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Mammoth U.S. Navy ships arrive in the Philippines to help typhoon victims
Click Here For More The U.S. Navy arrived with a mammoth aircraft carrier Thursday to bring much-needed aid to hundreds of thousands of Filipinos who have gone without food and clean water for nearly a week.
The Navy cut short the shore leave of the crew of 5,500 to send it on the relief mission to the area ripped apart last week by Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest cyclones on record. -
Syrian army captures suburb south of Damascus
Click Here For More Syrian troops captured a contested suburb of Damascus on Wednesday as the government forged ahead with a punishing military offensive that already has taken four other opposition strongholds south of the capital, state media said. -
Jonathan Martin not expected to return to Dolphins, Miami players focusing on having a winning season
Click Here For MoreTo no one's surprise, a source close to Jonathan Martin told ESPN Monday that the offensive linemen is not likely to return to the NFL this season.Martin, who is back in California with his family where he is reportedly receiving unspecified medical treatment, wants to take more time before he tells his side of the story. -
Officials say 4 Marines killed in accident at Camp Pendleton
Click Here For MoreFour U.S. Marines were killed Wednesday during a range maintenance operation at Camp Pendleton in California, the base said in a press release.
The base did not provide any other details on what it called a “fatal incident,” but said it would release the names of those killed after their families were notified.
The Marines were clearing the range of unexploded ordnance, and it was not a live firing range, a Marine official said. No further details were released. -
Two Secret Service officers yanked from President Obama’s detail over misconduct
Click Here for More Two Secret Services officers have been pulled from President Obama’s security team and are under investigation for misconduct, the Washington Post reports.
Ignacio Zamora Jr., a senior supervisor responsible for two dozen agents in Obama’s detail, reportedly tried to reenter a woman’s hotel room this May after he realized he left a bullet from his service weapon in the room, according to the Post. -
3 hurdles Obamacare fix must overcome
Click Here For More President Obama now says that it's okay with him for people to keep their individual health insurance plans for another year. But he doesn't have the power to renew their policies. -
White candidate pretends to be black to win election
Click Here For More Dave Wilson is white. But to win a seat on the Houston Community College Board of Trustees in a district that is predominantly composed of African-American voters, Wilson, a conservative Republican, led voters to believe he was black. -
E-Cigarettes, Hookah Growing In Popularity Among U.S. Teens
Click Here For More Unconventional tobacco products such as electronic cigarettes and hookahs are becoming more popular among U.S. teens, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In 2012, 1.1 percent of middle school students reported using e-cigarettes, up from 0.6 percent in 2011. Among high school students, e-cigarette use rose from 1.5 percent to 2.8 percent, and hookah use increased from 4.1 percent to 5.4 percent over the same period. -
Philippines typhoon response defended by officials, who say all hard-hit areas should get aid Friday
Click Here For More The Philippine government on Friday defended its efforts to deliver assistance to victims of Typhoon Haiyan, many of whom have received little or no assistance since the monster storm struck one week ago.
"In a situation like this, nothing is fast enough," Interior Secretary Mar Roxas said in Tacloban, most of which was destroyed by the storm one week ago. "The need is massive, the need is immediate, and you can't reach everyone." -
China to ease one-child policy, abolish labor camps, report says
Click Here For More After months of hints, China announced Friday it will relax its decades-long one-child policy and abolish labor camps in an effort to improve human rights, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.Officials had said earlier both controversial policies were under review, but that did not diminish the force of Friday's announcement.
The biggest change could be the abolishment of the so-called "re-education through labor" system under which tens of thousands are imprisoned in China without trial. -
Top Syrian rebel commander Abdul Qadir al-Saleh dies
Click Here For More Abdul Qadir al-Saleh, the leader of Liwa al-Tawhid, died overnight, a spokesman told the Associated Press. Liwa al-Tawhid is one of the main rebel forces in Aleppo and is estimated to have between 8,000 and 10,000 fighters.
