| The Associated Press - 27 minutes ago By BEN FELLER, AP White House Correspondent - 1 minute ago BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) - On a swift, secretive trip to the war zone, President Barack Obama declared Tuesday night that after years of sacrifice the US combat role in Afghanistan is ... |
| Editor's note: Steven Jiang is a Beijing-based producer for CNN who, accompanied by a correspondent and a photographer, tried on Tuesday to visit the hometown of human rights activist Chen Guangcheng. |
| Los Angeles Times - 7 minutes ago A British parliamentary panel's scathing assessment of Rupert Murdoch's corporate character is a blow to his reputation and may affect his business interests. |
| Los Angeles Times - 40 minutes ago The raid in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden also netted documents that show he wanted to overthrow Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a former US official says. |
| New York Times - 21 minutes ago WASHINGTON Once it was Willie Mays playing stickball in Harlem. Now we have Bryce Harper playing softball by the Washington Monument. |
| Written by in 7,947 Google+ circles Former mobile giant is positioning its new platform ass a comeback vehicle, but does it pack the features? by Larry Dignan May 1, 2012 6:44 PM PDT RIM shows off its virtual keyboard at BlackBerry World. |
| Voice of America - 1 hour ago May 01, 2012 French Far Right Key to Election Outcome Lisa Bryant | Paris France's far-right National Front party leader Marine Le Pen finished a strong third in the first round of presidential elections last month. |
| New York Times - 38 minutes ago BAMAKO, Mali - This onetime model of African stability remained in a precarious state on Tuesday as the new military junta fought back an attempted countercoup by loyalist troops and asserted victory by day's end. |
| by AP NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) - Aung San Suu Kyi was set to be sworn in to Myanmar's military-backed parliament Wednesday to take public office for the first time since launching her struggle against authoritarian rule nearly a quarter century ago. |
| The Guardian - 15 minutes ago The Occupy Wall Street movement has attempted to breathe new life into its campaign against inequities in the global financial system with a series of May Day protests around the United States. |
| Bosnian immigrant Adis Medunjanin has been found guilty of all counts related to a plot to bomb New York's subway system. New York (CNN) -- A Bosnian immigrant accused of plotting to bomb New York's subway system as an "al Qaeda terrorist" has been ... |
| CBS News - 44 minutes ago (CBS News) As he prepares to bow out of the presidential race, Newt Gingrich met yesterday with Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades to discuss what role Gingrich would play going forward, according to two sources with knowledge of the meeting. |
| Houston Chronicle - 50 minutes ago In a photo made April 16, 2012, trader Robert Arciero works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Wall Street appeared headed for a higher opening Tuesday May 1, 2012 with Dow Jones industrial futures 0.1 percent higher and S&P 500 futures 0.1 ... |
| Arizona Republic - 35 minutes ago by Russ Wiles - May. 1, 2012 06:37 PM SCOTTSDALE - The announcement that PF Chang's China Bistro Inc. will go private in a $1.1 billion acquisition by a New York investment firm was the second hit to metro Phoenix's corporate headquarters list this ... |
| Los Angeles Times - 59 minutes ago By Shan Li One more piece of bad news for Wal-Mart Stores Inc.: A group of New York City pension funds, alarmed over allegations of widespread bribery by company officials in Mexico, said they would vote against reelecting five Wal-Mart directors. |
| New York Times - 1 hour ago HOUSTON - Aubrey K. McClendon built Chesapeake Energy into the nation's second-largest producer of natural gas through a combination of debt, foresight, luck and sheer bravado. |
| New York Times - 18 minutes ago Richard Grenell, an openly gay and longtime Republican foreign policy spokesman hired last month by Mitt Romney's campaign, abruptly resigned on Tuesday after anti-gay elements in the party criticized his appointment and some Republican advisers said ... |
| Washington Post - 17 minutes ago RICHMOND, Va. - Nominees? Who needs nominees? The fall presidential campaign opens this spring in Virginia long before President Barack Obama or Mitt Romney gets his party's nomination. |
| Written by in 13,947 Google+ circles Wall Street Journal - 4 hours ago By AMIR EFRATI The US Department of Interior has chosen to use Google Inc.'s online email and collaboration offerings over software from rival Microsoft Corp. |
| Written by in 9,778 Google+ circles San Jose Mercury News - 43 minutes ago By Mike Swift and Pete Carey Mercury News What began as a freshman-year friendship resulted in Facebook's announcement Tuesday that the world's largest social network will offer help for the global shortage of donor organs, an effort that in its first ... |
| The engineer responsible for writing the code that led to tons of personal and private data being collected from the Google's Street View cars is found out and called a "GOD in the wireless community. |
| Written by in 4,452 Google+ circles PC Magazine - 2 hours ago By Mark Hachman Barnes & Noble plans to add near-field communication (NFC) technology to its Nook e-reader platform, chief executive William Lynch said Tuesday. |
| Chicago Sun-Times - 4 minutes ago AP May 1, 2012 12:05PM FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2011 file photo, singer Jessica Simpson, right, poses with her fiance Eric Johnson at the 25th Annual Footwear News Achievement Awards at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. |
| Cinema Blend - 17 minutes ago By now you've clearly heard the news that The Avengers is, simply, awesome. But we've heard that about a lot of superhero movies in the past, right? |
| By Johnette Howard | ESPNNewYork.com ESPNNewYork's Robin Lundberg is hitting the streets to ask fans how they feel about the Knicks' Amare Stoudemire punching a fire extinguisher. |
| Chicago Tribune - 33 minutes ago WASHINGTON -- Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte testified on Tuesday that former teammate and close friend Roger Clemens told him he had taken human growth hormone but, years later, said he had been referring to his wife's use of the drug. |
| ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Evan Longoria took a right turn out of the Tampa Bay clubhouse and walked a few feet before stepping in front of a group of reporters huddled around a lineup board that will not list his name for the next four to eight weeks. |
| PHILADEPHIA (AP) - Adam Larsson and David Clarkson scored their first goals of the postseason, and the New Jersey Devils posted a 4-1 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday night, evening this Eastern Conference semifinals series at 1-1. |
| Tyrannosaurus rex is part of the carnivorous groups of dinosaurs that, according to new research, maintained a stable level of biodiversity leading up to the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous. |
| LiveScience.com - 1 hour ago Large flea-like creatures thought to be the oldest of their kind ever discovered bit into dinosaurs and drew blood some 165 million years ago, Chinese scientists report in the journal Current Biology. |
| BBC News - Apr 30, 2012 The number of babies born in the US showing symptoms of opiate withdrawal increased threefold in the 10 years up to 2009, a medical study has found. |
| msnbc.com - 2 hours ago A Texas baby born with an incurable disease whose parents created an online "bucket list" for their daughter that became an Internet sensation has died, her father said on Tuesday. |
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