The Democratic National Convention on Wednesday featured three speakers billed as “former employees of companies controlled by Bain Capital.” They each told compelling stories about jobs lost, allegedly because of the actions of Bain under Romney’s leadership. But it turns out one of those employees......
For centuries we have marked our dead with lifeless granite – graves inscribed with names, dates, perhaps small inscriptions about the departed. But stones do not tell stories.
Now, a funeral home in Britain is attaching tiny digital codes to headstones, giving visitors the chance to see, hear, even experience the lives of the dead. No longer are graveyard visitors limited to letters and numbers etched into tombstone....
What could you do with your own, do-it-yourself satellite? Such things now exist—and at prices starting for as low as $8,000, including the blast-off into space. You could use it, say experts, to track migratory animals--whales, perhaps, or elk. You could have it tweet you now and then, just to say hello. It could send you pictures of a developing hurricane or take readings of changes in the earth's magnetic field.Imagine that you're at a cocktail party. "My goodness, look at the time," you say, glancing at your watch. "Sorry to go, but I've got to take a reading of the earth's magnetic field with my satellite." That alone could be worth $8,000.According to a story in Businessweek, about a dozen homemade satellites will be launched into space in the next year....
A 32-year-old woman who claims to be the late Michael Clarke Duncan’s daughter is speaking out about the Academy Award nominee who died Monday. Marquea Ambrose, 32, of Chicago, said she hadn’t talked to her father in 11 years. “The only thing that really bothers......
Read more: Woman Claims to Be Michael Clarke Duncan's Daughter
"The Voice" judge said she loves her curves, but seems slimmer on magazine cover...
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Since splitting from hubby Tom Cruise in June, Katie Holmes and her 6-year-old daughter Suri have been spotted grabbing snacks and taking walks around New York City almost every day. But one month after finalizing the divorce, Holmes stepped out in New York City Wednesday......
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For eight hours, a girl lay under the murdered body of a female believed to be her mother, beside another as-yet unidentified female with a Swedish passport, in the back-seat of a BMW in a car park near the town of Chevaline in the French Alps....
Read more: French Alps Shooting: Girl Spent Hours Under Corpses
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NBC News Special Correspondent Tom Brokaw was hospitalized on Thursday morning in “an abundance of caution,” the network said. Brokaw, 72, was taken to a hospital in Charlotte, N.C., after he said he felt “light-headed” on the set of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “He is being...
Authorities in California are searching for a pair of bandits that allegedly kidnapped a bank manager, strapped what they said were explosives to her stomach and ordered her to rob her own bank.
Don’t expect Miss America to “redneck-ognize” episodes of “Toddlers & Tiaras” or be rubbing elbows with Honey Boo Boo. Laura Kaeppeler, who was crowned Miss America in January, is not one of the 3 million fans hooked on TLC’s “Toddlers & Tiaras” and its spin-off, ”Here Comes...
Michelle Obama watches speeches at the DNC in grey and black lace dress.
Boston Cream Pie. Peanut Butter D-Cup. Hairy Garcia. ...
Former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, whose political career was cut short when she was shot in the head by a deranged constituent, has traveled to North Carolina for the Democratic National Convention.
A Seattle-area painter has turned her sadness when her pet dachshund went blind into an opportunity to create unique works of art to help other pets in need. DeeDee Murray, who has made a career as a painter of realistic portraits of horses, dogs and...
A pediatric critical care doctor's quick, outside-the-box thinking saved the life of a 7-year-old girl who had a rare case of bubonic plague.