Meanwhile, senior figures from the Syrian regime are in Moscow to discuss plans for a peace conference. -
Six killed as tornadoes rip through U.S. Midwest
Click Here For More A fast-moving storm system triggered multiple tornadoes on Sunday that killed at least six people and flattened large parts of a town in Illinois as it tore across the Midwest, authorities said.The tornadoes leveled scores of homes and demolished entire neighborhoods. Some 80 tornado reports were received, along with 358 reports of damaging winds and 40 reports of large hail, according to Rich Thompson, a lead forecaster with the weather service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma. -
Death toll continues to rise in Phillipines
Click Here For More A distraught mother who lost her young sons in the tidal surge of Super Typhoon Haiyan feels her life is over.“I guess I’m just thinking to jump from that building,” Gelenbelle Vergara tells CNN’s Karl Penhaul on Sunday. “This is what would be my life’s worth. My sons are dead. I just pray that I also dead with them. What would be my life worth now?”“I guess I’m just thinking to jump from that building,” Gelenbelle Vergara tells CNN’s Karl Penhaul on Sunday. -
2 killed, 20 injured in Colorado mining accident
Click Here For MoreTwo workers have died and 20 others have been injured after a mining accident in southwestern Colorado early Sunday.
Authorities confirmed Sunday night that the two miners died of carbon monoxide poisoning and the source of the gas was under investigation. -
Blast off! NASA launches robotic MAVEN explorer to Mars
Click Here For More NASA's newest Martian explorer is on its launch pad in Florida, ready to soar.The Maven spacecraft was scheduled to blast off aboard an unmanned Atlas V rocket Monday afternoon. NASA is sending Maven to Mars to study its upper atmosphere. Scientists want to know why Mars went from being warm and wet during its first billion years, to the cold and dry place it is today. -
Syria peace conference likely in mid-December: UN
Click Here For More United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday he expected a long-delayed peace conference on Syria's bloody conflict will be held in "mid-December" with a specific date to be set next week, AFP reported. -
Midwest Tornado Outbreak: Here's How You Can Help
Click Here For More Tornadoes ravaged small towns all over the Midwest on Sunday, killing several people and wounding far more. These people will need help for months or years as they try to get back on their feet from this devastating event, and if you are able, there's no shortage of ways to help. People can donate to the Red Cross, Salvation Army, ect -
Al Qaeda-linked suicide bombings kill 23 at Iranian Embassy in Beirut
Click Here For More A TERRORIST group linked with Al Qaeda claimed responsibility Tuesday for twin suicide bombings at the Iranian Embassy in Beirut that killed 23, including an Iranian diplomat. The blasts also wounded 146, according to the Lebanese Health Minister Ali Hassan Khalil. -
U.N. disaster chief stresses long-term needs for Philippines
Click Here For More The head of U.N. disaster relief visited the heart of the Philippine disaster zone on Tuesday and stressed the need for long-term planning as well as emergency relief to ensure farmers and fishermen can resume their livelihoods. -
Typhoon Aid Reaches Remote Areas of Central Philippines
Click HEre For More International aid is starting to reach remote areas of the central Philippines, 10 days after the region was devastated by super Typhoon Haiyan.U.S. military helicopters delivered food, water and other supplies to villagers on Leyte island and in other remote communities Monday. The U.S. relief operation has so far delivered 11 tons of aid supplies and airlifted more than 8,000 survivors to safety. The Defense Department says 1,200 American soldiers are on the ground in the Philippines. -
NSA secretly tap Yahoo and Google, new Snowden files show
Click Here For More The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractorEdward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials. -
With less than 48 hours before Geneva nuclear talks, Kerry presses Iran to reach agreement, cancels trip to Israel
Click Here For More Ahead of this week's commencement of nuclear talks in Geneva aimed to finalize an agreement between Iran and six world powers, US Secretary of State John Kerry pressed Iran to reach consensus with the international community and also canceled his trip to Israel, according to reports from Agence France-Presse and Reuters. -
World powers, Iran make new attempt to clinch nuclear deal
Click Here For More World powers aim to clinch a preliminary deal to curb Iran's nuclear program in politically charged talks resuming in Geneva on Wednesday to end a long standoff and head off the risk of a wider Middle East war.The United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany came tantalizingly close to winning concessions from Iran on the scope of its nuclear work in return for some sanctions relief at negotiations in the Swiss city on November 7-9. -
Indonesia halts Australia co-operation amid spying row
Click Here For More President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the suspension included operations to stop people-smuggling, joint military exercises and intelligence exchange.The move came after Jakarta recalled its ambassador from Canberra on Monday. -
