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Investigation officials discovered that James Holmes was rejected by three women online shortly before the Colorado massacre. Officials learned that Holmes opened an account with AdultFriendFinder.com on July 5 and reached out to the women who eventually turned him down. In his online profile, Holmes described himself as looking for casual or even group sex. […]
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — A pregnant woman who escaped the Colorado theater attack uninjured is delivering her baby as her wounded husband lies in a hospital in critical condition. The father of 21-year-old Katie Medley said she was giving birth Monday. The father, David Sanchez, said his daughter's husband, 23-year-old Caleb Medley, was shot in […]
BAGHDAD (AP) — A startling spasm of violence shook more than a dozen Iraqi cities Monday, killing more than 100 people in coordinated bombings and shootings and wounding twice as many in the country's deadliest day in more than two years. The attacks came only days after al-Qaida announced it would attempt a comeback with […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Silenced for a weekend, the race for the White House reverted to divisive form Monday, as President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney found enough distance from a national tragedy to get back to the politics of getting elected. Obama tried to put the squeeze on Romney, with the president's campaign […]
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Despair all around him, President Barack Obama on Sunday offered hugs, tears and the nation's sympathy to survivors of the Colorado shooting rampage and to families whose loved ones were shot dead. He looked for hope in the heartbreak, insisting a brighter day will come for the grieving and declaring that […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The deadly earthquake that leveled Haiti's capital more than two years ago brought a thread of hope: a promise of renewal. With the United States taking the lead, international donors pledged billions of dollars to help the country "build back better," breaking its cycle of dependency. But after the rubble was […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police arrested a suspect in the stabbings of three Los Angeles-area homeless people in recent weeks, a man they say goes by a name signed on "death warrants" found with the wounded victims. Courtney Anthony Robinson, 38, called 911 Friday and said it was his face being distributed on flyers around […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The ranks of America's poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s amid a weak economy and fraying government safety net. Census figures for 2011 will be released this fall in the critical weeks ahead of […]
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Details emerging on the Colorado massacre suspect show a budding scientist, brimming with potential, who pursued a graduate program even as he assembled weaponry he would allegedly use in the deadly midnight rampage inside an Aurora movie theater. James Holmes planned the attack with "calculation and deliberation," police said Saturday, receiving […]
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State University will remove the famed statue of Joe Paterno outside its football stadium, eliminating a key piece of the iconography surrounding the once-sainted football coach accused of burying child sex abuse allegations against a retired assistant. The university said Sunday that it will take down the larger-than-life monument […]
A new cell phone app can help you control your home air conditioner at your fingertips. New York electric company Con Edison and ThinkEco are helping New York citizens control their home cooling systems by using their smartphones and the Internet. The project known as CoolNYC is selling and giving away 10,000 “smart plugs.” Many […]
New research suggests that more Americans are choosing not to affiliate with any religious group. In a tracking poll conducted by the Pew Research Center, 19 percent of Americans did not classify themselves as a part of a religious sect. Previously, Barry Kosmin found that 6 percent of poll respondents identified themselves as religiously unaffiliated […]
