Wednesday, January 2, 2013

U.N.'s Syria death toll jumps dramatically to 60,000

U.N.'s Syria death toll jumps dramatically to 60,000


U.N.'s Syria death toll jumps dramatically to 60,000

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 06:28 PM PST

The rising toll is "truly shocking" and shameful, said U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, who blamed the international community for inaction.

What's next for Syria in 2013?

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 06:21 PM PST

Syria's civil war has been grinding on for nearly two years now, resulting in the deaths of more than 60,000 people, according to estimates from the office of the U.N. Human Rights Commissioner.

American journalist abducted in Syria

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 06:21 PM PST

Gunmen have kidnapped an American journalist in Syria, the journalist's family announced Wednesday.

Hillary Clinton discharged from hospital

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 06:18 PM PST

The secretary of state's discharge, confirmed by the State Department, came three days after she was admitted for treatment of a blood clot between her skull and brain.

How will clot affect Hillary's future?

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 12:00 PM PST

Doctors say Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is on her way to a full recovery after a blood clot was found in her head on Sunday night.

See Clinton walk outside hospital

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 03:53 PM PST

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is seen exiting a hospital where she's being treated for a blood clot in her brain.

Critics plague Clinton's illness

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 06:24 PM PST

Critics theorized on Clinton's illness until it was revealed she had a blood clot. CNN's Kate Bolduan reports.

Sandy Hook students to return to class

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 03:43 PM PST

For the first time since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Christine Wilford plans do something remarkable on Thursday that once was routine: drop her child off at school.

Families to boycott theater reopening

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 07:02 PM PST

Relatives of nine people killed last summer at an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater said an invitation to attend an event on the eve of the remodeled complex's reopening is "disgusting" and "wholly offensive to the memory of our loved ones."

Paper adds guards after gun map flap

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 08:46 PM PST

The newspaper that published an online, interactive map of handgun permit holders in two suburban New York counties hired armed guards to protect its office after negative backlash from the map publication, according to a local police report.

Flying pilot sees thief at his home

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 12:08 PM PST

A lot of things can go wrong in life that you can plan for, but some are just too far-fetched to bother with -- or so you'd think.

Pa. to sue NCAA over sanctions

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 10:42 AM PST

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett announced plans Wednesday to file an anti-trust lawsuit against the NCAA over its sanctions against Penn State University following the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

Bennett: Film overlooks fracking's boon

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 04:50 AM PST

There are "a lot of scare tactics in play here," Steve Butler, protagonist of the new anti-hydraulic-fracturing film "Promised Land," warns a local politician skeptical of the benefits of hydraulic fracturing. Played by Matt Damon, Butler is an earnest salesman for the energy giant Global Crosspower Solutions, bent on convincing a rural town in Pennsylvania that hydraulic fracturing will save its outdated agrarian economy from collapse.

See strangers break up attack

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 07:32 AM PST

Surveillance video shows two men helping a robbery victim. As WXIX reports, one man was homeless, the other unemployed.

Retro diet tricks that work

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 04:31 AM PST

Celebrities have a well-manicured finger on the pulse of what's trendy, which is why we were surprised to hear that many stars are trading in their fruit-juice fasts and cleanses for old-school diet foods: grapefruit, cottage cheese, rice cakes -- stuff your mom nibbled on before darting off to Jazzercise.

2 running 365 marathons in 2013

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 07:01 AM PST

A pair of senior citizens has embarked on a very special trip around the country in 2013.

Fiscal cliff averted, but fights loom

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 01:44 PM PST

Hours after the U.S. hit the fiscal cliff and a day before a new Congress would've had to start over, a late-night House vote averted big tax hikes and spending cuts.

5 things to know

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 08:00 AM PST

Now that the House has passed a Senate deal to avert the fiscal cliff, it will become law when President Obama signs it. He has returned to Hawaii to join his family on vacation.

Your paycheck will still shrink

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 03:47 PM PST

A fiscal cliff deal has been reached, but the temporary reduction in payroll tax has expired and will affect paychecks.

Opinion: Obama, look beyond the cliff

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 04:15 PM PST

We have just passed into the new year, and the distractions created by the debate over the fiscal cliff appear to be behind us. Maybe.

Biggest, buzziest flicks

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 10:26 AM PST

Here's a look at the movies you'll be watching while you're munching your popcorn this year.

Top travel destinations

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 06:46 AM PST

What makes a travel destination "hot"?

Our top tech wishes for the year

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 06:43 AM PST

What is tech but yesterday's dreams realized?

Avlon: Christie drops bomb on GOP

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 04:42 PM PST

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie blasted House Speaker John Boehner for not voting on Sandy aid. "It's why the American people hate Congress," he said. His words had immediate impact, John Avlon writes.

FURY OVER SANDY STORM VOTE DEFUSED

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 03:46 PM PST

After outrage over no Sandy relief vote in Congress, Rep. Peter King of New York said House Speaker John Boehner has promised two votes on $60 billion in disaster aid.

Opinion: How hospitals hurt you

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 03:05 PM PST

Marty Makary says more doctors and nurses describe feeling like they are tenants working for their landlord: the hospital management.

Photographer killed snapping Bieber's car

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 12:50 AM PST

The paparazzi has had nasty run-ins with pop star Justin Bieber, including a high-speed chase in July that prompted a city councilman to predict that such an encounter could end tragically.

They tried to save him, but fell in, too

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 03:38 AM PST

A sledder fell into an icy lake in California, setting off a chain reaction of rescuers plunging through the thin ice.

Teen is auctioning off her virginity

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 12:04 PM PST

A Brazilian high school student says she is auctioning off her virginity to help her ailing mother. But she rejected an offer to pay for her mother's medical expenses if she stopped the auction.

Identical twins give birth hours apart

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 07:25 AM PST

On New Year's Eve, twin sisters Ashlee and Aimee Nelson gave birth two hours apart. Affiliate WEWS has the story.

Pop-country singer Patti Page dies

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 02:32 PM PST

Pop-country singer Patti Page died on January 1st in Encinitas, California. She was 85.

5 reasons to visit Easter Island

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 03:13 PM PST

There are, of course, those massive stone statues of ancient legend lining its coast.

Distraction: Baby rides Roomba

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 06:31 AM PST

It cleans AND entertains. Behold! The world's greatest babysitter: the Roomba.

Hillary Clinton

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 03:59 PM PST

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been speaking with her staff and is active on the phone from the New York hospital where she's being treated for a blood clot between her skull and brain, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Fiscal cliff

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 12:55 PM PST

The bill that would back the United States away from its fiscal cliff awaited President Barack Obama's signature Wednesday, but new battles over taxes and spending await Washington in the next few weeks.

Sandy aid

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 03:46 PM PST

Outrage exploded Wednesday over Congress' inaction on a $60 billion aid package for victims of Superstorm Sandy, pitting even fellow Republicans against the man who scrapped a vote on the bill: House Speaker John Boehner.

India rape reaction

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 11:41 AM PST

Top lawyers in the India district where a woman was gang-raped are saying that they will not represent the six men accused in the attack, which led to her death.

Penn State sanctions

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 11:41 AM PST

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett announced plans Wednesday to file an anti-trust lawsuit against the NCAA over its sanctions against Penn State University following the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

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