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NASA rocket launch to the moon
Click Here The typical bevy of Friday night activities seems just too boring to bear, try out a rocket launch instead.
At roughly 11:27 p.m. ET, NASA will launch its Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) onboard an Orbital-made Minotaur V rocket. The launch is the first to take place at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va., and will be visible to a wide array of East Coast onlookers lucky enough to catch a patch of clear sky. -
Jonathan Martin Bullied
Jonathan Martin Bulllied..... Teamate Richie Incognito was questioned the motives of his alleged harassment victim, fellow offensive lineman Jonathan Martin.Martin's representatives turned over to the Dolphins and the NFL the voicemail from Incognito to Martin with the racially charged threats. -
Man Tries to Walk Around the Earth.
Click HereWhen Karl Bushby started walking north from Punta Arenas, Chile, pulling a handcart nicknamed the Beast and packed with 100 pounds of supplies, he was a 29-year-old British ex-paratrooper aiming to do something no one had done before: circle the globe on foot. His intended route would take him through the Darién Gap, across the Mojave Desert, over the Bering Strait, through Mongolia and the Middle East and finally back home to England, where he would be reunited with his parents and the son he l -
Syrian Army Capturing a Suburb South.
Syrian troops captured a contested suburb of Damascus on Wednesday.For more than a year, much of the belt of neighborhoods and towns just south of Damascus has been a rebel bastion and a key arms conduit for the opposition. -
E-Cigarettes and Hookahs for teens.
Click Here Unconventional tobacco products such as electronic cigarettes and hookahs are becoming more popular among U.S. teens. 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. -
US Navy heping typhoon victims.
US Navy aid ships arrived in the Philippines on Thursday Nov. 14th, 2013. They have 21 hellicopters carrying supplies to hard-to-reach areas that were affected by the storm. There are 20 trucks going around deliverin food, clearing the streets, and clearing bodies that have been lying around since the strom hit. They are trying evryhting they can to help. -
Philippines Disaster Response
Click Here While the project is currently engaged in the collection and deployment of relief goods, Sagip Pilipinas aims to eventually rebuild affected communities and enable them to adopt a more pro-active, integrated approach to disaster management.The number of American troops helping the typhoon relief effort in the Philippines could triple to more than 1,000 by the end of the week, U.S. officials said Wednesda -
Obamacare...
Click HereAffodable Health Care was signed into law to reform the health care industry by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. ObamaCare's goal is to give more Americans access to affordable, quality health insurance, and to reduce the growth in health care spending in the U.S. -
Thypoon in Philipines.
Click HereHaiyan, which hit eight days ago, has killed more than 3,600 people and left about half a million homeless.Both the Red Cross and the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said they would have mobile surgical units up and running in Tacloban by the end of the weekend.US Navy helicopters have been dropping food, water and other supplies from the aircraft carrier USS George Washington, which arrived off the coast on Thursday.They are doing evrything they can. -
Torandoes in the US. midwest
Click HereSevere storms and violent tornadoes have killed at least five people and injured about 40 and flattening large parts of the city of Washington, Illinois, as they battered the US Midwest on Sunday.The storm system is threatening up to 53 million people across the Midwest.Thirty-one people injured by the storm that hit Washington were being treated at St Francis Medical Center, one of the main hospitals in nearby Peoria, according to hospital spokeswoman Amy Paul. Eight had traumatic injuries -
Abdul Qadir al-Saleh Dead
Click HereA top Syrian rebel commander has died of wounds he sustained in an air strike on a rebel-held air base in Aleppo province on Thursday, his group says. 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. -
Typhoon Aid Reaching Remote Areas of Central Philippines
Click HereInternational 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. -
Australia 'spied on Indonesia President Yudhoyono'
Click HereIndonesia is recalling its ambassador to Australia over allegations that Canberra spied on phone calls of the Indonesian president.President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the first lady and Vice-President Boediono were reportedly amongst those targeted.The allegations came from documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden which were published by broadcaster ABC and the Guardian newspaper.Indonesia said the ambassador was being called to Jakarta for "consultations". -
NASA spacecraft poised to launch for clues on Martian air
Click Here Washington (AFP) - NASA is preparing to launch its latest orbiter to Mars Monday on the hunt for clues about why the Red Planet lost much of its atmosphere.Researchers have described the mission as a search for a missing piece to the puzzle of what happened on Mars, perhaps billions of years ago, to transform Earth's neighbor from a water-bearing planet that might have been favorable for life to a dry, barren desert with hardly any atmosphere. "The spacecraft will investigate how the loss of Mar -
Talks in Geneva about Iran's Nuclear Program
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov revealed a crucial detail Thursday about last week's nuclear talks with Iran in Geneva that explains much more clearly than previous reports why the meeting broke up without agreement. Lavrov said the United States circulated a draft that had been amended in response to French demands to other members of the six-power P5+1 for approval "literally at the last moment, when we were about to leave Geneva." Lavrov's revelation, which has thus far been ignore -
George Zimmerman charged with assault, battery
Click Here George Zimmerman was charged Monday with assault after deputies were called to the home where he lived with his girlfriend, who claimed he pointed a shotgun at her during an argument, authorities said.ShZimmerman pushed the woman out of the house and barricaded the door with furniture, Chief Deputy Dennis Lemma said at a news conference hours after the arrest. The girlfriend, Samantha Scheibe, provided deputies with a key to the home and they were able to push the door that had been barricaded. -
Rob Ford vows 'outright war' after Toronto council strips his powers
Click HereEmbattled Mayor Rob Ford vowed "outright war" after Toronto's City Council voted to strip him of most of his powers Monday in a tumultuous meeting during which a charging Ford knocked down one of its members.
