Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Daily News: Most Popular News Headlines - Americans rank Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton as most admired: poll

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Americans rank Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton as most admired: poll 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 06:39 AM PST
Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama(Reuters) - Americans named President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the world's most admired living man and woman in 2013, according to a Gallup poll released on Monday. Obama topped the annual list for the sixth consecutive year, a typical ranking for a sitting U.S. president, the polling organization said.
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Pa. man lands 'corrected' 1918 stamps 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 02:45 AM PST
Inverted JennyBUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A collector credits a hunch with helping him land one of just 100 sheets of stamps recently issued by the United States Postal Service featuring a corrected version of its rare and famous error, the 1918 "inverted Jenny."
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Midas mechanic finds diamond ring lost for 6 years 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 10:30 AM PST
An engagement ring that was lost in Richmond, Virginia in 2007, was recently found by a mechanic in Greenville, South Carolina.
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Samsung sells 110-inch ultra-HD TV for $150,000 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 03:31 AM PST
In this undated handout photo released by Samsung Electronics Co. Monday, Dec. 30, 2103, models pose with a Samsung Electronics' 110-inch UHD TV. Samsung on Monday said a 110-inch UHD TV that has four times the resolution of standard high-definition TVs is going on sales for about $150,000 in South Korea. (AP Photo/Samsung Electronics Co.)SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung said a 110-inch TV that has four times the resolution of standard high-definition TVs is going on sale for about $150,000 in South Korea.
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One-third of Americans reject evolution, poll shows 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 02:37 PM PST
Adam and EveBy Chris Francescani NEW YORK (Reuters) - One-third of Americans reject the idea of evolution and Republicans have grown more skeptical about it, according to a poll released on Monday. Sixty percent of Americans say that "humans and other living things have evolved over time," the telephone survey by the Pew Research Center's Religion and Public Life Project showed (Click http://www.pewforum.org/2013/12/30/publics-views-on-human-evolution/ for the full survey). But 33 percent reject the idea of evolution, saying that "humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time," Pew said in a statement. "The gap is coming from the Republicans, where fewer are now saying that humans have evolved over time," said Cary Funk, a Pew senior researcher who conducted the analysis.
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7 Political Predictions for 2014 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 02:45 AM PST
Hillary Rodham ClintonSure, budget brinksmanship and Hillary presidential hints are a given. But millions more sign-ups for health-care coverage and the ousting of Mitch McConnell? They could happen, too.
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Nazi-looted art found in German parliament: report 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 07:30 AM PST
SPD And CDU/CSU Seal New Coalition GovernmentBy Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) - An art historian has found two art works stolen by the Nazis inside Germany's parliament, a newspaper reported on Monday, in a new embarrassment for authorities after a huge stash of looted art came to light last month. The Bundestag, in a statement issued after the report in Bild newspaper, said an art historian was reviewing two "suspicious cases", but a spokesman would not confirm the find. The art historian's investigations into the German parliament's art collection, which began in 2012, were continuing, the Bundestag spokesman said. "It is unclear when there will be a result to the investigations," he said.
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The $375 Applebee’s dinner 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 04:36 AM PST
Applebee'sRinging in the New Year, Big Apple(bee's)-style.
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Congress letting 55 tax breaks expire at year end 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 10:01 AM PST
FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2013 file photo, House Ways and Means Committee member Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. In an almost annual ritual, Congress is letting a package of 55 popular tax breaks expire at the end of the year, creating uncertainty _ once again _ for millions of individuals and businesses. The annual practice of letting these tax breaks expire is a symptom a divided, dysfunctional Congress that struggles to pass routine legislation, said Lewis, a senior Democrat on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee. WASHINGTON (AP) — In an almost annual ritual, Congress is letting a package of 55 popular tax breaks expire at the end of the year, creating uncertainty — once again — for millions of individuals and businesses.
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Gay in Utah: Hostility, acceptance part of life 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 06:12 AM PST
FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 23, 2013, file photo, Greg Jaboin, third from right, expresses his excitement upon being declared married to his partner of 10-years, Steve Kachocki, right, by officiant David Beach at the Salt Lake City County offices in Salt Lake City. The state plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and put a halt to gay marriages while they appeal a federal judge's ruling overturning the ban. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Francisco Kjolseth, File)SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah has long been known as a bastion of red-state conservatism with deep roots in the Mormon faith. It's the kind of place that has historically been unwelcoming to gay marriage.
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Schumacher critical, outlook uncertain after fall 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 09:09 AM PST
GRENOBLE, France (AP) — Doctors treating Michael Schumacher refused Monday to predict an outcome for the seven-time Formula One champion, saying they were taking his critical head injury "hour by hour" following a skiing accident.
