Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Weiner considering return from exile to run for NYC mayor

Weiner considering return from exile to run for NYC mayor

Reuters - ‎44 minutes ago‎
By Edith Honan. NEW YORK | Wed Apr 10, 2013 12:11pm EDT. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former U.S. Congressman Anthony Weiner, who resigned after tweeting lewd pictures of himself, is considering a run for New York City mayor, in what many see as wide ...

Hermit: 1000 burglaries by one guy in Maine?

Christian Science Monitor - ‎39 minutes ago‎
Authorities say a man who lived like a hermit for decades in the woods of central Maine and may be responsible for more than 1,000 burglaries has been captured.

MTV cancels 'Buckwild' in wake of Shain Gandee's death

Los Angeles Times - ‎35 minutes ago‎
A week after the death of "Buckwild"reality-TV star Shain Gandee, MTV has decided to cancel the series. Production on the show's second season was suspended after news broke last week that the 21-year-old had been found dead in his truck, along with his ...

Test-tube baby pioneer Sir Robert Edwards dies

BBC News - ‎1 hour ago‎
The world's first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, has led the tributes to the pioneer of IVF, who has died aged 87. Prof Sir Robert Edwards was knighted in 2011, five decades after he began experimenting with IVF.

Japan's capital living in shadow of North Korea's belligerence

CNN International - ‎7 hours ago‎
Tokyo (CNN) -- Two PAC 3 Patriot anti-missile batteries currently occupy what is normally a baseball pitch in the leafy grounds of Japan's Ministry of Defense.

Syrian Islamist group acknowledges ties to Al Qaeda

Los Angeles Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
BEIRUT - The leader of Al Nusra Front, militant Islamist fighters whose role in the Syria uprising has raised concerns in Washington, acknowledged Wednesday for the first time his group's affiliation with Al Qaeda and the extremist movement's Iraq affiliate.

The West's dilemma: Who is the official opposition in Syria?

Globe and Mail - ‎1 hour ago‎
Aron Lund is a Swedish researcher who writes on Syrian jihadists for the Swedish Institute for International Affairs. He is also one of the best-informed observers of the insurgency in Syria.

Malaysia Chooses May 5th for Election Day

Wall Street Journal - ‎1 hour ago‎
KUALA LUMPUR—Malaysia set May 5 to hold what could be its closest general elections ever, pitting the National Front coalition and its decades-long rule amid strong economic growth against the opposition and its pledge to boost living standards and ...

Military Tightens Media Rules in Case of Private Who Leaked Files

New York Times
16 minutes ago

Written by
Charlie Savage

FORT MEADE, Md. - The military on Wednesday tightened rules on reporters covering the court-martial proceedings against Pfc. Bradley Manning because of a bootleg recording of him speaking at a pretrial hearing in February that surfaced online.

6-year-old New Jersey boy dies after being shot in head by playmate

Los Angeles Times - ‎2 hours ago‎
A 6-year-old boy shot in the head by his 4-year-old playmate died of his wounds as investigators in a New Jersey town tried to determine how the younger boy got hold of a loaded .22-caliber rifle and whether charges would be filed.

NY man charged with killing woman, raping her 10-year-old daughter faces trial ...

Fox News - ‎50 minutes ago‎
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A New York man charged with killing a woman and raping her 10-year-old daughter during a carjacking last month is scheduled to stand trial in June on child pornography charges.

Entitlement Proposals Hit Social Security, Medicare

Wall Street Journal - ‎1 hour ago‎
President Barack Obama's proposed changes to entitlement programs to curb federal spending already have sparked opposition from seniors and liberal groups, but they may still fall short of cuts sought by Republicans for any bipartisan agreement on deficit ...

With Dow and S&P closing in on record highs, global markets rally after Fed ...

Washington Post - ‎23 minutes ago‎
LONDON - Stock markets rallied on Wednesday, pushing the Standard & Poor's 500 to a record high, after the release of the minutes to the last policy meeting of the U.S.

S&P sets new milestone, led by tech and financials

Reuters - ‎9 minutes ago‎
By Angela Moon. NEW YORK | Wed Apr 10, 2013 12:47pm EDT. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 climbing to a new all-time intraday record as investors scooped up technology and financial shares that recently lagged ...

Economists React: Surprise Chinese Trade Deficit

Wall Street Journal - ‎1 hour ago‎
China posted an unexpected trade deficit of $884 million in March as imports surged by more than 14% following the Lunar New Year holiday.