Search for survivors ends at collapsed S.African building site
Click Here For More Rescue workers called off the search for survivors at a collapsed South African building site on Wednesday, believing there are no more trapped construction workers beneath the half-built shopping mall.One person was killed and dozens injured in Tuesday's collapse of the three-storey building in Tongaat, 30 km (20 miles) north of Durban. -
4 Egyptians killed in Sinai car bomb
Click Here For More Four people were killed when a car bomb exploded outside an Egyptian military intelligence building in Rafah in the Sinai, officials said Wednesday.The force of the blast destroyed the building which housed the military intelligence headquarters, leaving Egyptian soldiers and police trapped in the rubble, Israel Radio reported. -
Manhunt for Paris shooter enters third day
Click Here For More A huge manhunt continued in Paris Wednesday morning for a lone gunman who went on a city-wide shooting spree Monday, critically injuring a photographer at the offices of one of the nation’s most-read newspapers, opening fire at a bank headquarters and then high-jacking a car to the Champs-Elysées before disappearing into the metro. -
Serial killer Franklin executed after hours of delay
Click Here For More White supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin was executed Wednesday morning after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final requests for a stay, prison officials in Bonne Terre, Missouri, said. CNN affiliate KMOV reported Franklin was executed at 6:17 a.m. CT (7:17 a.m. ET). -
Supreme Court allows Texas to keep enforcing abortion restrictions
Click Here For More A sharply divided Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Texas to continue enforcing abortion restrictions that opponents say have led more than a third of the state's clinics to stop providing abortions. The justices voted 5-4 to leave in effect a provision requiring doctors who perform abortions in clinics to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. -
Dazzling Nighttime Rocket Launch Puts 29 Satellites In Orbit, a New Record
Click Here For More A spectacular rocket launch from Virginia's eastern shore late Tuesday (Nov. 19) lit up the night sky like an artifical sun, kicking off a record-breaking mission to put 29 satellites into orbit. The Orbital Sciences-built Minotaur 1 rocket launched into space at 8:15 p.m. EST (0115 GMT Wednesday) from NASA's Wallops Flight Faciltiy in Virginia to begin the ORS-3 mission, which is run by the U.S. military's Operationally Responsive Space Office. -
Paris shooting suspect Abdelhakim Dekhar previously lived in London
Click Here For More The man suspected of Monday's gun attack on a French newspaper had lived until recently in London, it emerged on Thursday. Abdelhakim Dekhar, 52, was arrested on Wednesday night as he lay semi-conscious in a car in an underground car-park near Paris after taking an overdose. -
Beirut Bombs Strike at Iran as Assad’s Ally
Click Here For More A double bombing struck the Iranian Embassy compound in Beirut on Tuesday, in the deadliest assault on Iran’s interests since it emerged as the most forceful backer of the Syrian government against an armed insurgency. The frontal attack struck a symbol of the country’s powerful influence in Lebanon and neighboring Syria. -
Car bomb in northern Iraq kills 25
Click Here For More A car bomb exploded in a busy market in northeastern Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than 30, the town's mayor and medical sources said. Iraq is suffering its worst wave of violence in at least five years, with insurgents targeting mainly Shi'ite Muslim civilians in attacks on public places such as shopping areas and cafes. -
U.S. drone kills senior militant in Pakistani seminary
Click Here For More A suspected U.S. drone strike on an Islamic seminary in Pakistan killed a senior member of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network early on Thursday, Pakistani and Afghan sources said. It was the first drone strike in the nuclear-armed South Asian nation since Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud was killed on November 1 in an attack that sparked a fierce power struggle within the fragmented insurgency. -
Greenpeace Arctic 30: A shift in focus for campaigners
Click Here For More "The primary focus is getting the Arctic 30 free and home with their loved ones. That's what we are spending every hour working on." Ben Ayliffe used to be head of Greenpeace's Save the Arctic campaign. But now even his job title is different. As head of the Arctic 30 campaign, he spends his time trying to get 30 activists and journalists freed from prison in St Petersburg. -
Texas abortion clinics closing (at least temporarily) due to hospital admitting privileges law
Click Here For More A Tuesday decision by the U.S. Supreme Court not to intervene in litigation involving a Texas law requiring abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals created an anomaly by allowing the law to take effect until the official trial over its constitutionality begins next year. -
Charges dropped against girls in Florida cyber-bullying suicide case
Click Here For More Florida prosecutors have dropped stalking charges against two girls who were accused of harassing a 12-year-old before she committed suicide, the sheriff who had them arrested said on Wednesday. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, who slapped the 12-year-old and 14-year-old with a third-degree felony, defended that decision even as a lawyer for one of the girls said he might sue him. -