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Train collision in North Dakota sets oil rail cars ablaze 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 03:38 PM PST
A plume of smoke rises from scene of a derailed train near Casselton, North DakotaBy Alicia Nelson FARGO, North Dakota (Reuters) - A BNSF train carrying crude oil in North Dakota collided with another train on Monday setting off a series of explosions that left at least 10 cars ablaze, the latest in a string of incidents that have raised alarms over growing oil-by-rail traffic. Local residents heard five powerful explosions just a mile outside of the small town of Casselton after a westbound train carrying soybeans derailed, and an eastbound 104-car train hauling crude oil ran into it just after 2 p.m. CST (2000 GMT), local officials said. Half of the oil cars have been separated from the train, but another 56 cars remain in danger, said Cecily Fong, the public information officer with the North Dakota Department of Emergency Services. Both trains were operated by BNSF Railway Co, which is owned by Warren Buffett's Bershire Hathaway Inc. The incident threatens to stoke concerns about the safety of carrying increasing volumes of crude oil by rail, a trend that emerged from the unexpected burst of shale oil production out of North Dakota's Bakken fields.
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New Year on ice as weather stalls Antarctic air-sea rescue 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 11:02 PM PST
Stranded Antarctic shipAn icebound Russian research vessel prepared to ring in the New Year in Antarctica Tuesday as blizzards delayed a helicopter rescue planned after several icebreaking attempts failed. The MV Akademik Shokalskiy has been stranded 100 nautical miles east of the French base Dumont d'Urville for a week, hemmed in by impenetrable pack ice that three separate breakers have been unable to breach. The Australian government's supply ship Aurora Australis on Monday came within 10 nautical miles of the marooned vessel -- which has 74 research scientists, tourists and crew on board -- but was forced to turn back by snow showers and freezing winds. Russia's foreign ministry said a decision had been reached overnight to evacuate all 52 passengers by a helicopter on board the Chinese icebreaker Xue Long, which remains nearby after its own aborted bid to reach the Akademik Shokalskiy.
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Special Report: Japan's homeless recruited for murky Fukushima clean-up 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 01:22 AM PST
By Mari Saito and Antoni Slodkowski SENDAI, Japan (Reuters) - Seiji Sasa hits the train station in this northern Japanese city before dawn most mornings to prowl for homeless men. The men in Sendai Station are potential laborers that Sasa can dispatch to contractors in Japan's nuclear disaster zone for a bounty of $100 a head. It's also how Japan finds people willing to accept minimum wage for one of the most undesirable jobs in the industrialized world: working on the $35 billion, taxpayer-funded effort to clean up radioactive fallout across an area of northern Japan larger than Hong Kong. Almost three years ago, a massive earthquake and tsunami leveled villages across Japan's northeast coast and set off multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
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Feds announce test sites for drone aircraft 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 02:57 PM PST
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Six states were named Monday by federal officials to develop test sites for drones — a critical next step for the burgeoning industry that could one day produce thousands of unmanned aircraft for use by businesses, farmers and researchers.
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Texas Republicans lose 3 major donors in 2013 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 02:43 PM PST
FILE - This is a Dec. 10, 2002 file photo of Houston homebuilder Bob Perry, posing at the sales center at one of his Houston developments. The deaths this year of three major Texas Republican donors, including a billionaire who died over the weekend, could signal a generational change for party kingmakers in the nation's largest GOP stronghold. Harold Simmons' death Saturday came after Republicans lost home builder Bob Perry in April and businessman Leo Linbeck Jr. in June. For decades, all three helped bankroll political campaigns both in Texas and nationwide. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Melissa Phillip, File)AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The deaths this year of three major Texas Republican donors, including a billionaire who died over the weekend, could signal a generational change for party kingmakers in the nation's largest GOP stronghold.
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Michelle Obama adds to support for ABC's Roberts 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 01:57 PM PST
In this Friday, Nov. 8, 2013 file photo, first lady Michelle Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, at a workshop for high school students from Washington, New York and Boston about careers in film. The first lady led an outpouring of support for Robin Roberts on Monday, Dec. 30, 2013, following the ABC News anchor's first public acknowledgement of her 10-year, same-sex relationship with massage therapist Amber Laign. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michelle Obama is leading an outpouring of support for Robin Roberts after the "Good Morning America" news anchor's first public acknowledgement of her 10-year, same-sex relationship with massage therapist Amber Laign.
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Federal health care sign-ups pass 1 million mark 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 09:06 AM PST
FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2013 file photo, Rosemary Cabelo uses a computer at a public library to access the Affordable Health Care Act website, in San Antonio. The Obama administration says following a December surge, more than 1.1 million people have now enrolled for health insurance through the federal government's improved website. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)HONOLULU (AP) — The government's rehabilitated health insurance website has seen a December surge in customer sign-ups, pushing enrollment past the 1 million mark, the Obama administration says.
