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Obama Confirms 'Explosive Material' Found in US-Bound Packages [PHOTOS]
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Oct. 29) -- At an emergency press conference from the White House today, President Barack Obama confirmed what authorities alluded to and all Americans feared: Packages sent from Yemen aboard European cargo planes were found to contain devices of an "explosive" nature "intended to do harm" to U.S. citizens, allegedly to Jewish synagogue-goers in Chicago. Two planes that departed from Paris and Cologne, Germany landed at Philadelphia International Airport. Another touched down in Newark, N.J., while a passenger jet was diverted to New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport. CNN ...
Police: 7 Arrested in Brutal Anti-Gay Attacks in NYC
By Carl Franzen - AOL NewsNEW YORK (Oct. 8) -- Seven suspected members of a Bronx, N.Y., street gang have been arrested and charged with anti-gay hate crimes for sadistic sexual attacks on two 17-year-old boys, including one aspiring gang member, and a 30-year-old man, police say. The beatings -- which involved two episodes of sodomy, with a broom handle and bat, respectively -- were reportedly sparked after the suspects cornered the teen who wanted to join their gang (who they had already beat as a part of an initiation ritual) and tortured him further into revealing that he and the other teen had engaged in gay sex ...
Is Apple's iPad Hurting PC Sales?
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Oct. 5) -- Contrary to earlier rumors of the doom-and-gloom sort, the good old-fashioned PC can consider itself safe from the iPad, at least for the time being. Only 13 percent of iPad owners surveyed sacrificed purchasing a PC in favor of the tablet gadget, according to an NPD research report. E-readers may want to watch their backs though -- 24 percent of iPad owners chose the more versatile Apple tablet as an alternative to e-reader technologies such as the Amazon Kindle. The study also showed that iPad owners are a tech-savvy bunch -- individuals who purchased the iPad within its first ...
Terror Alert Hysteria: A Real 'October Surprise'?
By Carl Franzen - AOL News
(Oct. 4) -- The month has barely started, but has the U.S. electorate already been the victim of a dreaded "October surprise," a cynical manipulation of the media to focus on a late-breaking election story that ensures establishment victory? That is what troubles conspiratorial-media mogul Alex Jones -- host of his own radio show and purveyor of websites Infowars and Prison Planet -- and his collaborator, writer Paul Joseph Watson, who posted an article Monday on the latter site called "October Surprise: Terror Hysteria Recycled In Election Ploy." In it, Watson argues that the European ...
IBM's New City Sim is More Than Mere Child's Play
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Oct. 4) -- Budding urban designers may have been leveling neighborhoods and building fusion plants in Will Wright's famous "Sim City" series for 21 years now, but today, that genre gets serious with the launch of IBM's "CityOne." Check out the trailer: CityOne, like "Sim City," is designed to mimic the operation and development of a real-life city, except it aims to do so with much more accuracy, and its target isn't gamers with god complexes but real-life urban planners and civic leaders. In CityOne, players take an existing city and address a range of problems from water management to ...
NASA Photos Show Hurricane Trifecta in Atlantic [PHOTOS]
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Sept. 16) -- Tropical Storm Karl became Hurricane Karl this morning as it moved off the Yucatan Peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico, creating a hurricane trifecta in the Atlantic along with Igor and Julia. NASA's close watch on the storms has produced these striking images. In the photo below, taken today at 10:45 a.m. EDT, Hurricane Karl, Hurricane Igor and Hurricane Julia are pictured from left to right. A comparison of the picture above and the one below, which was taken on Monday, clearly shows the progress of the storm systems throughout the week. The image below, taken at ...
Pentagon Bounces Rolling Stone Reporter: What Embed Ground Rules Actually Say
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 4) -- The pen is mighty, but the Pentagon has ways to keep it in check. So learned Rolling Stone writer Michael Hastings on Tuesday when the military announced it would not allow him to embed with the U.S. army in Afghanistan. The decision comes a month and a half after the release of his explosive article on Gen. Stanley McChrystal. The widely circulated piece, "The Runaway General," revealed unvarnished animosity from McChrystal's top aides toward Obama administration officials and created a P.R. nightmare for the White House that eventually culminated in McChrystal's resignation as ...
President Obama's Iraq Withdrawal Speech: 'Mission Accomplished 2'?
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 2) -- Talk about a tough crowd. Hours before President Barack Obama was set to give a speech proudly announcing the withdrawal of "all combat troops in Iraq" by the end of August, commentators around the Web had already thoroughly chastised him for his pre-released remarks. Though the text of the president's speech steered notably clear of the "mission accomplished" lingo of his predecessor -- emphasizing that the American "commitment in Iraq is changing," not ending, with some 50,000 troops expected to remain on the ground come September, down from a high of 177,000 in January, ...
Critics Get Parting Shot at BP's 'Life Isn't Fair' Hayward
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(July 28) -- Even as he bowed out as CEO, blunder-prone BP exec Tony Hayward managed to put his foot in his mouth one last time before heading off to his new position in Russia. Speaking about the public response to the environmental disaster that killed 11 people, ruined the livelihoods of thousands and left beaches and water fouled with oil, Hayward told reporters Tuesday that "life isn't fair," according to BBC News. "BP cannot move on in the U.S. with me as its leader. ... Life isn't fair," he said. "Sometimes you step off the pavement and get hit by a bus." Editorial boards, ...
ESPN Report Calls Foul on Stadium Food
By Dave Thier - AOL News(July 27) -- If you're taken out to the ballgame, you may want to stay with factory-sealed peanuts and Cracker Jack over anything prepared at the stadium. According to a recent ESPN report, America's sports stadiums have an abysmal record over food safety, and the millions of fans eating at them are running a risk of food-borne illness. A few highlights (actually, more like lowlights) from the report: At what is now Sun Life Stadium in Miami, one employee says that "several small insects" were mixed into frozen alcoholic beverages. Out of the 107 venues surveyed by ESPN, 28 percent had ...
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