Congressional leaders cautious but accepting of Iran nuclear deal for now
Click Here For More Leading members of Congress cautiously greeted the news of the six-month nuclear deal with Iran announced Saturday night as even Republicans critical of President Barack Obama’s approach signaled a resigned acceptance of the accord. -
Winter-like storm lumbers east, threatening holiday travel
Click Here For More A storm blamed for at least eight deaths in the West was expected to bring freezing rain and sleet to parts of Texas as it continued making its way through the Southwest before moving east ahead of Thanksgiving. -
Ukraine protesters declare general strike after clashes
Click Here For More Ukrainian protesters declared a general strike and blockaded government buildings Monday after violent clashes in which more than 100,000 sought early elections over the authorities' rejection of a historic EU pact. -
New York City commuters warned of delays following derailment
Click Here For More Commuters from New York City's northern suburbs braced for travel delays on Monday morning following a seven-car train derailment that killed four people and injured 11 critically.A portion of a Metro-North Railroad line between the Bronx and part of Westchester County could be closed for a week or more after the accident on Sunday, in which a Manhattan-bound commuter train ran off the tracks while rounding a sharp curve in the Bronx. -
China launches its first moon rover mission
Click Here For More China successfully launched a lunar probe into space Monday morning, on a two-week journey to deliver a robotic rover to the surface of the moon. The mission marks China's first attempt at soft-landing a spacecraft on an extra-terrestrial body, and could benefit future plans to land Chinese astronauts on the moon. -
Thailand protests: PM rejects resignation demand
Click Here For More Ms Yingluck said the demands were not possible under the constitution, but that she remained open to talks.
More clashes broke out on Monday as protesters tried to storm the prime minister's office, Government House.
Four people have died in Thailand's worst political turmoil since the 2010 rallies that ended in violence. -
PISA Test Results Due Today
Click Here For More The PISA test results will come out Tuesday. This is the Programme for International Student Assessment, an international test of student achievement in 65 countries overall, including 34 considered economically advanced, conducted every three years since 1997. It tests 510,000 15-year-old students, including 4,200 in the United States. -
US calls on China to rescind air defence zone to avoid Japan confrontation
Click Here For More The US called on China to scrap its newly declared air defence identification zone on Monday, warning that Beijing risked a potentially dangerous confrontation with Japan and its allies at the start of a trip to the region by vice-president Joe Biden. -
Paul Walker's death is a blow to car subculture he loved
Click Here For More The inaugural "Fast and Furious" film starring the Glendale native shined a huge spotlight on a new trend within L.A.'s storied car culture: tuning, in which gearheads make Japanese imports flashier and faster. Although some car purists were critical of the mistakes the film made, they warmed to Walker -- especially when they learned he acquired a Nissan Skyline GT-R, the car his character drove. -
Biden visits China amid tensions over air defense zone
Click Here For More After reassuring U.S. ally Japan that Washington shares its concerns over China's new air defense zone, Vice President Joe Biden flew from Tokyo to Beijing Wednesday and raised the issue directly with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. -
Andy Rubin moves from building Android to building robots for Google
Click Here For More Rubin is probably more known in recent times as the man behind Android, but before he became that, he was very much into robotics. He started off his job at Carl Zeiss as a robotics engineer before heading of for Apple as a manufacturing engineer. Last March, Rubin stepped down from his position as Android lead but remained employed in the company for other projects. Apparently, that involved taking the company into a venture that is slightly outside of its usual comfort zone. -
NTSB yanks rail union from New York City commuter train crash investigation
Click Here For More The National Transportation Safety Board has pulled a union representing commuter rail employees from its investigation into the derailment of a Metro-North train that killed four people and injured more than 60 others in the Bronx early Sunday. The NTSB said late Tuesday that the board removed the Association of Commuter Rail Employees (ACRE) from its status as a participant in the investigation over a press conference held earlier in the day by the union's general chairman, Anthony Bottalico. -
NSA reportedly collects 5 billion cell phone location records a day
Click Here For More The NSA collects nearly 5 billion records a day on the locations of cell phones overseas to create a huge database that stores information from hundreds of millions of devices, including those belonging to some Americans abroad, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. Documents provided to the Post by NSA leaker Edward Snowden detail how this database is able to track people worldwide and map out their relationships with others. -
