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| Rubio preempts Obama’s immigration speech: No enforcement triggers, no bill Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 11:03 AM PST President Barack Obama must be willing to accept border security measures as part of a comprehensive immigration reform package or else "there won't be a solution," Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican leader of the reform effort, said Tuesday. Rubio, who on Tuesday unveiled a blueprint for an immigration overhaul as part of a bipartisan [...] Full Story | Top |
| Turn Your Old Plastic Bottles into 3-D Filament Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 10:58 AM PST With any printer, the cost of ink is what puts people off long after the machine has been paid for. With ink jet and laser printers, you can’t turn your plastic recyclables -- the cartridges -- into new toner. With 3-D printers, you can. Tyler McNaney, a college student in Vermont, fell in love with [...] Full Story | Top |
| John Kerry wins Senate panel approval for secretary of state Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 10:49 AM PST Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry on Tuesday cleared the first hurdle in his confirmation process to become the next secretary of state after unanimous approval from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Kerry's approval, conducted by voice vote, was expected given that Kerry chairs the committee and his confirmation hearing process has been without controversy. His [...] Full Story | Top |
| Ray LaHood, Cabinet’s sole Republican, leaving transportation post Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 10:43 AM PST Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the only Republican in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet, announced on Tuesday he is stepping down. “It has been an honor and a privilege to lead the department, and I am grateful to President Obama for giving me such an extraordinary opportunity,†LaHood, a former seven-term Republican congressman from Illinois, wrote in [...] Full Story | Top |
| New Google Maps view adds another level of North Korean scrutiny Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 10:03 AM PST Search for "North Korea" in Google Maps, and you'll get a whole new perspective. Citizen cartographers and others have helped label landmarks in that enigmatic and repressive state, and Google pushed the results late Monday. Charting North Korea using its Map Maker software was a four-year process, David Marx, head of product PR for Google [...] Full Story | Top |
| Conservative Hispanic group tells GOP to avoid ‘amnesty’ label Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 09:34 AM PST A conservative pro-immigration reform group has issued talking points to Republican lawmakers, telling them to avoid referring to the U.S. citizen children of illegal immigrants as "anchor babies" or calling for the construction of an "electric fence" on the border, among other things. The talking points, published by BuzzFeed, went out to Republican lawmakers on [...] Full Story | Top |
| AFL-CIO chief vows ‘full-fledged campaign’ for immigration overhaul Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 09:15 AM PST Organized labor is “entirely behind†comprehensive immigration reform and will mount a “full-fledged†campaign to help drive it through Congress, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told Yahoo News on Tuesday. Trumka, whose federation comprises 57 unions representing some 12 million people, called the planned overhaul “one of our top priorities right now.†He spoke by telephone [...] Full Story | Top |
| Remarkable photo shows fire blasting from Omaha manholes Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 08:15 AM PST An Omaha resident took a remarkable photograph of fireballs erupting from manhole covers on Sunday night. The photo was posted to social network Reddit, where it quickly went viral. What looks like a photo from the set of our favorite imaginary Stallone movie ("Fight Fire With Fists") is actually a real case of electrical fires [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama announces new aid for Syrian rebels Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 08:12 AM PST Under fire for not doing more to help Syria’s rebels, President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday that he's sending opponents of strongman Bashar al-Assad another $155 million in humanitarian aid and defended his handling of the bloody conflict. Obama said the aid sends a message to the world. “The relief we send doesn’t say ‘Made [...] Full Story | Top |
