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Michelle Obama hosts first White House dance event
(AP)
AP - The stately White House East Room, home to many a bill signing and ceremonial gathering, became a stage Tuesday for pirouettes, jetes, gravity-defying leaps and a few bumps and grinds as Michelle Obama inaugurated a new dance series.
Kansas man charged with murdering burned teen
(AP)
AP - A 36-year-old factory worker who spent much of his adult life in prison was charged Tuesday with sexually assaulting and murdering a 14-year-old girl whose badly burned body was found behind gravel piles at the asphalt plant where he worked.
John Lennon killer Chapman denied parole in NY
(AP)
AP - John Lennon's killer was again denied parole in New York, nearly 30 years after gunning down the ex-Beatle outside the musician's New York City apartment building.
The girl who killed puppies
(The Week)
The Week - A YouTube video of a teenager hurling baby dogs into a rushing river has prompted worldwide indignation. Who is she — and why have her actions created such a stir?
Non-stick cookware may boost cholesterol: study
(AFP)
AFP - Exposure to chemicals used to make non-stick cookware and which are found in microwave popcorn may raise blood cholesterol levels in children, a study says.
NASA Team to Trapped Miners: No Alcohol or Cigarettes
(LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - After spending almost a week in Chile, a team of NASA
personnel sent to provide nutritional advice and psychological support to 33
trapped miners reported Tuesday that the efforts of the Chilean government have
been outstanding so far, and the focus needs to be on long-term strategies that
will allow the men to live sustainably underground as a community.
Suddenly, a raft of tax-break proposals from Obama
(AP)
AP - President Barack Obama's proposed tax breaks for business sound like ideas that have enjoyed broad Republican backing in the past. But in today's toxic political atmosphere, he's unlikely to get much — if any — GOP help.
Sharp series of aftershocks strike New Zealand
(AP)
AP - A sharp series of about 20 aftershocks rattled New Zealand's earthquake-hit city of Christchurch overnight, and earthquake experts warned Tuesday that another powerful temblor might hammer the region in coming days.
Exercise shoes focus attention on walking
(Reuters)
Reuters - Call them toners, shapers, or rocker bottoms, those exercise shoes with the distinctive thick, rounded soles are flying off the shelves and onto the feet of even the most clodhopper-averse walkers.
Conservatives hammer candidates over 'cap and trade'
(McClatchy Newspapers)
McClatchy Newspapers - FREDERICA, Del. — Conservative Republicans around the country are using cap and trade — a way to limit global-warming pollution — as a political weapon to attack GOP moderates as well as Democrats.
Report: Castro blasts Ahmadinejad as anti-Semitic
(AP)
AP - Fidel Castro criticized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for what he called his anti-Semitic attitudes and questioned his own actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 during interviews with an American journalist he summoned to Havana to discuss fears of global nuclear war.
CO firefighters to step up attack on Boulder blaze
(AP)
AP - Firefighters planned to ramp up their battle Tuesday against a wildfire that forced about 3,000 people to flee their homes as the wind-whipped blaze filled the surrounding canyon with heavy smoke and spit flames.
Lack of Sleep May Be Linked to Childhood Obesity
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - MONDAY, Sept. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Infants and preschoolers who don't
get enough sleep at night are at increased risk for later childhood
obesity, a new study suggests.
AP sources: Former FBI man implicated in CIA abuse
(AP)
AP - A former CIA officer accused of revving an electric drill near the head of an imprisoned terror suspect has returned to U.S. intelligence as a contractor, training CIA operatives after leaving the agency, The Associated Press has learned.
Fight over Eichmann files back to German court
(AP)
AP - Germany's intelligence service has turned over thousands of files on top Nazi Adolf Eichmann's whereabouts after World War II to a journalist who sued for them. But with so many passages blacked out and pages missing, she's taking the matter back to court.
Philly cyclists bare all to promote cleaner air
(AP)
AP - Hundreds of naked and partially nude cyclists have pedaled their way through Philadelphia to promote bicycling awareness and cleaner air.
NFL again tweaks positioning of umpires
(AP)
AP - Peyton Manning complained, the NFL listened and now the league is making additional tweaks to the umpire rule.
Iraqi soldier fires on US troops, kills 2
(AP)
AP - An Iraqi soldier sprayed gunfire at American troops guarding one of their commanders as he visited an Iraqi military base on Tuesday and killed two of them, the first U.S. servicemen to die since President Barack Obama declared an official end to combat operations in the country last week.
Colombian is world's shortest man at 27 inches
(AP)
AP - Edward Nino Hernandez is in many ways a typical 24-year-old Colombian male. He loves to dance reggaeton, dreams of owning a car — preferably a Mercedes_ and wants to see the world.
Betty White gets comic book treatment
(Reuters)
Reuters - Veteran actress Betty White is the latest Hollywood star to get the comic book treatment.