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Never Too Late: 80 Year Old Scales Mount Everest

Japanese extreme skier Yuichiro Miura rests as he goes through the South Col pass to a camp at 8,000 meters (26,247 feet) during his attempt to scale the summit of Mount Everest, May 21, 2013. (Miura Dolphins/AP Photo)

Autistic Workforce: Tech Giant Hires On The “Edges”

SAP, which employs more than 65,000 people worldwide, said it sees a "potential competitive advantage to leveraging the unique talents of people with autism, while also helping them to secure meaningful employment." It will partner with Specialisterne – Danish for "The Specialists" – to recruit people…

U.S. Confirms Drones Whacked 4 American Citizens

The armed drone has become the signature weapon in America's "war on terror". But their use raises a variety of complex legal and ethical issues, quite apart from practical arguments as to whether the drone strikes themselves are effective.

Tornado Damage Estimate Tops $2 Billion

MOORE, Okla. — All that is left of Shayne Patteson’s three-bedroom home is the tiny area where his wife hunkered down under a mattress to protect their three children when a tornado packing winds of at least 200 mph slammed through his neighborhood.

GOP Senator Ted Cruz Doesn’t Trust GOP

Sen. Ted Cruz proclaimed on the Senate floor Wednesday that he doesn’t trust other Republicans to fix the country’s fiscal situation, explaining why he objects to sending the Senate budget to conference with the House. “The senior senator from Arizona urged this body…

World’s 100 Most Powerful Women

Our annual snapshot of the 100 women with the most impact are top politicians and CEOs, activist billionaires and celebrities who matter. In roughly equal measure you’ll find next gen entrepreneurs and media mavens, technologists and leaders in philanthropy — all ranked by dollars, media…

Today's Stories

BBQ Grilling Gadgets Are Game Changers

There is something about summertime that just screams grilling. Maybe it’s the smell of the grill that resonates with warm weather, or how the higher temperatures seem to beckon you outside to cook all of your meals outdoors over an open flame. Whatever the…

Are You Uglier Than You Think? Study Says Yes

In Dove's "Real Beauty Sketches" ad, several women describe what they think they look like to an FBI-trained sketch artist, who can't see the women, and draws them only based on their descriptions. Then each woman chats with a benevolent stranger, who…

“Printed” Gun Fires Nine Shots

VideoThe Lulz Liberator, a working handgun printed on a $1,725 LulzBot 3D printer with $25 in plastic. Click to enlarge. (Credit: Michael Guslick) When high tech gunsmith group Defense Distributed test-fired the world's first fully 3D-printed firearm earlier this month, some…

“I Can’t Swim”, Personalize Your Golf Balls

Golfballs.com lets you pay easily and securely on our site with the information in your Amazon account. When you're ready to buy, simply click the Checkout with Amazon button, enter your e-mail address and password, and select from the shipping and payment…

I Am A Rock, I Am An Island

A man rows a boat near a house built on a rock on the river Drina near the western Serbian town of Bajina Basta, about 160km (99 miles) from the capital Belgrade May 22, 2013. The house was built in ... more

Teen Guitarist Shreds Van Halen

From the blog The Sideshow: A 14-year-old girl named Tina S. may be the next Eddie Van Halen. In a clip recently posted to YouTube, Tina shows off her otherworldly guitar chops with a cover of the solo from Van Halen's "Eruption…

Gruesome Details Of London Machete Murder

From Yahoo! News: An attack in broad daylight in London on Wednesday is drawing a swift response — and a possible terror link — from the highest authorities. Reports suggest two men chased down another man with their car before getting out, attacking him with a machete…

Amnesty: It’s The Economy Stupid!

The letter by the American Action Forum, to be released Thursday, is the latest volley from conservative economic thinkers, who have been divided on the immigration overhaul legislation making its way through the Senate.

A Special Place In Hell, Scammers Preying On OK Tornado Victims

Investigators with the Oklahoma Attorney General's office have already uncovered evidence of businesses taking advantage of the recent tornado's devastation by price-gouging in the weather-ravaged region, including a grocery store accused of charging consumers $40 for a case of water.

A Hootie “Cracked Rear View” Tour?