Horsemeat scandal: Dutch uncover large-scale meat fraud

BBC News - ‎32 minutes ago‎
Some 50,000 tonnes of meat supplied by two Dutch trading companies and sold as beef across Europe since January 2011 may have contained horsemeat.

Dropbox rebrands to promote its new business-friendly features

VentureBeat
15 minutes ago

Written by
Christina Farr

In February, we reported that Dropbox was snapping up large corporate accounts, and had released some new security controls. Since then, the cloud storage company has received innumerable requests from IT admins for an integration with Active Directory ...

Google building tower of Babel to meld messaging tools

Ars Technica
28 minutes ago

Written by
Sean Gallagher

As Google's I/O developer event approaches, details about a new unified messaging service linking all of Google's platforms have been emerging through internal developer conversations, brief glimpses behind the curtain provided by error messages, and ...

How Apple's App Store crackdown could hurt mobile game discovery

NBCNews.com - ‎16 minutes ago‎
Earlier this week in a peculiar sudden change of direction, Apple removed the app-discovery application AppGratis from the iTunes App Store —l eaving AppGratis CEO Simon Dawlat "in total disbelief," seeing as the tech giant had approved an iPad version ...

Kate Upton dating Diddy? Diddyup!

USA TODAY
18 minutes ago

Written by
Ann Oldenburg

Diddyup! Kate Upton on Feb. 12 in New York City. (Photo: Gilbert Carrasquillo, FilmMagic). A "hot couple alert" may be in order.

Taymor settles 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark' suit

New York Daily News - ‎29 minutes ago‎
The intense tangle of litigation between director Julie Taymor and the producers of Broadway's “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” has been settled, the parties announced Wednesday.

Justin Timberlake Gets Obamas Singing Along During White House Performance

MTV.com - ‎1 hour ago‎
While the singer donned his signature suit and tie, his White House performance was a pretty casual affair. By Emily Blake. Over the past few months, it seems Justin Timberlake wouldn't be caught dead in an unpressed suit or tousled hairdo.

Lindsay Lohan makes rehab arrangements in New York, sources say

Los Angeles Times
51 minutes ago

Written by
richard winton

Law enforcement sources said Wednesday Lindsay Lohan has made arrangmeent to enter a rehab in New York state in May. Lohan's legal team is not disclosing the details, but during a late-night appearance with David Letterman during an appearance on ...

Richard Sherman: 'About half the league' uses Adderall

NFL News - ‎4 hours ago‎
The attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medication Adderall has become the excuse du jour for players testing positive for a banned substance in the NFL.

Suns' O'Neal goaltends winning trey

FOXSports.com - ‎38 minutes ago‎
It's not often you see a game-winning goaltending call. How about one on a 3-pointer!?! Cue up the atrocious Suns. With the score tied Tuesday night, Rockets star James Harden heaved a 3-pointer as time expired.

Kobe Bryant makes Lakers give it to Pau Gasol

Los Angeles Times - ‎2 hours ago‎
During a timeout in Tuesday's game against New Orleans, Kobe Bryant had a talk with Pau Gasol. "I basically told him, dude, especially when I'm not in the game, you just gotta go to the block and not move," Bryant recalled.

How a Leafy Folk Remedy Stopped Bedbugs in Their Tracks

New York Times - ‎17 hours ago‎
Generations of Eastern European housewives doing battle against bedbugs spread bean leaves around the floor of an infested room at night.

'Dark Lightning' Zaps Airline Passengers with Radiation

LiveScience.com - ‎4 hours ago‎
"Dark lightning" that is almost invisible within clouds may regularly blast airline passengers with large numbers of gamma rays, scientists find.

Health budget raises spending for reform, mental health

Reuters - ‎19 minutes ago‎
WASHINGTON | Wed Apr 10, 2013 12:37pm EDT. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's proposed 2014 budget includes an increase of $3.9 billion to support the administration's healthcare overhaul, and cuts programs such as immunizations ...

Alzheimer's gene ABCA7 linked to increased disease risk in African-Americans

CBS News - ‎19 minutes ago‎
A new study has revealed that a gene that was once thought to be weakly associated with Alzheimer's disease risk in white people may almost double the risk of developing the debilitating neurological disease when it's present in African-Americans.

Stephen Hawking talks about unified theory and his biggest 'blunder'

Los Angeles Times - ‎3 hours ago‎
Humans are on the cusp of discovering how the universe works on its biggest and smallest scales, Stephen Hawking said during a lecture Tuesday in Los Angeles.