Nationwide Strike By Fast Food Workers Set for Thursday
Click Here For More Organizers say fast food restaurant workers in 100 U.S. cities will walk off the job Thursday, as part of a continuing push to raise wages above $15 an hour in the industry and secure the right to unionize. The movement began with a small walkout in New York City last year and has since gathered momentum. -
At least 30 killed when militants attack Yemen's Defense Ministry
Click Here For More Militants staged a deadly attack on Yemen's Defense Ministry on Thursday, ramming the building with an explosives-laden vehicle, followed by gunmen who battled security forces inside. At least 30 people, including four foreign doctors, died in the attack in Yemen's capital of Sanaa, a Defense Ministry official said. Earlier, Defense Ministry officials had said 10 soldiers and nine militants were among the dead. -
2 arrested in shooting near NC university
Click Here For More Authorities in North Carolina have arrested two men in a pair of shooting deaths near Wingate University that prompted a campus lockdown. Wingate police and Union County sheriff's deputies arrested two Marshville men shortly before midnight Wednesday at an apartment in Monroe. -
Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen in massive hack
Click Here For More Hackers have stolen usernames and passwords for nearly two million accounts at Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo and others, according to a report released this week. The massive data breach was a result of keylogging software maliciously installed on an untold number of computers around the world. The virus was capturing login credentials for key websites over the past month and sending those usernames and passwords to a server controlled by the hackers. -
Chemical weapons: How Pentagon plans to destroy Syria's stockpile at sea
Click Here For More The Pentagon has shed some more light on just how the international community plans to dispose of Syria’s most dangerous chemical weapons, which must be removed from the country by the end of December. The current blueprint involves using newly designed portable decontamination units on a ship – currently docked in Norfolk, Va. – that is being specially retrofitted for the job. -
French troop reinforcements arrive in Central African Republic
Click Here For More French troops have begun pouring into the capital of the Central African Republic, Bangui, in a bid to halt the collapse of the fragile state. Over 100 people have been killed this week, and nationwide an estimated 400,000 people – a tenth of the population – have been forced from their homes since the violence began a year ago. -
Nelson Mandela: His impact on American activism, politics and pop culture
Click Here For More Word of Nelson Mandela's death spread quickly across the United States, bringing with it a mix of reverence and grief for a man who was born in South Africa but in the end belonged to the world. President Barack Obama ordered American flags to be lowered immediately to half-staff until Monday in tribute to Mandela, a rare honor for a foreign leader. -
Tech giants call for controls on government surveillance
Click Here For More Eight major technology companies have joined forces to call for tighter controls on government surveillance, issuing an open letter Monday to President Barack Obama arguing for reforms in the way the U.S. snoops on people. The companies, which include Google, Facebook and Twitter, said that while they sympathize with national security concerns, recent revelations make it clear that laws should be carefully tailored to balance them against individual rights. -
Ukraine riot police enter central Kiev amid rumours of storm on square
Click Here For More Cordons of riot police moved into central Kiev early on Monday afternoon in what appeared to be preparations by the Ukrainian government to regain control of Independence square and Kiev city hall, occupied by anti-government protesters for the past week. -
U.S. Businesses Could Have Been Mandela's Best Ally
His death is a reminder of the missed opportunities the anti-apartheid movement of the 1980s had in forging alliances with businesses. In fact, had Mandela and his anti-apartheid movement chosen to work in conjunction with free enterprise, rather than use it as a cudgel to destabilize the South African government, one wonders whether apartheid would have disappeared sooner and whether the current South Africa would be such an economic mess. -
India's Supreme Court declares homosexual sex illegal
Click Here For More Sex between consenting homosexual partners is once again illegal in India after the country's Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling Wednesday. Four years ago, India's High Court decriminalized such a relationship, in what was then hailed by gay rights groups as a landmark ruling. The Supreme Court overturned that ruling. Known as Section 377, the law has been in the books since India's Colonial-era days. It bans people from engaging in "carnal acts against the order of nature." -
Family of Six Rescued After Two Days in Subzero Temperatures in Nevada Wilderness
