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News from The Associated Press : "Nearly half of those born between 1946 and 1964 now work for a younger boss, and most report that they are older than most colleagues. But 61 percent of the baby boomers surveyed said their age is not an issue at work, while 25 percent called it an asset."

News from The Associated Press : "Carol Burnett Actress, comedian 78 Duane Eddy Rock musician 73 Bobby Rydell Singer 69 Roger Taylor Rock musician (Duran Duran) 51 Joan Chen Actress 50 Jet Li Actor 48 Marianne Jean-Baptiste Actress ('Without a Trace') 44 Jay DeMarcus Country musician (Rascal Flats) 40 Marnette Patterson Actress 31 Actress Jordana Brewster turns 31 years old today."

News from The Associated Press : "High radiation levels recorded at a nuclear reactor in northeast Ohio have prompted a special inspection by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission."

She says she's "really proud" of her work at the network and is "excited about the future," which will include a daytime talk show, sources have told THR. Katie Couric made official what the rest of the industry already knew: She is leaving her evening news anchor chair. In what turned out to be one of the worst-kept secrets in television, the anchor said Tuesday that she will depart after five years at CBS. "I have decided to step down from the CBS Evening News," Couric told People magazine. "I'm really proud of the talented team on the CBS Evening News and the award-winning work we've been able to do in the past five years in addition to the reporting I've done for 60 Minutes and CBS' Sunday Morning. In making the decision to move on, I know the Evening News will be in great hands, but I am excited about the future." "There’s a lot to be proud of during Katie Couric’s time at Evening News," a network spokes...

Washington Post: Woman endured years of troubling spells before their cause was recognized Washington Times: Brutal Mexican drug gang crosses into U.S. Washington Examiner: Obama a quick study on creating commissions Bloomberg: Obama Urges End ‘Unwarranted’ Oil, Natural Gas Tax Breaks USA Today: ‘Dancing’ recap: Shake it, baby The Hill: Gov. Haley’s advice to GOP presidential hopefuls: Change your message Politico: Ron Paul to Sean Hannity: Stop with your Sharia! Roll Call: Haley Barbour Not Running for President National Journal: Ron Paul Steps Toward Third Presidential Race Talking Points Memo: Jon Stewart: Where’s The Outrage Over GOP Medicare Plan? The New Republic: The Trouble With Independents The Daily Caller: Why haven’t White House reporters asked about the birth certificate? Actually, they have By Matt Dornic

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Bewildered toddler calls for his mother after accidentally shooting her dead with gun he thought was a toy | Mail Online : "A two-year-old boy keeps calling for his mother after he is feared to have shot and killed her while playing with a loaded gun. Troy Bailey pointed a 9mm Glock pistol at his mother Julia Bennett after mistaking it for a toy gun. The victim's ex-boyfriend claimed he watched in horror as the toddler accidentally pulled the trigger."

Guantánamo Files - U.S. Government Statement - NYTimes.com : "“It is unfortunate that The New York Times and other news organizations have made the decision to publish numerous documents obtained illegally by Wikileaks concerning the Guantanamo detention facility."

For the past three years, President Obama has recognized Armenian Remembrance Day by using words such as "horrific" to describe the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire, breaking his promise to use the word "genocide." That does not sit well with many Armenian Americans, who say they feel betrayed. "He has, in addition to betraying his own words and compromising America’s moral standing, gravely disappointed Armenians here in the United States, in Armenia, and around the world who had looked to him as an example of courage, conviction, and conscience," the Armenian National Committee of America said in a statement. As a candidate for president, Mr. Obama spoke at length about how he would, as president, describe the events which took place in 1915 as genocide. Obama said that "America deserves a leader who speaks truthfully about the Armenian Genocide and responds forcefully to all genocides." In 2006, Oba...

