7 killed in separate northeast Nigeria attacks
Add Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker to the long list of political stand-ins for both President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney who've veered wildly off message in a presidential contest notable for its... Add Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker to the long list of political stand-ins for both President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney ... (more) Read more...
US News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 6:17pm
Magic fire coach Stan Van Gundy; GM also gone
This May 8, 2012 file photo shows Orlando Magic head coach Stan Van Gundy calling a play in the second half of the Game 5 of an NBA first round basketball series against the Indiana Pacers, in Indianapolis. Read more...
Sports - Topix.net, Yesterday, 5:14pm
Prosecutor launches new Strauss-Kahn rape probe
President Barack Obama will speak at the commencement ceremony Monday for graduating seniors whose town was devastated by deadly tornados. Read more...
World News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 4:29pm
Ore. track coach takes student to prom, loses job
The daughter-in-law of Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman has been dismissed as a volunteer track coach at a small Eastern Oregon high school because she escorted a 17-year-old boy to last month's prom. Read more...
Sports - Topix.net, Yesterday, 4:14pm
NAACP chief: Marriage equality is a civil right
NAACP President Benjamin Jealous said Monday he hopes the group's resolution supporting same-sex marriage will encourage blacks to support marriage equality as a civil right if the question is put to voters on the ballot in Maryland or other states. Read more...
US News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 4:12pm
Catholics sue Obama over birth control mandate
The Archdiocese of New York, lead by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, was among several Catholic organizations to file a lawsuit against the Obama adminitration over the birth control mandate. Read more...
US News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 3:07pm
THE RACE: Obama and Romney fight over budget goals
The presidential race is shaping up as a battle between Republican calls for more government austerity and Democratic appeals for more spending to promote jobs and growth with tax hikes on high-income earners. It mirrors a fight raging in Europe. Read more...
US News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 2:00pm
Late Cardinal Bevilacqua is ghost in Philly courtroom at church cover-up trial of his aide
Cardinal ordered two confidantes to destroy a 1994 list...list warned the cardinal they had three diagnosed pedophiles, a dozen confirmed predators and at least 20 more possible abusers in their midst. Bevilacqua died days before damning evidence was found at the Philadelphia archdiocese he led, and weeks before his top aide went on trial on child-endangerment charges. Read more...
US News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 1:57pm
Mastering the Metro " Next American City"
Go big or go home In his 2012 TED talk, venture capitalist and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman extolled the power of "network literacy" which is, he said, "absolutely critical to how we'll navigate the world." He continued, "In a networked age, identity is not so simply determined. Your identity is actually multivariate, distributed and partly out of your control. Who you know shapes who you are." Read more...
US News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 1:01pm
Head of US nuclear safety agency to step down
In this Dec. 15, 2011 file photo, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington. Read more...
US News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 12:57pm
Court won't reduce student's music download fine
In this March 28, 2012 file photo, the Supreme Court is seen in Washington. The Supreme Court won't reduce the $675,000 verdict against a Boston University student who illegally downloaded 30 songs and shared them on the Internet. Read more...
US News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 12:57pm
$1M bond for Ohio woman charged in odd stabbing
The Supreme Court says interpretation and translation are not the same thing when it comes to paying fees associated with federal civil lawsuits. Read more...
World News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 12:19pm
Phoenix avoids sweep against Kings
Shane Doan scored two goals, Mike Smith recorded his third career postseason shutout with a virtuoso 36-save performance and the Phoenix Coyotes staved off elimination. Read more...
Sports - Topix.net, Yesterday, 12:15pm
Supreme Court considers whether to take up anti-terrorism laws
The Supreme Court, after a four-year break from terrorism issues, is set to decide as soon as Monday whether to again take up constitutional challenges to George W. Bush-era anti-terrorism laws involving wiretapping and the Guantanamo prisoners. Read more...
US News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 11:28am
Go Small: Why Washington Must Give Up the Illusion of a Grand Bargain
Washington needs to stop searching for a grand bargain and start working on politically viable steps that do not require the hammer of imagined fiscal meltdown to motivate action. Read more...
US News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 11:27am
Why there's reason to be concerned about the dual-class structure of Facebook's I.P.O.
Unequal Shares A couple of weeks ago, when Mark Zuckerberg wore his trademark hoodie to meetings with potential investors in Facebook's I.P.O., not everyone was impressed. Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Securities, said that it was a "mark of immaturity" and Zuckerberg's way of "showing investors that he doesn't care that much." Read more...
US News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 11:26am
Richard Carmona and Arizona after S.B. 1070.
Raging Arizona How a border state became a battleground POLITICS about Arizona's immigration law, S.B. 1070, and Democrat Richard Carmona's campaign for Jon Kyl's Senate seat. When Carmona talks to voters in Arizona, he likes to tell them that their state-his state-has a lousy reputation. Luckily, Carmona says, voters have a chance to help their state change its reputation: they can send him to Washington in November, to replace Kyl, who is retiring. Carmona would be the first Democratic senator from Arizona since 1995, and the first Latino senator in the state's hundred-year history. Read more...
US News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 11:22am
How valuable is a college degree?
