North Korea’s long-range rocket failed early Friday, U.S. officials said. The rocket broke up soon after taking off. “All indications are that it failed,” one official said but went on to say that they are still looking into it. The White House said it would issue a statement, NBC News reported. The launch, which North Korea’s neighbors […]
North Korea launched a long-range rocket early Friday, U.S. officials confirmed. The White House said it would issue a statement, NBC News reported. The launch, which North Korea’s neighbors and the West say is a disguised ballistic missile test, will take a three-stage rocket over a sea separating the Korean peninsula from China before releasing […]
Nearly 6,000 people put in bogus compensation claims to the Financial Ombudsman last year, saying they had been mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance, the BBC learns. […]
A hospital spokeswoman told the Associated Press that a male patient had died overnight at Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center. At least 70 people were injured in the crash on Friday.
News of the death came as investigators turned their attention to pilot Jimmy Leeward, who may have been unconscious when his World War II-era P-51 Mustang smashed into a crowd of spectators, killing him and nine others.
Leeward was traveling at 500 miles per hour when he crashed, killing fans seated in the VIP seats on the tarmac. Leeward, 74, of Ocala, Fla., was a veteran stuntman.
Witnesses said that as the P-51 Mustang Galloping Ghost rounded the final clubhouse turn, something dropped off the tail of the plane, and that that may have been what caused the problem.
In one of the final photos taken before the crash, half of a sliver piece of metal — crucial for the aircraft to maintain balance — appeared to be missing. Investigators said that they recovered a damaged “elevator trim tab” among the debris. – MORE
FOX Sports’ Jay Glazer said, “Peyton Manning took a private jet to Europe to get stem cell therapy on his neck.” That therapy is not yet approved in the United States.
Peyton Manning underwent a third neck surgery prior to the beginning of the season. The Colts brought in veteran quarterback Kerry Collins to fill in, while Peyton tries to regain his health and get back on the field this season.
Him and many others are traveling abroad for stem cell therapy. Its turning into a ‘Have’s’ treatment and the ‘Have not’s’ will go without until the U.S allows the use of stem cells.
Regulate HOW stem cells are retrieved and let the research go forward! Or the U.S. will be loosing more money to countries and doctors that need it here.
Seems our country has been more busy policing and creating laws for stupid than to create a ones for those who need them.
Texas Rep. Ron Paul won a California straw poll, the state Republican Party announced in a statement Saturday night.
A total of 833 ballots were cast during the straw poll, the statement said.
Paul won with 44.9% of the votes, Texas Gov. Rick Perry came in second with 29.3% of the votes, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney came in third with 8.8% of the votes.
The California Republican Party, associated members and registered guests were allowed to vote in the straw poll, according to the statement.
Paul was scheduled to give speeches in Los Angeles on Saturday, including the keynote at the Republican Liberty Caucus of California.
He has gained momentum in the race for the White House in recent weeks, according to the latest CNN/ORC International Poll. Among current GOP candidates, Paul placed third in the poll with 13%, following Romney in second place with 21% and Perry in first with 32%.
His win came the same day he celebrated Constitution Day with another one of his “money bomb” fundraisers.
The online event attempts to raise a large sum of cash in 24 hours, a tactic that’s proved successful in the past for Paul.
Casey Anthony’s mother, Cindy Anthony, suggested a series of possible medical problems from gran mal seizures to a brain tumor to postpartum schizophrenia to explain what may have led to 2-year-old Caylee’s death and her daughter’s callous behavior.
Cindy and George Anthony, grandparents of Caylee, appeared in their first interview in over a year on the “Dr. Phil” Show today. During the first part of the two part interview, the couple described to Phil McGraw their marital troubles and Casey Anthony’s behavior before and after Caylee went missing.
Casey Anthony was acquitted of daughter Caylee’s murder and released from the Orange County Jail on July 17.
“I’m not making excuses for her. I want to find out what’s wrong with Casey. I know that there’s something wrong,” Cindy Anthony said.
Casey Anthony’s mother asked rhetorically how could “this caring young person who cared about everybody, loved kids and then all of a sudden something tragically happens to Caylee and Casey completely goes off the deep end?”
Casey Anthony’s Mother Suggests Medical Reasons for Daughter’s Behavior
Cindy Anthony said that her daughter’s bizarre behavior during the time that Caylee was missing might be the result of gran mal seizures. During the time that Caylee was dead and was yet to be reported missing, the young mom partied at clubs, got a tattoo that read “Bella Vita” and spun a web of lies about her daughter’s whereabouts. – MORE
Swiss bank UBS has increased the loss it expects from its rogue trading incident to $2.3 billion from the $2 billion figure earlier provided.
The bank said Sunday it has “now covered the risk resulting from the unauthorized trading” and its equities business “is again operating normally within its previously defined risk limits.”
UBS says the loss resulted from unauthorized speculative trading in various stock markets over the last three months.
It says the trader responsible hid the magnitude of the risk to which the bank was exposed by creating fictious future orders.
The trader, 31-year-old Kweku Adoboli, was arrested Thursday and charged Friday with acts of fraud and false accounting dating back to 2008.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.