While the now-country superstar has previously stated that he hopes to one day reunite with his former bandmates for a full blown album and yearlong farewell tour, Rucker tells The Hollywood Reporter that the band is considering something special to mark the 20th anniversary…

Power Partners: The World’s Most Influential Couples

The 100 ladies on FORBES' list of the world's most powerful women are politicians, CEOs, activist billionaires and celebrities, and all are at the top of their game. This year, several of our power women have a partner who is as equally influential.[More…

Fungi Have Foot Fetish

A team led by the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, sequenced the DNA of fungi living on the skin at 14 different body areas in 10 healthy adults.

Recession Sends Teen Birth Rate To Record Low?

From Yahoo! News: NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's record-low teen birth rate stems from robust declines in nearly every state, but most dramatically in several Mountain States and among Hispanics, according to a new government report.

Yacht Shipping: Why Drive When You Can Ship It

A growing number of companies are offering "yacht shipping" services, where yachts are loaded and carried on giant cargo ships to distant locations. Most of the boats being carried are charter boats on the seasonal migrations between the Caribbean and the Mediterranean.

10 Sleep-Aid Industry Secrets

With more than 40 million people—roughly a third of working Americans—not getting enough shut-eye, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it’s no wonder that industries ranging from furniture makers to pharmaceutical companies are making big money by offering…

Facebook Facing Teen Rebellion, Too Much Drama

Pew reports that 77% of online teens (ages 12-17) surveyed use Facebook. But while Pew's findings show that teens view Facebook participation as important for socializing, they have "waning enthusiasm for Facebook," as explained in the video above. The report cites teens' dislike…

Bride Or Groom? 25,000 Guests Attend Wedding

When 18-year-old Shalom Rokeach married 19-year-old Hannah Batya Penet in Israel on Tuesday, it was more than just a lavish wedding —it was the launch of a new era. The groom is the future leader of the revered Belz Rebbe, a…

Yesterday's Stories

Federal Reserve Says More, More, More!

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said raising interest rates or reducing asset purchases too soon would endanger the recovery as the economy remains hampered by high unemployment and government spending cuts.

Boy Scouts To Say Gay Is OK

The council will vote for or against a single-sentence adjustment to their membership rules: "No youth may be denied membership in the Boy Scouts of America on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone."

Petraeus Had Key Role In Benghazi Talking Points

It was at this informal session with the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that the ranking Democrat asked David H. Petraeus, who was CIA director at the time, to ensure that committee members did not inadvertently disclose classified information when talking to the news…

The 10 Most Truly Made-In-America Cars

Domestic brands have the most American-made content in the U.S. according to a new index released by American University’s Kogod School of Business. The index takes into account where each vehicle’s parts were produced, but also the location of the manufacturer…

It Makes Me SMAD: Social Media Anxiety Disorder

Is Social Media Anxiety Disorder, known as SMAD, the newest affliction resulting from our love affair with Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites? Researchers have stopped short of actually classifying SMAD as a disorder, but it's no doubt a problem.

Xbox One: Everything You Need To Know

Microsoft made an hour-long presentation that emphasized the Xbox One's new hardware, impressive graphics, connected interfaces and upcoming games. While we should learn much more from the company at it E3 presentation June 10, Mashable wanted to break down what we know right…

Xbox One Has Eyes On TV Watchers

Microsoft has sold 76 million units of the Xbox 360 since its release in 2005. Or shall I say, a mere 76 million units. That's because over 96% of Americans homes have a television while only 49% of U.S. households own a game…

The Obama Gun Boom Pays Off

In March the National Rifle Association coordinated a demonstration against new gun legislation in Connecticut, the state where 26 children and staff were gunned down at an elementary school in December. Before boarding buses headed for the state capital, gun owners met up at a…

Americans Are On The Move Again!

Thanks to the slowly brightening employment picture, along with the uptick in the housing market, more and more people are packing up and relocating. And the pace is likely to pick up this summer, the peak season for moving, according to industry professionals.

JOHN FOX

Move away from the coasts and away from illinois!

New Car & Truck Demand Cancels Summer Shutdowns

Ford Motor said Wednesday that 21 of its North American factories will shut for only one week this summer. That includes the Chicago plant that makes the Ford Explorer SUV and the Mexican plant that makes the Fusion sedan.

