Early Samsung Galaxy S 5 rumors are hitting the Web
The Samsung Galaxy S 4 is available for $0 at Best Buy as part of Black Friday, but the Galaxy S 5 is just around the corner and rumors have begun to swirl.<img width='1' height='1'...
View ArticleWhere were you when JFK was killed? It's in your hippocampus.
Researchers have lifted the veil on the brain cells that could explain why so many people remember where they were when John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas 50 years ago.<img width='1'...
View ArticleU.S. healthcare website down for overnight maintenance
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The website at the center of President Barack Obama's healthcare reforms will be down for an extended period overnight on Friday as the government pushes to complete upgrades by...
View ArticlePresident and first lady visit Capitol Hill hunger strikers
WASHINGTON--President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama spoke for 30 minutes Friday with about 20 activists who are fasting at the steps of the Capitol to an effort to pressure House Republicans to...
View ArticleObama to look to Sasha to choose where they live after White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will take a cue from daughter Sasha on where to live after his second term ends in 2017, and that means that they might end...
View ArticleObamas welcome White House Christmas tree from Pennsylvania
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - First lady Michelle Obama and her two daughters welcomed the official White House Christmas tree on Friday - an 18.5-foot Douglas Fir donated by a Pennsylvania farmer.<img...
View ArticleGOP promise of immigration reform appears to fade
Despite the importance of the Latino vote, divisions among Republicans leave immigration reform at a standstill.<br/><br/>WASHINGTON — Earlier this year, as House Republicans...
View ArticleObama family buys books on 'small business Saturday'
WASHINGTON -- President Obama stocked up on more than 20 books Saturday in a rare stop at a local bookstore, part of an effort to support small businesses.<img width='1' height='1'...
View ArticleSandy Hook 911 calls to be released on Wednesday
Newtown officials on Wednesday will release the 911 calls from the Dec. 14 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting made to their police department.<img width='1' height='1'...
View ArticlePhoenix flight passengers told to get precautionary tuberculosis test
Dozens of passengers on a weekend US Airways Express flight have been told to get tuberculosis tests and possible vaccinations after a passenger in a face mask was taken off of the plane in...
View ArticleComet ISON is see-through, and that's not good
Did Comet ISON survive its brush with the sun? Four days after the comet made its closest approach to our nearest star, the scientific consensus is "probably not."<img width='1' height='1'...
View ArticleAmazon testing delivery by drones, CEO says
Amazon.com Inc. is testing delivery packages using drones, CEO Jeff Bezos said Sunday on the CBS television program "60 Minutes."<img width='1' height='1'...
View ArticleFrance divided over prostitution crackdown
PARIS (Reuters) - Local movie stars have signed petitions, political parties are split, and sex workers complain the government is doing them out of a living. France is divided over a bid to crack...
View ArticleWhite House to revive Obamacare PR push
WASHINGTON -- President Obama and his allies will try Tuesday to revive the stalled promotional campaign for the new health insurance marketplaces, aiming to boost enrollment before the Dec. 23...
View ArticleObama's Kenyan-born uncle gets green card
BOSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. immigration judge ruled on Tuesday that President Barack Obama's Kenyan-born uncle can stay in the United States as a lawful resident, despite his decades dodging deportation...
View ArticleWhite House says 240,000 jobs lost in 2014 without jobless benefits extension
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House piled pressure on Republicans on Thursday to extend U.S. jobless benefits with a report that estimated a failure to take action could lead to a loss of 240,000...
View ArticleObama says he's not allowed iPhone for 'security reasons'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The troubled mobile phone maker BlackBerry still has at least one very loyal customer: U.S. President Barack Obama.<img width='1' height='1'...
View ArticleEngineer of derailed New York commuter train suspended
The engineer of a Manhattan-bound commuter train that derailed and killed four passengers has been suspended without pay, officials said Thursday.<img width='1' height='1'...
View ArticleMourners buy up Mandela mementos
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - From books and T-shirts to bracelets and ostrich eggs, Nelson Mandela art and memorabilia have been flying off shelves and stalls as mourners search for a memento of South...
View ArticleWith nearly a ton of butter, Texas gingerbread house sets record
BRYAN, Texas (Reuters) - Holiday cheer in Texas has become even sweeter thanks to a giant gingerbread house that has broken a world record for confectionary construction.<img width='1' height='1'...
View ArticleTeenager dies on Atlanta-bound flight
(Reuters) - A 16-year-old boy from a military family died on Saturday while traveling on an Atlanta-bound Delta Air Lines flight to celebrate the Christmas holidays with relatives, officials...
View ArticleObama says 'nowhere to go but up' after HealthCare.gov debacle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's popularity has taken a beating over the botched October 1 launch of Obamacare, but in a television interview set to air on Friday, Obama said he...
View ArticleAfter health law woes, Obama returns focus on poverty
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seeking to recover from the bungled rollout of his healthcare reforms, President Barack Obama went back to basics on Wednesday with a renewed focus on government policies that...
View ArticleAfter long fight, Detroit international bridge may be in sight
DETROIT (Reuters) - A decade ago Les Cadman stopped making improvements to his small house in Detroit's declining Delray district because it stood in the path of a proposed bridge to Windsor, Ontario,...