The Cost of CollegeIt was satisfying to watch the two Presidential candidates find their ways to absolutely opposed positions on gay marriage. Elections are supposed to present us with clear choices like that, but they usually don't. Just two weeks earlier, on an issue that affects many more people, Barack Obama had taken a stand that he evidently thought would also showcase a sharp contrast between him and Mitt Romney. A temporary reduction in an interest rate that makes some federal student loans more affordable is due to expire on July 1st, and Obama called for its extension. Read more...
US News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 11:19am
Study: 2,000 Convicted, Then Exonerated in 23 Years
More than 2,000 people who were falsely convicted of serious crimes have been exonerated in the United States in the past 23 years, according to a new archive compiled at two universities. Read more...
US News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 11:12am
Former Sri Lanka army chief freed from prison
Sri Lanka's former army chief, who was imprisoned after losing an election to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, was released from prison Monday to thousands of cheering supporters.As firecrackers erupted in the background, Sarath Fonseka promised to carry on with his challenge to the government."I will sacrifice my life to serve the people of this ... (more) Read more...
US News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 10:52am
Harbor Patrol Finds Nearly 8,000 Pounds Of Marijuana Floating In Ocean
Harbor Patrol agents started receiving calls just after noon Sunday about large bails of marijuana floating off the coast of Dana Point. Read more...
US News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 9:58am
Alberto begins to move away from the United States
As of Monday morning, Tropical Storm Alberto is now moving south-southeast and will eventually accelerate toward the northeast away from the United States over the next day or so. Read more...
US News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 9:53am
Medical examiner's report says Fla. mother shot her 4 children 18 times before killing herself
A Florida mother who killed her four children fired a revolver against the chest of at least two of them, shooting 18 rounds before turning the gun on herself, according to a medical examiner's report. Read more...
US News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 9:52am
Booker strays from Obama campaign message
Newark Mayor Cory Booker is ordinarily one of the Obama campaign's most visible supporters from New Jersey. But on national television yesterday, Booker went off-message to say he was nauseated by Obama campaign ads criticizing Mitt Romney's record at private equity firm Bain Capital, just as he was sickened by the Romney camp's association of Obama with his former pastor. Read more...
US News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 9:48am
Mixed reviews for Romney's leadership on fatal Big Dig ceiling collapse as governor
"If there's glory to be gained in handling a crisis, count on Gov. Mitt Romney to show up in person to grab it. If there is blame to be swallowed, well, isn't that what subordinates are for?" Mitt Romney was at his New Hampshire vacation home on a summer night in 2006 when 26 tons of concrete ceiling panels in one of Boston's Big Dig highway tunnels collapsed, crushing a car and killing a female passenger. Read more...
US News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 9:37am
Suicide bomber kills 38 Yemeni soldiers in Sanaa
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is keeping up its effort to paint Mitt Romney as a job-destroying corporate raider at Bain Capital. Read more...
World News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 8:20am
I'll Have Another set to go for Triple Crown at Belmont Stakes
Yes, I'll Have Another came out of his thrilling Preakness win over Bodemeister in "super shape," trainer Doug O'Neill said Sunday, and now comes New York for a Triple Crown try in the Belmont Stakes on June 9. "Bring it on! We're ready to go. Read more...
Sports - Topix.net, Yesterday, 8:05am
Prosecutor launches new Strauss-Kahn rape probe
Yahoo Inc. may finally be nearing a deal to sell a part of its prized stake in the major Chinese e-commerce provider Alibaba. Read more...
US News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 6:48am
In Joplin, a senior year to remember after tornado
It was a label they sought both to embrace and avoid, a refrain overheard in whispers or uttered bluntly at soccer games, summer camps and national academic competitions: Here come the tornado kids from Joplin.For the 428 members of Joplin High School's Class of 2012, Monday night's graduation- featuring a commencement speech by President Barack ... (more) Read more...
US News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 4:43am
USDA lifts mad cow quarantines
A quarantine placed on two California farms under investigation for mad cow disease has been lifted, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Friday. Read more...
US News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 4:43am
Survivor: Honduran police fired on passenger boat
Lucio Adan Nelson dozed on a riverboat ferrying him home from a visit with his mother when helicopters appeared overhead and started shooting. Read more...
World News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 4:15am
'The Fighter 2' will put Ward-Gatti rivalry in cinemas
Actor Mark Wahlberg wants to film a sequel to "The Fighter".A The Oscar-winning boxing drama was released in late 2010 and is based on the life of light welterweight "Irish" Mickey Ward .A [See Movie Review ]A According to Digital Spy , Wahlberg hopes to film "The Fighter 2" by 2013 although it's unclear whether Christian Bale would reprise his ... (more) Read more...
Sports - Topix.net, Yesterday, 3:59am
Golden State Warriors moving to San Francisco in 2017
The Golden State Warriors will move across the San Francisco Bay from the city of Oakland to San Francisco in 2017, WarriorsWorld blog reported on Sunday.A The Warriors currently play in Oracle Arena which is the oldest basketball arena in the NBA.A According to the site, team owner Joe Lacob plans on building a brand new, privately-funded arena ... (more) Read more...