Reverend Franklin Graham appeared on This Week and host Christiane Amanpour got him to share his feelings on many of today’s political personalities. In addition to speaking favorably of many potential Republican candidates for President, Graham revealed that he too is curious about why President Obama has yet to produce more records related to his birth. Graham previously traveled with Sarah Palin to Haiti but declared that he doesn’t expect her to run for President. Graham said, “I don’t think she likes politics, I think she likes speaking on the issues, and I agree with many of the issues that she brings up.” Regarding other possible candidates, Graham admitted that Mitt Romney is “a very capable person,” however, Graham seemed more excited to talk about Donald Trump . Graham revealed about Trump: “When I first saw that he was getting in, I thought ‘well this has got to be a joke,’ but the more you listen to him, the more you say to yourself, ‘you know ma...

The lone Republican in the Hawaii State Senate told a radio interviewer today he believes "the real issue" stopping Barack Obama from releasing his long-form birth certificate is something the president has to hide, perhaps even the name of his actual birth father. Hawaii State Sen. Sam Slom further told the host of "Aaron Klein Investigative Radio" on WABC 770 AM in New York City that so long as Obama refuses to be transparent about his past, questions about the president's birth remain "a legitimate issue." "My particular point of view – and why I haven't identified myself as a 'birther,' per se – is that [Obama] probably was born [in Hawaii] and that the real issue is not the birth certificate, but what's on the birth certificate," Slom told Klein. Asked what that could be, Slom said, "It could have to do with what his name is on the birth certificate, who is actually listed as his father, the citizenship of the fat...

He's talking about running the country, but Donald Trump's record on voting in elections, or rather the lack of it, is coming under fire. The New York City Board of Elections says Mr Trump did not vote in any primary elections for 21 years. The registered Republican, who has been touting himself as a prospective presidential candidate, would first need to get GOP voters to nominate him in a primary – a process in which official records show Trump repeatedly failed to participate in. No show: Trump missed voting in several primaries and one general election, according to Board of elections records No show: Trump missed voting in several primaries and one general election, according to Board of elections records The real estate developer and reality show entertainer voted in the 1989 primary for mayor when Rudolph Giuliani beat business magnate Ronald Lauder. But according to City Board of Elections documents, Trump failed to show up at the primaries after that for 21 ...

Pastor Terry Jones: I'm Coming Back to Dearborn!: MyFoxDETROIT.com Click on the video player to watch Ron Savage's report and hear what Jones told reporters at Metro Airport. Jones and his assistant pastor Wayne Sapp caught a flight back to Florida Saturday after spending all day Friday in a Dearborn courtroom. Following a day-long trial, they also went to jail for refusing to post a $1 bond. Jones and Sapp eventually bonded out and never made it to a planned mosque protest. Now, they say their battle issue is shifting from radical Islam to free speech. "We are definitely going to get a lawyer," Jones told reporters. "They have violated our civil rights our freedom of speech rights. Make no qualms about it, we are going to go after them with every single thing we can." Jones says he plans to return to Michigan on Thursday and hold a protest outside Dearborn City Hall at 5pm, Friday April 29. He says the drama surrounding his visit to Dearbo...

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Washington: Cheer up. The earth may yet be able to recover faster from rising carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions than previously thought. When faced with high levels of atmospheric CO2 and rising temperatures 56 million years ago, our planet increased its ability to pull carbon from the air. This led to a recovery that was quicker than anticipated by many models of the carbon cycle, though still on the order of tens of thousands of years, said Gabriel Bowen, associate professor of atmospheric sciences at Purdue University, who led the study. “We found that more than half of the added carbon dioxide was pulled from the atmosphere within 30,000 to 40,000 years, which is one-third of the time span previously thought,” said Bowen, the journal Nature Geoscience reports. “We still don’t know exactly where this carbon went, but the evidence suggests it was a much more dynamic response than traditional models represent,” a Purdue statement quoted him as saying. Bowen worked with James Za...

