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| George Zimmerman armed during recent Texas traffic stop Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 01:48 PM PDT  DALLAS – George Zimmerman, who was recently acquitted in the controversial shooting death of Trayvon Martin, had a handgun in his truck's glove box when a Texas police officer pulled him over for speeding near Dallas last Sunday, authorities say. Full Story | Top |
| Banish Those Bingo Wings Thursday, Aug 01, 2013 04:28 AM PDT Katie's Take We are in the midst of summer, those lovely three months a year that are filled with beach days and backyard barbecues. But if your winter arms didn't get the memo that sundress and tank top season are in full swing, fear not – Celebrity Fitness Trainer, Tracy Anderson has the workout that [...] Full Story | Top |
| George Zimmerman pulled over by Texas police Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 01:58 PM PDT By Karen Brooks AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - George Zimmerman, a volunteer watchman whose acquittal in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin led to protests, was pulled over by police in Texas on Sunday for speeding, officials said on Wednesday. Zimmerman told the officer that he had a weapon in his glove compartment and was going "nowhere in particular," said Brian Brooks, city manager of Forney, Texas, about 25 miles southeast of Dallas, where Zimmerman was stopped. ... Full Story | Top |
| Fla. Gov. criticizes Jesse Jackson over comments Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 05:27 PM PDT TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Wednesday demanded an apology from longtime civil rights activist Jesse Jackson for comparing the state's struggle with the Trayvon Martin case to the civil rights clashes with police during the 1960s in Selma, Ala. Full Story | Top |
| Restored Star Trek ship Galileo arrives in Houston Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 01:36 PM PDT  HOUSTON (AP) — When the smoke cleared and the music died down, Candy Torres could no longer contain herself. Looking at the shiny, restored Star Trek Galileo shuttlecraft sitting in Houston in all its TV glory, she broke down. Full Story | Top |
| GOP leaders halt debate on austere spending bill Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 03:45 PM PDT House GOP leaders Wednesday halted debate on an austere measure that was full of cuts to transportation and housing programs and community development grants, a setback for their budget strategy of embracing ... Full Story | Top |
| Prosecutor: Women kept diaries Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 10:05 PM PDT  CLEVELAND (AP) — Three women held captive in a run-down home for a decade kept diaries documenting the horrific physical and sexual abuse they suffered on a daily basis, prosecutors said Wednesday. Full Story | Top |
| Snowden leaves airport after Russia grants asylum Thursday, Aug 01, 2013 10:10 AM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden left the transit zone of a Moscow airport and officially entered Russia after authorities granted him asylum for a year, his lawyer said Thursday, a move that suggests the Kremlin isn't shying away from further conflict with the United States. Full Story | Top |
| New Snowden leak upstages U.S. move to declassify documents Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 04:10 PM PDT  By Patricia Zengerle and Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New revelations from former security contractor Edward Snowden that U.S. intelligence agencies have access to a vast online tracking tool came to light on Wednesday, as lawmakers put the secret surveillance programs under greater scrutiny. The Guardian, citing documents from Snowden, published National Security Agency training materials for the XKeyscore program, which the British newspaper described as the NSA's widest-reaching system that covers "nearly everything a typical user does on the Internet. ... Full Story | Top |
| The Time Hillary Was Right About Obama in 2008 Thursday, Aug 01, 2013 08:01 AM PDT  Some people wondered why Hillary Clinton failed to inspired voters in the 2008 presidential campaign with an explicitly cynical message. Mocking then-Sen. Barack Obama, Clinton said, "I could stand up here and say: let's just get everybody together, let's get unified… The sky will open, the light will come down, celestial choirs will be singing, and everyone will know that we should do the right thing, and the world would be perfect." Get real, she said. She'd lived through the 90s. ... Full Story | Top |
| Cleveland kidnapper gets life without parole, plus 1,000 years Thursday, Aug 01, 2013 10:38 AM PDT Ariel Castro was sentenced to life without parole on the charge of aggravated murder Thursday and received multiple years on various other charges related to kidnap and rape that totaled 1,000 years. Full Story | Top |
| Obama stays silent on Dems mired in scandals Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 04:26 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Barack Obama ran for re-election last year, he and his advisers were quick to condemn comments from Republicans that were deemed offensive or demeaning to women. Full Story | Top |
| Pot farm pollution: Too dangerous to deal with? Thursday, Aug 01, 2013 11:44 AM PDT  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — With parts of Northern California's scenic hillsides illegally gouged by bulldozers for marijuana grows, frustrated local officials asked the state for help to protect streams and rivers from harmful sediment and the chemicals used on the pot plants. Full Story | Top |
| Why did Ron Paul's group single out Marco Rubio for voting against Rand Paul’s aid bill? Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 02:06 PM PDT  "Senator Rubio today stood with President Obama and Harry Reid to vote against the rule of law and the American people," the group said. Full Story | Top |
