| Rush Limbaugh felt pains similar to heart attack (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2009 07:11 PM PST  AP - Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh remained hospitalized in Hawaii Thursday after experiencing chest pains similar to a heart attack, according to the guest host on his nationally syndicated radio show.
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| Blue moon on New Year's Eve: Satanic or benign? Posted: 30 Dec 2009 09:24 PM PST ![]() Tonight's blue moon might not be the auspicious start to a new decade that people hope it is.
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| Kristen Stewart's Avatar: Sassy and Fun Posted: 31 Dec 2009 10:53 AM PST  Over the holidays, we wanted to take a break from all our running around and decided to have some fun playing with our avatars. What we came up with? Celebrity look-a-likes! Today, Twilight's Kristen Stewart!
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| Obama to get report on intelligence breakdown Posted: 30 Dec 2009 09:12 PM PST ![]() President Obama will receive a report Thursday detailing how some government agencies failed to share or highlight potentially relevant information about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab before he allegedly tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, while others were insufficiently...
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| FCC urges Fox, Time Warner Cable to settle (AP) Posted: 31 Dec 2009 01:47 PM PST ![]() The nation's top broadcast regulator is urging Time Warner Cable and Fox to agree to a temporary deal to keep football games on cable TV through the New Year's long weekend.
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| Former Gitmo detainees help al-Qaeda in Yemen Posted: 31 Dec 2009 11:35 AM PST ![]() As a prisoner at Guantanamo, Said Ali al-Shihri said he wanted freedom so he could go home to Saudi Arabia and work at his family's ...
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| AT&T is latest to end Tiger Woods sponsorship Posted: 31 Dec 2009 07:58 AM PST ![]() AT&T Inc. said Thursday it would no longer sponsor Tiger Woods, joining Accenture in dropping support for the world's top golfer, who's taking a break from the sport to focus on his marriage after his admitted infidelity. The phone company hasn't used Woods' image extensively in advertising, but its logo appeared on his golf bag.
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| TYLENOL Recall Confirms Congress, FDA Must Regulate Wood Pallets to Prevent Threats to U.S. Food, Drug Supply (PR Newswire) Posted: 31 Dec 2009 06:11 AM PST ![]() The expanded recall of TYLENOL Arthritis pain reliever is fresh evidence of the need for Congress and the FDA to regulate wood pallets used to transport food and pharmaceuticals in the United States because of the dangers they pose to human health.
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| Pakistan to seek terror charges against Americans (AP) Posted: 31 Dec 2009 08:07 AM PST  AP - Pakistani police said Thursday they plan to ask a court to charge five Americans arrested in early December with terrorism, and will seek life sentences against them.
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| Blackwater guards go free on a technicality Posted: 31 Dec 2009 01:53 PM PST ![]() Here's what we know about the incident in Nisoor Square, Baghdad, Iraq in September 2007: Some Blackwater guards pulled up in vehicles, claimed they were shot at, started shooting back, and 14 people were killed. One of the guards, Jeremy P. Ridgeway, pleaded guilty to the charges, and was expected to testify against his former co-workers. But now because a federal judge didn't like how some of the key evidence against the guards was collected, the other 5 charged in the slaughter are free of prosecution, and the case has been thrown out: In a 90-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Ricardo M.
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| 20 million-plus collect unemployment checks in '09 (AP) Posted: 31 Dec 2009 06:00 AM PST  AP - A record 20 million-plus people collected unemployment benefits at some point in 2009, a year that ended with the jobless rate at 10 percent.
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| Colorado's minimum wage becomes 1st in US to drop (AP) Posted: 31 Dec 2009 10:31 AM PST ![]() AP - Colorado's minimum wage will drop slightly in the new year — the first decrease in any state's minimum wage since the federal minimum was adopted in 1938.
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| Fla. jail fires officer for being KKK member Posted: 31 Dec 2009 06:00 AM PST ![]() An internal affairs report by the Alachua (ah-LAH-chu-AH) County Sheriff's Office says Detention Officer Wayne Kerschner defended the KKK as a faith-based organization.
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| AP sources: Suicide bomber invited on base (AP) Posted: 31 Dec 2009 09:19 AM PST  AP - The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees at a remote outpost in southeastern Afghanistan had been invited onto the base and had not been searched, two former U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Thursday
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| AP Interview: Shah's son wants UN probe in Iran (AP) Posted: 31 Dec 2009 05:00 AM PST  AP - The son of the deposed shah of Iran urged nations worldwide on Thursday to withdraw their ambassadors from Tehran to protest a relentless government crackdown on opposition demonstrators that resulted in at least eight deaths this week alone.
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