Associated Press
- What do we eat? New food map will tell us
Sunday - 05/19/2013 - 02:05 PMCHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -- Do your kids love chocolate milk? It may have more calories on average than you thought....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hofstra student killed by police during break-in
Sunday - 05/19/2013 - 02:51 AMMINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) -- Officials say a New York college student was accidentally killed by a police officer as she was held in a headlock by an intruder pointing a gun at her head during a break-in at an off-campus home....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Reporter remembers fear in Videla's Argentina
Saturday - 05/18/2013 - 07:56 PMBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- It was just about a day after Argentine strongman Jorge Rafael Videla had seized power in March of 1976, and the bloodletting was already beginning....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Suspect identified in fatal Hofstra home invasion
Saturday - 05/18/2013 - 03:46 PMUNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) -- Police have identified the alleged home invader involved in the death of a New York college student early Friday morning....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - IRS probe ignored most influential groups
Saturday - 05/18/2013 - 09:12 AMWASHINGTON (AP) -- There's an irony in the Internal Revenue Service's crackdown on conservative groups....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 10 Things to Know about the Preakness _ and beyond
Saturday - 05/18/2013 - 03:13 AMBALTIMORE (AP) -- There are only two outcomes when it comes to Saturday's Preakness Stakes - either the Kentucky Derby winner Orb wins the race to set up a Triple Crown try in the Belmont Stakes in three weeks, or another horse pulls an upset and prevents a shot at history....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Venturi, US Open champion and CBS analyst, dies
Friday - 05/17/2013 - 09:30 PMKen Venturi, who overcame dehydration to win the 1964 U.S. Open and spent 35 years in the booth for CBS Sports, died Friday afternoon. He was 82....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - AP PHOTOS: Cuba's LGBT community celebrates
Friday - 05/17/2013 - 06:47 PMHAVANA (AP) -- A week of drag shows, colorful marches and social and cultural events in Havana culminates Friday with celebrations of the International Day Against Homophobia....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Weinstein showcases Grace Kelly, Mandela flicks
Friday - 05/17/2013 - 04:55 PMCANNES, France (AP) -- The Weinstein Company's fall slate of awards contenders will feature a glamorous Grace Kelly, a brawny Nelson Mandela and a mysterious J.D. Salinger....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Mother's instincts': NM woman chased abductor
Friday - 05/17/2013 - 02:46 PMALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- A mother who chased down an abductor and ran into his car after he grabbed her 4-year-old said Friday her "mother's instincts" kicked in when she launched her pursuit....
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- Chinese premier heads to India to boost ties
Sunday - 05/19/2013 - 04:25 AMNEW DELHI (AP) -- Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier headed to India on Sunday for his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Winning numbers drawn in Powerball jackpot
Saturday - 05/18/2013 - 11:18 PMDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Lottery officials have announced winning numbers in a near-historic Powerball jackpot....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Witnesses: Car drives into crowd at Va. parade
Saturday - 05/18/2013 - 04:00 PMDAMASCUS, Va. (AP) -- Witnesses in southwestern Virginia say a car has driven into a crowd at a festival parade. Several people appeared to be hurt, but the nature of their injuries wasn't immediately known....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Victims: Marines failed to safeguard water supply
Saturday - 05/18/2013 - 09:51 AMCAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) -- A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing chemicals....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - GOP hopes IRS scandal will snag health care law
Saturday - 05/18/2013 - 04:37 AMWASHINGTON (AP) -- Political scandals have strange ways of causing collateral damage, and Republicans are hoping the furor over federal tax enforcers singling out conservative groups will ensnare their biggest target:
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 2 fires north of LA persist after long fire week
Saturday - 05/18/2013 - 03:42 AMSANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) -- A pair of tamed but persistent wildfires still burned in the hills and mountains around Interstate 5 after a wild week of burning brush in the area north of Los Angeles....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 20 to 25 injured as Conn. commuter trains collide
Friday - 05/17/2013 - 07:43 PMFAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) -- Two commuter trains collided outside New York City during the evening rush hour Friday, injuring 20 or more people, authorities said. There were no reports of fatalities....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - SPIN METER: GOP raps Dems for IRS union cash
Friday - 05/17/2013 - 05:59 PMWASHINGTON (AP) -- Seeking maximum political gain from the string of controversies swirling around the White House, Republicans are on the attack against Democratic lawmakers who accepted donations from the union that represents Internal Revenue Service employees....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Record Powerball jackpot inspires office pools
Friday - 05/17/2013 - 04:06 PMDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- In workplaces across the nation, Americans are inviting their colleagues to chip in $2 for a Powerball ticket and a shared daydream....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Venezuela's military enters high-crime slums
Friday - 05/17/2013 - 01:54 PMPETARE, Venezuela (AP) -- Stern-looking soldiers clutching assault rifles wave down the beat-up Chevy Caprice entering this sprawling slum on the outskirts of Caracas....
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- A look at why the Benghazi issue keeps coming back
Sunday - 05/19/2013 - 08:24 AMWASHINGTON (AP) -- The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months later, it is the decisions made back in Washington that remain murky and in perpetual dispute....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Denmark's de Forest wins Eurovision song contest
Saturday - 05/18/2013 - 09:46 PMMALMO, Sweden (AP) -- Denmark's Emmelie de Forest has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune "Only Teardrops," despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Orb trainer McGaughey fights nerves at Preakness
Saturday - 05/18/2013 - 05:06 PMBALTIMORE (AP) -- Early Saturday morning, Shug McGaughey was walking back and forth in front of the stakes barn at Pimlico....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Egyptians targeted with blasphemy charges
Saturday - 05/18/2013 - 09:34 AMCAIRO (AP) -- The pale, young Christian woman sat handcuffed in the courtroom, accused of insulting Islam while teaching history of religions to fourth-graders. A team of Islamist lawyers with long beards sang in unison, "All except the Prophet Muhammad."...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - SKorea says NKorea fires 3 short-range missiles
Saturday - 05/18/2013 - 05:38 AMSEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official said. It routinely tests such missiles, but the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at easing tensions....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Orb favored to take Preakness, set up Triple try
Saturday - 05/18/2013 - 03:12 AMBALTIMORE (AP) -- Orb is ready for his whirl at history....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ex-Groupon CEO working 9 to 5 on business album
Friday - 05/17/2013 - 07:32 PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason is diving into several new ventures, including indulging his inner rock star with an album of "motivational business music."...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What to watch for at the Preakness
Friday - 05/17/2013 - 05:27 PMBALTIMORE (AP) -- All eyes will be on Kentucky Derby winner Orb in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday. The 3-year-old colt will take on eight challengers in the second leg of the Triple Crown.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A year after IPO, Facebook aims to be ad colossus
Friday - 05/17/2013 - 04:02 PMNEW YORK (AP) -- It was supposed to be our IPO, the people's public offering....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The IRS and its tea party tempest
Friday - 05/17/2013 - 01:31 PMWASHINGTON (AP) -- The Internal Revenue Service is feeling the sort of heat that targeted taxpayers feel from the tax agency. It's the sense that a powerful someone is breathing down your neck....
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