The late Stanley Ann Dunham has been described by her son President Barack Obama as a shy and small-town Caucasian from Kansas, an idealist who became a struggling single mother, notes Janny Scott, on leave from The to write "A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother." An article to appear in this coming Sunday's Magazine adapted from Scott's book and appearing on the Times' Web site, characterized the view from the other side of the political spectrum: "… In the fevered imaginings of supermarket tabloids and the Internet, she is the atheist, the Marxist, the flower child, the mother who abandoned her son or duped the newspapers of Hawaii into printing a birth announcement of her Kenyan-born baby, on the off chance that he might want to be president someday."

By Yasmine Saleh CAIRO, April 21 (Reuters) - Protesters in a southern Egyptian city insisted on Thursday their new Christian governor resign, stepping up a week-long challenge to his appointment by the country's military rulers. The army generals ruling Egypt since President Hosni Mubarak's ouster appointed Emad Mikhail, a Copt and a senior former officer in Egypt's vilified police force, as governor of Qena province earlier this month. But he has so far not taken up his post because thousands of demonstrators have contested the decision, resorting to the same people-power that ended Mubarak's 30-year rule in February. Protesters have blocked highways and railway tracks leading to Qena, a province with a large Coptic Christian population and whose previous governor was also a Christian. They have also surrounded the governor's office, vowing to prevent Mikhail from ever entering. "Mikhail, Mikhail, you're never comi...

The photograph showed the son, but my eye gravitated toward the mother. That first glimpse was surprising — the stout, pale-skinned woman in sturdy sandals, standing squarely a half-step ahead of the lithe, darker-skinned figure to her left. His elas­tic-band body bespoke discipline, even asceticism. Her form was well padded, territory ceded long ago to the pleasures of appetite and the forces of anatomical destiny. He had the studied casualness of a catalog model, in khakis, at home in the viewfinder. She met the camera head-on, dressed in hand-loomed textile dyed indigo, a silver earring half-hidden in the cascading curtain of her dark hair. She carried her chin a few degrees higher than most. His right hand rested on her shoulder, lightly. The photograph, taken on a Manhattan rooftop in August 1987 and e-mailed to me 20 years later, was a revelation and a puzzle. The man was Barack Obama at 26, the community organizer from Chicago on a visit to New York. The woman was ...

CDC Silence On trH3N2 Match Raises Pandemic Concerns

NEWS 8 EXCLUSIVE WASHINGTON — News 8 sat down with President Barack Obama at the White House Monday afternoon to discuss the economy, immigration and his approval rating. The president this week is talking up his deficit reduction plan with town hall meetings in Western states. He met with News 8 for a few minutes to explain why he thinks his plan is better than the deficit reduction plan pushed by Republicans in the House, and why he wants to pitch his plan hard in Texas. The president said his mix of spending cuts and tax increases on the wealthy offer a balanced approach compared to the Republicans who want cuts in spending and taxes. We met the president in the Map Room of the ground level of the White House, where he said his deficit reduction plan is better — with its higher taxes on the rich coupled with cuts. "We can take a more balanced approach, consistent with what my fiscal commission put forward, which says $2 trillion worth of cuts." But in T...

VENTURA, Calif.— Officials say thousands of anchovies and sardines have died in Ventura Harbor after using up all their oxygen. Pat Hummer of the Ventura Harbor Patrol says the fish died Monday, although they moved into the harbor a week ago. Hummer says three patrol boats drove around scooping up dead fish before they started sinking and stinking. They filled up more than 20 50-gallon barrels throughout the day. The carcasses were dumped at sea. In early March, 175 tons or 2.5 million sardines died in Redondo Beach after running out of oxygen. Officials say they don't know why the fish entered the harbor, but they could have been chased by a sea lion, dolphin or strong tide. ------ Information from: Ventura County Star,   http://venturacountystar.com Dead fish link

