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| Eva Longoria Dating Ready For Love Bachelor Ernesto Arguello Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 04:56 PM PDT  A few months back, rumors flew claiming Eva Longoria was dating "Ready For Love" bachelor Ernesto Arguello. While the former "Desperate Housewives" star, 38, said she wasn't dating him at the time, she has revealed she and Ernesto are now together. Full Story | Top |
| Former beauty queen ordered to pay Donald Trump $5 million Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 11:43 AM PDT This beauty queen has to deal with an ugly reality: The pageant contestant Sheena Monnin has been ordered by a judge to pay Donald Trump and his Miss USA pageant $5 million in a defamation lawsuit after she claimed the contest was fixed. After the 2012 Miss USA pageant the former Miss Pennsylvania accused the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Ex-Russian spy Anna Chapman proposes marriage to Edward Snowden Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 10:10 AM PDT  The rest of the world may not want him, but NSA leaker Edward Snowden has at least one potential taker: Anna Chapman. The ex-spy tweeted yesterday, "Snowden, will you marry me?!" The former Russian spy may have sympathy for the man who spilled top-secret documents. Chapman, after all, is no stranger to run-ins with government [...] Full Story | Top |
| Deen parts with agent after racial slur fallout Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 10:00 PM PDT  SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Paula Deen announced Thursday that she has cut business ties with the agent who helped make her a Food Network star and launch a media and merchandising empire that has largely crumbled in the wake of her admission that she used racial slurs in the past. Full Story | Top |
| Who coined 'United States of America'? Mystery might have intriguing answer Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 11:14 AM PDT As if George Washington hasn't been credited enough with laying the foundation stones of the American republic, a new discovery might put one more feather in his cap. Our leading Founding Father could have been author of the country's name. Full Story | Top |
| GOP has tough choices on Voting Rights Act Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 12:43 PM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — When the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights act last week, it handed Republicans tough questions with no easy answers over how, and where, to attract voters even GOP leaders say the party needs to stay nationally competitive. Full Story | Top |
| Russia increasingly impatient over Snowden's airport stay Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 11:27 AM PDT  By Timothy Heritage and Steve Gutterman MOSCOW (Reuters) - Edward Snowden should find another country to seek refuge in, a Russian official said on Thursday, signaling Moscow's growing impatience over the former U.S. spy agency contractor's stay at a Moscow airport. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Russia had received no request for political asylum from Snowden and he had to solve his problems himself after 11 days in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. ... Full Story | Top |
| Analysis: Cautious toward Middle East, Obama gets second chance in Egypt Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 03:44 PM PDT  By Steve Holland and Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When President Barack Obama sat down with his top national security aides this week to determine how to react to a military takeover in Egypt, he had a tough choice to make. He could denounce what had taken place as a coup launched against a legitimately elected president in Cairo and suspend U.S. military aid. Or he could embrace the move as a reaction to popular discontent with the Muslim Brotherhood-controlled government. That he chose a middle ground, urging a swift return to civilian government and ordering a U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Egypt: Chief justice sworn in as interim president Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 04:42 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — The chief justice of Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court was sworn in Thursday as the nation's interim president, taking over hours after the military ousted the Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. Full Story | Top |
| What now? Q&A about latest snag in health care law Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 12:43 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nothing's ever easy with President Barack Obama's health care law. Full Story | Top |
| Indian actor Shah Rukh Khan announces new baby Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 01:30 AM PDT  NEW DELHI (AP) — Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan has confirmed that he's the father of a new baby amid feverish media speculation. Full Story | Top |
| State winding down in George Zimmerman trial Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 01:35 AM PDT  SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors are winding down their case in George Zimmerman's murder trial after presenting forensics evidence and testimony aimed at refuting Zimmerman's claim he was acting in self-defense when he fatally shot Trayvon Martin. Full Story | Top |
| Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Leader arrested Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 07:31 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — The chief justice of Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court was sworn in Thursday as the nation's interim president, taking over hours after the military ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and launched a major crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, the group from which Morsi hails. Full Story | Top |
| Boy fatally run over at Oklahoma July 4th parade Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 04:18 PM PDT  EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — An 8-year-old boy riding in a Fourth of July parade in central Oklahoma died Thursday after his father accidentally ran him over, authorities said. Full Story | Top |
| Obama treads cautiously on Egypt leader's ouster Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 11:04 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is proceeding cautiously in its response to the ouster of Egypt's President's Mohammed Morsi, straddling a line between supporting democracy while declining to take sides. Full Story | Top |
