Monday, December 10, 2012

SEAL killed in Afghan rescue identified

SEAL killed in Afghan rescue identified


SEAL killed in Afghan rescue identified

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 05:57 PM PST

Nicolas D. Checque, 28, of Pennsylvania died in a raid that freed a captive doctor in Afghanistan. A U.S. official said he was a member of SEAL Team Six.

Bodies ID'd as missing Iowa cousins

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 03:02 PM PST

Relatives of 10-year-old Lyric Cook and 8-year-old Elizabeth Collins got news Monday that no family wants.

Execution set for cop guilty in murders

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 07:17 PM PST

A former Florida police officer convicted of multiple murders in the 1980s is scheduled to be executed Tuesday, and his attorneys are still working to save his life.

Report: Pax Americana 'winding down'

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 09:36 AM PST

The United States is likely to remain the leading world power in 2030 but won't hold the kind of sway it did in the past century, according to a new study by the U.S. intelligence community.

Dad fights for baby his wife gave up

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 04:24 AM PST

A Utah court orders adoptive parents to turn over child to dad, who didn't agree to giving her up. Randi Kaye reports.

Opinion: Seeds of oppression in Egypt

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 06:30 PM PST

Frida Ghitis says Egyptians' poor grasp of what democracy means leaves Morsy and an Islamist-leaning constitutional committee to define the country's "consensus" and "truths"

Syria to U.N.: U.S. may try to frame us

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 03:54 PM PST

Syria is raising concern in two letters to the United Nations that the United States may be attempting to frame it for the use of chemical weapons, Syrian state-run media reported Monday.

Facebook vote falls 299 million short

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 06:05 PM PST

Facebook's flirtation with democracy has come to an end. If it wants to, the social network can now change its policies without user approval.

Cowboys in fatal crash 'like brothers'

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 08:24 PM PST

Dallas Cowboys teammates Josh Brent and Jerry Brown Jr. were "like brothers" and "the best of friends," Brown's mother and grandmother said Monday, showing no ill will toward the man who may be responsible for the loss of their family member.

Frum: Freer speech in U.S. medicine

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 06:07 PM PST

Frum: Drug industry's free speech helps docs

Medical marijuana helps boy's seizures

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 09:48 AM PST

Six-year-old Jayden David, who has a rare and catastrophic form of epilepsy, has been suffering fewer seizures since taking a liquid, non-reactive form of medical marijuana.

Twitter rolls out retro photo filters

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 07:29 PM PST

A day after confirming it had lost the ability to display Instagram images, Twitter has rolled out its own library of retro filters for its Android and iPhone apps.

Opinion: Teach kids to write code

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 07:11 AM PST

Douglas Rushkoff says digital literacy is not a priority in our schools, impeding kids' understanding of the digital world, but also crippling our nation's competitiveness in business

Costas: NFL urges no guns

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 03:08 PM PST

NBC's Bob Costas speaks to what he calls a "gun culture" within the NFL.

Woman records bobcat eating pet

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 03:44 AM PST

A California woman was shocked when she found a bobcat eating her pet rabbit outside her window.

Life sentence closes oldest cold case

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 05:01 PM PST

Fifty-five years after 7-year-old Maria Ridulph vanished from a street corner while playing in the snow, a former neighbor was sentenced for kidnapping and killing her.

Obama 'willing to compromise a little'

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 12:48 PM PST

It's crunch time for avoiding the fiscal cliff, with President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner and their aides holding private talks on issues that will affect every American.

Obama: Unions built stronger U.S.

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 01:50 PM PST

Pres. Obama tells Daimler workers that unions helped build a stronger America.

DJs 'gutted' over prank gone wrong

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 03:51 PM PST

The DJs who called the hospital where the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge was being treated expressed deep remorse for the prank. The nurse who took the call was later found dead.

Australian radio network cancels show

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 08:23 AM PST

The radio show that played a prank targeting Prince William's pregnant wife was canceled, and the network expressed deep regret for the death of the nurse who took a call from the DJs involved.

DJs sorry

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 08:24 AM PST

Affiliate Nine Network talks to the DJs about the death of a nurse that was on the receiving end of their prank call.

Opinion: DJs broke 'Do No Harm' rule

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 04:25 PM PST

Australian disc jockey Michael Christian told an interviewer that "Prank calls are made every day on every radio station in every country around the world, and they have been for a long time, and no one could have imagined this to happen."

Police: Apple Maps flaw could be deadly

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 07:37 AM PST

Inaccurate, inconvenient, ill-conceived ... now add "potentially life-threatening" to the list of words being used to describe flaws in Apple's much maligned maps app.

Bergen: Film distorts killing of bin Laden

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 01:23 PM PST

Peter Bergen says a major new film tells a gripping story about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, but its overemphasis on coercive interrogations may obscure the real issues.

See roof collapse during TV interview

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 04:09 PM PST

While a man is being interviewed about storm damage in Alabama, his roof collapses. Nobody is injured.

This dining bill upsets three women

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 04:21 AM PST

Three woman were surprised and saddened to read what one restaurant employee wrote on their dinner receipt.

7 stunning European ski lodges

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 08:12 AM PST

As temperatures drop and days shorten in the northern hemisphere, it can only mean one thing: the European ski season is almost upon us.

Opinion: Did torture net bin Laden?

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 02:40 PM PST

Peter Bergen says a major new film tells a gripping story about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, but its overemphasis on coercive interrogations may obscure the real issues.

'American success story'

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 05:26 PM PST

Jenni Rivera is being mourned as the Diva of Banda.

The crash that claimed her life

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 05:24 PM PST

Fans and celebs are mourning singer and reality TV star Jenni Rivera, killed in a plane crash in Mexico.

Opinion: America missed out

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 06:27 PM PST

Damaras Ocana says mainstream America will miss getting to know Jenni Rivera, her immense talent and her stories of life as a Latina

SEAL killed

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 05:57 PM PST

The U.S. Defense Department on Monday identified the SEAL killed during a successful raid to free a captive doctor in Afghanistan.

Jenni Rivera

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 06:33 AM PST

Fans and celebrities are mourning singer and reality TV star Jenni Rivera, who died when the small plane she was traveling in crashed in northern Mexico. Five others were believed aboard. There were no survivors.

Royal prank death

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 06:33 AM PST

The radio show that played a prank targeting Prince William's pregnant wife was canceled, and the network expressed deep regret for the death of the nurse who took a call from the DJs involved.

Nelson Mandela

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 06:46 AM PST

Nelson Mandela, the global icon and former South African leader, is doing "very, very well" and continues to be treated at a Pretoria hospital, officials said Monday.

NFL Week 14: Striking images

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 07:05 AM PST

NFL Week 14: The best photos

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