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• Is Germany's debt crisis immunity fading away?
• Clinton: I'm ‘very sorry’ for tax cut comments
• Captured soldier's controversial emails published
• Obama campaign chief: ‘We got beat,’ so ‘let’s ‘fight like hell’
• 'Failure': Romney slams Obama on economy
• Millions in U.S. gear wasted in Pakistan
• White House: ‘No’ to independent probe of leaks
• Y! Big Story: Facebook slap
• 97-year-old gets high school diploma
• Screenwriter exposes past sex abuse at elite NYC prep school
• Obama targets Congress in new jobs ad airing in swing states
• World War I veteran’s missing medal turns up on eBay
• 'Vampire' graves unearthed near Black Sea town
• Students petition for female moderator at 2012 presidential debates
• Feds plan to chop down Idaho man’s $14,000 treehouse
• Veteran’s letters make it home 43 years after his death
• ‘Slutty Wednesday’: NY high school students protest dress code
• Artist sculpts Mark Zuckerberg’s face out of books
• Sidewalk tile converts dance moves into electricity
• Man calls police on ‘cougar’; turns out to be house cat

Is Germany's debt crisis immunity fading away? Posted: 07 Jun 2012 02:14 PM PDT What's to become of Europe? As Spain's straits become newly dire and the whole euro zone convulses over its debt crisis, the common prayer is that Germany will rise up, reject outside help and protect the European household.

Clinton: I'm ‘very sorry’ for tax cut comments Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:12 PM PDT Former President Bill Clinton apologized on Thursday for making comments this week that appeared to be at odds with President Barack Obama's position on extending the Bush tax cuts. "I'm very sorry about what happened," Clinton said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "I thought something had to be done on the 'fiscal cliff' [...]

Captured soldier's controversial emails published Posted: 07 Jun 2012 01:00 PM PDT Rolling Stone published on Thursday a story—"America's Last Prisoner of War"—about Bowe Bergdahl, a 26-year-old U.S. soldier from Idaho captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2009. The 8,000-plus word piece—written by Michael Hastings, whose "Runaway General" profile in 2010 led to the dismissal of U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal—includes excerpts of the last email Bergdahl [...]

Obama campaign chief: ‘We got beat,’ so ‘let’s ‘fight like hell’ Posted: 07 Jun 2012 02:42 PM PDT President Barack Obama's reelection campaign manager bluntly urged the incumbent's supporters to "fight like hell and win this thing" after Mitt Romney out-fundraised the president in May. "For the first time in this campaign, we got beat in fundraising," Jim Messina said in an email to Obama supporters, urging them to open their wallets after Romney [...]

'Failure': Romney slams Obama on economy Posted: 07 Jun 2012 11:51 AM PDT Mitt Romney called President Barack Obama's handling of the economy a "moral failure of tragic proportions," suggesting he's failed the American people by enacting policies that have been "muddled, confused and simply ineffective." Speaking at a campaign event in St. Louis, the Republican nominee said it is "painfully obvious" that Obama was "inexperienced" and "simply [...]

Millions in U.S. gear wasted in Pakistan Posted: 07 Jun 2012 08:25 AM PDT Millions of dollars of U.S. gear meant to combat the threat of roadside bombs is being wasted in Pakistan which refuses to let the equipment leave its customs warehouses.

White House: ‘No’ to independent probe of leaks Posted: 07 Jun 2012 01:04 PM PDT President Barack Obama opposes the appointment of a special counsel to investigate whether vital national security secrets were improperly disclosed in a wave of news reports detailing sensitive operations, the White House said Thursday. "No," press secretary Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One when asked whether Obama would support such a move. Carney [...]

Y! Big Story: Facebook slap Posted: 07 Jun 2012 01:55 PM PDT As if the IPO fumble and lawsuit pile-on weren't a couple black eyes for Facebook, now comes an insult even more wounding: People are just bored with the social network. A Reuters/Ipsos poll counted 34% of its users slacking off, compared with six months ago. The most frequent Facebook users are aged 18 to 34, [...]

97-year-old gets high school diploma Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:05 PM PDT Here's one graduate who may feel a little more senior than most: Ann Colagiovanni, 97 years old, is finally receiving her high school diploma. The Depression-era student quit school at the age of 17, back in 1930s, to work in her father's market. The Ohio resident never returned to finish her education but instead became [...]