On-Line Information Sharing & The Privacy Paradox

The latest round of research on teenagers and digital privacy is out, this time in the form of a joint study by the Pew Research Center and the Berkman Center for Internet Society. The results of the study are similar to the results of past…

Asthma Sufferers Get Promising News

The drug was generally well tolerated; the most common adverse events were injection-site reactions, nasopharyngitis, nausea, and headache, as reported online in the New England Journal of Medicine and simultaneously at the American Thoracic Society meeting.

1967 Shelby Mustang GT500 “Eleanor” Brings $1 Million

From the blog Motoramic: When Mecum Auctions estimated that "Eleanor" – the hero car from Gone in 60 Seconds — would sell for around $300,000, most believed that prediction was low. As it turned out, it was, as the modified 1967 Shelby Mustang GT500 fetched $1…

Witnesses Gone Wild!

Congress used to be known for hauling Cabinet officials, CEOs and bureaucrats up to the Hill for public floggings. But these days it’s not so clear who’s really on the hot seat. The new playbook for congressional witnesses is to punch back at…

LA Voters Move To Curtail Medical Marijuana Shops

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Voters strongly supported a ballot measure to sharply curtail the number of medical marijuana dispensaries permitted to operate in Los Angeles while boosting taxes on the sale of pot for health reasons, election returns early on Wednesday showed.

Survivor Search Winding Down With 24 Dead & 240 Injured

From Yahoo! News: By Ian Simpson and Alice Mannette MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - Rescue workers with sniffer dogs and searchlights combed through the wreckage of a massive tornado to ensure no survivors remained buried in the rubble of primary schools, homes and buildings in an Oklahoma…

Fraud & National Security Risks Dominate Immigration Policies

The Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate (FDNS) of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service was created to determine whether individuals or organizations filing for immigration benefits pose a threat to national security, public safety, or the integrity of the nation’s legal immigration…

Accountability? Heads Won’t Roll At The IRS

Lawmakers pressing for more heads to roll at the Internal Revenue Service are going to be disappointed. “Why weren’t more people fired?” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) demanded at a hearing Tuesday on the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups, channeling…

Anita Finlay

A Sycophantic Press Has Itself to Blame for Obama’s AP Scandal

The Obama/Holder AP scandal has produced strange bedfellows. The DoJ’s seizing of Associated Press reporters’ phone records along with AG Eric Holder’s attempts to prosecute senior FOX correspondent, James Rosen as a "co-conspirator" for doing his job has sent a chill down the collective spines of both the liberal and conservative press. At long last, the left and the right agree on something.

In Case You Missed It

Official Okla. death toll lowered to 24

Revised death toll: 24 killed -- including nine children -- after tornado blasted Oklahoma City area Monday, especially suburb of Moore, official says At least seven children killed in pulverized elementary school in Moore, officials say Moore also took direct hits from tornadoes in 1999 and ...

Sen. Rand Paul Says Congress Should Be On Trial – Not Apple

The junior senator from Kentucky has been tweeting up a storm in Apple's defense. FORTUNE -- In subcommittee hearings Tuesday, Senators Carl Levin and John McCain were careful to balance praise for Apple's (AAPL) achievements with outrage over its "convoluted and pernicious" (McCain's…

Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy Theories

In the days following the bombings at the Boston Marathon, speculation online regarding the identity and motive of the unknown perpetrator or perpetrators was rampant. And once the Tsarnaev brothers were identified and the manhunt came to a close, the speculation didn’t cease. It…

Film Review: The Hangover Part III

There are two deaths within the first five minutes of The Hangover Part III. One of them will not be described here since it involves a minor plot surprise. But the other is worth mentioning. Alan, the nerdy character played by Zach Galifianakis, is driving…

Teen Develops Algorithm To Diagnose Leukemia

The 18-year-old student from Sarasota, Fla. built a custom, cloud-based "artificial neural network" to find patterns in genetic expression profiles to diagnose patients with an aggressive form of cancer called mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL). Simply put, this means Wenger taught the computer…

