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| 10 easy ways to make money in 2014 Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 07:03 AM PST  Waters: Forget resolutions. Instead, commit to making several small changes in your financial behavior. Full Story | Top |
| 11 GOP Attorneys General Say Obamacare Fix Is Illegal Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 12:45 PM PST The White House is facing legal backlash from 11 Republican attorneys general who say the President is breaking the law by making changes to Obamacare without first going through Congress. West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey sent a letter on Thursday to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius questioning the constitutionality of the president's latest executive action that allowed insurance companies to continue offering plans that had been cancelled. The letter, signed by attorneys general from Republican-dominated states including Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia, called the rule change "flatly illegal under federal constitutional and statutory law." "We support allowing citizens to keep their health insurance coverage, but the only way to fix this problem-ridden law is to enact changes lawfully: through Congressional action," the letter said. Full Story | Top |
| Marines delay female fitness plan after half fail Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 02:08 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half of female Marines in boot camp can't do three pullups, the minimum standard that was supposed to take effect with the new year, prompting the Marine Corps to delay the requirement, part of the process of equalizing physical standards to integrate women into combat jobs. Full Story | Top |
| Jihad Jane: Despite cooperation, U.S. seeks 'decades' in prison Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 02:08 AM PST  By John Shiffman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pennsylvania woman who called herself Jihad Jane and a teenage accomplice from Maryland provided "very significant" assistance to U.S. authorities in several terrorism investigations but still remains a threat to the public, prosecutors say in new court filings. Prosecutors said Colleen LaRose, 50, should be sentenced to "decades behind bars" for her role in a failed 2009 plot to kill Lars Vilks, a Swedish artist who offended many Muslims by drawing the Prophet Mohammed on the head of a dog. After years of delay, the American-born LaRose is expected to be sentenced on Monday in Philadelphia. A similar hearing for Mohammad Hassan Khalid, the youngest person ever charged with terrorism in the United States, is set for Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| California grants law license to immigrant Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 01:37 PM PST  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The California Supreme Court granted a law license Thursday to a man who has been living in the U.S. illegally for two decades, a ruling that advocates hope will open the door to immigrants seeking to enter other professions such as medicine, nursing and accounting. Full Story | Top |
| Mystery of California Crop Circle May Never Be Solved Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 10:05 AM PST An intricate crop circle in California no longer exists after the owner whose land it was on ordered a crew to plow it under. But the Internet is still abuzz with whether the circle's construction came via a group of pranksters or something more inexplicable. Scott Anthony owns a ranch just outside of Chualar, Calif. , about two hours south of San Francisco. When he returned from vacation earlier this week, he discovered that someone had plowed a design into his field. The Monterey Herald spoke with a security guard at the field, who said the circle appeared either Sunday or Monday morning. Spanning about an acre, the pattern appeared to contain the numbers 1, 9, and 2 in Braille, according to KSBW-TV. Full Story | Top |
| Poll: Americans have little faith in government Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 12:56 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans enter 2014 with a profoundly negative view of their government, expressing little hope that elected officials can or will solve the nation's biggest problems, a new poll finds. Full Story | Top |
| Woman searches for mystery man by posting notes to him all over town Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 12:31 PM PST Some say it's 'romantic,' others call it a bit crazy, but Courtney (last name unknown) doesn't seem concerned with what others think of her recent search for love. Full Story | Top |
| The New York Times, Guardian urge clemency for Edward Snowden Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 07:34 AM PST The New York Times and Britain's the Guardian newspaper urge President Barack Obama to go easy on the NSA leaker, currently living in Russia. Full Story | Top |
| Spike in mass shootings creates demand for different police approach Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 05:26 AM PST  America's angst over shootings in public places is growing, and with good reason. According to a study obtained by Yahoo News, rampages like the Washington Navy Yard and Los Angeles airport shootings have tripled in recent years. Full Story | Top |
| Were your details compromised by the Snapchat hack? This website will tell you Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 02:28 AM PST  The site, SnapchatDB, containing the details of US Snapchat users, has since been pulled. The hackers also said that they had censored the final two digits of each compromised phone number in order to "minimize spam and abuse." If they have, you can delete your Snapchat account -- this will stop anyone else using it and pretending to be you, but, as the site explains, this won't stop nefarious individuals from being able to use your phone number. Full Story | Top |
| Warning issued about oil shipped from ND, Mont. Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 10:42 PM PST  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Following a string of explosive accidents, federal officials say crude oil being shipped by rail from the Northern Plains across the U.S. and Canada may be more flammable than traditional forms of oil. Full Story | Top |
