Thursday, December 17, 2009

Chris Henry, dead at 26, could have been a role model (Yahoo! Sports)

Chris Henry, dead at 26, could have been a role model (Yahoo! Sports)


Chris Henry, dead at 26, could have been a role model (Yahoo! Sports)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 09:09 AM PST

Redemption stories are the best kind. If someone's failed, lost their way or made more mistakes than we deem...


Oscar winner Jennifer Jones dead at 90 (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 10:35 AM PST

AP - A publicist says Jennifer Jones, who was nominated for Academy Awards five times and won for her portrayal of a saintly nun in "The Song of Bernadette," has died at age 90.


Tiger Woods Divorce Update: Elin Wants Slow, Painful

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 07:53 AM PST

Tiger Woods divorce "100% on." We reported early Wednesday morning that the Tiger Woods divorce buzz was growing ever more credible. We've just learned more details, and let's put it this way: Elin Nordegren's getting her claws out.


GOP: Obama can't act on climate without Congress

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 10:35 AM PST

Republican lawmakers are telling President Obama that he needs Congress to deliver on any commitments he makes to reduce global ...


Twiggy's Photoshopped Olay ads banned in England

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 11:12 AM PST

Perhaps we should start calling 2009 the year of the airbrush. The latest Photoshop scandal involves not an emaciated model nor a


Robot records deepest erupting undersea volcano (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 12:00 PM PST

AP - Scientists have recorded the deepest erupting undersea volcano ever seen, capturing for the first time video of fiery molten lava bubbles exploding 4,000 feet beneath the Pacific Ocean.


WATCH: Wielding Gavel, Franken Shuts Lieberman Up

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 02:53 PM PST

Joe Lieberman may have been wondering if his colleagues' respect for him went out the same window that he tossed the public option and the Medicare buy-in compromise that was to replace it. He got an answer of sorts Thursday afternoon as he came to the end of a floor speech, and ran out of time. "I'm sorry. The senator has spoken for ten minutes," Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), as the chamber's presiding officer, told Lieberman. Customarily, senators ask unanimous consent for a bit more time, consent that is always given. "I wonder if i could ask unanimous consent for just an additional moment


Fla. man exonerated after 35 years behind bars (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 08:14 AM PST

AP - James Bain used a cell phone for the first time Thursday, calling his elderly mother to tell her he had been freed after 35 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit.


Monument lifted from Cleopatra's underwater city (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 06:07 AM PST

AP - Archaeologists on Thursday hoisted a 9-ton temple pylon from the waters of the Mediterranean that was part of the palace complex of the fabled Cleopatra before it became submerged for centuries in the harbor of Alexandria.


China tells U.S.: No deal

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 03:06 AM PST

Obama wanted deal before his Copenhagen arrival.


What were they thinking? Let's review

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 02:45 PM PST

Every decade has its mistakes, of course, but one nice thing about the past 10 years' foibles, foul-ups and flubs is that so often they came with neat, two-word monikers, almost like keepsakes: "Wardrobe malfunction."


Judge: Gangs more deadly than some Gitmo detainees (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 07:39 AM PST

AP - The chief judge of the federal court in Washington told lawyers Thursday that domestic street gangs are more deadly than some Guantanamo Bay detainees who could face trial in U.S. courts.


Senate panel clears Bernanke nomination (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 07:35 AM PST

AP - A Senate panel on Thursday approved the nomination of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to run the nation's central bank for another four years.


Iraq Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones For Under $26

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 02:43 AM PST

Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations. Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed insurgents intercepted the video feeds by taking advantage of an unprotected communications link in some of the remotely flown planes' systems. Shiite fighters in Iraq used software programs such as SkyGrabber -- available for as little as $25.95 on the Internet -- to regularly capture drone video feeds, according to a pers


Costco Protects Palin From Tomatoes By Taking Them Off Shelves

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 06:47 AM PST

Rappaport stopped at the Salt Lake City Costco to do some shopping, unaware that Palin was scheduled to be there for a book signing. [...] The clerk told her they had no tomatoes that day.


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