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AP IMPACT: US wasted billions in rebuilding Iraq
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:01 pm PDT
 AP - A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children's hospital goes unused in the south. A $100 million waste water treatment system in Fallujah has cost three times more than projected, yet sewage still runs through the streets. Full Story | Top |
Obama says he isn't worried about Muslim rumors
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 06:31 pm PDT
 AP - President Barack Obama said Sunday he isn't worried about a recent poll showing that nearly one-fifth of Americans believe he is a Muslim. "The facts are the facts," said Obama, who is a Christian. In an interview broadcast on "NBC Nightly News," the president blamed the confusion over his religious beliefs on "a network of misinformation that in a new media era can get churned out there constantly." Full Story | Top |
Glenn Beck regrets calling Obama a ‘racist’
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:44 am PDT
The Upshot - Fox News host Glenn Beck said Sunday that he misspoke last year when he characterized President Obama as a racist. "I have a big fat mouth sometimes and I say things," Beck said during an interview with Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace. Beck last year accused the president of possessing a "deep-seated hatred for [...] Full Story | Top |
Internet may phase out printed Oxford Dictionary
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 03:43 pm PDT
 AP - It weighs in at more than 130 pounds, but the authoritative guide to the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary, may eventually slim down to nothing. Oxford University Press, the publisher, said Sunday so many people prefer to look up words using its online product that it's uncertain whether the 126-year-old dictionary's next edition will be printed on paper at all. Full Story | Top |
Mayor in violent Mexican border state killed
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:58 pm PDT
 AP - Gunmen killed the mayor of a town in the drug-plagued Mexican border state of Tamaulipas on Sunday in a region where suspected cartel hitmen recently massacred 72 migrants, the government said. Full Story | Top |
Titanic expedition shows off some crisp new images
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 06:31 pm PDT
 AP - An expedition surveying the wreck of the Titanic is showing off some crisp images of the world's most famous shipwreck, but officials said Sunday they are headed back to shore. Officials from Expedition Titanic said in a statement they are now headed back to Newfoundland because high seas and winds brought on by hurricane Danielle are preventing researchers from carrying out their work. Full Story | Top |
Teen motorcycle racer killed in crash at Indy
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:10 pm PDT
 AP - The death of a 13-year-old motorcycle rider at Indianapolis Motor Speedway cast a shadow over Sunday's races at the historic track and prompted mourning competitors to defend the development system for the dangerous circuit. Full Story | Top |
Arizona police say gunman kills 5, then self
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:56 pm PDT
 AP - A gunman entered a western Arizona home and fatally shot five people, including the mother of his two children and her new boyfriend, before fleeing with the kids to Southern California where he killed himself, police said Sunday. Full Story | Top |
Kangaroo testicle? Chefs in Serbia say, 'Yes!'
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:14 pm PDT
 AP - In a remote Serbian mountain village, they're cooking up delicacies to make your mouth water — or your stomach churn. At the seventh annual World Testicle Cooking Championship, visitors watch — and sometimes taste — as teams of chefs cook up bull, boar, camel, ostrich and even kangaroo testicles. Full Story | Top |
Questions loom over drug given to sleepless vets
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:05 pm PDT
 AP - Andrew White returned from a nine-month tour in Iraq beset with signs of post-traumatic stress disorder: insomnia, nightmares, constant restlessness. Doctors tried to ease his symptoms using three psychiatric drugs, including a potent anti-pyschotic called Seroquel. Full Story | Top |
Vicious, feared attack leaves Pa. inmate comatose
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:21 am PDT
 AP - If his diary and witness accounts are to be believed, Nicholas Pinto endured months of physical, sexual and mental abuse in prison. Guards roughed him up, made him stand naked in a cold cell for hours at a time, and taunted him relentlessly. A fellow inmate raped him night after night, beat him when he resisted, and stole his possessions. Full Story | Top |
Cuba eases property laws, could open door to golf
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:54 am PDT
 AP - Cuba has begun allowing foreign investors to lease government land for up to 99 years, a step toward a future that could be filled with golf courses ringed by luxury villas, beachfront timeshares and vacation homes for well-heeled tourists. Full Story | Top |
Mongolian Cabinet holds meeting in Gobi desert
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:34 pm PDT
 AP - Top Mongolian officials donned dark green baseball caps reading "Save our planet" and set up chairs and tables in the sands of the Gobi desert for a Cabinet meeting aimed at drawing attention to climate change. Full Story | Top |
Indonesian volcano erupts again, spewing hot ash
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:23 pm PDT
 AP - An Indonesian volcano that had been dormant for more than four centuries erupted for the second day in a row Monday, spewing out towering clouds of ash and forcing the evacuation of more than 21,000 people. Full Story | Top |
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