Nearly two weeks after Ford admitted to smoking crack cocaine in a "drunken stupor" -- an admission forced by a drug probe that resulted in extortion charges against a friend -- the mayor said he was done apologizing. He called Monday's vote "a coup d'etat" and compared it to Iraq's invasio -
The likelihood of a peace conference on the trouble in Syria in mid-December
Clcik HereUnited 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. -
Beirut Bombs Strike at Iran as Assad’s Ally
Click HereA 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. -
U.N. disaster chief stresses long-term needs for Philippines
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.Valerie Amos toured the devastated coastal town of Guiuan in Eastern Samar, where Super Typhoon Haiyan made landfall on November 8 wiping out just about everything in its path, as a government official estimated the reconstruction bill would reach $5.8 billi -
World powers, Iran in new attempt to reach nuclear deal
Click Here World powers aim to reach a preliminary deal to curb Iran's nuclear program in politically charged talks resuming in Geneva on Wednesday.Seeking 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 close to winning concessions from Iran on its nuclear work in return for some sanctions relief at negotiations earlier this month. -
Search for survivors ends at collapsed South African building site
Click HereOne person was killed and dozens injured in Tuesday's collapse of the three-storey building in Tongaat, 30 km (20 miles) north of Durban.Initial reports suggested as many as 50 workers might have been trapped under the rubble but rescue officials, working through the night with sniffer dogs, recovered only one body and discovered no survivors. -
Abdelhakim Dekhar Identified as Paris Shooting Suspect
Click HereAbdelhakim Dekhar was identified as the Paris shooting suspect on Wednesday. Dekhar was previously sentenced to four years in prison in 1998 for complicity in the Rey-Maupin quintiple murder case. Dekhar was convicted of giving a gun to Florence Rey, whose boyfriend Audry Maupin killed five people in October 1994 in Paris. -
Greenpeace Arctic 30: A shift in focus for campaigners
Click HereGreenpeace set out to protest about oil companies drilling in the Arctic Ocean, but now finds itself fighting to free a group of 30 from a Russian jail. What effect is the case having on the group's environmental aims? -
Walt Disney's daughter dies, aged 79
Click Here Philanthropist Diane Disney Miller, daughter of Walt Disney, died Tuesday at the age of 79 near San Francisco, the US entertainment giant announced.Flags at Disney theme parks and the Disney studio lot in Burbank, outside Los Angeles, will be flown at half-mast in her honor, it said, praising her "grace and generosity and tireless work to preserve her father's legacy. -
Car bomb kills 10 Egyptian soldiers in Sinai
Click HereTen Egyptian soldiers were killed by a car bomb in the Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday, one of the deadliest attacks there since al Qaeda-inspired militants stepped up violence following the overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast. But Islamist militants have kept up attacks in the desert peninsula in the face of a major military operation launched this summer to reassert state control. -
Florida prosecutors dropped charges on Wednesday against two girls accused of stalking a 12-year-old classmate who killed herself after complaining she was bullied online for months, a police official said.
