Wire Stories

  • NY cashier, 91, punched trying to fend off thief on Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:33 AM PST
    A 91-year-old New York pharmacy cashier refused medical attention and went back to work after a thief punched her.
  • Is the new Atkins diet a protein overload? on Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:20 AM PST
    Who wouldn’t want to lose up to 15 pounds in two weeks?
  • Man says he was abused by nun on Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:10 AM PST
    A man says he was abused by a nun while a child — the first such accusation amid widening allegations of sexual misdeeds leveled against Austria's Roman Catholic church.
  • Al-Jazeera: Yemen seizes broadcast equipment on Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:04 AM PST
    Al-Jazeera television says Yemeni authorities confiscated broadcasting equipment from the station's San'a offices after complaining of its coverage of the country's restive southern region.
  • February video game sales drop 14 percent on Fri Mar 12, 2010 3:52 AM PST
    U.S. retail sales of video games declined 14 percent in February, hurt in part by an ongoing decline in sales of music games.
  • Experts say US doctors overtesting, overtreating on Fri Mar 12, 2010 2:31 AM PST
    Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggest that too many Americans — maybe even President Barack Obama — are being overtreated.
  • Suicide bombs kill 43, wound 100 in Pakistani city on Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:11 AM PST
    A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other Friday, killing at least 43 people in this eastern city and wounding about 100, police said. It was the fourth major attack in Pakistan this week, indicating Islamist militants are stepping up violence after a period of relative calm.

Vine Stories

  • 'Hated Israel will be annihalated' on Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:08 AM PST
    The Palestinians and the nations of the Middle East will be rid of a "bad omen" once Israel is annihilated, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday, in a speech communicated by Press TV.
  • Health Reform Myths on Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:40 AM PST
    Health reform is back from the dead. Many Democrats have realized that their electoral prospects will be better if they can point to a real accomplishment. Polling on reform — which was never as negative as portrayed — shows signs of improving.
  • Ex-Obama adviser: Democrats may get 'slaughtered' in fall - CNN#com on Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:18 AM PST
    Washington (CNN) -- Steve Hildebrand was one of the top advisers who helped put President Obama in office, but he has a stark warning for his old friends at the White House and on Capitol Hill. "I think that there is a real shot we [Democrats] are going to get slaughtered in ele …
  • Holder Did Not Disclose Briefs on 'Enemy Combatant' + Extremely serious matter Atty Gen on Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:04 AM PST
    Holder Did Not Disclose Briefs on 'Enemy Combatant'
  • New wave of foreclosures threatens market on Fri Mar 12, 2010 2:59 AM PST
    Swelling ranks of homeowners who are seriously delinquent but haven't yet lost their homes may soon lead to a new round of foreclosures.
  • 11 Siberian tigers starve to death in zoo on Fri Mar 12, 2010 2:27 AM PST
    Eleven Siberian tigers - among the world's rarest species - died of malnutrition after being kept in small cages and fed chicken bones at a cash-strapped zoo in China, state media said.
  • Republican: I paid $150,000 in hush money on Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:23 AM PST
    The majority leader of Utah's House of Representatives says that he paid a woman $150,000 to keep silent about going "hot-tubbing" with her when she was minor a quarter century ago.
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