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Police: Cheeseburger found in SC woman's gas tank
(AP)
AP - A South Carolina woman found out fast food won't make your car go fast. The Herald of Rock Hill reported Thursday a 30-year-old woman made a complaint to police after she took her car to a Rock Hill mechanic last week because it would suddenly stop running.
Obama talks race, pop culture on 'The View'
(AP)
AP - President Barack Obama said Thursday that the racial firestorm that led to the ouster of a black Agriculture Department official was a "phony controversy" generated by the media. He said his administration overreacted by forcing her out.
Oceans in Peril: Primed for Mass Extinction?
(LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - One hundred days ago Thursday, the oil rig Deepwater Horizon began spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. As profoundly as the leak of millions of barrels of oil is injuring the Gulf ecosystem, it is only one of many threats to the Earth's oceans that, many experts say, could change the makeup of the oceans as we know them and wipe out a large portion of marine life.
T.O. practices with Bengals for first time
(AP)
AP - Terrell Owens arrived fashionably late, received a white jersey with his favorite number, and got a smattering of applause for doing even the simplest thing.
Second U.S. sailor's remains found in Afghanistan
(Reuters)
Reuters - The body of a second U.S. sailor who went missing in Afghanistan last week has been recovered, an Afghan police chief said on Thursday.
The Facebook Data Torrent Debacle: Q&A
(PC World)
PC World - Security concerns over Facebook have been raised yet again after a security consultant collected the names and profile URLs for 171 million Facebook accounts from publicly available information. The consultant, Ron Bowes, then uploaded the data as a torrent file allowing anyone with a computer connection to download the data.
Obama: We'll get back money from auto bailout
(AP)
AP - President Barack Obama said the government will recover all the taxpayer money his administration provided to bail out the auto industry last year.
WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE, WHO NEEDS KEITH OLBERMANN?
(Ann Coulter)
Ann Coulter - While engaging in astonishing viciousness, vulgarity and violence toward Republicans, liberals accuse cheerful, law-abiding Tea Party activists of being violent racists.
Arizona sheriff not relenting after court ruling
(AP)
AP - Lost in the hoopla over Arizona's immigration law is the fact that state and local authorities for years have been doing their own aggressive crackdowns in the busiest illegal gateway into the country.
Source: J-Lo close to deal for `American Idol'
(AP)
AP - Former "Fly Girl" Jennifer Lopez is poised to return to television — this time as a judge on "American Idol."
Troops kill senior 'capo' of mighty Mexico cartel
(AP)
AP - Soldiers killed a top leader of the Sinaloa cartel in a raid on his posh hideout, dealing the biggest blow yet to Mexico's most powerful drug gang since President Felipe Calderon launched a military offensive against organized crime in 2006.
Hands-only CPR, pushy dispatchers are lifesavers
(AP)
AP - More bystanders are willing to attempt CPR if an emergency dispatcher gives them firm and direct instructions — especially if they can just press on the chest and skip the mouth-to-mouth, according to new research.
Brewer claims world's strongest beer
(Reuters)
Reuters - A Dutch brewer with a penchant for competition has laid claim to creating the world's strongest brew: a beer that is some 60 percent alcohol by volume.
As many as 6,600 Arlington graves mixed up
(AP)
AP - Estimates of the number of graves that might be affected by mix-ups at Arlington National Cemetery grew from hundreds to as many as 6,600 on Thursday, as the cemetery's former superintendent blamed his staff and a lack of resources for the scandal that forced his ouster.
What Will Happen During the Next 100 Days of the Oil Spill?
(LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - Exactly 100 days after an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon offshore
oil rig sent an estimated 20,000 to 40,000 barrels of oil per day
gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, officials say engineers are on the cusp
of completing a final plug on the well.
Aide: Pitino gave him $3,000 for pregnant woman
(AP)
AP - A longtime aide to Rick Pitino told jurors that the Louisville men's basketball coach asked him to give $3,000 to a woman who said the coach got her pregnant in a one-night fling at a restaurant.
WikiLeaks may have blood on its hands, U.S. says
(Reuters)
Reuters - The whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks may have blood on its hands, the Pentagon said on Thursday, warning its unprecedented leak of secret U.S. military files could cost lives and damage trust of allies.
False alarm: Google search still working in China
(AP)
AP - Google Inc. triggered a false alarm Thursday by posting a notice that its search engine and several other services had been cut off from mainland China - a key market where the company has been locked in a high-profile battle over online censorship.
China allows release of critical IMF report
(AFP)
AFP - China allowed an IMF report critical of its currency policy to be released Thursday for the first time in four years, signaling Beijing's confidence that it can control the debate on the yuan.
The World's Largest Tent, Khan Shatyr, Debuts In Astana, Kazakhstan
(Huffington Post)
Huffington Post - The world's largest tent Khan Shatyr has debuted in Kazakhstan's capital city, Astana.