Click HereFlorida prosecutors dropped charges on Wednesday against two girls accused of stalking a 12-year-old classmate who killed herself after complaining she was bullied online for months, a police official said.The two were arrested last month. Police said the girls repeatedly cyberbullied Rebecca Ann Sedwick, who became so despondent she climbed a tower at an abandoned cement plant and jumped to her death in September. -
U.S. drone kills senior militant in Pakistani seminary
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. -
Volcano raises new island far south of Japan
A volcanic eruption has raised an island in the seas to the far south of Tokyo, the Japanese coast guard and earthquake experts said.Advisories from the coast guard and the Japan Meteorological Agency said the islet is about 200 meters (660 feet) in diameter. It is just off the coast of Nishinoshima, a small, uninhabited island in the Ogasawara chain, which is also known as the Bonin Islands. -
Iran Nuclear Deal
Click HereOil prices traded sharply lower Monday after a weekend breakthrough over Iran's nuclear program put the commodity back in the spotlight. Benchmark U.S. crude for January delivery was recently down 1.3% at $93.60 in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude oil prices, a separate gauge, declined 2% to around $108.82 a barrel -
Japan PM calls China air defence zone 'dangerous'
Click HereChina and Japan raised the temperature in a territorial dispute Monday with both sides summoning the other's ambassador over Beijing's declaration of an air defence zone, a move Tokyo called "profoundly dangerous". The diplomatic scuffle came after Washington said it would stand by Japan in any military clash over the Senkaku Islands, which Beijing claims as the Diaoyus, and as Seoul and Taipei voiced their disquiet at China's weekend announcement. -
Paul Walker Dead
Click HerePaul Walker -- best known for his role in "The Fast and the Furious" movies -- died Saturday afternoon after a single-car accident and explosion in Southern California ... TMZ has learned.The accident happened in Santa Clarita -- north of Los Angeles -- and Paul was the passenger in the two-seater Porsche Carrera GT when the driver somehow lost control and slammed into a post or a tree ... and the car burst into flames. -
Who Is Watching the Watch Lists?
Click HereGovernments wade into treacherous waters when they compile lists of people who might cause their countries harm. As fears about Japanese-Americans and Communists have demonstrated in the past, predictions about individual behavior are often inaccurate, the motivations for list-making aren’t always noble and concerns about threats are frequently overblown. -
Thailand protests: Teargas fired amid renewed clashes
Click HereThai authorities fired tear gas amid renewed skirmishes with anti-government protesters outside key government buildings. Some schools and universities closed, amid a call for a general strike on the ninth day of demonstrations.Over the weekend, protesters attempted 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. -
Rare Iceland armed police operation leaves man dead
Click HereIcelandic police have shot dead a man who was firing a shotgun in his apartment in the early hours of Monday. It is the first time someone has been killed in an armed police operation in Iceland, officials say. Tear gas canisters were fired through the windows in an attempt to subdue the 59-year-old, who lived in the east of the capital, Reykjavik. When this failed he was shot after firing at police entering the building. Between 15 and 20 officers took part. -
'Hero' jumps into freezing river to save members of Alberta family in Fernie crash.
Click HereRichard and Kunthea Altvater were heading home with their three children to Coaldale, Alta., when seconds later, at about 2:30 p.m., their van spun out of control, landing upside down in the freezing waters of the Elk River, trapping them inside. All but the mother survived, although one of the children was in critical condition on Monday. -
Ukrainian protests
Click HereAbout 1,000 protesters blocked off the Ukrainian government's main headquarters on Monday and surrounding streets, preventing employees getting to work, in further protests at Kiev's policy U-turn away from integration with Europe.In response to an opposition call for a nationwide strike over President Viktor Yanukovich's policy switch back towards Russia, protesters blocked the main approach road to the government building with trash bins, metal containers and even flower pots. -
Florida 15-year-olds lag on international tests
