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Thousands of people protested in Rome on Saturday against austerity policies and high unemployment, urging new Prime Minister Enrico Letta to focus on creating jobs to help pull the country out of recession.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe New York college student who was shot during a home robbery early Friday was killed by police gunfire, officials said at a news conference Saturday.According to NBC New York affiliate WNBC, Nassau County Police said Andrea Rebello, 21, was killed by police fire, not by the armed gunman attempting to rob the off-campus house where she lived with her twin sister, Jessica, and several other wom...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAt Friday's house hearing on privacy and domestic drones, government representatives and civil rights advocates tried to wrap their brains around a drone-filled future.Once drones are a common sight as scheduled in 2015, activists have suggested that privacy laws need an update.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAbout 50 to 60 people were injured Saturday when a driver described by witnesses as an elderly man drove his car into a group of hikers marching in a parade in a small Virginia mountain town.Washington County director of emergency management Pokey Harris said no fatalities had been reported.The injuries ranged from critical to superficial, he said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareTracie Felker and Joe Marion share a deep passion for Scouting. Each has a son who attained the top rank of Eagle, and each has spent numerous years and thousands of hours volunteering as Scout leaders, promoting Scout values.And that’s where they diverge.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAre gadgets making us dumber? Two new studies suggest they might be. One found that people who are interrupted by technology score 20 percent lower on a standard cognition test.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIt's the hottest not-yet-confirmed story in entertainment at the moment: Are Beyonce and Jay-Z about to announce that baby No. 2 is on the way?E! Online and other outlets seem positive this is the case, though thus far "sources" are the only place information has come from -- no one's spokesperson has stepped forward to put the official stamp on it.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareCANNES, France -- A man was arrested at the Cannes film festival on Friday after firing a starting pistol during a live TV broadcast on the palm-lined waterfront, sending actors Christoph Waltz and Daniel Auteuil running for cover.French TV station Canal+ was interviewing Austria's Oscar-winning Waltz and French actor Auteuil live on its nightly news show from a beach-front set before a crowd of s...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareActress Angelina Jolie’s revelation this week that she’d had both breasts removed to lower her elevated risk of cancer came as a bombshell to many -- but not to three sisters from Berkeley Heights, N.J.The women -- Cathy Balsamo, Cindy Lepore and Patti Broccoli -- have spent most of the past year grappling with the very dilemma that Jolie faced:
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareDo you have the lucky ticket? The winning Powerball numbers are 10, 13, 14, 22, 52 with a Powerball number of 11.Four out of every five possible combinations of numbers were already in play, as the jackpot of the multi-state lottery game surged to $600 million ahead of Saturday's drawing -- the second-largest pot in U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareWASHINGTON – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says pessimists forecasting that the economy will not reap sizable benefits from the computer revolution are likely to be proven wrong.Bernanke told a college graduating class Saturday that the long-range practical consequences of innovations such as faster computers and the Internet are hard to predict.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe H1N1 virus strain that caused a 2009 swine flu outbreak in humans was detected in northern elephant seals off the coast of central California.Scientists say this is the first time marine mammals have been found to carry the H1N1 flu strain, which originated in pigs.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareLarge sections of the Plains states came under tornado watches Saturday as a wave of storms swept through.The danger in the region would be present into Monday, weather.com reported, and the greatest threat late Saturday was in southwest Kansas, with central Oklahoma seeing a spike on Sunday.The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for most of western and central Kansas until 11 p.m.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareWitnesses in southwestern Virginia said a car drove into a crowd at a parade Saturday and hurt several people, but the nature of their injuries wasn't immediately known. It happened around 2:30 p.m.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareNASA is getting plenty of advice — and sympathy — as it assesses whether its Kepler planet-hunting telescope can be revived after the failure of its reaction-control system. The reactions from scientists and engineers range from repair tips to an Audenesque elegy.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareOfficials toured the scene of a two-train collision in Connecticut that injured dozens of people and halted rail traffic from New York to Boston on Friday.Area hospitals saw seventy people after the rush-hour collision.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA US Airways flight made a belly landing at Newark International Airport in the early morning hours on Saturday after the plane reported a problem with its landing gear, a spokesman for the airline said.No injuries were reported after Express Flight 4560 landed just after 1 a.m.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareBy Kurt SchlosserNBC NewsZach Galifianakis warned Brian Williams that viewers would turn off a long interview piece with the actor if it aired on "Rock Center." But after watching several candid minutes with the comedian and "Hangover" star on Friday night, it was hard not to be left wanting more.Galifianakis, the bearded comic turned reluctant big-time star, opened up to Williams about more than ...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareEverything's a go for Orb.The Kentucky Derby winner was in a playful mood the day before the Preakness, making faces for photographers between nibbles of grass outside his stall at Pimlico Race Course."He's really settled in well.
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More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareBEIJING – An official visit to Beijing by Israeli and Palestinian leaders last week has prompted speculation that China may finally be ready to claim its place as a world power by trying to negotiate an end to one of world's most caustic conflicts.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with Chinese President Xi Jinping within days of each other in Bei...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareBEIJING – Shopping for groceries is a painful process for Tan Yinghong, a mother in her mid-30s. Just to buy meat, vegetables and milk for her 7-year-old son she has to pick her way through a minefield of possible perils – fake lamb, diseased pork, toxic ginger, tainted milk and unsafe bottled water.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareOxbow has won the Preakness, ruining Orb's bid to capture the Triple Crown. Oxbow led from start to finish. It was the sixth Preakness victory for Hall of Fame trainer D.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAuthorities are investigating the overnight shooting death of a 32-year-old man in New York’s Greenwich Village as a hate crime after police said the shooter may have hurled anti-gay slurs."This clearly looks to be a hate crime," NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly told reporters on Saturday.While investigators continued to piece together the events leading up to the shooting, police identified the victim...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareWaiting hours for a cellphone to charge may become a thing of the past, thanks to an 18-year-old high-school student's invention.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareImagine having a drink with dinner at a restaurant only to be pulled over on the way home and slapped with a DUI. That could happen under a proposed plan to toughen the drunk driving laws across the country, and it has restaurateurs alarmed.The National Transportation Safety Board wants states to make it illegal to drive with a blood-alcohol content level above 0.05.
More | Talk | Read It Later | SharePARIS -- French President Francois Hollande has signed into law a bill allowing same-sex marriage, making France the 14th country to legalize gay weddings.France's official journal announced on Saturday the bill had become law after the Constitutional Council gave it the go-ahead on Friday.The bill, a campaign pledge by the Socialist president, has been for months hotly contested by many conservat...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIt hasn’t been a fun week in the West Wing, but President Barack Obama insisted Friday that his focus remains on job creation despite Washington’s tendency to get “distracted” by political battles. “I know it can seem frustrating sometimes when it seems like Washington’s priorities aren’t your priorities,” he said at a manufacturing plant in Baltimore, Md.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThere's been a groundswell of 17-year cicadas in Virginia and other southern states, as revealed by a fresh wave of photos and eyewitness reports. In some areas, the outbreak has been accompanied by the insects' loud chorus call.
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