Click Here For More After spending two days huddled inside an overturned Jeep in subzero temperatures, six Nevada residents are now safe after volunteer rescuers came across the family on Tuesday. During a weekend outing to play in the snow, the family’s vehicle reportedly rolled onto its side before sliding down an embankment and landing in a crevice. -
The Obama-Castro handshake that shocked the world
Click Here Fore More Obama became the first U.S. president since 2000 to shake hands with a Cuban leader. The gesture came as the two took their seats at Nelson Mandela's memorial service just before each leader eulogized the fallen icon. The simple act generated a torrent of rage from some, including Cuban-American politicians who have fought to maintain the U.S. embargo against the island and remove the Castros from power. -
Ukraine police stand down after clashing with defiant protesters
Click Here For More Several thousand police in riot gear pulled back after clashing with protesters in the central square of the Ukrainian capital.Police tore down barricades surrounding the camp at Independence Square in Kiev early Wednesday, but were forced to move back after fierce resistance from thousands of protesters, whose ranks swelled as the night went on. -
Ukraine Police Retreat, Protesters Dig In
Click Here For More Antigovernment protesters used metal fencing, bags stuffed with snow and even a trip wire to reinforce their makeshift camps after an aborted attempt by authorities to evict them from Kiev's main square, as President Viktor Yanukovych gave little sign of capitulating. -
Media urge Syrian rebels to stop journalist kidnappings
Click Here For More goo.gl/EZ4iOQ It is believed that more than 30 journalists are currently being detained in Syria. "I'm quite clear the rebels deliberately set us up to be shot by the Syrian army," Thomson wrote in a blog post on Channel 4's website.He said that their deaths at the hands of President Bashar al-Assad's forces would have drawn sympathy to the rebel cause. "Dead journos are bad for Damascus," he said. -
Britain suspend aid to north Syria after Islamists seize weapons store
Click Here For More The United States and Britain suspended non-lethal aid to northern Syria after Islamist fighters seized Western-backed rebel weapons warehouses, highlighting fears that supplies could end up in the wrong hands. -
Texas teen Ethan Couch gets 10 years' probation for driving drunk, killing 4
Click Here For More To families of the victims, Ethan Couch was a killer on the road, a drunken teenage driver who caused a crash that left four people dead. To the defense, the youth is himself a victim -- of "affuenza," according to one psychologist -- the product of wealthy, privileged parents who never set limits for the boy.To a judge, who sentenced Couch to 10 years' probation but no jail time, he's a defendant in need of treatment. -
Robert Levinson, American Missing In Iran, Was Working For CIA
Click Here For More An Associated Press investigation reveals that Levinson was working for the CIA.The most basic CIA rules, a team of analysts — with no authority to run spy operations — paid Levinson to gather intelligence from some of the world's darkest corners. He vanished while investigating the Iranian government for the U.S. -
UN Inspectors Confirm Syria Chemical Attack
Click Here For More Chemical weapons were probably used in four locations in Syria this year, in addition to the confirmed attack near Damascus in August that forced the government to abandon its secret chemical stockpile, U.N. inspectors have said.In a report released Thursday, the experts, led by Swedish professor Ake Sellstrom, examined seven alleged chemical weapons attacks and said it lacked information to corroborate the allegations at two locations. -
Ethan Couch gets probation with 'affluenza' defense after crash kills 4
Click Here For More This week, Couch's defense argued he suffers from affluenza, that his parents are responsible for the horrific accident because they raised him in a family so wealthy, so privileged that the teen didn't realize his actions would have consequences. -
Phones Likely to Stay Silent on Planes Amid Backlash
Click Here For More Two separate government bodies on Thursday grappled with whether passengers should be able to make voice calls from their seats. The Federal Communications Commission, which controls wireless airwaves, voted 3 to 2 to advance a proposal that would overturn a 22-year-old rule preventing cellphone use during flights, saying it didn't see a technical reason to prohibit calls. -
Better-looking teens more likely to graduate college, study finds
Click Here For More A new study undertaken by researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Texas at Austin finds that teens rated as good-looking in high school got higher grades and were ultimately more likely to graduate college and get bigger paychecks as adults. Their annalysis was based on a nationally representative survey that included nearly 9,000 youth. The National Longitudinal Study of Add Health, survey followed teens over time. -
Newtown anniversary: Daily drumbeat of child homicides gets little notice
Click Here For More The nightmare gripped parents across the nation after the gunfire on a crisp December morning: a stranger in a school with guns. Although mass killings are watersheds in the American consciousness, it's easy to forget that more than 900 children in the U.S. die in homicides each year. Most of them perish at the hands of a relative, according to an NBC News analysis of 25 years of homicide reports submitted by police to the FBI. Only seven of every 100 child homicides are committed by strangers. -
