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NBA player makes historic announcement

NBA player makes historic announcement


NBA player makes historic announcement

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 10:15 AM PDT

File photo of Washington Wizards' Jason Collins going to the basket against Chicago Bulls' Taj Gibson during the first half of their NBA basketball game in Chicago, IllinoisJason Collins shares his secret after the recent Supreme Court hearings.


Karzai’s ‘ghost money’—he warned us in 2008

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 09:17 AM PDT

Afghan President Karzai speaks during a news conference in KabulThat the CIA gave him millions is a weird blend of shocking and entirely unsurprising.


Explosion shakes Prague

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 02:31 AM PDT

Explosion shakes PragueParamedics help injured people after an explosion in downtown Prague, Czech Republic, Monday, April 29, 2013. Police said a powerful explosion has damaged a building in the center of the Czech capital and they believe some people are buried in the rubble. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Syrian prime minister survives Damascus bombing

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 09:08 AM PDT

Firefighters work at the site of an explosion at al-Mezze neighbourhood in DamascusSix others died in the rebel attack in the heart of President Bashar al-Assad's capital.


Mississippi man makes court appearance in ricin case

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 09:32 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday April 23, 2013 file photo, Everett Dutschke stands in the street near his home in Tupelo, Miss., and waits for the FBI to arrive and search his home. Dutschke, charged with making and possessing ricin as part of the investigation into poison-laced letters sent to President Barack Obama and others was expected to appear in court Monday April 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Thomas Wells, File) MANDATORY CREDITJames Everett Dutschke made poison sent to President Obama, authorities say.


Piece of 9/11 plane was from wing

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 09:31 AM PDT

Police cordon off possible 9/11 debris in New York CityAuthorities initially thought the 5-foot piece was landing gear from one of the jetliners.


Christie: Obama kept every Sandy promise

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 10:30 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2012 file photo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie gives 9-year-old Ginjer Doherty a pep talk outside the Port Monmouth fire station in Port Monmouth, N.J., where he visited residents and first responders a week after Superstorm Sandy devastated New Jersey. In an essay Ginjer recently had published in Time magazine she wrote, But the N.J. governor has had his political disagreements with the president.


Court: UK mother forced teen daughter to inseminate herself

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 09:26 AM PDT

By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - A mother who persuaded her adopted teenage daughter to become pregnant by artificial insemination because she wanted a baby for herself has been jailed for five years in Britain, in a case that raises concern over how easily donor sperm can be obtained. Previously secret court documents showed that the daughter, a virgin, was made to inseminate herself alone in her bedroom seven times over a two-year period starting in 2008 when she was 14, using syringes of semen bought online by the mother from sperm bank Cryos in Denmark. ...

Pa. abortion clinic no 'house of horrors,' says defense attorney

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 10:29 AM PDT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The description of a shuttered abortion clinic as a "house of horrors" is a "political press fabrication," a lawyer for a doctor charged with killing four babies allegedly born alive there said Monday.

High school student shoots himself in classroom

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 10:45 AM PDT

Police and firefighters gather outside LaSalle High School, Monday, April 29, 2013, in Cincinnati, after a high school student pulled out a gun and shot himself in a classroom. The Hamilton County sheriff's office says the youth was taken to a hospital with a self-inflicted wound. They say there apparently was no threat to other students at the private school. (AP Photo/Cincinnati Enquirer, Glenn Hartong)The youth is taken to a hospital, and there appeared to be no threat to other students.


Holocaust survivors, veterans gather at DC museum

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 06:50 AM PDT

Holocaust survivors, veterans gather at DC museumIt could be the last big reunion at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.


Supreme Court won't lift block on Alabama immigration law

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 08:14 AM PDT

People walk in front of the Supreme Court building in WashingtonThe law made it a crime to harbor illegal immigrants.


Israel lawmaker claims Hezbollah getting chemicals from Syria

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 06:08 AM PDT

The retired general also said he "has no doubt" that Assad has already used W.M.D.

'Misha', blamed for radicalizing Boston bomber, says he's innocent

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 04:25 AM PDT

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of the Boston bombing suspects, and the suspects' father Anzor Tsarnaev, speak at a news conference in Dagestan on April 25.Mikhail Allakhverdov says he's no Svengali.


Honda recalls almost 46,000 Fit cars in U.S., Canada

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 06:41 AM PDT

Honda Motor Co's logo is seen on company's Sports Modulo Fit concept vehicle at Tokyo Auto Salon 2009 in ChibaThe cars may tilt too far during sharp turns, possibly leading to loss of tire traction.


Hospitals see surge of superbug-fighting products

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 05:01 AM PDT

Germ-zapping 'robots': Hospitals combat superbugsSolutions include robots that emit ultraviolet light or hydrogen peroxide.


The good news from Afghanistan

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 04:16 AM PDT

JBD03. Jalalabad (Afghanistan), 28/04/2013.- An Afghan security official stands guard at a roadside check point after security was intensified following the announcement by Taliban militants that they were launching their spring offensive, in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, 28 April 2013. Taliban insurgents announced the launch of a new offensive as of 28 April, saying they would infiltrate Afghan and foreign forces and their bases 'in a systematic and coordinated manner'. The United Nations earlier this week said civilian casualties were up by nearly 30 per cent in the first three months of the year, compared to the same period in 2012. EFE/EPA/ABDUL MUEEDMaj. Gen. Robert B. Abrams says Afghans are rejecting the Taliban.


Preschools funding plummets

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 07:04 AM PDT

To match story USA-EDUCATION/HEADSTARTBy Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Enrollment in preschools stalled over the past year as states recovering from the recent recession struggle to fund early education for the nation's youngest students, researchers said. In a report to be released later on Monday, education experts pointed to a record drop in state funding to serve the nation's 3- and 4-year-olds, citing a drop of more than half a billion dollars in the 2011-2012 school year from the year before. Although a record high 1. ...


Court seeks 'Stand Your Ground' answer from Goerge Zimmerman

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 04:05 AM PDT

George Zimmerman arrives for a hearing in Seminole circuit court in SanfordProsecutors want details in the defense of the shooting of Trayvon Martin.


Ohio girl gets kidney donation from teacher

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 06:31 AM PDT

CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio girl is recovering after getting a critical kidney transplant — with the organ donated by her former kindergarten teacher.

No more survivors likely in Bangladesh tragedy

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 04:09 AM PDT

Women hold photographs of their missing relatives as they plead for help at the site where the garment factory building collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday April 28, 2013. At least 377 people are confirmed to have died in the Wednesday collapse of a shoddily-constructed building this week. The death toll is expected to rise but it is already the deadliest tragedy to hit Bangladesh's garment industry, which is worth $20 billion annually and is the mainstay of the economy.(AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)Rescue workers gave up hopes of finding anyone else alive in the rubble.


Tense Calif. town hunts man who killed girl, 8

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 07:12 AM PDT

Map locates Valley Springs, Ca.Officers urged residents of a small town in Northern California to keep their doors locked.


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