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Sarah Palin posts controversial home photo

Sarah Palin posts controversial home photo


Sarah Palin posts controversial home photo

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 10:05 AM PST

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin waves as she departs the stage after remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Oxon Hill, MarylandThe images involve her son Trig, and have outraged some animal lovers.


Mario Cuomo remembered by friends, former rivals

Posted: 01 Jan 2015 05:06 PM PST

In this Oct. 18, 2011 file photo, former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo speaks from the podium at the Game Changers Awards at Skylight Soho in New York. Officials say New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, has been hospitalized. The governor's office says Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014, the elder Cuomo is being treated for a heart condition. A gubernatorial spokeswoman says the 82-year-old former three-term governor is in good spirts and is thankful for the best wishes and support he's received. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)Many are commenting on the recently deceased former governor of New York.


More bad news for Uber

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 09:20 AM PST

Uber offers tips for not getting sexually assaulted by its driversBy Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - A federal judge rejected Uber Technologies Inc's bid not to disclose emails from Chief Executive Travis Kalanick in a California lawsuit accusing the popular ride-booking service of deceiving customers about how it shares tips with drivers. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen's ruling in San Francisco was the latest setback for Uber, which has drawn criticism around the globe over whether its service complies with local licensing and safety laws and whether its drivers have been adequately vetted. Chen said a Nov. ...


Is Jim Webb for real?

Posted: 01 Jan 2015 10:46 AM PST

"I'm not running against Hillary Clinton," Jim Webb told me this week, when I tried to draw him out on the presumed Democratic front-runner. "I'm not even running at the moment, and she isn't, either." That's all technically true, but Webb's recent announcement that he was taking the first official step toward a 2016 presidential bid nonetheless set off a round of commentary about the contrast between him and his former Senate colleague.

Reid suffers broken ribs, bones in accident

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 08:10 AM PST

Senate Majority Leader Harry ReidWASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid broke several ribs and facial bones when a piece of exercise equipment snapped at his Nevada home Thursday, causing the lawmaker to fall.


Some AirAsia victims found belted in seats

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 07:19 AM PST

Indonesia soldiers carry coffins containing bodies of the victims of AirAsia Flight 8501 to be airlifted to Surabaya, at the main hospital in Pangkalan Bun, Indonesia, Friday, Jan. 2, 2015. The investigation into the AirAsia crash has turned to the ocean floor, with more sonar equipment and metal detectors deployed today to scour the seabed for wreckage, including the plane's black boxes. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (AP) — After nearly a week of searching for the victims of AirAsia Flight 8501, rescue teams battling monsoon rains had their most successful day yet on Friday, more than tripling the number of bodies pulled from the Java Sea, some still strapped to their seats.


Senate majority leader hospitalized after exercise accident

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 09:24 AM PST

Senate Majority Leader Reid speaks to reporters on upcoming budget battle in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid broke ribs and facial bones when a piece of exercise equipment malfunctioned during a workout at his Henderson, Nevada, home, his office said in a statement on Friday. Reid, a Democrat, was taken to a hospital in Henderson by his security detail for treatment after being injured on Thursday. He was later transferred to the University Medical Center in nearby Las Vegas for further testing and kept overnight as a precaution. ...


Fifth suspect charged in alleged assault on New York police at protest

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 09:23 AM PST

By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - A fifth person has been charged in connection with assaulting two New York City police lieutenants during a political demonstration on the Brooklyn Bridge last month, officials said on Friday. Police are searching for the remaining two suspects in the Dec. 13 attack during the height of demonstrations over decisions by grand juries to return no charges against white police officers in the killings of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City. ...

Texas father, son kill NC couple, wound officers in crime spree

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 07:58 AM PST

Eric Campbell is pictured in this undated handout booking photoBy Kara Van Pelt BECKLEY, W. Va. (Reuters) - A Texas father and son on a multi-state crime spree killed a husband and wife in North Carolina, set their home on fire, stole their truck and then shot two police officers in West Virginia, authorities said on Friday. Police arrested the men in West Virginia on Thursday after a shootout in which the officers were slightly wounded. West Virginia State Police identified the suspects as Edward Campbell, 54, and Eric Campbell, 21, of Indian Acres, Texas. ...


'A living hell' for slaves on remote South Korean islands

Posted: 01 Jan 2015 09:52 PM PST

In this Feb. 19, 2014, a salt farm owner walks around his salt farm on Sinui Island, South Korea. Slavery thrives on this chain of rural islands off South Korea's rugged southwest coast, nurtured by a long history of exploitation and the demands of trying to squeeze a living from the sea. Five times during the last decade, revelations of slavery involving the disabled have emerged, each time generating national shame and outrage.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)SINUI ISLAND, South Korea (AP) — He ran the first chance he got.


Greece, Italy vary wildly on ferry missing numbers

Posted: 01 Jan 2015 10:14 AM PST

An injured passenger is being eased to a stretcher as she and some 40 of the survivors of the Norman Atlantic ferry fire, finally stepped ashore, in the port of Taranto, Italy, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2014. They arrived by one of the cargo ships that took aboard passengers from the flaming, smoke-shrouded ferry in the first hours after the blaze down in the car deck sent people, shaken out of their sleep, to scrambling for their lives and take shelter -- in freezing cold, pelted by rain and buffeted by gale-force wind on the top, uncovered deck. (AP Photo/Cosimo Calabrese)BRINDISI, Italy (AP) — Greece and Italy have issued widely different figures for how many people are still not accounted for in the ferry fire that killed at least 11 people in the Adriatic Sea.


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