'My experience with Mike Wallace: integrity, charm, character'
Via statements and comments on Twitter, colleagues and friends reacted Sunday to the news that longtime CBS correspondent Mike Wallace, the "60 Minutes" interviewer, died Saturday at age 93: Former First Lady Nancy Reagan: "My heart is broken today over the death of my dear friend Mike Wallace. My parents introduced me to Mike more than 75 years ago and we've been fast friends ever since. ... Mike was an old school journalist and one of the most astute people I've ever met. ...Read More ...
Watson wins Masters in dramatic playoff
The Masters tournament involves approximately 100 players taking a total of around 20,000 strokes. But in the end, it came down to just two: Louis Oosthuizen's astonishing albatross on No. 2, and Bubba Watson's ungodly pop-fly wedge shot from the woods on the second hole of a playoff. Both shots are now part of Masters lore, but only one man won a green jacket.Read More ...
Facebook clues in deadly Tulsa attacks
Police say their investigation of the shooting spree in Tulsa, Okla., will include the racially charged Facebook postings of one of the two men arrested in connection to the attacks.Read More ...
Global markets fall on sluggish U.S. jobs, focus on more data
Asian shares fell on Monday as a sharp slowdown in U.S. jobs growth raised concerns about the strength of the world's largest economy, making investors cautious ahead of more U.S. data and earnings as well as figures from China due this week. MSCI's broadest index of Asia Pacific shares outside Japan fell for a fourth straight session, down 0.3 percent, while Japan's Nikkei average opened down 1.3 percent, after posting its worst weekly loss in eight months last week. U.S. stock futures fell more than 1 percent and Treasuries prices rallied on Friday after data showed U.S. ...Read More ...
North Korea readies longe range rocket for launch
North Korea has readied a rocket for a launch from a forested valley in its remote northwest this week that will showcase the reclusive state's ability to fire a missile with the capacity to hit the continental United States.Read More ...
Gingrich says Romney 'most likely' Republican nominee
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, lagging far behind his rivals and his campaign mired in debt, acknowledged Sunday that Mitt Romney was his party's "most likely" nominee.Read More ...
Syria demands guarantees; rebels say peace plan doomed
Syria on Sunday demanded written guarantees insurgents will stop fighting before it pulls back troops under the terms of a U.N. peace plan, and a rebel leader said the initiative was doomed. "The regime will not implement this plan. This plan will fail," Free Syrian Army (FSA) chief Riad al-Asaad told Reuters. Escalating violence has already raised questions over the ceasefire. Opposition activists said dozens of people were killed and wounded on Sunday when President Bashar al-Assad's loyalists shelled a rebellious area near the border with Turkey. U.N. ...Read More ...
Obama wishes Jews, Christians happy Passover, Easter
President Obama used his weekly radio address on Saturday to wish Jews and Christians celebrating Passover and Easter, respectively, this weekend well: For millions of Americans, this weekend is a time to celebrate redemption at God's hand. Tonight, Jews will gather for a second Seder, where they will retell the story of the Exodus. And [...]Read More ...
Photos: Obamas attend Easter service at historic D.C. church
U.S. President Barack Obama (2nd L) smiles as he walks from the White House to an Easter church service with his wife Michelle (2nd R) and their daughters Sasha (L) and Malia in Washington, April 8, 2012. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)Read More ...
Tebowing on Easter: 'It's our Super Bowl'
New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow took to the pulpit this morning in Austin, Texas, on the holiest day of the Christian calendar to share his personal story of faith. In an interview during the service that lasted for about 20 minutes, he explained how...Read More ...
Suspect in dismembering says he met woman online
A man suspected of stabbing, suffocating and dismembering his girlfriend told a newspaper that he met her through Facebook while looking for new friends and that he met two of his alleged accomplices at a library just three days before the killing.Read More ...
Suicide rates rising among Canadian girls: study
Suicide rates for female teens and pre-teens in Canada rose over the past few decades even though the overall number of youths who took their own lives was dropping, according to a Canadian study that covered nearly 30 years. Researchers whose findings were published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal also noted a change in the preferred methods of suicide, from guns or poisons to suffocation by strangulation. ...
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Queen Elizabeth II grants Camilla new honor
Queen Elizabeth II has appointed the Duchess of Cornwall to the highest female rank in the Royal Victorian Order, Buckingham Palace said Monday.Read More ...
Peace Corps leaves Mali, new U.S. travel warning issued
Peace Corps volunteers have been evacuated from Mali and non-essential U.S. diplomatic personnel have been offered flights out due to ongoing political instability following a military coup in March, the State Department said on Sunday. The agency again warned Americans against travel to the West African nation due to a rebellion in the north and continuing threats of attacks and kidnappings of Westerners. It strongly urged U.S. citizens there to consider leaving temporarily. ...Read More ...
7-year-old boy tied to Alaska arson fires
A 7-year-old Juneau boy has admitted setting five arson fires over a little more than four months, according to fire officials in Alaska's capital.
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‘The Hunger Games’ video spoof goes viral
"The Hunger Games," the film that topped the U.S. box office for the third weekend in a row with $33.5 million, has inspired plenty of parodies. But this one--pitting hipsters from Portland, Austin, Brooklyn, Oakland and Silverlake, Calif., in a dystopian fight to the death--may be the best. The three-minute video, directed by Christopher Guerrero [...]
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Looking on the bright side of inflation (there is one)
Sometimes a little bit of inflation is not such a bad thing. In the United States, prices starting to creep upward shows the deep wounds from the credit crisis are slowly healing and the U.S. economy is ...Read More ...
Reports: 1 dead, 2 wounded in Texas beach shooting
One person has been killed and two others have been wounded in a shooting during a packed Texas Gulf Coast beach party.
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'Please get us out of here': trapped Peru miners wait it out
It could take two or three more days to rescue nine miners trapped since Thursday in a mine in southern Peru, a top official said Sunday, as one of the miners begged "please, get us out of here."Read More ...
Hudson's star power to complicate Chicago murder trial
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Cracks emerge in Santorum's evangelical support
Rick Santorum, who rose in the polls thanks to enthusiastic support from Christian conservatives, faced pressure Sunday from a key Republican evangelical to end his increasingly long-shot White House bid.Read More ...
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