Boehner charges ahead on contempt resolution for Holder
After a last-ditch appeal by the White House fell flat Tuesday, House Speaker John Boehner told reporters this morning that he will proceed on a vote Thursday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for withholding certain documents.Read More ...
Wildfire near Colorado Springs causes mass evacuation
A fast-moving wildfire covering nine square miles near Colorado Springs forced the evacuation of as many as 32,000 residents Tuesday, as the blaze--fueled by 65 m.p.h. winds--jumped a perimeter set by firefighters trying desperately to contain it.Read More ...
Assad declares war after gunmen storm TV station
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Rogue dolphin, alone after Katrina, menaces lake area
A menacing animal is terrorizing residents of an upscale waterfront community just outside New Orleans. But it's not your run-of-the-mill beastly wild animal.Read More ...
Obama better suited to handle alien invasion than Romney: Poll
In the event that Bill Pullman isn't available, two-thirds of respondents to a new survey say that President Barack Obama would be better suited to handle an alien invasion than presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. "We wanted the pulse on people's opinions," said Brad Dancer, senior vice president of research and digital media for [...]Read More ...
Famed Crystal Cathedral to become Catholic church
Retired schoolteacher Dolores Rommel has followed the Rev. Robert H. Schuller almost her entire adult life: She was baptized in his church as a young woman, sent her children to his Sunday school and laid her husband to rest near the soaring, glass-paned Crystal Cathedral that was to be the televangelist's ultimate legacy.Read More ...
Student loans weigh heavily after graduation
Most graduates are hitting the pavement to look for work, or trying to ace that final internship in the hopes that they'll be hired on. But even for those who find employment, there likely remains one nagging bit of unfinished business: student loans.Read More ...
Mitt Romney to loan his biggest fan a new truck
Perhaps no one has logged more miles supporting Mitt Romney's 2012 bid than Jim Wilson, a 70-year-old retired insurance salesman from Virginia whose beat-up 1998 GMC pickup decorated with American flags and massive "Romney for President" signs has been a ubiquitous presence outside campaign events for months.Read More ...
Should women blame themselves for imbalances?
Even with economic advantages, advanced degrees and a husband dedicated to sharing the burden, why do some working moms still feel that a high-powered career is not possible?Read More ...
Clinton hopeful Syria meeting can be turning point
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday she has "great hope" that an upcoming Geneva meeting of world powers can be a turning point in the Syria crisis. Clinton said the U.S. supports U.N. envoy Kofi Annan's plan for political transition in Syria.Read More ...
Barclays to pay $400M-plus to settle LIBOR charges
Barclays PLC and its subsidiaries have agreed to pay more than $400 million to settle charges that it attempted to manipulate and made false reports related to setting key global interest rates.Read More ...
Britain's queen shakes hands with ex-IRA chief
BELFAST (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth shook the hand of former IRA guerrilla commander Martin McGuinness for the first time on Wednesday, drawing a line under a conflict that cost the lives of thousands of soldiers and civilians, including that of her cousin. The meeting with McGuinness, who is now the deputy first minister of Northern Ireland, comes 14 years after the Irish Republican Army ended its war against British rule in the province, and is one of the last big milestones in a peace process whose success has been studied around the world. ...Read More ...
Unemployed man saves toddler from oncoming subway train in Brooklyn
An unemployed Brooklyn man is being hailed as a "superhero without a cape"—or a job—after he rescued a 9-month-old boy from an oncoming subway train on Tuesday. Delroy Simmonds, 30, jumped from an elevated platform to save the toddler, whose stroller had been blown onto the tracks by a wind gust. The boy's mother, Maria [...]
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Emancipation Proclamation copy sells for $2.1M
A rare original copy of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation sold Tuesday at a New York auction for more than $2 million.Read More ...
U.S. seizes cargo ship in search for stowaways
U.S. authorities in Newark, New Jersey seized a cargo ship with goods from India and Egypt on Wednesday after hearing what sounded like people stowed away inside a container on the vessel, the U.S. Coast Guard said.Read More ...
Ephron blazed trail in male-dominated industry
Before Nancy Meyers, before Sofia Coppola, before Julie Delpy and Kasi Lemmons and Nicole Holofcener, there was Nora Ephron.Read More ...
George Zimmerman bullied former colleague, complaint says
One of George Zimmerman's former colleagues at CarMax, where he worked in 2008, complained formally about him, alleging serial hazing that lasted for months.Read More ...
Thousands of vets flock to Detroit for hiring fair
Staff Sgt. Michael Burton's 20-year Army career has taken him all over the globe — from Panama to Somalia, and Haiti to Iraq.Read More ...
Assailants attack Microsoft HQ in Athens
Assailants attacked the offices of Microsoft in Athens early Wednesday, driving a van through the front doors and setting off an incendiary device that burned the building entrance, police said.Read More ...
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