View ArticleSpanish journalist, photographer kidnapped in Syria
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Fighters linked to al Qaeda abducted a Spanish journalist and a photographer in a rebel-held Syrian province in September, their families said on Tuesday.<img width='1'...
View ArticleFacebook to join the S&P 500
Standard & Poor's on Wednesday said Facebook Inc will join its S&P 500 stock index after the close of trading on Dec. 20, cementing the social media network's rise into one of the biggest,...
View ArticleU.S. budget deal reached amid conservative opposition
Budget negotiators in the U.S. Congress have reached an agreement on Tuesday that, if approved by the House and Senate, could restore some order to the nation's chaotic budget process and avoid...
View ArticleObama, Bush and big contingent head for Mandela memorial together
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, former President George W. Bush and their wives shared Air Force One on Monday on a flight to South Africa, where they will be joined by two...
View ArticleTexas actress pleads guilty for ricin-laced letter sent to Obama
TEXARKANA, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas actress pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to making the toxic agent ricin that was sent in letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael...
View ArticleSenate sends plastic gun restrictions to Obama for signature
WASHINGTON – The Senate on Monday agreed to extend by another decade a ban on plastic guns that can evade traditional security screening, after an effort to include stronger limits was...
View ArticleSenate sends plastic-gun restrictions to Obama for signature
WASHINGTON – The Senate on Monday agreed to extend by another decade a ban on plastic guns that can evade traditional security screening, after an effort to include stronger limits was...
View ArticleFormer Clinton aide Podesta joining White House to advise Obama
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Podesta, a former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, is returning to the White House to advise President Barack Obama as he struggles to regain his footing after the...
View ArticleU.S. House panel clears budget deal for full House vote
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan budget deal aimed at avoiding future government shutdowns cleared a key U.S. House of Representatives panel on Wednesday, making way for a vote by the full chamber...
View ArticleWhite House gives sick Americans more time to select a health plan
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration moved Thursday to help tens of thousands of sick Americans who have struggled to enroll in health coverage for next year because of problems with the...
View ArticleObamacare website back up ahead of schedule after maintenance
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The troubled federal website used by Americans to shop for health insurance as part of President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul was back up and running on Sunday after planned...
View ArticleWhite House says plans no split of NSA, Cyber Command
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Friday said it will keep one person in charge of both the National Security Agency spy agency and the military's Cyber Command, despite growing calls...
View ArticleU.N. seeks $6.5 billion for Syria crisis in 2014
By Stephanie Nebehay and Tom Miles<img width='1' height='1' src='http://ChicagoTribune.feedsportal.com/c/34253/f/622812/s/34e3161f/sc/20/mf.gif' border='0'/><br clear='all'/><div...
View ArticleHouse Ethics committee sets probe of Radel in cocaine case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives ethics committee said on Monday it would investigate U.S. Representative Henry "Trey" Radel, who pleaded guilty last month to a charge of cocaine...
View ArticleFatal carjacking makes Christmas shopping at U.S. mall a nightmare
NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - Police on Monday were seeking a pair of suspected carjackers who shot to death a lawyer who was Christmas shopping with his wife at a high-end New Jersey mall and then...
View ArticleSenate approves Johnson to head U.S. Homeland Security
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed Jeh Johnson, a national security expert who has served as the Pentagon's top lawyer, as head of the U.S. Department of Homeland...
View ArticleThree veteran congressmen announce plans to retire
WASHINGTON – Three senior House members announced Tuesday that they would not seek reelection in 2014, offering both parties prime pickup opportunities in the midterm election.<img...
View ArticleMerkel formally elected to third term by parliament vote
BERLIN (Reuters) - Angela Merkel was elected to a third term as chancellor in a vote in the German lower house of parliament on Tuesday, paving the way for her new "grand coalition" government to...
View Articlestudy
(Reuters) - Nearly 1 percent of young women in a U.S. study who have become pregnant claim to have done so as virgins, according to a report in the Christmas edition of Britain's BMJ medical...
View ArticleNew Mexico teacher on leave after telling black student Santa is white
SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) - A New Mexico high school teacher who questioned an African American student's decision to dress up as Santa Claus on the grounds that the mythical North Pole figure...
View ArticleObama to meet with data surveillance review group Wednesday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will meet on Wednesday with a panel he appointed to review privacy issues related to government surveillance programs, days after the group submitted...
View ArticleObama to meet tech executives on healthcare site
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will meet executives from leading technology companies like Google and Apple on Tuesday to discuss ways to improve the functioning of the health care...
View ArticleU.S. appeals court lifts ban on horse slaughter
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Horse slaughter could soon resume in three states after a federal appeals court in Colorado vacated a temporary ban on inspections at slaughterhouse facilities.<img width='1'...
View Articleauthorities
Authorities were involved in a standoff Friday afternoon at a La Crescenta shopping center after a man barricaded himself in a Verizon store, a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman...
View ArticleBerlusconi accused of bribing witnesses in prostitution trial
MILAN (Reuters) - An Italian court accused former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Friday of bribing witnesses to give false testimony in a trial linked to the case in which he has been charged...
View ArticleTarget victim of major credit card breach
(Reuters) - Payment card data was stolen from an unknown number of Target Corp customers starting on the busy Black Friday weekend in a major breach at the U.S. retailer, according to a person...
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