17-year-old Colo. school shooting victim remains in coma
Click Here For More A 17-year-old student at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colo. remained in a coma Sunday evening, more than 48 hours after she was shot at point-blank range by a fellow student, 18-year-old Karl Pierson. The parents of Claire Davis issued a statement Sunday saying that she was in stable but critical condition. -
Sandy Hook shooting, one year later: A solemn day for Newtown
Click Here For More Bells tolled 26 times to honor the children and educators killed one year ago in a shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School as local churches held memorial services Saturday and President Barack Obama observed a moment of silence. With snow falling and homes decorated with Christmas lights, Newtown looked every bit the classic New England town, with a coffee shop and general store doing steady business. But reminders of the grief were everywhere. -
China’s Jade Rabbit rover sends first moon photos
Click Here For More China's Jade Rabbit rover sent back its first pictures from the moon, as officials on Monday lauded the first lunar soft landing in nearly four decades as a step forward for "mankind as a whole"."Exploration of outer space is an unremitting pursuit of mankind," China's space agency, SASTIND said. The successful mission reflects "the new glory of China to scale the peaks in world science and technology areas," it said. -
Israeli soldier dead as border tensions escalate
Click Here For More Israel said it had shot a Lebanese soldier early on Monday just hours after a sniper in Lebanon's army had killed one of its troops, leading to fears of escalating cycles of retaliation on the tense border between the two countries. Major Arye Shalicar said the shootings happened shortly after midnight after Israeli troops had identified "suspicious movement" along the frontier and fired at two Lebanese soldiers, hitting at least one of them. -
Obama Meeting With Tech Chiefs Pushing Surveillance Limits
Clcik Here For More The companies asked in the letter that the U.S. “ensure that government surveillance efforts are clearly restricted by law, proportionate to the risks, transparent and subject to independent oversight.” The meeting is being held as the NSA’s sweep of Internet and telephone data is coming under increased scrutiny from Congress and the courts, and as Obama is weighing new limits on such surveillance. -
Judge declares NSA phone record collections are unconstitutional
Click Here For More In a ruling with potentially far-reaching consequences, a federal judge declared Monday that the National Security Agency's bulk collection of millions of Americans' telephone records likely violates the U.S. Constitution's ban on unreasonable search. The ruling, filled with blistering criticism of the Obama administration's arguments, is the first of its kind on the controversial program. -
6 American troops killed in Afghanistan plane crash
Click Here For More Six Americans have been killed in a plane crash in southern Afghanistan, Fox News confirms. The service members were part of the International Security Assistance Force. NATO says there is currently no fighting in the area. "The cause of the crash is under investigation, however initial reporting indicates there was no enemy activity in the area at the time," a NATO statement said the incident is the largest death toll to hit the international force in months. -
Pope Francis to Receive Argentine Soccer Trophy on Birthday
Click Here For More Pope Francis, an Argentine national who is the first non-European to lead the Catholic church in more than 1,200 years, will receive members of his favorite soccer team tomorrow on his birthday after the club won the local league title.A six-person delegation of players and managers from San Lorenzo de Almagro, the fifth largest in terms of fans in Argentina, boarded a private jet today in Buenos Aires to travel to Rome after ending a six-year title drought yesterday. -
Obama includes openly gay athletes in 2014 Olympic delegation
Click Here For More Former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will lead the U.S. delegation to the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics next year in Sochi, Russia.The White House says tennis champion Billie Jean King and U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul will join the opening ceremony delegation. So will figure skater Brian Boitano and presidential adviser Rob Nabors. -
Russia, Ukraine sign $16b deal
Click Here For More Russian President Vladimir Putin gave Ukraine's hard-pressed government strong financial assistance in the form of a $US15 billion loan ($16.8 billion) and a sharp cut in the price of natural gas on Tuesday, pre-empting European Union leaders. With their protest encampment in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, now in its fourth week, demonstrators demanded to know what terms President Viktor Yanukovych had agreed to during his one-day visit to the Kremlin to land the deal. -
Greenpeace activists Arctic 30, including Tasmanian Colin Russell, set to avoid trial after amnesty bill passes