Sports - Topix.net, Yesterday, 3:59am
MS prison riot leaves guard dead, 6 hurt
A prison guard has died and several other employees have been injured during what is being called an "an inmate disturbance" at a southwest Mississippi prison. Read more...
Sports - Topix.net, Yesterday, 3:01am
NBA a San Antonio finishes off the Clippers
Los Angeles Clippers center DeAndre Jordan, right, grabs a rebound away from San Antonio Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard, left, and forward Boris Diaw of France during the first half in Game 4 of an NBA basketball playoffs Western Conference semifinal, Sunday, May 20, 2012, in Los Angeles. Read more...
Sports - Topix.net, Yesterday, 3:01am
Donations to pro-Romney super PAC have slowed
While Mitt Romney's major challengers suspended their campaigns and the primary season essentially ended in April, donations to the super PAC supporting Romney's candidacy and its spending slowed down as well, according to a monthly financial report filed Sunday with the Federal Election Commission. Read more...
US News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 1:28am
Protesters march through Chicago to NATO summit
Three gold medals, one silver medal and 38 total points. Not a bad haul for Dayton's A.J. Hedgecock. Read more...
World News - Topix.net, Yesterday, 12:10am
Michelle Obama, NATO spouses visit youth center
First lady Michelle Obama and Hayrunnisa Gul, right, wife of Turkish President Abdullah Gul visit with students in the rooftop garden while touring the Gary Comer Youth Center with the spouses of NATO leaders, Sunday, May 20, 2012, on the South Side of Chicago. Read more...
US News - Topix.net, May 20, 11:23pm
Pakistan blocks Twitter over contentious tweets
Thousands of protesters marched through downtown Chicago on Sunday in one of the city's largest demonstrations in years, airing grievances about war, climate change and a wide range of other complaints as world leaders... LeBron James scored 40 points, superstar sidekick Dwyane Wade added 30 - 22 in the second half - and Miami's dynamic duo took ... (more) Read more...
Sports - Topix.net, May 20, 11:00pm
Europe faces difficult search for growth
French President Francois Hollande, left, talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the North Atlantic Council meeting in Chicago during the NATO 2012 Summit Sunday, May 20, 2012. Read more...
World News - Topix.net, May 20, 8:00pm
Miami Heat's big two pull team even with Indiana Pacers
James scored 40 points, Wade added 30 - 22 in the second half - and Miami 's dynamic duo took over after halftime to get the Heat even in the series with a 101-93 win over the Indiana Pacers in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals Sunday. Read more...
Sports - Topix.net, May 20, 7:56pm
Europe faces difficult search for growth
French President Francois Hollande, left, listens as U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the start of the first working session of the G8 Summit at Camp David, Md., Saturday May 19, 2012. Read more...
US News - Topix.net, May 20, 7:09pm
Yemen troops clash with al-Qaida in south; 17 dead
A 13-year-old Washington state boy is safe after a dramatic overnight rescue above Wallace Falls near Gold Bar. Read more...
US News - Topix.net, May 20, 4:59pm
Party leaders refuse to budge on debt positions
Republicans and Democrats aren't budging when it comes to their already hardened positions on spending cuts versus tax increases to deal with the nation's debt. Read more...
US News - Topix.net, May 20, 4:59pm
Tortorella takes shots at Devils, defends Prust
New York Rangers center Brad Richards, left, collides with New Jersery Devils defenseman Dainius Zubrus, of Lithuania, during the second period of Game 3 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup Eastern Conference final playoff series Saturday, May 19, 2012, in Newark, N.J. FRANK FRANKLIN II - AP Photo John Tortorella stood out again at a playoff news ... (more) Read more...
Sports - Topix.net, May 20, 4:42pm
2 more activists charged related to NATO summit
Prosecutors say two men will make initial appearances in court in Chicago as part of what they describe as an ongoing investigation of activists who planned to take part in demonstrations at the two-day NATO summit. Read more...
US News - Topix.net, May 20, 3:59pm
Former British PM heckled in Maine college speech
Thousands of demonstrators upset with the war in Afghanistan, climate change and the erosion of union rights marched through downtown Chicago on Sunday, taking their discontent on a wide range of issues to world leaders... A handful of protesters briefly interrupted a Maine college graduation speech by British Prime Minister Tony Blair calling for ... (more) Read more...
World News - Topix.net, May 20, 3:55pm
England end Chanderpaul vigil
England finally dismissed Shivnarine Chanderpaul for 91 after another innings of brave defiance as West Indies reached 265 for six at tea on the fourth day of the first Test on Sunday. Read more...
Sports - Topix.net, May 20, 12:31pm
Lockerbie bomber dies at age 60
His death came more than two years after he was freed from a life sentence in Scotland on the grounds that he was dying. Read more...
US News - Topix.net, May 20, 11:59am
Protesters prepare for larger NATO demonstration
A police officer wrestles with the hand of an NATO protestor who refused to let go of her bicycle Saturday in Chicago. Read more...
World News - Topix.net, May 20, 11:41am