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| Doughnut shop employee pays tribute to Mitch Hedberg on receipts Thursday, May 01, 2014 07:08 AM PDT An employee at a Chicago doughnut shop was recently "given the ability to control what gets printed on the receipts," and promptly programmed a quote from the late comedian's doughnut routine. Full Story | Top |
| Russia challenges EU energy market rules Thursday, May 01, 2014 07:17 AM PDT  GENEVA (AP) — Russia has filed a complaint against the European Union's energy market laws claiming they violate international rules, the World Trade Organization said Thursday. Full Story | Top |
| Hero dies from knife injuries after fighting off stranger's attacker Thursday, May 01, 2014 07:20 AM PDT Not all heroic deeds have happy endings. Sometimes, they result in tragedy. Full Story | Top |
| Oklahoma prison report says collapsed vein behind botched execution Thursday, May 01, 2014 02:56 PM PDT  By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - The botched Oklahoma execution of Clayton Lockett was largely due to a collapsed vein during the lethal injection, and the needle was inserted in the groin area instead of the arm after prison officials used a stun gun to restrain him, a prisons report said on Thursday. Department of Corrections Director Robert Patton said in the report the state's execution protocols needed to be revised and called for an indefinite stay of executions until the new procedures are in place and staff trained. Ahead of the Tuesday execution, Lockett, a convicted murderer, had refused to be restrained, the report said, and after being given a warning "an electronic shock device was administered," causing an injury to his arm. Lockett, 38, died of an apparent heart attack minutes after the lethal injection protocol failed. Full Story | Top |
| Ukraine renews military draft as unrest intensifies Thursday, May 01, 2014 01:36 PM PDT  DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Ukraine should withdraw its military from the eastern and southern regions of the country, a statement that could bolster anti-government insurgents who are seizing buildings. Full Story | Top |
| Watch These Field Reporters Deal With the Unexpected Thursday, May 01, 2014 08:54 AM PDT If you are compiling a montage of 2014's best news bloopers, here are two nominees for the final cut. The first comes courtesy of KTLA in Los Angeles. Reporter Courtney Friel was on the scene of a brushfire in Rancho Cucamonga. As she was interviewing a person off camera, a man without a shirt approached her. Friel asked the bystander if he lived around the area. The man answered her but also had an inquiry of his own. Full Story | Top |
| Malaysia releases missing plane report, reveals confusion Thursday, May 01, 2014 02:14 PM PDT  By Siva Govindasamy and Tim Hepher KUALA LUMPUR/PARIS (Reuters) - Malaysia on Thursday released its most comprehensive account yet of what happened to missing Flight MH370, in a preliminary report that detailed the route the plane probably took as it veered off course and revealed the confusion that followed. It showed four hours elapsed between the first sign that the Malaysia Airlines jet had failed to report in when expected to and the decision to mount a search operation - and that time included lapses of communication and a false lead from the airline itself. The document, dated April 9, also contributed to a growing safety debate by urging the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the U.N. body that oversees aviation, to consider introducing a system for tracking commercial jets. The Malaysian government and military have come under intense criticism for their handling of events on and after March 8, when the Malaysia Airlines flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing disappeared with 239 passengers and crew on board. Full Story | Top |
| White House denies memo was about Benghazi attack Thursday, May 01, 2014 04:11 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Wednesday denied that a staff member's email three days after the deadly attack on the U.S. mission at Benghazi, Libya, was actually about the attack. Critics have branded the electronic missive as evidence that the Obama administration sought to deceive the public about the true circumstances surrounding the deaths of four Americans during the final months of the 2012 presidential campaign. Full Story | Top |
| NATO official: Russia now an adversary Thursday, May 01, 2014 01:05 PM PDT NATO's second-ranking official says Moscow's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and its destabilizing actions in eastern Ukraine have compelled the U.S.-led alliance to start treating Russia as more of an enemy than a partner. Full Story | Top |
| MH370 Carried 440 Pounds of Danger Thursday, May 01, 2014 03:40 PM PDT  Malaysia's first report on the missing plane confirms a huge consignment of lithium-ion batteries—that grounded airplanes in the past—was onboard. Full Story | Top |
| Malaysia releases preliminary report into MH370 Thursday, May 01, 2014 09:18 AM PDT  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Air traffic controllers did not realize that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was missing until 17 minutes after it disappeared from civilian radar, according to a preliminary report on the plane's disappearance released Thursday by Malaysia's government. Full Story | Top |
| When the White House hates your tweet Thursday, May 01, 2014 03:34 AM PDT For the Obama White House, tweets from reporters are a kind of early warning system. It's up to Jessica Allen, 24, to sound the alarm. Full Story | Top |