Click HereFlorida 15-year-olds who took international tests in math, reading and science last year did worse than other teens in the United States overall and far worse than teenagers in the world's top-performing education systems in Asia, scores released this morning showed., while teenagers in Hong Kong and Singapore shared second- and third-place rankings. The United States was ranked 33rd in math, 24th ins cience and 17th in reading. -
Three black students arrested while waiting for school bus in Rochester
Click HereThe boys are members of a basketball team at Edison Tech High School. They were arrested Wednesday, Nov. 27 while waiting for a bus to take them to a scrimmage at Aquinas. According to WROC, basketball coach Jacob Scott had arranged for a bus to pick the boys up on Main St. There was no school that morning, so he arranged a central location for all his players to meet and wait. A police officer asked the group of about a dozen players to disperse. When they refused the police man arrested them. -
US calls on China to rescind air defence zone to avoid Japan confrontation
Click HereThe 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.The explicit request for China to “rescind” threats against unannounced aircraft passing over a chain of islands in the East China sea was made by the US just hours after Biden landed in Tokyo ahead of a six-day trip to Japan, China and South Korea. -
Google Robots
Click HereOver the last half-year, Google has quietly acquired seven technology companies in an effort to create a new generation of robots. And the engineer heading the effort is Andy Rubin, the man who built Google’s Android software into the world’s dominant force in smartphones. -
Biden visits China amid tensions over air defense zone
Click Here 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. Biden appeared somber and subdued as he and Xi spoke to reporters after a meeting that ran about an hour longer than scheduled. The two planned another meeting and a working dinner Wednesday evening. -
Fast Food Strikes
Click HereFast-food workers in New York City are expected to walk off their jobs Thursday, one year after their first strike, joining a 100-city strike wave. Organizers say actions will take place all across the country as part of the movement for $15 an hour and the right to form a union without retaliation. In New York City, there are more than 57,000 fast-food workers, and the median wage is $8.89/hour, the lowest of any occupation in the city. -
2 million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen in massive hack
Click HereThe massive data breach was a result of keylogging software maliciously installed on an untold number of computers around the world, researchers at cybersecurity firm Trustwave said. The virus was capturing log-in credentials for key websites over the past month and sending those usernames and passwords to a server controlled by the hackers.On Nov. 24, Trustwave researchers tracked that server, located in the Netherlands. -
Oldest Human DNA Reveals Mysterious Branch of Humanity
Click HereThe DNA, which dates back some 400,000 years, may belong to an unknown human ancestor, say scientists. These new findings could shed light on a mysterious extinct branch of humanity known as Denisovans, who were close relatives of Neanderthals, scientists added. -
10-Year-Old Suspended for Shooting Imaginary Arrow,
Click Herea fifth grader at South Eastern Middle School, was suspended for a day and threatened with expulsion under the school’s weapons policy after playfully using his hands to draw the bowstrings on a pretend “bow” and “shoot” an arrow at a classmate who had held his folder like an imaginary gun and “shot” at Johnny. -
NSA 'tracking' hundreds of millions of mobile phones
Click HereAlmost five billion mobile phone location records are logged by the NSA every day, reports the Washington Post. The data is said to help the NSA track individuals, and map who they know, to aid the agency's anti-terror work. The "dragnet surveillance" was condemned by digital rights groups who called for the NSA's snooping efforts to be reined in. -
Chemical weapons: How Pentagon plans to destroy Syria's stockpile at sea
If all goes according to plan, the bulk of Syria’s chemical weapons stocks could be destroyed early next year inside the specially modified hold of a U.S. ship somewhere at sea, Pentagon officials said Thursday. -
Nelson Mandela: His impact on American activism, politics and pop culture
Click Here 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. -
Ukraine riots
Click Here Russian President Vladimir Putin’s dream of recreating the Soviet empire is being tested on the streets of Kiev. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators facing off against riot police in the Ukrainian capital are protesting against civil rights infringements and a government decision to back off signing a free-trade accord with the European Union (EU). -
Tech giants call for controls on government surveillance.
