The Kennedy curse lives on
The Death of RFK Jr.'s wife is the Latest Tragedy for the Kennedy Family.Read More ...
Census: Minorities surpass whites in U.S.births
For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.Read More ...
No tears as woman sees bacteria-ravaged hands
A Georgia graduate student fighting a rare flesh-eating infection has been looking at her ravaged hands and asking about the damage, all without tears, her father said Wednesday.Read More ...
Report: Fewer US homes foreclosed upon in April
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Manhunt for groom charged in Ill. bride's slaying
Police and FBI officials were poring over more than 100 tips as they hunted for a man accused of stabbing his new wife to death and leaving her body in her bathtub, still clad in her silver-sequined wedding dress.Read More ...
Greece gets caretaker PM until new vote in June
A senior judge has been sworn in to head Greece's caretaker government for a month as the debt-crippled country lurches through a political crisis that threatens its membership in the 17-nation eurozone.Read More ...
Biden lays into Romney, GOP: 'They don't get who we are!'
At a campaign stop in Youngstown, Ohio, Vice President Joe Biden lit into Republicans and their presumed presidential nominee for what he described as a failure to understand the plight of the middle class.Read More ...
2 US Navy ships collide in Pacific; no injuries
An 844-foot-long U.S. Navy assault ship collided with a refueling tanker Wednesday in the Pacific Ocean, causing damage to both ships, but there were no injuries or fuel spills, military officials said.Read More ...
Leading insurer pays $109M for dog bite claims
Dog bites man does not get a lot of attention in the news, but it costs insurance companies hundreds of millions in claims every year.Read More ...
New U.S.-Russian crew arrives at space station
An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station early Thursday, kicking off a four-month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory.Read More ...
Chuck Brown, pioneer of 'go-go' funk music, dies
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Russia's chess game 'without any rules'
Grandmaster-turned-activist Garry Kasparov says Russian President Vladimir Putin does whatever he wants to stay in power.Read More ...
White House denies arming Syrian rebels
President Barack Obama's administration has repeatedly said over the past few months that it won't ship arms to Syria's outgunned opposition, warning that doing so will only escalate the bloody conflict there. But the Washington Post reported Wednesday that the U.S. has been helping to coordinate shipments [...]Read More ...
Mladic instigated ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, U.N. court told
Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic went on trial accused of carrying out a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing and Europe's worst massacre since World War II.Read More ...
Manny Pacquiao denounces anti-gay allegations
Manny Pacquiao says he loves and supports gays and lesbians, even though he does not approve of gay marriage.Read More ...
Confrontation brews in Congress over detainee law
Lawmakers moved toward a confrontation over the government's power to detain suspected terrorists on Wednesday as the Republican-led House of Representatives began debate on a defense policy bill the White House has threatened to veto. Representative Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, sought to amend the law to guarantee people arrested in the United States on terrorism charges could not be detained indefinitely without trial or transferred to military custody. ...
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Lawmakers approve tweaks to Alabama immigration law
Alabama lawmakers passed a new bill to revise the state's controversial immigration law on Wednesday, hoping to fend off more legal challenges to the toughest state measure on immigration in the United States. The bill, whose final approval now rests with Alabama's governor, largely keeps intact a law approved last year that has sparked lawsuits by the Obama administration and immigrant rights groups who argue it is unconstitutional. ...
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U.S.: Training missile falls from Army chopper in Texas
A US Army Apache helicopter accidentally dropped an inactive missile over central Texas, forcing dozens of homes to be evacuated, officials said Wednesday.Read More ...
Coffee buzz: Study finds java drinkers live longer
One of life's simple pleasures just got a little sweeter. After years of waffling research on coffee and health, even some fear that java might raise the risk of heart disease, a big study finds the opposite: Coffee drinkers are a little more likely to live longer. Regular or decaf doesn't matter.Read More ...
Romney calls attacks over Bain ‘really off-target’
Mitt Romney called Democratic criticism over his record at Bain Capital "misguided" and chided President Barack Obama for approving the attacks while at the same time raising cash from other members of the private equity industry. In an interview with Hot Air's Ed Morrissey, the presumptive Republican nominee denounced an ad launched this week by [...]Read More ...
Fugitive penguin 337 spotted alive in Tokyo Bay
After Penguin Number 337 made a daring bid for freedom from a Tokyo aquarium and vanished into the waters of Tokyo Bay two months ago, many feared the worst for the adventurous feathered fugitive. But the one-year-old Humboldt penguin has now popped up on video footage in a different part of the bay, frolicking in the water and apparently healthy. The penguin, still too young to determine whether it is male or female and thus known only by a number, scaled a rock wall four meters (13 ft) high and squeezed through a barbed wire fence to escape its harborside aquarium in March. ...Read More ...
‘Haunted’ L.A. hospital being converted into senior living home
Would you want your grandma living in an abandoned hospital so well known for its creepy atmosphere and alleged hauntings that it has been used in various Hollywood productions by folks like Rob Zombie and the makers of the horror film "Se7en"? The L.A. Times says the 107-year-old Linda Vista Community Hospital may soon earn [...]
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