| The Growing State-by-State Fight over Marriage Equality Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 05:19 PM PDT  New Jersey's effective prohibition on gay marriages is facing a court challenge from an advocacy group in the state. The group, already suing the state, submitted a court filing on Wednesday in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision on the Defense of Marriage Act. They join Michigan — ranked numbers 1 and 2 on our list of states that might approve gay marriage after DOMA — and a handful of other states rapidly mounting challenges to existing state marriage laws. Full Story | Top |
| Exclusive: Supreme Court's Ginsburg vows to resist pressure to retire Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 05:02 AM PDT  By Joan Biskupic WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At age 80, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, leader of the Supreme Court's liberal wing, says she is in excellent health, even lifting weights despite having cracked a pair of ribs again, and plans to stay several more years on the bench. In a Reuters interview late on Tuesday, she vowed to resist any pressure to retire that might come from liberals who want to ensure that Democratic President Barack Obama can pick her successor before the November 2016 presidential election. ... Full Story | Top |
| Top Brotherhood figures seized in Egypt sweep Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 06:18 PM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's military moved swiftly Thursday against senior figures of the Muslim Brotherhood, targeting the backbone of support for ousted President Mohammed Morsi. In the most dramatic step, authorities arrested the group's revered leader from a seaside villa and flew him by helicopter to detention in the capital. Full Story | Top |
| Vast war letter collection shows sacrifice Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 01:12 AM PDT  ORANGE, Calif. (AP) — U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Horace Evers was setting up a command post in Munich with other Allied soldiers in the final days of World War II when he stumbled across sheets of Adolf Hitler's personal stationery in the dictator's abandoned apartment. Full Story | Top |
| Egypt army ousts Morsi, new leader to be sworn in Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 01:20 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Egyptians awoke Thursday to a new political reality after the military overthrew the country's first democratically elected president after only a year in office, shunting the Islamist leader aside in the same kind of Arab Spring uprising that brought him to power. Full Story | Top |
| Teen injured at Calif. camp heard crack, screaming Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 05:28 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — One moment 18-year-old Lizzie Moore was eating pancakes and talking to fellow staff at a summer camp near Yosemite National Park. The next she heard a cracking sound and screams and looked up to see the top of a tree coming crashing toward her. Full Story | Top |
| Industry panning Obama's climate change push Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 11:57 AM PDT  BOW, N.H. (AP) — President Barack Obama's push to fight global warming has triggered condemnation from the coal industry across the industrial Midwest, where state and local economies depend on the health of an energy sector facing strict new pollution limits. Full Story | Top |
| Morales back in Bolivia after plane drama over Snowden Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 07:47 AM PDT  By Daniel Ramos LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivian President Evo Morales arrived home to a hero's welcome late on Wednesday, saying some European countries' refusal to let his plane enter their airspace because of suspicion it carried fugitive U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden was a provocation aimed at all of South America. Morales was greeted by his Cabinet and cheering, fist-pumping crowds at La Paz's airport after a dramatic journey from Moscow that ignited a diplomatic furore when his plane had to make an unscheduled stop in Vienna on Tuesday evening. ... Full Story | Top |
| Doorway by doorway, rabbi seeks Montana's Jews Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 10:52 AM PDT  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana's small Jewish population is scattered across a huge state that has more rodeos than rabbis, but one man is logging thousands of miles to seek out the faithful one doorway at a time. Full Story | Top |
| National Guard soldiers, airmen to be furloughed Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 06:30 PM PDT  KAPOLEI, Hawaii (AP) — More than 1,100 National Guard soldiers and airmen in Hawaii — and thousands in other states — will be living with 20 percent less pay over the next three months as the Defense Department carries out automatic federal budget cuts. Full Story | Top |
| Joey Chestnut wins 7th contest with record 69 dogs Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 01:22 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Joey Chestnut downed 69 franks and devoured his own record in the men's Fourth of July hot dog eating contest while Sonya Thomas defended her title in the women's competition. Full Story | Top |
| Lady Liberty reopens July 4, but Ellis Island, damaged by Sandy, remains dark Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 03:27 AM PDT For more than 100 years, Ellis Island has been an important symbol of the nation's immigration system, a place where more than 12 million people passed through between 1892 and 1924 seeking a better life in America. And since 1990, when Ellis Island reopened as a museum, millions more have walked through its doors, seeking to understand its role in creating the nation's "melting pot" of culture and their own family roots. Full Story | Top |
| NHL-Bruins and Stars complete seven-player trade Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 02:56 PM PDT July 4 (Reuters) - The Stanley Cup finalist Boston Bruins and Dallas Stars completed a seven-player trade on Thursday just ahead of the opening of the free agent market. Boston sent forwards Rich Peverley, Tyler Seguin and defenseman Ryan Button to Dallas in exchange for forward Loui Eriksson and prospects Matt Fraser, Reilly Smith and defenseman Joe Morrow. The key to the deal for Boston was Eriksson, a native of Sweden who appeared in all 48 regular season games for the Stars and tied for the team lead with 12 goals. ... Full Story | Top |
| Internet sites join July 4 protest against surveillance Thursday, Jul 04, 2013 11:44 AM PDT  (Reuters) - The online community rallied on Thursday in support of live protests against the U.S. government's surveillance of internet activity, a practice recently exposed by a former contractor for the National Security Agency. Websites such as Reddit and Mozilla supported a campaign in cities across the United States to "Restore the Fourth" - a reference to the U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment, which protects citizens against unlawful search and seizure. ... Full Story | Top |
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