Click HereEight 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. -
The Ukraine Conflict
Click HereMany Ukrainians are upset with their current president, Viktor Yanukovych, who chose to back out of a free-trade deal with the European Union in favor of closer ties with Russia. This pissed off a lot of people — they knocked down and decapitated a statue of Lenin, riot police got violent and people were injured — and now they want him ousted. -
Couple, four children missing in Nevada found safe in canyon
Click HereA Nevada couple and four young children reported missing on Sunday in a remote mountain range northeast of Reno were found safe by rescue workers on Tuesday huddled in a canyon, a dispatch supervisor for the Pershing County Sheriff's Office said. The couple had taken the children, who range in age from 3 to 10, on an outing to an abandoned mining camp in the Seven Troughs range of northwestern Nevada on Sunday to play in the snow, authorities said. -
Obama's Handshake With Raul Castro Is Only Offensive If You Ignore 75 Years Of History
Click HereThe gesture was unplanned, according to the White House, but substantial nonetheless. Fifty years after the Communist revolution that placed Fidel Castro in power, the U.S. and Cuba still share no formal diplomatic relations. And the last time an American president shook hands with a Cuban leader was in 2000, when former President Bill Clinton exchanged greetings with Fidel Castro at a United Nations gathering in New York. -
India's Supreme Court declares homosexual sex illegal
Click HereSex 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. -
Nigerian survivor will never go to sea again
He survived three days in a sunken tugboat at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and was hailed as a miracle survivor, but now the Nigerian faces nightmares and questions on whether he used black magic. Harrison Odjegba Okene, 29, has transformed his life since a diver fished him out of the sea: He never again wants to find himself in a boat galley, and has since started working as a cook on firm ground. -
US, UK suspend non-lethal aid to Syrian opposition
Click HereWashington and London have stopped providing non-lethal aid to the Syrian rebels via Turkey after radical Islamists began to take control of the Free Syrian Army’s bases in northern Syria. Turkey has reportedly closed its side of the border with Syria. On Friday radical militants from the Islamic Front seized several premises belonging to the Supreme Military Council (SMC) of the Free Syrian Army at the Bab al-Hawa crossing near the Turkish border, reported Reuters. -
Ukraine protest confident as US mulls sanctions
Click HereUkrainian demonstrators celebrated three weeks of protests Thursday over the government's decision to reject a historic EU deal, as the United States threatened sanctions after a failed police raid on the protest barricades. The situation calmed in the capital after a showdown in the early hours of Wednesday, when riot police tried to drive the protest camp out of the iconic Independence Square after three weeks of rallies. -
Media urge Syrian rebels to stop journalist kidnappings
Click HereIt is believed that more than 30 journalists are currently being detained in Syria. Many kidnappings have been downplayed in the hope of aiding negotiations. On Tuesday the Spanish newspaper El Mundo decided to publicise the abduction of two journalists in Syria in September after indirect communications with their captors led to "no result". "I'm quite clear the rebels deliberately set us up to be shot by the Syrian army," he wrote in a blog post on Channel 4's website. -
Robert Levinson, American Missing In Iran, Was Working For CIA
Click HereIn March 2007, retired FBI agent Robert Levinson flew to Kish Island, an Iranian resort awash with tourists, smugglers and organized crime figures. Days later, after an arranged meeting with an admitted killer, he checked out of his hotel, slipped into a taxi and vanished. For years, the U.S. has publicly described him as a private citizen who traveled to the tiny Persian Gulf island on private business. -
SHARE THIS PrintEmailMore sharing School drops sexual harassment claim against 6-year-old who kissed girl
Click HereAmid a tidal wave of negative publicity, a Colorado school system has let a 6-year-old boy return to school and said it won't classify his kissing a girl on the hand as sexual harassment. Amid a tidal wave of negative publicity, a Colorado school system has let a 6-year-old boy return to school and said it won't classify his kissing a girl on the hand as sexual harassment. -
Newtown anniversary
Click HereTo mourn the 20 children and six educators killed a year ago at Sandy Hook elementary, residents of the Connecticut suburb of Newtown will take a quiet action on Saturday: placing candles in windows to remember the lives lost.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. Only seven of every 100 child homicides are committed by strangers. -
Better-looking teens more likely to graduate college, study finds http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-looks-teens-college-study-20131211,0,4286257.story#ixzz2nMQrHn00
Click HereA 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. Well into adulthood, “people’s personal appearance has powerful effects on their life chances,” sociologists Rachel A. Gordon and Robert Crosnoe wrote in a briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families -
Ethan Couch gets probation with 'affluenza' defense after crash kills 4.
Click Here A Texas teen has been given probation and counseling -- but no jail time -- for a crash that killed four people in June. The victims' families are stunned. "I'll always cherish memories that we had," said Eric Boyles, father and husband of victims. "Today, those memories are painful because it brings you to the situation that they're not here today." An alleged alcohol-fueled joyride ultimately led to four people being killed. The Ethan Couch, won't be serving a day in jail,he was only 16. -
Home> U.S. UN Inspectors Confirm Syria Chemical Attack
Click HereChemical 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. -
Sandy Hook shooting, one year later: A solemn day for Newtown
Click HereBells 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. -
Hawaii survivor: Plane lost power, then glided
Click Here After a 70-year-old Hawaii man survived a flight that crash-landed in Hawaii waters, he swam about a half-mile in 6-foot waves to Molokai's rugged shoreline, thinking the eight others aboard the small commercial plane were fine bobbing in their life vests, awaiting rescue.When the lone engine of the small plane failed, the nine people on board stayed calm as the aircraft glided toward the ocean and made a remarkably smooth belly landing, Hollstein recounted. -
China Moon Landing: 'Jade Rabbit' Rover Basks in Lunar Bay of Rainbows
Click HereChina's first-ever moon rover is driving on the lunar surface after successfully separating from its carrier lander to begin exploring its landing locale: the Bay of Rainbows. The Chang'e 3 lunar lander reached the moon Saturday (Dec. 14) at about 9:12 p.m., Beijing time, making China only the third country in the world to achieve such a moon feat after the former Soviet Union and the United States. The lander also delivered the robotic rover Yutu ("Jade Rabbit"). -
17-year-old Colo. school shooting victim remains in coma
Click HereA 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. -
Anti-bacterial soaps may not curb bacteria.
