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At funeral, dog mourns the death of Navy SEAL killed in Afghanistan
Thu,25 Aug 2011 10:52 AM PDT
The Lookout - Jon Tumilson, a Navy SEAL, was one of 30 Americans killed in Afghanistan on Aug. 6 when a rocket-propelled grenade took out a U.S. Chinook helicopter. He was mourned at a service in Rockford, Iowa, attended by 1,500 family members, friends--and Hawkeye, Tumilson's dog. The Labrador retriever was such an important part of Tumilson's life [...] Full Story | Top |
Perry signs pledge on anti-gay marriage amendment
Fri,26 Aug 2011 10:38 AM PDT
AP - Rick Perry has signed a pledge to back a federal constitutional amendment against gay marriage — a reversal from a month ago when the Texas governor said he so supported individual states' rights that he was fine with New York's approval of same-sex marriage. Full Story | Top |
Mexico's Calderon berates U.S. after casino attack
Fri,26 Aug 2011 10:04 AM PDT
Reuters -  MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - President Felipe Calderon declared three days of mourning on Friday and demanded a crackdown on drugs in the United States after armed men torched a casino in northern Mexico, killing at least 52 people.
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Waves from Hurricane Irene sweep eight off Florida jetty
Fri,26 Aug 2011 09:42 AM PDT
The Lookout - As Hurricane Irene makes it way toward North Carolina, where it's expected to make landfall early Saturday morning, video footage of the storm is beginning to surface. The storm weakened to a Category 2 as it reached Florida's waters, the Associated Press reported, but it could pick up steam again. The video below appears to [...] Full Story | Top |
2 million ordered to leave as Irene takes aim
Fri,26 Aug 2011 06:10 PM PDT
AP -  Hurricane Irene caused extraordinary disruption Friday as it zeroed in for a catastrophic run up the Eastern Seaboard. More than 2 million people were ordered to move to safer places, and New York announced plans to shut down its entire network of subways for the first time because of a natural disaster.
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In new poll, Ron Paul rates with front-runners Romney and Perry
Fri,26 Aug 2011 01:08 PM PDT
The Ticket - In yet another sign that perhaps the news media ought to think about treating his presidential campaign more seriously, Ron Paul was viewed about as favorably as Rick Perry and Mitt Romney by Americans in a new poll. In an Associated Press-GfK telephone survey of the general population, 37 percent of the respondents said they [...] Full Story | Top |
Track Hurricane Irene
Thu,25 Aug 2011 01:05 PM PDT
The Newsroom - A large and powerful Category 3 storm with winds of 115 mph roared through the Bahamas and is now making its way toward the eastern seaboard. Millions of people from North Carolina to New England are bracing for Hurricane Irene, … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Del. pediatrician gets life for abusing patients
Fri,26 Aug 2011 11:38 AM PDT
AP - Former Delaware pediatrician Earl Bradley will spend the rest of his life in prison for committing horrific acts of sexual abuse against scores of young patients over more than a decade, a judge ruled Friday. Full Story | Top |
Islamists suspected in deadly Nigeria U.N. bombing
Fri,26 Aug 2011 02:49 PM PDT
Reuters -  ABUJA (Reuters) - At least 18 people were killed by a car bomb that ripped through the United Nations' building in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Friday -- a rare attack on an international institution in a country wracked by local conflicts.
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Bachmann says she'd consider minimum wage changes
Fri,26 Aug 2011 05:35 PM PDT
AP -  Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said Friday she wouldn't rule out changes to the federal minimum wage as a way to lower the cost of doing business and lure corporations back to the United States.
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Somali Islamists behead 11 civilians in capital
Fri,26 Aug 2011 06:23 AM PDT
AP - Somali Islamist rebels have beheaded at least 11 civilians in the capital in the past two weeks, a campaign of terror that residents said Friday is designed to show the insurgency can still act in Mogadishu after withdrawing from their bases there earlier this month. Full Story | Top |
Hurricane Irene brings rain, heavy seas to coast
Fri,26 Aug 2011 09:01 AM PDT
AP -  Hurricane Irene began lashing the East Coast with rain Friday ahead of a weekend of violent weather that was almost certain to heap punishment on a vast stretch of shoreline from the Carolinas to Massachusetts.
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Starbucks CEO says 100+ businesses to withhold campaign donations over debt
Thu,25 Aug 2011 08:58 AM PDT
The Ticket - Heads of over 100 major companies have joined Starbucks Corp. CEO Howard Schultz in a pledge to boycott political donations until Congress and the president agree on a long-term debt and deficit plan, Schultz announced in a letter Wednesday. "Remarkably, the initiative triggered a national dialogue and a groundswell of support," Schultz wrote, adding that [...] Full Story | Top |
Do Republicans Really Want to Cut Taxes on the Wealthy and Raise Them on Everyone Else?
