The scandal that brought down CIA Director David Petraeus started with harassing emails sent by his biographer and paramour,...
IBM surprised by Avantor lawsuit, calls claims exaggerated
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Manziel, No. 15 Texas A&M stun No. 1 Bama, 29-24
Label: SportsTUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Johnny Football and Southern Conference newbies Texas A&M took down the biggest bully in their new neighborhood and left No. 1 Alabama with badly bruised national championship hopes.Johnny Manziel, better known around Texas as Johnny Football, staked the 15th-ranked Aggies to a three-touchdown lead in the first quarter, and Texas A&M held on to beat the Crimson Tide...
Sony Animation preps sequel to hit “Hotel Transylvania”
Label: Lifestyle
NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) – Sony Pictures Animation will make a sequel to “Hotel Transylania,” one of the year’s surprise hits, a spokesman for the studio told TheWrap.Tentatively titled “Hotel Transylvania 2,” the film is set for a 2015 release. There is no director attached at the moment. Genndy Tartakovsky, who directed the first one, will be helming Sony...
Malaria vaccine a letdown for infants
Label: HealthLONDON (AP) — An experimental malaria vaccine once thought promising is turning out to be a disappointment, with a new study showing it is only about 30 percent effective at protecting infants from the killer disease.That is a significant drop from a study last year done in slightly older children, which suggested the vaccine cut the malaria risk by about half — though that is still far below the...
War photography exhibit debuts in Houston museum
Label: EntertainmentHOUSTON (AP) — It was a moment Nina Berman did not expect to capture when she entered an Illinois wedding studio in 2006. She knew Tyler Ziegel had been horribly injured, his face mutilated beyond recognition by a suicide bombing in the Iraq War. She knew he was marrying his pretty high school sweetheart, perfect in a white, voluminous dress.It was their expressions that were surprising."People don't...
Walmart Black Friday 2012 coming even earlier
Label: Business Cierra Hobson is a die-hard Black Friday shopper.Every year she queues in front of one of her favorite stores, where she waits,...
Nov
09
Illinois Tollway 2013 budget to be subject of hearings
Label: World The Illinois Tollway’s proposed 2013 budget will be the subject of two public meetings next week and is available on-line for...
Exclusive: Google Ventures beefs up fund size to $300 million a year
Label: TechnologySAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google will increase the cash it allocates to its venture-capital arm to up to $300 million a year from $200 million, catapulting Google Ventures into the top echelon of corporate venture-capital funds. Access to that sizeable checkbook means Google Ventures will be able to invest in more later-stage financing rounds, which tend to be in the tens of millions...
Beljan nearly passes out on his way to the lead
Label: SportsLAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Charlie Beljan was worried about keeping his PGA Tour card when he showed up at Disney for the final tournament of the year. That changed Friday over five frightening hours when he felt a shortness of breath and his heart racing, and eventually told his caddie that he thought he was going to die.His chest heaved. He called for paramedics at the turn and was told his blood...
Malaria vaccine a letdown for infants
Label: HealthLONDON (AP) — An experimental malaria vaccine once thought promising is turning out to be a disappointment, with a new study showing it is only about 30 percent effective at protecting infants from the killer disease.That is a significant drop from a study last year done in slightly older children, which suggested the vaccine cut the malaria risk by about half — though that is still far below the...
Philip Roth says he's done writing
Label: EntertainmentNEW YORK (AP) — Exit, Philip Roth? Having conceived everything from turning into a breast to a polio epidemic in his native New Jersey, Roth has apparently given his imagination a rest.The 79-year-old novelist recently told a French publication, Les inRocks, that his 2010 release "Nemesis" would be his last. Spokeswoman Lori Glazer of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said Friday that she had spoken with...
Sandy to raise U.S. used-car prices
Label: Business The estimated 250,000 cars flooded by Superstorm Sandy on the East Coast will drive up used-car prices, even as far away as...
Exclusive: Google Ventures beefs up fund size to $300 million a year
Label: TechnologySAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google will increase the cash it allocates to its venture-capital arm to up to $300 million a year from $200 million, catapulting Google Ventures into the top echelon of corporate venture-capital funds. Access to that sizeable checkbook means Google Ventures will be able to invest in more later-stage financing rounds, which tend to be in the tens of millions...
Not just footballs are deflated at USC
Label: SportsLOS ANGELES (AP) — It's not just the game balls that are deflated at Southern California this fall.An unimpressive season reached a new, weird low late Wednesday night when No. 21 USC announced a student manager had been dismissed for underinflating several game balls before the Trojans' loss to No. 2 Oregon last weekend, earning a fine and a reprimand for the school from the Pac-12.Coach Lane Kiffin...
“Dancing” co-host Brooke Burke has thyroid cancer
Label: Lifestyle
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – “Dancing with the Stars” co-host Brooke Burke said on Thursday that she has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and will need surgery.The television presenter and model said in a three-minute video posted on the website Modernmom.com that she will need her thyroid removed.
“I need to have thyroid...
Calif. city plans to provide transgender surgeries
Label: HealthSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco is preparing to become the first U.S. city to provide and cover the cost of sex reassignment surgeries for uninsured transgender residents.The city's Health Commission voted Tuesday to create a comprehensive program for treating transgender people experiencing mental distress because of the mismatch between their bodies and their gender identities. San Francisco...
Marilyn Monroe photos on auction in Poland
Label: EntertainmentWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Who doesn't want a picture of Marilyn Monroe?Hundreds of photographs of the blonde bombshell and other celebrities, including famous ones of Monroe in bed and as a ballerina, were being sold Thursday evening at an auction house in Poland.Bidders and spectators packed the Desa Unicum house in Warsaw, where 238 pictures by the late American fashion and celebrity photographer Milton...
McDonald's sales drop, first time since 2003
Label: Business McDonald's Corp. reported its first decline in monthly U.S. same store sales in nine years Thursday, as the chain began to suffer...
Nov
07
Jury begins deliberations in cop beating trial
Label: World Jurors at a trial involving a notorious 2007 beating of a female bartender by an off-duty Chicago officer began deliberations...
Luck among players shaving head to support Pagano
Label: SportsINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Andrew Luck has joined the shaved squad, too.Nearly three dozen players on the Indianapolis Colts have shaved their heads in a show of support for head coach Chuck Pagano, who is undergoing treatment for a form of leukemia.Luck became a new member of the no-hair club Wednesday morning. Players and coaches were not available for comment because they were headed to Jacksonville,...
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