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| Before Constitution, Magna Carta, the Cyrus Cylinder Was Model of Tolerance Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 09:07 PM PDT Britain's Magna Carta and the U.S. Constitution may spring to mind as great foundations of modern government, but the much older Cyrus Cylinder has been described as the very "first declaration of human rights." The 2,600-year-old artifact is a fairly small, baked, clay object covered in cuneiform script, whose size belies its importance. What it [...] Full Story | Top |
| Lawmakers’ ‘moral disapproval’ of gay people in 1996 could doom DOMA law in Supreme Court Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 03:49 PM PDT Comments made 17 years ago by lawmakers about their "moral disapproval" of homosexuality came back to haunt them Wednesday as Supreme Court justices weighed whether the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unfairly discriminates against same-sex married couples. Justice Elena Kagan, whom President Barack Obama appointed to the bench, closely questioned attorney Paul Clement, who [...] Full Story | Top |
| Rep. King criticizes vacation for Obama daughters Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 03:01 PM PDT Speaking on a radio program, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, ripped into President Obama for sending his daughters, Sasha and Malia, on a vacation while the federal government is being squeezed by the so-called sequester. ThinkProgress, a progressive blog, reports that King was speaking on the "Mickelson in the Morning" program. A listener named Carla called [...] Full Story | Top |
| Ashley Judd says she won’t run for Senate in Kentucky Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 02:12 PM PDT Ashley Judd, a Democrat who was mulling a challenge to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for his Kentucky U.S. Senate seat in 2014, won't run after all, the actress announced Wednesday. "After serious and thorough contemplation, I realize that my responsibilities and energy at this time need to be focused on my family," Judd said [...] Full Story | Top |
| Shooting suspect James Holmes offers to plead guilty Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 02:05 PM PDT Click image to see more photos. (Pool/Reuters) [Updated at 6:25 p.m. ET] The man jailed in the Aurora, Colo., movie theater massacre is willing to plead guilty to avoid being executed, according to a court motion filed on Wednesday. The offer from James Holmes, who is charged with shooting 70 moviegoers last July, killing 12, [...] Full Story | Top |
| John Edwards’ daughter Cate speaks out about his affair Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 01:56 PM PDT John Edwards' daughter Cate is finally speaking out about her father's affair with a former campaign aide, which effectively ended his marriage to her late mother, Elizabeth, and killed his political career. "I was devastated, and I was disappointed," Cate Edwards tells NBC's Savannah Guthrie in an interview set to air Friday on the "Today" [...] Full Story | Top |
| Sarah Palin aims to stay relevant with new fundraising video Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 01:16 PM PDT Sarah Palin resigned as governor of Alaska in July 2009, and in the nearly four years since, she's consciously worked to keep the political world wondering what she might do next. Will she run for president? Will she do another reality television show? Is she aiming for her own talk show? Palin hasn't offered many [...] Full Story | Top |
| McCain: Nobody will be ‘totally happy’ with immigration bill Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 12:58 PM PDT After wrapping a tour of the U.S.-Mexico border Wednesday, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain and New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer said the bipartisan group crafting an immigration reform bill was "very close" to finishing the legislation. A draft, he noted, should be ready to be introduced when the Senate reconvenes after Easter. "The bottom [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama swears in Julia Pierson as first female director of Secret Service Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 12:54 PM PDT Secret Service chief of staff Julia Pierson was sworn in Wednesday as the agency's new director following a tumultuous year for the agency, which, among other things, endured a prostitution scandal. "I have to say that Julia's reputation within the service is extraordinary, she's come up through the ranks, she's done just about every job [...] Full Story | Top |
| Browse the Supreme Court oral arguments by speaker: Interactive transcripts Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 12:16 PM PDT Over the next several months, court watchers will pick apart every question and response in the oral arguments for the two gay marriage cases that the Supreme Court heard Tuesday and Wednesday. Connecting the dots between the justices' questions and their opinions may be the most inexact of sciences, but the comments do offer strong [...] Full Story | Top |
| College sophomore anti-rape video gets attention on the Web Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 11:55 AM PDT An anti-rape video posted on the Web with the line, "Real men treat women with respect," has gone viral: So far, it's been viewed over 1.4 million times. Filmed by University of Oregon sophomore Samantha Stendal, the 26-second video, "A Needed Response," was made in reaction to the Steubenville rape trial in Ohio, which convicted [...] Full Story | Top |
| Good Samaritan performs CPR on newborn on the side of the road Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 10:18 AM PDT A 21-year-old Michigan man is being credited with saving a newborn's life after performing CPR on the 3-pound, 8-ounce girl who had just been born on the side of a road. The story comes from ClickOnDetroit.com, which spoke with Ryan Cornelissen about his unexpected heroics. He said he'd been on his way to the bank [...] Full Story | Top |
