Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Visionary built world's leading tech company

Visionary built world's leading tech company


Visionary built world's leading tech company

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 08:12 PM PDT

Steve Jobs co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone. He died Wednesday at 56.

Protest swells with union backing

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 04:44 PM PDT

Several unions are endorsing the Occupy Wall Street movement and plan to join the protesters today, labor leaders said.

Palin says she won't run for president

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 05:55 PM PDT

Sarah Palin, ending months of speculation, said Wednesday she will not run for president, either as a Republican or third-party candidate.

Tape of slurring Jackson played in court

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 04:38 PM PDT

The trial of Michael Jackson's doctor reached another emotional peak as jurors heard Jackson say, using slow and slurred speech, "I hurt, you know, I hurt."

Teen to be retried in gay student killing

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 08:13 PM PDT

A teenager accused of gunning down a gay classmate execution-style in their Southern California junior high school classroom in 2008 will be retried on murder charges, the Ventura County district attorney's office said Wednesday.

Law has illegal immigrant family packing

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 07:41 PM PDT

Gabriela Vazquez maneuvers through piles of clothes and toys while trying to control her two small children.

Opinion: Vaclav Havel a hero for today

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 02:07 PM PDT

Draw up a compelling character representing the arc of the 20th century and it might look like this -- a child whose homeland is conquered by the Nazis and then occupied by communists; a playwright, essayist and dissident turned state prisoner of conscience turned leader of a victorious nonviolent revolution over a totalitarian dictatorship. He culminates his career as president of his newly liberated nation.

Opinion: Pay people to stop smoking?

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 01:42 PM PDT

Last month, President Obama proposed cutting almost $72 billion from Medicaid, the program that provides health care to America's poor. Such deep reductions are necessary, he declared, to bring down our staggering national debt.

MacFarlane on making Jon Stewart mad

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 04:07 PM PDT

"It was an angry call," Seth MacFarlane said of the now-infamous phone call in which Jon Stewart lambasted him for "Family Guy" poking fun at the fact that "The Daily Show" went live during the 2007 writers' strike, "and suffice it to say, he is a phenomenally good debater, if you had been keeping score, I would have lost roundly."

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