Thu,25 Aug 2011 12:59 PM PDT
Forbes -  Of all the curious rhetoric floating around both Washington and the campaign trail, the strangest may be the demand of many Republicans that Congress raise taxes for low-income working households even as it cuts taxes for the wealthy. The left has, not surprisingly, gleefully leapt on the issue. And, honestly, it seems like terrible politics for the GOP.But this idea is hardly new. It is a key element of various forms of consumption taxes such as the National Retail Sales Tax (including the wildly misnamed FAIR tax). ...
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'Nightmare' scenario: Hurricane menaces East Coast
Fri,26 Aug 2011 02:36 AM PDT
AP -  Farmer Wilson Daughtry shrugged off an evacuation order and raced to harvest all the corn and squash he could hours before the initial waves churned up by Hurricane Irene started bumping the outer islands of North Carolina. Far away in Maine, lobsterman Greg Griffin reported his colleagues were stowing traps and tying up boats, heeding forecasts of 30-foot battering waves to come.
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Man reports own parking violation to Conn. police
Fri,26 Aug 2011 05:56 AM PDT
AP - A Connecticut man was so upset about the lack of parking enforcement in his town that he parked his car illegally in a handicapped space and called police over a dozen times. When they showed up, they subdued him with a stun gun and arrested him. Full Story | Top |
Hurricane preparedness: 5 things you can do to keep safe
Thu,25 Aug 2011 11:37 AM PDT
Christian Science Monitor - Hurricane Irene, the first of the 2011 season, has done damage in the British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. People on the East Coast of the US are now readying themselves for their own imminent encounter with the storm. If you live in that part of the country, what can you do to protect your home and your loved ones? Full Story | Top |
Gallup: Perry leading nationally, Romney second, Paul third
Wed,24 Aug 2011 02:25 PM PDT
The Ticket - Less than two weeks into his official campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, Rick Perry has a 12-point lead over Mitt Romney, according to a nationwide Gallup poll of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents released Wednesday. Perry, the Texas governor, received the support of 29 percent of the poll's respondents. Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor [...] Full Story | Top |
Rick Perry pledges to support traditional marriage
Fri,26 Aug 2011 04:33 PM PDT
Reuters - SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) -- Texas Governor and Republican presidential contender Rick Perry has signed a pledge vowing to support a Constitutional amendment declaring marriage to be a union of one man and one woman, the group sponsoring the pledge said on Friday. Full Story | Top |
How the Libyan rebels bought a miniature drone on the Internet
Thu,25 Aug 2011 02:30 PM PDT
The Envoy - Although Libyan rebels have been celebrating their advance this week into the capital of Tripoli, just a few weeks ago, they had a problem. Outgunned and poorly trained, Libya's ragtag opposition forces were the object of pitying--if not unsympathetic--reports by the journalists covering their seemingly hapless efforts to advance and hold ground against Gadhafi's professional [...] Full Story | Top |
2-year search for missing mom suddenly escalates
Fri,26 Aug 2011 06:50 AM PDT
AP -  The nearly two-year search for a Utah mother is suddenly escalating on different fronts, with detectives scouring through her husband's Puyallup, Wash., home while family members exchange sordid accusations of sex and deceit.
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Libya rebels say "close in" on Gaddafi
Fri,26 Aug 2011 11:33 AM PDT
Reuters -  TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan rebels claimed to be close to capturing Muammar Gaddafi on Friday as their NATO backers bombed diehard loyalists in his tribal bastion, but there was no sign of an end to the war, or to international wrangling over Libya's riches.
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Accused "underwear bomber" wants to be judged by Koran
Fri,26 Aug 2011 10:17 AM PDT
Reuters -  DETROIT (Reuters) - A Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up an airliner near Detroit with an explosive hidden in his underwear has asked to be judged by the Koran rather than U.S. law, documents filed with a federal court in Michigan show.
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At least 53 killed in Mexico casino attack
Fri,26 Aug 2011 04:53 AM PDT
AFP -  An arson attack on a casino in the northern Mexican industrial city of Monterrey sparked a massive fire and killed at least 53 people, the governor of the state of Nuevo Leon said Friday.
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Lenny Dykstra charged in L.A. with indecent exposure
Thu,25 Aug 2011 05:46 PM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former New York Mets star Lenny Dykstra was charged on Thursday with exposing himself to a string of women who answered his Craigslist employment ads, Los Angeles city prosecutors said on Thursday.
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