| Original Cheerios to go GMO-free Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 07:07 PM PST  General Mills says some Cheerios made without genetically modified ingredients will start appearing on shelves soon. The Minneapolis-based company said Thursday that it has been manufacturing its original-flavor ... Full Story | Top |
| Court grants law license to man in US illegally Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 03:51 PM PST  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The California Supreme Court granted a law license Thursday to a man who has lived in the U.S. illegally for two decades, a ruling that advocates hope will open the door to millions of immigrants seeking to enter other professions such as medicine, accounting and teaching. Full Story | Top |
| 'Baboon Syndrome': An Unusual Complication of Antibiotics Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 05:29 AM PST  A 40-year-old man with a sore throat and fever was diagnosed with tonsillitis, and was prescribed penicillin, a common antibiotic. But several days later, the man developed a rash over his armpits, groin and buttocks — an unusual condition known as "baboon syndrome." The condition, more formally called symmetrical drug-related intertriginous and flexural exanthema (SDRIFE), is known as baboon syndrome because the rash on the patient's buttocks resembles the red hindquarters of some monkeys. The condition is usually caused by an allergic reaction to penicillin drugs, but can also be caused by exposure to mercury or nickel, said Dr. Andreas Bircher, a dermatologist at University Hospital of Basel in Switzerland. Full Story | Top |
| Skype says user information safe in Syrian Electronic Army hack Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 02:51 PM PST  By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A day after the Syrian Electronic Army said it had hacked into Skype's social media accounts, the Internet calling service acknowledged on Thursday it had been hit with a "cyber attack" but said no user information was compromised. A Tweet posted on Skype's official Twitter feed on Wednesday read: "Don't use Microsoft emails (hotmail, outlook), They are monitoring your accounts and selling the data to the governments. #SEA" Similar messages were posted on Skype's official Facebook pages and on a blog on its website before being taken down later in the afternoon. Skype is owned by Microsoft Corp. The Syrian Electronic Army, an amorphous hacking collective that supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, later claimed the attack. Full Story | Top |
| Texting, dialing while driving raises crash risk Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 06:13 AM PST A sophisticated, real-world study confirms that dialing, texting or reaching for a cellphone while driving raises the risk of a crash or near-miss, especially for younger drivers. But the research also produced a surprise: Simply talking on the phone did not prove dangerous, as it has in other studies. Full Story | Top |
| How the Army’s recent successful laser test could change the future of warfare Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 04:53 PM PST An Army official talks with Yahoo News about the recent successful test demonstration of a vehicle mounted laser system that points toward the future of battlefield engagement. Full Story | Top |
| 2014's first big storm bears down on northeast US Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 03:46 AM PST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A winter storm was bearing down on the Northeast on Thursday, promising heavy snow, strong winds and frigid temperatures that will make commutes hazardous for the first work day of the new year. Full Story | Top |
| Age of Saturn's Rings Revealed Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 06:01 AM PST  The new study, conducted using data gathered by NASA's Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft, strongly supports the latter scenario, researchers said here Tuesday (Dec. 10) at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Cassini's measurements imply that "the main rings would be [extremely] old, rather than hundreds of millions of years old," Sascha Kempf, of the University of Colorado in Boulder, said. Saturn's main ring system is huge but razor-thin, measuring about 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometers) across but just 33 feet (10 meters) or so in the vertical direction. On average, just 0.0000000000000000001 grams — or, in scientific notation, 10^-19 g — of dust per square centimeter zooms through space every second at a distance of five to 50 Saturn radii from the planet. Full Story | Top |
| Toronto Mayor Rob Ford files to run again Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 01:35 PM PST  TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has put his name on the ballot to run for another term, defying repeated calls for him to step down after admitting he smoked crack "in a drunken stupor." Full Story | Top |
| Strong winter storm pushes into the Northeast Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 07:04 PM PST BOSTON (AP) — A storm expected to bring more than a foot of snow, stiff winds and punishing cold pushed into the Northeast on Thursday, extending Christmas break for some students while posing the first test for New York's new mayor and perhaps the last challenge for Boston's outgoing one. Full Story | Top |
| Netanyahu gloomy as Kerry returns for peace talks Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 10:58 AM PST  By Arshad Mohammed JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered a gloomy assessment of peace prospects with the Palestinians on Thursday as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry began his 10th visit to the region in pursuit of a deal. "There is growing doubt in Israel that the Palestinians are committed to peace," said Netanyahu, speaking with Kerry at his side and accusing Palestinian officials of orchestrating a campaign of "rampant" incitement against Israel. Netanyahu specifically criticized Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for the heroes' welcome he gave a group of Palestinian prisoners, most convicted of murdering Israelis, who were released from Israeli jails on Tuesday. In the days before Kerry's latest trip to Jerusalem, Palestinian leaders have likewise accused Israel of trying to sabotage the talks aimed at ending their decades-old conflict. Full Story | Top |
