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Planted question gambit backfires on IRS officials

USA TODAY
1 hour ago
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Written by
Gregory Korte
Top tax officials tried an unusual strategy to break the news of their three-year-old policy of targeting Tea Party groups. miller-congress.

CBS News  - ‎6 hours ago‎
As the Obama administration grapples with a series of recent controversies within its ranks, political observers in Washington have begun to calculate their potential political impacts.

US Powerball jackpot could go higher than $600 million

Reuters  - ‎13 minutes ago‎
By Karen Brooks. AUSTIN, Texas | Sat May 18, 2013 12:16pm EDT. AUSTIN, Texas May 18 (Reuters) - The Powerball jackpot being drawn on Saturday night could be even higher than the record $600 million being advertised, pushing it near or above the ...

Fans Take the Tightened Security at Pimlico in Stride

New York Times  - ‎13 minutes ago‎
BALTIMORE - Officials at Pimlico Race Course altered their security plan for Saturday's Preakness Stakes after the Boston Marathon bombings to include additional officers and increased scrutiny of guests who were checked by an electronic wand as they ...

Google's wearable Glass gadget: cool or creepy?

Reuters
2 hours ago
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Written by
Alexei Oreskovic
Sat May 18, 2013 9:59am EDT. * Google expects Glass etiquette to evolve. * Casino has banned devices while gambling. * "Those things freak me out".

ABC News  - ‎15 minutes ago‎
Federal transportation officials began their investigation today to determine what caused two commuter trains to crash head-on in Connecticut during the Friday rush hour.
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Rome protest turns up heat on new Prime Minister

Reuters UK  - ‎18 minutes ago‎
ROME | Sat May 18, 2013 5:16pm BST. ROME (Reuters) - Thousands of people protested in Rome on Saturday against austerity policies and high unemployment, urging new Prime Minister Enrico Letta to focus on creating jobs to help pull the country out of ...

North Korea Reportedly Launches Short-Range Missiles

New York Times  - ‎33 minutes ago‎
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea launched three short-range missiles into the sea off its east coast on Saturday, the South Korean Defense Ministry said.

Hollande Signs French Gay Marriage Law

New York Times  - ‎1 hour ago‎
PARIS - The rush toward France's first same-sex marriage officially began Saturday morning, after President François Hollande signed the country's “marriage for all” act into law.

Bashar al-Assad: 'We can't negotiate with fragmented rebels'

The Guardian  - ‎1 hour ago‎
Link to video: Interview: Bashar al-Assad on Syria and the international community · Syria's embattled leader Bashar al-Assad has used a rare interview - carried out amid the sound of artillery fire resounding through his presidential palace in Damascus - to ...

Mass. GOP Senate candidate pays 2005 appraisal fee

San Francisco Chronicle  - ‎May 16, 2013‎
BOSTON (AP) - Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez said he has paid an eight-year-old, $1,000 bill for an appraisal on his Cohasset home, even as he again called on Democratic challenger Edward Markey to release his tax returns.

Texas tornado victims return home

KSN-TV  - ‎1 hour ago‎
Searchers working the Rancho Brazos neighborhood in Granbury , Texas, try to coax a mother dog to them while searching for unaccounted residents, Thursday, May 16, 2013.

Leaning Down: Facebook's Stock At Its IPO Anniversary

Forbes  - ‎May 17, 2013‎
It has now been one year since Facebook Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rang the bell to open trading on Nasdaq from Menlo Park, Calif.

Bernanke Says Pessimists Wrong as Innovation Spurs Growth

Bloomberg
1 hour ago
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Written by
Jeanna Smialek
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said technological change will remake fields like health care and belie predictions that innovation will fade and economic growth will wane.

Christian Science Monitor  - ‎1 hour ago‎
The US Department of Energy approved Friday the country's first liquified natural gas (LNG) export terminal since 2011. Skip to next paragraph.

Pixel's camera failure only one of many

CNET
2 hours ago
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Written by
Seth Rosenblatt
The Chromebook Pixel may be pretty, but it can't talk to cameras -- among the many problems that keep it from being a primetime laptop.

Android this week: Google I/O recapped; Better Bluetooth; Galaxy S 4 Google ...

GigaOM
3 hours ago
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Written by
Kevin Tofel
No new hardware appeared at Google I/O, but a recently released phone debuts as a Nexus-like device. Meanwhile, Google updated Android, without adding further fragmentation issues, through dozens of new services, apps and APIs.

AFP  - ‎48 minutes ago‎
CANNES, France - Audiences at the Cannes Film Festival hailed a "moving" Japanese drama Saturday about two families who fall victim to a baby swap.

Kansas City Museum Raising Cash to Fly...

ABC News  - ‎7 minutes ago‎
The National Airline History Museum is trying to raise $3.2 million to restore its Lockheed Constellation propeller-driven aircraft and recreate multimillionaire aviator Howard Hughes' record-setting cross-country flight in the plane that transformed commercial ...

Dwight Freeney agrees to 2-year deal with Chargers - USA Today

USA TODAY  - ‎19 minutes ago‎
Dwight Freeney's extended search for a new job is over. The seven-time Pro Bowl defensive end has agreed to a two-year contract with the San Diego Chargers, a person with knowledge of the situation told USA TODAY Sports.

San Francisco Chronicle  - ‎12 hours ago‎
Ken Venturi, a San Francisco native who learned how to play golf at Harding Park, memorably won the 1964 U.S. Open and later built a long and distinguished career as a television analyst, died Friday in Rancho Mirage (Riverside County).

Burnett hopes to add to Astros' woes

Chicago Tribune  - ‎2 hours ago‎
... 2013. —. A.J. Burnett tries to put the brakes on a personal two-game losing streak Saturday when the Pittsburgh Pirates continue a three-game series against the Houston Astros at PNC Park.

Sidney Crosby nets hat trick as Penguins beat Senators 4-3 - USA Today

USA TODAY  - ‎11 hours ago‎
PITTSBURGH (AP) - The Ottawa Senators have plenty of respect for Sidney Crosby. As they're quickly learning, perhaps a little too much.

ESPN  - ‎3 hours ago‎
CONCORD, N.C. -- Short-track legend Dick Trickle wouldn't have committed suicide were he not in such severe pain, his brother told ESPN.

NASA Records an Explosion on the Moon So Bright You Could Have Seen It ...

The Atlantic  - ‎37 minutes ago‎
Since 2005, a team at NASA has been monitoring meteoroid explosions on the surface of the moon. In March, they announced yesterday, they observed an explosion so bright it would have been visible from Earth without a telescope.

Infographic Charts Driving Distance Records on Mars, the Moon

PC Magazine  - ‎1 hour ago‎
NASA is once again making history, this time with its Opportunity rover, which, on Thursday, logged a total 22.22 statute miles since landing on Mars in Jan. 2004.

Could electroshock therapy work — for learning math?

GlobalPost  - ‎48 minutes ago‎
Small study suggests that a mild form of electrical brain simulation can make people better at mental calculations for a long-term period.

DSM-IV Boss Presses Attack on New Revision - MedPage Today

MedPage Today  - ‎19 hours ago‎
A new edition of psychiatry's diagnostic guide "will probably lead to substantial false-positive rates and unnecessary treatment," charged the man who led development of the last version.

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