Health / Disease

Orangutans use tablets to 'talk' to trainers at zoo

MIAMI — The 8-year-old twins love their iPad. They draw, play games and expand their vocabulary. Their family's teenagers also like the hand-held computer tablets, too, but the clan's elders show no interest.

The orangutans at Miami's Jungle Island apparently are just like people when it comes to technology. The ...

American Scene: France honors WWII vets at military academy

NEW YORK

WEST POINT — France has bestowed honors on three dozen World War II veterans at the U.S. Military Academy.

The French ambassador to the United States awarded the French Legion of Honor during a ceremony held Tuesday at West Point, on the Hudson River north of New York ...

U.S. casinos rebound from recession

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. | The nation's commercial casinos continued their slow-but-steady comeback from the recession last year, with revenues up 3 percent nationwide and jobs holding nearly steady, according to a report released Wednesday.

The American Gaming Association's annual report noted the nation's 492 non-Indian casinos or other legal gambling ...

Conservatives defend fired writer on race

Conservative commentators and think tanks have rushed in recent days to the defense of embattled journalist Naomi Schaefer Riley, who was fired from her job as a blogger with the widely respected Chronicle of Higher Education for questioning the value of black-studies programs.

Chester E. Finn, president of the conservative ...

Connecticut Governor: Biotech Lackey

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Curt Linderman Sr. | Contact Connecticut’s corrupt governor and voice your opposition to his reprehensible and unconstitutional actions.

Appeals court grants wax seal to Maker's Mark

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but an appeals court says a liquor bottle with a red dripping wax seal by any name other than Maker's Mark would be illegal.

Noting that "all bourbon is whiskey, but not all whiskey is bourbon," ...

Kidnapping-slaying suspect, wife charged with murder

GUNTOWN, Miss. (AP) — Murder charges were filed Wednesday against the fugitive suspected of killing a Tennessee woman and her teenage daughter and fleeing with the woman's two younger girls.

Two first-degree murder counts against 35-year-old Adam Mayes, who has been sought for more than a week, were announced Wednesday. ...

The Latest Evidence Presented in Kelly Thomas Hearing

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OC Register | Video from inside the Kelly Thomas preliminary hearing. If there is sufficient evidence against them, the case will head to a trial by jury.
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