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| For the Thrill of the Affair: Why Married Women Cheat Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 06:36 PM PDT  A Look at the Different Reasons Men and Women Stray From Their Spouses Full Story | Top |
| Obama: US ‘Prepared To Respond’ To Russian Aggression In Ukraine Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 01:16 PM PDT  Obama Holds Out Hope For Diplomacy Full Story | Top |
| Kim Novak speaks out against Oscar night 'bullies' Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 05:40 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kim Novak says that cruel jabs about how she looked during the Oscar ceremony amounted to bullying that left her crushed at first, but then determined to speak out in protest. Full Story | Top |
| Caught in the Act: Workers Collect Thousands in False Injury Claims Friday, Apr 18, 2014 09:28 AM PDT  Ex-Cop Vincent Lamantia allegedly lied about suffering from post-9/11 trauma. Full Story | Top |
| FDA Warns Against Hysterectomy Technique That May Spread Cancer Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 06:36 PM PDT  FDA Highlights Cancer Risk with Surgical Procedure Full Story | Top |
| Man’s soda refill costs him $525 and gets him slapped with a federal charge [UPDATED] Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 01:10 PM PDT A Charleston, South Carolina man is speaking out after receiving a $525 ticket following his soda refill at a Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital. Full Story | Top |
| Casual pot use causes brain abnormalities in the young: study Friday, Apr 18, 2014 07:35 AM PDT  (This story from April 15 corrects name of researcher to Breiter, instead of Beiter, throughout story) By Alex Dobuzinskis (Reuters) - Young, casual marijuana smokers experience potentially harmful changes to their brains, with the drug altering regions of the mind related to motivation and emotion, researchers found. The study to be published on Wednesday in the Journal of Neuroscience differs from many other pot-related research projects that are focused on chronic, heavy users of cannabis. The collaborative effort between Northwestern University's medical school, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School showed a direct correlation between the number of times users smoked and abnormalities in the brain. "What we're seeing is changes in people who are 18 to 25 in core brain regions that you never, ever want to fool around with," said co-senior study author Dr. Hans Breiter, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University. Full Story | Top |
| Rob Ford Launches Re-Election Campaign With Understatements, Free Booze Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 08:56 PM PDT  Despite being stripped of most of his mayoral powers, crack-smoking mayor of Toronto and national embarrassment Rob Ford somehow believes he'll be re-elected. "There's been some rocky moments over the past year," Ford said. "The people of Toronto know that I am just like them," he added, which may have come as a shock to the people of Toronto who haven't smoked crack in one of their drunken stupors. "The people of Toronto deserve nothing less than accessibility, accountability and transparency," said Ford, who basically had to be forced into being transparent about his drug and alcohol use after being confronted with video evidence and has never been held accountable for that behavior. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. extends Keystone XL comment period, delaying final decision Friday, Apr 18, 2014 12:52 PM PDT By Patrick Rucker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department announced on Friday it is extending the government comment period on the Keystone XL pipeline, a move that likely postpones a final decision on the controversial project until after the November 4 mid-term elections. President Barack Obama has said he will make a final decision on whether to allow the pipeline connecting Canada's oil sands region to Texas refiners and several government agencies had been given until the end of May to weigh in. This had raised expectations of a final decision by mid-year. Full Story | Top |
| Compensation battle rages four years after BP's U.S. oil spill Friday, Apr 18, 2014 03:36 AM PDT Four years after the Deepwater Horizon spill, oil is still washing up on the long sandy beaches of Grand Isle, Louisiana, and some islanders are fed up with hearing from BP that the crisis is over. Jules Melancon, the last remaining oyster fisherman on an island dotted with colorful houses on stilts, says he has not found a single oyster alive in his leases in the area since the leak and relies on an onshore oyster nursery to make a living. The British oil major has paid out billions of dollars in compensation under a settlement experts say is unprecedented in its breadth. Some claimants are satisfied, but others are irate that BP is now challenging aspects of the settlement. Full Story | Top |
| Pro-Russian separatist leader says not bound by Geneva deal Friday, Apr 18, 2014 04:27 AM PDT By Aleksandar Vasovic DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - The self-declared leader of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, Denis Pushilin, on Friday said he does not consider his men to be bound by an agreement between Russia and Ukraine requiring illegal groups to disarm and vacate buildings. The Geneva agreement, signed by the United States, Russia, Ukraine and the European Union on Thursday, requires all illegal armed groups to disarm and end the illegal occupation of public buildings, streets and squares. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov "did not sign anything for us, he signed on behalf of the Russian Federation," Pushilin, head of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic, told journalists in Donetsk. Ukraine announced a military-backed operation last weekend to flush out pro-Russian rebels who have taken over state buildings including police stations in the Donbass region, though the operation faltered when pro-Russian forces seized several army troop carriers. Full Story | Top |
| Chelsea Clinton expecting 1st child Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 02:18 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Call it the year of the baby: Chelsea Clinton and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, are expecting their first child later this year. Full Story | Top |
| Russian Spy Planes in U.S. Skies Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 07:58 PM PDT  Russian surveillance planes already fly over America, thanks to a long-standing treaty. But a new, ultra-sophisticated spy plane has U.S. military and intelligence bosses spooked. Full Story | Top |
| Café has no plans to remove phallic sign Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 02:12 PM PDT A report says it's a real sign on a real establishment in Arlington's Ballston (real name) neighborhood. Full Story | Top |
| Whoopi Goldberg debuts as marijuana columnist Friday, Apr 18, 2014 05:41 AM PDT  Oscar-winning actress, comedienne and talk-show host Whoopi Goldberg sang the praises of marijuana inhaled through a pocket vaporizer on Thursday as she made her debut as an online pot columnist. In fact, her name is Sippy." wrote Goldberg, 58, about her pocket vaporizer on "The Cannabist," a pot-friendly website run by the Denver Post newspaper in Colorado. The Rocky Mountain state was the second in the United States, after Washington in the Pacific Northwest, to legalize marijuana for recreational use. But in a country where, at the federal level, marijuana is classified as an illegal drug on a par with heroin, Goldberg said Sippy's compact proportions helps maintain discretion. Full Story | Top |
| NASA's moon-orbiting robot crashes down Friday, Apr 18, 2014 06:17 AM PDT  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's robotic moon explorer, LADEE, is no more. Full Story | Top |
| Captain not at helm of capsized S. Korean ferry Friday, Apr 18, 2014 09:48 AM PDT  Jindo (South Korea) (AFP) - The captain was not at the helm of the South Korean ferry that capsized two days ago, investigators said Friday, as anger spread over stalled rescue efforts for hundreds of missing passengers trapped by the submerged vessel. More than 48 hours after the 6,825-tonne Sewol suddenly listed and then sank, a small army of more than 500 exhausted divers -- battling powerful currents -- have yet to obtain any real access to the ferry's interior. As the dive teams worked on accessing the ferry, two divers bored holes in the hull and began injecting oxygen into the ship. Three giant, floating cranes reached the disaster site, but regional coastguard commander Kim Soo-Hyun stressed they would not begin lifting the multi-deck ferry until they were sure there were no survivors inside. Full Story | Top |
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