JOHNSON CITY, TN -- Dead birds inside a vacant downtown Johnson City building are raising health concerns. Rick’s Haircuts owner Rick Stewart found out about the birds in a neighboring Buffalo Street business this weekend. “The first thing I saw was the little bird on the window sill and then looking closer, that’s when I saw the dead carcasses all around,” Stewart said. “Apparently, another pigeon had recently died in there because there’s a fresh pigeon carcass in there and I knew that was going to be bad news; that birds were just going to keep piling up and piling up and piling up in there.” Stewart and others helped rescue the surviving pigeon. Animal control officers took the animal away earlier today. However, the carcasses of roughly six other birds still sit inside the other building. “There could be a health issue if it continues on,” Johnson City Interim Chief Building Official Herman Marcum said. “There is the possibility of...

Every afternoon we surf your sites for the most popular stories of the day. Here are the top headlines for April 19, 2011: Washington Post: Why Glenn Beck lost it Washington Times: Afghanistan ‘death squad’ killings fail to get media, political attention Washington Examiner: Giant of Maryland politics, Gov., comptroller, Baltimore mayor William Donald Schaefer, R.I.P. Bloomberg: Obama Embarks on Tour to Sell Debt Plan, Not Dwell on S&P USA Today: Obama to reporter: ‘Let me finish my answers’ next time The Hill: Rep. Frank: Administration ‘wasting time’ with online poker crackdown Politico: Watergate’s ‘last chapter’ Roll Call: FEC Launches Audit of Obama’s 2008 Campaign National Journal: Wave Elections Might Be Washed Up for Now Talking Points Memo: Leaked Tell-All Manuscript By Former Aide Suggests Sarah Palin Broke Election Law The New Republic: Raise My Taxes The Daily Caller: TheDC Exclusive: Conservatives hit Beck for taking content without attribution

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Don Derfler's own wife didn't believe him when told her the mail carrier was defecating in public. Then he showed her the pictures. Derfler saw it all from his Portland, Oregon living room window while he was baby sitting his son Wednesday afternoon. "He started pulling his pants down and started defecating and at that point I grabbed my camera and started to take pictures," said Derfler. Officials with the U.S. Postal Service say they are disheartened and disappointed. "We're taking this very seriously and I really want to apologize to our customers and to the public. I've worked for the Postal Service for many years and have never heard of an incident like this and I hope I never do again," said Ron Anderson with the U.S. Postal Service. Postal inspectors may have already cleaned up the evidence according to another neighbor who said he confronted several men in suits walking around the scene of the act Thursday morning. "I t...

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Kobe Apologizes to Gay Rights Group | TMZ.com : "Bryant spoke with Human Rights Campaign honcho Joe Solmonese -- who tells TMZ, 'I applaud Kobe Bryant for his swift apology. We had a very sincere conversation in which he expressed his heartfelt regret for the hurt that his words caused.'"

Current Biofuels Policies Are Unethical - Science News - redOrbit : "'Biofuels are one of the only renewable alternatives we have for transport fuels such as petrol and diesel, but current policies and targets that encourage their uptake have backfired badly,' said Professor Joyce Tait, who led the inquiry. 'The rapid expansion of biofuels production in the developing world has led to problems such as deforestation and the displacement of indigenous people. We want a more sophisticated strategy that considers the wider consequences of biofuel production.'"

Good afternoon.  It’s great to be back at GW.  I want you to know that one of the reasons I kept the government open was so I could be here today with all of you.  I wanted to make sure you had one more excuse to skip class.  You’re welcome. Of course, what we’ve been debating here in Washington for the last few weeks will affect your lives in ways that are potentially profound.  This debate over budgets and deficits is about more than just numbers on a page, more than just cutting and spending.  It’s about the kind of future we want.  It’s about the kind of country we believe in.  And that’s what I want to talk about today. From our first days as a nation, we have put our faith in free markets and free enterprise as the engine of America’s wealth and prosperity.  More than citizens of any other country, we are rugged individualists, a self-reliant people with a healthy skepticism of too much government. But there has always been anothe...