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Akin ignores deadline to drop Senate bid. Now what?
Court strikes down EPA rule on coal pollution
Friends tweet before dying in Md. train derailment
Americans tune out Afghan war as fighting rages on
Romney campaign accuses Obama of 'deceitful rhetoric'
Paterno 'despised' Sandusky long before scandal, book claims
Curiosity taking its first Martian drive on Wednesday
Photos: Artist turns marijuana smoke into works of art
Unheard Martin Luther King Jr. tape found in attic
Oversized blast at NYC subway site breaks windows
Diana Nyad pulled from the water, ending historic swim
‘Last Supper’ may include two da Vinci self-portraits
Young Republicans make ‘Call Me Maybe’ recruiting video
Would you pay $10 for a can of air from Paris?
Two-word error may cost Calif. town $548 million
Listen to radios? Watch TVs? Not for Class of '16
Kirk Cameron defends Akin: ‘I believe he’s a good man’ (VIDEO)
Woman found murdered two days after calling 911
Drought’s impact on food prices may worsen hunger in U.S.
Michael Moore, Oliver Stone pen op-ed supporting Assange
Huge wildfire burns to edge of 3 Calif. towns
Afghan militants hit top U.S. general's plane

Akin ignores deadline to drop Senate bid. Now what?

Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:57 PM PDT

Despite the pleadings of top Republicans, from Mitt Romney on down, to drop out of the Missouri Senate race, Rep. Todd Akin has held firm: He is staying in.

Court strikes down EPA rule on coal pollution

Posted: 21 Aug 2012 01:54 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday overturned a key Obama administration rule to reduce harmful emissions from coal-burning power plants, sparking a rally in coal company shares and relief among utility firms. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said in a 2-1 decision that the Environmental Protection Agency had exceeded its mandate with the rule, which was to limit sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from power plants in 28 mostly Eastern states and Texas. ...

Friends tweet before dying in Md. train derailment

Posted: 21 Aug 2012 04:38 PM PDT

They were seemingly ordinary tweets from two friends hanging out on a railroad bridge in their hometown, enjoying one last summer night together before heading back to college.

Americans tune out Afghan war as fighting rages on

Posted: 21 Aug 2012 12:40 PM PDT

It was once President Barack Obama's "war of necessity." Now, it's America's forgotten war.

Romney campaign accuses Obama of 'deceitful rhetoric'

Posted: 21 Aug 2012 08:58 AM PDT

Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades sent out a fundraising email Tuesday morning accusing President Obama of "deceitful rhetoric." "During a surprise media briefing yesterday – the first in eight weeks – he claimed that his campaign had never called Mitt Romney a criminal," Rhoades said....

Paterno 'despised' Sandusky long before scandal, book claims

Posted: 21 Aug 2012 12:12 PM PDT

Paterno's 'Dark Moments' After Sex Scandal Exposed in New Biography

Curiosity taking its first Martian drive on Wednesday

Posted: 21 Aug 2012 12:33 PM PDT

After more than two weeks of sitting still, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is finally set to roll out on the Red Planet with its debut drive on Wednesday (Aug. 22).

Photos: Artist turns marijuana smoke into works of art

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 04:53 PM PDT

Brazilian artist Fernando de la Rocque blows marijuana smoke onto a stencil overlaying paper to create his art at his studio in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday Aug. 20, 2012. Some of Rocque's pot-stained prints are being sold for $2,500 each. A show featuring the work opened last week at a small alternative gallery in the stylish Ipanema neighborhood. It takes him a week to complete a single print blowing about five joints' worth of smoke onto a paper daily. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Unheard Martin Luther King Jr. tape found in attic

Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:23 PM PDT

Stephon Tull was looking through dusty old boxes in his father's attic in Chattanooga a few months ago when he stumbled onto something startling: an audio reel labeled, "Dr. King interview, Dec. 21, 1960."

Oversized blast at NYC subway site breaks windows

Posted: 21 Aug 2012 11:01 AM PDT

Blasting at the construction site for a New York City subway line has shattered windows and sent smoke billowing up to the street.

Diana Nyad pulled from the water, ending historic swim

Posted: 21 Aug 2012 01:21 AM PDT

Nyad's lips and tongue became increasingly swollen overnight, puffing up because of salt water.

‘Last Supper’ may include two da Vinci self-portraits

Posted: 21 Aug 2012 01:14 PM PDT

Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" may include two self-portraits of the legendary Renaissance artist, according to a British art expert. Ross King says the nose, beards and hairstyles of two of the apostles standing to the right of Jesus in the portrait, Thomas and James the Lesser, match a portrait of Leonardo that was [...]

Young Republicans make ‘Call Me Maybe’ recruiting video

Posted: 21 Aug 2012 10:27 AM PDT

The Chicago Young Republicans made a "Call Me Maybe" parody to recruit volunteers for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. A sample: We'll give you pizza Plus some free beer Why are you waiting? Just get yourself here Before you start to give up We need you so bad We need you so bad We need you [...]

Would you pay $10 for a can of air from Paris?

Posted: 21 Aug 2012 01:12 PM PDT

Using what appears to be a business plan inspired by the movie "Spaceballs," Kirill Rudenko, a Prague-based photographer, is selling "canned air" from Paris, New York and other major cities for $9.99 a pop. The 3-and-a-half-inch cans--available through Rudenko's Etsy.com shop--come with wine-like labels that disclose the blend of concentrated air inside. The Paris air [...]

Two-word error may cost Calif. town $548 million

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Listen to radios? Watch TVs? Not for Class of '16

Posted: 21 Aug 2012 07:18 AM PDT

Remember when suitcases had to be carried instead of rolled? Or when an airline ticket was a booklet of pages separated by carbon paper? Maybe you remember when Lou Gehrig held the Major League record for consecutive baseball games played.

Kirk Cameron defends Akin: ‘I believe he’s a good man’ (VIDEO)

Posted: 21 Aug 2012 09:08 AM PDT

Rep. Akin can count Kirk Cameron as a supporter. Cameron, star of the popular '80s sitcom "Growing Pains" turned evangelical Christian, defended the embattled Missouri Congressman today.

Woman found murdered two days after calling 911

Posted: 21 Aug 2012 08:10 AM PDT

Police in Dallas are conducting an internal investigation after discovering that a 32-year-old woman who was found murdered on Sunday had called 911 two days before. The woman, Deanna (Cook) Patrick, was "found deceased in the bathtub of her residence," police said. Delvecchio Patrick, her 35-year-old ex-husband, was arrested and charged with murder. The department [...]

Drought’s impact on food prices may worsen hunger in U.S.

Posted: 21 Aug 2012 06:00 AM PDT

[Updated at 12:10 p.m. ET] More than 18 percent of Americans say there have been times this year when they couldn't afford the food they needed, according to a Gallup poll released on Tuesday. That plight could grow because of the country's worst drought in half a century. The U.S. Department of Agriculture warned last [...]

Michael Moore, Oliver Stone pen op-ed supporting Assange

Posted: 21 Aug 2012 06:58 AM PDT

Oliver Stone and Michael Moore, Academy Award-winning filmmakers and free speech activists, have penned an op-ed for the New York Times in support of the Ecuadorean government's decision to grant asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Huge wildfire burns to edge of 3 Calif. towns

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 07:48 PM PDT

A huge wildfire sparked by lightning in Northern California burned to the edge of three small towns Monday, threatening thousands of homes as fearful residents sought safety miles away at an emergency shelter.