World's smallest artificial heart saves baby's life
An Italian heart surgeon holds a tiny titanium pump, the world's smallest artificial heart, which was implanted in a baby, at the Bambino Gesu' Hospital in Rome May 24, 2012. REUTERS/Alessandro BianchiRead More ...
Plight of missing kids now in spotlight
Everything you need to get up to speed on the big story of the day May 25 is National Missing Children's Day. Etan Patz, its poster child, remains missing. After 33 years, a man has stepped forward to confess to strangling Patz. Proof will be another matter, as the former grocery store worker has not [...]Read More ...
Booker via Twitter: ‘Sorry I make u sick’
Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker has apparently had enough of saying he's sorry this week. The rising Democratic star has been under fire since a Sunday appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press"during which he said Democratic attacks on Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital were "nauseating," Having endured days of excoriating criticism, and having tried [...]Read More ...
Hurricane warning issued for Mexico ahead of Bud
Hurricane Bud weakened to a Category 2 storm as it headed early Friday toward an area of beach resorts and small mountain villages on Mexico's Pacific coast stretching south from Puerto Vallarta.Read More ...
Egypt to pick Islamist or military man as president
The Muslim Brotherhood said its candidate in Egypt's first free presidential vote had won through to a run-off next month against ex-air force chief Ahmed Shafiq, deposed leader Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister.Read More ...
Obama accuses Romney of 'cow-pie distortion' on debt, deficits
On his first visit back to the Iowa state fairgrounds since the 2008 campaign, President Obama used a grassroots rally to launch sharp new attacks against rival Mitt Romney over the debt and deficit.Read More ...
Days after deaths, another crowd attempts Everest
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Apple CEO gives up $75 million in dividend income
Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook will not be earning dividend income on the more than 1 million shares to which he is entitled, which will cost him about $75 million.Read More ...
AWOL soldier guilty in Fort Hood bomb plot
A federal jury convicted Naser Jason Abdo, a Muslim soldier, on six charges in connection with his failed plot to blow up a Texas restaurant full of troops, his religious mission to get "justice" for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.Read More ...
Romney admits firing comment haunts him
It’s not just the media that won’t forget Mitt Romney saying in New Hampshire earlier this year that he likes “being able to fire people.” The candidate says the remark has stuck with him - and haunted him - ever since.Read More ...
Obama holds Twitter Q&A — sort of
President Obama invited Americans to a Twitter press conference of sorts, taking seven questions on topics like how he aims to curb oil imports, boost job growth or help homeowners struggling with their mortgages.Read More ...
New Mexico wildfires merge; blazes rage in five states
Two raging wildfires in southwest New Mexico merged on Thursday to become the biggest blaze among fires that have torched forest and brush in parts of five Southwestern states.Read More ...
Top horse trainer suspended by Calif. racing board
Doug O'Neill, the trainer of Triple Crown hopeful I'll Have Another, was suspended 45 days after one of his horses had an excessive level of carbon dioxide, but the punishment won't start before the Belmont Stakes.Read More ...
Man arrested in death of Etan Patz
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly announced Thursday that a 51-year-old New Jersey man, Pedro Hernandez, has been arrested in the killing of Etan Patz 33 years agoRead More ...
New Zealand's Christchurch shaken by 5.2 quake
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's second largest city Christchurch was shaken by a magnitude 5.2 earthquake on Friday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The government seismology agency said the quake was centered 10 kilometers east of the city at a depth of 11 kilometers. The city was devastated by a force 6.3 quake in February last year, killing nearly 200 people, and destroying the central business district and making large areas of surrounding suburbs uninhabitable. ...
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Mayor arrested for hacking website that tried to recall him
A New Jersey mayor and his son were arrested Thursday by the FBI for allegedly infiltrating and sabotaging a website tied to an effort to recall him.
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Former high school football star exonerated in rape case
Brian Banks' Accuser Contacted Him on Facebook and Recanted Her StoryRead More ...
Times-Picayune to cut paper to 3 days a week
The Times-Picayune, one of the nation's oldest newspapers, will no longer offer print editions seven days a week and instead plans to offer three printed issues a week starting in the fall. The change means New Orleans would become the largest metro area in the nation without a daily newspaper in the digital age.Read More ...
Zimmerman flip-flopped on view of police
George Zimmerman's view of the Sanford, Fla., Police Department shifted during an eight-month period in 2011, CNN is reporting. Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder in the death of teenager Trayvon Martin, called what he saw on ride-alongs with police "disgusting" at a public community forum in January 2011. However Zimmerman changed his tune [...]Read More ...
Texas teen wins National Geographic Bee
What is the Bavarian city located on the Danube River that was a legislative seat of the Holy Roman Empire from 1663 to 1806? Without a deep knowledge of geography or the Holy Roman Empire, most people wouldn’t be able to answer that question, but...Read More ...
Death row babysitter could get new trial
Death Row Babysitter Convicted of Killing 3-Month-Old Could Get New TrialRead More ...
Senate panel backs $631 billion in defense spending
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel voted on Thursday to authorize $631.4 billion in defense spending for the 2013 fiscal year, blocking plans to cut the Air Force and ordering offsetting reductions in Pentagon civilian personnel to stay within the president's budget limits. The Senate Armed Services Committee approved a defense policy bill that would authorize a base Pentagon budget of $525.8 billion along with $88.2 billion for the Afghanistan war and other overseas operations. The panel also authorized $17.3 billion for Energy Department nuclear weapons programs. ...Read More ...
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