Click Here For More The Greenpeace activists known as the Arctic 30, including Tasmanian Colin Russell, are set to avoid trial after the Russian parliament approved an amnesty bill to commemorate the ratification of its current constitution. The group, which includes 28 activists and two journalists from 17 countries, were facing charges over their protest in September against plans by energy giant Gazprom to drill for oil in the Arctic. -
New England digs out after more snow; roads slick
Click Here For More Crews worked through the night to clear roads in time for the morning commute Wednesday and school was canceled or starting late for some children across New England after several inches of snow fell. Slippery roads were blamed for accidents throughout the region, including two head-on collisions in Vermont, one of which killed a 46-year-old Bridport man Tuesday night. -
Superpedestrian debuts wheel that turns bikes into electric-hybrids
Click Here For More Assaf Biderman, founder of Cambridge-based startup Superpedestrian, discovered that in order to increase bicycle ridership, he had to literally reinvent the wheel.With help from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's SENSEable CIty Lab, Biderman designed a wheel that snaps onto the back wheel of almost any bike — road, mountain or cruiser — to transform it into a more powerful, electric-hybrid bicycle. -
Target: 40 million credit, debit cards compromised
Click Here For More Target Corp. said data from about 40 million credit and debit card accounts might have been stolen during the Thanksgiving weekend, in one of the largest credit card breaches at a U.S. retailer. The Krebs on Security, a closely watched security industry blog that broke the news. Target said the accounts, which might have been compromised between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15, affected customers making credit and debit card purchases at its U.S. stores. -
How do you know if you've made it in life?
Click Here For More According to a new Ipsos survey, most Chinese people - 71% - measure their success in life by the things they own. China topped the list, compared with 58% of people in India, which came second, and just 7% of people in Sweden. The global average hovered at 34%.Another 68% of Chinese people admitted they were under pressure to make money and be successful, though just 56% expressed optimism when asked about their personal prospects for the year ahead. -
Europe launches satellite that will map 1 billion stars, hunt for new planets
Click Here For More The European Space Agency successfully launched its star-surveying satellite Gaia into space Thursday in a bid to produce the most accurate three-dimensional map of the Milky Way, and provide an insight into the evolution of our galaxy. The satellite was lifted into space from French Guiana at 6:12 a.m. aboard a Russian-made Soyuz rocket. It is heading to a stable orbit on the opposite side of the Earth from the sun, known as Lagrange 2, where it will arrive in about a month's time. -
Snapchat hack leaks info on 4.6M users
Click Here For More More than 4.6 million users of the popular chatting app Snapchat had their phone numbers released in a massive hack that took place in the last week. The hack comes on the heels of several complaints about the application's security measures and warnings from internet security firms."Our motivation behind the release was to raise awareness around the issue and also put public pressure on Snapchat to get this exploit fixed," the group, SnapchatDB, said in a statement to TechCrunch. -
Robots Perform Impressive Stunts at DARPA Robotics Challenge
Click Here For More On December 20 and 21, DARPA held its Robotics Challenge Trials at the Homestead Miami Speedway to find the next super robot that could carry out a variety of different and extraordinary tasks. The winner of the challenge was a Japanese robotics team named SCHAFT, Inc. Their robot, named S-One, managed to do some pretty impressive feats. These stunts were so impressive, I’d say we’re well on our way to seeing a Terminator come into action sometime soon. -
All 52 passengers rescued from ship trapped in Antarctic ice
Click Here For More All 52 passengers from the ship stuck in Antarctic ice have now been transferred by helicopter to an Australian icebreaker, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said on its Twitter account. "It's 100% we're off! A huge thanks to all," tweeted Chris Turney, an Australian professor among the group of scientists, journalists and tourists stranded on the ship for more than a week. A helicopter from a nearby Chinese icebreaker ferried passengers. -
At least one killed, 12 injured in double car bomb attack in Somalia
Click Here For More A double car bomb attack outside of a hotel in Somalia's capital Wednesday night killed at least one person and injured up to a dozen others, police said. Police official Yusuf Ali said the first suicide car bomb exploded outside the main gate of the Jazeera Palace Hotel, with the second blast from a parked car following as first responders began gathering to evacuate the injured. Three of the wounded were security personnel stationed outside the gate. -
World's first legal recreational marijuana sales begin in Colorado
Click Here For More Colorado's ambitious experiment in cannabis policy hit a historic milestone Wednesday, when licensed stores began making the first legal sales of recreational marijuana anywhere in the world. At least 37 stores across the state were fully licensed and opened to sell marijuana to anyone 21 or over for any purpose, according to official lists and Denver Post research.