GENEVA (AP) — Oswald Gruebel, the chief executive of Swiss banking giant UBS, says he feels responsible — but not guilty — for the $2 billion loss allegedly incurred by a rogue trader that plunged the bank back into scandal just as it was rebuilding its tattered reputation.
Speaking for the first time since UBS revealed the loss Thursday, Gruebel also told the Swiss weekly Der Sonntag that he isn’t thinking about resigning because of the latest financial fiasco to befall the Zurich-based bank.
Some Swiss politicians and commentators have called for Gruebel’s head to roll over the loss, which is likely to put UBS’s third-quarter results deep in the red. Such a move signal a defeat for the gravel-voiced German, who was brought in more than two years ago to revive the bank’s fortunes after a series of missteps that included vast losses in the U.S. subprime mortgage market and an embarrassing U.S. tax evasion case. – MORE
Revolutionary forces entered Gadhafi’s birthplace of Sirte Saturday. At least 100 cars were seen entering the Mediterranean city in another attempt to take control.
The Misrata Military Council reported clashes south of the Al-Gordabia military base and said at least three anti-Gadhafi fighters were killed.
NATO planes, meanwhile, bombed targets in the Sirte area Friday. But Gadhafi’s forces unleashed hails of gunfire, using snipers in tall buildings to target their enemies.
Expected support from Sirte residents did not materialize as loyalists fought house to house with unexpected intensity. The revolutionaries were forced to retreat after the chaotic and fierce urban warfare.
But in Sahara towns more sympathetic to the revolution, people cheered the anti-Gadhafi forces as they made their way toward the southern city of Sabha.
In Shati, there was no combat; only a peaceful transfer of power, perhaps the first in the eight-month uprising. In the morning the tiny town had been under Gadhafi’s grip. By afternoon, no more.
Residents fired their guns in celebration and burned the green flags of the former regime.
They welcomed the ordinary Libyans — teachers, doctors, engineers — who dropped everything to join the fight against Gadhafi. They were rebels once. Now they were the armed wing of Libya’s new governing body, the National Transitional Council.
The anti-Gadhafi fighters know the situation will be different once they reach Sabha, another diehard Gadhafi city.
In a jailhouse interview with a Dutch television station, Joran van der Sloot said he is remorseful for telling so many stories regarding the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, but once again denied culpability in the case.
“For everything that’s happened since 2005, all the things said in the media and everything, I feel guilty for, yeah,” van der Sloot, 22, said in the interview, portions of which were aired on NBC’s “Today” on Tuesday.
The Dutch citizen is jailed in Lima, Peru, where he is awaiting trial on a murder charge in the death of Peruvian student Stephany Flores. Her body was found in May in a hotel room registered to van der Sloot, which the two were seen entering on surveillance camera video. He also is charged with a count of wire fraud and a count of extortion in Alabama for allegedly trying to extort more than $250,000 from Holloway’s family in return for disclosing the location of her body.
Holloway was last seen in the early hours of May 30, 2005, leaving an Oranjestad, Aruba, nightclub with van der Sloot and two other men, brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe. She was visiting the island with about 100 classmates to celebrate their graduation from Mountain Brook High School in suburban Birmingham, Alabama.
Van der Sloot was arrested twice in Aruba in connection with Holloway’s disappearance, but was never charged. He has denied responsibility for her disappearance.
In the interview, van der Sloot said he feels guilty about his father’s fatal heart attack, for not listening to his mother and for telling lies, as well as his past behavior.
“I was doing a lot of things that I shouldn’t have been doing, and mostly only going out all the night and sleeping all the day,” he said, describing himself as “impulsive.”
Asked why he’s told so many different stories about the Holloway case, he said, “There were people who were paying me to make up stories, and I was really good at making up stories. Everybody keeps coming at you asking questions … if you want something, I’ll tell you whatever you want to hear, sure.”
Still, he said, he has “misused the situation for my own advantage.” He said he feels bad about that and would take it back if he had the opportunity. – MORE
Perry signed an executive order in 2007 that required Texas schoolgirls to receive vaccinations against the sexually transmitted HPV, although it wasn’t implemented.
Bachmann told Leno that Perry’s action had been “an abuse of executive power” and had sparked concern over “crony capitalism,” an apparent reference to the fact that a former Perry aide was a top lobbyist for Merck, the manufacturer for the HPV vaccine. Merck donated to Perry’s campaign fund.
She added: “The concern is that there’s, you know, potentially side effects that can come with something like that. But it gives a false sense of assurance to a young woman when she has that that if she’s sexually active that she doesn’t have to worry about sexually transmitted diseases.”
Leno responded: “Well, I don’t know if it gives assurance. It can prevent cervical cancer; correct?”
He then pressed Bachmann over comments she made earlier this week in which she said a woman had approached the congresswoman to say her daughter had suffered “mental retardation” as a result of receiving the vaccination.
There had been no recorded cases of such side effects despite 30 million people receiving the jab, Leno pointed out.
“I wasn’t speaking as a doctor. I wasn’t speaking as a scientist. I was just relating what this woman said,” Bachmann replied.
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