| AP Source: MLB threatening A-Rod with lifetime ban Thursday, Aug 01, 2013 06:39 AM PDT  Alex Rodriguez might not make it back to the Yankees this year. Or ever. Major League Baseball is threatening to kick A-Rod out of the game for life unless the New York star agrees not to fight a lengthy ... Full Story | Top |
| Analysis: Pope's revolution; not all are pleased Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 02:12 PM PDT  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Francis Revolution is underway. Not everyone is pleased. Full Story | Top |
| NYC mayoral hopefuls adjust to Weiner collapse Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 07:17 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn suddenly finds herself in demand on national political television talk shows, and they all want to ask her the same question: Should Anthony Weiner drop out of the race? Full Story | Top |
| AP IMPACT: Little restraint in military giveaways Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 04:32 PM PDT  MORVEN, Ga. (AP) — Small-town police departments across the country have been gobbling up tons of equipment discarded by a downsizing military — bicycles, bed sheets, bowling pins, French horns, dog collars, even a colonoscopy machine — regardless of whether the items are needed or will ever be used. Full Story | Top |
| Russia grants Snowden a year's asylum, summit in doubt Thursday, Aug 01, 2013 11:18 AM PDT  By Timothy Heritage and Alissa de Carbonnel MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia granted American fugitive Edward Snowden a year's asylum on Thursday, allowing the former U.S. spy agency contractor to slip quietly out of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport after more than five weeks in limbo but angering the United States. ... Full Story | Top |
| Edward Snowden got asylum in Russia, lawyer says Thursday, Aug 01, 2013 06:03 AM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden left transit zone of a Moscow airport and entered Russia after authorities granted him temporary asylum, his lawyer said Thursday. Full Story | Top |
| Hagel: Budget cuts could harm nation's defense Thursday, Aug 01, 2013 12:28 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon officials insist they are not crying wolf when they say proposed budget cuts could severely harm the military. Full Story | Top |
| Gays May Be Prosecuted at 2014 Olympics Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 02:40 PM PDT  The International Olympic Committee is Cautiously Optimistic. Full Story | Top |
| Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks, Get a Visit from the Feds Thursday, Aug 01, 2013 07:09 AM PDT  Michele Catalano was looking for information online about pressure cookers. Her husband, in the same time frame, was Googling backpacks. Wednesday morning, six men from a joint terrorism task force showed up at their house to see if they were terrorists. Which begs the question: How'd the government know what they were Googling? Full Story | Top |
| Gay couples get hitched in Minnesota, Rhode Island Thursday, Aug 01, 2013 11:36 AM PDT  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — In public celebrations and intimate ceremonies, gay couples exchanged vows Thursday in Minnesota and Rhode Island as the number of places where same-sex couples can wed grew to more than a quarter of U.S. states. Full Story | Top |
| Review: Bieber not in pop star form at concert Thursday, Aug 01, 2013 04:50 AM PDT  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — For all the negative publicity that's surrounded Justin Bieber in recent months — the alleged drinking, smoking, spitting, fighting with a paparazzo and more — he entered the stage at the Prudential Center in angelic form: In all white, he descended to the center of the stage with wings on his sides as nearly 20,000 fans screamed at the top of their lungs. Full Story | Top |
| Buck up: Obama offers uplifting words to wary Dems Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 02:52 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama sought to calm jittery Democrats Wednesday as they prepared to head home to face voters, assuring them they're "on the right side of history" despite problems with the launch of his massive health care overhaul and an immigration fight with Republicans. Full Story | Top |
| Cleveland kidnapper gets life in prison after emotional hearing Thursday, Aug 01, 2013 11:20 AM PDT  By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Ariel Castro, the Cleveland bus driver who abducted, imprisoned and tortured three women, was sentenced to life in prison plus 1,000 years with no parole on Thursday, after one of his victims confronted him, saying he had put her through 11 years of hell. Castro, 53, was alternately defiant and apologetic while showing no remorse in a rambling final statement to the court. Although he said he was sorry for his actions, he insisted "I am not a monster." "If you asked my daughter she would say, my dad is the best dad in the world," Castro said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Fox News Is Rushing to Defend Its Reza Aslan Interview Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 03:28 PM PDT  Fox News, after a pause, has come back fighting against criticism of their interview with Reza Aslan, a Muslim scholar who wrote a book about Jesus. And as the discussion about a book that's more or less a William Manchester-style literary biography (that is, one steeped in scholarship, but written for the mainstream) of the historical Jesus spirals further and further away from, you know, the actual content of the book itself, what's emerging is a deep, conservative fear, and anger, concerning the audacity and bias of non-Christians who discuss the content of the Bible. Full Story | Top |
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