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| UK’s ‘real-life Lassie’ retires after years of saving lives Monday, Jun 24, 2013 02:51 PM PDT  For years, Mij was known as the U.K.'s real-life Lassie. The rescue dog saved more lives that any other pooch. Now, after seven years on the job, the 10-year-old collie is calling it a day, according to a report from the Daily Mail. During her career, Mij led more than 200 search and rescue missions. [...] Full Story | Top |
| Profanity, theatrics and a joke on Day 1 of George Zimmerman’s murder trial Monday, Jun 24, 2013 02:27 PM PDT SANFORD, Fla.—One of the most anticipated murder trials in recent memory began with a torrent of profanity from the prosecution and a knock-knock joke from the defense. The state of Florida's case against George Zimmerman began on Monday with the expected debate about whether the man who shot and fatally wounded 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in [...] Full Story | Top |
| Mississippi, no longer the worst state to be a kid Monday, Jun 24, 2013 01:09 PM PDT There's good news for the children of Mississippi; their state is no longer the worst place to be a kid. That's because a new set of annual rankings on children's welfare says New Mexico has dethroned Mississippi's perennial hold on the bottom ranking of the Kids Count list. For the past 24 years, the Annie [...] Full Story | Top |
| Time to ‘get lucky,’ Obama-style Monday, Jun 24, 2013 01:04 PM PDT President Barack Obama has covered the extremely catchy new Daft Punk tune, "Get Lucky." Well, sort of. The site baracksdubs scoured the Web to find clips of Obama saying words that, strung together, re-create the lyrics to the song. Fadi Saleh, a student at the University of Tennessee and the man behind the dubbing, edited [...] Full Story | Top |
| Lawn chair balloonist’s flight goes awry Monday, Jun 24, 2013 10:09 AM PDT A 60-year-old man whose lifelong dream was to take flight in a lawn chair using helium-filled balloons did so on Saturday, though his attempt to set a record didn't go quite as planned. "I've been thinking about this forever," Joe Barbera, a semiretired engineer from La Center, Wash., told Seattle's KATU-TV on Friday. "Little by [...] Full Story | Top |
| Rusty the red panda goes missing from National Zoo (Update: Rusty found!) Monday, Jun 24, 2013 09:57 AM PDT UPDATE: Call off the search party. Rusty the red panda has been found, according to the National Zoo. Rusty the red panda has been recovered, crated & is headed safely back to the National Zoo! — National Zoo (@NationalZoo) June 24, 2013 A red panda named Rusty has pulled an Edward Snowden and gone missing. [...] Full Story | Top |
| Assange: Snowden is ‘healthy and safe’; has applied for asylum in Ecuador, Iceland Monday, Jun 24, 2013 09:56 AM PDT WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange confirmed on Monday that Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency contractor accused of espionage for leaking information about U.S. surveillance programs, is in transit and headed to Ecuador to seek asylum. "Edward Snowden left Hong Kong on the 23rd of June bound for Ecuador via a safe pass through Russia and [...] Full Story | Top |
| At the corner of Klingon and Romulan courts in suburban Sacramento Monday, Jun 24, 2013 09:50 AM PDT Do you know the difference between a Klingon and a Romulan? "Star Trek" fans do, and for decades they have debated their allegiances between the alien species. For some Californians, however, they're just names intersecting at a small corner of Sacramento. KXTV News 10 reports that while space might be the final frontier famously referenced [...] Full Story | Top |
| Chamber of Commerce launches ‘seven-figure’ ad buy in support of immigration effort Monday, Jun 24, 2013 09:16 AM PDT The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is launching a "seven-figure" ad buy on Monday in support of the effort to overhaul the nation's immigration laws, a chamber spokeswoman confirmed. The 30-second message, which will air on radio and cable news stations nationwide, features clips from Republican Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Rand Paul of Kentucky [...] Full Story | Top |
| ‘Border surge’ amendment to immigration bill gets support needed to end debate Monday, Jun 24, 2013 08:17 AM PDT After just a few hours of floor speeches Monday afternoon, the Senate voted 67-27 to end debate on an amendment to the immigration bill that would increase border seucirty funding, taking another step toward the legislation's final passage. Fifteen Republicans joined Democrats in support of a motion to end debate on the amendment, which required [...] Full Story | Top |
| New Jersey flags flying at half-staff today for James Gandolfini Monday, Jun 24, 2013 07:34 AM PDT  It's an honor that Tony Soprano could only have dreamed of. And one he probably would have run by his therapist. Fox reports that after an order from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the Garden State is flying its flags at half-staff for the late actor James Gandolfini. The order stipulates that all flags in [...] Full Story | Top |
| Supreme Court punts on affirmative-action case Monday, Jun 24, 2013 07:18 AM PDT The Supreme Court has surprised legal experts by declining to strike down the University of Texas' use of race in undergraduate admissions. On Monday, the justices sent the case back to a lower court for a rehearing, dodging a decision on whether affirmative-action policies at public colleges around the country are unconstitutional. Justice Anthony Kennedy, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Wing walker who died in air show accident had planned airborne wedding Monday, Jun 24, 2013 06:49 AM PDT The stuntwoman who died in a terrifying air show crash on Saturday had planned to marry aboard a wing of the same small plane that burst into flames before thousands of horrified spectators. The New York Daily News reports that 44-year-old Jane Wicker, a budget analyst and "wing walker," had announced on her website that [...] Full Story | Top |
| Made in the USA: Journey behind the label Monday, Jun 24, 2013 04:28 AM PDT Top Line After a manufacturing plant closed down in his hometown of Ravenswood, W.Va., resulting in 650 people losing their jobs, Josh Miller began to wonder what was really made in America anymore. He decided to set out on a 30-day road trip across the United States in search of answers for how to revive [...] Full Story | Top |
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