| Fugitive U.S. banker arrested after 18 months on run Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 11:09 AM PST  By David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) - A former Georgia bank director who left a suicide note and vanished while under suspicion he embezzled $21 million has been captured 18 months after he disappeared. Sheriff's deputies arrested Aubrey Lee Price, 47, during a traffic stop on Interstate 95 near Brunswick, Georgia, on Tuesday after noticing the windows of his Dodge pickup appeared to be tinted too darkly to comply with state law, Glynn County Sheriff E. Neal Jump said. Price disappeared soon before his indictment in Georgia on one count of bank fraud in July 2012 and left behind a written confession and a note for family and friends saying he planned to kill himself, authorities said. Full Story | Top |
| Malaysia's Islamic authorities seize Bibles as Allah row deepens Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 03:22 AM PST  By Niluksi Koswanage KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Islamic authorities in Malaysia on Thursday seized 321 Bibles from a Christian group because they used the word Allah to refer to God, signaling growing intolerance that may inflame ethnic and religious tension in the Southeast Asian country. That ruling overturned a court decision that allowed a Roman Catholic newspaper printed in Malay, the country's national language, to use Allah. The change has heightened concern that religious authorities, which issue rulings for Muslims and operate alongside civil courts, now have more legal muscle. Analysts say new rulings that affect non-Muslims could be a way of deflecting anger against Prime Minister Najib Razak's government from poor Malay Muslims over subsidy cuts likely to force up electricity, petrol and sugar prices. Full Story | Top |
| Walmart manager, in quest to stop Bud Light theft, winds up going on a 15-mile ride in the back of the thieves’ truck Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 01:28 PM PST A Walmart manager went on a long and crazy ride with a couple of thieves who had stolen beer from his store. Full Story | Top |
| Kerry in Israel on new Mideast peace push Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 07:03 PM PST US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders Friday as he pushes a framework for Middle East peace talks, amid growing tension on the ground. Kerry arrived in Israel Thursday and held talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, launching what is expected to be an intense four days of shuttle diplomacy between Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Early Friday the problems involved were amply illustrated as Israeli war planes carried out a series of strikes in the Gaza Strip, shortly after a rocket from the Palestinian enclave struck the Jewish state. A statement from the army said that "in response to rocket fire toward Israel", its "aircraft targeted a terror infrastructure site in the central Gaza Strip and three concealed rocket launchers in the northern Gaza Strip". Full Story | Top |
| Former Israeli leader Sharon's condition deteriorating: hospital Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 07:44 AM PST By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, comatose since a 2006 stroke, slipped closer to death on Thursday after a sharp decline in the condition of the ex-general who long symbolized Israel's military might. Reviled by Arabs over his hardline policies and viewed with a mixture of respect and suspicion by many Israelis, 85-year-old Sharon has been on life support at Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv for the past eight years, far from the public gaze. Full Story | Top |
| As Obamacare begins, critics launch a new assault in ads Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 03:08 PM PST  By Gabriel Debenedetti WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative activists opposed to President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul started a new assault on the Affordable Care Act as more than 2 million people began new health coverage under the law on Thursday. One group, which is backed by the libertarian billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, launched a $2.5 million television ad campaign that targets three Democratic senators who support the law and could face stiff challenges from Republicans in November elections. The group, Americans for Prosperity, or AFP, spent more than $36 million on the 2012 elections, largely for ads that bashed the law known as Obamacare and Democrats who supported it. The ads by AFP are aimed at North Carolina's Kay Hagan, Louisiana's Mary Landrieu and New Hampshire's Jeanne Shaheen. Full Story | Top |
| Relapse of 'cured' HIV patients spurs AIDS science on Thursday, Jan 02, 2014 02:21 AM PST By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists seeking a cure for AIDS say they have been inspired, not crushed, by a major setback in which two HIV positive patients believed to have been cured found the virus re-invading their bodies once more. True, the news hit hard last month that the so-called "Boston patients" - two men who received bone marrow transplants that appeared to rid them completely of the AIDS-causing virus - had relapsed and gone back onto antiretroviral treatment. "It's a setback for the patients, of course, but an advance for the field because the field has now gained a lot more knowledge," said Steven Deeks, a professor and HIV expert at the University of California, San Francisco. He and other experts say the primary practical message is that current tests designed to detect even very low levels of HIV present in the body are simply not sensitive enough. Full Story | Top |
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