Edwards’ campaign finance chairman paid mistress

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Ruling: NY boy can play on girls field hockey team

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New pecking order for U.S. chickens: backyard city coops

Tweet ORLANDO (Reuters) – Forget farm-to-table. The newest locavore trend in U.S. cities comes from the backyard: eggs out of the urban chicken coop. See the original post: New pecking order for U.S. chickens: backyard city coops  Read More →

US says blind China activist’s visa is ready

Tweet WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says U.S. visas for Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng (chehn gwahng-chung) and his family are ready for them to travel to America once Beijing gives the green light…. Original post: US says blind China activist’s visa is ready  Read More →

U.S. launches ambitious Alzheimer’s plan with research push

Tweet CHICAGO (Reuters) – The U.S. government launched a national plan to address Alzheimer’s disease on Tuesday with funding for a first prevention study in high-risk patients and tests on an insulin nasal spray that has shown promise in earlier studies. Read the original: U.S. launches ambitious Alzheimer’s plan with research... 

Pentagon limits F-22 fighter flights

Tweet WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has limited the flights of the F-22 fighter jet to regions where pilots can quickly land the plane if they experience oxygen problems…. Continued here: Pentagon limits F-22 fighter flights  Read More →

Obama, bipartisan leaders to meet at White House

Tweet WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will host bipartisan congressional leaders at the White House Wednesday to discuss economic proposals Obama wants Congress to act on this year…. View post: Obama, bipartisan leaders to meet at White House  Read More →

Deputies: Fla. mom killed 4 kids, then herself

Tweet PORT ST. JOHN, Fla. (AP) — A Florida mother who fatally shot her four children before killing herself Tuesday called three of the kids who had sought help from a neighbor back to the house before firing the fatal shots, authorities said…. See the original post: Deputies: Fla. mom killed 4 kids, then herself  Read More →

Obama keeps up with Kardashians, Avengers, more

Tweet WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama can hold his own when it comes to pop culture: He’s up on “The Avengers” superheroes, has a handle on the Kardashians and says he catches up with TV hits during long flights on Air Force One. But the president punted to wife Michelle when he was asked about the erotic fiction... 

AP: Killer of 3 tries not to think about murders

Tweet SOMERS, Conn. (AP) — The Connecticut killer who once called himself one of the most hated men in America said in a death row interview that he tries not to think about the murder of a suburban mother and her two daughters, suffers no nightmares and has nothing to say to the only survivor of the brutal 2007 attack…. See the article...