Click HereAfter more than 40 years of study, the U.S. government says it has found no evidence that common anti-bacterial soaps prevent the spread of germs, and regulators want the makers of Dawn, Dial and other household staples to prove that their products do not pose health risks to consumers. -
Judge's Word on NSA Program Won't Be the Last
Click HereA federal judge made headlines Monday by declaring that the National Security Agency's bulk collection of millions of Americans' telephone records is likely unconstitutional. But even he realized his won't be the last word on the issue.Even after the appeals court rules, the Supreme Court will probably have the last word. -
Scientists Find Tiny Exfoliating Beads In Great Lakes Fish Guts
Click HerePlastic junk in our oceans has concerned scientists for decades. Over the weekend, the New York Times reported on new research that minute plastic beads, the kind used in cosmetics and toothpastes, are ending up in the Great Lakes. Sherri Mason was featured in the Times article. She's an environmental chemist with the State University of New York in Fredonia, and she's been fishing for plastic in the Great Lakes for a couple of years now. She joins me from Fredonia. Welcome, Sherri Mason. -
Obama Meeting With Tech Chiefs Pushing Surveillance Limits
Click HereThe executives intend to press Obama to act on the changes to surveillance policies proposed in a letter sent to the president and lawmakers last week, according to a representative of one of the companies, who asked not to be identified because the meeting plans aren’t public. National Security Agency gained access to phone and Internet data. networks to conduct spying. -
Why Pope Francis Is Different From His Predecessors
Click HereThat's the sentiment being expressed just nine months after becoming pope in March of this year. An ABC News/Washington Post poll showed today that 92 percent of American Catholics view Pope Francis favorably, as do 69 percent of all Americans. The church's popularity as a whole is even up along with Francis' popularity: 95 percent of Catholics think the church is moving in the right direction, up 26 percent from 10 years ago. -
Obama includes openly gay athletes in 2014 Olympic delegation.
Click HereThe 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. King and Cahow are both openly gay athletes. Gay rights groups have urged the Obama administration to use the delegation selection to make a point about Russia's treatment of gays and lesbians. -
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Hails Deal With Russia
Click HereUkraine — Addressing a deeply divided nation, officials in the government of President Viktor F. Yanukovich of Ukraine on Wednesday called a financial aid and natural gas deal with Russia the country’s only hope to prevent economic collapse, although it was signed in defiance of a large and sustained protest in the capital. -
US company reinvents wheel to make bikes electric
Click HereA new device has been launched that can transform almost any bicycle into an electric-hybrid vehicle. The Copenhagen Wheel is a self-contained unit that replaces the rear hub of a bicycle wheel. It stores energy, which can later be released if a cyclist needs help. -
How do you know if you've made it in life?
Click HereIn the first few decades after China's communist revolution, most families aspired to own the "three circles and a speaker" - a radio, a bicycle, a wrist watch and a sewing machine. Decades later, the list of Chinese must-haves is a lot more expensive. Chinese people are under pressure to buy their own apartment, a car, a smartphone, a DSLR camera and a laptop, for starters. Others strive for designer clothes and furniture too. -
Greenpeace activists Arctic 30, including Tasmanian Colin Russell, set to avoid trial after amnesty bill passes
Click HereThe 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. -
Ohio Man Arrested For Having Hidden Compartment In Car
An Ohio man was arrested for having a hidden compartment on his car, despite not carrying any illegal drugs or weapons.
WKYC-TV reports 30-year-old Norman Gurley was originally pulled over for speeding in Lorain County Tuesday when State Highway Patrol troopers noticed wires running to the back of his car. -
Europe launches satellite that will map 1 billion stars, hunt for new planetsRead more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/europe-launches-satellite-that-will-map-1-billion-stars-hunt-for-new-planets.
Click HereThe 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 satelite was lifted into space from French Guiana at 6:12 a.m. (0912 GMT; 4:12 a.m. ET) aboard a Russian-made Soyuz rocket, the agency said.