| A New York City art show for George W. Bush? Not this time Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 10:15 AM PDT NEW YORK—George W. Bush's artwork may be getting praise from art critics, but he's still no closer to landing his first major show. On Tuesday, the Gagosian Gallery, one of the most prominent art galleries in the country, posted a message on its Facebook page that it would host an exhibition of the former president's [...] Full Story | Top |
| Far quieter scene outside Supreme Court on second day of gay marriage arguments Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 10:15 AM PDT It was noticeably quieter outside the Supreme Court Wednesday, just a day after thousands of demonstrators on both sides of the debate over same-sex marriage converged here to demonstrate during oral arguments over the constitutionality of Proposition 8, California's voter-approved gay marriage ban. On Wednesday, as the court heard arguments on DOMA, the federal Defense [...] Full Story | Top |
| Bloomberg touts 10-year anniversary of NYC smoking ban Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 10:11 AM PDT NEW YORK—Mayor Michael Bloomberg took a victory lap Wednesday, heralding the 10-year anniversary of a ban on smoking at the city's bars and restaurants as "one of the best things that ever happened" to New York. Enacted in 2003, the Smoke-Free Air Act—one of the first major health initiatives Bloomberg pursued as mayor—was at first [...] Full Story | Top |
| Girl hit by arrow that appeared out of nowhere Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 10:05 AM PDT An 8-year-old girl on a field trip to a museum was mysteriously hit in the leg by an arrow. According to SFgate.com, police reports stated that the third-grader from the Mary E. Silveira Elementary School in San Rafael, Calif., was playing on a replica of a whale outside the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley [...] Full Story | Top |
| Conservative justices stress federal overreach in gay marriage case Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 09:35 AM PDT A majority of Supreme Court justices expressed concern Wednesday about a federal law that bars same sex marriage, signaling the nation's highest court may be poised to extend a potentially historic victory to the gay rights movement. Hearing arguments in the second of two major gay marriage cases over two days, the probing questions from [...] Full Story | Top |
| Will The Next iPhone Keep Ahead of Android? Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 09:09 AM PDT If Apple's regular release schedule is to be trusted, we should expect a new iPhone this summer. Will it be called the iPhone 5S with small improvements over the iPhone 5? Or will the pressure from rival Android phones force Apple to go big and make a complete overhaul? So far, the rumor mills point [...] Full Story | Top |
| FBI attempts to explain UFO memo in vault Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 08:16 AM PDT The Federal Bureau of Investigation has broken its silence on the most popular file in its digital vault. The one-page memo, dated March 22, 1950, was addressed to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover from Guy Hottel, then head of the FBI's Washington, D.C., field office. It relayed some information from an informant. The subject: FLYING [...] Full Story | Top |
| Woman returns $30,000 she found in donated clothes Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 07:50 AM PDT A woman who took donated clothes from a relative returned the favor—with a vengeance: She gave back the $30,000 she found inside the hand-me-downs. Carol Sutor of Bristol, Pa., was going through the clothes—which had belonged to her cousin's daughter's 85-year-old mother-in-law, who had recently died—when she came across a canvas bag on a hanger. [...] Full Story | Top |
| Woman opts out of Powerball pool, but co-workers give her cut anyway Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 07:15 AM PDT Imagine you work in a small office. A group of co-workers asks if you'd like to go in on some Powerball tickets. You decline. You're on a tight budget, and you've only been there a few weeks, anyway. You show up for work the next day to find out they won. That's exactly what happened [...] Full Story | Top |
| Nixon documentary focuses on the other secret White House tapes: Home movies Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 05:19 AM PDT More than 40 years after Watergate, historians are still combing through the more than 2,300 hours of audio from President Richard Nixon's secret White House taping system. A paranoid indulgence for a man obsessed with documentation, the tapes ultimately helped drive the 37th president from office in a scandal that still haunts the country. But [...] Full Story | Top |
| Wednesday in politics: Supreme Court hears DOMA case, and more Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 03:37 AM PDT The Supreme Court justices will hear arguments Wednesday in a challenge to the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which prohibits the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages, even though they're allowed in nine states and the District of Columbia. The DOMA case is dogged by procedural issues, Yahoo! News reporter Liz Goodwin explains, and it's [...] Full Story | Top |
| Justices could dodge gay marriage decision in DOMA case Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 02:04 AM PDT On Wednesday, the Supreme Court justices will hear arguments in the second gay marriage case ever in the court's history, again raising hopes from both sides that the court will weigh in decisively on the issue. On Tuesday, justices hinted that they may dodge a decision in California's gay marriage case, which makes the stakes [...] Full Story | Top |
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