Bill Daly, deputy commissioner of the NHL, and Steve Fehr of the NHL Players Assn., address the media following negotiations...
FBI removes many redactions in Marilyn Monroe file
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — FBI files on Marilyn Monroe that could not be located earlier this year have been found and re-issued, revealing the names of some of the movie star's communist-leaning acquaintances who drew concern from government officials and her own entourage.But the files, which previously had been heavily redacted, do not contain any new information about Monroe's death 50 years ago. Letters...
Surgery Returns to NYU Langone Medical Center
Label: HealthChang W. Lee/The New York TimesSenator Charles E. Schumer spoke at a news conference Thursday about the reopening of NYU Langone Medical Center. NYU Langone Medical Center opened its doors to surgical patients on Thursday, almost two months after Hurricane Sandy overflowed the banks of the East River and forced the evacuation of hundreds of patients. While the medical center had been treating...
Port strike in eastern U.S. averted with 30-day contract extension
Label: Business The labor contract covering more than 15,000 dockworkers at 14 Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast ports has been extended for 30...
Dec
27
Deadly storm moves through Northeast, dumping snow, sleet, rain
Label: World A deadly winter storm that dropped twisters onto the South on Christmas Day raced across the Northeast on Thursday, and bringing...
Police using Twitter to offer virtual ridealongs
Label: TechnologySIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Riding side by side as a police officer answers a call for help or investigates a brutal crime during a ridealong gives citizens an up close look at the gritty and sometimes dangerous situations officers can experience on the job.But a new approach to informing the public about what officers do is taking hold at police departments across the United States and Canada 7/8— one...
It's husband No. 3 for actress Kate Winslet
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — Kate Winslet has tied the knot again.The Oscar-winning actress wed Ned Rocknroll in New York earlier this month. The private ceremony was attended by Winslet's two children as well as a few friends and family members, her representative said Thursday.It is the third marriage for the 37-year-old Winslet. She was previously married to film directors Jim Threapleton and Sam Mendes.The...
Home Tech: Devices to Monitor Physical Activity and Food Intake
Label: HealthSTEP LIVELY Fitbit One pedometer clips onto your belt or pocket to record activity. WHEN I received the results of a routine cholesterol test this summer, I was certain there had been some kind of mistake. I’m young, unstressed and healthy, or so I imagined. I work out, too, and most impartial observers — and some partial ones — would describe me as lean. Plus, I eat a nutritious diet, I swear. So...
Storm blamed for more flight delays and cancellations
Label: Business Getting home after the Christmas holiday continues to be a predicament as a massive storm that has now hit the Northeast grounded...
Dec
26
Obama, Democrats, winning over public on 'fiscal cliff'
Label: World WASHINGTON -- Americans are increasingly doubtful that Congress and the White House will reach a budget deal as the deadline to the "fiscal cliff" approaches, according...
Ouch, Charlie! YouTube Sensation Kids Talk Christmas Toys
Label: TechnologyThe infamous “Charlie Bit My Finger” video has surpassed half a billion views on YouTube — not bad for a 56-second clip of a one-year-old kid biting his older brother’s finger.Charlie and Harry, now six and eight, returned to the web earlier this year with a new series through Viral Studios. The mini-episodes focus on the boys and their younger brother, Jasper, as they talk about toys, viral videos...
Ticket rush: Film fans hand Hollywood record cash
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — The big deal for Hollywood is not the record $10.8 billion that studios took in domestically in 2012. It's the fact that the number of tickets sold went up for the first time in three years.Thanks to inflation, revenue generally rises in Hollywood as admission prices climb each year. The real story is told in tickets, whose sales have been on a general decline for a decade, bottoming...
Op-Ed Contributor: Our Failed Approach to Schizophrenia
Label: Health TOO many pendulums have swung in the wrong directions in the United States. I am not referring only to the bizarre all-or-nothing rhetoric around gun control, but to the swing in mental health care over the past 50 years: too little institutionalizing of teenagers and young adults (particularly men, generally more prone to violence) who have had a recent onset of schizophrenia; too little education...
Hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson also shorts Herbalife
Label: Business Another hedge fund manager is joining Bill Ackman in the ranks of Herbalife haters.Whitney Tilson, who helps run three hedge...
Dec
25
U.S. drone strategy in Yemen is fraught with peril
Label: World AL SARRAIN, Yemen — The U.S. drone flew over a cluster of mud houses on a ridge and, according to Yemeni officials, locked onto...
China may require real name registration for internet access
Label: TechnologyBEIJING (Reuters) – China may require internet users to register with their real names when signing up to network providers, state media said on Tuesday, extending a policy already in force with microblogs in a bid to curb what officials call rumors and vulgarity.A law being discussed this week would mean people would have to present their government-issued identity cards when signing contracts for...
Reaction to the death of actor Jack Klugman
Label: LifestyleCelebrities on Monday reacted to the death of "Odd Couple" star Jack Klugman, who died Monday at age 90. Here are samples of sentiments expressed on Twitter:___"R.I.P. Jack Klugman, Oscar, Quincy a man whose career spanned almost 50 years. I first saw him on the Twilight Zone. Cool guy wonderful actor." — Whoopi Goldberg.___"You made my whole family laugh together." — Actor Jon Favreau, of "Swingers,"...
Corporate tax rate overhaul may be part of a 'fiscal cliff' deal
Label: Business WASHINGTON — Amid the wrangling over the so-called fiscal cliff, President Obama and congressional Republicans can agree on...
Dec
24
Two firefighters die in ambush at blazing New York house
Label: World A gunman ambushed four volunteer firefighters responding to...
Thousands sign US petition to deport Piers Morgan
Label: LifestyleLONDON (AP) — Tens of thousands of people have signed a petition calling for British CNN host Piers Morgan to be deported from the U.S. over his gun control views.Morgan has taken an aggressive stand for tighter U.S. gun laws in the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting. Last week, he called a gun advocate appearing on his "Piers Morgan Tonight" show an "unbelievably stupid man."Now, gun...
News Analysis: Scientists to Seek Clues to Violence in Genome of Gunman in Newtown, Conn.
Label: HealthIn a move likely to renew a longstanding ethical controversy, geneticists are quietly making plans to study the DNA of Adam Lanza, 20, who killed 20 children and seven adults in Newtown, Conn. Their work will be an effort to discover biological clues to extreme violence. The researchers, at the University of Connecticut, confirmed their plans through a spokeswoman but declined to provide...
Dockworker strike looms at Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast ports
Label: Business The nation's retailers, manufacturers and farmers are bracing for a possible strike that could idle U.S. ports all along the...
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