5 New Tech Ideas To Scare You Silly – Or Not

Imagine a world in which laser-cat drones, powered by rainbows and armed with an arsenal of 3-D printed weaponry, fly around in self-driving hovercraft, taking out anything and everything that stands between them and genetically modified catnip. You might not need to…

25 Colleges With Best Return On Investment

According to salary-tracking website Payscale.com, Harvey Mudd College gives a 30-year ROI of $2,113,000, the best in the nation. When Forbes releases its annual list of best colleges this summer, it will use a methodology that includes more than a…

McCain-Feingold Gave Us The IRS Scandal

McDermott and many others who share his view are wrong. Though it was not our first major campaign finance legislation (FECA 1971), the problem began in earnest with the unconstitutional McCain-Feingold “reform” law, passed in 2002.

NTSB Defends Lower Blood Alcohol Levels

NTSB Chairwoman Debbie Hersman on Monday defended her agency’s recommendation that states adopt stricter drunken-driving laws, rejecting accusations that it’s more nanny-statism from the administration. Appearing on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” Hersman fielded questions mostly from callers worried that the…

Jodi To Address Jury Today

(CNN) -- Whether Jodi Arias lives or dies is now in the hands of a jury. She will address its members directly Tuesday morning. Arias said earlier this month that she would rather die than endure a lifetime behind bars.

Jon Stewart Hates Everyone In Washington D.C.

America isn't all that interested in the various controversies buffeting the Obama administration, says Paul Brandus at The Week. Instead, with lawmakers seemingly obsessed with "trying to put the political screws to the other party," not doing the people's business, "the American people…

The Doughnut Is Toast – Meet The Cronut

From the blog ABC News Blogs: Meet the cronut, the half-croissant and half-donut hybrid, which is taking New York and the pastry world by storm. “It has the shape of a donut. The dough is very similar to croissant dough,” pastry chef Domnique…

Recharge Your Cellphone In 20 Seconds?

From the blog The Sideshow: A California teen’s invention could potentially knock down cellphone-charging time to a superfast 20 seconds. So far, the energy-storage device has powered only an LED light, but it has the potential to do much more. The future…

Hey Jared, Subway As Unhealthy As McDonald’s?

From Yahoo! News: If you watched the London Olympics last summer, you saw a parade of top athletes touting the nutritional qualities of their favorite eatery: Subway. Watching Apolo Ohno or Robert Griffin III bite into a veggie footlong with avocado or hearing that Subway…

“Casual Cynic’s” Faith In Humanity Restored

From the blog The Upbeat: A waitress and Tumblr user who goes by the handle "Casual Cynic" posted a photo of a receipt that made her mom's day. A mysterious customer recently gave Casual Cynic's mother, also a waitress, a $1,000 tip…

First Tea Party Lawsuit Filed Against IRS

A California tea party group sued the IRS on Monday, the first lawsuit in the wake of revelations the agency singled out conservative groups for scrutiny, according to a report. The NorCal Tea Party Patriots filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati…

Trouble Ahead For American Farms

Jim Schriver has been farming since he graduated from Ohio State University in 1963. The 72-year-old grandfather of two grows corn, soybeans and livestock on his 1,600-acre farm in north central Indiana.

JOHN FOX

$300- $500 an acre pasture and timber land is selling for $4500-6000 an acre now. The land isn't even worth a $100 an acre due to the asian honeysuckle invasion! new tree's aren't growing. Old trees are being killed and this invasive species is eliminating all ...

FBI’s Side Of FOX Reporter’s Leak Story

The Post turned up an FBI search warrant affidavit in the pending case of former State Department contractor Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, who is accused of providing classified information about North Korea to a Fox News correspondent. Kim has pled not guilty.

Apple’s “Humpty-Dumpty” Overseas Profit Shifting

Today's the day that Apple's Tim Cook appears before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The battle lines have been drawn, the statements issued, and the big questions is whether Apple has been profit shifting. The answer is, variously, yes, maybe, and no…

Monster Oklahoma Tornado, 91 Feared Dead

MOORE, Oklahoma -- Emergency workers this morning searched feverishly for survivors in the rubble of homes, schools and a hospital in an Oklahoma City suburb ravaged by a massive Monday afternoon tornado feared to have killed up to 91 people and injured well over 200 residents…

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