Screenwriter exposes past sex abuse at elite NYC prep school Posted: 07 Jun 2012 09:45 AM PDT In a riveting story in this week's New York Times Magazine, screenwriter Amos Kamil exposes disturbing stories of sexual abuse at one of New York City's most prestigious prep schools in the 1970s, '80s and '90s. Kamil, who attended Horace Mann 30 years ago, reveals the stories of unnamed former classmates who say they were abused [...]

Obama targets Congress in new jobs ad airing in swing states Posted: 07 Jun 2012 08:39 AM PDT One week after a grim jobs report, President Barack Obama on Thursday unleashed a new campaign ad meant to pressure Congress to pass his stalled plan to battle historically high unemployment—his biggest political vulnerability. "We're still fighting our way back from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression," Obama says. "Our businesses have created [...]

World War I veteran’s missing medal turns up on eBay Posted: 07 Jun 2012 11:21 AM PDT The grandson of a decorated World War I veteran had searched in vain for years for his late grandfather's missing war medals. One of them finally turned up, a Victory Medal being auctioned for less than $2 on eBay. "I sent a message to the seller straight away. I suppose I should have bid for [...]

'Vampire' graves unearthed near Black Sea town Posted: 07 Jun 2012 01:07 PM PDT Sokopol, Bulgaria, could soon join the ranks of popular vampire sites, such as Dracula's Castle in Romania and the Vampire Museum in Paris. Archaeologists excavated two  suspected "vampire"  graves  in the Black Sea town last Sunday, and each 700-year-old skeleton had an iron rod pinned into its...

Students petition for female moderator at 2012 presidential debates Posted: 07 Jun 2012 08:39 AM PDT It's been 20 years since a woman moderated a presidential debate, but three New Jersey high school students are hoping to change that this year. Emma Axelrod, Sammi Siegel and Elena Tsemberis, high school sophomores from Montclair, N.J., have launched a petition on Change.org calling for the Commission on Presidential Debates to select a female [...]

Feds plan to chop down Idaho man’s $14,000 treehouse Posted: 07 Jun 2012 01:12 PM PDT Tremain Albright has spent more than $14,000 building and renovating a treehouse along the Kootenai River in Bonners Ferry, Idaho. But the Army Corps of Engineers says the house must be torn down or the city could lose more than $128,000 in federal funding. KTVB reports that the Army Corps of Engineers says the house [...]

Veteran’s letters make it home 43 years after his death Posted: 07 Jun 2012 09:21 AM PDT When 22-year-old Army Sgt. Steve Flaherty of Columbia, South Carolina, was killed in the Vietnam War in 1969, his body was recovered, but not before the North Vietnamese government confiscated letters he had written to his family but hadn't yet sent. Now, 43 years after his death, the letters have finally made it home. Some [...]

‘Slutty Wednesday’: NY high school students protest dress code Posted: 07 Jun 2012 09:44 AM PDT Stuyvesant High School is considered one of New York City's top public high schools, but some of the students there think a recently imposed dress code is just dumb. The New York Post reports that about 100 students decided to protest the code, which bans girls from exposing their shoulders, midriffs, lower backs, bras and [...]

Artist sculpts Mark Zuckerberg’s face out of books Posted: 07 Jun 2012 10:04 AM PDT Yi Hong — the Malaysian artist who can paint using nothing but a coffee cup — proved she's as pun-loving as she is creative by sculpting Mark Zuckerberg's face out of books. (Get it?) Hong, who lives in China, spent time in the … Continue reading →

Sidewalk tile converts dance moves into electricity Posted: 07 Jun 2012 12:53 PM PDT A lot of attention is given to how much energy humans consume, but this week we're looking at the energy humans create, and some of the innovations that are taking place to capture that energy. There's a harmless virus, yes a virus, that's been created by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that generates energy when [...]

Man calls police on ‘cougar’; turns out to be house cat Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:53 PM PDT Police in Salem, Oregon, responded to a call about a cougar invading a man's backyard. A neighbor who spotted the beast estimated it weighed 45 to 55 pounds. Police were quick to respond, as even a young cougar, or mountain lion, could pose a serious risk, were it to attack. However, after reviewing pictures of [...]

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