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'Core' Al-Qaeda not behind Benghazi attack: US 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 01:23 PM PST
A burnt building stands at the US consulate compound in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on September 13, 2012 following an attack late on September 11 in which the US ambassador to Libya and three other US nationals were killedThe United States is still investigating last year's attack on its diplomatic mission in Benghazi but has no evidence that "core Al-Qaeda" leaders directed the assault in which four Americans died, a US official said Monday. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said, however, that some of the militants who carried out the deadly operation on September 11, 2012 may "have taken inspiration from Al-Qaeda ideology." She was speaking after the New York Times published a lengthy investigation which found no evidence that the Al-Qaeda network had direct involvement in the attack, in which ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed. Militants stormed the mission in Benghazi, eastern Libya, before later attacking a nearby CIA annex.
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Family of girl on life support plans to sue 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 04:24 PM PST
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The family of a 13-year-old California girl who was declared brain dead after a tonsillectomy said Monday they will sue to keep her on life support.
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Discovered film negatives reveal century-old expedition to Antarctica 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 04:04 PM PST
Iceberg and land, Ross Island, Antarctica (Photo Credit: Photo credit: Antarctic Heritage Trust, nzaht.org)Talk about cold storage: A cache of negatives that are almost 100 years old that were discovered in a hut in Antarctica have revealed unique views into some of the courageous explorers of the era.
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13 Most popular Yahoo News Photo galleries of 2013 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 07:19 AM PST
The countdown of photo galleries that our Yahoo readers liked the best this year!
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NH house to vote on legalizing up to 1 oz. of pot 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 07:53 AM PST
New Hampshire's House votes early next month whether to legalize up to 1 ounce of marijuana for recreational use for anyone age 21 and older. Supporters propose taxing the drug when it is sold at retail ...
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The Christie Backlash 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 02:45 AM PST
The Christie BacklashIn a flash, the 2016 contender has seen his reputation slide from straight-talking pragmatist to partisan bully. Could a local scandal really take down Hillary's biggest competition?
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AP IMPACT: The world braces for retirement crisis 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 04:16 AM PST
In this Sept. 9, 2013 photo, Dong Linhua, 59, picks towel gourds in his backyard in Shanghai. A global retirement crisis is bearing down on workers of all ages. Spawned years before the Great Recession and the 2008 financial meltdown, the crisis has been significantly worsened by both. "I heard that the authorities might postpone the age of the retirement, but I sure hope not, since I've already worked for almost 42 years," says Dong. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)WASHINGTON (AP) — A global retirement crisis is bearing down on workers of all ages.
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Official who oversaw building of Obamacare website retires 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 10:57 AM PST
A busy screen is shown on the laptop of a Certified Application CounselorBy Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health official Michelle Snyder, who oversaw the building of the troubled Obamacare website, HealthCare.gov, is retiring from her job as chief operating officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). CMS chief Marilyn Tavenner announced Snyder's departure to senior staff last week in a statement viewed by Reuters on Monday.
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It's all in the bag _ cooking salmon en papillote 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 04:43 AM PST
This Dec. 2, 2013 photo shows salmon that has been baked in a bag with citrus, olive and chilies in Concord, N.H. The bag keeps the flavor and moisture trapped inside during cooking, allowing the juices from the fish and the other ingredients to mingle and become a wonderful sauce. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)Fish en papillote is the elegant-sounding name of a staple recipe of classic French cuisine. Translated into English, it becomes the much less elegant-sounding — "fish in a bag." By any name, however, this method of baking fish is a smash.
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Afghanistan rejects grim U.S. intelligence forecast as baseless 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 04:55 AM PST
Afghanistan's President Karzai addresses media representatives during press interaction in New DelhiBy Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan on Monday rejected as baseless a U.S. intelligence forecast that the gains the United States and allies have made in the past three years will be significantly rolled back by 2017. The U.S. National Intelligence Estimate also predicted that Afghanistan would fall into chaos if Washington and Kabul failed to sign a pact to keep an international military contingent there beyond 2014. President Hamid Karzai's spokesman dismissed the U.S. forecast, reported by the Washington Post on the weekend, and suggested there was an ulterior motive for it. Relations between Afghanistan and the United States have grown seriously strained recently by Karzai's refusal to sign the security pact that would permit some U.S. forces to stay.
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5 NFL coaches already fired 
Monday, Dec 30, 2013 12:24 PM PST
Former Washington Redskins head coach Mike Shanahan delivers a statement at an NFL football news conference after being fired, Monday, Dec. 30, 2013, in Ashburn, Va. Shanahan was fired after a morning meeting with owner Dan Snyder and general manager Bruce Allen at Redskins Park, a formality expected for several weeks as the losses mounted and tension rose among Shanahan, Snyder and franchise player Robert Griffin III. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)It didn't take long.
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