| Family of 14 gives up everything to live in RV Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 07:13 AM PST “Every single day is a weekend." That's how Susie Kellogg, mother of 12, describes family life these days, after she and her husband, Dan, decided to sell their Glenwood Springs, Colorado home last fall, fill up an RV with their childrenâ€"all of themâ€"and travel the country in search of adventure. Permanently. All but one of [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama to announce immigration reform plan in Las Vegas Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 03:38 AM PST One week into his second term, President Barack Obama will unveil his vision for immigration reform in a speech Tuesday in Las Vegas. “We need Congress to act on a comprehensive approach that finally deals with the 11 million undocumented immigrants who are in this country right now," Obama will say, according to excerpts released [...] Full Story | Top |
| Tuesday in politics: Obama talks immigration in Vegas, and more Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 02:39 AM PST Immigration remains at the top of the Washington agenda Tuesday, as President Obama travels to Las Vegas to rally public support for his proposals for reforming the nation's immigration system. The president will deliver remarks in a campaign-style event this afternoon at Del Sol High School. White House officials said Obama would largely endorse an [...] Full Story | Top |
| ‘No Numbers Here’: Math Museum Founder Glen Whitney Monday, Jan 28, 2013 06:35 PM PST We live in a world surrounded by numbers. Whether we’re balancing our checkbooks, reading recipes or calculating what the best deals at the supermarket are, chances are you’re thinking, writing and communicating in numbers. Full Story | Top |
| Florida women frighten off intruder by chanting ‘Jesus’ Monday, Jan 28, 2013 05:45 PM PST If you ask the 15 women inside Jacquie Hagler’s house what happened, they’ll tell you it’s simple: Jesus scared a would-be thief out of the Florida woman’s home. At first, those gathered at Hagler’s house for a jewelry party thought the intruder was part of an elaborate gag, using a “water gun†to tease the [...] Full Story | Top |
| 105-year-old woman renews driver’s license Monday, Jan 28, 2013 03:05 PM PST There apparently isn’t much that can slow down Edythe Kirchmaier. The 105-year-old California resident made headlines on Monday when she passed her driving test â€" continuing 86 years without a blemish on her driving record and maintaining her status as the state's oldest living driver. "I just couldn't imagine myself without a car," Kirchmaier told [...] Full Story | Top |
| Funeral procession swings by Burger King to honor deceased Monday, Jan 28, 2013 02:31 PM PST David S. Kime Jr. was many things. World War II veteran. Purple Heart recipient. Father. Grandfather. Husband. And, it should be noted, Burger King enthusiast. The 88-year-old Kime died Jan. 20, and during his funeral procession a few days later, members of Kime's family took a detour to the Burger King drive-through. Linda Phiel, one [...] Full Story | Top |
| Two breeds make their Westminster Dog Show debut Monday, Jan 28, 2013 01:58 PM PST NEW YORKâ€"At certain moments it had the air of a red-carpet event, with camera shutters clicking in rapid fire and flashbulbs igniting the room in white light. But there were no famous celebrities hereâ€"only a pair of Russell terriers named Pepper and Madison, who grew sleepier and sleepier on their handler’s lap as photographers jostled [...] Full Story | Top |
| Car bursts through wave of sea foam, nearly hits police (VIDEO) Monday, Jan 28, 2013 01:01 PM PST In this video filmed in Australia’s Sunshine Coast, an amateur filmmaker records a clip of sea foam that has risen up to cover a nearby road. Two friends are heard off-camera discussing a public transportation bus that is slowly making its way through the wall of foam while two traffic cops observe the situation. About [...] Full Story | Top |
| Jobs lost to technology: Share your story Monday, Jan 28, 2013 12:55 PM PST A job seeker in New York fills out an application during a job fair in December. (Mary Altaffer/AP) According to an Associated Press series published last week, the United States lost 7.5 million jobs during the recession, but in the three and a half years since it ended, the country has recovered just 47 percent [...] Full Story | Top |
| Girl pens letter to paper after it publishes column defending racist language in books Monday, Jan 28, 2013 12:53 PM PST A 9-year-old German girl wrote an impassioned letter to Die Zeit, a German newspaper, over a column defending racist language in old children's books. The columnist had written: "What do you call it when a book publisher announces that it plans to neutralize any terms in its books ‘that could be felt as hurtful’ by [...] Full Story | Top |
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