| Pro-Russian protesters storm prosecutor's office in Ukraine's Donetsk Thursday, May 01, 2014 07:23 AM PDT Pro-Russian protesters stormed the prosecutor's office in the separatist-held city of Donetsk on Thursday, lobbing stones and smashing windows after accusing the office of working for the Western-backed government in Kiev. Donetsk, a city of about 1 million people in Ukraine's industrial east, is at the center of an armed uprising across the steel and coal belt by mainly Russian-speakers threatening to secede from Ukraine. "The prosecutor's office was issuing criminal orders from Kiev against its own people, charging them with separatism and other fake crimes," said one protester, a 43-year-old man from Donetsk who gave his name as Igor. Interfax-Ukraine news agency said the protesters had allowed security officers inside the building to leave, but that some were wounded. Full Story | Top |
| How Albert Einstein Helped Blackmail President Roosevelt Over Manhattan Project Funding Thursday, May 01, 2014 04:06 AM PDT  Seventy-five years ago, Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilard wrote a letter to United States President Franklin Roosevelt expressing concern that German scientists would soon unlock the secrets to developing the first atomic bomb. The Einstein-Szilard letter resulted in the establishment of the Manhattan Project, and the United States' subsequent creation of the world's first nuclear weapon. "The third is probably the most interesting, because it involves a bit of scientific and political blackmail," author William Lanouette said at a press conference on April 7 during a meeting of the American Physical Society in Savannah, Georgia. Lanouette is the author of "Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb" (University of Chicago Press, 1994). Full Story | Top |
| Passenger captures video as airplane’s engine bursts into flames Thursday, May 01, 2014 09:41 AM PDT  Air travel is stressful enough when everything goes according to plan — now imagine being on a plane and having one of the aircraft's engines burst into flames shortly after takeoff. That's exactly what happened to an airliner full of passengers in Perth, Australia headed for Barrow Island earlier this week. The West Australian reports that the Cobham Aviation plane had just taken off with 90 passengers when an engine on the left wing burst into flames. The image above was captured by a passer-by on the ground, but one passenger aboard the flight — Brad McCoy — actually used his smartphone to capture terrifying video footage from within the plane's cabin. Following the catastrophic engine failure, the plane reversed course and Full Story | Top |
| The time has come to make you vote Thursday, May 01, 2014 02:03 AM PDT Word is that Sean Parker, the 34-year-old Web visionary who built Napster and then helped grow Facebook, is the latest billionaire with an idea to save the political system, or at least a lot of money in search of an idea to save the political system. Parker and other investors are said to be planning a startup aimed at organizing disaffected voters. They've hired some well-connected Washington consultants, because that's what you do when you really want to stick it to the status quo. Full Story | Top |
| Russia stages first Red Square May Day parade since Soviet days Thursday, May 01, 2014 05:43 AM PDT  By Nigel Stephenson MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia staged a huge May Day parade on Moscow's Red Square for the first time since the Soviet era on Thursday, with workers holding banners proclaiming support for President Vladimir Putin after the seizure of territory from neighboring Ukraine. Thousands of trade unionists marched with Russian flags and flags of Putin's ruling United Russia party onto the giant square beneath the Kremlin walls, past the red granite mausoleum of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin. But others were more directly political, alluding to the crisis in neighboring former Soviet republic Ukraine, where Russian troops seized and annexed the Crimea peninsula in March, precipitating the biggest confrontation with the West since the Cold War. Putin has described the breakup of the Soviet Union as a tragedy and overturned decades of post-Cold War diplomacy in March by declaring Russia's right to intervene in former Soviet countries to protect Russian speakers. Full Story | Top |
| FDA approves first-of-a-kind sleep apnea implant Thursday, May 01, 2014 08:41 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sleep deprived Americans have a new option to address hard-to-treat nighttime breathing problems: a first-of-kind device that keeps airways open by zapping them with an electrical current. Full Story | Top |
| Lebanon in frenzy over Clooney-Alamuddin engagement Thursday, May 01, 2014 06:12 AM PDT  Baakline (Lebanon) (AFP) - Word that Beirut-born Amal Alamuddin has stolen the heart of Oscar-winning heartthrob George Clooney has caused a frenzy in Lebanon, where citizens are more used to bad news. In Baakline, the leafy home district of Alamuddin's father in the Lebanese mountains, Ramzi Sabbagh could hardly contain his enthusiasm. "She has made Lebanon and Baakline proud, given that she is originally from here," he told AFP. Full Story | Top |
| Woman takes $10K necklace in for repairs, says jewelry store gave her a $50 knockoff back Thursday, May 01, 2014 11:07 AM PDT The jewelry store owner denies the allegations and says the woman is making up the claim. Full Story | Top |
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