reliving the horrific details of their years in captivity during a jury trial. Full Story | Top |
| Disbelief from seniors on Weiner's new sexting Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 11:36 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Retired tax auditor Jerry Stern was sitting in the front row with reporters the day in June 2011 when then-U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner — reading a short statement and ignoring the shouts from hecklers — announced his retirement from Congress at a senior center after some of his sexually-charged photographs and emails with women became public. Full Story | Top |
| Hugh Jackman's 'The Wolverine' to Stop the Bleeding at the Box Office Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 03:34 PM PDT  By Todd Cunningham LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Fox's Hugh Jackman superhero sequel "The Wolverine" is a lock to win the box office this weekend in the $75 million range, snapping a four-week run of high-priced summer flops. The only question: how high it will go? Since Brad Pitt's "World War Z" opened to a surprisingly strong $66 million on June 21, pricey blockbuster-wannabes "White House Down," "The Lone Ranger," "Pacific Rim" and "R.I.P.D." have all tanked in successive weeks. ... Full Story | Top |
| Boehner calls out Rep. King on immigration insult Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 01:07 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday elevated his criticism of fellow Republican Rep. Steve King over King's suggestion that many immigrants in the country illegally are drug runners, calling the comments "deeply offensive and wrong." Full Story | Top |
| O.J. Simpson regrets going after memorabilia Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 04:02 PM PDT  CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — O.J. Simpson went before a parole board Thursday and pleaded for leniency on his armed robbery and kidnapping sentence as he expressed regret for his actions and described being an upstanding inmate who earns pennies an hour keeping gym equipment sanitized and umpiring and coaching games in the prison yard. Full Story | Top |
| Ginsburg says push for voter ID laws predictable Friday, Jul 26, 2013 12:19 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she's not surprised that Southern states have pushed ahead with tough voter identification laws and other measures since the Supreme Court freed them from strict federal oversight of their elections. Full Story | Top |
| NTSB: Southwest jet's nose gear landed first Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 05:35 PM PDT  A Southwest Airlines jet that made a hard landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport touched down on its front nose wheel before the sturdier main landing gear in back touched down, federal investigators ... Full Story | Top |
| New health insurance markets: Not like Travelocity Friday, Jul 26, 2013 12:17 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — You may have heard that shopping for health insurance under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul will be like using Travelocity or Amazon. Full Story | Top |
| Starbucks beats on stronger sales, lower costs Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 01:23 PM PDT Starbucks says its profit climbed 25 percent in the quarter as caffeine-addicted customers helped boost sales and the company paid less for coffee costs. The results topped Wall Street expectations and ... Full Story | Top |
| Mysterious Hum Driving People Around the World Crazy Friday, Jul 26, 2013 04:52 AM PDT It creeps in slowly in the dark of night, and once inside, it almost never goes away. Full Story | Top |
| Obama hosts Ramadan dinner at White House Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 07:29 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama saluted Muslim Americans on Thursday for their contributions in helping build the nation as business entrepreneurs, technology innovators and pioneers in medicine. Full Story | Top |
| Girl Scouts auction U.S. plantation during financial struggle Friday, Jul 26, 2013 06:53 AM PDT  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - A historic Southern plantation in the United States will be sold at auction Friday by the financially troubled local Girl Scout council that has owned and used it as a camp for girls for almost five decades. The camp in South Carolina is one of dozens of Girl Scout camps in 28 states that have closed, been sold or are for sale as chapters across the United States face financial struggles, according to Save Our Scout Camps, a group fighting efforts to sell camps in Iowa and Illinois. ... Full Story | Top |
| O.J. Simpson awaits Nevada parole decision Friday, Jul 26, 2013 05:54 AM PDT CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — O.J. Simpson should know next week whether his blemish-free record behind bars and contrition for trying to take back sports memorabilia of his glory days will win him favor with the Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. assures Russia Snowden won't be executed or tortured Friday, Jul 26, 2013 10:59 AM PDT  By Darya Korsunskaya and David Ingram MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has made a formal promise to Russia not to execute or torture Edward Snowden if he is sent home to face charges of illegally disclosing government secrets, and the Kremlin said Russian and U.S. security agencies are in talks over his fate. The 30-year-old former U.S. spy agency contractor has been stuck in the transit area of a Moscow airport for more than a month despite Washington's calls to hand him over. Russia has refused to extradite Snowden, who leaked details of a secret U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Police: Warrant seeks wife of bounty hunter 'Dog' Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 02:55 PM PDT MONUMENT, Colo. (AP) — Police in Colorado say an arrest warrant has been issued for the wife of TV bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman after she was accused of verbally harassing a teenager. Full Story | Top |
| Obama says GOP opposition to debt limit 'deadbeat' Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 01:48 PM PDT  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Casting House Republicans as stubborn deadbeats, President Barack Obama sought Thursday to discredit House Republicans in upcoming fiscal fights by painting them as roadblocks to a thriving middle class. Full Story | Top |
| Tricky obstacles ahead to averting shutdown Friday, Jul 26, 2013 11:31 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite pressure from some liberal Democrats for a September showdown in hopes of ending huge automatic, government-shrinking spending cuts, Washington appears on track to avert what would be the first government shutdown in nearly two decades. Full Story | Top |
| Feds: Halliburton agrees to plead guilty in spill Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 07:51 PM PDT Halliburton Energy Services has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence in connection with the 2010 Gulf oil spill, the Department of Justice said Thursday. Federal officials said in a news release ... Full Story | Top |
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